skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If prospective terrorists are already well educated, will linking to alternative viewpoints tell them anything they didn't already know?

Of course not. People joining know what they're getting into and why.

These approaches are borderline delusional.
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Not easy, but possible. With bitcoin, not so much.
Venture capital is a hell of a drug
The article is saying that intel should be worried because Ax chips are competitive with their chips. Whether iOS is a good replacement for Mac OS is irrelevant. Mac OS can run on Ax chips with no significant effort from Apple and not much from third party developers.
HP pre-programmed faux failure date of non-HP ink cartridges in its printers
I would think no rational being would argue that conscious psychological phenomena are disconnected from subconscious phenomena. It is eminently rational to note that we do not have a complete grasp of the inner workings of human consciousness and mind.

> Here is an example you experience every single day and even right now if you type a reply to my comment. If you want to express an idea in words you don't consciously and methodically select words from a dictionary, no. The words come automatically with nary a thought, you just issue the command to summon the words to express your idea.

> Without this ability you (and more specifically reason) could not function at all, ergo, intuition and subconscious processes must be a component of reason, reason being our faculty for processing information.

To claim an equivalence between reason and intuition based on that reasoning would necessarily require that you also include irrational conscious behavior. Which I hope will show you that your position is, in effect, an empty proposition that sheds no light on the matter.

Intutitive thought processes and rational thought processes, in my mind, have the same relationship as music and mathematics. Clearly there is a common ground, but they are distinct.

Less whimsically, one may arrive at a decision based on intution that is subsequently validated by events. However, this arrival does not permit a retracing of steps to permit future decisions. Of course it is possible to extract a general law or principle from the experience, but that is not a given.

Reason, on the other hand, is the application of extant, and formulation of new, systemized understanding. However that should not be taken as a measure of the superiority of reason to intution, for it is equally true that intution can at times give us wings to go where reason can not take us.
Last I checked the average corporate lifespan in the US is 25 years, so these numbers don't seem abnormal to me. Indeed it is amazing that IBM is even still around.

I find it more peculiar that people think companies "must" (or even should) have long-term survival as a goal.
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Sorry, I should have specified I was talking about AU.

To sell internet connectivity here you must have a carrier license from ACMA. I've heard that it costs ~3k to get one. Which makes setting up an neighbourhood ISP just expensive enough that no one bothers. (this is on top of all the normal costs you mentioned)
> The USA is a lot more homogeneous than it is diverse.

Have you travelled outside of the major cities, or even > 50 mi away from an international airport? I've been traveling the country for a living for the last 15 years and the diversity is staggering.

If the USA is so homogeneous, what nation on this planet would you consider more diverse?
Can someone explain what a nil interface is and why it's useful?
But OS means you can fix the problem yourself instead of being at the mercy of the maintainer. We can use the parent post as an example:

> Game Maker 8.0 also produces executables that crash on recent versions of Windows when too many sounds are played simultaneously.

If GameMaker were open-source, they could fix this. They could probably even backport a fix from 8.1 or Studio.
You've seriously never copy-pasted one character short of the full line?

You have a far greater estimation of your own infallibility than I have of my own. Or yours, for that matter.

If you really believe that, I know some spear-phishers that would love to make your acquaintance.
>> Politicians really don't know how to tackle this problem, because no one from our culture room really understands the problem....

- ah but that is not entirely true! politicians do know what to do, but it is a tricky path. 》 move away from the Saudis & their cohorts in gulf arab countries. ISIS, AQ, AL Shahab etc are all ideological offshoots of Salafist/Wahhabist nexus. Counter this at the root (financially/ideologically/politically) and almost certain that 90% of the so called islamist extremism would flicker out.

this is going to be a multi year / multi pronged approach, and would need co-ordinated efforts by all kinds of actors (i.e. western + muslim governments, NGOs, religious groups etc). also a stellar idea would be to start giving more support to pluralistic streams of Islam i.e. Sufi, Ismaili, (some of the) Hanafi & like-minded faiths.
You must have watched a different movie than I did.
a reference would be great!
Did you read the same book I did?
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Absolutely. Thanks for saying what nobody likes to hear. Markets consistently undervalue research in the utilitarian sense, but I'm pretty sure they don't undervalue it in the economic sense. To be clear, I think this is a shortcoming in the economic notion of value, not in research.

> sure, might have some kind of long-term payoff, but not necessarily one captured by Google

That's the crux of it. It's not about unwillingness of companies to "think big" and "take risks", it's not about a shrinking horizon of shareholder ROI expectations, it's about the difficulty of capturing the value that gets created. Economic value that can't be captured isn't economic value. Maybe (probably, in this case) it's utilitarian value, but it's not economic value.

