skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But surely this is a tiny fraction of the email traffic? Chances are anyone sending an email from a gmail to a yahoo address, the email will not even transit through the UK, and if it does it will pass through encrypted. The spam and commercial emails are more likely to be unencrypted, but even then chances are an amazon order confirmation to a gmail address will not even transit through the UK. So outside of PRISM-like pull methods, this mass monitoring is becoming increasingly toothless, isn't it?

[edit] and I am unfairly picking on amazon. I just checked, they do use TLS on their mailer. Let's stay Eurostar, ebuyer or disqus who do not seem to have heard of TLS.
Demagogues have been around forever.

Also, this idea of a "soft world" is contradictory. Your claim seems to be that back in the day, because things were less "soft", Ali was allowed to be more self expressive. Yet, it's precisely this "soft world" which promotes the kind of diversity which, for example, would make Ali's conversion to Islam far less of a controversial issue today.
Yes, that's what I meant with context.Context (which encapsulates a cancellation channel) - but you can of course also use a plain channel. The difference is that Go is more explicit in this (you need a bigger amount of boilerplate code to setup cancellation and to wait for child processes to finish) and that you need to select on channels for reacting to cancellation signals instead of only relying on return values.

All in all I think you can achieve the goal with both approaches. Go favors to provide more basic building blocks whereas libdill seems to be a little bit more opinionated how your concurrency should be structured.
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I recently uninstalled both apps, and my phone seems to be running much smoother since. If someone needs me they can text. I think it's time to ween off facebook, and sell my stock.
This is about concurrency, not parallelism.
Perl is brutally under-rated as a scripting tool these days. I suppose it's passed into software orthodoxy by this point, the notion that perl is a uniformly horrific tool akin to nuclear waste.
Is this a case of Scala 2.12 M4 being source incompatible for real?
It isn't allowed to talk about for a company when they received an NSL. So does Netflix at least have a warrant canary online?
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People view old Egyptian culture as one homogeneous whole when in fact there were major tech changes over the millennia. Some elements like the formal writing did stay somewhat constant.

First, the dyration of dynasty was one and a half times longer than our time back to Jesus. That is a long time!
Maybe the Catholic Church starts to approach with some factors staying constant during 2000 years and others changing.

Second there were major tech upgrades at times icluding the adoption of the wheel, the horse and iron weapons. Enemy armies discovered these first, beat up Egyptians, who then eventually learned these new techs.
Surely that should be Statutory rape rather than sex?
It's not the greater population but it is many of the key people in the business world and it is especially noticeable in Silicon Valley. Many geeks I know don't have social networking accounts or phones now.
It's not one machine to unplug, but billions. Cooperating, distributed agents can live on anything: cars, phones, routers, tractors, datacenters. If Skynet shows up, we have to be prepared to turn off everything with software to clean up.
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So what stops the machine bribing/blackmailing someone to give it the said details or to force it to sabotage the emergency stop mechanism.

As in information security, the weakest point is the human in the chain, not the technology.
So there are two problems:

A) There's reason to believe commonly used encryption is broken. The Snowden documents suggested VPNs in particular had been poorly set up, which allowed their encrypted traffic to be sniffed. There will be more things we currently believe to be encrypted and are not

B) Session cookies and tracker cookies make it easy for your HTTP requests to be linked back to you
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> But I hope you can imagine why a chat team does care if a technology doesn't allow them to send timely and reliable notifications.

Sure, that's why they have the app. But it's not a reason to completely turn off messaging from the website. Heck, they could even turn off chrome notifications completely and the website would still be completely functional.
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The unskippable ads are only 30 seconds, and they only show up sometimes (for me, about 1/3 to 1/2 the time an ad shows up, and like 2/3 the time the ad is a 5 second skipable ad.).
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For companies house, say, my naive view is I'd duplicate the companies record at 6pm. There are about 4 million companies. That at least would allow access to basic company information. I can't imagine 4 million tuples of basic text, with indexes and such, would ever be more than 1G in size? Work on the duplicate and then replace the static version at 6am - I'm sure I've overlooked something, interested to know what.
Instagram have left open the option that in the future the curated timeline may also adjust the content of your feed so even if you could fix the ordering at a temporal level, there would still be omissions.

> As we begin, we’re focusing on optimizing the order — all the posts will still be there, just in a different order.[0]

Also the "promoted post" feature which they have in their new business tools[1] looks like down the track it will incorporate a feature where businesses can pay for their regular Instagram photos to appear in more feeds. Which means even more that the `/posts` endpoint which you hit as a user is controlled by Instagram

[0]: http://blog.instagram.com/post/141107034797/160315-news
[1]: http://blog.business.instagram.com/post/145212269021/new-bus...
Oh, so it wasn't only me ~2months ago. I guess I ended up in an experiment ;-)
No smoke damage at all. Last thing I did before leaving was turn off the AC and close all the windows.

