skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli

“To hell with your cancer. I’ve been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it’s a death sentence. That’s what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence. So every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times – hell, maybe even today – I’m gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who’s in charge? Me. That’s how I live my life.”

– Walter White

“You ask me if an ordinary person by studying hard would get to be able to imagine these things like I imagine. Of course! I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There is no miracle people."

– Richard Feynman
Don't think you needed a throwaway for that, that's a cogent point.
hey, thanks for posting! I'm the author - happy to answer any questions. The article is mostly about the theory side of things, but I've actually had a lot of practical success building UI with this technique.

Now I'm most interested in how it compares to FRP-- Is it a proper alternative to FRP, or are there situations where one makes more sense than the other?
Glass's utility was too small to overcome the initial awkwardness & etiquette adjustment. When it comes to AR I think Magic Leap is going to offer enough utility to overcome these problems.

With those first perceived-as-awkward sony headphones, the utility of personal music everywhere was very high.
Yeah, but when MS used their own MIT-like license with patent grant and nuclear patent option, people hated it. They have made certain guarantees in the past wrt ASP.Net bits and other areas... MS seems to have been mostly in favor of live and let live wrt patents on their open-source software, it would be a colossal mistake for them to sue over patent use on their open-source software, short of defensively against someone suing them over patents.
SQL for Web Nerds
Announcing ProDOS 2.4 for all Apple II computers
Oops gotta update
microsoft already has massive developer mindshare, but unlike elixir/elm/node/flavor-of-the-month the mindshare exists with 9-5ers or dark matter devs. The kinds of people who use it to get shit done but don't spend time blogging about it.
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."(Yudkowsky)
The Behavioral Science Behind the Negative TV Ads of Trump and Clinton
> If you get a lot of value out of this package, do consider donating to HIBP since Troy Hunt does not put any limits on the API and it’s a tremendous service.

I believe there is a rate limit: one request per 1.5 seconds from a given IP address https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2#RateLimiting

For those in the R ecosystem who want to do a broader analysis of what HIBP's encompasses, going through the API probably won't be very efficient other than to get a listing of the metadata.
40-plus wom­en are ba­si­cal­ly not em­ploy­able in the technolo­gy sec­tor.

If this isn't prejudice, I don't know what is. It's not, "40-plus wom­en are employable if they are competent." It's that being a 40-plus woman is enough of a signal, people feel justified enough to "err on the side of false negative." Really, how many 40-plus women have most 20-somethings actually encountered as coders in the workplace? How many 40-plus women have most 20-somethings actually encountered as managers in the workplace? I suspect this prejudice comes from outside the workplace.
AI simply working to satisfy the 'benign' goals given to it by human programmers, without our having adequately considered all possible consequences (which, guaranteed, we won't), can be incredibly dangerous.

You should read some of Elizier Yudkowsky's writing on the topic, or Nick Bostrom's 'Superintelligence'. I think they articulate quite well the concerns that prompt many of the statements from Musk, Hawking, etc.
I am very happy that there's a transcript. But I just spent two minutes trying to figure out how to cut and paste it into a textfile (Scribd won't let me download it without signing up).

My request to YC is to publish transcripts like this as text.
A much more probable explanation might be the increasing importance of economies of scale (software is a prime example).
As a counterpoint, I use my MBP for work (both coding and photo editing) and my list would be:

Should have:

* Headphone jack

* SD Reader

* Two USB ports, one on each side

Don't care:

* Video output ports - the few times I've needed a second/larger monitor AirPlay worked fine for me

* Function keys - I don't mind having to use fn to use the function keys

Don't want:

* Ethernet

* CD/DVD drive

* A dozen built in USB ports - if I need more than two I'll buy a hub

Not including a headphone jack would be really annoying but I would probably still buy one. I could buy a cheap pair of blue tooth headphones and be fairly sure they'll last for a while.

On the other hand, no headphone jack on the iPhone 7 means I absolutely will not buy one.
And the south isn't bigoted in the ways many people assume.

There are absolutely small towns where open discrimination is a problem. And there are absolutely small minded jerks that have a problem with people of color.

But what I've observed personally living in the south and travelling the country is that the south is often less functionally segregated than other areas of the country. It's sheer demographics if nothing else; when the population of many major southern cities are majority minority, then it's difficult for people to avoid living and working next to each other.

