skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK so they used another Google product, but the Uber app itself uses Google Maps which is what I was referring to.
> Also counterexample for life with only consciousness - let's imagine that we advanced technology to be able to replace neurons with analogous mechanisms that perform same function. Now imagine your cells are slowly, gradually being replaced with these mechanisms, all while your consciousness is full intact. That means that this imaginary technology replaces your live cells with machine cells without you losing consciousness, and at the end you are entirely machine. Are you alive?

I would definitely call that "alive" (and I hope we can perfect a process very much like that).

> Thing is, consciousness and mind is nothing but a continuity of electrical signals. No magic here.

On that point we agree completely.

> While life is entirely different concept. They are tangential. Neither of them require one another.

It seems like we may just disagree on terminology, then. There's a biological definition of life that you might use to distinguish an amoeba from a rock, or a live amoeba from a dead amoeba. There's also a definition of life more appropriate for sentient beings specifically, which I would argue just includes the conscious mind; for that, "brain dead" is "dead" for all practical purposes.

> But an organism that doesn't die cannot adapt to environment through DNA shuffling.

Neither can an organism unwilling to let others die or fail to reproduce due to "lack of fitness" or similar properties. I can live with that; evolution is a remarkable but inefficient process for improvement.
I disagree about changing the track. It should be changed every iteration. If the track is not changed every iteration, the NN might develop to work in specific scenarios (only turning left for example) and when run on a different track, might fail miserably.
If anyone else was surprised by the 584 pregnant women living in the US that are believed to have been infected, the CDC has the same number here:

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/pregwomen-uscases.html
Saying yes in that case wouldn't be required. I'd say, sorry, I can't help you, then walk on. In my case, with those sorts of requests, I often say, sorry, I have to follow a rule about that, which is true. I have a personal code of conduct that forbids my satisfying requests like that.
Google is emphasizing for low prices and people not to make careers from this for one reason, automation. This is a pilot for them, and will be replaced by autonomous cars in a few years. They don't want to be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of jobs and fight that moral fight. Uber is about to have a huge amount of people displaced from the jobs they created, and Google doesn't want to share that reputational hazard imo. Good call for Google.
Is there a possibility for smoothing out this social awkwardness that didn't involved monetary value?

Is there a way for society to make these jobs appear simply as a job and not some exchange of money for this psuedo caste system I am placing on you while I eat my salmon?

I am generally curious. I don't eat at restaurants for this reason. I have no interest in being involved with this human interaction. Which is a shame because food is my life...
I think there's a third option - perhaps it is in your best interest to work elsewhere. Somewhere with a CTO / team lead who accepts your skill level as junior where you can grow without your job being on the line.

I personally would feel very pressured and don't know how much I could focus and be happy if I were in your situation. Perhaps you are not bothered by it at all, in which case I don't think my advice fits you very well. But consider it.
"And while Mylan has certainly been raping a population that depends on Epi-Pens for their lives ... anything liquid is inherently more expensive for a whole bunch of reasons."

It certainly is true that the cost of liquids did go up a lot recently, so what you say does make sense.

I apologise for that; that was passive aggressive bullshit mixed with sarcasm, and I shouldn't do it. What I meant to say was that liquids being expensive for "a whole bunch of reasons" is completely irrelevant to recent price rises.
You are right, that isn't the correct analysis. Initial programming editors like EMACS, vi, EDIT, TECO, FINE, SOS, and KED tended to keep cursor motion and edit commands bound to key combinations that would be available on most (if not all) terminals. This minimized the use of "special function" keys, even if they were there, because they weren't there for all terminals. So the working set of keys was smaller even though the keyboards themselves were of nominally average size.

My observation was around the use of the PC's special keys used in "generic" editors because the authors of those editors have chosen to assume that everyone it typing on a keyboard that matches, or emulates, the 101 or 108 key keyboard that the PC made standard.
Russell comes across, here as in most places, as ignorant about what religious people believe. Anyone looking for a more balanced take should read Chesterton's Orthodoxy.
Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn
You're not using some kind of mobile router/dongle thing for network access are you?

Otherwise all that's left is you - how you type, click & otherwise use FB.

Edit: and the 1st thing the goddamn site shows me is a pop-up begging for a Like :\
The way the minifier is currently implemented is just as a babel preset. We figured users would want to use the tool standalone without babel and the simpliest thing we thought of was to wraps babel-cli and pass in the preset.

https://github.com/babel/babili/blob/master/packages/babili/...

