skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internal mechanisms actually work, if you use them. Snowden has admitted in subsequent interviews to not even trying to report through any channel. Something most people that are not government don't realize about whistleblowing is that your options are not just your boss. We can report to any supervisor (given the proper clearance), a branch specifically designed for whistleblowing (including a 24 hour 1-800 number), or to any member of Congress. Do you really think all 600+ members of Congress would have turned him away? Being the Senator or Representative that brought that info forward would have guaranteed re-election... But instead, he handed thousands of pages of classified info over to a news organization and trusted them to sort through it (when he had probably never read through it in full). Now, he is begging for a pardon because it has been hinted that his stay in Russia will be up next year (when his status expires) since he decided to speak out against Putin.
In the end he was partly vindicated by the fact that Merlin (if other comments here are accurate) eventually put an operational weapon in the hands of Iran, a scenario he saw and presumably tried to avoid.

We will probably never know if anyone responsible for this program actually intended to arm Iran, but intentionally arming our enemies is not an unheard of tactic used by covert elements of our government to later justify use of force.
I think Starcraft is a very interesting challenge for AI because it involves planning in an environment that is only partially observable: you must scout in order to see what your opponent is up to, and even then, you don't see everything. If DeepMind works on this, I really hope that they constrain the AI (APM-wise) so that its only chance of winning is by good planning and strategy, not super-fast micro.
"Surely adults were doing something wrong if they were never bored."

FWIW, I know plenty of adults that complain about boredom and they are most definitely the ones that are doing something wrong. Not because they aren't filling whatever free time they have with some other form of work, but because they don't know how to enjoy the free time that they get (lack of hobbies/interests/etc.), and/or they don't know how to relax and enjoy doing nothing.

As people get older the concept of their own mortality becomes more and more tangible, which makes each moment seem more precious. To a kid being bored is an annoyance, but to an adult being bored is more like a lost opportunity at best and a personal failing at worst.
I skipped a grade and my mom told me that the school district really didn't like doing it, for many of the reasons you mention. She said they did it with me because I was also large (I think I was even one of the biggest kids one grade up) and mature (a characteristic which seems to have flamed out early). I don't think I suffered many ill effects. One thing I did notice in retrospect, seriously disadvantaged in dating

I also have 3 brothers and agree with the ability to fight and get along. People who can't argue about stuff without becoming enemies...I just don't get them
Interesting, most people would say "the milk went sour" or "the milk soured," and not that it went "stale." "Stale" as a word just sounds weird in the context of a drink.
Pretty much defeats the whole purpose for developing the self driving car, no? Why not just have the guy drive then, if you still have to pay him? And now that he needs a degree, he'll probably cost more than a driver. Not to mention, there's likely nothing for him to do once cars are autonomous.
> because of its sheer size the take off and landing is very comfortable, sometimes you don't feel a thing

Selection bias? Try—

"Because the A380 is the top level equipment operated by the carriers, pay scale for pilots is greatest. Ergo, they are flown by the most senior crew; since practice correlates strongly with proficiency these pilots have a higher rate of grease jobs." (1)

(1) Grease job = industry lingo for a buttery smooth touchdown, aka, "painted it on." :-D
They have north of 100mi users in total.
There's unusual weather in Europe at the moment. The UK recorded their hottest September day since 1911.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/13/uks-hottest-...
And when Snowden was in flight from HK to Moscow, he was a fugitive, until he "was actually in the company of a legal adviser."

What you say, and how you say it, affects perception. The CIA understands this. The only solution is to eradicate death and suffering on the planet.
About five years ago I imported a kilo of "Neotame" sweetener from a chem factory in Shanghai...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566
>You'd just make everyone's job easier.

How is that a bad thing?

1,300,000 people die each year in car wrecks and another 20,000,000 - 50,000,000 more are injured and/or disabled.

Google's motto is "Don't be evil" after all. Is valuing short term profits over millions of lives not "evil"?

>Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains.

-Larry Page
Yet it's the same Deplorables that want to LGBT down by any and all means (especially the T). Sorry if I don't support those folks but until they back something like ENDA then I'm not going to vote for them in any possible world.
How Long Until Hackers Start Faking Leaked Documents?
There are composition of matter patents that allow you to patent a novel molecule:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_matter
In the US, a defendant who is acquitted cannot be retried for the same crime. So prosecutors would be unable to appeal to a higher court.
The free market in action!
We asked Pittsburgh residents how they feel about Uber’s driverless cars
Yeah. I have to turn my propaganda shades the other way round when I read that site - if you mix it up with Fox News you get a nice balanced world view!
The values of children do not come from nowhere. They are not raised in a vacuum.

While it is purview of philosophy, it seems unethical to let your talents be wasted; you could be improving life of others instead.

