skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with socialism per se, only with the balance of labor versus physical capital as input factors of production. All existing social-insurance systems were built under the assumption that production was an innately labor-intensive process, and thus that setting a payroll tax on labor would be sufficient to fund the insurance programs, provided unemployment was kept away from depression levels by other means.

Today those programs face a double-drainage problem: more people are using unemployment insurance, top-ups for low-wage workers, and old-age pensions at the same time, while less money is being contributed due to continuing depression-levels of unemployment and underemployment. Insofar as the EU expects roboticization to contribute to this double-drainage problem by shifting the labor-to-capital balance in factors of production further towards physical capital, they're trying to rebalance the insurance systems by taking more contribution from the capital side.

In short, they're trying to shift the tax burden to people who have money available to pay, rather than to people who increasingly don't.

It's a shitty kludge from a long-term public-policy perspective because it does nothing to solve the conflict over the economic pie between labor, financial capital, physical capital, and intellectual expertise, but as accountant-logic, it works out.
So, sentient means 'having the ability to learn new things' ? Kinda like humans, who are born with certain instincts, but are then able to learn new things or 're-program' themselves.

Well, there is a filed called 'machine learning', which helps design robots who will be able to learn. If they are able to learn and exhibit intelligent behavior, then we have to treat them as something more than rocks or hammers.

That is what the document is referring to - not pre-programmed robots, but AIs (robots who are able to learn, perceive, change behavior etc.).
Or from the person who got bored and abandoned LightTable as a mere proof of concept compared to the initial grand ambitions.
>3 months of a ketogenic diet lowered my A1c from 6.8 ("you have diabetes") to 5.6 ("normal range"). I've also lost 25 lbs in that 3 months without feeling hungry or deprived.

All of which would be true on a low carb diet without ketosis. Which you may very well have been doing since you don't know if you were in ketosis or not.

> A ketogenic diet is definitely best for my health

Your completely unsupported anecdote of a single person claiming so does not counter the overwhelming scientific evidence consisting of actual studies, with multiple participants, proper measures, and control groups.
'well if they're doing it in broad daylight I doubt they're up to no good'

..........WHAT. I'm sorry, but no, seriously a police operator said this?
Weird, I was a die hard mac developer (since 1984), and I immediately stopped when iOS came out with the app store. Like, stopped /dead/.

The reason I could be a Mac Developer was the small pond; There wasn't a LOT of work, but there was enough for good people, and it paid well. On balance I /never/ developed anything for windows, because of the 'tree vs forest' problem : Even if you are REALLY fantastically good, there are so many people on the market that you can't possibly stand out.

And that's why I never even wrote a single iOS app, even tho i was a wiz at ObjC and OSX (Imagine a Classic MacOS dev thrown together with a UNIX wiz, and that's me); it was guaranteed to bring in the 'forest' to OSX as well, and make any 'edge' more or less pointless.

Also, from what I've seen, if anyone comes out with a nice app/game, there's a dozen or more group of people who will throw their dev team at copying it immediately, diluting any hope of revenue. It's these guys business model after all, you just can't win, and it's not like you can defend your IP anyway.

So, 2016, I wonder what took people so long to realize it was all doomed but for a tiny fraction of apps.
If you haven't seen Primer, I recommend it.

MILD SPOILER: If you could make short-lived copies of yourself, you should probably keep a close eye on them. After all, you're clever, they're clever. You're motivated to keep existing, so are they.
The question is whether a "message" has enough "stuff" to reify into a real process (so it can help interpretation and negotiation) or whether the receiver has to do all the work (and thus perhaps has to know too much for graceful scaling of the system).
Can someone explain me why workers where only alive for 6 seconds? Even now: Why are they only alive for 20 minutes and why is that even acceptable? Is it due to memory leaks?

I'd probably instantly lose my job if any of my systems would crash that often without me fixing it, regardless of the reason...
Floppies lost to USB flash for the same reasons core memory lost to hard drives, new better, widely adopted, denser storage. No such relationship exists between current head phones and Lightning head phones. In fact, Lightning is not an industry standard, but analog cabling is. Lightning cables are less durable and not repairable. Analog cables do come in varying quality but can be repaired easily. One is patent encumbered and the other is not.

Why would I buy expensive Lightning noise cancelling headphone when I can only use it with one manufactures equipment? It really makes zero sense.
Pretty much this. They could have added better filters around things like "Cosmetic-only IAP" or "Ad Supported" or "No IAP whatsoever" but they did not.
Thanks. It should be possible to have the code coverage in the slack message. Consider opening an issue or contributing the code.

The comments text area slowness sounds bad. I've hear people complaining about slowness in Firefox before. I'm not sure how to proceed.