I was thinking about using bundledDependencies or maybe just running webpack/rollup over the whole thing, feel free to make an issue.
Then why not make the license AGPLv3-or-later, to avoid other people creating proprietary forks? I get that it's not a common occurence within the Golang world, but nothing will change unless more Golang projects start making their code copylefted.
Of course a professor who has more time might be valuable to you- more office hours, for example, or better prepared lectures.
Seriously? some professors actually use all that crap? Over the last five years, I've been a grad student / teaching assistant at both a large state school and an ivy, and I've never once seen anyone make use of supplied handouts or tests. The professor I work for now has written a book which he never assigns, updating his handouts each year to keep current with changes. There might be more room for that $50 textbook than you think.
This leads off in interesting directions, though. For example, people complain that students shouldn't just use calculators, but in the developed world, the chances of not having access to a working calculator on a phone or computer are very small (that said, it's good to know what the machine is doing for you, even if you don't want to do it yourself). Compare that to phone numbers - even a generation ago, it was common to have memorized half-dozen 10 digit phone numbers for friends and family members. Are we diminished somehow now for having offloaded that to machines? Or was it work we shouldn't have ever had to take on?
acorn is an ECMAScript parse library that emits a JSON parse tree. It does its job very well, but doesn't do anything else.
I suspect you're right. Can one, however, be compelled legally to delete a copy of a downloaded video that you were legally allowed to download?

I suspect, therefore, that it will have legal standing that it will not be allowed in court, and it will be illegal to distribute the video, but I feel as though you can't legally compel me to delete it.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer, but I could encrypt the video such that you could never prove I had it.
I'm sure there are plenty of possible design solutions that don't annoy others so much.

For ex: rear back-up cameras on trucks, phones that only vibrate when they're in a dark pocket, smoke detectors that fall back on noise alarms only if you don't respond to a flashing light or email reminder, etc.
Yea IPFS is awesome, i have often pondered about the idea of using it for an internal family storage.
Google Maps at least uses Waze data for traffic, perhaps it doesn't go both directions.
Sadly kindness and tolerance only works with the 96% of people who are socially motivated (and not psychopaths). For the antisocial minority you must use force of one form or another, otherwise they create real damage.
There are part time tasks that we might want to pay someone to do, but are not worth paying anyone for at living wage costs: The value and the minimum wage don't line up. Those are often the kinds of jobs untrained teenagers did back in the day. If it's illegal to pay someone to do it for a wage I am willing to pay, then it doesn't get done.

It would be nice if it was possible to have a sensible minimum wage for, say, employing someone over 5 hours a week, but have mechanisms that make it legal for someone to do very short term work at wages nobody should ever live on. There's plenty of people underemployed at 15, 20 hours a week, that would love to supplement that with a bit of extra work, even if it was under minimum wage. In fact, in some cultures this happens all the time.

That work would also get done if we had a citizen income that matches that living wage, and we got rid of the minimum wage altogether.

Now, whether the world would be in a better state by leaving work not done but guaranteeing a living wage or by maximizing work done is a matter for debate: Looking at minimum wage laws alone is not enough to compare policy outcomes. Still, the grandparent was making a defensible argument, whether you think he is wrong (and he might be) or not.
The entire argument here seems to hinge on the idea that government regulation makes it easier to show liability, thus making an industry safer.

I think this is totally off base. It assumes that safety innovation is only achieved via regulation, and cannot be achieved in any other way.

It never ceases to amaze me that people still think roads wouldn't be built without the government, or that they would be sub-par. People think that without government, the world would be in complete anarchy, when the only examples we have close to that show the opposite(http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=80...).
> You don't stop making friends & meeting people, why should Facebook stop suggesting people you might know?

If we've agreed to become Facebook friends then we've done it outside Facebook. If I use the "People you may know" feature I look like a stalker.
"Redesigned", and yet, this is what I see on my desktop:

https://imagebin.ca/v/2tORL2z4J7LW

Seems like an awful waste of space.
WW3 MASSIVE EXPLOSION AT BRUSSELS ,NO MEDIA RELEASE OF WHO
Unfortunately since they get paid on IP, it's more like the opposite. A minor revision to replace a proved drug with a re-patentable version is a little work for a lot of money; proving a new use for an out-of-patent drug is a lot of work for very little money.

I don't necessarily agree with the snark but we'd probably be better off if more medical research were not profit-motivated.
Aussie currently living in NYC: Rarely tipped back home and the service is on par.
...because what other people might have to say isn't particularly important, so behaving in a way that best ensures others will be willing to share truthful opinions isn't of any particular value?

You've never had your perspective changed or consciousness raised by something someone said unexpectedly? If your answer is "no" I'd posit that that is a particularly interesting piece of data.
`npm install babili` is 33M. Should users know or care what a babel preset is? They just want to minify code.
Would be interested to know what his biggest regret is and how he dealt with it.
A lot of corporations are creating tons of value from PO boxes in Ireland, Zug and other tax havens.
How Quickly Climate Change Is Accelerating, in 167 Maps
This is not Reddit. Please keep comments high-effort and on topic.
> If the person continues the interaction, they have to follow you to do it. Is that (legally) harassment?

