skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the computer industry. When I worked as a programmer I had to be called into work to fix something management screwed up in and forced to work extra hours for.

But yeah I see your point that the workers live in a dormitory environment and not paid much and woken up at the last minute to switch from plastic to glass.

My criticism of Apple, one criticism is using slave labor in China to make their phones and other devices. But then almost everyone does the same thing with China. You can't treat human beings that way as it causes stress and mental problems. Many burn out and that is why they have suicide nets installed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Ins... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
OP's argument here is slightly wrong I think, as it does not take into account the amount of time: Abiogenesis probably hasn't happened in a lab yet because the corresponding experiments have been running for a couple of years or decades at most, whereas nature's "experiments" have been continuously running at planetary scale for billions of years. If we count the number of attempts to invent life in the sense of putting together some anorganic and organic chemicals, supplying some energy and waiting for e.g. one year, then Nature has probably run 10^18 times more experiments than we have (10^9 years of experiments, each one running on a 1 m² surface [not taking into account depth]). And, fossil evidence points to life having started 4.1 billion years ago, or roughly 500 million years after the formation of the planet, which is a rather short amount of time (it's very likely that first lifeforms existed even earlier than that). So my naive guess would be that n < 100, though without further evidence (e.g. finding life on other planets) this is hardly more than a belief.
I think the sport would be destroyed if they were allowed to run free.

By now they would have removed the driver, and that would take most of the $$ out of F1 ;)

The Williams 1993 car was in many ways the high point of tech for F1. Since then, I think FIA have been trying to balance the rules for (1) safety (2) balancing the role of the constructor and the driver, and ensuring that driver skill was a major part of the equation.
Thank you, I learned that it is a non-profit now and had donations go to keep them going.
Relevant code from the `email` module.

Python 2.7: https://hg.python.org/releasing/2.7.9/file/tip/Lib/email/mes...

Python 3.4: https://hg.python.org/releasing/3.4/file/tip/Lib/email/messa...

Ouch.
Can someone get the archive team on this?
BLK overclocking non-k sky lake chips disables ME. You loose out on some power saving/voltage throttling features as well as avx2 instructions, but if you're worried about security ME is disabled.
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Isn't that a bit flawed logic to compare a medium that works in logical "paragraphs" (the IMs and social media they mention) with a wall of text?

Yes, I also leave out some punctuation - but either because I hate fumbling with my phone or because it would be the ending period in a single post/message. Not when there are two or more sentences...
This is genius! You should go to Ford, GM, etc. and explain how they can just take the techniques from the F1 engine and tune it to really improve their cars mileage. Clearly their engineers have thought that yet!
I would love to see these studies repeated, but asking whether the public believes different reliable, well-studied conclusions of science. For the most part, all these studies ask is whether people trust scientific results that contradict conservative ideology.

But there are a variety of reliable scientific results that contradict other ideologies. What would happen if they were included?

Examples:

- Variance in female intelligence/math ability/other traits is smaller than for men, at roughly the rate Larry Summers famously speculated about.

- Different races within the US have different intelligence levels, and that intelligence is highly predictive of adult outcomes.

- Demand curves for labor are downward sloping.

- In the nature vs nurture battle, nature won.

- Teacher performance can be reliably evaluated with statistics (e.g. VAM).

- There is no scientifically demonstrated benefit to organic food, and no harm from GMO.
Rust actually does a bit of this internally in the form of the null pointer optimization. If you have an Option<&T> (or Option<*T>) value, it's actually stored as a single pointer-sized value, with None being represented by a null pointer on the assumption that null is not a valid pointer.
Nytimes.com link

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/business/media/gawker-b...
An F1 engine doesn't even have a starter. It's made out of exotic material. It runs at 18,000+ rpm, and idles at what most car engines would redline at! The entire car can weigh no less than ~1500lb, including the driver!

Making the engine last longer would likely require a huge increase in weight, which would reduce efficiency.
> I don't see how getting rid of the ME helps. If you don't trust Intel then you don't trust Intel.

As dandelion_lover says, security is not boolean.

I may or I may not trust Intel to backdoor the processor I run code of my choice on in more or less visible ways (the more visible, the more risk of public opinion backlash if it is revealed what Intel did), but I absolutely do not trust Intel and its business partners to design an independent subsystem that runs their code and is not vulnerable to Intel (or any rogue employee thereof) + Intel's business partners (or any rogue employee thereof) + US federal entities (or any rogue employee thereof) that can coerce any large or small US company.

