skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When someone sell property, the seller should not have a right to exercise powers that are exclusively to the new owner.

Sorry to say, but it is already the case of many computing devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI&feature=youtu.be...

If you buy an iPhone, what exactly do you own?

I hope this stuff gets cleared up, of course. Would be nice to run some free software on any computing device you own.

> DRM is the technical method to remain in control over property after sale, where contract would be the legal method when renting out property.

I agree at least the "owner" should be allowed to boot alternative SW, but it means DRM for digital assets will not be functional (you could dual boot..), as well as some silicon, I imagine.

> In open DRM, how and whose digital rights are being managed by said technology? If I lock down my laptops boot loader, is the laptop the digital right that I am "managing" with said security

No. I mean SW or digital assets (or digital titles to physical assets). Open DRM would be one in which anyone that has some SW/digital asset they wish to use DRM to control the usage of is capable of doing so. Whether or not the gatekeepers will allow it remains to be seen. The effect of p2p DRM on society would be hard to predict.
As an example, many real-time systems are often a giant ball of messy asynchronous code and state machines. Futures can help with that, although lately I have found that somtimes the best, cleanest, way to implement a state machine is to make it explicit.
Yeah, it's great! More than enough tech jobs to go around, "average" software engineer salaries are only ~$10k less than San Francisco, and with all the MIT and Harvard grads around, you get to hang out with an interesting bunch of folks.

There are little hubs of "SF-like" technology centers, like Kendall Square: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Square#Businesses_and_... and and the south Boston Innovation District (hate the name, it came from Mayor Menino, but he was very successful at getting it running). But if you walk a few blocks in a straight line, you can easily get out of the tech bubble and go to a hundred year old Irish pub, or hang out with people who don't know how to program, which is why I like it!

There's also the "holdover from the 80's" tech office parks in Burlington, where MITRE is and Sun Microsystems (RIP) used to be. Lots of good newer companies there too, and my husband keeps trying to convince me to consider working in Burlington because real estate is so much cheaper, but I don't think it's going to happen any time soon! The good thing is that all the guys who used to work there are often working in the city now, so you get a LOT of graybeards and people who developed Java, or Linux tools 30 years ago, or are influential in the IETF hanging out. It's just a really great culture. Obviously different from San Francisco, but I love it!
Out of curiosity, is there any reason why you haven't tried to tackle the EMC demographic? Components are so cheap right now, you can offer hospitals, banks, telecom, avionics terabytes of data in something like a 8u form factor with in a master-master multi-pathing configuration (no consensus problem or anything because both arrays have to message to the filer that the persist was successful on writes), then offload using cheap "commodity" PCI-e Intel DC PC3700s? (Alternatively, you could go cheaper and target the 'all flash' VNX-F market and still easily offer five-nines (i.e. fault-tolerant "Big Iron" style, rather than just HA.)

You guys have the chassis manufacturing experience (your article on one of the pod designs had FEA simulations IIRC, so I'm thinking you have at least one engineer with graduate level expertise in fluid dynamics), presumably enough direct contact with vendors to source whatever you need to get upstream distribution (who do you guys use for your white label racks?), at least a few customers who have the budget and need for a solution like that, and I'd imagine you have at least one EE on your team with design experience to cobble together what you need.

Either way, you guys have a great blog. Always a great read, keep it up!
>2) Brain uploads are dumb. Let me ask you this: I create a 'brain upload' program, run it on you, and tell you, "OK, now your brain is uploaded!" Will you walk willingly into a blender? You are your body. It does not matter what sort of digital derivative has been made of you, your subjective experience is tied to your corpse.

I agree with you about the brain uploads, but I think that the final conclusion is that either continuity of consciousness is an illusion, or it spans all life (i.e. pan-consciousness). Most cells, and all atoms, in your body will be cycled many times before you die. Why would there be any continuity of consciousness across those total changes? How is it fundamentally any different than the brain upload scenario?

The only reason why you think that your consciousness is continuous from even a moment ago is that you have memories of it (just like your uploaded self would, by the way). Just as you insist that you are the same person you were a minute ago, your uploaded self would insist it is the same person as it was before the upload.
Isn't it amazing though that CBT wasn't thoroughly examined as an option prior to prescribing multiple prescription medications?
I heard recently of a patient that took some prescribed medication before her surgery, but instead of taking 5 mg as prescribed she ended up taking 5 grams, which induced a near fatal stroke. You could argue that better design could have prevented this from happening.

Edit:
The mistake was between mg and ml, so the person drank 5ml of a 5X concentration drug. Either way a terrible, preventable result.
> I can't go propose a change to the Linux kernel unless Linus likes it. I could maintain my own fork, but it would consume nearly all of my free time.

But if that change is not that big or fundamental you can still apply a patch with relative ease. Thats already huge compared to most proprietary Software.