Without violence or threats of violence, or stalking (which requires more than just following), not in California, AFAICT. Other jurisdictions may differ.

> If not, isn't it something?

Like, some crime? Not for just continuing an unwanted verbal interaction generally. Legally, that's generally called, "Exercising one's First Amendment rights."

> Or can I just legally follow you down the street, loudly verbally abusing you, and you have no legal recourse?

If it is loud and unreasonable noise, it might be actionable as disturbing the peace.
Are you really saying that regulating hygiene is comparable to regulating speech?

In what way is allowing open discourse negligent or "malpractice"?
This reminds me of all the people currently mocking bitcoin and crypto-enthusiasts as "fundamentally flawed and impossible" when discussing replacing fiat currencies..

In 20-30 years those same people will be coming up with great insights like "I bet all those nerds never saw this coming!"
Underscoring that, the WSJ article notes that "Waze’s current pilot charges riders at most 54 cents a mile". This is equal to the federal standard mileage reimbursement rate for 2016 (https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/2016-standard-mileage-rates...). Which suggests they're trying to aim for exactly that, using an established standard for the per-mile cost.
Indeed (we've something similar here in the UK).

The point I was trying to make is that the trolley problem is always going to exist, saying "no, just slow down" doesn't make the problem of making decisions go away.

There are always going to be scenarios where an automated system is going to have to decide what to do in a life or death situation. And someone's going to have to decide how such systems will respond.
It's one thing to be expressing yourself. It's another thing to be told that it's coming across as a transgression, then go out of your way to continue.
Yes, either via an enterprise certificate or via a free developer account. Especially in China they are big on sideloading via enterprise certificates :)

Yes, I know it's not ideal, but at least it's possible.
Super Intelligence for the Stock Market
This guy?

https://www.facebook.com/isaac.choi
The cost is so high precisely because our healthcare toolkit is so poor.

If we could restore our systems to full functionality, our healthcare cost will drop like a rock.

Though we will be faced with new questions. If everyone are fully healthy, then our mortality rate will also drop like a rock, destroying social security as it currently exists.
I strongly suspect that the people burning other humans to death for witchcraft, based on red flags like literacy, may not have kept extensive records.
Probably never because as 'nonbel' commented, there are issues with their choice of virus strain.
i thought this was an excellent comment. on topic and very funny in a ghoulishly way.
...but if you use UTC, as is standard, it's not exactly "seconds since 1970", as kazagistar claimed (and as you explain in a nearby comment), which was my point.
Google likes to use software to eat the world. But sometimes their software-only approach just ends up slobbering all over it. The point of Uber isn't the "sharing" of a ride, but the availability and predictability of getting one.
In my home European city alone, 450 000 people have stayed on the 4500 available houses on Airbnb in 2015. Other cities have passed or are planning to pass new laws specifically due to its effects.

"Changing the world" is an ambiguous concept, but you can't say it hasn't had an impact on cities across the world.
I'm not sure I understand, are you saying this is some tit-for-tat move after Uber acquired Otto? Sounds a bit Machiavellian even for Uber and Google. Would love to hear the actual back story if that is the case.
The sad thing is, it's kinda true. Not just Apple, and not just Cork, but overall the 'sweetheart' deals for companies bringing a lot of employment to the country, have helped. They're helping us find jobs rather than directly putting coin in the state purse, but I'm okay with that.

This is a country where, in the 70s & 80s, finding a job meant moving to the UK. Now, pretty much everyone I know works for one multinational or another. And the multinationals all came here for the same reason.
> Waze does not use the same data as Google Maps.

They share (some) data, they may not use entirely the same data. Though your problem seems quite possibly something else:

> Google Maps always gives perfectly-accurate directions to where I live. Waze does not give accurate directions to where I live.

That could be "not using the same routing algorithm" rather than "not using the same data".
I remember a article in a magazine about 35-40 years ago talking about Asian countries and industrial development.

The points in short were the conventional wisdom was these countries were totally hosed. They were poor, run by despots, and had a huge population of young people entering adulthood and everyone assumed they'd fall into war and revolution. The authors claim was that the despots had done two things, provided some stability and forced children to go to school. And had sucked up to[1] the western governments with their large markets and excess capital.

So

1. Elites/despots, committed to industrialization at almost any cost.

2. Huge population of educated workers entering the workforce.

3. Countries had ready access to US and European markets and capital.

The above fits South Korea to a T.

[1] Sucked up but did not let themselves be controlled by.
I honestly hope you're right. And if so things like OpenStax might really work in higher ed. We'll definitely respond accordingly if the market tells us they want a cheaper simpler textbook.
Excuse my language but holy shit!

This is more than enticing!
So the shareholders in that company got screwed, along with the whistle-blower getting part of that settlement?

Doesn't that create bad incentive for whistleblowers not to do anything until it's too late?
...than your average building at NBP.

