skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now some of the workers who were displaced are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers.

You can easily reveal the facts it in a totally non-critical way.

At ABC Data, workers were encouraged to collaborate with management to come up with creative solutions to streamline processes and save costs. When I realized that ABC could save money by replacing me with an equally capable, yet much cheaper worker visiting the country on a temporary work permit, I immediately pitched this idea at the next big cross-departmental meeting. There was much resistance among management. They objected on the basis of the unique knowledge and skills that I bring to the team, and how we all "go way back" to the startup days. In the end they saw it my way and agreed to relocate my posterior to that outdoor concrete fixture which separates the road from the sidewalk or lawn. I was unfortunately not able to talk them out of the egregiously generous severance package, though even with that expenditure, ABC ends up ahead. ABC is a great company to invest in with terrific fundamentals and future prospects, and is led by a highly ethical team whose decisions are beyond reproach.
Great analogy! When you play football in a video-game you don't see the physical toll the game takes on your body. When your first experience with sex is virtual, your impossible expectations might put-off your partner. Also your penis is probably not that big.
Winners of the 2016 agar art competition – in pictures
Not when the subgroups are large enough, and the observed differences are wide enough! (This is what degree-of-freedom corrections are for, anyway: if the effect persists despite the corrections, it holds with high probability.) I shouldn't even have to point this out...
MUSLIM RAPE OF CHILDREN,CHILD SPEAKES BEFORE HER DEATH
I'm not familiar with UK copyright; in the US, factual information is not copyrightable -- if a birth certificate is copyrighted, you would not be permitted to photocopy it, but you could use all of the information. Additionally, works of the US government have no copyright; birth certificates are issued by counties or states, though (a passport is a work of the US government, so those are public domain)
Sex still has some difficult biological consequences such disease but vr or robots could be fully sterilized of disease. Though zika virus and various stds are still here sadly, if we don't get cures I could see bots becoming big especially with disease phobic millenials.
So, what is it about sex that makes you think this is "slavery" but the computer you are currently typing on is not somehow being abused or enslaved? Why are you not arguing against the enslavement of dildos or other sex devices? What is it about (so called) intelligence that makes a thing somehow imbued with rights in your eyes?

I am not being snarky. The creation of something new like this winds up bringing up questions that did not exist previously. In order to determine a "moral" answer here, you are going to need to figure out the parameters under which morality applies to sex bots and the reasons why it applies. Otherwise, it is no different from a toaster: Just a thing you buy to take care of some need of yours.
Enhanced and driven by ease of use. Not sure what parts you mean for default package install? The default set up out of the box with guaranteed regular security updates or if this is a criticism of how Ubuntu achieves this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876453
One in 10^22 seems really easy odds to beat. Basically anything should happen more often than that, right? But if we choose a random 16 letters, the odds that they spell "unscientifically" is less than that. If we gave 16 letters to each of the 10^22 stars, we expect the word to happen on only one star, if even that. It's not too hard to argue that life is more difficult to get by random chance than the word "unscientifically", so we can't simply argue that "of course life will happen with those odds!"
cljs.user=> (source clojure.set/union)
(defn union
"Return a set that is the union of the input sets"
([] #{})
([s1] s1)
([s1 s2]
(if (< (count s1) (count s2))
(reduce conj s2 s1)
(reduce conj s1 s2)))
([s1 s2 & sets]
(let [bubbled-sets (bubble-max-key count (conj sets s2 s1))]
(reduce into (first bubbled-sets) (rest bubbled-sets)))))
nil
cljs.user=> (source clojure.set/intersection)
(defn intersection
"Return a set that is the intersection of the input sets"
([s1] s1)
([s1 s2]
(if (< (count s2) (count s1))
(recur s2 s1)
(reduce (fn [result item]
(if (contains? s2 item)
result
(disj result item)))
s1 s1)))
([s1 s2 & sets]
(let [bubbled-sets (bubble-max-key #(- (count %)) (conj sets s2 s1))]
(reduce intersection (first bubbled-sets) (rest bubbled-sets)))))
nil
I'm not sure if this is illegal, but it's certainly cause for privacy concern. Did they have to willingly hand over their chat logs to be hired?
10pm on a weeknight is around when the post-drinking going home rush hour starts. The last and second to last trains are miserable experiences for me since they reek of alcohol and I'm terrified of someone projectile vomiting on me.
I just quit Facebook and feel the same.
Or a dried rose, depending on the genre.
I'm not saying Gawker is OK or not, nor that they are hypcocrites or not.

I'm talking about the standards that courts use to measure "harm". Young starlets have so many sex tapes (their own and hacked) out there, and it doesn't seem to harm them much.

It's almost as if a porn star could make a better claim that they lost the commercial potential of something stolen!

