skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does the line of "playing God" and "not-playing God" lie?

If we divert rivers we are changing the way the World was originally created/developed to serve our needs. Is a beaver then messing with nature when it builds a dam?

If we use fire to create alloys out of metals is that principally different to creating synthetic plastics out of oil-based chemicals?

When we selectively breed animals and crops for our satisfaction is that more natural than selectively breeding at a cellular level?
Is Swift Playgrounds' code itself open source?
This is so funny! You must know the internet!!! Do you know any of these?

Obscure Music Blogspots, IRC chats, usenet, ASCII art, Slsk, DC++, penpals in Finland, Botwana, Iceland, and Uruguay, grainy and idiosyncratic university-websites, Tunak Tunak Tun, Albino Black Sheep, Zombo.com
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The term describes the situation in which the cost of one party's risks are born by another party. Whether it's "unwanted" doesn't actually seem that relevant. If foolish incentives create a moral hazard, the moral hazard still exists regardless of the intent behind the incentives.
Try deploying a non-apple language to tvOS and/or watchOS.

Then come back and tell me that they are "open".

Bitcode sounded so good back when it came out, but is actually a way of guaranteeing that people only use Apple tools for shipping software.
I have a similar situations. In a hackerspace I manage, we're still using GMail and Google Docs for collaboration. We're slowly moving to self-hosted services, like OwnCloud, but we can only do that because we're an established group of people. Back when the space was forming, there was no one willing to shoulder the sysadmin responsibilities for managing all the tools we needed to start and grow the organization.

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What we need is separation of virtual machines from the code they run. Exchangable backends, if you like. We should be able to use cloud tools like e.g. Google Docs while also being able to choose our own backend - whether this or that cloud, or even our own servers. Right now, instead of running someone else's code on our data (as it is with files and local work), we're giving third parties our data for them to run the code for us.
Openstack swift isn't great, but if you move the proxy/account/container services away from the actual object store, as the read/write requirements are different, and if you opt to run your object store on proper hardware, it will scale well pretty well.

I'm curious as to what really made you hate it. From my vantage point of running openstack in production from Essex to Juno, Openstack Swift after Folsom release was the most reliable part of openstack outside of keystone and glance.

(Nevermind that it was also the easiest to upgrade as well).

Or you can use the ceph stuff, which is also pretty nice.
Deviant art I only really started seeing pop up in the last few years, (I guess my styles are changing as I fet older).

I wouldn't know about silicon valley. A)I'm not American so it doesn't really effect me, b)well I guess a summed it up haha.

I socialise with all my mates using voice comms recently, we try out new games and leave messages on steam.

I frequently read new and interesting news and science pieces from places I have never hear of, thanks to Google news and Reddit.

I don't miss the old internet pre Google days, facebook seems like a 900lb gorilla, but aside from auto blocking their tracking buttons, it never effects me.

I do think it can seem depressive though, I do occasionally miss bulletin boards, but then I remember how annoying it was to dial in hahedit: typos, thanks phone
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Sadly, I've found the consistency of their product to be increasingly hit or miss recently. I order the same item every time, and it ranges from bland to "day changing".

I think they've scaled too fast. "Everyday awesome" is tough to achieve particularly when you're hyper focused on exponential expansion. TGP's money isn't going to change the emphasis, but I only hope they don't forget what initially enabled this growth -- a really great product.
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Sibell, an enslaved African in Barbados relates her life story
I feel like Apple was more open to alternate distribution options at the beginning of OSX, but I might be wrong in this. tvOS and watchOS have made their software distribution completely Apple lock-in, i.e. you can only do it with Apple tools, see bitcode requirements.
It's a free service to share Microsoft SQL Server Execution Plans.
This will be great to share and discuss plans on http://dba.stackexchange.com.
John McAfee: My new company will make the cloud 'completely obsolete'
Sorry, no: you need to look into the text and application of Art. VI, cl. 3 (the "Oaths Clause") of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the similar provisions in many U.S. state constitutions.
Just be aware that if you're using any flavor of Comcast in the US (Business or Consumer-class), "Bridging" your cable modem will make it cease to work and require a factory reset. Anecdata from me, from sites in Boston, Seattle, and Portland.
Really now, Satan? That's all I had to do to get the top job in hell? Do I get to be the second coming for holding elevator doors when I'm in a rush?

I was just questioning the wisdom of passing out the free headline tragedy-puns with your branding. It would be an equally terribly name for a line of DIY transcranial direct current stimulation kits. Again, it's not because these products are dangerous[0], but that they will likely be perceived that way. Any possible blame will be laid at their feet at least through innuendo, so why make it easy and catchy?

[0] I make no assertion about the actual safety of either.
how high are you right now?
"YouTube Community" is not 'verbable' (e.g. "Tweet it", or "inbox me").
> I wish people cared.