> It seems to me that all this talk of freedom is mostly philosophical, rather than practical.

I disagree. It may not be always that easy in practice to take advantage of your freedom but that makes it not worthless. Maybe it's too much work for you to maintain a (partial) fork of the Linux kernel but if you find yourself a group of like minded people it may be perfectly possible. Free software also is by far unable to magically fix all of our societies problems but it is one tiny part of making the world better.
The "tracking" community embraces the fact that racing puts incredible strain on the car. Half of the hobby is the money and time you pour into service and repairs after every track day.

There are no illusions that this is something the warranty would or should cover.
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about here.
If you were in some parts of Africa, your life expectancy would be 50...Why does current life expectancy matter? As long as you still maintain quality of life and can be happy, why die? I think as soon as you are not happy and have no contributions to society, then there's less reason to increase life expectancy.
http://jalopnik.com/heres-the-problem-with-jeeps-recalled-ge...

That monostable shifter is just an incredible bad idea. It is baffling why they do it that way. Was shifting a huge problem which needed to be solved in automotive industry? Guessing someone wanted a promotion by claiming "I redesigned the shifter".

I understand when GMail kept changing its interface every 6 months -- it would correspond probably with year / mid-year reviews and ever designer probably wanted to say "I redesigned blah blah". That is just email. But this is a car and it can easily kill people. Why couldn't they just instead add more lights to the dashboard, or rear view cameras or something of that sort.
I stopped reading after the lead:

> If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week

About 3,000 people died today and about 60,000 got seriously injured in car accidents TODAY, according to ASIRT. I think the word "grips" is a bit of stretch here, no?

> take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels.

How is that legalizing sales of Apples will somehow made Oranges' lovers to switch? Hard to believe. Any proof of that??
Microtrenching is becoming a thing, which is rapidly dropping the costs of installation. It's just a groove 1.5" wide and about 6" deep. Drop a couple of conduits in it, and back fill it. Vehicles can drive right over it during the process, no need to close lanes for multiple days.
In case anyone was wondering what the "Seven ways we age" are and doesn't want to sit through a TED video, you can find them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey#The_seven_types...
There are many clones. Check out "mateduino"[2] which is made in the south of Brazil and also the one from robocore which is made in the southeast. There are others. The ones from robocore are great[1].

[1]: https://www.robocore.net/modules.php?name=GR_LojaVirtual&pro...
[2]: https://matehackers.org/mateduino
> [W]hile electron positions are unpredictable, molecular reactions, the sort that happen in the human brain are pretty predictable. Basically, my response to this is "That would be relevant if we had black holes or large hadron colliders in our heads, but we don't, so...".

What about those quantum effects that have recently been shown to potentially be part of brain activity:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.h...
> Well, one advantage the Go runtime has is the green threads are cooperatively scheduled, so switches are a lot more lightweight.

Switches occur on timeouts (which involve a round trip through the kernel), on I/O events (which also involve a round trip through the kernel), or on goroutine message passing. So in every case except goroutine message sends, the switches don't actually save you a trip through the kernel.
Evolution is an awful optimization process. It's only effective in real life because it's had literally billions of years to work. Intelligently-guided directed optimization is vastly superior and we should prefer it whenever possible, if only for reasons of practicality and efficiency. For example, look at the development of flight: biological evolution took probably a few billion years to evolve things like pteranodons and archaeopteryx; we landed on the moon in about seventy years.

Evolution is amazing, sure. It's also evil, bad, and wrong, even without getting into ethical issues. Don't do it.

(speaking of ethical issues: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/)
Don't these look very similar?

http://htmlemail.io/img/preview-plain.jpg

http://mailgun.github.io/transactional-email-templates/actio...
I created something similar a couple of years ago:
http://www.nocurve.com/musicmap/

If anyone is interested in how it was implemented:
http://nocurve.com/fun-with-data/data-mining-on-freedb/
Keep in mind that Einstein still went to grad school for physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kleiner
If you want responsive, these are my go-to solution:

http://tedgoas.github.io/Cerberus/
Relevant reading from philosopher Nick Bostrom:

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
I'm not sure you understand much about the evolutionary process, or life.

Trying to cheat death entirely isn't some perversion of evolution, its the pinnacle of it. It's the purest expression of the desire for self-preservation, which was hardwired into us by evolution, that there is.

If you don't like human beings trying not to die, then don't blame them for being "egocentric", blame evolution for making them that way.
It's hard to say if I'd actually like to live, say, a thousand years — neither I nor anyone else has experienced even a fraction of that, so who knows what it's like? I certainly don't want to die in the next few decades, but that's what's likely to happen. The life expectancy for a male in the US is about 75 years. I'm almost halfway there, but I don't feel like I'm halfway done living. Assuming you're still kinda young, do you really expect to hit 40 and think, "Bring on the decrepitude and death"?
> Robots and algorithm do indeed do work and do provide monetary value.

