skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Get a phone number like everybody.

Are you paying for it?

I can be reached by telephone. What I don't have is a unique telephone number. This works perfectly fine for actual voice communication. If you think I can simply afford an extra monthly expense, you're wrong.

> You are like 0.0000001% of the market.

Made up statistics reveal your presuppositions.

There are a lot of people that don't have a unique phone number. It's a minority position, but that's kind of my point: chat services do not inherently depend on traditional phone numbers, and requiring one is going to exclude more people than you probably realize.
Also consider that if town X is 45 minutes from city Y and city Y pays wages that are 25% higher. Applicants will flock from town X to city Y in order to take advantage of stronger wages. Thus this will increase supply and drive wages back down.
Interesting. Just curious, but does this library scalable for a facial recognition system? Eg: Authentication system.
Yep. Totally reasonable to be dodgy about a link on a crank site. Engineering looks legit to me though (I have zero experience in the field). That said it's gone from the site, although the author has posted a bunch of articles.
Very nice and useful, thanks.
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Most likely, big corporations will reap the benefits of AI for quite a while before the AI will escape and take over the world. Those CEOs and perhaps a handful of supporting personnel will get paid long after programmers have lost their jobs.

Turns out that there wasn't so much room on the shoulders of giants after all.
"Inside, the 5c packs the same Apple A6 processor featured in the iPhone 5, a Qualcomm MDM9615M LTE modem, and a Qualcomm WTR1605L LTE/HSPA+/CDMA2K/TDSCDMA/EDGE/GPS transceiver. The back of the logic board features assorted power management, flash, and controller components from Toshiba, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, as well as a Murata Wi-Fi module. "

Iphone 5c has qualcomm stuff in it.
The noob question cause I feel like I don't understand the issue: Why are companies not pushing for remote workers? Are the downsides overweighing the positive or is it a cultural thing?
Works for me with Chrome and uBlock origin
Apple’s Route to Virtual Reality
The ability to deal with uncertainty is not the same as cognitive dissonance. There is no cognitive dissonance involved in accepting that mutually contradictory propositions P and Q could be true, you just don't know yet which is. Cognitive dissonance is when you believe that both P and Q are true at the same time. Humans have a tendency to jump to conclusions because they don't like not knowing something, and any answer is better than no answer. It's precisely those people who can't deal with uncertainty who must deal with the most cognitive dissonance when the conclusion they jumped to turned out to be wrong, particularly when they've turned that conclusion into dogma.
The concept is as you hint, very much one of continued leverage to prevent reverse movement with constant micro gains in forward distance.

https://youtu.be/0kFmbrRJq4w

Very much a parallel process with the same kind of force multiplication as any gear ratio mechanical advantage. Quite marvelous what the simple ability to "stick" can be translated into. Tremendous static holds equals tremendous kinetic force :-)
What? No. They are building housing and will rent it out below market price. No one is given a monthly check to spend on housing or anything like that.
Completely agree. When I was in the university one of our professors told us that purpose of education is not to teach us everything but to teach us how to learn.
The New York Times? Wired? Guardian? WSJ? ProPublica?
This lead to the sellers accounting for the subsidy and increasing their prices accordingly.
In any civilised country a prepaid phone number is almost free (if not free) so requiring a unique phone number will only exclude people I don't care about.

And of course that statistic is made up. It was a joke.
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The purpose of that system is to have more people owning their own home and fewer people renting. It assures that there is a cap on how much of the housing is owned by companies for the purpose of renting it out.
With an RC Heli, not a quad/octocopter "drone". It had 28 inch (700mm) carbon fiber blades.
If you clone my sysadmin utilities, from here:

https://github.com/skx/sysadmin-util

You'll find:

$ ssl-expiry-date bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
Expires: Mar 15 17:01:06 2017 GMT
Days: 289

That uses openssl, bash, and other standard facilities available upon Unix/Linux systems.
Yes, but these are mathematical coins not real world objects.

(I upvoted your post. I don't think it deserved the downvote(s)).
Not quite. It also means that our languages are inadequate for the task.

As a rough analogy, consider how ancient philosophers tried to reason about natural language explainations (as a vehicle to reason about the world). This led to the development of formal languages, especially in mathematics, but also e.g. in laws (both have lots of clearly defined terms in them that try to make up for the ambiguities of natural language).

This is exactly what I like about languages like Haskell, where you can reason realtively easily about code (although it's far from perfect). Or OCaml, where in addition you can reason about the performance (although not perfectly, due to garbage collection etc.). Or Rust, where in addition the compiler helps you to reason clearly about memory usage and aliasing.