I wish too, but this is a moot point - everyone has a shit ton of things to care about in their adult lives. By the time we're done putting out fires at work, dealing with mortgage, bills, grocery shopping, sick parents, broken sinks, searching for a good school for our kids, etc. there's precious little care left to be given. Greedy and socially destructive cloud/SaaS business practices are a distant position on a long list of things to care about, so you can't say that "if people don't care about something then it means they're ok with that". It only means the issue isn't immediately pressing/dangerous enough to warrant prioritizing it.
Yeah! But there is no aesthetics here at all! There is no sense of wonder and magic whatsoever!

This is a cool website here!

www.davidrumsey.com
Can we make any comparisons with how police in other countries typically deal with these situations? I'd like to know if this is a hard problem for all police everywhere, with similar outcomes, or if this is a problem unique to U.S. police, based on how they're trained.
Regarding discharge, the standard in bankruptcy is "undue hardship": http://www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org/bankruptcy/

(Also, "borrower" is the more usual term, rather than "lendee".)
The World Anti-Doping Agency says it was hacked by Russia
Firefox on Android. Install ublock origin.
Freeze your constants!
My wife went to Ohio State, and although its tuition is "only" 10k a year, compare that with 1k overseas. If we will have kids the question where they get their education is a nobrainer.

Apart from that she also went to Columbia University. Totally overpriced in my opinion, but it made her really happy. Because of her decision back then, now, as a couple we have a "second mortgage". Not all financial decisions in your life are under your own control.
I don't have the source to hand, but I seem to recall reading that it is becoming more and more common. People who are suicidal know that all they have to do is wave a weapon (even an unloaded one) in the vicinity of a cop and they'll be shot dead. Here's a Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_cop
My guess is enterprise customers
Somebody does, apparently, otherwise business models would be much more straightforward. I worked in a social media marketing, "let's take an EU grant and spin off random shitty SaaS to bolster our marketing platform" company. I could see people in charge inventing new and great ideas for "bringing in value" without noticing (in any apparent way) that those ideas were mostly literally shitting on the users to make a quick buck. Reality distortion field? Sociopathic tendencies? Call it what you want, but it does happen, and that's where most of the "brilliant" business models come from.
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So one can merely get shell access as the unprivileged server process user rather than as the superuser.

It's interesting to see how many people look at this and react "Whoa! Shell access!" or "Whoa! Malicious shared library injection!", and how few have commented on the fact (almost treated as a minor sideline) that one vector for the exploit involves setting up database triggers that run with SUPER privileges.

"Whoa! Attackers (with FILE privilege) can alter your purchase orders and invoices, steal your contacts and confidential customer account information, change inventory records, and forge identities." No shell access or shared libraries involved.

But that's been known as CVE-2012-5613 for some time. (-:
The comment algorithm itself is also broken. Comments that get many replies and are controversial are shown higher than those that purely get many up votes.

Hank green made a video lately about how people should reply with + to a post they like instead of up voting and the top comments on recent videos are now far far better than ever before.

I don't know if YouTube made their algorithm bad on purpose to stir controversy which would stir usage but they really need to fix it.

They could also do things like global karma that makes all your posts naturally higher or lower ranking so that people that constantly troll get buried immediately on every video instead of always enjoying attention on comments before they get down voted.
All that said, Eclipse JDT remained a solid IDE for pure Java development and the go-to choice for students and open source projects looking for a free IDE.

This was killed by the launch of Intellij Community Edition.

Not in my experience. The majority of students at my university still seems to be using Eclipse.
The "ideal" search engine is probably not possible without some sort of AI having access to all the content on internet.
The benefit of a laptop is that you have a built in UPS. A laptop is also going to consume less power than most desktops.

As an aside, if you're after a nice, fast, low power solution, you can also look into the Netgate pfsense hardware, eg, http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440.aspx.
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>> outlining a forward thinking application of Ai.

As someone miles away from the field, what are those forward thinking applications (ie things that are within the reach of MI today but are basically ignored by private sector)
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https://www.demonsaw.com/
That's the company/product. On a quick look this looks like Tor - or not?
Wouldn't it be useful if the community tested EVERY gem to see if it leaked memory, perhaps each developer stepping up to test one, in an app that just exercised the gem in question?

To test all of the ones we use individually is prohibitive. But thousands of people could do test one.
unfortunately it is not open source... But they opened sourced Swift Playground Support http://ericasadun.com/2016/07/07/apple-open-sources-swift-pl...
Their website: https://www.demonsaw.com/

I see a lot of bold claims but no information on what it is exactly. It looks like filesharing, but the also mention things like chat.