Where the dynamic gets really interesting because of all this is with people that want to fight inequality, but don't realize that they have a massive blindspot when it comes to what functional racism looks like because they don't actually live in functionally diverse environments.
As a tangential remark: it's an insight into our trade that a MIT PhD still have to repeatedly do CS exams some 30 years later.
IPv6? If not, this is a non-starter.
The shift-xor "random" number generator described actually has an interesting property. The algorithm looks like this:

1. If the value is 0, output the magic number.

2. If the value has only its high bit set, output 0.

3. Otherwise, shift the value to the left

4. if there was an overflow (the high bit was 1 before the shift), xor the value by a magic constant.

For certain values of the magic constant, this has the property of generating every integer in the range exactly once.
> So maybe jumping around so much is my great weakness too.

I've seen it suggested that if anybody lists 20 different programming languages on a resume, they're "obviously lying because it's impossible for any one person to have learned so many programming languages."
Exactly, but I'm not the one that is confused. You have no tangible property on which to seek your rent.
No he wasn't. He was trying to disparage and insult a perceived threat. "Cancer" is an inflammatory and negative thing to call something no matter how you spin it.

Ballmer wasn't stupid he could have been nuanced and precise if he wanted, he certainly knew the difference between a kernel and a license. He wanted to convince people to not use a given technology stack because he was invested in another. If that is not convincing enough at the time there was already a more accurate but still negative sounding phrase "The GPL is Viral", but that wasn't offensive enough and didn't attack the perceived enemy OS.
They didn't. The Gameboy screen had it's own idiosyncrasies and games looked like this: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/gameboy-inl...
Ask HN: 5 most important problems for a 22 yo to work on
First question from Sam's interview of Elon: http://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/

If you were ~22 years old now, what are the 5 problems you think would be most important to work on?

Particularly in the sense of helping push the world forward/ helping humanity thrive.
Your comment reminded me of this interview [1] with Steve Jobs:

"And they showed me really three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn't even really see the other two.

One of the things they showed me was Object Oriented Programming. They showed me that, but I didn't even see that.

The other one they showed me was really a networked computer system. They had over a hundred Alto computers, all networked, using email, et cetera, et cetera. I didn't even see that.

I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the Graphical User Interface. I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life. Now remember, it was very flawed; what we saw was incomplete, they'd done a bunch of things wrong, but we didn't know that at the time. Still though, the germ of the idea was there, and they'd done it very well.

And, within, you know, ten minutes, it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this. Basically, they were copier-heads that just had no clue about a computer or what it could do. And so they just grabbed defeat from the greatest victory in the computer industry. Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry today. Could have been a company ten times its size. Could have been IBM. Could have been the IBM of the 90s. Could have been the Microsoft of the 90s."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y&t=56
To the extent that the Chinese Room is interesting, it's also irrelevant here. It's a worthwhile thought experiment for considering consciousness and learning, but as you say, it's dualism. That has very little impact on the here-and-now of questions like "are we all going to die?"

The "analog of desire" passage was particularly egregious this way. If an AI follows its programming and thereby kills me (or kills everyone), I'll have very little interest in whether it desired that outcome.

Asserting a difference between desires and goals one advances is a tough philosophical case (or semantic pedantry, depending), and not one I care to entrust my survival to.

I appreciate your breakdown of the article, which managed to miss the state of several arts at once.
Much appreciated! Based on this comment and others from HN, I think I'm going to add a whole section for Formulation/Ingredients, show the full label, talk about the process etc. Thank you again!
uBlock's Badware list blocks it, and via its documentation page I found these two links:

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/.COM.COM+Used+For+Malicious+Typo+...

https://www.whitehatsec.com/blog/why-com-com-should-scare-yo...

Seems like this has been going on for a while...
Vultr has many more locations than the others. There aren't too many good, affordable providers in AU/NZ.
All data associated with my user account, perhaps with some kind of a schema if applicable. Other services could then implement data import features for this, or for just the part of the data that concerns the service they are providing.

Basically, it should be clear that all data connected to a person is irrevocably theirs. Any provider can build services for taking advantage of the data -- but it'd be the user's right to migrate it at their pleasure.
Getting too much fluoride is something that can occur as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis
It is well-known. uBlock blocks anything ending in ".com.com" by default. It's on most badware block lists.

It's not a hole in the web any more than people accidentally typing "fcaebook.com" is a hole in the web. It's just someone exploiting user error, not unlike domain squatting. If you hit "CTRL+ENTER" in most browsers' address bars, they used to blindly append ".com" onto the domain name. If you typed "facebook.com" and then hit CTRL+ENTER, you'd get to facebook.com.com. As far as I know, all browsers have fixed that.

This isn't actually phishing (as far as I know) because it's not trying to trick you into thinking you've gone to the correct website. It's just a malware distribution page.