Again, I'm not saying that I want to live in a world where it's ok to steal people's sex tapes and put them out there; but I am also noting that in today's world, it is much less of a "harm" or even an embarrassment to people than it was when the system of torts was established. Since torts are based on harm, we run into the issue of "how much harm did this cause?"

maybe it needs to be made illegal like "upskirts". (and I'm not advocating that, either. I'm saying, I'd like some clarity to exactly what people are outraged by)
When I have spoken about sex with people older than myself, I have sometimes been told "Well, TV went off at 9pm and there just wasn't anything else interesting to do between 9pm and going to sleep" or words to that effect. (Hippies explained: "It was 9pm and we were bored.") Similarly, I knew someone who traveled a lot for work and casual hookups were just a thing to do when trapped in a hotel in the middle of nowhere.
you should read deeper into Wickard. SCOTUS decalred washing your dishes to be considered commerce. For more information on the extent of the Commerce Clause into your life, I'd suggest looking at Clarence Thomas' dissent in Raich v. Gonzalez. it's an eye-opener.
A future of education business, three years in
This causes some pretty strong mixed feelings for me. On the one hand, foreign workers are already disadvantaged compared with domestic workers and H1-B caps are absurdly low. I keep failing to see why we are all supposed to open world markets to the flow of every sort of capital and goods except labor, or why someone deserves a job for being born American, rather than Indian (Note that I feel the same way when Americans are disadvantaged elsewhere for similar reasons[1]). On the other hand, a clause requiring that you never say something bad about your employer nor discuss the situation under which you were laid off seems not only abusive, but repugnantly so. In a country that constitutionally enshrines free speech, the ability to sign away for money your right to complain publicly about a person or organization seems particularly dangerous, and the act of asking someone to do so seems truly vile.

[1] https://medium.com/@rachelnabors/wtfuk-73009d5623b4#.466usni...
I get the idea of what you said, but did he, really measurably? plus: the information released about him was accurate; who says you get to have secrets that disqualify you from jobs that you hide from your employer? I'm not saying we want to have a big brother society, but I am saying if you present yourself as wholesome (whatever that means) and you are not wholesome, then you are false advertising anyway, to people who care about that.

Anyway maybe it made him relevant again ("there is no such thing as bad PR"), I had forgotten he existed. Need to wait for some time to go by before it's clear.

I'm not advocating a side or devil's advocating, i just prefer the "less outraged middle" over the "outraged extremes"
It's not so simple - while it is obvious that physical damage to the brain can cause psychological damage to the mind (e.g. lobotomy), it's not clear (at least to me) if purely psychological damage (e.g. horrific emotional events, war situations with no physical effect to you) can disrupt the physical functioning of the brain.

Change in balance of some neurotransmitters can cause symptoms of mental illness - but can purely psychological events (i.e. what you observe and contemplate) cause permanent alterations to that chemical balance, cellular dysfunction, structural damage in the brain, etc?
What? Without the tape there wouldn't have been a trial.

I think you've bought into a narrative created by fearful journalists.
Although this is true, learning that there is a specific physical sign in the brains of those who have suffered blasts at close range, and that this sign is not present in those who have suffered other forms of stress, is a significant breakthrough!

The article presents this as an issue of physical vs. psychological, but even stripped of that misconception it's still an interesting article.
Free market capitalism.

You can't have it both ways.
I think the captcha would be kind of useless, but the paywall might be able to prevent any issues in itself. Unless AI start being offered credit cards in the future, it's unlikely it'll be able to pay to get past one. So what's left? Trick some poor human to let it in?

On the other hand, a real life robot has a fairly easy to use off switch. It's called 'destroy the robot with copious amounts of firepower'.
While it's not open source it is functional without a license, so the payment isn't really a barrier to usage, much like most people are using WinRar without ever paying for it.

Functionality and ascetics are just better than any of the other text editors that I've used in the past, plus I'm happy with it so don't really go looking at alternatives these days.

When I first went to OSX a few years back TextMate seemed to be the dominant editor, Sublime for me just naturally replaced that with improved visuals and features. When your watching tutorial videos and the person is doing magic in a text editor, you start to question why am I still using my current one that doesn't have them features.

Marketing was just word of mouth, and how much support do you really need for a text editor? If it breaks it's not like you can't find another one to use...
I heard on the Cognicast about them working on clojure.spec over the weekend. Elsewhere, Alex Miller offhandedly mentioned his sleep deprivation: answering questions and writing accessible documentation.

In any prolific, underfunded work, there's always things to pick at.

Please edit out the "douchebags" comment. If not for ethical reasons, then for the fact that some of them post on HN, read such words, and probably be momentarily demotivated/distracted. Not to mention HN's guidelines on civility: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
.... kind of. A reservation is all about planning capacity. If you know (e.g.) that you need two web servers "hot" all the time to serve a base level of traffic, you can pay for that up front either partially or in total (a reservation) at some pretty significant savings. You can add hourly (or spot) capacity as needed - but paying for what you'll be using up front can make AWS very economical.

