skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think programmers are best at automating aspects of their own work, which makes sense because it's what they are most familiar with. Sometimes people miss this because a lot of the "automation" doesn't seem like it, because it still requires skills to deploy, but it multiplies the productivity of a single programmer.

An obvious example is how much system administration has been automated or replaced with scalable services. People used to get paid a lot just to handcode HTML, now you have WordPress and many other frameworks.

But there is still enough demand out there for programming skills that the market has largely been able to absorb the new comers, which is how it should work. Innovation should free up people to do other things, but it's difficult to arrive at those other things during sluggish growth periods.

I think the main problem is not the speed of technological progress, or automation, but that the response to the global recession ranged from inadequate to contrary to what economics teaches us. Because of how politicized economic topics have become, it's difficult to avoid the current state.
Since you care about education so deeply, but also seem to be critical of a lot of recent technological developments that appear to be more accessible than some of the systems / approaches we had in the past:
Do you think that it is a reasonable path to embrace technologies with shortcomings, and perhaps even to utilize a reduction in expressiveness of UIs, such as hiding the ability to multitask, or to employ the power of games to "draw us in [and keep us spellbound]" (where [this] part may be a danger), if this can form points of entry for young people who may otherwise not have found their way into technology (think smartphones in rural areas without reliable other means to guarantee access to information to large numbers of people; e.g. lack of mentors and role models), or would it be more promising to rather focus on developing alternative means for "on-boarding"?
Atari game agents are trivial if you hard-code / do traditional brute-force search AI because there is no noise in observation and no noise in control, and the control is very simple (usually just up down left right, no torques or anything physically complex)

This is the state of the art of "traditional AI" (not deep learning) robotics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P9geWwi9e0

Most decent HN programmers could code an AI for an Atari game in a few weeks.

Again, I would encourage you to read the literature instead of speculating.
You've also got the issues with processed food: Butchering a critter and cooking it up is a lot more natural than a highly engineered mixture from a group of chemical engineers.

It may be that all the processing involved in making the plant compounds look/smell/taste/feel like meat are harmless, even beneficial, but it's perfectly reasonable to withhold trust for some time - especially to those of us who grew up with "Margarine is so much healthier than butter!"
solve a problem, make a list and vote
Genesis SEO Needs to Go Away
There is wayland, it just isn't the default.
I should note, I current set the FROM as "John Smith <donotreply@mydomain.com>" and set Reply-To to their actual email. That said, I've seen a number of clients ignore the Reply To and send email to the donotreply.
You'd think the FBI wouldn't be able to just demand all kinds of stuff they have no legal right to.

Paying some respect to established history for a moment, I-personally speaking-am not shocked at all. This sort of clandestine activity is how the FBI was born.
Lost your cherry to the Smurfs, eh?
Teaching machines to anticipate human interactions using videos of TV shows
Why would Google buy when they can just create one overnight if they wanted? Probably much more stable than Imgur too.

Imgur is just a commodity. Youtube is not.
>Why are they (presumably) trying to recreate chuck? Ground chuck is a terrible thing to replicate. It's like burger meat designed by committee[1].

Probably because it's common as hell and if you could widely replace both burger patties and sausage filling with this meat substitute, you might be able to knock 5% off the worlds meat consumption with one product.
Hi Clayton, intrigued by this: '(some of them kernels)' - are you alluding to unikernels (among others)?
Are there more dwarfs on Manhattan and Long Island? It doesn't seem like it.
تورهای کیش ویژه نیمه دوم ماه رمضان – تیر تابستان ۹۵
execution of an idea is the multiplying factor.

Try talking to people in an industry you are interested in to find out what problems they are experiencing. the book Running Lean has an excellent script you can use if talking is not a strong point.

You should try to talk to at least 30 people, and keep detailed notes on all the answers to the questions they give. If you can identify a pattern among the problems, it has the potential to be an idea worth working on.
This is well worth the read thanks! I will likely experiment with this for PUSH alerting from the web app I am working on.

Eventually we will build a Mobile application, but in the meantime this seems like a good quick hit value add.
GUIs allow things to be done by people who otherwise would not be interacting with a computer. They are huge enablers! This is true of the arts with computer graphics, music software. Granted really advanced users of computer graphics packages often end up doing some kind of programming via Python scripting or even Action Script back in the days of Flash. However there are plenty of people that are pure artists and just digitally paint of sculpt.
JVM startup time is kind of annoying, but doesn't seem like a very big problem. You can use drip or nailgun to avoid dealing with it most of the time.
Home Is Where the Fraud Is
How can you find it?

The association between "patterns" and interpretation becomes an "object" when this is part of the larger scheme. When you've just got bits and you send them somewhere, you don't even have "data" anymore.