I am not suspecting Intel of ill intent. I am suspecting Intel and its partners of incompetence. There is a big difference. Intel can not actually “backdoor the main CPU as easily as” they can leave the ME open to attacks. The second one is so easy that you might as well assume it is the case until convincing arguments have shown otherwise.
Even extracting crude has ferocious energy costs for some sources. Alberta's tarsands are a good example, with the Syncrude and Suncor projects being some of the largest co2 emitters in Canada.
I doubt it's claiming Tesla cars are safer than every other car.
It was just to highlight that their cars are very safe.

How is that PR BS when it actually happened?
Do you think the keylogger running on your and my machine came in by exploiting the ME or a C buffer overflow somewhere in the OS or userspace code that sister claims you "control"?
Probably poor phrasing, but the government did invest into GPS, the internet, etc. I'd read this more as a justification for state sponsored research than Pelosi claiming the iPhone was some bureaucrat's idea.
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Interesting that since the list of addresses was sequentially prepended to (if I understand the wording of the notice correctly), anyone who anonymously shares the list will incriminate themselves ,though to a smaller and smaller pool of peer customers.
Planned email blast accidentally cc'd other recipients, allowing users to see each other's email addresses. They caught it after <8,000 emails went out and are fixing the problem.
Disappointed by Coursera and Udacity (they positioned for free MOOCs and now they are taking everything back they offered).

More power to KhanAcademy and MIT Open Courseware! For staying true to their mission of providing Free Courses...
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Directly below the apology for leaking emails addresses, I get this message prominently displayed:

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> When you create an account, we remember exactly what you've read, so you always come right back where you left off. You also get notifications, here and via email, whenever new posts are made. And you can like posts to share the love."

> [Sign up] [Remind me tomorrow]

No thanks :)
> No reference is made to previous attempts to study Euler's conjecture or similar conjectures

Why should this be even necessary? There are surveys for that. Not every mathematician needs to be a historian. Nor do most people like to read the same introduction in every paper on a certain topic.
Boil it for a while?
In the past, there were some Ford vehicles that were well known for their ability to keep going for 300,000+ miles.

Like the early 90's Ford Trucks with the straight 6, the Ranger, and the Crown Vic with the 4.6L V8. All discontinued, or the reliable engine replaced with something not as reliable.
While I acknowledge the humor intended, it is important to note that nipping incorrect conjectures before people waste time building edifices atop them, is an extremely good outcome. In the strongest possible manner, this advances mathematics by labeling incorrect pathways as being incorrect.

You only need one counterexample to a theory or conjecture to prove it wrong.
You are missing one very important point: bindings. You can bind to C from basically every other language, which is quite important for shared libraries.
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As a long time mac user, I do agree that the lack of upgradability in their Pro line is a problem, and it probably should be the defining factor of Pro versus the Air/Straight Macbook line.

That being said, Apple has gone to pretty crazy lengths to ensure that it's modern OSes work on legacy hardware; I was a bit shocked to hear from my parents that they were able to install El Capitan on my dad's 2008 iMac, as I was wary about putting it on my 2012 Macbook Air due to performance concerns. I don't know if this was a conscious decision by Apple to cater to the idea of "Apple = Longevity", but it's very nice to know that a single purchase takes you pretty far. I think Apple could take it a step further and really win over more people if they added the millimeter or two to the Pro line and allowed for the upgrades.

It's really a back and forth thing for me; on the one hand, I wish I had more options and the ability to customize later on. On the other hand, since ~2010, the appliance like nature of the portables has worked so seamlessly that my only complaint comes from the lack of an option to upgrade, not the need for an upgrade. For my previous Apple laptop, my own incompetence when trying to do a repair hurt the laptop's longevity; had I not had butterfingers when working on the insides, I'm sure that I could have had another 3 years with my already 5 year old Macbook.
I don't understand why you felt it necessary to mention this. I think it's half-way down in the article because it's not really the most important aspect of the conversation.

I think the fact that MS has been cured in some people for the first time is far more relevant than the source of the stemcells used to cure MS.
for the same reasons we pay taxes.

Its not that we are not capable to crowdfund the construction of a bridge without gov. intervention.
I wonder if people whose email addresses start with the letter 'a' also get more spam.
> I thought PRC was founded on the communist ideals of the proletariat?