I believe OpenDNS also blocks this, for the record.
Funny thing I realized not too long ago is that everyone has a different idea of what it means when they say "I know this person." I used to think sales people were well connected (and I'm sure they are), but when a sales person says they know someone, it probably means they met at a bar somewhere at least once. :)

For myself, it would be hard for me to say I know them, let alone call them up. Maybe the lesson for myself is that most people are pretty receptive of just being called up if you have a legitimate reason and there's no harm in being more open about connecting (you won't get in trouble for calling someone a friend even though they are definition an acquaintance).
And the fact that most companies claw back your granted vacation at the end of the year means you can't save a couple of days for colds over the winter.
Because if they're right I won't be able to hate them.
I was put off by their TextField implementation. Their oversized <input> element doesn't play well with browsers, eg. the browser's auto-complete looks completely out of space.
> Old-school coders are the best there are.

Looking at all the programmers I've worked with I see zero correlation between age in skill. None in either direction.

You assertion that programming is an NFL-style career is one devoid of any merit of substance. There is no time clock on a programmer's career the way there is in any professional sport.
Apple is not reading this. you should find a way to submit to the "official" channel
Indeed, there is no "opt out" as traditionally defined. There is only a "hide my personal results results from me, but keep collecting everything".
Yes, but more is merrier. They have negligible presence in colleges, startups, big data... Also Web development outside enterprise is entirely linux. So they have lots of area for landgrab.
Show HN: Pay $1 for every day you don't push to GitHub
Intentionality...free will...Chinese box...consciousness... the usual philosophical bullshit.

The more likely threat is a corporation run by a machine learning system set to maximize shareholder return and nothing else. When an AI can make more profitable decisions than a human, an AI will be put in charge. Investors will demand it. Think about that for a while.

At least this will solve the problem of excessive CEO pay.
While we're at it, these are great interviews and I'm glad they're being created and published, and I'd appreciate if the series was available as a podcast... I only noticed this new interview because I happened to be on HN right now.
Dear Input Coffee,

First off, I would feel very uncomfortable contradicting Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Bill Joy in one fell swoop. Who am I to judge, though. Argument from authority can be fallacious, sure, so let's not go there.

Think about this for a minute. By the same argument you're taking, we are just lumps of organic molecules replicating with DNA, surely we can't feel anything, right? The thing you're not considering here is emergent behaviour.

Now, you haven't talked about self-programming machines in your article, and I'm pretty sure that's what all the really smart people you've rebuked in your subtitle are scared of. Do a quick Google search for "self-programming" AND "machine learning" AND "genetic". If you've read Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, you should be getting goosebumps right about now. If not, and are interested in AI in any way, I cannot stress hard enough how badly you need to go out and get that book.

I was also surprised to see you didn't include Nick Bostrom's book called Superintelligence (2014) in your quotes. If you haven't check it out, I would highly recommend it. It goes deep and wide into how a sudden, exponentially growing spike of machine intelligence could impact our society.
Coverstory gives News a full body makeover. Now we need your feedback
I know you grapple day-in-day-out with the same thought: why isn't News sexy? I mean, look at Weather. Weather has Dark Sky, Solar, and even Yahoo Weather has stepped up their game. These apps have simple UI and a beautiful useful-feel-good polish.

And then, we have News. News is like Cinderella...if Cinderella never actually met her fairy godmother. News is like Trump, if Trump.....no wait, News is like Trump, period. You read on with unwitting curiosity and are yuuuge-sigh-of-relief thankful when it's over. Yup, News -- the only thing older than Larry King -- is still an infamous blob of text, transferred from print to web to mobile to the entirely revolutionary Apple News (gasp!).

Fear not, our non-communist comrade, Coverstory is here. Coverstory is a mobile take on News. Imagine there was no News up to this day, and all we did was live in the moment and spend more time with friends and family. I know, terrible. We put ourselves in that mindset for many a days and gave birth to Coverstory: News that is for mobile by mobile (we pace a lot in our office).

To put aside this seriousness with more seriousness: we need your feedback on the UX! Hacker News is the first public community to gain access to Coverstory, and we appreciate all you have to say. (It is iOS only, I know I know...).

Get Coverstory here (App Store link): http://cvrstry.com
The thing is, at 24 you certainly don't have any way to know what you're going to be like or how you will feel about work when you're 30, 40, or 50+.

Personality might not vary much over time but careers, interests and aptitudes often change dramatically over decades.
Agreed, it's really excessive to take simple text content and trap it within a PDF that's then trapped inside Scribd, which requires a Scribd account and login to download.
I'm not clear on what you think the worst thing you can do to a co-worker is.