Even with something like EDI or XML, think about what kinds of knowledge and process are actually needed to even do the simplest things.
Amen to that. I like the spicy black bean patties, also topped with a fried egg, some jalapenos and sriracha :)
you're mixing up a lot there.

porn sites either charged you or installed dialers, not both.

and the charge backs on the legit ones were so high because the operators for the scammy ones needed to sign up, download everything, get his money back, and serve you the stolen content.
It's not "Big Data" but "Big Meaning"
> I don't find the difference between psychological and physical violence that important when effect is similar

There's good reason why these crimes are differentiated in the laws of every country around. The effects are not remotely comparable and to suggest that they are is quite offensive to victims of real violence.
There were mentions of open, public humiliations with sexual suggestions. You don't have to accept that talk in a meeting that you attend even when it is completely consensual.
Web Framework for REST Applications in C
Russian 'runaway robot' causes traffic jam
If you look at the Documentation section do you manage to find the API post you're looking for?
I host my own email at home on a domestic connection with a domestic fixed ipv4 and I only set up SPF.

Most e-mail providers accept my email.

More accurately: in the last two years only gmx.de rejecte one email.
Question: what's the user experience like every time you get in the car? Do you need to launch the app? I imagine that's what the OBD portion is for, but I didn't think you could automatically launch apps from iOS. Does the Android app offer a different experience?
Firearms Dealers vs. Burgers, Pizza, and Coffee http://flowingdata.com/2016/06/14/firearms-dealers-vs-burger...

ATF Listing of Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) - 2016
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/listing-federal-firearms-licens...

This might offer a start.
Facebook scraps in-video links to other sites
Sony is the best example that I can think of for manufacturers whose products have fewer features over time. Remember that PS3s also had PS2 compatibility?
Sure, this is something that I can support. The parent post seemed too simplistic a characterization.
imgur worked because a CDN named voxel could readily use the bandwidth bump provided by hosting images to decrease their overall network costs.
What if you arrived at some point after you actually left? (Not the other data of you leaving arriving at that point)

Granted I believe that doing so would probably involve bending space/time so that your actual position was in the new frame.
> The update was not forced. You got the choice to install it or not.

Some choice:

> However, without updating, console owners couldn't connect to the PlayStation Network, play any games online, play any games or Blu-ray movies that required the new firmware, play any files kept on a media server, or download any future updates.

If you buy a product on a claim that it performs N features, and a future update forces you to choose which subset of N features you would like to keep, the company has still failed on their claim.
Your systems-as-a-lingua-franca suggestion seems straight up David Christian's "Big History" concept:

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

"Big History is an emerging academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach based on combining numerous disciplines from science and the humanities,[1][2][3][4][5] and explores human existence in the context of this bigger picture.[6] It integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations..."

I'm rather a fan, though I've only explored it quite briefly.

If you're not familiar with the Santa Fe Institute and its work, I suspect you'll find it fascinating. The general rhubric is "complexity science", applied across a large number of fields. Geoffrey West and Sander van der Leuuw are two other fellows. Founders included Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow.

"SFI's original mission was to disseminate the notion of a new interdisciplinary research area called complexity theory or simply complex systems. This new effort was intended to provide an alternative to the increasing specialization the founders observed in science by focusing on synthesis across disciplines.[4] As the idea of interdisciplinary science increased in popularity, a number of independent institutes and departments emerged whose focus emphasized similar goals."

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

I keep discovering that the most interesting people -- in multiple fields -- I'm running across are quite often affiliated.

Related to my other question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941965

And, since many of your responses point at challenges to the AMA (or HN) format, what would your preference be? Is there an existing platform or model that fits, or is there a set of requirements that
Yeah, I realize they have a very long history of this sort of behavior (pioneered by J. Edgar Hoover).
If you think about the "whole system", even if it's just a Shannon channel, what do you actually need?
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I think the problem here is that "vegan" is used to describe two different things:

1. A product that has been changed to not use any animal products.

2. A product that already fits within those constraints.

Products in the former group have a history of being noticeably worse than their non-vegan counterpart, so "vegan" carries the stigma of "tastes worse than it looks". That stigma then wafts over to products in the second category.

Other categories of products are more careful to use distinct terms. That's why you see things labelled "naturally fat-free" instead of just "fat-free", for example.
Eric Evans: Is Domain-Driven Design Beneficial for Software Development?
I picked up a Masters on the way to getting a PhD but ultimately dropped out because I felt like I had quit learning and was just slogging and I found I wasn't all that passionate about the particular domain. Furthermore one day sitting in a seminar listing to a couple professors and grad students arguing about some theory I realized I just didn't care about the things they were arguing about.

So I left went into industry applying research skills to practical problems.

