skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're going to get a lot of low energy responses about politics and religion, best to exclude those areas upfront.

Outside those hopefully forbidden areas, talk to non-tech kids (most of them) about tech. Kids as in little kids not 22 yr old grads. My own kids have crazy ideas based on anecdotal sample sizes of one and childish reasoning (which is appropriate, them being children), about only white ipad charging cables work, very strange almost witchcraft beliefs about working around how the school district has locked down the ipads which often gets in the way of real work and fooling around, etc. Based on observation, giving non-tech kids lots of tech that required logical thinking to create has not via osmosis resulted in logical thinking appearing inside the kids heads, but has resulted in lots of nonsense superstitions about technology. I'm sure a hundred years ago my kids would sound like something out of the article WRT cooking fire lore and hairpin divination, but today their lives are full of ipad and internet, so their nonsense sounds very tech-flavored.

Actually just talking to non-tech people about software patches, banner ads, malware infected windows machines, all that stuff is pretty entertaining WRT superstition. There is truth in "windows is voodoo" for a large segment of the population.
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NSFW:

http://www.theonion.com/article/no-one-murdered-because-of-t...
If you look at it from the perspective that Islamists want to take over the world, it looks more like they too are simply defending their interests as well.
"they"
A good sketch is better than a long speech
Yes.

There is no cure. There us no answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2MGN_w4sU
The suffering of animals is amusing entertainment to you?
> Free expression is a staple of Western civilization

And yet, so many Western countries disagree about what it actually means and have different laws. There's differences in places and time. Cinema and movies weren't covered by 1st Amendment for decades in the USA.
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Wow. That just gave me cancer. Why do you even do it?
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How about closures? Don't they allow cycles to be formed?
The socialistic / communistic populist rhetoric used by Chavez is what allowed him into office.

The socialist / communist people who elected him created the monster that he became, so those who wanted the platform elected and in his mind instilled his beliefs as "the will of the people" that we hear so much from those who are marginally elected.

No one ever wants to elect a dictator, however, the requirements of a socialist / communist leader lends itself much more to developing one when one utters: "It is the will of the people" to supersede the property rights of others.
Amazing. A court can rule on intention.

Some days are more dystopian than others.
Napoleon said "a good sketch is better than a long speech". Politics aside, this is the perfect moment to embrace that logic. More screen time than ever turns visual communication into a differentiating and vital skill.
Reach out for the right tools. If you can sketch it, you can start it.
I worry an elaborate structure will attract unwanted attention. Think about it - would you be interested in visiting it? Aren't you already interested? Why would future-people be any different. I know, the average shmoe would hear about this thing in the desert and think "Whatever" and go back to eating cheetohs and screwing. But what about an architect? A philosopher? An engineer? A historian? An artist? Pretty much any intellectual would be fascinated.

It could become the 'intellectual' version of a 'predator trap'. Like the LaBrea Tar Pits attracted more apex predators than most any other ancient formation (because of all the grazers trapped and dying, predators were captured in greater numbers than anywhere else in the fossile record).

Its almost a mechanism for ensuring that Idiocracy comes to pass - a trap that kills or reproductively damages smart/curious people only, draining the gene pool and leaving an ever-duller population of humans stuck in some post-apocalyptic dark age with no hope of getting themselves out.

So yeah I'm against it.
Then the debate seems pretty nonsensical. Even though it's touted as somehow having appeal. ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/#7 )

The concept is used as an argument against physicalism, because it might be logically possible (concievable).

Maybe I'm just testifying about how closed my mind is, but to me the answer is a simple no, they are not [not even coherent], end of debate, go think about ethics, at least that seems hard.

Dualists are so full of abstract possibilities since Descartes that they are somehow overlooking the difference between imagination-fueled word-soup of consciousness and real problems of consciousness.

Qualia is the noise in our cognition when our brain tries to make sense of the noise in our feelings when we try to consider what's this feeling consicous thing.

It's real, and it's nothing, and it's pretty personal, because some people don't really care about it, others build entire philo departments on it :)
Sounds like they desperately need a good samaritan law
An anecdote [1] about "No is temporary, Yes is forever":

4 months ago: However, please read the notes in Roadmap and new features before continuing with this work, as I'm not yet sure whether or not they are within the scope of Umbrella

[...]

4 months ago: I don't think it's a good idea to change it, so only Strings will be available for after, before, etc.

3 months ago: I opened it to implement what was suggested here.

3 months ago: Okay, it was added.

