skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline that they had in an earlier version was better - instead of "blues", "loneliness".

I'll cosign all these findings because they correlate exactly to my own experience. It's the tragedy of the 21st century that we happily nuked existing social structures in favor of a "build your own social network" mentality that it turns out doesn't work that well.
"Do you know how the NSA internal systems operate? Unless you have insider info, I don't see how you can be so sure what risks are involved. It depends entirely on the setup."

They're normal, boring-ass machines at Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden knows the setup because he configures and administers them. I can't find article right now but we also know Booz Allen Hamilton had less security than what is typical for commercial sector. I think Snowden was even accessing stuff from home WiFi. It was that ridiculous.

"I was assigned a full time babysitter during the contract. The guy even waited outside the toilets when I had to go, because they were not allowed to let me go anywhere at all alone. "

Snowden's situation was nothing like that. He was instead more likely to be the baby sitter as he was in one of most trusted positions. Nobody was looking over his shoulder except if a supervisor or manager showed up on occasion.

"That he was able to do other things is not a good reason for him to take additional risk."

You could say the same thing about the leaks themselves. He took the risk because it was important. That he tried to handle things internally is also important. He repeats it constantly. A tiny risk doing something I've done and covered for 50+ times in shady organizations is worthwhile for him. We wouldn't even be having this discussion if he had.
> Btrfs, systemtap, etc.

It's not the Linux community's fault that Sun wanted to create a license that would make it GPL incompatible. If it were compatible, it probably would've been merged years ago. And CDDL is still copyleft, but it retains all of the restrictions with none of the benefits for users. So it's really the "worst" of both worlds. But you can put that in your pipe and smoke it if you like.

> So "successful" is a seriously objective word as you use it.

Did you mean "subjective"? Because I agree that those projects are objectively successful.
I checked out WeWork's 'communal housing'
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> I'm skeptical we'll ever see an explicitly government-approved system with anonymity.

Me too but I also think that it's increasingly not possible to scale up a governance system without anonymity.

Suppose you have a list of incumbents that will pay you off to kill competition, and a list of new entities that affect those incumbents. That's a recipe for stasis and stagnation. Arguably this has already occurred in the medical arena on multiple levels.

You need a 'fog of war' to allow innovation to occur. Otherwise you're depending on the goodwill, patriotism or honesty of officials, things that could dry up when you most need them. I suppose this could also be used as an argument for limited protectionism and incubation.
This means I can basically go to a Starbucks and pwn the Asus there, right?

I have an Asus now but installed Ubuntu first thing when I got it. If I couldn't use Ubuntu I'd use Mac. I see the problem has two sides, Windows for allowing for malware preinstalled and OEM for installing it.
Redirecting DNS is one way; if the attacker can MITM the connection -- e.g. they control the wireless AP, or the router, or the ISP -- they can also just replace the server response with a modified image.

Hardcoding the IP is not a good idea and it doesn't work against MITMing. HTTPS with certificate pinning would be the standard way to secure the connection. Verifying the BIOS image using a certificate before installing it is also "a good idea" (ie. pretty much mandatory), that way users can provide a binary downloaded on another computer.
By the time Windows 95 was released, Nextstep ran on PC hardware.
Yes, but the hacks have been happening for a longer period of time.
https://github.com/has2k1/ggplot/issues/3
What makes them reasonable? Do you subscribe to some sort of corporatist ideology, where the needs/rights of some vague swiss-german corporate outweigh the needs/rights of individual humans?

If so, I'm curious about something. There are 2^{6 billion} possible subsets of humanity. Any individual human is a member of 50% of them. This makes it impossible to treat all corporates equally, so how do you determine which corporates have these rights and which don't?

(I use "corporatist" in the original sense, where a "corporate" is simply some collective of humans rather than specifically a state registered limited liability corporation. I'm also very deliberately NOT mentioning a scary associated word.)
"How can white privilege be real when Obama can say the n-word but I can't?"
Higher pay too.
This is how I feel. A lot of people don't even think about this problem. Cost of living increasing with robots taking more and more nominal jobs that the lower class occupies the homeless rate is going to soar in the future. We are already seeing computers take lots of jobs due to the minimal pay increases in several states.

A basic income is going to be the way of life or people are going to have to deal with millions of poor and an increase in crime.

