skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. It's a bit of a sore point for me, because when my mum asks me for help with her iPhone I find I often either don't know, or can't explain, Messages and iCloud behavior. Trying to explain what constitutes a Messages account, even if you understand it yourself, is a nightmare.
Furniture items of all types have a large markup. It's because volume is so low and as a shop owner you have a lot of money tied up in inventory.
Are you suggesting using extra judicial killings against non violent offenders?
Have you tried out dropbox infinite yet with that setup?
I'd overlook 99% of this if Apple gave a shit about the pro market instead of obsessing over phone sales. The software is on life support or dead (Aperture) and the hardware well behind the competition. OS X relies on a file system nearly twenty years old…

Edit: Used to be that iOS devices drew people into the Mac ecosystem, where the Mac HW and SW was suitable for doing real work. These days, I get the feeling that Apple expects everyone to stay on iOS devices and begrudgingly sells Macs as iOS development and personal productivity machines. People with serious work to do should look elsewhere.
>"Removing the minimum wage is so extreme it's barely even under consideration [...] And it always has been."

Then you disagree with Eleanor Roosevelt on history, who, speaking of the Republican party's desire to end the minimum wage in 1959 gave the congressional testimony:
"The arguments raised against establishing any legal minimum wage were the same as those which have been used by employers over the past 50 years."

And liberal think-tank The National Employment Law Project, who writes:
"The criticisms raised by minimum wage opponents display a remarkable consistency over the past 100 years"
Source: "100 Years of Broken-Record Opposition to the Minimum Wage"

You can disagree with these positions, but at least have your facts right about basic points of history. Points of history that your party doesn't even disagree with.
Yes, I did know that. I assume you don't have kids? Breastfeeding is extremely difficult and painful for most women, and pumping moreso. I can only watch my wife crying from the excruciating pain of having her breasts pumped by a cold machine several times a day so many times before I say 'you know what, let's not do that anymore.'
FunStartupFails#1 – Failed Referral Scheme
There are already some AI systems with basic forms of consciousness at [1]. I wonder to what human mental age they are equal to ?

[1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-b...
I seem to remember around 2007 there were several netbook manufactures who were just getting started calling out the OLPC as the direct inspiration for creating the market segment in the first place. Meanwhile, that article describes Intel's device as having a better CPU, but half the screen rez, 1/5 the battery life and costing hopefully only a bit more than twice as much two years later.

The OLPC hardware was very low-spec. But, it was a brilliant design for being so low spec. It's UI was considered alien at the time. But, today the app-based, fileless approach has been proven out by the tablet market to be much better for the mainstream, non-hardcore user.

It's unfortunate they insisted on running so much in Python on such a tiny CPU. I understand that they really wanted view/modify source as standard for the kids. But, the only language I could see that working out well at the time would have been Lua --which doesn't have nearly as much clout as Python even today.

In my outside observation, OLPC was mostly tanked by politicians declaring that "If our kids can't use it to learn Microsoft Office, I don't want it even for free." There were a multitude of issues. But, that one really cut off the investment that could have overcome them.
But "free choices" is a tricky thing. Many would say that so long as 50/50 isn't reached, for whatever reason known or unknown, the choice is not free.
DevOps isn't (just) Dev doing Ops and Ops doing dev, though. It's about understanding each teams domain and facilitating communication. Nothing about Docker limits that, per se.

e.g:

> I argue that devs are usually not thinking ahead that they're going to be the ones on-call to fix whatever breaks in production in the middle of the night

That's not a Docker issue. That's just a DevOps culture that is incomplete.
Well, interesting anecdote: I found my job at AWS through Second Life, back in 2008: http://brunozzi.com/2008/05/22/how-i-got-hired-by-amazoncom/
Fair enough, but was only speaking to the "clickbait" charge, by arguing that it's not misleading to characterize this as test of "free will" in the typical usage of the term.

But yeah, it's not the same as being unpredictable: that would look like seizures, not "gosh which ice cream flavor will he pick?:
WordPress plugin with 10,000+ installations being exploited in the wild
I believe the broadest consensus defines consciousness as having a subjective experience.

What's unclear, and some deem impossible, is how we can externally detect consciousness. A machine could act and respond in a manner indistinguishable from humans but still be unconscious.
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In my case, the motivations are money and freedom. I enjoy doing it, but if I didn't make money I won't do it.
My only income is what I make participating in bug bounty programs.

Context: I live with my parents, I'm not married, I don't have kids, I didn't go to university, I don't have a CV worth enough to get a job where I would earn as much money as from bounties (unless in my country), and I work in personal projects which wouldn't allow me to commit 8 hours a day working for a single company.
> Many couples just do it that way because that's "how it's done" without really thinking about it.