This is all far from perfect, but my point is that improving languages (and actually _using_ these good languages!) is as important as writing good code in the first place.
Facebook is quite different from this case. If you friends use Facebook to communicate, you need to as well. There is, as far as I know, no alternative. But if your friends use iMessage to communicate, you can easily communicate with them through SMS. Just turn off iMessage, and Apple will recognize this and fallback to SMS. You are not forced to use iMessage just because your friends does.
They are building new housing and renting it out below market price. You don't get a check in the mail.
Check out Joseph LaViola's work at UCF (formerly from Brown).
http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/isuelab/research/pen.php

The latest work, MathBoxes, uses the recognition engine from the starPAD sdk
http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/pcc/research.html#star...

It's a great toolkit for building pen-centric computing tools (especially math recognizers and tools), but unfortunately it is heavily tied to the old Windows 7 tablet APIs and so isn't easily generalized.
I've been hoping to port it to work on newer hardware for the past few years, but have not yet found the time. If anyone wants to take on that project it would be incredibly useful (especially since there seems to be a resurgence of pen-centric computing on the near horizon).

You can find more pen-math work on Brown's website:
http://cs.brown.edu/research/ptc/FluidMath.html
And isn't it funny how many of those problems were reasonably well addressed (not all, not perfectly, but mostly better than current state-of-art) by a software platform designed from the ground up to be a sandboxed application runtime back in the 1990's... Java something something.
Crates and cargo look like trouble:

I'm not going to develop while connected to the internet. This is not allowed by any employer that cares about security.

I prefer to use the package manager that comes with my OS. Every other installer (firefox, nvidia crap, etc.) risks screwing things up.

Given the two things above, I hope you can see how much of a pain it would be to run some non-standard installer. I'd need to ask IT to mirror the rust cargo stuff... and is this even possible? Would I have to dig deep into the rust stuff to change a public key?

With it being a crate, I worry about it going unsupported. I've seen this all too often with firefox extensions. If not that, maybe somebody will come along and change the API.

I couldn't even find the crate. I found one called bitflags that does 1-bit fields. That isn't suitable. I'm looking for something that can handle stuff like an x86-64 descriptor table (GDT, LDT, IDT) entry or a PowerPC opcode. The PowerPC mtspr and bl instructions are interesting examples: mtspr has a 10-bit split bitfield, with a pair of 5-bit halves in the wrong order, and bl has a field that kind of has the low 2 bits stolen by other fields. The x86-64 descriptors have lots of strange-sized split fields and they are tagged unions for which the tag layout is hardware-defined. Another good one is page table entries, from the perspective of: emulator, hypervisor, OS.

With this not being part of the language proper, I have to wonder how well it performs. Has anybody compared the resulting assembly code?
I could write a book "How NOT to be successful" and maybe in some reverse way people could benefit what NOT to do. :)
hmm, I was hoping to see a working prototype or at least a lab example result at the end.
No, but Palo Alto is in trouble if all the teachers, firemen, government workers, etc. start moving to more affordable places. The can't live on technology companies alone.
How do you know if your backups are good? Better to test a restore when everything is still working fine rather than waiting until you really need it and then finding out that your backups are broken.
> It's actually a quite nice tool if you have the need for some advanced visualizations in MS Office.

I don't know details about their software, but I'm pretty sure that if the software weren't useful for their customers, they wouldn't make a lot of money.

> There are also lots of corporate users, for which Office is their main working tool.

That's exactly what I think, too. I wish it were different (i.e. open source software and file formats that are easy to parse everywhere), but the reality is unluckily different. And if there are customers (say, banks or corporate consulting companies) which for some reason have to use MS Office but are willing to spend large amounts of money to ease some pain points or increase productivity, I consider it as a perfectly valid business opportunity.

This is orthogonal to the question whether you (as a hacker) consider the product to be "sexy" (especially if you live in an anti-Microsoft bubble).
He's suggesting the corporate campuses needs to be condensed too. I haven't been in the Bay Area for years, but when I was there last at least, it was noteworthy given the property prices, how much low-rise commercial property there was. Frankly, a lot of the problem would be solved with a few highrise districts.