[1] https://github.com/umbrellajs/umbrella/issues/20
Except:

1. It isn't a valid observation, because you don't actually observe that consciousness is not part of the process of processing external stimuli. At best, you can observe that consciousness exists.

2. It isn't a valid conclusion even if it were a valid observation. Or do you also conclude that water magically breaks pencils and reconstitutes them when they are removed [1]?

[1] http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000KUS4vG.ZoqQ/s/860...
This is the short term approach that John Oliver puts forward. This is not a year's development, this has been the result of 16 years of Chavez / Maduro policies.
If you could kill a religion as you can schoolchildren I might agree they are comparable.
So how is it? Does it feel better? Faster ? Slower? Where? When?
You are flat wrong.

If you shout fire in a crowded theater (in which there is no fire), and the crowd pushes and shoves to race to the exit (if it can happen at a Walmart on Black Friday it can happen in a theater where people don't want to burn to death), and people get injured or even killed, forget about morals, you could be liable for manslaughter.
My experience is totally opposite. I've found Google voice search very effective, even in a crowded bar. When I listen to some the recordings that were successful[1], I'm frankly amazed at what a good job it does.

1. https://history.google.com/history/audio
The culture secretary has said the loophole is going to be closed soon.

Here's an article about it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35708623
Oh yeah, and even in regular work too. I've noticed a lot of peer pressure in many different environments, sometimes team members feel obligated to provide a "me too" or "thumbs up" or whatever, out of fear of being the nail that sticks up and gets hammered back down.
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No. Time to start using proper password hashing algorithms (e.g. scrypt) with added protections such as requiring n rounds of hashing.

Tip: To require 65535 rounds of hashing on a Debian or Ubuntu system just run this:

sed -i -e 's/sha512$/sha512 rounds=65535\n/g' /etc/pam.d/common-password

(Note: Assumes you're still using the default hashing SHA-512 hashing algorithm)
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Of course.

And the whole world has to remain quiet lest the member of the self called "religion of peace" go on a killing spree
Well, there's this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian
re: damnatio memoriae
"Yet the order of the Senate was only partially executed in Rome, and wholly disregarded in most of the provinces outside Italy."

I think it's possible that a similar effect would happen with attempting the same thing to the knowledge of nuclear fission...
I'm not sure how absence of other examples refutes one that exists? Experience is meaningful because it's the difference between saying "ow" and actually suffering.
A theory that's not testable is mere conjecture. Worth reading is Nagel's What is it like to be a bat?

http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
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We could have learned that lesson in many other ways. I am glad we have the opportunity when it was pointed at one person at a time—that could have been a subway or aircraft controller.

Now, the hard part is ensuring we really do learn the lessons Therac can teach us.
That sounds awesome!!! 7-years-late awesome, but still great news!
The graphic is a canvas element overlaid on an svg element. I wasn't able to figure out a way of making the whole thing responsive so I just put it in a responsive iframe.

I'm sure there is a better solution. Would love to hear if anyone knows.
I think when these type annotations are used, at least traditionally in e.g. Haskell, the functions are curried by default. In other words, all functions only take one argument. If all functions only take one argument, then it has to be the first interpretation, not the second.
Ha ha yes maybe it was Vienna. Been on too many trips.
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I suspect that Mr. Lindahl is against nuclear power for ideological - not practical - reasons.
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That's not shifting goalposts, that's the goal from the start.

You seem to be throwing a lot of technical terms. Could you elaborate on where exactly do you see overhead coming from in a multiprocess vs. multithread architecture? And which data structures can be shared between threads but not between processes?

Scheduling overhead is identical and pure OS memory overhead is slightly higher for processes (they need more "accounting" data), but everything else can be optimized at the application level. Furthermore, shared memory lets you share data structures between processes just fine (heck, some data can be shared between processes and the kernel!), and since I assume the content processes will be dynamically linked, you're not even going to load shared libraries multiple times.
Not installing until I don't have to reload the entire app after adding or removing an extension. Not to mention the weird `lineHeight` setting.
Have you read EULAs these days? Everyone has technically "agreed" that these companies can take down anything they want to on their platform or suspend/delete an account just because they can.
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Is it me or VSCode is having a new release right after Atom? hehe
Quite often this "free speech" argument is just a way to promote hatred and intolerance of Muslims.
>> "Experience or qualia is what the process of simulation of reality feels like. Or to put it in another way: Conciousness is the process of simulating reality."

>> So I'd agree: If you reach a certain complexity in your inner model, qualia will "magically" emerge.

It's the only logical hypothesis we can have at the moment, but it doesn't mean it's the only solution. There could be properties of matter that maybe need to be simulated at a lower level that have to be present that we're not aware of.