The notion of intellectual property was a valiant attempt to turn things around, but it introduces so much friction and so many routes of exploitation that it really hasn't changed the fact that on some level markets are fundamentally incompatible with basic research -- which is why fighting to fund it through the government is so important.
If only one could go back in time and fix the weird overloading of nil for pointers and interfaces...it is the one breaking change to the Go1 language guarantee that seems worth it.
Volume up and down are used as modifiers. Sounds crazy but it works.
I'm still a novice emacs user, and a kind-of-longtime vim user, heres my "journey"

2010~2011: learn vim because I wanted to slack off studying for exams

2012: addicted to vim keybindings at this point, tell people 'I can't use other editors without "proper" vim keybindings'

2012: also discover tmux, because i wanted the ability to use vim keybindings and copy things in/out of shell

2012-2016: dabble with emacs sproadically, put off every time due to my vim keybinding addiction. tried evil mode during this time, and to my limited knowledge of emacs, things like C-u not working (scroll up half a page in vim) tick me off and in different modes the vim keybindings would suddenly disappear which was annoying

2016.04: discover spacemacs, try again, things work quite magically. in addition modes like org-mode are working as I expect (no random de-binding of evil-mode), discover new modes like magit and projectile-helm which keep me in (spac)emacs. also supports screen splitting with (:vsp, :sp) which is great.

one thing i really like about emacs is i still use the shell (awk/sed/ag/etc) for a lot of tasks, and since i can use the shell inside an emacs buffer, copying-pasting out of them are incredibly easy, replacing my tmux usage.

next step for me is to get more proficient in emacs (i hope i can read emails, do simple browsing, etc) and then hopefully setup emacs from scratch for an exercise instead of relying on spacemacs to do everything for me
Those changes look small enough that they could be natural variance.
Buffet tries to instill that message but maybe that's the polar opposite. He says build a companythat will last a lifetime.
I doubt it will ever happen.

The purpose of top degrees is signaling. Udacity, by its very mission (trying to democratize education), cannot offer that signal.

Of course, people with Udacity degrees likely already do get top jobs. They're not using the signal of the Udacity degree to get them though.
This is an excellent report.
>Who is willing to pay $3k/mo rent per homeless person?

If someone is willing, I just because homeless.
Yeah, it's so complex: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycbe/downloads/pdf/nycchecklist_res....

OP's examples were not obscure subsection g part 4 item iii-type stuff. They are basic things you'd think about if you were considering the impact of your business on the public.
> These people are insane.

No, not really. An earnings call for an enterprise that large is worth many human lives (at the standard rate of about $2 million, which is itself derived from both people's own insurance choices as well as court-case awards); part of what someone at that level is paid to do is to put her company (and the well-being of the millions of people with a stake in it) above herself, and Mrs. Porat did that.
There are important problems being solved by techies every day all over the place. Transportation, medicine, funding, housing, clothing. Why are you choosing to ignore all those areas and the businesses that are involved with them to focus on BeerMe?
Some amount of people probably assume that asking "What's more likely, A, or A and B" intends to ask for a comparison between A^~B and A^B, not simply A and A^B, in which case it would be an error in communication rather than an error in rationality.
Another crazy one was pigeon-controlled missiles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
Credit Suisse made a write up on some of the elements of RQ.

https://doc.research-and-analytics.csfb.com/docView?language...

It's based on a confidence calibration test available here confidence.success-equation.com
It shows nothing of the kind. Perhaps, if you were living somewhere with a lethal climate, and you became homeless, you would leave.

Or perhaps you would stay, thinking "homeless presence has nothing to do with the weather", and die. In either of those cases, the weather has shrunk the homeless population.
If it were possible to short Udacity, I'd be putting all my money into a short position.

This is obviously so far outside of Udacity's core wheelhouse that I have to assume it's simply an ego project for the founder. Unfortunately, before you start pursuing unrelated ego projects, your company should have several billion in cash in the bank.

I cannot possibly see how this ends up working out well for Udacity. Developing self-driving cars is very expensive and not their core expertise at all.
I love the idea of a "read only" map (or any other type), but it seems it is just a side-effect landmine in this case. Yuck...almost strikes me as a bug as described in the article
SF actually attracts homeless people. The last homeless count done showed 29% of homeless people in SF lost their housing outside the city, with 10% of that from out of state:

https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran... (search for "place of residence")

I rather suspect SF is a nice place to be homeless, as people seem to be "voting with their feet" and going there.
Reminds me of: https://m.signalvnoise.com/reconsider-41adf356857f#.56isp7pl...
That is the exact opposite of the truth.
I love the part on modern systems where you put the Agilent or Tektronix logic analyzer on the frontside bus of your Pentium system and just after it triggers on your test condition it pops up the screen "Please enter your Intel NDA license in order to display signals" Seriously, a piece of test equipment that won't display signals for the device under test.