I just skimmed the article again, and it says something about the lady being in a room for meeting with a bunch of men and them all joking about being "dismissive about their wives" and that a manager told her to "smile as I walked past".

I must have missed a memo somewhere along the line. When did saying "smile" to someone become "one of the most commonly reported forms of subtle sexism."

Perhaps you were referring to something else, in which case I apologise.
Friendly reminder that this is a quote from a work of fiction. One that doesn't exactly have a lot of rigor in terms of the science/philosophy involved, really.

> But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.

Actually, nature had a patent on that one long before humans showed up. It's the author of that "primitive cerebrum", too. We've been spending the past however many thousands of years to try undo this reality. But we're really new to this party.

These AI's also sound awfully like humans. And they're motivated to create lots of humans (regardless of happiness of thereof) and collect them as batteries. Surely we should trust these ones to create a best world for us, and they have no reason to lie to us. I'm sure people resisted this in the Matrix because they disliked happy worlds. Not, you know, because having your entire reality be controlled by some other entity is worrying.
do you understand the difference between "noisy" and "biased"?
This article (and maybe all of SV culture) conflates "passion" with "working yourself to death" -- or it's at least responding to people who do. I disagree with that equation.

Working until you burn out isn't passion. It's obsession.
Thanks! I figured it was related to the domain com.com, but still shocked that such a prominent domain name could be running such an obviously damaging ploy.
I also have an MacBookPro12,1 and the Thunderbolt adapter was the first accessory I bought. You are right that you don't need it at home, but many customers do not have wifi at all and the only way to connect at their site is Ethernet.
Related how pixel art on a CRT is different from anything else: Darren Walls Kickstarter-funded book 'The Bitmap Brothers' will use a special form of pixel art printing!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrenwall/the-bitmap-b...
Right. Sorry, it was sort of a joke. I've been told I'm not very good at them.
I don't understand how people can pretend that a SSN isn't a national ID number. Of course it is.

If a state wants to show that it isn't, then make changes that make the number unsuited to being a national ID number. Let people pick their own number or reduce it to a 4 digit number.
Then they must not want it very badly.
Long enough to earn trust.

I still don't trust Sony after the RootKit fiasco, and it might be another decade before I do. Or Sprint after the IQ agent keylogger.

There are simply too many other companies with similar products to ms, sony or sprint that have no public dishonesty on their record. I can just use someone else's product until they have been good corporate citizens long enough that I have forgotten.
This article reminded me a lot of stuff written by Mumford, Jacques Ellul, and even Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber). Their stuff is worth reading.

Industrial Society and Its Future http://wildism.org/rca/items/show/13

Also Ellul's The Technological Society
Ayn Rand definitely moved away from Nietzsche (as they are very different), but I think it's hard to deny his influence on her. Some parallels, particularly her idea of the ubermensch, are very Nietzschean (though again, the actual definition of the two differ markedly). To really understand where she's coming from, and where she's getting her ideas (which are often better and more deeply explored elsewhere) you have to read other philosophy. Nietzsche is one, perhaps Aristotle is another.

As for my allegation of Rand's hate for Objectivists, it looks like I misremembered. It was actually Libertarians who Rand despised, not Objectivists.[1]

[1] - http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-ideas/ayn-rand-q-on-a-on-...
It's not a proper sandbox. Converted apps run with full trust. There's file system and registry redirection but a malicious app can get around it. See this discussion: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1312055

Also full trust vs app container here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop...
Hi there. That certainly is inconvenient!

Here's a link to the transcript in RTF, and we will definitely note it for future posts: https://goo.gl/kaMMwv
> Human communication is much more nuanced than just the words on their own would indicate.

Said the guy who further up the thread said he "can't fathom how that could possibly be construed as sexist."
I agree that the artwork in FFTA holds up better today. However I think that had Diablo gone with a brighter color palette, and used pixel art closer in style to FFTA instead of 3D models converted to sprites, it would not have been nearly as successful as it was, nor would it have captured the mood it was going for.

I also agree with his criticism of Goldeneye vs Grim Fandango. However, which of those games was more successful?

Sometimes good art doesn't sell as well as flashy effects that may look antiquated in 5-10 years.
The person who wrote this is 37.

Imagine how much harder it is for a Guy I know. He's in his early 60s and has been looking for a job for over six months. Every interview he's had goes really well until they realise he's not 23. Then it's all 'Err, we want someone less technical.' Or 'Err, you're too technical for the role.'

This is someone with over 40 years industry experience, from designing and building mainframes to working on cutting-edge image processing, to managing teams of engineers and more.

Incidentally, if anyone knows of a role which may be suitable for someone like him he'd be really interested.