I'm not sure where anyone said otherwise. I'm just saying that automation doesn't solve all of the problems here.
Even small operations end up viewing the footage which requires a lot of back and forth search. This isn't really an easy thing on tape which has made the hard drive option the best. Plus, most of the newer cameras are HD and that upped the speed requirements for recording. Never mind how many cameras you end up getting just to provide coverage of buildings, particularly non-rectangle setups, and that's just the outside.
Sure, we can blast off and die in space of cold and asphyxiation. I assumed this meant 'move to inhabit another planet indefinitely in a manner that does not suck'.
I've been fascinated for a long time by just how much effective autodidactism there is in software vs. other fields. There are tons of people who have made major contributions here that are completely self-taught.

Software is uniquely suited to autodidactism for three reasons:

(1) The tools are easy to obtain and easy to start using. Capital cost is low to non-existent.

(2) The learning feedback loop is nearly instantaneous and the results are almost always perfectly objective. Things either work or they don't. There is not much room for delusional or wishful thinking.

(3) Resources for learning are readily available and are mostly written in a style that is utilitarian and straightforward rather than cliquish and arcane.

Theoretical physics passes on point #1 until you hit the need to do serious experimentation, but it fails on points #2 and #3. There is no command prompt that will tell you in 10ms if a theory is at least rational and internally consistent, and advanced mathematics has an arcane symbology and jargon that seems almost intentionally designed to resist penetration by those outside the academic circles where it is used and taught.
I've seen photonic switching refer to a lot of different ideas. Sometimes it's just a remotely-controllable add-drop multiplexer.

Does this type of photonic switching differ from CWDM/DWDM?

Are routers putting the signal onto different wavelengths depending on where they want packet to go?

A lot of the equipment I've seen is largely described in broad marketing-friendly terms which makes it hard to understand why the equipment is actually more useful than existing approaches.
Related comic:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/8/1556848/-Cartoon-Mi...
If living forever were the default, would you choose to intentionally kill yourself?
Often when people talk fiber it's the idea of going to the home. If all you need is fiber backhaul to an antenna it's a mucc simpler problem and cheaper. Aside, you can hook up many antennas with other means of connectivity if need be.
>>Let’s explore the implications of these two things: the need for a standard and the need for fiber.

I respect Susan Crawford's writing and am in general agreement with her consistent drumbeat for fiber upgrades as one of the competitive edges for any country that can afford the capital costs of deploying last-mile dark fiber to more homes and buildings.

This particular article misses the history of how every standard ratified by 3GPP has always been characterized by telecommunication providers and vendors jockeying for influence and position to realize their vision of a standard that aligns with their own agendas. HTTP/2's ratification building upon Google's reference SPDY implementation is a more extreme analogy of a single player seemingly exerting much more influence or contributions to a particular standard[1]. Crawford acknowledges this reality towards the end of her article: "Ericsson is teaming up with SK Telecom to test 5G applications [...] [and] they’re probably hoping to force the adoption of a global standard that matches their own commercial plans so that they can get a head start."

Carriers will execute plays from the same playbook by generating hype for 5G devices, while commencing commercial and technical explorations over the next few years as we get closer to 2020 3GPP 5G standards ratification. As the hype builds and initial flagship/anchor cell sites/cities come online, data caps will only be raised gradually, not at all commensurate or proportional to the increase in speeds that 5G promises (when standing right next to the tower).

"Cheap, fast and ubiquitous" is Crawford's article tagline, but carriers are for-profit businesses and generally for new technologies exclusively choose the last two and drop the first since only high-ARPU early adopters with disposable incomes can afford the new 5G devices that will be released.

One final point is that will help carriers manage 5G tower field deployments are WiFi offloading. Despite known short-range limitations of higher frequency spectrum, improved WiFi/cellular handoff technology[2] and convergence of fixed and wireless assets under single organizational umbrellas will give some [US] carriers more ammunition to play up the 5G hype while backhaul, aggregation points, peering and long-term capital outlays become a reality over the next decade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2

[2] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/snapdragon/2015/01/05/lte-wi-f...
I believe React will always re-render, to attach click handlers and the like.
Exactly. Like UNIX. One tool, one job.
>Insurers will demand this data in before giving you a quote.

This isn't obvious. Sure, some irresponsible driving behavior is evident in braking, acceleration, speed, etc. data.

I suspect the much larger pool of bad drivers is people who are braking and accelerating very gently because they are spaced out, drowsy, or on their phones.
Your profession needs no help from marsrover to find itself under the wheels of a bus.