I live in London. My road here has much smaller plots than a typical Palo Alto street. Yet the my road with 660 houses, takes up ~40,000 square meters of land (including the road and gardens). Near our local rail station they're building a few developments that will include at least one 55 story tower. Combined they will house about as many people as our road on maybe about 1,000 square meters of land. High density can solve a lot of problems if done right.
I need to spend more time with this, but it seems to hit a sweet spot for me: managing my returns across the spectrum of funds that I’m currently invested in, and giving my money to things that I believe in (or in this case, avoiding things that I’m uncomfortable with).

A common argument against this strategy would be that I’m losing out on potential returns, but I think that argument is moot here - these companies make up such a small portion of my investments, that I’m able to find similar substitutes and not miss much of anything, really. Plus PLUS, I’ve been meaning to look into my fees, and see if I could get cheaper options. It was surprisingly easy to this for that end.

Forget about the gun thing, this is a nice fund screener. Unfortunately, my guess is that they may get more interest and support if they removed the gun feature entirely. People hear “guns” and prepare themselves for war. In my experience they tend to turn up the volume on their own meatholes, and drown out all others.
..but also see consistency bias and commitment effects (e.g.: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4e/cached_selves/)
It is called a pull quote, and they have been a thing for longer than the internet (from experience). A quick search hasn't yet turned up anything interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote
I feel for you, and in many ways the hardest part is that everyone involved is so reasonable and loving if you don't contradict certain beliefs.

All the best.
I think the difference is that this isn't only targeted at existing ChromeOS devices.
However, both make me want to try a ChromeBook.
Null as a default is useful / a big simplification when it comes to reflection/meta-programming.

Consider this piece of pseudo-Java/Spring code and think how you would do it if the platform you were using forced you to either declare a and b as optional (which they are not) or assign them some value between the IoC container instantiates the class X and wires the values for a and b.

public class X {
@Autowired
ServiceA a;

@Autowired
ServiceB b;

@PostConstruct
void init() {
// a and b are instantiated by the IoC container and
// are fully valid for the rest of the execution
}
}
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That's kind of what Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist) did in his book How to fail at almost anything and still win big.
precisely: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2575582/thumbs/o-WET-570.jpg?7
It seems to me that if it was his point, he'd have mentioned it.
Well, it might be that the research will be done but the hardware is not strong enough. In that case it could be the people creating (and managing) the hardware.
The free app Mathpix for iOS does this really well too: http://mathpix.com
Yes, I'm happy to help.

The book is a classic - definitely worth it. If you don't have the time, you could just check a summary - the core concept is simple; however, reading it form cover to cover probably will change positively your interpersonal interactions.
A release is a logical point in a software projects history. Sometimes you have a bunch of stuff on the head waiting a release, but that point is not reached yet. The maturity of the features are not well tested, the API is not fixed, etc. Now IDK this specific case of Flask, but there is no one single release cadence that fits all, nor do the releases need be periodic.
The war in the west didn't start until May 1940, when Germany invaded France. Shortly after that (June 1940) the air battle over Britain started, and at least there was a Canadian participation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-British_personnel_in_the_R...

Edit: Canada already sent infantery units to Britain during the Phoney War (that was the period until the war in the west started:

"The Royal Air Force dropped propaganda leaflets on Germany and the first Canadian troops stepped ashore in Britain, while western Europe was under a period of uneasy calm for seven months.[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
Being glued to a phone makes it more visible and potentially harder to escape, but I wonder if it really changes much.

Girls have always treated high school as a popularity contest far more than boys. If anything, I suspect systematising it might even help, as it would replace "I am afraid that I am not really cool enough" with "I can see that I'm not and I have a plan to fix it". The latter might seem scary, but is it worse than silent angst and worrying? At least this girl is taking charge of her own popularity and learning how to shape her appearance from her peers, which in the absence of a mother might be the next best way to learn. I guess her dad isn't going to teach her much about female beauty techniques.

When I was a teenager I spent nearly all my free time on the computer, and when we got it, on the internet. It was only the fact that it tied up the phone line (and endless amounts of homework) that stopped me using it all the time. And of course my mother worried. She had very little visibility into what I was doing, it seemed to consume infinite amounts of time, and it was nothing like what kids in her day did. Plus back then there was a lot of fearmongering in the press about the (then new) internet.

You know what? I turned out fine. Nowadays she looks back on that period and realises she worried herself for nothing, heck she says she's actually embarrassed to tell other parents what her children are getting up to because it sounds like boasting.

The reason I spent so much time on the computer was simply that I lived in a very wet and rainy place far from parks, so playing outside wasn't really feasible, most of my friends lived too far away to just drop in on, and - the biggest reason - no matter how fondly adults today may remember them, traditional childs play activities were boring. There's only so much time you can spend on football even if you're sports mad.