Are you sure about that? Have you asked them? No one that I know makes these decisions just because that's "how it's done," although I can imagine that might be how it looks from the outside.
Yeah, pretty much summarizes my fears with Owncloud. Not only that, but as mentioned before, I no longer have any desire to manage my own large scale storage (NAS/Raid, really anything), so that compounds my own fears with Owncloud.
Add pattern matching to the list. You combine function call, unpacking the
result, and branching based on its structure and/or value in a single
statement, without otherwise unnecessary intermediate variables.

Then add working with single-linked lists and pervasive recursion, which
somehow gives much higher level code and the right amount of friction to cause
functions to be shorter.

Callbacks being natural and obvious is a cherry on the cake (functions as
first-class objects is not that big of a deal, but it still helps a lot in
overall landscape).

It's not a single killer-feature of functional programming that make this
paradigm so loved by its practitioners, it's all the little things combined.
Apparently they're big in Japan as well.I remember reading a while ago that Yahoo is the dominant portal in Japan and scratching my head...
sometimes the resources available are suitable for different problems.

I consider high quality communicators to be a significant resource, and the problem to solve is to make sure everyone affected has the right information to make their next decision to mitigate the issue.

These communicators might not know how to solve the actual technical problem, and it'd be like putting monkeys on a typewriter to tell them to "all hands in fixing a configuration issue with the web server" for example.

I'd say apply the right people to the right problems.
Bionic Leaf turns Sunlight into Liquid Fuel
Active Worlds?
A leader is only as good as his people. And this is yet another article doing disservice to all the people working at Apple. Steve might have given the direction but he was hardly responsible for every idea that came out of Apple. The logic goes like - if something good happened, it was steve's genius. If something bad happened, it was despite his genius. For the last 4 years, Tim has been managing the company and growing it incredibly well.

Next what sundar is personally responsible for the really silly notes app that came out recently (I even forgot it's name)?
You haven't provided any evidence so far. You owe evidence because you made a claim. If you are unsure whether Bluebird's Promise performance makes a difference in a real-world scenario, why make such a claim?
Are they really outsourcing all of the core service and voice integration to Amazon?

No. It's an Android device and the Echo integration is totally optional.
The difference between then and now is that we have the Church-Turing Thesis, and the less precise Universal Church-Turing Thesis.

A violation of the UCTT would be a Big Deal.

Because of this, we now know that previous models of the human brain (as a hydraulic system, as a mechanical system of differential gears, as a weaving machine) are, in fact, also capable of expressing all computable functions (and we can even add Minesweeper and Conway's Game of Life).

I don't think anyone is saying that the brain is directly analogous to a computer (in the sense that it has a CPU and volatile memory or anything) so much as the fact that a computer, sufficiently powerful, could compute the same things that our brain is capable of computing, because of Church-Turing.
This sequence seems to settle right around 50%:

var simulateKeyPress = function(character) {
var evt = document.createEvent("KeyboardEvent");
evt.initKeyEvent ("keypress", true, true, window,
0, 0, 0, 0,
0, character.charCodeAt(0))
document.body.dispatchEvent(evt);
};

var num = 0;
var loop = function() {
console.log(num);
var binary = num.toString(2);
num++;
for(var i = 0, len = binary.length; i < len; i++) {
simulateKeyPress(binary[i] == '0' ? 'd' : 'f');
}
};

setInterval(loop, 100);
> equivalent to animal rights

Look at chickens. Piled on one another, slaughtered at will. We would simply stack conscious computers on one another and then delete them when they are not needed.
> but only appends the sequence if the binary sequence isn't already there

Why?
Hey @Alaina from Women Who Code here. We are thrilled to be joining the YC community and I'm happy to answer questions.
Possible. Saw that on Wikipedia just now. 16 years, apparently my memory isn't strong enough to recall back far enough.
i have trouble accepting the idea that fewer women in tech is a problem. it's not that i want to discourage women -- or anyone -- from going into tech. i just don't believe in encouraging anyone to do anything in particular, except what they enjoy. i'd appreciate it if someone can persuade me that the hype is true so i no longer need to feel like a black sheep. but..

for one, the fact that there are fewer women than men in any field, computing or otherwise, is neither good nor bad. the disproportionate number of women in nursing is not seen as a problem, but somehow it has become one in tech.

two, as we flood more people into professional computing, the good pay -- one of the reasons given on the wwcode website for encouraging women to enter the field -- will decrease, due to the increased supply of workers. tech is reduced to Yet Another Job, and Women Who Bgurp becomes the next YC startup.

three, the wwcode website argues that diverse teams perform better by increasing collective intelligence -- measured in what units? and when it claims that organizations with the largest representation of women leadership have a higher return on investment, how is that measured? this seems super hand-wavy to me.