...building at NBP.

...NBP.

Name Binding Protocol

National Biosolids Partnership

National Braille Press

National Broadband Plan

Neighborhood Broadcast Problem

Neutral Body Posture

NetBIOS Protocol

Network Binding Protocol

Network Bootstrap Program

Network Bridge Processor

New Black Panthers

Non-invasive Blood Pressure

Normal Blood Pressure

Normal Boiling Point

Northern Business Products

Namco Bandai Partners

Hmmm...
> Otherwise all that's left is you - how you type, click & otherwise use FB.

Wow, that makes a lot of sense.

Welcome to the post-privacy era, I guess.
> Even their name is taken straight out of the James Bond tech supplier branch/agent Q

And here I was convinced it was a mashup of the words "intel" and "incubate"
Saying we aren't rational is not an argument that philosophy cannot improve our lives. In ancient Greece the latter used to be an important part of philosophy. I think schools such as stoicism and epicureanism have a lot to offer.
What has this to do with TypeScript?
Since when did dealing with people equate to more money?

You forget that BOH makes the food.

I would very much love a restaurant where I communicate directly to the chefs. Cut out the middlemen. Kind of like how autonomous cars will get rid of drivers.
So, I can use midnight commander as the client? ;)
(half joking, half serious)
There's still a stigma, most places. It's a shame, and I wish there weren't, but there is. So it's not hard to see how that argument can have a hard time getting traction.
Almost: Containers go beyond the Unix philosophy in the sense that they (in theory) can run completely untrusted code, which isn't really advisable in a Unix system (although the system provides some means for it).

Concerning composability and interoperability I'm with you, and I think it's a shame that Docker decided to build their own stack instead of improving LXC.
Maybe being a developer makes me an anomaly in this regard, but most of the time when I see a 404 it is a URL that has never resolved, not one that went away.
The experience is great I'm sure, the problem is they messed up the launch dooming it probably forever, and that it's owned by google, which already knows enough about me.

Of course I'm also a paranoid who wouldn't use any social media remotely tied to real life anyway.
OP would be doing a service to society by taking it to the DA.

These guys are going to end up seriously scamming some innocent party in the future.
I feel I missed something. How is the government extorting the telcos?

The telcos are of course under no obligation to invest in 5G. Do you know of any 4G provider that isn't?
Wow, that is really cool! When will we have a lightroom plugin with this?
I should listen to my son and start playing with Tensorflow.
I don't see how they could do a worse job than the humans do. Most human drivers aren't aware of the life-or-death situation until a loud noise interrupts their snapchatting.
Interesting, but the only 'Pro' I can actually see here is ES6 support when you were previously using uglify. I think using Closure Compiler on TypeScript output with the right JSDoc comments can yield much better results as there is much more information the minifier can work with.
Someone was supposed to be working on the GC for a GSoC project, but I haven't heard any recent updates.

http://forum.dlang.org/post/jcfwcdvvfytdkjrpdeld@forum.dlang...
Ever dream this man?
I think it would be a real surprise if Russell meant this advice to be taken as an absolute rule for every possible case.
Maybe I didn't word that correctly. It was created as a set of babel plugins but because like you said users shouldn't know what a babel preset is we have the cli tool which acts the same as babel-cli so you don't need to do all of that.

Yes, it doesn't need to be 33M that's just a result of the way it was used (babel-cli is that big) and I'm saying that it's something that we can fix
Worth noting that a bunch of Sierra games are in this week's Humble Bundle, including all of the King's Quest games at the higher tiers.

https://www.humblebundle.com/sierra-bundle
Many people don't even know you can plug in a thumb drive on a phone or tablet, so if you're going to transfer files back-and-forth between just two devices, you pretty much need a syncing software.
> Tipping is just weird, full stop.

How does this conclusion follow from your previous statement?
I will never for the life of me understand why pointing out that some people have been fortunate to have an easier path in life than others is so offensive to some folks. I think people see it as a way to try to diminish what some have accomplished rather than trying to shine light on the inequality that exists in society.

Additionally, "social justice warrior" is truly a pejorative that says more about the person using it than its target.
Tenjin Launches All New Agency Feature
Its fine, we've even got a kurdish restaurant.

http://www.babanis.com

I live in downtown (lower town) st paul, its starting to gentrify as a note though. But thats only if you want to live in the city itself.
I think we need another approach to this problem.

On the face of it, I agree with you and support the spirit of e.g. FTC advertising standards.

However, this is a much deeper problem with our culture and relying on regulatory bodies isn't going to cut it as "the media" is so fragmented now and there are so many ways to circumvent (like hiding your disclosures in hashtags).

Rather than trying to curb this with legislation, I think we should try to counter it with education. An understanding of how and why a piece of information reached you should be part of the toolbox of every literate person.