Plus kids typically like to do what they are talented to do.
they added Lyrics in iOS 10 Apple Music and on the desktop version. I noticed it today and I'm pleasantly surprised by it.
Lotsa dads make the point for me, that kids who do not tend to turn to violence have not experienced it. But it's lost on them -- they usually think not experiencing violence is a weakness.
Seems to be coming back up now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbph5or0NuM

censorship, ad revenue, etc
It's not quite that bad; there's an ARM1 die photo opposite the silicon ingots at the museum. I think the lack of ARM there is more due to the interesting artifacts being in England than an Intel conspiracy.
I am seriously confused. Most intelligent people I meet are aware of the "debt economy" aka debt supercycle aka shop-till-you-are-maxed-out phenomenon being caused by ultra low interest rates. Surely this theory is not just held by zerohedge readers any more and by normal people.

Once consumers are maxed out, how the heck will they spend in the future? Surely the fed knows this and has a viable plan. Else, they are kicking bigger problems to the future, aren't they?
> it may just be mean, or stupid or even evil.

Well, you could say that about the Nazis and Charles Manson, too. Couldn't you basically call anything just a "physical process" and get it over with? The rights of people are being violated by those sworn to protect them, and they feel helpless to change that. That is a problem, to put it mildly.

> On the other hand, if I research someone for a position, I would rather not like to see their name on a petition for certain things. It always was this way.

Yeah, it always was that way with too many people, and left unchecked, it will lead to the destruction of humanity. So I propose a new and much better way: when "researching" people, do not trust anyone who didn't give you positive confirmation of having spine, attention span and responsibility. I'm not saying signing a petition does that, but generally: go the other way. Do not waste your personal and professional time and energy on people who after all may remain on the wrong side of history. If the ground you stand on is not liberated ground at all times, reconsider your life. Don't be that guy obedient to what ultimately amounts to a bunch of deranged folk from a Stephen King novel or something. Realize that it would not be more than that, and that they too shall pass. The only open question is, whether they will take humanity with them, but there is no question in my mind about "their" (our) self-destructiveness. It's just not worth it to give in, in the really long run.

> "Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

-- from the movie "All the Presidents Men" (1976)
Isn't the sandbox only enabled if System Integrity Protection is enabled? Disable that and the plugins should work, if they are updated for Xcode 8.

[Update]
Hmm, seems so. See this:
https://github.com/inket/update_xcode_plugins
>Is the author really advocating that ISPs should be allowed to sell ads on traffic they see?

What? It is blatantly obvious from both the tone and content of the article that the author is advocating that google and the like be banned from selling the same kind of ads ISPs are.
Airbnb does a terrible job with occupancy tax. They only cover a few cities and do not provide any tools to collect tax at the time of booking.

VRBO/Homeaway does collect tax for you.

So I pay the tax out of my own airbnb earnings (it is regulated here so I have a license).

Which sucks because hotels can add the tax, after their daily rate. I just earn 10% less.
Actually most of my requests can be accomplished with a generic system. My instant pot makes a beep, my washer makes a beep, my dryer makes a beep, my dishwasher makes a beep, my oven makes a beep when it's at temp. It's like a universal signal in appliances. If alexia can understand a range of electronic beeps, then it can work. There's no need for a complex protocol and new appliances.
A New Era for Modern Tech: Big Data + A.I. + Future-Proofing
Also, not to forget, `async import` would hide any potential syntax errors or errors in loading, since promises silence exceptions unless explicitly handled. Unless, of course, there's a special exception (no pun intended) to how promises work for imports.
Server-Side Swift 2.0 – Perfect Released
I subscribe to the school of thought that asserts that meaning is the product of the act of reading form.

So we consider the space of meaning and each point in that space can map to a multiplicity of (possibly similar or possibly entirely distinct) forms. The mapping function is the sentient actor extracting/projecting meaning from[/to] form.

Example: ဖခင်, predak, پدر, 父亲, father.
Except if that were the case the quantum system could have a determined state, it just doesn't. But the Kochen-Specker theorem[0] proves that it cannot have a determined state. Quite possibly in any universe, though I'm not sure if that's been proven yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen%E2%80%93Specker_theorem
what about when president trump starts forcing Google to use its AI to detect Muslims?
My favorite part:

There are still a lot of questions. Some residents worry about the ability of a self-driving car to successfully navigate to a rider's location, or to avoid sudden road closures. Pittsburgh is said to be a tough — as in "good" — test case for self-driving vehicles, because the city has hills, bridges and older streets. On Sept. 2, a construction accident on the Liberty Bridge caused a fire that was so hot that it melted part of the bridge's support structure.

