skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A service based one on top of a component based one has inherent data flow problems. ng-bootstrap, following in the footsteps of UI Bootstrap, takes a promise-based approach because we believe this is clearly the best API pattern out there for dealing with modals from experience working with users' needs. An evented model is extremely cumbersome/awkward, and any component-based model must go that route to signal when it opens/closes. A promise best describes this situation.
I wonder how much of the desire to hang on to SSN as a private identifier is rooted in the fact that SSN's contain a bit of personal data. Until 1972, the first 3 digits represented where you were born or where the card was issued. Afterwards they represent the mailing address for the application for the card.

And because of that design decision, some states were fairly close to running out of SSNs: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

Today, SSNs are randomized: https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html

Considering the numbering system was created in the 1930s, their idea of what constitutes a unique, private (i.e. hard to remember) number is a bit less relevant today.
It makes sense to me that we are no longer talking about a mugging, because if we were, then what I said would have been true. The fact that this argument had to shift to a kidnapping in order to continue should be testament enough to the validity of my original point.
I understand sarcasm, that's for sure.

As a matter develops, parties tend to drop out if they think that their chances have declined beyond some threshold. But if they continue, or more likely, their legal representation suggests they continue, it implies that they think they have a good chance of success.

Of course, you can get irrational litigants but most of the time, if it goes to judgement, both parties think they have a high chance of success. Otherwise they would have bailed.
One specific problem is that global companies are currently able to engage in tax arbitrage where they get to shuffle their profits around the world to wherever the most favorable tax rate is. This leaves many of the countries that actually host these companies and provide services to them - like educated employees, transportation infrastructure, and a judicial system - without any tax revenue from the company.
Why not use a modified Elo rating? That way you can not only easily figure out if you're going to win, but simulate the outcome of different scenarios?
Soldiers exposed to high levels of radiation by the United States governement
That is a direct quote from the article. The article states $36B as well, not $360B.

"None of this helps the image of big business. Paying tax seems to be unavoidable for individuals but optional for firms. Rules are unbending for citizens, and up for negotiation when it comes to companies. Nor do profits translate into jobs as once they did. In 1990 the top three carmakers in Detroit had a market capitalisation of $36 billion and 1.2m employees. In 2014 the top three firms in Silicon Valley, with a market capitalisation of over $1 trillion, had only 137,000 employees."
The entire SSN system is a disgrace. We've had the cryptographic tools for decades to do it right, but we instead treat SSNs as both identifier and some sort of awful bearer token. In any sane system, knowing an actor's precise identity should not permit impersonating that actor!
I always understood the talk of "desires" and "taking over" to be a strategy to explain the real problems of AI. I don't think these people actually think that AI will lead to a future like I, Robot.

Cuz there ARE major problems with automated computer systems already, problems that only get worse with automated computing. Kevin Slavin has a good talk on the subject, and he brings up the occurrence of "flash crashes" in the stock market now that we rely on high frequency / algorithmic trading.

Here's the talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_...
“The Fear of AI” Actually Means Two Things
I am 30 and I recently changed my apartment because there were simply too many old people in the complex. I want to live in apartments where there are plenty of girls who just crossed the legal age limit to drink.

We all love youth and there is a good reason for why so. But at the same time because we are older and we tend to have more money and control more stuff. Most of the 30 something coders will rise up to the higher positions in next 10 years.
There is much more opportunity for a CS new grad in the Bay Area than there is in San Diego. This is true for practically every city when being compared to the Bay Area, right?

As a CS grad, you have a shot at working for Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. and these are regarded as some of the best places to work __in the world__. For the Hacker News crowd I'll add that you might not agree, but that perception is certainly widespread.

The huge opportunity in the Bay Area for them, at this point in their lives, outweighs the benefits of living in San Diego. Google "San Diego vs Bay Area" to see what those are. Cost of living, weather, beaches are probably on the list.