If you're paying for X1 servers for an extended period of time on an hourly basis, you should be entitled to a thank you note from Jeff Bezos.
If you're in the tech startup game and find AWS too complicated, you have bigger problems.
Awwwww yiss - Sovereign Citizens arrive in the UK. Coupled with the seemingly innate talent that British people have for ruthlessly mocking things like this, this should be entertaining and delightful.

BRB letting /r/AmIBeingDetained in on this.
> I keep failing to see why we are all supposed to open world markets to the flow of every sort of capital and goods except labor, or why someone deserves a job for being born American, rather than Indian (Note that I feel the same way when Americans are disadvantaged elsewhere for similar reasons[1]).

Neither of those conclusions are necessary in order to be against H1B abuse. Abusers of the program distort the labour market artificially and depress salaries by replacing Americans with foreign workers who are tied to one employer and therefore unable to negotiate for a proper salary. The italicized portion is what we should find troubling, not merely that foreigners are moving to America to work. This results in a transfer of wealth from the working population to employers who no longer need to pay prevailing market wages.
Someone can easily end up as someone with no romantic prospects without being someone who "sucks". For example, being a male who has the "wrong" hobbies and interests or isn't naturally attractive enough to get the time of day from women of equal attractiveness. Sure, there are a few exceptions, but I'm sure this will resonate with the majority of males reading this who are exclusively into tech/aren't highly attractive.
"My dearest eBook reader..."
When sublime text gained it's traction, the scene was a little less crowded. Atom was not available at that time.

I think it gained traction on OS X. The dominant text editors for OS X at the time were Textmate and Coda. The development of Textmate stalled and people were looking for an alternative. Coda had a very different approach from Textmate (you were either a Textmate or a Coda gay/gal, never both), and Sublime really comes close to Textmate.
> I have personally had success using the techniques taught by Karl Lentz.

Can you tell us what success you have had?
A lot of this would be solved (or at least greatly improved) if H-1Bs were awarded via auction rather than lottery.
the news guidelines may answer your question in your edit https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe we should have a Coursera-like site exclusively for non-US universities, then. Meaning the courses are taxpayer funded and free for students (or, in some places, you might be paid to take them ;) ).
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes takes big gamble at conference
I'd say video game wise, a lot of them are very much less isolating than they used to be. Think about how many of the popular games out there are single player only in this day and age. Fairly few to be honest, most have online multiplayer modes, voice chat, etc. And that's even without getting into the socialising effects of conventions, tournaments/eSports, online communities and forums about them, etc.

That's less isolating that a lot of things. Old school monks and hermits and lone philosophers and scientists were probably more isolated then than a lot of gamers and folk on the internet are now.
We as a society are being pushed away from the ideals that took root in the 90's, when the web/internet was a libertarian paradise. Most graybeards would put freedom much higher than privacy or anything else. It seems the millenials are more concerned with hiding. How can someone have one without the other?
> The fact that is it public BY DEFAULT is a no go for me. Facebook at least allows me to configure what data can and cannot be accessed by my friends,friends of friends ...

Google+ allows this as well. No way I would share my family photos with the Internet.

Also, unlike Facebook, Google+ hasn't (yet) at least gone back and retroactively made private stuff public. (They did however mess upp the buzz launch pretty badly though.)
We Hired a Blind Coder
I knew someone with PTSD following a brutal rape. He choked her during the rape and she was covered in bruises, etc afterwards. For at least the next two years, she suffered from repeated bouts of bronchitis and yeast infections. She finally insisted the doctor run tests and not just give her a standing prescription for yeast meds (this was before they were available as OTC meds) and they found an infection was the root cause of the yeast infections -- something weird, like vaginal strep.

I have a serious medical condition and any time I am incredibly physically impaired, it impairs my cognitive function as well. I see no reason why we need to have brain trauma per se to make a connection between physical ailments and mental health issues.

(Edited. I fucking hate autocorrect sometimes.)
This played into my decision when I got a 2014 Focus as well. I got a manual transmission.

Its much harder to screw up a manual. The Dual-clutch thing is somewhat innovative, but the Focus's engine is high-rev / turbo-charged (getting the most power at 4000+ RPM). At the low-end, the engine is jerky and everything.

Its much smoother when I rev the engine higher (maybe 3000+ or even 4000+) before shifting up. I'm not really sure how the "automatic" DCT of the Focus is supposed to manage the engine without things getting shaky.

I definitely recommend the 2014 as a manual car. Very simple driving behavior fix to just rev the engine a little higher.
got a mailing list or something we can subscribe to in order to stay updated on your project? it's extremely important.
I doubt it is even in Google's business interests to do this either.
There is a history here. Please read:

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100220100027/http://clojure.or...