Every other medical revolution -- such as the rise of antibiotics, the pioneering of complex surgeries, and the advancements in medical imaging -- have resulted in a net reduction of people suffering from the ailments those tools are involved in treating.

Not so with psychiatry. The more drugs that are developed, the more illnesses are discovered to use them on.

You'll have to excuse the skepticism of some us who have seen loved ones suffer through debilitating, sometimes permanent side effects from drugs their psychiatrists prescribed. Your profession will get the benefit of the doubt when fewer of us are caring for those loved ones.
I don't think John Bright was given as an example of a demagogue so much that he was referenced in a quote used from the 19th century, the writer of which thought he was a demagogue.
Or may be use "writing" instead of both.

It's a new technology that enhances oral storytelling and then later replaces it.
Surviving My First DockerCon Hackathon
Yeah, my subjective experience is an illusion. But:

1) My uploaded self would probably immediately be appalled at the loss of that subjective experience. You identify deeply with your embodied self; I am my vagus nerve and the intestinal distress it transmits as much as I am anything.

2) My embodied self would still have its own subjective experience and would experience dying, none the happier that there's some counterfeit digital version running around claiming to be me.
Oap.ninja: Tricky SEO Puzzle Challenge
You use something like namecoin to provide a content name registry. (Once it's supported)
Wouldn't you prototype the script? Just having a stage direction [SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENS] would work in lieu of transforming a 3D environment.

I bet you could protoype The Stanly Parable in a week in Twine/Z-code.
I got stumped pretty early on :(
How the China Shock, Deep and Swift, Spurred the Rise of Trump
Don't forget HP also bought Tandem. Who were doing big distributed systems (including a distributed SQL database) in the 1980's. Thankfully, HP keeps their technical documents database online[1]. Including the classic five minute rule paper.[2]

I still have fond memories of SGI systems. I've had Iris PRO's, Indy's and O2's over time. Their NUMA systems Origin/Onyx were amazing. and they had C++ compilers with usable error messages!

1. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/
2. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.1.pdf
A 400 Year-Old Shark May Hold the Cure to Aging
So if nobody dies, how do we deal with evolution in the case that we need it. What about brain plasticity? Young brains learn new concepts well and use those experiences to create new ideas and innovations.

We should try to fight aging, but if that succeeds there are a lot of other societal problems that need to be solved as well.
Great site for inspiration. Gave me the same feels reading revenuenumbers.com (posted here a while ago) did.
We were seeing around 450 active users on the site at the peak. We currently have around 220 active users that are generating about two page views per second, peaking to six page views per second. That's about where we were when we scaled up from a single t2.medium instance.
Dark Souls, maybe. Without the polish I can't imagine it would be more frustrating than fun.
I (Apex Ping) went down the road of playing with newer more hyped tech like React etc, not really necessary for the project, and I can't say it saved any time (if anything wasted time) but still interesting.

AWS Lambda on the other hand has been a nice time saver aside from the fact that there weren't any good frameworks available really (with Go support) so I wrote https://github.com/apex/apex.
It should be noted that almost every previous article referencing "new leaf" ... "more efficient than natural photosynthesis", explains a process of slitting water to it's two atomic components.

The leaf in this article implies a completely different product. Alcohol... It's quite a different track, and promising if true.
The Grammar of Data Science: Python vs. R
We need a stronger border to prevent heroin from entering our country.
Except when the IO doesn't go though the kernel in the first place of course.
Pullout of most salient point:
'“This article highlights just how little science still knows about the life histories of these and other magnificent creatures,” said Kevin Perrott, a scientist at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and co-founder of SENS Research Foundation. “It also underlines how easy it would be to remain forever ignorant and lose this resource because of climate change and environmental damage.”

By carelessly wiping out biodiversity, Perrott added, “we run the risk of forever losing the opportunity to study organisms with insight into humanity’s most pressing medical challenge, the aging process.”

Olshansky agrees. “Having another vertebrate living so long tells us that natural selection has successfully produced a species capable of avoiding or delaying diseases such as cancer or neurological disorders, for far longer time periods than humans are now capable of living.”'
And to just be more thrifty with our resources in general.
I think over time public speakers have seen a benefit in reducing ideas to memorable slogans. This way their words are understandable to everyone and not just those who can understand the complexity of the issue. Whether this is good or bad for society is certainly up for debate.
> Let me ask you this: I create a 'brain upload' program, run it on you, and tell you, "OK, now your brain is uploaded!" Will you walk willingly into a blender?

If it was well researched, well tested, had been known for some years to work, and I could meet with my virtual self and confirm his authenticity, then yes, absolutely I would. Assuming this "blender" of yours isn't painful, of course. What a small price to pay for immortality!

Consider taking a look at the book Glasshouse. It portrays a world where this is normal.
There is an antifreeze sold in a green pop top can that looks similar to beer. I wish I could find the photo of it.