skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of.

The problem arises that the successful capitalist farmer is rich and well fed; those living around the farm might be starving though.

Under other structures to be successful the farm would need to have everyone reasonably well fed.

In the capitalist regime the farmer is rewarded by keeping successful method to himself. Then he gets more farms to control and more wealth.

Under other ideologies the successful farmer shares his ideas and method so that the society can prosper, in turn the well fed populous can work well and improve the farmers life too.

The capitalist farmer wants other to fail, then he gets more. The other farmer needs others to succeed, then he gets more.

[Yes that's simplified and idealised.]
nothing like that, this is just a strawman and you don't get to put words that weren't in my comment just to make a random point about authentication and encryption

encrypted works against MITM because of the certificate trust, if you remove certificate trust from the equation, you'd get the exact opposite result: encrypted would be as secure as plaintext.
And rain could be a giant's pee? There's no evidence we do live in a computer so why bother
The conclusion I would draw is China, Russia, and Poland perform the best in programming challenges. The article even shows this in a quote about the greatness of Chinese programmers:

> In universities and colleges, education resources are relatively fewer in comparison with many other countries, so students have less choices in their paths to programming. Many great students end up obsessed with competitive programming since it's one of the few paths.

The headline is somewhat click-baity.
Your argument only knocks down the idea that the universe is simulations all the way down, assuming a finite prior probability distribution on the size of the universe (which I would be inclined to agree with). Even if each simulation was three orders of magnitude less efficient than its parent universe, that would still leave a lot of room for simulation.
As if I hadn't disabled that long ago.
I don't think that's correct. You can also rotate around the direction you are looking.

Rotations in 2D are one-dimensional. Complex numbers are two-dimensional but we fix one degree of freedom by fixing the length.

Rotations in 3D are there-dimensional. Quaternions are four-dimensional but we fix the length again.
I like this but I wonder why it needs a download. This should be an as-a-service thing where I can customize my setup online, store it in local storage and then just download either the complete image or a small script that builds the image.
The ranking is a joke. Look at taobao, the most famous website in China. Its front page is a mess. As an Chinese I can tell you those Chinese copycat software or websites are often patched up Frankensteins.
I've never understood this argument in the context of this discussion. Why would the constraints of the simulation apply to that which is running the simulation?
Have you tried synergy yet? Im using it, and apart from some keyboard mapping issues its working quite well.
It would cost much more than $10/$20 to provide that service, so you'd be in "whatever" territory.
von Neumann's body of work is so impressive.

Anyone unfamiliar with him should at least glance at this Known For section on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

His body of work, breadth of scope, and reach of influence is really only comparable to Newton, Gauss, or Euler.

Edit: Can't forget Gauss.
What's to explain about "meditation"?

Even more, what's there to explain that would be explained by the idea that "you're not just rewiring your brain but the universe too"?
Mozilla are in a unique position with control over the client-side software.

I think they're best to focus on the things that can only exist within that client.

Because any other party can start a 'Hello' like service online. Or write a PDF reader (or a program to open any other file format)

I don't think we should be comparing to Chrome here; which doesn't purport to have the 'noble' aims of the Mozilla foundation. A browser should not be part of an 'ecosystem' of online services; for me, having a strong web means that the two are decoupled.
And what exactly prevents them from doing the bad things themselves? What is the inherent reason that I should trust Google more than any other business?
See my other answer for some additional commentary on this style in general.

For Seveneves I think there's a combination of factors at play. Maybe he didn't know exactly how to finish it, and maybe (probably) he wanted to leave things open enough for a sequel. Mostly though, I think he was just trying to be subtle. There are a few moments through the climactic scenes that are very easy to miss but have a big impact on the plot line. Overall, I like that some authors have the guts to finish a book without wrapping up everything in a tidy bow (which can often be cliched and overwrought).
Google Pixel Phones Launching October 4: The Death of Google's Nexus Brand
This is the first I've heard of this extension. I'd be interested in sideloading it using Chrome's Developer mode if the developer made it available for download separate of the Chrome Web Store.
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In some aspects, maybe... in other aspects, they've raised the bar to heights that others can't/won't reach.

In a company that has hundreds of products, is that really so hard to believe? Mega successes... mega failures. Still massively successful?

Look at Apple. They were at the top with the iPod. Then the iPhone. Then the iPad. Massively successful. Yet they still release turd products like one button mouse, Apple TV and the G4 Cube.

Or Microsoft with their massively successful products and massively unsuccessful turds.

It's not like other companies don't have horrible customer support... Nope... just Google. /rolls eyes
> Google's genius, isn't so much what they do. It's also that they've lowered the bar when it comes to expectations.

