skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those were two cherry-picked examples of things intelligentsia got right. It was not a claim that they get everything or almost everything right.

I generally share the author's opinions about intellectuals as a category, and the gold standard was, in my opinion, a particularly good choice of an example that intellectuals get right where the common man is often quite wrong. The same concrete connection to the real world that so often leads the common man to be more correct about some very simple things that the intelligentsia misleads them here, because money is not a very concrete thing. It can seem like it is, because you've got this "cash" and this "gold" and it all seems very concrete, but the true driver of the economy, how people subjectively measure value, is very abstract.

But intellectuals can also say some blitheringly idiotic things, like promoting the glorious Five Year Plans when anybody who has ever had to make real plans for the future knows that you generally encounter important divergences in the first week of implementation, or that battle plans never survive contact with the enemy, etc. I also do not endorse economics in general; it is true that "the gold standard" is not good, but economic's track record of telling us what is good is bad.

Intellectual pursuits can be a very powerful and noble thing, but when it fails to correctly ground itself in reality it can become a very powerful and evil thing. I have great respect for intellectuals who admit error and craft new theories or ideas in response to failure and great, great contempt for the majority of those who fancy themselves intellectuals who instead cling to words and theory far, far beyond what is justified when evidence of error confronts them. (Yes, one can't drop a theory the instant one slight deviation is seen, but there are theories still alive today in the intellectual world that should have died decades, and in some particularly sad cases, centuries ago.)
You're still just raising costs, not making it impossible. Which is fine, because security is always about raising costs to make break-ins not worth the while.
Hell yes. Intellij, AppCode, and emacs, which is where I spend a huge amount of time.
I don't think the act of replacing them is the biggest cost, but having to make hundreds (or thousands) of custom printed labels is definitely costly. I can see this saving time and money in a lot of places.
Hmm... interesting how much hate this game is getting on here, I guess that's how it is (reviews are similarly polarizing).

For me the game is perfect. I love the slowness of it all. I love just being able to go where I want. I discovered by accident that mining asteroids in space is quite lucrative. I've spent the past few nights doing exactly that and for some that's a grind; for me it's a peaceful, relaxing way to spend my evening. I managed to earn enough to buy a much larger ship that looks amazing and it's been fun sharing pics of her with my nerdy friends also playing.

But beyond all that this game feels like stepping into artwork from Heavy Metal magazine circa 1978. As a kid that would lay awake in bed at night dreaming of what it would be like to step inside a Mœbius painting, this game nails it.

I get that this isn't for everyone but some of us, esp. those that grew up playing pen & paper RPG's like Traveller in particular, yeah good stuff!
Not in the US, generally. In France, for example, many municipalities have dedicated bus lanes which make buses competitive for timing.
In the case of valaya/fasthttp vs. net/http, a bonus thing is that with fasthttp you (currently+AFAIK) lose HTTP/2 support! Needs vary a ton with the app, environment, etc., of course, but it'd be sad to change your server to save 40µs CPU per req. then wind up making users wait extra RTTs--tens to hundreds of ms--as a result.
Didn't know that electrons move fast but ions move slower, and that's the cause for more-than-minutes responses time from previous technology.
1. Started working full time at 19.
2. Still alive at 60.
3. Worked hard in every job.
4. Maximized retirement contributions.
5. Only owned two houses.
6. Paid off current home as quickly as possible.
7. No debt other than credit card paid off monthly.
8. Only married once (and still) 32 years ago.
9. Spousal unit has same fiscal strategy as me.
10. We never had kids.
We can both afford not to work, although we both choose to.
I can't say we're especially frugal. I own four Swiss mechanical watches, a brand new Subaru WRX Limited, and lots of other toys, and have traveled all over the world, all of which I paid cash for (or paid card off each month).
The Internet Doesn’t Route Around Surveillance
"It would require higher order control flow analysis like k-CFA, which would certainly fail to produce a bounded stack size on any nontrivial program."

You can actually do a pretty good job without k-CFA.

First, and i know you know this, when you say "fail to produce a bounded stack size", you really mean "a reasonable bounded stack size".

A bounded stack size of easy, and does not require context sensitive analysis: The stack size is just max sum of stack sizes of of meet over all paths in an acyclic graph :)

The cycles, you either can statically calculate the recurrence count or you can't.

Bounded heap size is pretty much impossible, but stack size is pretty easy.

Recursion is also not hard. You form strongly connected components. You try to prove how often the component is cycled. If you can, victory. If you can't, you can bound it unless it's truly dynamic.

More to the point, here's a paper on doing it with ADA in GCC in 2009 (IE with sticks and fire):

http://www.adacore.com/uploads/technical-papers/Stack_Analys...