So yes, 30 years from now, I doubt you'll be able to look at anything useful on a modern system.
Reading this reminds me of "The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free," by Steve Blank.[1] Here's the key passage:

"...the new CFO got up to give her presentation – all kind of expected; Sarbanes Oxley compliance, a new accounting system, beef up IT and security, Section 409A (valuation) compliance, etc. Then she dropped the other shoe. “Do you know how much our company is spending on free sodas and snacks?” And to answer her own question she presented the spreadsheet totaling it all up. There were some experienced VC’s in the room and I was waiting for them to “educate” her about startup culture. But my jaw dropped when the board agreed that the “free stuff” had to go. “We’re too big for that now” was the shared opinion. But we’ll sell them soda “cheap.” ...

One day the engineering team was clustered in the snack room looking at the soda machine. The sign said, “Soda now 50 cents.” The uproar began. Engineers started complaining about the price of the soda. Someone noticed that instead of the informal reimbursement system for dinners when they were working late, there was now a formal expense report system. Some had already been irritated when “professional” managers had been hired over their teams with reportedly more stock than the early engineers had. Lots of email was exchanged about “how things were changing for the worse.” A few engineers went to the see the CEO.
But the damage had been done. The most talented and senior engineers looked up from their desks and noticed the company was no longer the one they loved. It had changed. And not in a way they were happy with. The best engineers quietly put the word out that they were available, and in less than month the best and the brightest began to drift away."

[1] https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
We must have read different books
I wonder, could you deconstruct a foreign syntax by bringing in new stuff into the dolphins environment that lends itself to be described by concepts that they already had.

Like adding a piece of floating cloth, that gets described as seaweed, etc. That way a syntax should be deriveable.
+100 for 'what do i turn off this time'

every release there is more and more 'sexiness' that breaks useful functionality. i can't even comprehend what someone did to gud.

it used to be that you opened up a tgz and it would nicely display a dired mode of the contents. not for a long time.

and c indenting used to just work- now it seems to be confused by looking for patterns that exist by convention, not as any part of the language specification...so indenting just doesn't work a lot of the time

and for some reason someone with truly awful taste gets to choose the color schemes for highlighting (font-lock). i used to be able to just turn it off...but that becomes increasingly difficult

for a 30 years emacs user, it just keeps getting worse all the time
What's the tbody for? Can I write a table with multiple tbody's? What would be the effect?
MC:Ed runs on Macs as well. More details of Minecraft's codebases:

Minecraft at this point has 3 separate codebases: the original one written in Java, the "Pocket Edition" codebase, and the console codebase.

The Java edition was the "original" Minecraft codebase. It runs on most versions of macOS, Windows and Linux. Because it is written in Java, it is very easily moddable and has a large modding scene. Most features arrive here first.

The console port was developed by 4J Studios in C++ and released in 2012 for the Xbox 360. It now runs on most game consoles.

Mojang separately released an iOS/Android port in 2012, known as Minecraft Pocket Edition. This port is also written in C++. The PE codebase was ported to Windows 10 as well (W10 can run the Java version as well).

Back to MC:Ed. MC:Ed is a spiritual successor to a third-party product, MinecraftEdu (Java Edition licensed from Mojang, modded to be suitable for education). Microsoft bought the company behind MinecraftEdu and is replacing it with MC:Ed, which is based on the PE codebase and runs on Windows 10 and macOS (El Cap+).
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In Ruby, you could do:

10.times.map do |i|
-> { puts i }
end.shuffle.each(&:call)

This makes 10 lambdas which print the current value of the loop and then calls them in random order. Each puts sees a different i.

I don't think the behaviour in the article is really a problem with loop variables, but with defer. It is odd that defer packages up the function and its arguments when it is defined. Deferring printing i remembers the value of i at that time, whilst deferring printing &i remembers the (unchanging) address of i.

OTOH, having defer remember the values makes things like

f = open("file1")
defer f.close()
... do stuff ...
f = open("file2")
defer f.close()

close both files, which is probably what the programmer expected. I think that's pretty horrible code, but either way some people are going to find the results surprising.

Go's "problem" is that it can't efficiently give i a new address in each iteration: it'd have to put each one in a new memory location.
I think it's mostly meant as a class project, and that seems like something in their wheelhouse.
I created a minimalist library to replace Redux
When I say "replace Redux", I by no means intend to imply that I want to oust it. Redux is awesome, and it's the king of the hill right now.

I just found myself a bit fed up with the amount of boilerplate involved in wiring Redux to React, and so I set out to create something that was easier to use and understand.

