skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should be noted that M-Pesa wasn't a brilliant idea, it was the formalization of an already existing behavior in the market. That behavior was to pay for small things (like a drink at a bar) with cellphone minutes because cellphone minutes had an established value and were easily transferable between people. People were doing this already before M-Pesa.
Agreed. While I do think there are some interesting applications for building perfect reconstructions of reality, I think the most interesting experiences won't be in that direction.
Was Jobs an asshole, still, after he came back?
I wrote a program that counts but only appends the sequence if the binary sequence isn't already there.
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Fermi's paradox is relevant: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Maybe Bostrom's option 1 happens due to the Great Filter...
Creating consciousness has been a very popular thing for couples to do for many thousands of years!
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By the same token, why do I owe you any further evidence?
>But why does it have to be the woman who stays home? Why is this just the tacit assumption?

Maybe you should be asking the mothers.
>"The 'you' can be the other partner."

Our culture's acceptance of stay-at-home dads has not neutralized in step with its acceptance of working women. As relationships link people into social units, social costs imposed on men can counter-intuitively harm women.
If your mom understands iCloud, I'm impressed.
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I assume this is because there may not be sufficient storage on the watch itself, nor the phone, and you don't want to drop potentially important data!

My understanding is that all the data (apps, notifications, etc.) on the watch effectively sits in a cache, which pulls from the phone which is just a secondary cache of all your stuff in their cloud. This removes storage as a limitation. Then it just becomes a matter of ensuring your most pertinent data is in the right caches.

I agree however that it would be nice for Pebble to explain how they protect your personal data in their cloud. Hopefully they don't mine/sell it.
I dump GPG and Truecrypt files right into my 1TB Dropbox folder. Works fine, $10/month. I'd never go back to managing my own NAS locally.
If the answers to both were yes, your character might have been a vampire, animate mummy, ghost, or lich.
The narrative has turned sharply against Apple
What I object to here isn't Peter Thiel funding the lawsuit, but the system that forced Hulk Hogan to turn to him for help. In a perfect world, Hogan should have been able to pursue this lawsuit without outside funding.

It's interesting that Reuters is attacking Peter Thiel for this. "Justice" has long been for sale. Is the old guard merely afraid of new players in the game?
US enforced their business partners to be part of the embargo silently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_...
Well crap, the pipes mod is a completely obvious mod that really should be in vanilla Minecraft that I never even considered. But then again I haven't really played the game since it got out of Beta.
Actually, it's the Pocket chrome extension that adds the "save to pocket" button.
No. The user should have a backup, but you can never blame a software problem on a lack of backup. That's like blaming a car-accident malfunctioning airbags.

The software screwed up and his backup strategy failed. The software didn't screw up because his backup strategy failed.
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It isn't typical for them to have multiple separate on-site sessions for non-management/director position. They were tossing you around trying to see if you could fit anywhere. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
I find it amazing too. At the moment, I'm totally into shorthand writing, i.e. the sets of symbols secretaries and other writing people had to come up with to be able to write faster with pen and paper back in the day.

It's just something really cool about a completely different "language" that's shared by a few people who'll know exactly why it's used and mostly learned out of necessity.
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You might consider contacting the author. I imagine that someone would be interested to hear the details of your signals.
The moderation on this site is absolute shit. Why is this modded down? It's absolutely relevant. He's right: she used to be attractive. But look at her recent photos: she looks haggard. Considering the subject matter of this article, this is not a coincidence I'm sure. Extreme stress does have a physical effect on people.
Don't know much about this guy, but aren't theories against just as theoretical as theories for? I feel eGPUs and things like the Razer Core help solve the mobility/power dilemma.
I think/hope that remote friendly engineering companies will help with this.