That's an interesting use of "genius". For me that just sounds like vulgar subversion. People at Google (etc.) also didn't influence my outlook on what what is decent, merely my outlook on them.
For another resource, Alan Macdonald has some nice videos that accompany his books, "Linear and Geometric Algebra" and "Vector and Geometric Calculus": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCymE67THrWoeTABxzJm1wdg/pla...
"Me first" stuff like this won't get you real far IMO.

I went as far as Tromsø, Norway late last year and was shocked that most of their produce comes from the kind of place you might try flee from. Most of the fruit and vegetables I purchased had been shipped from places like Spain and South America. Basically if it becomes so bad these countries start to starve it won't be a priority to send food to the Arctic leaving people in the North vulnerable and, there are a lot of people up there already. You're not just going to move to some little village in Sweden and escape this pending disaster.

These large Northern populations heavily rely on produce and clothing coming from down South.

I did stay with people in Sweden who are kind of self sufficient, but if one looked closely, it was easy to see they still need solar panels, medicine, hunting equipment, cars, fertilizer etc, this is not stuff produced locally.

Best thing one can do for the next generation is change our ways immediately, consume less meat and fish, divest from fossil fuels, demand action from our politicians and stop having so many kids. It's pretty clear a population of 9 billion is going not going to work with current technology and attitudes.

It's easy to see isn't a problem anyone of us can run from, we're all going to have to pay the toll for what some call "endless growth".
> Similarly, Google's machine-intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has suggested that "maybe our whole universe is a science experiment of some junior high-school student in another universe".

And for the other universe, who's experiment is it? I don't think the question matters. What matters is to acknowledge that we don't know and we have no way of knowing, it's the most urgent thing to do, in order for humanity to reach its "golden age". We'll get here eventually, since it's about the very survival of mankind. It's our "golden path", for those who get the reference.
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You use "Facebook" in the name of your extension to lure users into installing it. Google tells you you can't use the trademark. You again use the trademark. Google gives up on your spammy ways.

They seem to have done everything right here.
Does that mean they can only get ADS-B data from the tracker every 90 minutes?
The problem is that the author used the wrong example to make that point. This issue was entirely on the developer and at this point in the web/mobile/app game I have to believe he really didn't want to understand what the issue was and was just trying to get some attention with that post.

Let's pretend Google actually had great developer support (remember: we're pretending here) which was staffed to whatever degree it 'should' be. He still would have likely gotten nothing but automated/canned replies because this particular 'issue' has been brought up time and time again by inexperienced and/or bozo developers (i.e. 'whhaaa... you mean I can't make a living off of someone else's brand?'. No company is going to spend much/any time fielding these types of support requests, even if it's paid support) It would have been a stronger argument if he had an issue that a real person on the other end would have been able to help him with.
I finished making something like this last week [1]. It sourced stories from both Reddit and hackernews. The UI to read comments also had some nice additions. Also built with Angular2.

[1] https://sras.me/reform/#/setconfig;reddit=programming,scienc...
Over 1 month and counting to update a Google Web Font (Mada)

https://github.com/khaledhosny/mada/issues/11#issuecomment-2...
Why not Address bar and viewport. Dev tools are only useful to devs. Tabs should be handled by the window manager.
No. Currently, in general, it does. A conference speaker is merely a contributor to a conversation. That should be valued, but understood the conversation is not held to the same standards of academic, scientific or professional rigor. At least one of the objectives of a conference is to broaden the audience for a topic through less formal conversation.

For the sake of clarity, this assumes we are not talking about destruction through unprofessional, inappropriate or unacceptable behavior, language, etc.
I too would very much like those things.
But, how would we know that they were telling the truth about not collecting the data?
On the Insecurity of Whitelists and the Future of Content Security Policy [pdf]
With a basic RTLSDR and a random small TV antenna (nothing optimized for this use case), from my apartment I've picked up airplanes that were at 40000ft and at a distance of ~ 100 km (62 miles).

Optimizing the antenna and the hardware (and using a lot less cable for the antenna than I have) would probably increase that significantly.
I though it was some variation of Google's V8 JavaScript engine.
If you generate over $25 a week with AdSense, you can chat with AdSense support at anytime.

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/2657175
Thanks. I did some research and found out that, indeed, my vague understanding of quaternions was wrong. I remember skimming the Wikipedia article and seeing this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion#Quaternions_as_pa...

I then assumed that my idea with two rotations is how quaternions work. Here's to actually reading about a concept before I start explaining it next time...
That sounds reasonable. If it's going to be tracked, it could be blogged [1], and that might be a place to practice touch typing.

[1]: or tweeted or facebooked.
It's a bit of a crude workaround but that might work. My use-case is that I frequently browse to a site on my mobile and want to view it later on my desktop machine. I could do that with a couple clicks easily before. Now I will have to keep a bunch of tabs open on my mobile and remember to manually go and check for them when I'm back on the desktop.