In contrast the world of the computer had an almost limitless list of things to do, and many of them were very constructive.
Yes. Yes. Yes. WSJ really can't figure out a business model for itself? ProPublica - you understand the conflict of interest present here?
time to revisit this old macro: craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

but for IM
> using these tools is enough in to provide a suspicion

Philip Zimmermann was talking[1] about encryption in general, but the same idea also applies to anonymity tools.

What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for
their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope
for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail
to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because
everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by
asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously,
it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent
or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption.
Think of it as a form of solidarity.

If we use Tor only when we are doing something that needs to be anonymous, using Tor is suspicious. Instead, if Tor is used regularly, using Tor doesn't reveal anything. Security and privacy tools and technologies need to be used by default, if you want them to be available when in the (hopefully) rare situations where you do need them.

[1] https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
That's equivalent to suicide. You could do something similar today to eliminate sexual or other desires, but people aren't doing it.

I assumed they can replicate at the lab.

Care about who? Other oligarchs? If there are other oligarchs(which is not necessary, since it could be one king and few thousand people below him), then he would receive benefits from them and vice versa.

Most people don't care about pushing human(ity) further, just want the current entertainment flavor of the generation. Why should the lab-creator care about them ?
Just because someone pays for your job, doesn't mean it should exist, ex: gossip magazines. And when you have no work/purpose, why should you exist ? To consume finite resources? He may think the same thing for other oligarchs.

Who will try to kill them? Masses or other oligarchs?

If you build a life-extension (or a human backup+restore) lab you'll be at war with whoever you don't want to share.

What others? Other oligarchs with different labs?

2 main ways to change the world would be: Kill those who oppose you, or build better tech and don't save them (but those will better weapons will kill you first).

The more you automate and advance, the easier it would be to not need(and pursuing of not needing) other oligarch/normal sheeple.
Colliding with something mid-air sounds more like an unfortunate event than a probable risk.
KMT was the ruling party Kuomintang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang

nothing to do with muslims
This was posted here a few (weeks)? ago:

http://webkay.robinlinus.com/
If your drone gets damage, you should file a complaint against the bird owner. Otherwise, unless the birds are threatening actual people and not just property, it might be (and should be) a crime to deliberate install mechanisms to harm them.
I don't belive that you read the document. You are arguing against points which have not been made in the article or which are more nuanced than one would believe by reading posts such as yours.

The article is very reasonable, logical and a good counterpoint to the countless TDD anecdotes which obsessively focus on unit-tests to the detriment of any other types of testing or design practices.
> the word 'fasces' does not exist in Italian.

The word "fascism" does not exist in Italian either. We're using English and anglicised words.

The "Fasces" is a group of rods tied together with an axe, dating back to ancient Italian/Roman times, and comes from the Latin fascis ("bundle").

The word fascism no more derives from a political party (which simply pulled the word out of nowhere, did it?) than the words "democrat", "republican" or "communist" do.
> Nulls are not a mistake. They are a trade-off as so many other things in language design.

A bad trade-off – i.e., one where the downsides outweigh the upsides – is a mistake.

Nulls are not a necessity: Several languages demonstrate that there are better alternatives.
What's a 3/5 diet?
This story is interesting because of the hate generated in a small number of people around the perceived cheating.

Or maybe the stuff around anonymous crowds will always contain destructive assholes.

People might be interested in the previous discussion of this article (only 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499452

Here's a different post about the 2011 challenge, with some interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9021383

And here's another one with 50 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3164466
Will someone please build this into a mobile (tablet!) first version of Jupyter?

Stop doing all these slightly-better-in-some-way-but-not-really things (Zeppelin, etc). You've lost.

But I'm so frustrated trying to use Jupyter on a tablet. The compute model is perfect for using my tablet, but the UI just doesn't work that well.
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Hadn't seen that before. But there's one disadvantage with breaking captchas: have you been challenged recently with Google captchas? They take much, much longer to solve and oftentimes you don't even pass. This is with their image neural net training captcha. It constantly asks you to select more than the visible and inserts new images until it's satisfied. What I'm saying is that any site that uses Google's captcha system before posting a comment or something similar takes up much more of my time than it did before. I'm not sure if this is strictly needed, seeing many sites that manage with simple captchas. My impression is that Google turned their captcha system into a mechanical turk for letting the masses work for them and train their image neural net.