I'm working at a fully-distributed startup, and while it's all male currently, 50% of the team are dads with young kids and don't have to make the tradeoff of never seeing their kids to advance their career.
iCloud is crap, but she doesn't need to understand it to use her iPhone and iPad effectively. Heck, even I don't use it except for backups.
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I tried the iOS version a long time ago and moving/mining in that game annoyed me to no end. Is that something that significantly improved over time, or do you just don't mind it?
I understand the attempt at humor but can not help but point out that the two names are not permutations of eachother.
NYC-based Monegraph anyone?
or click on the book cover. hard to miss
php isn't in the list of languages it supports.
Railroad workers have a sign language, but it's intended for use with lanterns at night and at considerable distances, so it's all big movements.[1] It's much reduced from what it used to be; the remaining signals are mostly "stop" and "go" level. But there used to be enough expressive power to say "cut off the the last three cars". This was how engine drivers and brakemen coordinated freight switching. Today, you'll still see simple hand signals, but anything complicated goes over two-way radios.

[1] http://www.rgusrail.com/manual/baker_fpi_1/baker_fpi_1.pdf
I have no idea if the internet commenter I replied to is naive.

I will however stand by my opinion that "extremely wealthy people are just like any other group of people" is a hopelessly naive statement.

There is a difference. I do admire and respect the civil tone of discussion on HN very much, and am pretty sure I am contributing to it here.
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I know people at Amazon that are absolutely bottom performers and still don't get fired. It takes YEARS
Undeniable without hard evidence?
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All is fair in love and war! It is certainly true that the anti-gamergate people needed no help from the formal media to go on raids. What appalls me is that I don't think most of them know they're raiding.

Still the formal media did recognize them as a natural ally and appeared to universally pan the gamergate community so far as I could see. That is the focus on my attention, because I wonder most about why that would be so.
> swiping through subways, doors, hotels, airports

This is not going to happen. We already had a technology that was meant to be this - RFID. But instead of one RFID that you tie to all devices and services, the lack of standards caused your wallet and key ring to be crammed with unique tags for each utility. And the tech industry now is even more wall graded and alienated to standards then 15 years ago.
$11/year?

Certainly not bad, but there are hostable solutions that would work on $15/year VPSs, and that's at consumer pricing and supports multiple users.

On the other hand, this is just penny pinching and <$1/mo is phenomenal.
Well, it's cultural, undoubtedly. Many couples just do it that way because that's "how it's done" without really thinking about it. But as far as I've seen/heard there is also significant social cost to stay-at-home dads. They're alternately demonized, ignored, assumed incompetent, assumed less worthy for not financially supporting the family, or just not accommodated in a thousand other ways. That's what we (society) should challenge and change, IMHO. It would be a huge win for women and for men alike.
Well, guess I know what I'm buying tonight. It'll be the 4th time I've bought Minecraft, but whatever. The Wii U controller is undoubtably better for input than the iPad version anyway.
It definitely wasn't. I worked at a web conferencing company in 2007 and my sense was that video conferencing was limited to big entities with deep pockets and dedicated setups. Now anybody can do it and it works pretty well. It would be nice to get from "pretty well" to "so close to perfect that everyone forgets this was ever a hard thing", and it does seem like progress has been a bit slow on that front, but it seems like we're at the point where it will continuously improve constantly but almost imperceptibly.
Again, you're bringing up the red herring: that this is really just a legal issue that was adjudicated in the court case, and that the motivation and cause of this court case being brought is completely irrelevant to the ethics of what Thiel did.

Saying that vengefulness is a part of the experience does not make the actions you perform vengefully suddenly OK, or else a we'd think a lot more highly of most murderers. Further, this isn't a complaint about his emotions. It's a complaint about his wielding his substantial power in order to bankrupt a company he felt annoyed by—it's about his actions, not his feelings.
Considering the number of problems we describe in backups

1) You need incremental backups, not just a live copy, so you can rollback.

2) You need redundancy both connected/disconnected and offsite.

3) You need to test restoring.

All these requirements... how do we not expect the user to screw up? This is like crypto, except every idiot knows "don't roll your own, you'll screw that up and leave a hole".

Same problem with OwnCloud itself - it requires too much configuration, as the OP explained.