The bridge has been closed for weeks, causing commuter headaches. But Uber's navigation system didn't appear to know about the bridge closure, said Shiquita Crumbley, a Pittsburgh native who started driving for Uber a few months ago.

"GPS's are not always correct," she said. "It might take you to this bridge, not necessarily knowing, hey, this bridge is not open, you can't go on it. So, just making sure it's the most updated version. That's going to be the biggest, biggest thing for everyone's safety."
Wait... so the OP's premise is completely wrong? Doesn't the body of a module have to complete before dependent modules will execute their bodies?

In other words, if you put

for (let i = 0; i < 10e8; i++)
// blah

in the body of a module, wouldn't that block dependent modules for the duration of the loop?

Would top-level await be different?

edit The premise, as I understand it, is that the module itself is treated as the "currently-executing method" for the purpose of the `await`.
I'm a fan of async/await in C#, but never use them. I've been deep into the bowels of callback hell and it's lame. Debugging other people's asynchronous state wrangling machines is also lame.

But I just don't write enough asynchronous code to actually benefit that much from async/await, and not all asynchronous patterns map nicely to the hierarchical nature of call graphs for me to take advantage of async/await all that sanely, as I found out from a few attempts to force the issue. And how do I add good debug visualizers to display tasks in flight? How do I serialize out long running async tasks? How do I modify things without breaking that serialization?
This is really good parody.
You can even do some very low level security that way right? Like "Alexa tell me if you hear a loud noise in the basement while I'm at work"
Why building a startup is probably your most sensible career path
hacker news is becoming crazier every day
This is a good response for someone who can fight back.

What if you are being bullied by someone who you can't really hurt all that much or prevent them from hurting you, except through higher channels?
Not sure if it's just melancholia, but I do think rdio is still totally unbeaten in terms of personalised playlists. It was absolutely amazing! Also, the audio quality seemed far superior compared to Spotify or Apple Music.
Found the rendering on codepen: http://codepen.io/wbobeirne/details/pEjqGR/. Looks great!
I would however point out, only because they make a big deal of it in a short documentary, that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1lp_ygGB4 it's missing the light shining through the background effect. I wonder if that's something that's coming down the line?
Achievement cannot really be measured either. Doctorates and patents are used as proxies. You could also add scientific papers, renowned works of art, successful businesses, charities etc.

Anything that advances humanity.
Wow, I hadn't seen this before.

Here is "Automaton 2000" controlling 20 marines vs 40 banelings, without losing a single unit.

https://youtu.be/DXUOWXidcY0?t=52

Pretty cool.
I think the comparison is that most of the Firefox UI has traditionally been built with XUL components, whereas this part is being built with HTML elements instead.
This paper [1] shows that the glycemic index is not necessarily a reliable indicator for an individual's insulin response

[1]: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/09/06/ajcn.116....
I don't think they would have a problem with people signing this. It lets the people blow off steam with no real effect. Once you sign it, you think "well, I've done my part. I signed the online petition, and changed my Twitter/Facebook icon."
The "data science" vs "data engineering" distinction helps a lot. Let me try to re-make my original point in light of it.

There are a few Bigcorps with real, novel Big Data datasets that need original statistical work slung at them. These companies need data scientists, for real: people with Ph.Ds in statistics. These people are indeed not interchangeable with programmers. They're partially interchangeable with academic computer scientists, and mathematicians, and physicists; but not with any trades-workers, including your average programmer. Their job is Science, capital-S: to do sound, replicable, high-powered experiments to learn things about the data. That is a skill in-and-of-itself, and one you need a lot of practice with—under the scrutiny of people like Journal editors—to get right (because it's hard to tell from your own observation if you've got it wrong.)

Everyone else, though—that is, all the companies but the SV Big Five and maybe some mobile-game and advertising firms—when they say they're looking for "data scientists", all they're really looking for is data engineers. The actual "data science" they're trying to do is a solved problem: you can find out the same thing a data scientist would tell you from five minutes of Googling the problem, because dozens of companies have solved the same problem for their own data-sets already and written case-studies on how they did it. You only need to implement said solution. Which, like I said, any competent programmer could do, after a few hours spent reading the API reference of a statistics package.

The majority of "data science" (read: data engineering) jobs aren't looking for people to Do Science; they're looking for regular programmers clever enough to have self-selected into the higher caste by doing nothing more than having learned some statistics-package APIs and then marketing that skill. (Much like the "officer class" of the American military in the 1800s allowed people to self-select into it just by being voracious readers.) It's basically an implicit open question at the beginning of the hiring process, "what do you want to be doing all day?", that is answered by choosing a different (pretend) job title.
There's another Mozilla project called "browser.html" which is a browser UI built with web technologies. "debugger.html" is a similar idea.

https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml
From what I've gathered, the intelligence community thinks bad things about him; their view is "fix it from the inside."