One of the things that bothers me about the saying, "I don't want to pay for all their stuff, I work hard." Is that people don't realize one of the reasons your able to work hard and not worry about your house getting robbed while your at work is that we take care of the poor and disabled. If you take away that care in the future because your too greedy to help out your fellow man, then you end up losing a lot of peace of mind as crime increases because of people having to steal for basic necessities.
Using the following dataset of year to max drive size in bytes per year [1a][1b]:
{1956,5.00E+06},{1979,5.71E+08},{1980,1.00E+09},{1991,1.00E+09},{1992,2.10E+09},{1997,1.68E+10},{2003,3.70E+10},{2005,4.00E+10},{2006,1.60E+11},{2006,7.50E+11},{2016,5.00E+12}

Linear regression provides the equation:
year = 4.222874399 ln(numBytes) + 1896.534826

Assuming the average bits required to represent a board state is 160 [2], then:
2^155 positions x 160 bits = 9.13e47 bytes

4.222874399 ln(9.13e47) + 1896.534826 = 2362.87979

So, a projection shows that by year 2362, we could have a single storage drive holding every permutation of a board state, so it would be less than 2 drives to store the states along with the move to make for that board. Add more drives and you pull that date in.

References:

1a. http://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.html
1b. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2473980/data-storage-so...
2. http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/19397/smallest-c...
http://getkaiwa.com/ some good info on xmpp on that page.

most xmpp client still show inline-image via http-url, I failed to find any xmpp client that can natively insert an inline image just like what other popular IM messengers do these days.
Sounds just like SV!
Pfft, it's much smaller than the number of atoms in the universe. Then again, after I read how to calculate Graham's number, I'm not impressed by much.
Wait - direct democracy is good when it comes to social issues but bad when it comes to economic ones?
> where's all the actual OS research? Where's the service-oriented OS built on capabilities with a typed object store for a filesystem?

Once you realize there's not much a difference between Microkernels are the recent microservices architectures, they become interesting again. Then you might want to look in recent advances such as Unikernels or Anykernels.

Here's a good start summarizing lessons in Microkernels learned in the last decades:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2522720
I think there might be state-based chapters? My friends here are actually part of "Code for Maine."
For many it might be more attractive than BTC.
I don't understand what you mean. Raise a family of four on a mutual fund?

Why do you feel that you need a mortgage in order to raise a family of four? Why not rent?
There's also Nightmare, which is built off Atom. We ported all of our PhantomJS-backed headless tests to Nightmare recently, and it's paid in dividends: http://www.nightmarejs.org
Nobody specifically wants to outlaw that. Literally nobody. Laws have to have a tradeoff between being too general and being too specific (and having too many special cases). Being too general means catching too many edge cases where it does more harm than good. Handling too many special cases creates a moral hazard where there's more benefit in finding loopholes or plainly ignoring poorly enforced parts of the laws than honest work.

Anecdotally, I did work as a kid, didn't learn anything useful, did not learn responsibility, a bit of money I didn't really need, and it felt like a waste of time and left a bad taste overall.

I fully believe that in many, possibly most cases, work is beneficial for kids (as long as they're not from poor families in which case there will be too much pressure to overwork, affecting school/homework and taking away whatever little time they have to enjoy childhood).
Some cards in our data acquisition systems have DB-19 interfaces.

As for where they come from, I don't know, but I could find out if I asked our parts guy this week.
Free software is pretty much the opposite of proprietary software, yes, and GPL is the single license that enabled the free software revolution we are all benefiting from.

Sure, the battle against greed is far from over, but the benefits are already quite obvious.

If people and companies had kept to proprietary EULA and BSD as the only options, we would still be in the dire situation we were in the 90s.
Standard wash and fold service is not that expensive, at least in NYC, and usually they'll pick up and drop off for free.
Ah, the good old days. I built a mini DB with the Indexing kit. What I discovered was that the kit itself wasn't 100% functional & some of the API/Function calls didn't work.
But I had an amazing time programming on a NeXT computer. I was young (early 20's) and did lot's of trial and error with the IX kit.
Why is Basic Income such a popular topic on Hacker News?
Oh I stand corrected then. In my opinion between a lower cost competitor to BGAN, extending higher speed internet to undeveloped and underdeveloped areas I believe there is a great deal of pent-up demand. That's before things like mandatory internet-connected aviation transponders as mooted elsewhere in this thread.
That's cool. In case you haven't seen this blog post [1], it provides an extended discussion of the uses of this abstraction.

One comment about the groups API is that while it is very convenient, it seems a bit fragile - if a consumer is nuked immediately after it gets a fresh batch from redis then this batch is lost forever.