Later I started branching out and getting into corpus analysis and latent semantic analysis - nothing to do with my Masters or PhD studies from domain perspective but those research skills transferred over.

At one point I was visiting with an older friend with a PhD, a successful serial entrepreneur and very smart guy and I commented with some regret about not finishing my PhD and maybe someday I would go back and study computational linguistics. His response gave me new perspective.

"Mike, why would you do that? You are already doing the work that those guys hope to do when they get done!"

His comment made me feel better but .... still there is something about learning in an intense graduate studies setting that I miss. And, there is the social esteem that we give scholars who have pushed through and earned a PhD.

I guess I don't have practical advice but if you really feel the draw to do a Masters see what you can do to make it happen.
I think that's a very generous assumption considering that strict gun control laws mostly correlates with population density. Gun laws vary a lot from state to state and in most states that have some sort of licensing requirement anyone below the top half of the middle class would have to invest a non-trivial (a little more/less than a driver's license) amount of time and money into owning any sort of firearm. I know in the Boston area the unwritten policy is "municipalities inside I495 typically don't issue concealed carry permits unless you're a cop or politically connected" Basically state laws can skew things a lot.
The Fermi paradox has been solved.
Tynker and Sphero aren't owned by Apple though? and Using blender for what iMovie does is nuts! Why on earth would you do that? Blender is a really complex piece of software and not at all the same as iMovie. Maybe you could say that about Swift playgrounds on iPad but even swift is open source so I don't know what you are talking about?
Just to be clear, you've done blind taste tests of all the products they mentioned within the recent past, right?
Among all the problems with this kind of folk justice is it tends to "criminalize" things like "breathing while black" or "looks gay".
Yes, so think about how to make this work "nicely" in an Intergalactic Network ...
I setup a Genesis theme for my brothers shop. I also added the Yoast plugin. There is really nothing stopping you from using both.

I think from a business owner's perspective, having something that works is better than nothing.

If you read through all the SEO forums, they always have these tweaks that people do to the Yoast config. A non technical business owner is not going to be able to do this.

If Genesis gives you something out of the box, it adds value for the business owner.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. It sounds like your definitions fit mine, so it's good to know that India would (at least from a dietary perspective) be a viable vacation destination.

And that's probably not just a thought experiment given the likelihood of eventually going there on business trips.
You should run the whole of Freebase, or really the biggest thing you can get your hands on. Hope you do. I'd love something that can comfortably handle billion order graphs!
The Mesa programming environment on the Xerox Star (1985) [pdf]
I suppose what I was trying to imply was that the FBI was born of these tactics, emboldened by Hooover, condoned by the courts until they-the bureau-grew to such a size that (combined with McCarthyist politicking and language waged over nebulous concepts like "terrorism" and "drugs") that this is just a par 3 course for them.

It doesn't make these things right of course, but I can't feign apoplectic over it either. You should expect better, but those expectations should be tempered just a bit. I don't think any amount of coverage or outrage is going to make a dent in this problem as long as the system the FBI operates in refuses to keep itself in check.
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Besides whamlastxmas point, the danger that I see is also tied to copyright infringement.

Imgur and other small sites, mostly because they don't have much profit, don't suffer a lot from copyright takedowns. I think reddit won't have the same treatment, and Imgur will still be a viable long-term solution.
The introduction to technology, well, essentially I'm talking about internet, is so early on a kids life that we can't just say "we should control ourselves". You can't put your kid in a room full of crisps, sweets, alcohol, drugs, pornography, and expect it to come out ten, fifteen years later as a healthy individual that is not an addict to none of them. This is what we essentially do with the internet.

> I myself have seen the effects of good diet, exercise and meditation on a group of people, and it is quite remarkable how changed for the better people are. So there is hope!

You're an adult, I am too. We can realize: this is stealing my life. But a kid can't. And stolen days don't return. This is why I'm commenting: we'd rather raise better individuals than letting them do wtf they want and hoping they'll fix themselves later.
I'm also an omnivore and have made the same observation.

I think the larger issue is why do we stubbornly try to make one thing taste like another? I may be a meat-eater but I can fill my heart's content at a number of Indian vegetarian places, to the point where I don't realize I didn't eat meat. The meal as a whole is fully satiating and nourishing.

In the same vein, I love tofu when it tastes like tofu. But when some try to make it ressemble meat, it simply becomes bad tofu. Beans are awesome and can be combined in so many ways. Bean burgers are just over-seasoned patties posing as meat.

Maybe it's my French background showing but I prefer minimal processing, or processing that brings out the natural flavors of the ingredient, not trying to hide them.
I want to make sure I understand "time dilation," as you describe it. I have no formal background in science or math. So, please bear with me. For the sake of making the math easy, I'm going to talk about traveling faster than the speed of light, but only for the sake of argument. You'll see why.