Not a bad idea to wait a week after the official release, we expect to have at least one patch release in this timeframe.
Elon Is Wrong. We Don't Live in a Simulation
I had a similar experience for a while, until I put my $100+ Bluetooth headset through the wash. I'll stick with cheap wired earbuds from now on, although I'm sure not everybody is sufficiently absent minded for that to be a risk.
Introducing the Android Basics Nanodegree
From Apples standpoint yes it's great, I think developers would prefer to hear facts such as about how many users are active on the store, distribution of downloads, median number of downloads per app and revenue. It's like a boss holding a meeting to discuss how great his/her own bonus is this year.
Aside some interesting comments here I find very true, my theory is that you should treat your game has a startup product: customers will not come, you have to chase them. And get them talk to their friends about your game. Just launching a game and making some marketing wont work. You need: feedback loop + word of mouth + growth.
The market may never sort it out. Apple doesn't need to fix the app market to make money, and they're really the only one who can.

So unless they start allowing third party stores, nothing will change.
Emails: State Dept. scrambled on trouble on Clinton's server
Personally, I don't want to invest into a closed platform. Hackable solutions are nice, but I've purposefully avoided zwave because they aren't open source. Maybe I'm naive, but I'm holding out for something that actually is open-source, not seems to be open source.

Having never used zwave though, it sounds like your point is valid.
Russia's national technology initiative
Why is there no knowing without a you? Won't the clone know just as well as you that he's you?

What defines "you"? The matter you're made of?

Is it a particular arrangement of that matter?
(Would you care if your neurons were replaced one by one, while keeping the same arrangement?)

Is it your memories, your thoughts, your inclinations?

Or is it something else?
The article does a bad job explaining that this is just a draft by one committee in the europarliament, and unlikely to get anything resembling majority support anywhere.
> That's the most interesting point to me, I deeply believed that organisms share the same basic set of genes.

Yes, isn't there a universal gene that encodes the RNA polymerase enzyme? I.e., the machinery that transcribes DNA into RNA?
Behavior changes in Ruby 2.4
Usually it takes one turn or so of the technology cycle. Basically the market is poisoned as long as it's too competitive for customers to really differentiate between alternatives. Developers realize this, and stop paying attention to the market. Adjacent technologies (eg. iOS platform libraries, hardware capabilities, backend systems, market penetration) continue to improve, but nobody notices their improvement because everybody's given up on the space as unprofitable. Eventually somebody combines 2-3 of these new emerging technologies together in a way that makes a big difference to consumers, their growth rate starts to look like a hockey-stick, and they get bought for a billion dollars or so (if they weren't already in a big company). Then people start paying attention again, you get another gold rush, etc.

We went through this with the web between 2000-2004. All the money-oriented folks gave it up for dead with the dot-com crash, a number of tinkerers started to move in and play with it, and eventually we ended up with the GMail/GoogleMaps/Flickr/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit/AJAX/Rails explosion around 2004-2005. So usually 3-4 years.
Weird - so you were uniquely position to capitalize on the growth period, but because you predicted that it would ebb a decade later, you decided not to take part?
What is also quite interesting about their platform is that they use Stackless Python for the game logic (https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/stackless-pyt...). Their whole architecture is quite amazing for how old their tech is and what they have managed to achieve.
My experience is that some may have self signed certs, or something similarly pointless, and that the vast majority have nothing so communications with them are in the clear.

If someone like letsencrypt helped solve the issue (probably in a manner substantially similar to plex) then the devices will be able to get and renew their own certificates automatically, and clients talking to them would just work.
The unicorn workers are leaking memory. Any worker going above a limit will be restarted. Obviously it would be better to reduce the memory leaks further and we welcome help with that. To be clear, it is not a crash, all requests are handled without error to the end user.
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Anyone have more information about why this is needed?

There are already decades worth of ground to satellite network connections in use, and satellite to satellite communication is old news. Past astronauts have also used internet connections so what problem does this solve?

ed: Or is this just a test for future connections?
I don't know. I think the "gold rush" period is over, probably was a while ago. Seems like everyone wants to start their own micro-ISV or SaaS or whatever, but I'm projecting. And I'm jaded because I've failed a few times at these things and have a sour taste in my mouth about their viability these days.

I think those of us looking to start something really want certainty that whatever thing we're thinking of building will be successful. I think it can be, but it takes more grunt work selecting the right thing to build.

To answer your question, yes. Go do it then come back and tell us how it go. And good luck.
Yeah it's a challenging market.

Just to add another data point, we're small indie (games) developer, we spent over a year on our first title with very little marketing budget and these are our sales figures from our launch: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/YacineSalmi/20160519/273030/E...