China is a dictatorship which provides capitalists slave like workforce. The capitalists get their slaves and can hypocritically point fingers at China and how bad communism is, and the corrupt Chinese government gets his money. Everybody is happy (except the victims of that cynical farce). That's shows the power of PR and persuasion. I remember 15 years ago people still protesting against China at its terrible working conditions in the west, or against the treatment of Tibet by the Chinese government. Who questions that today ? nobody, not even lefties.

Of course Apple could build the iPhone in the west and sell it at the exact same price. It just wouldn't be as profitable as it is and would require significant investments on infrastructure and factories but the "market" wants high return on investment, not just profitability. Worker's rights arbitrage is how corporations like Apple, any textile manufacturer or hardware manufacturer got so rich.

Anybody who thinks that scheme made things cheaper needs to look at the insane debts most western countries are running. That's the hidden cost of all that system. That high debt is a sign the quality of life will go down in the west in the foreseeable future.
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A simple solution to this would be to chop off an arbitrary number of addresses prior to disclosure. The first person can leak any number of emails, and the last can only leak one.
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If we better understand how other species on Earth communicate, dolphins, elephants, other primates, and they show interest in our technology, and finally they build their own radios suitable for their own use, will that be enough to show you there is greater probability for intelligent life?
But they should.
The backers will probably be making proprietary implementations with ME-style backdoors.
> forced to work extra hours for.

You're not forced to work extra hours. You can quit and find a better employer. What you don't understand is that in China workers from rural area can hardly choose where they want to work. They are not living in a free society. Please to compare you're situation to theirs.
>I would think having a bank of healthy stem cells would have simplified the procedure and perhaps improved the likelihood of positive outcomes.

It is possible, assuming that the banked cells were drawn before progression to a disease state. Here, they used the patient's own cells, which they treated before reintroduction, which strongly suggests there is a state to which they can be reverted. It's reasonable then to assume that at the very least, previously banked cells could be similarly treated before reintroduction, which might be a better starting point.

As speculated in the article, those patients that did not respond might have progressed too far for the treatment to work. If so, cells banked years before might be advantageous. Of course, that may not be reason why those patients didn't respond. Much of MS still remains a mystery.

Still, these results are very exciting, and add to the growing evidence that bone marrow stem cells have real clinical potential.

I'll ask our Chief Science Officer, Dr. Ben Buller, to discuss this trial in our blog: http://foreverlabs.co/blog He has published work using bone MSCs to reverse demyelination, which occurs in MS. I'm sure he'll have some good perspective.
The site RetroRGB has a bunch of mods for games consoles to convert them to (or improve their) RGB output.

http://retrorgb.com/

It's pretty interesting.
Depends how you feel about stem cell research.
Windows in plan 9 are images that are drawn to. There are libraries for drawing fonts and various shapes.

Another thing that get conflated with text interfaces is keyboard control. For whatever reason the plan 9 developers were very adverse to this and preferred mouse based interaction.

Anyway plan 9 is interesting because of how it's different. If you're approaching it asking "Where's emacs and vim?" or "Why can't I get my shell history by pressing up?" you're probably not getting the full value out of it. Part of the problem is probably that it's close enough to unix to make people put unix expectations on it.

Here's a video about acme, a programmer's interface for plan 9.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533156

Check out these man pages.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/window
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/graphics
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/draw
(edit expired) Engine is R18A2.
Since this is published in a newspaper, the term that is generally used is "headline," not "click bait."
2009 Thinkpad T400 still working fine, although with updated RAM and SSD. Another 2012 T430s also working fine.

Refreshing current Apple computers won't be that easy. Even if you are capable of opening it, compatible M.2 drives won't be easy to find and you won't be able to swap soldered RAM. I'm not sure that my 2015 rMBP will be able to serve so long as that T430s will.
s/invertible coefficients/integer coefficients/
You are saying that feelings or relationships or social justice worriors dont exist. Actually if something is not rocket science, a person ten times less productive will be hired before a competent one. Its not about only the US. Egalitarianism sprouts everywhere.
So why not share all the downloaded content through a p2p torrent network, rather than to keep them in our own servers to ourselves, so that everyone else benefits?
Since this is published in a newspaper, the terms that are generally used are "headline" or "title," not "click bait."
So, I haven't tried actually doing this, but is there a real reason you can' load OS X up on a VirtualBox VM, etc, or is that just what Apple tells you you can do with the software you bought from them?
Quoting extremes at either end of the political spectrum is just silly.

The alternative to an unregulated workforce who's livelihoods are subject to the whims of an opaque organisation is not dumpster diving in Venezuela.

Sensible regulation with sensible market forces at a happy equilibrium is best.