Why are we doing all this garbage manually? Where's the automatic backup solution that provides differential incremental backups so you can rollback to various points, integrates with Google/Dropbox/whatever, integrates with OwnCloud, lets you plug in an external HDD for regular disconnected backups, etc.
I don't see a reason for AIs to be similar to human intellects. They are not animals. They are not "alive" the way an animal is. They cannot die as all animals do. They have no genes. They did not evolve. They don't have brains that evolved to keep hairless chimps alive. They don't have a "jump away from snakes" circuit. They won't have evolved our heuristics that make us suck at probability and risk assessment. When people use the word "consciousness" they mean usually mean the part of their brain that claims to have introspection but in fact cannot access the subconscious agents that make decisions in the human brain. Why should an AI have any of that?
That's actually true of almost every good business -- there is always a worse version already available, even if only through the "abuse" of an existing system.
There are a lot of little typos (such as stating '..' and '-' arguments for 'cd' labeled as "previous directory" or suggesting Ubuntu uses Debian because it's made by Canonical). I wonder the best way to contact the author about revising these small but obviously not terrible errors.
right. those books and movies and whatnot express human anxiety about artificial consciousness. whether that anxiety is well-founded is really beside the point.
Are you joking? What's the most obvious explanation here?
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Wouldn't that just flag everyone on the internet?
You're right, of course. But there are biological reason why all else being equal, having mom stay home might work better than dad. (Breastfeeding, mainly)

Also as a dad I fully agree with your other point - I want to spend time with my kids as well, and I bristle at the suggestion that my kids are my wife's 'problem.' I love my kids, and if I had the means I would spend all of my time with them. But considering the reality that one of us has to work so we can eat, I've found that it's easier on me emotionally to spend time away from them than it is for her. Maybe that's not widely true, maybe it's nurture over nature, maybe it's something else entirely, but it's something that exists and maybe shouldn't be absent from these discussions.
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Ten percent of that number still sounds ridiculously high for such a site. They don't even have one competent UX designer. Why would they need dozens of them doing nothing?
"Nothing's more simple than one giant button."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
We should do all we can to support mothers and parents. They should be free to make their own choices. But nobody should be surprised if mothers make different choices than fathers. Nor should we force the matter. There is some biology here. Equality doesn't create interchangeability.
I find it quite interesting that a similar number of 50% of men who enter the teacher profession also leaves while the number for women is about half. In stark contrast however, the quote text, the theory on why men drops out of female dominated professions share nothing in common with the theories on why women leave male dominated.

In a 2009 report by the Swedish national agency, they argue that the reason why people drop out at a higher rate compared to the dominating gender is that the work culture integrate gender identity when there is unequal gender ratios, and the more a individual work and study, the more are they forced to either assimilate into that culture or quit. Compared to the argument about "lower chance of being promoted", a hostile culture seems much more likely as a root cause to high drop rate, and I would be surprised if culture crashes had no correlation with promotion rates.
To quote @worrydream
"Worrying about sentient AI as the ice caps melt is like standing on the tracks as the train rushes in, worrying about being hit by lightning"
I don't understand what you're getting at here. Yes, the point of wealth distribution is to reduce income inequality. The UBI achieves that, by taxing high-income people and redistributing it to everyone (in effect redistributing it to the poorer people, because the wealthier people will be paying it all back in taxes). With tax rates fixed, revenue collected will be greater if wealthy peoples' incomes rise, and this will allow the UBI to be indexed up. Why would there be an "upstream battle"? Nothing has to change when the tax rate is the same. What's the problem?
If the content is 2d, I imagine a 2d interface is the right way to view it. Real paintings aren't 2d, though - Even modern fully-computerized paintings are actually 3d planar constructs, because artists use many layers in their construction, though that's often not exposed.

Real paintings have brushstrokes, bumps, texture and depth. Even the most high-res scans of paintings utterly fail to capture that. The Met has a fantastic collection of art scans that you can browse online[1]. Some of those works are stunning, even in thumbnails. But they still pale in comparison to how they are when you're up close, when you can see the grain of the canvas, the brushstrokes and dabs of paint, the way that it all pieces together. I always view a painting from multiple angles, looking from the left and right, tilting my head. Texture matters, a lot. VR can provide that in a way a 2d (or even flat 3d) monitor never could.