Note they are within 2% on most cases, and can detect whether it's statically knowable, bounded, or dynamically changing.
Ain't never gonna happen. People still mail the fsf at the old address and they moved like two decades ago.
> So maybe it’s not such a New Thing. What is a game like No Man’s Sky, really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that’s inert without the trigger of human attention.
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>Doesn’t that sound like something else?
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>It sounds like a book.

This is the author's thesis, even if it is, arguably, the only time the thought crops up in the piece.

It strikes me as so empty and abstract as to be "not even wrong". Yes, a book is an inert object that needs to be combined with a very specific decoding mechanism (namely, a human) in order to derive semantics. This is also true of shoes. In fact, most things surrounding the human experience are (under certain, current, postmodern-leaning interpretations) stripped of their meaning in the absence of their human meaning-givers. This is the heart of the problem of semantics, and the duality of encoding/decoding. Would the author agree that No Man's Sky is like shoes? If not, then this claim could be restated as, "No Man's Sky is a thing that humans made". Which is delightfully tautological.

To follow, I'm not convinced that the extent to which No Man's Sky is procedurally generated is anything but orthogonal to its status as a "thing to be interpreted". Does the author also think that Minecraft is like a book? What about DOOM? Most modern games that are not strictly deterministic have, at their heart, some set of emergent semantics that are the byproduct of algorithmic world-grammars, be it procedurally generated landscapes or responsive AI. I'm not sure what bearing this has on 'worthiness of interpretation'; one could, I suppose, try and link this to the ongoing conversation about the relevance of author intent, but that is a deep (albeit interesting) hole, and I'm not really sure how the author's examples point to this being their intention.

I shouldn't succumb to snark, but I can't resist here. This article strikes me as an attempt to intellectualize a cognitive dissonance. "No Man's Sky is a priori -worthy-, because that's what is said. But I'm not having fun".
I tried it out for a while.

I found that I crave a routine. Each day I need to get up and start with the same process.

Often that's difficult, depending on just how nomadic you are, and how you run your day-to-day.

I found that I ended up "settling down" in a location and then not going out to experience it as much as I might have liked.

I did enjoy myself, though.

I've since bought a rural property and "settled down" a bit and I'm enjoying that, as well.

I think in the future, I want my travel to be non-working.

I also think I would enjoy being a digital nomad a lot more if I weren't working a standard 40-hour job.
Don't spend too much time worrying about this. There's a reason why companies use ATS and that's to filter out a large volume of applicants.

Even if you formatted well, you'll need to have enough keywords, etc. to win against the crowd.

Your time is better spent working on networking. My current job came from a friend's referral and honestly, I'm sure many companies will take a referred candidate over a candidate whose resume got the green-light from a machine.
The only metric the author proposes for measuring success is the stock price, which as they point out, is up.
It works the other way around: do corporations have any value outside what they can offer to humans? Is there any point to keeping corporations around?
I would be interested if you could elaborate a bit.
"I had enough money for either meat or beer, so I became vegetarian"

LOL!!

So... now that you're back in the black are you enjoying beef and beer again - just as god intended??
The third issue is the food categories are way too broad and ill-defined. For example "meat" and "fat". There is meat and there is fat that tastes good (incl. hours later, when the gut had a chance to sample it more thoroughly - there's a "brain" and there are taste receptors down there).

There's meat and also fat that doesn't (taste good). It's not just the meat/fat itself, it's also the combination with other foods and the preparation that can change completely how my body perceives a food. Since those "feelings" have developed for a reason - we didn't have science to tell us what is good to eat for the 1st million years of humans (and pre-humans) - I dare claim it is significant for ones long-term health.

But studies don't make any such distinction. To assume everybody eats what tastes best is a stretch, not just because circumstances in our stressful lives, but also because the brain can only ask for food that it knows, and I remember the stories from that British chef who showed American kids tomatoes and potatoes and they had no clue what that was, they only knew processed food.

So how can you seriously leave it at "they ate x amount of meat" when such a person eats "meat" compared to someone who had opportunity to taste "traditional" (pre-industrial) foods and prepares him- or herself a good piece, including a good combo with other stuff and well-prepared?

Am I seriously to believe a McDonalds burger's "meat" is correctly put into the same place - as "meat" - as a real meal?

Of course, if you acknowledge this difficulty you have to give up on studies because I see now way to reliably collect that information on a scale large enough and long-term enough for a useful study. As the article suggests, actually (to give up going down this path). The story of that guy looking for his car keys under the street light even though he lost them somewhere else comes to mind, in the desire to study this at all this seems to be what happened.

It isn't about giving up as some readers took away from that paragraph, it's about choosing another path. For example, get down to understand what's actually happening instead of high-meta-level studies and see if that gives us new ideas.