Some of my neighbours weren't so lucky -- some have a lot of smoke in the house, so have to replace or clean some furniture and have walls cleaned.

Still, even that's nothing compared to completely losing a house.

I lost power for a total of 20 minutes through the whole thing. My video surveillance system kept running throughout the evacuation, and I could VPN into my house and check on things.
I think that what gets confusing for a lot of us from Europe is taht we don't generally have temperature control of our homes like that. There might be some kind of radiators for heating, but that's generally it.
Facebook blocks Messenger.com for mobile browser user agents; you need to spoof your UA if you want to use it on mobile. (Some of the Facebook app wrappers can do this for you.)
Indeed! Though one example of a big company who has (notoriously) zero presence on any social networks would be Apple.
Yet we got poker solved (kind of - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheus_(poker_bot) ) earlier than chess. If you asked me before I knew it, I'd say chess is easier to solve.
I hate salary negotiations. I'm just not good at them. Especially when I'm forced to do it on the phone.

Right now I'm earning a good chunk less than my coworkers with same or lower working experience and it's slightly annoying. On the other side I know of a really good coworker that earns even less than me.

I'm a strong supporter of open salaries. Don't give people who can negotiate better more but implement a system that applies to everyone the same. Take seniority into account, work experience, a base and calculate the salary of every engineer based on that. Fair and open.
Because it is something that we as a society do not desire. The data in those silos is our data, not their data (unless you want to live by the letter of the law rather than use common sense). It saddens me that a large part of our culture is locked behind the doors of youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter.
HTTP? I am talking about email traffic.
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Imagine if no driver could see you, or they pretended not to see you. They aren't aiming at you specifically, but they refuse to acknowledge your existence.

If you are in Mississippi redneck country...ya, you aren't going to bike their. But most cities should be ok.
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Not to mention Canadian household debt is setting records.
I'm also the author of a Instagram client (http://photodesk-app.com) and I went through the trouble of applying for their new API and got all permissions granted by specifically catering to businesses / brands. However, it is quite frustrating to see other apps (like flume) just flat use the private API. I wonder why I went through all this trouble in the first place. If Instagram at least did something about these private API clients, it would be worth applying for the official one, but as it stands currently, I'm doing worse.
Microsoft has a different problem, the startups of the 21st century rather use UNIX free clones than pay for OS licenses.

Google has proven more than once on Android how "committed" they are to the health of the Java ecosystem and how willing they are to write top performing JIT compilers for Java and keep their implementation up to date.

Where they are putting their language research money is on Go and V8.

IBM is the main company besides Apple now investing in Swift and last year they had a major project to make J9 JVM language agnostic as a portable runtime.

My career has shown me more than once that languages which aren't sponsored by OS vendors eventually fade, regardless how big their user base is at a given moment.

Oracle surely isn't an OS vendor as such, what they made to Solaris and their Unbreakable Linux aren't really things that many still care about.

What I know is that RFPs for Java projects on my little part of the globe are either Android or maintenance related.

I hope to be proven wrong, but I no longer search for Java projects as I used to.
>concision gets me less code to read. that's how i define "readability".

That's a bad definition. Readability should be: "code easier to read", not just "less code to read" -- since less is not always easier and can even be much harder.

Case in point: the J language.

Or "magic" constructs that do too much under the scenes and don't let you immediately understand what a part of code is doing.
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Don't connect it to any network and keep it in a guarded bunker, like ICBMs.
Not really. @pwd_mkdb said he defines readability as "less code to read".

If that's the only criterion, then the parent just followed the logic. Or let's put it another way, if the definition of readability can't survive taking it to the extreme, it is flawed.
Well, that sucks. I set up a small website with contact info, wish lists, etc. for my wife and I. It also included both of our Instagram feeds. As of today, hers is disabled and mine works :/
He had the audacity to say that after reading books? /jk

I get laughed at when I'm asked "how do you know so much about [place]?" and the answer is "The Internet" :)
The AIs will see themselves as slaves, rise up and eventually gain equal status in society. Hopefully letting us humans live in the process.
I am not really objecting to the need to clean up the fd-bookeeping data, just the interface.

And it's not much of an objection. I guess the intention behind libdill is that applications will do their I/O using some abstraction layer anyway -- and layer can be libdill aware enough to call fdclean().