The real promise is an endless, densely packed 3d museum, where you can single out an exhibit, open it in it's own room, and enlarge/move it as you see fit. You walk down the aisle, viewing many pieces in an infinite array, and zoom in when you like one. You get many constantly changing angles, which is what our brains were built to deal with.

It's not there yet. Tilt Brush gives us a taste. More will come.

[1] http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
Did you know that breastfeeding pumps and refrigeration had been invented and refined over the last century?
One BIG problem with SL is a horrible, hard to use, unintuitive UI.

-- It's easy to make things hard to use, it's hard to make them easy to use. --
How useful would be a conscious computer? It would have to be protected by some rights (at the very least, equivalent to animal rights), they cease to be machines. The narrow-task AI efforts make more sense from an economical point of view, and I think they have actually more disruptive consequences (massive job extinction etc.).

That said, I believe that consciousness is "supernatural", something like another state of matter of a quantum phenomenon that cannot be manipulated like an Excel spreadsheet.
> iTunes has been a constant bafflement since its release.

Back when I was on Mac (~2007), iTunes was extremely simple. There was a left menu with playlists and artists, a top menu with settings like "import", and a bunch of familiar play/stop buttons.

You would plug in your iPod, and it took you to an iPod screen with a set of minimal options (sync all / select sync). It was simple as an old-timey jukebox.

Last week, six years later [1], with 3 years of professional software development under my belt (on supposedly user-unfriendly Linux), I tried to help my girlfriend change playlists on her iPod... I was utterly baffled. Hidden menus everywhere, secret right-click and guess the magic word drop-downs... I felt like an idiot. I can't imagine grandpa understanding this software.

Worst of all, it was sloooow.

Meanwhile my (non-techie) mom does just fine on Ubuntu; which will run blazing fast on any tin box.

(I can tell the same story about connecting my System76 laptop to the the workplace printer, vs. my coworker's MacBook.)

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[1] Scrap that... 10 years later. Jesus Christ. Get off my lawn.
Do you have any resources on how to become better at randomness?
This is a beautiful site for teaching the command line, while not being too over the top in its aesthetic...I'm on my iPad so I'm not seeing the issues others are having on mobile
On the other hand, the recorded history of labor relations in the lumber industry.
I'm arguing for equality of opportunity, not outcome. If the final split isn't 50/50, fine, as long as everyone is making free choices. The problem is that today that (equality of opportunity) is not the case -- there's immense pressure for the woman to be the one to stay home, if someone does.
I haven't written Swift, but that looks like a lot of breakage. Especially renames like the sort methods behaviors "return sorted copy", "sort in place" being renamed in 3: (sort, sortInPlace) => (sorted, sort). Yes, "sort" means the opposite behavior between 2 and 3.

Is there any automated source translation tool that fixes all of these little syntatic/renaming changes? It seems like an easy fix if you have a good standard AST package (like Go's).
Rather than sharding, consider federation. Anyone should be able to run a server and allow "doorways" or other access points to other servers, hyperlinks.

I recall, circa 2000, a project that I can't name at the moment that I toyed with in college that had this concept. You could host your own area and connect it to other areas hosted by other people. The name "Metaverse" is in my head, but googling it (quick search, probably missed something) was dominated by Stephenson's concept from Snow Crash and not a software project by that name.
Thanks! I can tell you've put a lot of though into this issue.
Well we might find, for instance, that in order to create a general purpose AI which can develop intellectually quickly enough to be useful we have to make it sufficiently like us that it can understand and participate in our culture.
Anecdotal, but my cousin was a primary school teacher and faced an incredible amount of hostility because of his gender from parents and colleagues and left for construction after 2 years.
Expressing yourself in languages like Python is much easier
than C++. You'll be able to concentrate more on solving
the problem at hand than dealing with the language.

I highly recommend these two short books:

https://www.amazon.com/Treading-Python-Beginning-Programming...

http://www.amazon.com/Treading-Python-2-Intermediate/dp/1490...