In short, decent sales but not enough to recoup our costs. Still, we never expected that we would hit gold on the first try. I think to be as sustainable on iOS you either have a successful niche product or a collection of product, with each release building a further revenue stream.
The context is that this is Jeff Minter's blog. His iOS games have received high acclaim over the years, especially early on in the App Store.
You are looking for this, "let's build a compiler" http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/compiler.pdf
It actually becomes much easier to understand if you approach it from the other direction.

Some assumptions

- A prime is only evenly divisible by itself and one.

- One is not a prime.

- A composite number is generated by multiplying two or more primes.

- No number of primes can be multiplied together to make another prime. That would mean that the so called prime generated is composite.

Now, say we have a number n with two different prime factorizations, f1 and f2, where f1 includes a certain prime p, and f2 does not, and where n is evenly divisible by p, and n/p = m.

Now, if f1 and f2 are both prime factorizations of n, then consider what happens when we do this:

f1 = p * m = f2

m = f2 / p

f2 does not contain p, and we cannot construct a prime p from other primes or composites. This means that f2 cannot be evenly divisible by p, as that would require it to have a prime factor of p which it does not. Therefore f2 cannot be another prime factorization of n.

That may not be perfectly rigorous, but I'm certain the gist of it is true.
I concur with this; it is the way I have encountered it as well and usually do it myself as well unless I have a specific deadlined project.
Is it open source? that looks pretty rad. Are they available to purchase? Any plans for other devices?
Thanks @allan_s we are aware of the slowness of the diff tab. It is something we are actively (this very second) working on. I am not aware of the slowness of the text area. Can you create an issue to show us so we can fix it? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/new
The sentiment is totally right -- especially if you take other countries into account. The numbers you mentioned are pretty far off for US -- a typical rank 200 game in iPhone earns around $4000-6000 or so per day, but worldwide we can expect the top 100 app to earn around 100k / day on both platforms, and the top 200 app earns roughly half of that.

This is wonderful because this kind of revenue can sustain a lot of companies and studios -- and it does not take ad revenue models into account.

This is after apple/android 30% cut.
Paying the legal bills for a plaintiff whose lawsuit advances your agenda is the definition of a proxy lawsuit. Also, the game ain't over till the fat lady sings. The case is still unresolved until all opportunities to appeal are exhausted. In my opinion, Peter is a jerk and an example of another wealthy person who likes living in and conducting business in America but won't support the values of America enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
If Apple felt there was utility in keeping the DAC in the phone, they could easily add analog capability to Lightning and say that their new headphones require iPhone 7. They might go digital for other reasons, of course.
FCC has privacy concerns about VR
Try again in a few months and it should be a lot better, lots of work has been going into improving performance across the board, e.g. this week we've had two pretty big changes: https://www.scribd.com/doc/316471059/GitLab-Infrastructure-2... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4802 :)
> Yes, the classes are free, but they require the use of a US$600 tablet. Your kids can learn about Swift inside the doors of an Apple store, but what happens when they get home?

This blog post is a great and much needed critique. Apple's classes seem like little more than an attempt to create and build brand loyalty and to increase sales.
I have never seen this documentation and it seems to be wildly outdated.

Which issues did you experience with Android Studio?
I feel that the people who are now talking about IoT are the same people who were totally into 'semantic web' back in the day. And it's pretty much the same kind of story: "Wouldn't it be neat if all these systems could interoperate?" and again the answer is "Yes, but not neat enough justify the cost and hassle of actually making it happen".
No, you are correct, I think it's accepted in general that earbuds are a compromise. Still, IMHO, customers will assume the audio quality from the lightning port is superior to the old analog jack.
here in texas, the county governments tax income producing property: http://www.appraisaldistrictguide.com/personal-property-tax....

its like, your business shouldn't be too dependent on the local government, just like it shouldn't be too dependent on 1 employee, or one copy of data. that's why some businesses negotiate with the government before expanding into a new area.
Jailbreaking does involve kernel patching and AppStore apps run as the mobile user, not root.
Concrete Problems in AI Safety (by Google and OpenAI Researchers)
Not sure why you were downvoted, but your answer had more than a few issues.

1) It was added well after I had already added an answer that included C++

2) it was only 2 words with additioanl information meaning that it didn't really add any value to the question.

I have no doubt you probably know the HFT scene and could probably add some color to people outside of it, but your first answer didn't really help in any appreciable way and this was probably why it was down-voted.
Well, some quick back of the napkin math shows that at the upper end (999,999,999 users) the fine equates to roughly a $.95 CPM and at the lower end (100,000,000) it equates to a $9.50 CPM.

So the question is where their margins fall in line with those numbers. I've never negotiated with InMobi so don't have a sense of their rates, but doing more than a $1 CPM seems entirely doable. $9.5 on mobile is a bit tougher, but depending on how they leveraged that data, still possible (particularly if they are brokering that data with any cookie onboarding services in addition to just serving an ad).