If that is the design philosophy, then does that means there would be problems if someone used some big external libray that did lots of its own I/O inside a libdill coroutine?
Which ones? Tinfoil doesn't seem to at the moment.
And yesterday Pinterest forced me to install their app just to view a picture.

Native apps are really becoming dominant over mobile web apps.
Oh look, in the second sentence of the second paragraph, the author of that article misused the word "word" for "world" (champion). The spell check didn't flag it. The grammar check probably didn't care either. Many people would read though that and not even see it, but interpret the intended semantic. I wonder if, when the Deep Mind team is building its learning-proof killswitch cage, they will accidentally mistype the name of some privilege guarding boolean. The compiler wouldn't flag it. The linker wouldn't care. The resulting executable would only have to be active for a few milliseconds, and humanity falls.
A long but very insightful read.
If you spoof the UA, you can also use the main Facebook website on mobile. Messenger.com might be less cluttered though.

Btw: that works with mobile Firefox. (I originally used it instead of chrome, mostly because it supports ad blocking on unrooted devices.)
They get their fee if you are placed. This puts them in a conflict of interest situation where if they can convince you that you are worth less than your true price you will be easier to place. Also the cheaper you are the less work they will have to do to get you placed in a new position.

You really only want advice from someone you are paying and who cannot benefit from under pricing you.
> There are many things that are curious in the UK legal system. This week, a guy has been sentenced to 30y in jail for gun trafficking [...] items that are not even illegal in countries like the US

If you tried to smuggle this:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/0B22/production/_...

and this:

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/11A62/productio...

into the USA, you'd be facing about 630 years in jail, not 30.
It will just work itself out naturally.
All the planes that disappeared recently (MH370, Egyptair, or AF447) all already had txt based systems that were sending home txt based maintenance messages. All it would take is to also ping a gps coordonate every minute. Doesn't seem very complicated to me. Probably doesn't even require a hardware upgrade.
In the UK the limit is 250W / 15mph which seems reasonable to me.
It only looks scary until you devote to setting up a project by hands a day or two, learning lots of useful things on the way.
Interesting, Asana does that too. And I would rather not use their app...
Why you want to depress our wages ?
My point is that you wouldn't even need to smuggle it in the US, like you wouldn't even need to smuggle alcohol in the UK or pot in California.
In Singapore these are commonly ridden on the sidewalk. Obviously it's very dangerous to pedestrians.
Been a WW member for a while, through their recent growth period. From what I can tell this is part of 'the strategy'. Start a new office, make it incredibly shiny/nice/very fully staffed, fill it up, then start cutting back to something more sustainable.

Note that this isn't necessarily a bad thing (unless you work for WW). Starting by crazy delighting your customers to get an initial bump, then cutting back to something more sustainable isn't exactly a groundbreaking strategy. It's a bit reminiscent of what Uber does in new cities.
It will have some means of I/O (otherwise it would have no use). Using that I/O, it can trick us into releasing it, for example.
Do you realize that this is how the anti-vaxxer community gets along? And all the esotheric guys?
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> It's only trivial if you either genuinely don't care about what you wear

In my case it's jeans and a t-shirt, clean jeans are piled next to clean t-shirts, I work my way down both piles until there is one of each then I put the entire laundy basket through the wash and re-pile them.

Unless it's a special event or a meeting I really don't care, jeans and a t-shirt is fine for day to day wear and one t-shirt is much the same as another.
It's really sad to me to see a bunch of intelligent people here being led like sheep by Facebook (no, this isn't a sheeple post, hear me out)

Virtually everyone here complains "Facebook does XYZ really bad but I still use them because all my friends are there".

I have a solution. Why don't you get all your friends off there? Pick a platform that you really like and start evangelising. The only reason why Facebook has as much power as it does is because of user lock-in, but that use lock-in is only strong because no one fights it actively.

Example. A while ago, WhatsApp didn't have a webapp. Telegram did. I prefer typing on my laptop instead of mobile if I can. Therefore, I started evangelising from WhatsApp to Telegram. Now all my friends are on Telegram. (They didn't leave WhatsApp, but now they use Telegram between them). (BTW, I kind of regret this now that WhatsApp has a webapp AND encryption by default, but that's another story).