It's never going to be perfect but arguments like yours make finding a reasonable compromise possible.
> it's the fact that American workers are not as... flexible...

And to a certain extent, american workers can choose to quit and try to find work elsewhere. There is no "freedom of work" in China for people coming from rural areas. It's a bit like H1Bs in the US. They can't choose where they want to work. When you don't have freedom of work you're basically a slave to your employer and you don't really have the freedom to quit.
Great point! So MOOCs have become now OCs (Online Courses), Massive & Open stays honor badge of Open Source Software :)

Educators tried to use "OPEN" word from OPEN Source World, but could not keep it that way... Coursera and Udacity guys should stop using OPEN word please...
I'll agree that aliens might exist far away from us in space &|time, but so what? I'd argue there's no practical difference between being alone in the universe and our local galaxies.
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Id use an app that helps me build few quality relationships.
Facebook, Linked or others with thousands of followers are not for me.
Stem cell treatment reverses MS in 70% of patients in small study
> still most patients aren't having any reversal of their disease

From the article, "70 percent saw the progression of their disease halted or reversed"

70% change of no further progression or even reversal? Those are good odds.
Did you reply to the right comment? Because yours seems to make no sense in context.
This seems to be the thing that everyone is missing in this conversation.

I agree with you but I've been wondering for a while if it's not a bad idea for the west to pass the tedious stuff off to China to use their labour to build our own automated factory.

It seems risky though.
Id pay if someone created and published black lists of Public Sector employees.
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> all my electricity from a nuclear power plant

Yeah, and there's no unaccounted for externalities with that strategy.
Why no data on Windows or Linux?
I know (expect?) you are being funny - but one of the things that the eco-people always miss in their end-to-end cost calculation (that they do not do) is the cost of "boiling it for a while". It's like free energy! :-)
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These may be helpful in understanding the Brexit view.

Daniel Hannan (current member of European Parliament) who wants to lose his job:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/six-best-reasons-vote-lea...
(with a rejoinder)

Brexit: the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0

Pat Condell sums up the views of many, very well.

https://youtu.be/JFt-pRIvL9E

Fundamentally it's an argument about democracy and accountability to the people.
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Also, with large thermal power stations you have other problems:

* It is difficult to utilise heat that is a byproduct.

* Energy is lost during transmission.

If you need to burn fuel it can be more efficient to do so at the point of use. Small domestic gas boilers (Micro CHP)[0] are being designed to generate electricity, and can use the heat within the household. They have excellent thermal efficiency and can use existing pipeline networks.

For the foreseeable future we need to burn fossil fuels to balance out renewable generation. Being able to do that efficiently is important. It also leaves the door open to green fuels, however far fetched that might be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_combined_heat_and_power
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Holy shit. Now that you say that, I saw the same thing in Salzburg and just didn't make the connection.

Maybe it was because I was in "speaking German" mode, so Austria is "Österriech" vs Australia is "Australien".
Yeah same, but the language and rhetoric used by her and President Obama discounts the efforts and ingenuity of the private sector in favor of their narrative on the role of government - which is likely not by accident.

This is a classic debate and we know where all parties stand. It comes down to how you view property rights that probably puts you on one side or the other of this debate.
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And a thing non-eco-people (wtf?) seem to miss is that eco-people aren't all the same person.
Agree. I like to see Linux improvement more than Mac since Chrome GPU raster sucks compared to the other platforms.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881704

For the lazy; Top comment from that story:

Head of Let's Encrypt here. Our automated mail system had a bug that accidentally exposed about 1.9% of subscriber email addresses to the same 1.9% of recipients.

Our sincerest apologies for this mistake. We will be doing a thorough postmortem to determine exactly how this happened and how we can prevent something like this from happening again.

There is a preliminary report on the issue here:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/email-address-disclosure...
Thanks for the long reply, though I must admit I'm aware of all that. I was hoping for some surprise information.

Your comment of it seeming like Unix might be the key point to take away. I know that I'm supposed to search in the buffer for history and use the mouse to select and rerun it, but having tried it multiple times, I cannot get comfortable with a mutable terminal buffer. That's also why in Emacs I only use term and not the editable terminals. Maybe one day I'll get comfortable.
I don't understand why you don't get it. There's a long history in the United States where people are strongly against funding stem cell research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_laws_and_policy_in...

People who don't understand the political climate are hindering science because of various groups. We could probably be a decade farther in research if more money was available for stem cell research 20 years ago, for example.