lastly, the website's statement about women investing 90% of their income in their communities "when [they] make more" is not only unlikely, but is predicated on the long-term availability of good pay in professional computing, which, as i mentioned earlier, will decline at a rate proportional to the frequency with which we encourage people to enter the field.
A less efficient method I used was; press a key until the probability jumps up, then switch keys (probability will go down, mostly) until it goes up again. Rinse/repeat.
On their pebbledev Slack, some of the engineers talked about how the timeline system works a while back. While end-user apps go through Pebble's servers for timeline posts, the local Pebble app on the phone can also add timeline entries; your calendar data stays on the phone and the feed to the watch is a merge of the feed from Pebble's cloud and the local data.
It's easy to see the attraction of making an AI that is relatable to humans. Some people will claim that, if we are able to build an AI, that it isn't a real intelligence because it does not have our foibles. But I think making a human-like AI is both difficult and dangerous. One would need to understand what one is trying to simulate, and some aspects, like the drive for propagating genes, could create unnecessary hazards.
Source graph does this but now supports many languages.
Not yet, although its on my TODO list.
Ask people from Brasil how much they enjoy the high prices they pay for consumer electronics some time.
This Is the Tiniest Little Quadruped Robot We've Ever Seen
It, in no unclear terms, says that you can limit free exercise, so long as you live up to two pretty low standards:

--------

"b. Government may substantially burden a person's exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that application of the burden to the person—

(1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest;

and

(2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest."

--------

This is much less binding than the first amendment:
"Congress _shall make no law_ respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

The constitution provided no exceptions whatsoever. By definition, a law which adds exceptions has moved the bar textually. It is, by definition, unconstitutional.

Again, it was a bad move by conservatives using liberal laws to protect themselves, rather than just pushing for conservative laws.
Real World Haskell is somewhat out of date. I'm not sure what to go with instead, but I've heard good things about Haskell Programming from First Principles (which has already been mentioned in this thread).
I wonder how much of the balance difference is due to boys liking tech more than girls. I'd say that if you ask 10-15 year olds, who hardly think about their future, about what they do in their free time you will find equal balance on the reply "gaming/stuff on my PC". Most girls don't like it, that translates to later stages in life I guess. Never see the reports for other fields where females excel in acceptance rates. Teachers, daycare, psychology, there are plenty really.

Mind you, I'm not saying women are treated equally once they _have_ the job, I'm just not sold on this whole "only x% of tech is women!" Thing. We can probably learn a thing or two on how to treat our female colleagues, but please stop trying to fight for 50% should be women kind of causes. There are other fields where it is completely the other way around and I don't see people fighting there for equal rights.
I use Instapaper to save articles that I want to read later.
there i definitely agree with you. before thiel intervened it was gawker who had the money and hogan who did not, and as you note, justice was equally for sale.
"Developing markets are a kind of mirror of the future" - this is why companies like Zipline (http://flyzipline.com/product/) are starting up in Rwanda, instead of trying to deliver tacos in the Mission.
The one language that I always have to look up how to do a for loop for is bash.

"for loop in bash" no results :-(
Nope. The guardian had been posting anti-Apple pieces for years, as have large sections of the tech press.
How do companies in the status symbol business disrupt each other ? There must have been some such cases.
Compared to plain C, C++ tends to become unmaintainable. Everybody knows a tiny subset of the huge language, yet must somehow work together on a team. People do not stick to a common subset of the language that everybody is comfortable with, especially considering team members that will be hired in the future.

In theory, C++ can be as fast as C. (officially lacking the "restrict" keyword, but otherwise fine) In practice, C++ is much much slower. The theory is no help. C++ code runs slow. People layer on the abstractions.

Suggested next language:

Well, although Rust and Ada look nice, I'll tell you what I use at work. I use C99 and lots of assembly. I do assembly for x86 (16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit), PowerPC, ARM (original, thumb, thumb2, aarch64), ColdFire, MIPS, and many stranger things. Oh, don't forget the build system tools: bash, sed, GNU make, awk
Everybody should watch Ben's Mill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KJbRHO76s

It has the most photogenic cows I've ever seen. It's an old documentary about a water mill powering a lumber operation.

This is how the industrial revolution began. Cogs and wheels!
> TL;DR: you need a smartphone to run Alexa.

Or Pebble Core :). Which seems to be intended to let you leave your smartphone at home when you go outside.

But I can't wait to use it as a companion. Google Now generally sucks, and the only way I found to make it usable is to hack it with Tasker. I don't mind carrying Core all the time, along with the smartphone.

(I just need to figure out how to keep it alive for the whole day with the 3G always on.)
Fair enough that would take care of my issue for the most part. Native implementations of promises should work well with that. Seems most of the polyfills end up using setTimeout() which is kinda slow[1] and one of the reasons I don't typically like working with them (waiting for more ubiquitous support).

Thanks for the info!

[1] http://www.krissiegel.com/rants/2015/11/7/settimeout-sucks
You're right, the public timeline API does require hitting our servers.