[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha....
"Winston Churchill called his own bouts of depression “my black dog,”"

What a man. Next to him everybody looks like a wuss.
You may be right, but it's not enough to look at the names; a16z were buying badges at the outset.
Why some compilers prefer hand-crafted parser over parser generators: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15673216/why-some-compile...
>Having our society gradually transform from human to digital should be a very desirable and welcome strategy

Citation or consensus needed. I for one find the notion abhorrent.
Exactly. You are either renting the money or the house. You might as well put your equity into a diversified mutual fund. However, there are massive nonfinancial benefits of owning a home, don't forget
In the US, we get a tax savings for owning rather than renting.
Also renting includes a required profit for the owner. When you rent, your monthly bill includes everything the owner has to pay (mortgage, taxes, utilities), plus their profit.
When you buy, you pay mortgage, taxes, and utilities, but no extra for profit. Also, you get to deduce the local taxes you pay on your national taxes, so overall you pay less.

Also, when you own, you can do what you want without having to ask permission. on top of that - no noisy neighbors that are too close!
A tiny, open CPU is good. Running Forth is not so good. People should also look at this one:

http://www.jopdesign.com

Their Java processor outperforms most of the others with small amount of space. It's open. Doesn't necessarily have to run Java as Oberon or something could probably be ported. The papers section is full of good stuff.
how does someone make a presentation app and a) not have a presentation about it b) not have any presentations made with it as examples?
Buying a house with land in a city is a very american thing – which is why the focus on a small condo is a lot more realistic.

Imagine a city with everyone living in a small house with land, it’d be impossible to live in, as the distances would be far too large.
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Really interesting. Imagination/visualization would be enabled by this simulation. For example I can visualize what is obscured by a wall.
Exactly. If Microsoft cared about user security, they've had the last three decades to do something about it. This is all about monetization and tracking.
>Unassisted learning will unleash great advances in computing. (...) Advantage: no more need for humans to have to program. Disadvantage: self-aware, all-powerful AI.

So it's like "nuclear bombs will kill all pesky mosquitos. Disadvantage: humanity wiped out too".
"youre" a small enough amount that they dont care, but other niche companies like system76 will go through the trouble of testing and white labeling a machine
You never see DB-25 in consumer stuff, but I've got a ton of aircraft instrumentation hardware that still uses it. As well as DB-19 connectors.
NN are being talked about because they have been excessively effective at advancing the state of the art in areas that were previously in a dead end.

Computer vision is such a field. The results provided by conventional approaches had been plateauing for years and then one day, Yann Le Cunn submitted a paper describing the work that he and his team had done in the area with neural networks and which blew away the previous results on image recognition.

Interestingly, this paper was rejected and it took a full year to the CV community to finally turn around and accept NN as a valid approach to this problem. I believe no one questions that it's the best methodology we have today.

Speech recognition, automatic translation and natural language processing in general are other areas that have benefited immensely from neural networks.
It really depends on the task.

Driving seems much more complicated than folding, but driving is nearly solved, while folding is still difficult due to the complexity of recognizing non-standard shapes and figuring out how to manipulate them.

Driving is a huge job market in the US, so the automation apocalypse for low-income Americans is on its way. I'm not sure what else on farms will be automated, but it's certainly being worked on. I imagine fast food a lot of retail is also going to be more automated. One example is grocery stores: they used to have 5-10 cashiers working at a time, and now they have 0-2 (due to self checkout). Grocery delivery will eat into those jobs even more.
Am I the only one that see Stigler as clearly the better man in all this story?

All Brown did (not counting the his bravery and the bravery of his crew, but looking just at the interaction Brown Stigler) was to spare the German plane after he helped him get out of that mess and send him away with a pointed gun warning and then shut up about the gesture and keep bombing German civilians until the end of the war.
>>Yea, so I'm renting a house where my agreement states that I am not allowed to fix or improve the flat myself.

That's the beauty of renting: if you don't like your current agreement, you can find another place with more preferable terms. Plenty of landlords allow tenants to change/improve the property.

Whereas when you buy a house, you are stuck with the same neighbors (and sometimes the same HOA) for a much longer period of time.
Technical debt actually isn't a great metaphor. It breaks down too quickly, as in this case. You don't have to "repay" technical debt. It's not really debt.

A company only needs to build something that works. If it works in spite of violating elementary design precepts, shoddy components, bugs, and necessary evil, then it still works. The only thing that matters is the result. Investing resources into optimizing it so that it works better than necessary is merely an option, whereas getting it to work wasn't.

The iron triangle includes cost and schedule in addition to performance. If it would take more money or time than you have to make it perform better, then it just won't, because you don't have that much money or time. A product that frightens the maintainers, but keeps the lights on, is a good result.

Of course, you might optimize yourself into a local maximum if you're weak on strategy. That's why nearly every organization in the world has some kind of separation between "officer/executive" and "enlisted/staff" in the hierarchy. Someone needs to balance the triangle and someone needs to write code and there isn't enough time for the same person to do both.
I use PayPal only about once or twice a year (try to avoid it if at all possible) and my security routine is to totally close the PayPal account again afterwards.
Pilot's who pour everything into their planes have a staying: you can sleep in your plane but you can't fly your house!