Where does it fit in? Does it replace bittorrent? Does it replace TOR?
You can pick up an iPhone 5c on eBay for under $150.
Bad with him there. Much worse with him gone.
Flat = nuanced!? Because definitely with beer I find it very questionable how breweries out-compete each other with making hoppier and hoppier beers that get completely dominated by it.

And the selection of one be all and end all criteria, in case of beer hops, in case of coffee the pureness of the beans I guess, that everyone measures itself on, seems actually very American to me.
On [Ethereum] Inflation, Transaction Fees and Cryptocurrency Monetary Policy
This[0] is a good place to start if you want to get into Linux music creation. Not just that page, but the whole wiki.

[0] http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/introduction
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This article ends disappointingly in a series of mental exercises. The "LCD" involved is the 8-shape commonly used in LCDs to allow any digit to be displayed. There is no discussion about how light traversing a liquid crystal display illuminates time's arrow, nor the change undergone when a liquid crystal is electrified.
In short, Mark proposes a four-month extension of the JDK 9
schedule, moving the General Availability (GA) milestone to July 2017, and the reason is because number of open bugs that are new in JDK 9 is quite a bit larger than it was at this point in JDK 8.
An almost unrelated anecdote, but I was touring Russia in a bus, and the old lady in front of us had lived in Leningrad in the 1930's. Her father was a dog-keeper for professor Ivan Pavlov.

The said father was an "enemy of the people" (Article 58) due to his ethnicity, so he was allowed only second-rate jobs, but Pavlov and his dog research had enough standing even during the Purges to protect the dog-keeper. The daughter then survived Siege of Leningrad and later escaped to Finland, ending up in the bus with us to tour the old places and tell her remarkable story.
Because actual sources of good journalism have almost all moved to paywalls of different kinds – from the metered model of The New Yorker to more rigorous implementations like the WSJ.
Free developer accounts are fairly new, and they are an even greater hassle than the paid accounts. Both the device and the Mac need to be online (so impossible to develop on the train with spotty internet), you need to manually unlock every single app in the device settings, there's a very low upper limit of apps (8 or so?) you're allowed to install on your device. If you have an Xcode project with many targets (e.g. sample programs), you need to manually delete apps on the device before you can deploy/debug new ones. Also, for all provisioning scenarios you'll now have to set a 'development team' per target (not just once per project), and this needs to happen, there's no default. This is especially fun with cmake, each time after generating an Xcode project you need to manually go into the Xcode project settings and fix the development team on each target.

It's a mess and I don't see why it has to be so complicated for development.
ING Bank data center shut down for 10 hours after fire extinguishing test
> So if you're wealthy and that dollar goes to pay off the loan - where does it go?

It gets wiped off the books and a dollar leaves the economy.

> The person you're giving it to will either spend it on consumption

Did you take a loan out from a person? No. You took a loan out from a bank. They don't spend deposits on consumption. They cover their expenses and profits with the interest you pay.

> or loan it to someone else until (ultimately) it is spent.

The amount of lending a bank makes is almost unrelated to the amount of deposits they hold. Reserve regulations impact this somewhat, but the reality is that banks make profitable loans whenever feasible. If they don't meet reserve regulations at the end of the day, they borrow at exceedingly low interest rates to cover the gap. A bank can make a billion in loans at 5%, borrow at 3% to meet regulations nightly, and still come out ahead. (Specific numbers made up. Overnight rates are actually closer to 0.25%. So a loan at 5% with no reserves is actually crazy profitable.)

> And if you deposit the dollar into the bank then the bank have to loan it to someone (they need to make money too!) who will then spend it on consumption.

The fed pays 0.5% on reserves that banks hold. As of a few minute ago, Chase's interest rate sheet showed <0.5% for all checking, all money market, and most savings accounts. So in reality, Chase can hold your deposit and pay you interest and still make money.

If your savings has a "good" interest rate of, say, 1%, a single loan of $100K at 4% could still cover the cost of $800K in deposits. Banks absolutely do not have to loan out every dollar deposited to make money.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reqresbalances....

https://chaseonline.chase.com/resources/RateSheetForCons7021...

> It won't reduce the amount of money in circulation.

When a bank loans you money, they are creating money. When you pay it back, you are destroying money. The view that your deposit is "loaned" to someone else is very inaccurate and misleading in a modern banking economy.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
Glad I'm not the only one confused.
That's... gotta be extremely expensive.

I don't care about my internet connection but it was looking like hundreds of dollars a month or more to store that sort of data.

(I only post in the hope that I'm missing a magic, affordable bullet.)
Which SoC is it? Jetson?
Ahh. I interpreted more along the lines of the rephrasing: "... but not on the Moon because the Moon's 'rotational energy was spent'" - that is, no claim about Earth not still being under significant stress.