I'm interested in any suggestions, advice, and opinions people have for it. This is my first time creating a project with the intention to maintain it - so I'm eager to see what becomes of it!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimux
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Perhaps, but the focus on a specific, more expensive set of homeless people sure is.
Amateur Radio Parity Act Passes in the US House of Representatives
The problem is that those complaints may be baseless but disproving them is not costless.

And, of course, it's perfectly possible for the laws to be wrong.
I have nothing to add other than my voice of agreement about the clear corruption of these laws.

What is the benefit, to the people of North Carolina, of restricting municipal ISP growth?
What rights are being protected by these laws?
I am disgusted by the clear disregard of the people of NC's interests, but also by the lack of action by the people themselves.
Wouldn't it have made sense to revert the first subpar commit, pulled aside the contributors and explained to them what is acceptable?

Disowning the project seems like a lose/lose situation.
YouTube has the luxury of not needing real-time compression. Latency hurts usability more than low frame rate.
leading a team of people doing machine learning has nothing to do with an MBA.
IMO, first we need to solve the smaller issues, most importantly to have developers start making high-quality software consistently.

There is nothing that will get solved with the current "bugs are unavoidable" mentality, which is simply a mediocre and unprofessional attitude.

The way I see it, if mediocre developers try to "solve" world issues, the solutions will be mediocre as well, just like their software.

More of my thoughts here: http://ortask.com/why-your-mindset-might-be-setting-your-sof...
What a small world, I worked with Greg at CashStar where he started the fork of django-money. I still remember the conversation we had in a meeting if we should fork the project or push our PR upstream to fix the issues we found. I'm glad our upstream PR started a trend to keep the library going. This is why I like open source, when you no longer need something you can hand it off to someone else who can take over, and let the code live on.
It's Fortune magazine -- consider the audience. This is capital convincing itself that it is morally superior to labor.
For those of you interested in science fiction whose interest was piqued by this comment, here's some required reading:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html
> There were a lot of regulations, and they had to go several rounds with the city during their build-out. But they got through it.

So far as you know. The problem is that it's entirely possible that there's some little-known codicil of some code which they are in violation of, the rectification of which could at the outside cost as much as they've already invested.
Depends on the skills and experience that you can put on your CV. If you plan to continue to work in fintech, then some conservative firms might see you as job hopping prematurely. Depends on whether you are prepared to accept a drop in salary - after allowing for the increased costs of living back West. Depends whether your skills are in demand in non-fintech sector.

Assuming that you do not have to quit now or even in Feb. Your best bet is to start going for jobs that meet your criteria and see how you go. You will quickly find out whether your short tenure is raising any red flags or not. Having a completed project/product is always going to be a plus.
NYC has lower homelessness because it spends a ridiculous amount of money on the problem and has more public housing units than anywhere. People who claim to be homeless get priority for placement.

Right now, so much focus is on this problem that backlogs for section 8 and other housing are dropping in the broader region because clients are moving to NYC.
[using a throwaway here to avoid offending anyone]

I actually think there's a LOT of fat that could be cut at Google without affecting innovation. One person I know - I've literally never seen him wearing a shirt that he didn't get for free at Google. I've seen people get new Mac power adapters because the tech stop was closer than their desk.

These things are pretty small compared to salaries - and they do serve a purpose - having to buy your own t-shirts and pay for your own gym membership is a pretty good reason never to quit, but I wonder how much they foster a culture of just throwing money at problems instead of innovating? I wonder how much they make Googlers soft and entitled.
> But is ignorance really the root cause? Researchers found that Islamist radicals are disproportionately well educated, and frequently have an engineering background.

Yes, ignorance is the root cause (well.. technically speaking there is never a "root cause" since you can always ask another round of whys). The problem is that smart and well-educated people can become ignorant.

The studies of these people also found that they are typically big believers in conspiracy theories. And I think that's the crux.

Conspiracy theory is like a cancer of the mind. When you believe in some conspiracy theory, then everything that other people are saying, or evidence they provide, is categorized as invalid, with reasoning that either those people are part of conspiracy itself or hapless masses brainwashed by the conspirators. So effectively, you decided to discount all external inputs on the matter (in other words, you chose to be ignorant).

The ingenious part is that it's not strictly irrational. Even if you close your mind to external evidence, rationality can have its field day, you can still work things out through logic. (And for sure, external inputs can be confusing and look inconsistent too.) It's like in a logic system which is inconsistent - anything can be proven within it, and that limits seeing its own inconsistency. (Luckily, the diversity of possible opinions of conspiracy theorists significantly limits spread of their theories.)

I have seen very smart and educated people fall prey on this. Libertarians, AGW deniers.. They tend to argue on rational/logic grounds rather than look out for the evidence. I think we should teach people, if your theory requires conspiracy of more than, say, 10k people, then it's a giant red flag and you should by all means reconsider the evidence.