If the brain simulates reality, why does our experience seem so 'atomic'? Like that simulation is so small in scale that our brain can basically simulate any visual field, hear any sound, feel any combination of textures on the skin and so on. There doesn't seem to be any abstraction in the simulation itself, but rather it is created by the nerves and retina on point of 'capture' in the sensory apparatus and then the brain is able to project it to the mind.

In other words it seems like each individual neuron / nerve is 'conscious' and then any arbitrary combination of activations in those neurons can create the subjective simulation of reality. I'm not sure if that's true from a scientific perspective or what the implications are if it's true, but this bottom-up simulation is far more powerful than a top-down one where details would be lost, and simulations usually start top-down, especially since the universe came first, and then our brain came later. It's basically inconceivable to us how a signaling system is conscious versus how it is not conscious but still receives signals, like a CCD chip in a camera can have a high resolution and show an accurate image of reality.
I thought I had read a very similar idea in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010745/ but on closer inspection I see that it's referencing that same author...
Yes, but few lines below they wrote: "The (practically) unlimited process count is on some platforms not a realistic goal, and having a separate process for each open site instances or even sites does not seem like a reachable goal (for now at least)."

So per-tab content processes (which btw is the only way e10s can result in security and stability benefits) is not a realistic goal for them.
> Where precisely does it explicitly say on TPB's website that it is "setup for the purpose of finding pirated material."

This is simply not relevant. They do not have to explicitly say anything for it to still be indisputable that they are set up primarily to facilitate piracy.

> In fact they explicitly state otherwise

Nope! The quote you posted only says that they do not store copyrighted material themselves. That is entirely consistent with being set up primarily to facilitate piracy through BitTorrent. In fact, the awareness that your quote suggests of the copyrighted material TPB makes available (note that I'm not saying "storing") is perhaps weak evidence for the opposite conclusion: they know that they're promoting piracy, but think they can get away with it because they aren't actually storing the files. (They are, of course, completely wrong. You can intentionally facilitate piracy without actually pirating works yourself. Remember Napster and LimeWire?)
How did such an anti-freespeech, "islam=murder" promoting article made it to the front page? And is the economist always so traditional, right wingy?

I have to say I'm a little shocked of what I'm reading here.
Courts rule on intention all the time, as I understand it. That's pretty much their primary function; has been for centuries?
If you don't like Facebook's censorship policies, don't use Facebook.

I suppose an argument could be made that due to its size, Facebook is sort of like a "utility" and has a duty to provide "service" to everybody regardless of its opinions about their use of the service. But unlike the electric company, which is the only place you can buy electricity, Facebook is not a monopoly: There are plenty of other websites where you can publish your speech (or you can even get your own domain and VPS and host your own site very cheaply).
I have an higher than average IQ and I can't say that it helped me more than grit.

When I was lazy, I failed.

On the other hand, I don't know if I would have failed with a low IQ and not being lazy.
Out of curiosity, what do the acronyms "sdn" and "n/w" stand for?
The "free speech" concept in its most noble and pure form is about government censorship.[1] It's not about about commercial censorship (e.g. Facebook) or social censorship (e.g. your Flying Spaghetti Monster offends my sacred Zeus.)

Protection from government censorship means an American can criticize President Obama as "a stupid incompetent Chief Executive" without fear of black helicopters surrounding the protester's home. The military operatives won't come to arrest him and keep him silent. This type of "free speech" does not exist in North Korea.

I concede that the label "free speech" has been diluted to mean, "I get to say whatever I want without any economic ramifications or social disapproval." Unfortunately, the non-government censoring is what the vast majority of free speech articles are about. Well, the real world will never let you have that type of "free speech". If it bothers people that Facebook / tv networks / college campuses / etc won't allow certain types of speech, they can start another website/college that allows it. However, they shouldn't be surprised if sponsors that help fund the "oppressive" businesses and institutions don't also spend money on the alternative "free speech" platform.

In other words, the non-government "free speech" has a cost and sometimes, society doesn't want to pay for it. That's the underlying issue that's never highlighted.

[1]The first sentence from wikipedia also explains "free speech" in terms of government censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
But how many colours do we speak of now?
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> Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater has been widely accepted as harmful speech and as such is not free.

So if speech is harmful it can be banned? That's an interesting new exemption.
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It looks like this is just randomized, and not actually related to the weather at the time.
Do you mind filing that issue? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new
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EU data protection law doesn't require contracts.
Because it's an easier workflow.