Oh and here's a nice article related to the subject: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8264355/research-study-hype (I hope nobody tries to count the dots on each side of the plot to use that to draw conclusions... it's an example and incomplete and even if it had dots for every single study could not be used for that purpose)
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Working class wants to work.
> This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence.

Whether or not "intellectuals" are generally of above average intelligence isn't the point. The point is that the experience of intellectuals, a numerical minority, is atypical relative to the population as a whole.
Why don't you add a chart of the individuals rankings that go into your score for each restaurant, similar to the image you advertise on hapibelly.com? similar to here: http://www.cinesift.com/#/
> There are teenagers who know twice as much about how to fix a car issue. They don't know what the inside of a computer looks like, but they don't need to. Now, take that example and extrapolate it to several other facets of life, and you can say there's a big gap in an educated person's world and that of his less-educated neighbor.

Which is kind of irrelevant to the subject here, which is really about academics focused on areas of social and policy significance having gaps in that specific subject area that would be filled in if they were just forced to spend a year working in a random working-class non-academic job.

It is specifically not about gaps outside of the targeted academics' areas of work, which is what you seem to be focusing on.

Its more like saying that being forced to spend a year working construction instead of programming would fill in critical gaps in your understanding of computer programming.
I thought Fadell leaving was universally viewed as a positive...
~Oh, that's a good point. Taking the "disorder" out might help the VA in denying treatment for it, and make it seem more like the soldier's fault that they have it.~

~How about "mission resilience depletion"? That makes it seem more like they just forgot to recharge the batteries in their mobile phones. Or "norepinephrine-cortisol disruption syndrome", which makes it sound more like they haven't been taking their pills at the correct dosage.~

/s
> So basically yes, the government will pay for an army of child carers, an army of infrastructure fixers, an army of trash picker uppers, etc. It just won't pay very much and most of what it pays will be in-kind benefits rather than money

This did not seem to work for Soviet Union (and its reluctant allies), and market realities still exposed themselves - if you wanted to hire a government plumber, repairman, electrician, dentist, etc., you were welcome to sign up for a long waiting list or miss a few appointments here and there, because hey, what exactly is the accountability here? They won't fire you.

If you actually needed to get the job done, be prepared to offer a generous tip, which in absence of solid money would have to be something bartered (vodka, spare car parts and gold were among the unofficial currencies pervasive in USSR).

Once such economy evolves, even the people who were trying to put in a minimal effort at their government-sponsored job just stop, because they feel they're getting the shorter end of the stick than the guy accepting generous gifts. Moreover, people at the occupations that are not typically monetized in a market economy (librarians, for example) start thinking of good ways to establish some barriers to force consumers towards such generosity (by withholding high-demand books, not providing information in a timely manner, etc.) Now a portion of a population is on an active mission to create problems in society rather than solve them, as their additional monetization efforts depend on existence of such problems.

This second-order effect seems to penalize the poor (and un-connected) even harsher than before.
Rational Suite is the worse piece of crap I ever had the displeasure of using. Elephant sizes mounds of overpriced crap.

Whoever suggests using it should be fired on the spot.

If I see any mention of it on a person's CV (because I only mention what I am ok with), is enough for me to second-guess this person's ability

I'm so glad git is replacing it.
I can't get past the first test.
"The underlying creature model appears to have been somewhat simplistic. Creature needs were manually coded with first order logic. Not sure how training was actually done, but it was unlikely to be too complicated."

Black and White was one of the reasons I tried to carefully write that so it was clear that not all the things I listed were "bad". What I recall is that Black and White failed its promises; the creature is nowhere near as smart as what was promised. But many people still had fun with the game that resulted.

I find the failures of AI are often quite entertaining; they have a different character of failure than other sorts. I also frequently enjoy the errors that word-based AI makes, because there's often some bizarre, twisted sense behind it that our brains can pick up on and enjoy. Markov Chain babble generators are the simplest example of that, but the serious work can generate a lot of great stuff too.
Maybe it was something more of a fervent hope?

Microsoft is trying to support users and usher them to a sustainable model for an OS delivery. The Win7 model and prior is clearly not sustainable, for a variety of reasons.

That Microsoft is having such trouble getting people to upgrade even when giving it away is troublesome. Not just for their bottom line, but for all of ours. Win10's model and tech represents a lot of concrete security improvements and stamping out old windows boxes will steadily reduce the number of trivially exploitable machines on the internet.

We really should be rooting for them to succeed at this.
I'm sort of in it now. It is a struggle to find a good routine, but when you do -- oh boy do I love waking up at 5:00 am to do a morning 3-hour hike in the mountains, come back for a killer second breakfast and slam into code-mode with the energy of Zeus, then spending evenings either working if I want, or doing things in town, meeting friends, exploring, etc...