However, the calendar pins we push from our mobile apps do not use that public API and thus do not - as far as I know - hit the cloud.
I tried pressing l and q repeatedly, I liked those letters better....
Amazon doesn't deliver most physical things to my (current) home, so all of my purchases are Kindle (impulse) buys. I'm guessing that for a lot of international readers the Kindle Store is the most important part of Amazon.
There's a "Contact Us" section in the footer that points to - contact@linuxjourney.com
Corporations and state are interlinked. For all intents and purposes, there's no clear boundary between them. (Especially since corporations are creations of the state, and heavily influence state policy.)

I agree the French government example seems weak. Maybe due to not being able to use truly cutting arguments in the US's agenda-setting newspaper.
I just played through Portal 1 and 2 in a sleepless weekend. I don't recall the last time this happened, and it made me wish for HL3 all over again. To you gamers out there: Is there any other experience like it that is playable on my gaming-crippled two-year-old Macbook Air?
It was introduced in ES6. It's still using prototyping behind the scenes, but it's quite a bit nicer to look at.
Apples problem is not the lack of ideas or talent, but the lack of an ability to prioritize which ones to focus on.

That was Steves talent, thats what they are lacking today.
Thank you! People all caught up in the buzz.

Granted, I'll participate in the Kickstarter, but this isn't truly news once you realize Core will be running Android. I don't think that is common knowledge.
I did a Hangout a few weeks ago from Europe to a startup in TX. At least on my end I was on a 1Gbps fat academic ISP; can't speak for the other guy, but he was in his office. Still, voice and video quality was poor and we had to restart everything once.

Also have had many poor quality video conferences on Lync/Skype for Business where all participants have been on the same fat academic ISP.
I would be interested in the number of men or women who leave tech because the next promotion effectively is a promotion out of tech and into management.

What is the record like with tech companies with engineer tracks vs normal up or out? How big is the male female divide in those cases - and is the diff significant?
No, never figure it out... Do you think it helps to improve SEO ? (I read it before)
Maybe, but at the time of writing many of the responses here felt like the comment I originally replied to -- splitting hairs over pedantics and blaming the user for not testing his backups well enough. I still feel very strongly that he shouldn't have to
Last link (http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/) probably makes the greatest point here.

After coming back to HN from that site, I've been seeing text superimposed everywhere.
The article takes the publication of a book and tries to spin it into a trend. It's not. People who could make the time still brag about getting very little sleep because it makes them feel important.
The author is also active in this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4m4mko/i_made_a_site...
A year ago I reviewed most of the popular "Self-hosted 'Cloud'" packages and found they all had pretty ugly history (security vulnerabilities in particular) and the technologies used didn't inspire confidence in the developers (when data security and integrity are on the table, PHP developers wouldn't be my first choice, nor any choice).

Are there any decent tools out there today or is it still the same situation?
The average age across our entire community is 30, but people of all age are welcome. We've had people from kids and teens to people with more than 30 years of experience join.
OwnCloud Statement concerning the formation of Nextcloud
Sure, but it should be possible to only keep the data on your phone, and not let it leak all the way to the pebble cloud. It's a bit of a strange decision to force people to use their cloud :|.
Well then. That's a thing.

Recently on reddit I encountered an anti-semite anarchist*, who complained that in their country (they didn't say specifically but I assume they meant Germany) expressing their anti-semetic views was punishable by jail time.

Now, with this "echoes" thing also being a thing about evading detection, I am led to notice, uh, I guess racists(in the strong sense of the term, not just the weaker "has racial biases, but not necessarily believing any racist statements" sense) having an interest in communicating with each-other in ways that are less detectable.

I think privacy and ability to communicate privately and such are very important, and I also think that preventing harassment is very important.

As such, I think that it is worth looking for ways that something can further both ideals, (without compromising anything on the privacy / communication front, nor on the anti-harassment front), and which is also easy to use.

One idea that comes to mind, but which I don't know if it furthers the ideal of private communications, is creating noise in the channel of extra parentheses that these people are using.

Like, say, what if so many names were triple parenthesized that it ceased to be a useful signal for these people? Is that practical, or would it not do anything because they would consider who is saying it, and therefore disregard the parentheses?

Another thing is that even if that could be done, they could probably just switch to something else which is almost as effective.

And again, there is the question of whether it is even a good thing to attempt to disrupt these signals?

Perhaps it would better serve the purpose of reducing harassment to detect the signals instead of making them noisy.

[I think I had some sort of point about dog-piling and the term "dog-piling" here, but I couldn't remember what my point was from the start of what I wrote, so I removed it.]

There are many hard problems here I think.
Not just a machine. I agree with definition of consciousness, but it's implication is that we can only ever be sure of our own present consciousness. The consciousness of other people and even our past selves can't be verified.