Just one example, I would browse through my Twitter feed before going to sleep. Any interesting links from Twitter were sent to the desktop machine from the mobile. In the morning, I would start Firefox on the desktop and a bunch of new tabs would automatically pop open, which was great.
Due to the nature of the tor network, relays aren't a secret. They need to be public so clients can independently choose which to use.

You then get people who operate lists of all relays e.g. https://www.dan.me.uk/tornodes

There's probably a good reason for using a "full" list, but I can't think of one off the top of my head. That site at least offers both and just about explains the difference.
PDF viewer is over the line too, Evince and Sumatra are so much faster and render nicer.
Planes have a variety of transponder options available, all of which can be turned on/off independently. Mode C (and sometimes Mode S) is the most common today and most important for entering controlled airspace (most airspace in the US is controlled). While ADS-B is an option, it's not yet mandatory (making its practical uses less than ideal in many cases). It won't be mandated until Jan 1 2020 in the US, and the first FAA laws on the ADS-B transponders were not published until May 2010.

Source: https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/#g1

ADS-B is amazing, yet I also find it's amazing it took so long to become more popular given how helpful it is. With an ADS-B receiver (I always have a stratus 2S on board while i fly) you get info like the call signs, speeds, positions and altitudes of other aircraft, while a Mode C transponder simply is a pinging beacon that air traffic can use to identify primary (radar based) targets. Mode C/S will give the pilot no advantage other than knowing that ATC can see them.

Sadly in my case I only have an ADS-B receiver and no transmitter combined with a Mode C transponder, so i get some situational awareness and weather updates, but I do not contribute to the 'vision' of other pilots with my device.

Stratus 2S: http://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/ipad-iphone-android/ipad-gp...
I'm not sure your point about Java 7 is correct. The docs (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/securi...) state that it is a SHA1PRNG, seeded with "true random". So the first call may block if it goes to /dev/random on Linux, but it should be good-to-go after that. I think this is the same behaviour as Java 6, but I don't know about previous versions.

Java 8 does define more sources for SecureRandom, including NativePRNGNonBlocking, which specifically refers to /dev/urandom (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/securi...).
You can't write a virtual machine with 20 GB of memory running on a real machine with only 10. Simulation isn't magic.
>My requests got closed with a “Thanks for your feedback.” canned response.

This is a prime example of why I don't use my Gmail anymore and why I pay for email. I've read plenty of horror stories of how people lost their Gmail accounts for all kinds of reasons. Most of the losses were completely unrelated to Gmail but related to perceived 'abuse' of Google's other services like Youtube (if your YT account gets shut down for 'copyright abuse', your Gmail will be gone as well). Some people lost Gmail accounts over Google Play store apps they submitted. Basically, if they close your account, your Gmail is linked to it and it's gone too. That scared the heck out of me because I had my whole life in there.

And there's just no way to contact Google's support... unless you know someone at Google.

Author should feel lucky they didn't close his account over this.
The problem is actually that Chrome is a thing at all. Even greater problem is a lot of developers, who should know better, recommending it en masse to laypersons.
UDISCO chemical brew lets scientists see through brains, bodies
This thought is similar to solipsism. René Descartes was afraid that he is truly alone because all his experiences are just imaginations. He said «Cogito ergo sum», but this was not enough to prove that others exist. The similarity to the simulation argument originates from the problem that we can't be sure that our perception is truthful.

However there is a counter-argument from Ludwig Wittgenstein. In a summary we have language. Language is too complex a construct to be invented alone. Because we speak we know we are not alone.

This is of special importance to me, being born profoundly Deaf. There exist poor deaf children who were isolated from language and never learned the basics. I had the misfortune to meet some of them. This drove the nail home that language cannot emerge in complete aloneness.

Now this doesn't apply to the simulation argument, because language might be provided from outside by the simulators.
That's the purpose of the whole article.
Google's customer support isn't horrible, it's just not there
Well known story from Art School:

1) Develop your art installation on Raspberry Pi

2) Test it thoroughly so you know it will be robust

3) Install it in the gallery. Works great. Start organising wine for the private view

4) Come back to find Pi has turned off

5) Start debugging up a step ladder or inside a plinth, with an hour before people start arriving

Turns out the standard install goes to sleep if you don't interact with it for 20 mins, something you'd never think of testing for.

Removing this setting, especially for scripts that run as sudo on boot turns out to be tricky, especially with a keyboard balanced on your knee.

Pi Bakery is a welcome addition to the Pi Ecosystem!