Public leaks can be incredibly damaging to our operational advantages against various adversaries, and it's often non-obvious which data will be most helpful to them.

The main reason I stand behind him is the matter of the director of the NSA lying to congress under oath. We don't even have the illusion of a democracy if we can't have effective congressional oversight of intelligence agencies with as broad a reach as the NSA.
The modern philosophical argument against a scientific explanation of consciousness is that science is an objective, third person pursuit, abstracting away from subjective, first person. If so, you can't hope to explain the subjective in terms of the objective.

There is no need to invoke the spiritual or supernatural to see that consciousness is a problem for science.
> what about all the millions people in those countries that proudly claim to be "socialists"

What about them? I think it is widely spread that socialism is like, if not the same as communism.
Favorite of all time I'm not sure but my favorite today is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12498230

Simply beautiful!
If in 2010 I told you the next presidential candidate for the USA was retweeting 4chan memes, you'd have probably said I was exaggerating. All I'm saying is things are changing quicker than we can imagine.
What an incredibly rude comment.
> Go find me a house for sale now that's less than 10 or 15 years of an individuals salary.

My condo is worth 1-1½ times my salary.

'The Census ACS 1-year survey reports that the median household income for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Texas metro area was $59,530 in 2014, the latest figures available.'[1]

'The median home value in Dallas is $147,400.'[2]

$147,400 is 2.47 years. Double that, if you think the median household has two incomes.

U.S. median household income is $56,500. There are plenty of houses to be had for less than $565,000­–$847,500.

[1] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/texas/dallas/

[2] http://www.zillow.com/dallas-tx/home-values/

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/business/economy/us-census...
That's just basic business logic, no?
I didn't see these, thank you!
The Firefox DevTools team is moving away from XUL, so the .html suffix is a wink to moving to HTML.
> Isn't Obama at risk if he pardons him?

Isn't Obama on his way out of office soon anyway? Pardoning Snowden might at least be something (even if after the fact) to justify his Nobel prize
The app is both for children who are bullied and those that want to help, so that kind of spying wouldn't work. Plenty of children do want to help but don't know how and this idea can help. Surely a bullied child won't be invited to the popular kids clique but having some normal people to talk to is a great start.
Re: 2)
This is a semi-valid point. We don't have accurate yearly global temp data from 2,000BC or 20,000BC, so as the data gets older, it is necessarily a smoother and smoother average. Ancient yearly temperature variability is simple not something that we have a detailed view to.

Still, we do have decent variability data for the past 500 years, and the rate of change that we are seeing for the past 50 is truly extraordinary compared to the past 500 years.

Based on the data that we do have, the likelihood that the hockey-stick temperature trend is "normal" variability can now be calculated pretty precisely... confidence levels are now in the 99%-99.9% range. (http://phys.org/news/2014-04-statistical-analysis-natural-wa...)

In short, we can say with better than 99% certainty that...

Yes, this is happening. The globe is now growing hotter at a truly extraordinary rate
Presumably jeonse prices would move like bond prices--when interest rates go down, their prices go up, and vice versa.
Logitech harmony hub with ifttt might help. Checkout r/homeautomation for lots of different ideas
Airbnb provides insurance when you rent out your space.

The result is that you don't have to worry about your homeowners insurance covering damage as its already covered.
Within the context of Go there is no board game, its just sets of possible states and transitions between valid states. Any feature of the game Go is encoded within this state space. The "meaning" of pieces, moves, captures, win, loss, etc are all encoded here. The go playing machine may not capture these concepts explicitly at a high level, but I'm not sure that's an important distinction.

Concepts like board games, people, ancient Chinese culture, etc are all external to Go.
> why is it better for American people to persevere with a system where you pay 10, 100 times the fair price?

The ability to charge far more for a drug than pure manufacturing cost is what makes it possible to spend billions and decades researching and developing it.

That burden is mainly borne by US consumers, while the rest of the world mostly free-rides.

More meat: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/07/reverse-voxsplaining-br...
Serious question: what if you're enslaved by aliens before you can gun?
You don't need to physically overthrow him. All you have to do is retaliate. Violence brings respect, and since he's only looking for an easy victim anyway, he'll go find someone else to torment.
Yeah, the narrative that he tried to follow the rules to get the "egregious" programs stopped is almost entirely false. He may have made one off-the-record attempt with a superior. He also once emailed someone that a test he took had a wrong answer in regards to Executive Orders being able to override laws, and that email got forwarded around until it hit an NSA lawyer and they stated that he was correct. EOs and laws carry the same weight, but EOs cannot override laws. And that was what he's referring to in a fair amount of his interviews.