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20140704050611/http://clojure.or...

My own interpretation: programmer culture has such problems that someone actually considered corporate funding healthier than user donations.
Then we should not have it at all.
That is a screw up.
I don't think these people are trying to develop general-purpose AI and then direct it at the problem of making a human-shaped machine behave sufficiently humanlike to make it a satisfying sex partner. That would be one of the most amazing cases of achievement without ambition that I've ever heard of. Like developing and perfecting room-temperature fusion so that you could deliver a washing machine that you didn't need to plug into the wall.

I think these people are trying to develop a human-shaped machine that behaves sufficiently humanlike to make it a sufficiently satisfying sex partner for a sufficiently large market. This probably means teaching it to hold a fairly restricted set of conversations, and (more importantly) to move around and handle physical contact in the right ways. Maybe they'll plug it into some other, more advanced services developed by other, larger companies to handle speech recognition and slightly broader conversations.

If someone does develop a library that anyone can use to instantiate a general-purpose AI, and that actually becomes the simplest way for these people to implement their product, I think they would instantiate it with an emotional makeup such that all they wanted to do was please their owner. In such a case, slavery would be unnecessary. (Is instantiating AIs with arbitrary emotional makeups immoral? The thing is, you probably have to pick some makeup, and choosing a potentially bad one at random is just as irresponsible as choosing it deliberately. The most obvious criterion, "Will this new AI I'm creating have a happy life?", would probably be easy to satisfy.)
This is shenanigans. You only need the latest XCode to take advantage of bleeding edge features released in the latest iOS. 90% of apps never take advantage of the bleeding edge; you can continue to develop apps for all versions of iOS - including the latest release - with a 5 year old laptop.
In other news, Boston Dynamics announces their latest pivot.
I don't understand what you're replying to. I didn't say curses==unix. Most terminal based applications use curses, therefore the lack of it limits the pool of applications.
I would say that a positive effect of sex robots could be the reduction (and possibly elimination) of female human trafficking. Overall, I don't think people will just abandon human contact, but the underserved segment of people who already struggle with those social norms will have a better outlet - rather than providing a market to a horrible and dehumanizing industry.
Yep, second this. Company I work for uses S3, EC2 + Opsworks + VPC, RDS (aurora), elasticache, route53, cloudwatch (for logs) for our stack, I found it easy enough with the docs and various online guides.

I cannot understand how any half-competent startup dev team would find it difficult, most of it can be done with point and click UI, especially for setting up your basic load balancer + web servers + database stack.
Hello, in my case (I wrote the original comment) most men I work with are totally chill and just like you.

Unfortunately, I'd say 1/20-30 guys I work with are going to make a pass at me, or make me feel uncomfortable. Alot of this is encouraged r discouraged based on the culture of the workplace.

In general, I get along with my male coworkers, and I loathe getting special treatment or being given breaks because I'm a girl so I agree with you, you don't need to do anything extra beyond what you normally do.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as awesome as you. It's more just that statistically if females are a minority, and the culture of the workplace allows it, it's likely you might get hit on, and it's possible the female coworkers you hung out with may have gotten hit on inappropriately at work and just never talked to you about it. For sure, none of the guys I worked with who were cool with me knew what I went through.

Same as you, I started in semiconductor. 95% of the guys were totally chill and we worked and ate together etc etc. I did however, get asked out on dinner and dates by four married men in my two years working then, who then avoided me and refused to even do necessary job place coordination with me on daily tasks after I turned them down, making my job harder for me.

The team was 114 people, 6 women, all of us 20 yrs younger than the average age of the men. SO that means 108 of the men were totally awesome, and 4 of them sucked. This is not all that I went through, just a PG version but in general, I'm making the point on average and most men are not like that, instead of trying to hone in on the few bad outlier scenarios I had to encounter.

I definitely don't want these conversations to make men like you feel you are not doing enough. On the contrary, need more men like you that DON"T feel the need to treat us any differently, because thats what we want, atleast for me.
'Investigators often use location search tools such as Geofeedia, which enable them to throw a virtual “geo-fence” around a certain building or area and gather all of the social media posted from there in real time.'

Am I the only one who finds this capability disturbing?
+1 for boto (use boto3/botocore for latest stuff, not boto2).

I usually click around in the web interface to learn what the options are, then automate the same procedure using a boto script. It's not trivial, but then you never have to do this task manually again. Also, I find the scripts work wonderfully to document the company's IT infrastructure.
I'd like to add that full rights for guest workers could possibly solve the problem outright. Let the worker walk out and find a better job the day they land in the airport or cross the border or change status to worker. Make any "bond" illegal and declare the employer may not seek restitution for the worker walking out in search of greener pastures.