Taken as a whole, I read the comment as possibly along the lines of "This seems reasonable (or obvious) - you end up with dead lifeless geologically inert celestial bodies like the moon if you take away the stress of tidal forces / (varying) gravitational pull", as an example to contrast/compare against.
The down-votes are absurd.
Is anyone else getting this (using uBlock with FF):

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The playground looks pretty cool but I kind of second this. I recently built something for an iPad (ad-hoc install for a client on a single device). Never developed anything in the Apple ecosystem. XCode was surprisingly stubborn and it seemed very non-rapid to set everything up. The build process was also kind of slow. Since it was a Unity Engine based up I ended up building and testing everything on Android and only pushing the final product to the iPad (and testing it on that device obviously).

For these learning environments it would be pretty awesome if there was a simple way to share the actual app. At least it seems they make it easy to share the code and a video which is a decent start.
I'm also not sure why LCD is used as the example. Wouldn't a cellular automata (or a simplification of one) be a better example here?
> our real goal is to 10x or 100x the number of startups that we help, and Fellowship in it's current form couldn't easily do that

Do you account for the effects you have on the rest of the community when calculating your impact?

For example, I suspect YC is strongly responsible for the rise of "low amounts of equity without control for a small amount of funding" seed rounds, and for the existence of accelerators, in both cases globally.

The Fellowship model of investing tiny amounts - like "sparks", lighting a fire - into an enormous number of teams with as little friction as possible was the next logical step and I was looking forward to Fellowship copies sprouting all over the world.

Unfortunately by effectively ending the program you might be sending a signal to global investors not to try it, that YC Core is the deal size floor that works...
We (my wife and me) would be so happy if we can just pay the principal and not accumulate interest anymore. The latter amounts to a bill of $700 each month. Or if the interest rate would be capped at 5% or less.

Moreover, I wish it went to the professors etc. but with intermediaries like Great Lakes I also fear that even that is not the case.
How in the world can 5000+ people be "rogue employees"?
Programming error leads to AU$2.5m write-off for Commonwealth Bank
Apple's iOS 10, watchOS and tvOS: what's new?
Care to give some examples?
In the US the policeman can legally just take your car and your cash. They don't need to mess around with tricks. (Look up civil assert forfeiture.)
The users are shouldering the costs and getting most of the money. How is that in any way freeloading?

That claim is even more absurd in the case of Airbnb, which is a pure marketplace. They are no more "freeloading" than your local newspaper is/was freeloading on the posters of classified ads for renting.
OCR with Evernote works very well because it's allowed to be fuzzy. One hand written word is allowed to have multiple predicted texts. This is because the predictions are only used for search - you can't copy/paste OCR'd text because Evernote can't guarantee it's correct. But it's good enough for fuzzy search. In fact it's pretty much exactly what you want for search: allowances for misspellings and typos. Very smart.
I've heard that was just the cover story, and the article seems to agree:

> The study of genetics had been essentially banned in the USSR, as the country's dictator Joseph Stalin sought to discredit the genetic principles set out by Gregor Mendel. Stalin's death in 1953 gave scientists more freedom, but in the early years Belyaev nevertheless worked under the cover that he was breeding foxes to make better fur coats.
Do politicians solicit campaign money in the UK? I thought it was a uniquely American issue. The cuteness usually lies in when Americans assume local problems are universal.
I assume you speak about the third step, that if you suspect existence may meaningless, you might as well assume it has a meaning, because if you were correct it doesn't matter that you are wrong anyway (by definition).

I don't think it's like Pascal's wager, because there's no need for probability here, and you're not trying to avoid any bad outcome. I think it's more like how Pascal rejected the concern that he might be insane (if you ask yourself "how do I know I'm not crazy?" you're basically already assuming you're not crazy).

But, I haven't actually read all of Pascal's Pensees. What extracts I have read of it suggests to me that he's heavily straw-manned both by later philosophers and people writing about it today, so for all I know the "wager" was more like this, too.
Yeah I thought the same! Definitely been my favorite coffee in Seattle, especially the Nico, which I haven't found anywhere else. Now that I know they actually did all that research I like it even more :)
Of course there are Airbnbs in places where there are no hotels for miles. And if you're a group, it's cool to be able to rent a house or apartment including kitchen.

For business trips or similar, yeah, hotels are perfect.
> and strangely synonymous with "freedom".

That's because this synonymousity (is that a word?) was co-opted from a different definition of "hacker" (i.e. in the "Jargon File" sense of "someone who demonstrates creative ingenuity"); in that sense, having the freedom to tinker with things is strongly desirable to someone possessing the "hacker ethic".

'Tis one of the side-effects of the term "hacker" having multiple meanings, for better or (in my opinion) worse.
Introduction to music creation on Linux
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