That said, it's the most trying exercise in discipline I've had. I DO NOT miss my core-work block, noon-6pm every day no matter my geography or Internet connection. I can backup repos to my laptop and work from a tree if I have to, but I don't not work. I even work on weekends, but it's usually catchup or personal projects (a bit less stressful).

I think it's overall rewarding, and allows me to slow down time by experiencing more new things.
If there is still one car for one person making each leg of the trip, the on road utilization has not changed. The parking utilization has been reduced, however, which then could open more lanes and increase density.
Since we're getting pedantic, as HN is wont to do, I'm not sure if the parent complaint is about the first sentence...

> VOLTAGE is to electricity what pressure is to water: the more you have of it the more oomph you get.

... or about the claim that follows:

> That is why electrical power lines work at high voltage.

The former sentence (aka the hydraulic analogy, [1]) is a very well-established thing. It's not a perfect analogy, but it's quite reasonable. The latter (high voltage power lines) is demonstrably not correct, as the two of you have pointed out.

Extending your power formula to the hydraulic world and simplifying the calculus to steady-state algebra:

Power = (Volumetric flow rate) * (pressure)

Though, to be fair, the analogy breaks down a little there; the Poiseuille equation [2] (the fluid equivalent of V = IR) involves 6 variables instead of 3. But the point is, you still end up with a final equation of similar form to P = (I^2)R.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen%E2%80%93Poiseuille_equat...
> Especially since we've largely abandoned previous institutions

True, though I think new institutions will come back. Things like Meetup groups seem to be gaining more traction--The groups are just slow to adoption because they're so new that nobody can be grandfathered in yet by friends or family who have been long-term members.

> Unions are overall good ideas -- Maybe. Depends.

I see unions as just another corporation - they're satisfying a need of "workers should not be exploited", their revenue model is "members pay X% and in return get our strength in numbers", and their activity streams are "fight for favorable legislation" and "Threaten uncompliant businesses".

The problem with unions is they are not treated as corporations in their own right, so unions have become monopolistic, heavily involved in lobbying and partaking in generally corrupt behavior--responding more strongly to incentives to survive and make money than incentives to keep its members happy.

Unions are still powerfully beneficial, but I'd wish there were multiple unions for any industry that competed with each other, some with stricter requirements to get in, each offering different freedoms and protections to its workers
Well my commute home is driving and I still come home completely switched off from work. I drive in bay area traffic and it's still not stressful for me. It's a nice time to listen to the radio to get the news or call the parents.

I will take the 15 minutes of driving over 45 minutes any time (unless I'm drinking of course) just because 30 minutes adds up very quickly over a week.
Standup Antipatterns
Use this syntax for logical AND,

(?=...)(?=...)

http://stackoverflow.com/a/24102539
I know that in Israel there's shortage in those professions, but the pay isn't good. So maybe it's more complex that simple supply vs demand ?
"But robots," someone said, apparently distracted by futurism from noticing the existence of manual trades.
While this is a new concept for something a government does, this is already a thing that I've seen tech companies in the south bay provide to their employees when they are too small to afford sending busses.
I guess if Watson was really intelligent it would have not picked IBM in the first place, leading to a paradox
Daniel Gardner actually had a pretty good book on this topic as well [1] where he found that often times expert predictions were actually worse than those of an average person (or the flip of a coin, for that matter). On the Pundits and Policy wonks bit I think Nate Silver also had a good write-up in his book on Fox vs. Hedgehog [2] mentality, and why experts are so often wrong when they cannot incorporate as much experience from outside their own fields.

[1](https://www.amazon.com/Future-Babble-Expert-Predictions-Beli...)
[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox)
I bought the windows version, because the hw specs I wanted weren't available for the developer editions. Luckily the archlinux wiki page for the del xps 13 (2015) made me aware of the issue with Broadcom wifi, so I picked one with an Intel.

No real problems so far, except the ones that were caused by me because it was the first time I've ever set up a linux on a laptop.
>There's no warning light for the brake fluid reservoir or pressure, even though it would be trivial to add.

What deathtrap are you driving? This is a common thing. Even my old 96 Camry has it.
Can we please edit the title to match the (correct) original "children's" instead of the modified (incorrect) "childrens'"
Charlie Brooker's tribute to Oliver Postgate

https://youtu.be/uAftt3UnzoI
Classify your RSA key
Today is your lucky day. Many of the kinds of huge observational studies you would like to see actually exist! One example: https://www.framinghamheartstudy.org/
I'd like to see an opensource deadbolt.
It's more of remembering than recovering.

TL;DR: write down everything you remember about it, generate a dictionary with all combinations in the holes that you don't remember, then brute force.