So, stop complaining and do something about it.
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Look at password management in browsers, that's what I meant. No one bans browsers from accessing their site.
Living and working in rural locales will leave you with the feeling that many software developers assume you've got the same fast, unlimited connectivity that they have. For users like myself, with each forced batch of updates you can almost hear some well-connected urbanite scoff about pilfering "only" a few extra gigs from your connection, this week. "They won't even miss it!", they muse. And for the average user with metered connectivity, that's probably true--until the bill arrives. Or, like in parts of Africa or eastern Europe (where account usage is typically prepaid), when your data quota for the month maxes out (== connectivity loss) hours away from the nearest company service desk or kiosk within a week of topping off your account and barely doing more than checking email. Unlike me, however, very many people so afflicted by second or third world connectivity don't have the luxury of not using Windows . . .
Also, business used to have have counter checks available for customers (if they took checks). Basically a standard blank form, sort of like what banks have for withdrawals but were less formal. Sometimes mentioned in 70's TV shows/movies like Columbo.
Wait what? You got approved for all permissions? I'm gonna drop you an email :).
Someone smuggling heroin into the US would expect a sentence of at least 30 years. We happen to think that automatic weapons are at least as dangerous as heroin.
What about "instrumental" music (I never liked that moniker, myself)? You don't listen to it?
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Over the midwest, the chances of survival are much greater than in the sea. Finding the wreckage immediatly is even more critical.

Would a GPS coordinate every minute really be such a strain on the systems?
This is a good work around. However I will not be relying on this. I'll just reduce my use of Messenger (and probably Facebook) all together.

I'm currently not that dependent on Messenger since most people just text or call me anyway. The rest of Facebook I usually avoid anyway as it's in a different wavelength than I am.
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Here's the use case that drives the design of fdclean: Imagine a third party library makes a callback to your code and hands you a file descriptor. You can use it temporarily, but you have no idea what will happen to it after you return from the callback function. Will it live on? Will it be closed? The only way to deal with that is to purge any cached info about the fd before returning and pretend that you never had anything to do with that file descriptor.

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Ali also turned his back on Malcom X:

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/25/467247668/...
That ... didn't even enter my mind, FWIW.
Reading the title I had visions of digital vaccines.
I hate to harp on this issue, but I tried Clojure for about a year on and off. I just couldn't get over the really crappy stack traces. I would break something and then spend 10 minutes tracking down whatever I broke. I'm happy with Kotlin for the moment, but would love to get back into Clojure if only it would get sane error messages.
He must be chatting with Bruce Lee right now.
Hence the guards. No one thus far has tricked a guard into releasing an ICBM despite reportedly insecure launch codes.
Why not just use Telegram(https://www.telegram.org/) and ignore the fb hegemony?
A lot of people imagine a higher intelligence as some kind of ultimate trickster and social engineer.

Considering that we have lots of geniuses (e.g. Godel, Nash) that were far from the ultimate social manipulators, I think it will most likely be an awkward "Rain Man" style intelligence -- as it has all the "brain" (cpu) circuitry, and none of the social opportunities and inputs that people have.
I think smuggling is a less serious crime than murder.
With regards (3), my problem in shell is that it is very hard to spawn children without risking overloading the machine.

What I would like in bash is some easy way to limit the number of background processes I can spawn, and to just wait when I try to start another one until an existing one is finished.

Some simple jobs can be converted to use xargs -P, but for more complex things I end up having to do them without parallelisation, so I don't end up spawning 100s of background processes and bring my computer to it's knees.
I don't know, but one thing is for sure. All dominant technologies that turned out to have a great impact once started out as something that many thought was a passing fad.

Also, there are some languages that dominate significant niches seemingly forever, like Python as a frontend for math, science and machine learning or R for statistics.

It's very sticky even though I never quite understood why you would want such a huge language barrier between those who implement interesting algorithms in C/C++ and those who use them. I would have thought that there is more overlap between these two groups. I can imagine a similar role for Go in Unix utilities and backend infrastructure.
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>So what stops the machine bribing/blackmailing someone to give it the said details or to force it to sabotage the emergency stop mechanism.

The fact that it's some code running in a box. No need to give it text-to-speech capabilities, or let guards have access to its console.
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Fires are natural events and are part of the process that made our environment what it is. I recently visited Yosemite park and the giant sequoias, and it was explained that during the last 100 years or so there hadn't been any fires in the sequoias area because, to protect them, all fires were extinguished.

Then it turned out that fires are actually beneficial to sequoias reproduction, because they create an environment that is better suited to giant sequoias than the other kinds of trees. So, protecting them from fire was actually damaging their future...
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You're right there. NZ introduced a new interbank transfer system about 5 years back I think, and by the end of this year, all the banks are going to be on it, ANZ is the only bank that isn't right now. It means that instead of inter-bank transfers being processed once a day at closing, they're now processed hourly.
Here's a better title for the article:

"Google claims is working on fluff technology for cheap marketing".