I understand it this way. Assume I were traveling away from my friend at twice the speed of light. My time of departure is 12:00:00. After 1 second (my clock) I have traveled 2 light-seconds. Light reflected off the face of my clock now travels towards my friend, reading 12:00:01. We'll call this view of my clock a "snapshot."

From my friend's point of view, that snapshot reaches him at 12:00:03. Yes?

Now, we allow for 1 additional second, my time. I have traveled in total 4 light-seconds. My 12:00:02 snapshot now travels towards my friend. It reaches him at 12:00:06, his time. Yes?

So, from my friend's point of view, my time has seemed to slow down. Is that what you mean by time dilation?
If you group the agents together and call it a single "general" agent, the research community (and pretty much everyone else) will call you out on your BS. That's the difference.
Lines of Code Is a Bad Metric, Either Way (2012)
interesting, but

>chef Traci Des Jardins served the Impossible Burger (pictured uncooked) with vegan mayo, Dijon mustard, mashed avocado, caramelized onions, chopped cornichon, tomato and lettuce on a pretzel bun.

I think I'd probably enjoy a single postage stamp served in the above configuration (in place of the patty). Obviously my review of the postage stamp would be heavily influenced by these trimmings.

Given the rest of the article, they should have just browned it and served it on a $0.50 store-bought hamburger bun http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/hamburger-buns with some lettuce and ketchup.

Or is it not actually up to the task? The rest of the article fawns that it is, but they don't put their hamburger where the reviewer's mouth is. They put mashed avocado, carmelized onion, and chopped cornichon on a pretzel bun there.
> My Japanese friends tell me there's no point in me trying to eat there. The only option that doesn't involve seafood is "monk training food", which is...not intended to be tasty.

I'm vegan an eat Japanese food all of the time. It really just depends on the restaurant. Examples:

- Tempura batter can be vegan if they don't add eggs to it. Some restaurants do, and some don't.

- Sushi rice is basically sugar, salt and rice vinegar seasoning.

- Miso soup is fine as long as you confirm they don't add "bonito" (aka fish flakes).

- Many of the vegetarian rolls are fine.

The only thing that you might worry about is if you are super-strict about cross-contamination. But if that's the case you really can't eat out at most restaurants.
ugging into the odb port is dubious. I will surelly never get close to this device. a usb or power socket version would look much more professional.
He is correct in stating that it is code v. english, apples v. oranges. But I was under the impression that the whole point of using code was to explain something in more concrete and definitive terms. If doing so takes more words, more abstract word, with more oppertunity for bugs and loopholes, then what is the point?
"Most of the restrictions discussed above are waivable if the
applicant demonstrates that his or her operation can safely
be conducted under the terms of a certificate of waiver."

From the FAA Summary.
I think this is a great post, but I have one small nit to pick:

> being involved with an underage sex worker

I've seen others argue, and I agree: there's no such thing as an "underage sex worker" or "child prostitute" -- terms that have been used for some time in the mainstream press. The correct term is "child sex trafficking victim" or the like. The point is that minors cannot legally consent to sex, so legally they must be victims, not criminals.

I don't know about the specific incident you're referring to, but if by "involved with" you mean "participating in the victimization of", I hope there were very serious consequences.
Do you real need all this engineering for a basically a CRUD application? What code are all these people deploying.
> Every imitation meat product I have ever tasted has been immediately recognizable as such, and was almost inedible.

I am a vegetarian, and have been for about 8 years. I agree that the taste isn't a duplicate, but inedible that's a stretcher?

> Unfortunately, the idea of fake meat that people won't notice is, at least today, a vegetarian fantasy.

And I never understood why. I like the taste of vegetables. Needing things that duplicate meat in taste and texture feels unnecessary and almost ... not quite, I can't find the right word ... hypocritical -- as if humans need that flavor?
I imagine the lack of gravity will probably be a bigger deal than the "island effect" of having an isolated population.
There are an order of magnitude more cattle than there have been equivalent buffalos?
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Biblical giants? They were half fallen angel, half human. Not many Christians (and maybe even Jews) believe this, but if you study the context of Genesis 6 and the rest of the Bible anytime it speaks of Noah's flood and judging of angels, they coincide (especially in the New Testament in the book of Jude) then there's the Book of Enoch, which isn't in protestant or Catholic Bibles, but the Ethiopians have it in theirs, and it speaks about how the angels took human wives to themselves. The Liger hybrid species explains scientifically the nephelim (or Giants) hybrid species to some degree, how it can be so massive is explained by the DNA. These are the views of some Christians, but again, assuming Biblical giants, there's a lot of different factors into play.