Open a new tab, type the address (or clic the thumb) and go.

If you do it on a current tab, you are always in danger to erase your current tab by mistake from mistyping the open in new tab shortcut.

Another thing is that if you have your hand on the mouse, it's faster to click + than to type said shortcut.

What's more, FF can't hold as many opened tab as I wish without slowing down. So I have to clean regularly, and so I reopen tabs I closed 10 minutes ago.
I am still patiently waiting until unloaded tabs have a memory footprint of 0KB instead of 0.7MB.
That's the only thing I responded to, because it shows me that you are looking for things where they don't exist, and deciding that you found them anyway.

I've rarely seen other people attribute malice to my actions at times when I know I'm being anything but, but when it does happen, the person is lashing out at any stranger.

Pretty much means the person I'm dealing with is isolating themselves, and it won't be possible to do anything right for them, regardless of any objective, rational information one might try to present.

In the 1984 movie, Ghostbusters, one of the main characters, Ray Parker (played by Dan Aykroyd), accidentally selects a childhood memory of a marshmallow mascot for the "stay-puft" marshmallow company. He imagines, in his own mind that this was a representation of harmlessness, only to find it transformed into something horrible, and used against him.
Trouble with the Economist, they don't credit anything they write there. No idea who is speaking; not even the Editors get credit. I dismiss them outright, and refuse to read a word.
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That's false.

IPC, shared memory, and credentials/descriptor passing are common patterns that exist in tons of software today. OpenSSH, Postfix, probably every iOS app.

Multithreading is great, but it's not suitable for a browser that may be fed malicious code and has a huge attack surface.
Great, so we have no open browser left anymore?

Chrome is at best visible source – Google controls development, not the community – and the others are even fully proprietary

Great fucking world.
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Managing both is very difficult, at least until we get pointer events supported (http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer)
Maybe. VSCode's releases are monthly.
Asking the author of a PR to include an automated test is a favor to the larger community - you're building momentum for this practice. As a maintainer, you shouldn't feel bad about introducing this sort of hurdle. (And if you don't have the infrastructure to run those automated tests, then it's a good excuse to get it up and running!)
There is absolutely nothing new or unusual here. Intent has been an essential element in virtually every crime since the dawn of our legal system (and the English system before it).

If you run over someone with your car by accident, it's at worst manslaughter (and probably no crime at all). But if you did it intentionally it's murder. I could come up with examples like this literally all day.
Urbit people make too much effort to justify urbit extrinsically. Hey, we can use it to make P2P facebook, and to render websites that resemble a ruby-powered startup launch site. OK but urbit is also good for urbitting. Why stoop to using the idiom of today's crappy browser apps, and why bother justifying urbit to people who are apparently happy with the way things are on Earth now? Forget them, I say!
Freedom of the press also should protect you from compelled speech from other parties. Nobody should force you to publish an article under your byline in a newspaper you own and distribute, nor do you have to publish every letter to the editor you receive. Facebook and Twitter should be allowed the same rights. Their ball, their rules.

Now, for shared resources owned or partially owned by the government, like airwaves or arguably the Internet (specifically the interconnection of the network), there is a public interest in sharing those resources across all points of view.
A very interesting, very old exemption. Its been around for generations, and is pretty much the entire topic around all issues of what is allowable and what is not.
They usually release once a month. This is not the Microsoft of yesteryear with 1 monolithic release perfectly tested, and released once every other year.

They're making incremental progress, and releasing often. The software is noticeably better than it was even 2 months ago.

I write C#, JS, PHP, and Python... and I can do development for ALL of those languages in the same IDE. It's kind of great.
This seems pretty tenuous, but still it raises questions. The video is still on Youtube. Why were all the "protests" over within a month? Why don't they continue to this day?

(I have other questions, but they veer even further into the realm of politics, so I'll keep those off HN.)
They have in the release notes that Copy/Paste doesn't work yet, and that the terminal integration is pretty early....

"Please note, this is an early version of what we want to deliver. Currently VS Code only supports a single terminal and there still are missing features like copying and pasting with the keyboard. Windows 10 users may experience problems getting cmd.exe to work. If so, please try enabling the legacy terminal as described in #143"
Simple! Because they don't want to take my money.

Let me explain: I'm living in a country where Spotify isn't present just yet. So I have to use a VPN every now and then to „trick” Spotify that I'm an US user traveling abroad.

I want to buy a subscription, I really want, but I can't use Paypal nor a credit card (because of the country restriction) so the only way of getting a valid subscription is to buy an overpriced gift card (i.e. $16+ for a $10 card).