I guess people have different aspirations in life.
This looks like yet another crowdfunding vaporware. Their demo video is CGI, and the release date is 2017.
If you look at a place to live as an investment vehicle you are simply looking at it wrong. A home which is paid for is a place you can live without fear of not being able to make the next rent payment.

A mortgage is a bit of a jail sentence. Saving money and purchasing a place to live is the right way to do it.

No one will tell you that because they dont make money from you putting your money in the market.
It's not a stretch of the imagination by any means, this and similar accusations/lawsuits have been around spanning the last decade.
Yeah but Americans and some Europeans have basically all of the money.

Look up ad rates in the rest of the world and see how lucrative that business is.
Have you seen Dublin? ;)
That's in my proposal for a secure or private phone that I drop on people trying to build one. Hopefully it will get in a successful product at some point. Need one for mic, front camera, rear camera, and radios. Might compromise to have a physical switch for mic and radios with something inside phone (eg a jumper) to turn off others. I want to be sure I can cut actual power to mic and wireless, though.
>They allow generating the corresponding `extern` blocks

Really? I was able to call the intrinsic I sloppy patched into the auto generated files fine via extern platform.

>In any case, I'm not sure why you think you need a separate load intrinsic

Because it's a systems programming language?
>you know absolutely nothing about how Muhammed Ali was treated by whites his entire life

This rebuttal only has merit if you're being pedantically literal.

Surely, you're aware of the prevailing racial conditions in the U.S. and Louisville in particular during Ali's upbringing and beyond. He was, by definition, treated badly by an entire system that was not set up by black people, yet overtly oppressed black people.

Surely, you're aware of how the conditions of the time would have impacted Ali himself, his family, and those in his community. Surely, you can see how members of such a community might feel some anger and resentment.

What's lazy here is your pedantic use of demagoguery to make enlightened-sounding, but vapid statements that berate others for some supposed discrimination that exists only in a willfully myopic bubble of your own creation.
This. It's all fine and well he's getting lots of clicks but is he actually converting them to revenue? If all he's doing is an ad arbitrage mode (i.e. Hope visitors click on Adsense ads) he's doomed because that will never succeed.
> you're ignoring a fact...it's close to impossible to buy a part of land

What does that have to do with s3nny's post? I can't afford to buy a house in the area I work.
The argument against direct democracy is that the population isn't very informed. Not necessarily that they are selfish.

Even in the US, voters often tend to vote against their own self interest. E.g. people that stand to benefit from social programs often vote for conservatives against social programs.
I didn't even know there was a product to buy after I read it
It would be trivial to have .NET make UDP calls based on speech recognition input. But what you're describing sounds more like a phone call, where all audio is transmitted, not just a few bits of data. If you have a pcap file showing the outgoing packets, I'd be interested to see it.
Technically that's not racism (in the original sense of bias due to race), since the people being discriminated against due to an accident of their birth might be white.

Of course, if we adopt the modern left's definition of racism (which includes actions which have statistically disparate impacts) then this pretty clearly is racism.
Good. I suggest you go to your local animal shelter and adopt a cat. But then you'll be favouring one over the other.

Even better, adopt all the cats they have there, lest you support unfair collective punishment.
I would guess it is not something difficult to do in this scenario. We are talking about a war where young men get drafted and sent to the carnage, most of them don't go there voluntarily out of some ideology.

So it's easy to see some years later that you were just being used and form a bond with someone that was exactly in the same situation as you were but using different colors.

All in all, those two men had more in common with each other than with the men from their own country that were waging war from whiting their palaces and sending them to their deaths.
A classic build vs. buy situation where the purchase seems like the solution and in reality, it is a purchase plus development plus support. In many cases the internally designed, function specific, application is better because of its constrained functionality. Many companies, mine included, have made the mistake of purchasing a silver bullet rather than forging one with our own time, talent, and treasure.
But if you give people direct financial incentives to have more children, as OP wants, that's what they'll do.

Look what the birth rate was 200 years ago when children were considered retirement investments (or elsewhere in the world where that's still true).
I have to say, I'm very sceptical about all of this, but one day a friend showed me a product (some speakers that use the table surface for resonance) and the ad showed a couple of minutes after on Facebook.

I started thinking on how devices can emit audio signatures for other devices around it to be aware of its presence. A couple of years after, Chromecast uses audio for authentication of nearby devices.

I honestly dismissed my paranoia all of these years with the argument that it would show in battery and data usage. But with offline language models, I'm not so sure anymore.