My coffee is still kicking in and I'm in a full on food coma, so someone please feel free to chime in and correct my math/logic here if I'm wrong.
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Clinton IT specialist invokes 5th more than 125 times in deposition
> I wouldn't be particularly shaken up by it.

Given the choice between having one copy disassembled or having both disassembled, I'd choose to have one copy survive, whether or not it was the "I" copy. Both copies would be "me" as far as could be measured (ignoring the last few minutes, where I'm assuming that our experiences would be similar but not identical).

Given the choice of having both of "us" survive though, I'd rather not have either life terminated. I'd be more bothered by the destruction of one of us than by the chance that I'd be the one who chooses to start a new life from scratch (or whatever we decided as our solution). Death is death, whether or not there's a substantially-identical copy. One consciousness would end.
Where does it say that freedom of expression does not cover revenge porn? It's actually the opposite. There is a very, very small number of exceptions to freedom of speech and what Gawker was doing is not one of them.
Are any of the 59 likely to switch?

(No wonder Feinstein's office was so dismissive of my call today.)
Palantir uses stock purchase offer to keep former employees on tight leash
Anyone have recommendations for a relay that could handle 20A but would work with the ESP8266's 3.3V?
What? The DAC can't be pulled of from the phone. It is needed for the speaker
I'm a daily rider on the 4/5 and C lines, and I didn't see the ads for this. A semi-random sampling of my colleges where I work (upper east side) saw mixed knowledge about the tests.
Good job guys! We will take a look if there is a way to integrate it with our tool at http://www.maplatency.com

any plans on extending this to allow geo targeting of IPs?
I can't say for now but a few years ago python was eating the 3D animation packages embedded language. Blender, Maya, even Houdini. Maya and Houdini had their own scripting language and put python in a first class seat.
Depends on what kind of life you consider. It's true for mammals. It's true for animals. It's probably even true further up our ancestry. But apparently it doesn't mean that "all things that have genes" share a subset of genes from the same common ancestor. As I understand it that's because they share a common ancestor that didn't have genes (but at that point I'm not sure whether "ancestor" is even the right word).
It's why I support life sentences over execution. It is the harsher of the two punishments. Bonus effect: you can attempt to rehabilitate an inmate, but not a dead man.
It comes down to levels of assurance. The rules of inference you are using are part of your design space. Mathematics at its core is about clever problem solving. When you encounter a problem you have to decide what you would accept as a proof, and this forces you to accept certain reasoning principles.

The caveat is that this is non-trivial and it's very easy to make people accept assumptions which are completely wrong. That's really the main reason to accept the axioms of set theory: People have been trying to poke holes in them for a hundred years and nobody has managed it yet. If you can use set theory (or something equiconsistent) to solve your problem, chances are that nobody will be able to call you out on a mistake.
> What "really cool" HTML feature requires HTTPS? There can be problems with mixed secure/insecure content, but that's more of an offsite content issue.

One example would be the the Geolocation API, with more to come[1]. Another example (specifically for HTML) would be Mozilla showing a user-visible warning when it encounters a type="password" field in a form served via HTTP (or with a HTTP target - I'm not certain). This is currently only enabled in the Developer Edition, but will eventually land in stable.

> When sites share an SSL cert, and you can break into one of the sharing sites, there's a way to impersonate others. Cloudflare customers for their lower tiers of "security" often don't realize this. The customer doesn't pick which sites share certs; that's up to Cloudflare.

This is a non-issue for services such as CloudFlare. Site owners do not have access to the private key, only CloudFlare does. Breaking into one of the other sites won't give you access to the private key, only breaking into CloudFlare would, and such a vulnerability would have nothing to do with the fact that you're sharing a SAN certificate with other sites. I'm not aware of any other cross-site vulnerabilities that stem from shared certificates in an environment where every site on that certificate is served by the same frontend.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/deprecating-...
The particles that make up your will have a probability of being in a certain place according to some rules. When you move, the particles "disappear" from one place and "appear" at another place. Do you know they are the same particles? Does it matter?

Does it matter more that there's no duplicate particles (ie. no changes of a copy being made)?

In that case, you could device a teleport machine that makes sure to read the state "bit by bit" (particle by particle), then destroys the original particle before creating a new particle in another location. How different would that be compared to what's normally happening to your body?
This is probably one of the better posts about development I read this year, full of sound bites, like "Jira strikes fear in a heart of every developer". I just love it and can read it occasionally nodding my head.
Nonstandard headset connectors were prevalent 15 years ago on feature phones and the Game Boy Advance SP, but no one liked them back then either. I just threw out a drawer full of old proprietary cables and accessories from back then, in fact. One of the reasons I bought an iPhone in 2009 was that Apple wasn't actively trying to be hostile to anyone who might want to use it to listen to music like the HTC and LG phones of the time.