Also, very interested in using this to make hardware dev more accessible to those familiar with web development:

http://webiopi.trouch.com/
An executive is different from a salaried employee, unless you're a githuber or whatever. Get over it.
Very good point, I have the loading indicators show immediately if the response isn't received. Any slight internet connection issues or even just a slight stagger for the requests to complete, it'll show the loading icons.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll consider delaying the loading behaviour so it doesn't show all the time when the app is performing normally.
Having decent chairs, keyboards and monitors is also important for health. Yes, I could work on a kitchen chair hunched over a crappy keyboard and illegible monitor for 10 hours a day, but after not very long I'd have headaches, RSI and back pain so bad I wouldn't be able to work at all.
iPhone 7 and Apple Watch 2 launch Live: Dual-lens camera and NO headphone expected
I run uBlock origin and would pay for a monthly subscription.
Are those tests representative of what we have to do at work? I did a couple of tests on another site and they were almost artificial, something you do only at university exams but never at work.

If I were an interviewer I'd use them only to see how somebody starts thinking about solutions but we can use real world problems for that.
It would be illegal.
I will have a stronger opinion about chairs and keyboards not because I think they're more important, but because I have more experience with them. And that experience is far easier to gain.

Most of the consequences of choosing a particular programming language or technique will only come out months or years later, and often those results will have a very muddy connection between cause and effect. I'm way less likely to go on a forum and talk confidently when I would have needed to do multiple projects taking years to have a definitive answer.

On the other hand give me a keyboard for a day and I'll happily wade into an argument about it after typing a few thousand letters on it.
Right, but what I'm saying is that the total "room for simulation" is at most as large as the room in the parent universe, and probably much smaller. So if you were randomly spawned somewhere in the total space made up of all the real and simulated universes, the chances are very good you'd be in a real universe, not a simulated one.
I think you can do that using two rotation axis only (cf. proper Euler angles).

And quaternions are made of two complex numbers.

edit: typo.
Local IP will remain consistent across sessions and so can be used to identify you as certain device at a given public IP.
Slightly off topic. But here's another story of how unresponsive software giants are and how how helpless the users are in most cases http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I should be able to run unit tests locally, and have it happen quickly. Added to that, I'm often travelling on the job and sometimes code on the go, massive multicore build machine may be out of my reach

> As time goes on (16 years as a dev now) I find myself a lot less concerned about this stuff.

That's the point, we shouldn't be concerned, and it's best achieved by giving us equipment that lets us take this stuff off our minds
I can skim through most sci-fi stories. But not this one. I had to slow down and focus on what Charles was saying. It's seriously dense reading, and worth the effort.
I've recently started to move a lot of the services I use away from Google provided services. Who'd you go with instead of Gmail for email?
I can reassure you, as a Google Apps for Business customer, that they treat their paying customers with every bit the same contempt as they treat their free end users.
I am a huge music lover. I rarely would buy an album because it was such a pain in the ass and I would end up not liking or registering to most albums anyway. So i pirated almost every album I listened too for about ten years.

Now i simply pay my subscription to Deezer and couldn't be happier.
Google is highly unreliable for developers. The number of products that are discontinued are staggering. Not trying to be pessimistic but unfortunately many feels like that.
Ask HN: I sent my CV twice to a company who could not open a txt file, next what
I found a job at a company that seems to work with technology. I've sent the HR department (hr@optoma.co.uk) two times my CV in "txt" format, and although the file is about 1KB they could not open it. (I know that in certain circumstances the text could display as garbled but they didn't say that they were able to open it.) There are guides on the internet on how to open a txt file using MS Office if that is what they use.

http://www.optoma.co.uk/careers/vacancy/2229/Account-Manager

I wonder if that is a honest HR response or none of the managers could open such a file.
And liquid nitrogen should take care of that.
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They don't have 'Facebook' in the name. Probably much easier for them to go after trademark infringement.
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I've had good support with real Google support "people" when using Google's Cloud Service. It may just be that the extension falls under the category of ad blocking and they choose to ignore for beneficial reasons over actually replying. It would be curious to see the same thing happening towards a popular extension that doesn't deal with ads.
You missed some dialogue. You can relatively simply extend the HOG from an defensive weapon to an offensive weapon (all it takes is a mirror, IIRC). The pigeon foot is a HOG, and can be used in the same way. It's just that Bob rarely does so.
"What is and what isn't a part of an operating system?" is a similar difficult question as "What is and what isn't part of a browser?"

Like the kernel is only one non-optional (?) part of an OS, HTML rendering is a part of a browser.
Since I switched to an MS ergonomic keyboard and mouse, I never want to go back to a normal keyboard again. Have one in the office, and one at home. All wrist pain that I had gotten from normal keyboards, and especially working directly on the laptop went away in a matter of hours.
Google Apps for Business isn't adwords, though. my comment was about adwords customers.