The discussion in the article about Sorrento Valley is ridiculous. It's a tiny area just minutes away from La Jolla and University Towne Centre (UTC). La Jolla/UTC is heavily developed, modern, and has plenty of young people due to being close to UCSD. Don't forget all the non-tech grads go to live somewhere too. Perhaps it is being compared to Silicon Valley because they both have "valley" in the name.
It isn't a problem trusting each other when working together.

But honestly, the bigger issue is the reaction. Is freaking out part of the procedure? Is there nothing folks are trained to do except shoot? I'd much rather a dude get away - and no one getting hurt - than to have a shootout start from either side. I'm gonna guess it is more likely that the person would just run away than start shooting up innocent folks.

I'm also completely comfortable with police not carrying weapons without calling it in, actually, because the result is citizens less afraid of cops and cops that think ahead slightly more - and treat people better.
I will know we should start fearing AI when AI is writing pieces on Medium that says we shouldn't fear it :-)

But more importantly, the good/bad conversations are really about sentient[1] AI and not programmatic AI. Essentially the argument boils down to, "If a sentient AI is created that exists in, and can control, inter-connected computer systems, that AI will be able to take action to satisfy any particular 'want' it might have."

So it gets "scary" if you create an AI that is "wanting" something. And I could imagine this done innocuously, for example creating a trading system like deepmind what "wanted" to "win the securities game" by maximizing the value of its holdings. And the risk being that there are very destructive ways to achieve that (killing off your competition for example). But in those scenarios, when it is clear the program is operating outside of its control parameters, the question would be how would it have already figured out that it could be turned off/deleted and so protected itself against that? And that is why sentience is required, by recognizing itself apart from its programming, it recognizes threats to its existence.

I tend to lean more toward the "unlikely to be an issue in the near future." camp.

[1] Sentience being the effect that the program actually understands it's own existence apart from the environment.
Rape jokes are obviously unacceptable because they would violate even the flimsiest of sexual harassment policies.
The problem with the libertarian explanation is that it contradicts the actual facts. The "age of the Regulatory" state started in the 1930's. It has been in decline for decades--with major sectors of the economy being deregulated in the 1980's and 1990's. In the 1950's and 1960's, regulatory agencies often had the power to directly exclude potential competition and set prices for goods. They have a fraction of those power today. Surely, that decrease in regulatory authority would be linked to a decrease in consolidation. But consolidation has increased during that time.

Moreover, there is a difference between a plausible theory and showing actual causation. How is lobbying helping Amazon and Wal-Mart to replace smaller retailers? Point to something concrete. Because it looks like the real explanation is the massive efficiency advantages those big firms possess.

Looking at other sectors of the economy: why are Apple and Samsung taking almost all of the profits in the smartphone industry? Are they better at lobbying the "Regulatory State" than HTC or Nokia?
When it first started out you needed an invitation. Gmail had the same thing. Google does this fairly often to prevent still developing services from being crushed by an onslaught of signups.

G+ never gained traction because it was always the nerdier also-ran to Facebook. Everyone was already on Facebook and G+ didn't really offer anything compelling to make people want to switch. It had (has?) somewhat better segregation of your friends but keeping track of all of that is too much hassle for most people and doesn't really buy them much. Trying to decide if only your family would appreciate this witty cartoon or if you can also include your work colleagues is not something people want to do on every post.
Indeed; for me this applies to tobacco!
It's usually the same in the gaming world too.
Yes and no on driving - my BF and I share a car, use car2go, and walk around our neighborhood. We live in North Park. He is a video engineer for conventions and tradeshows, so he's more in the tourism industry than anything. It's actually a very lucrative career - up there with tech, if you play your cards right and have the right work ethic/talent then it can pay and provide well.

I'm in tech. I work in robotics and VR. Granted, the robotics company is in SF, but the VR company is down here. I do have to drive to work with my own car. But my BF can use car2go to get downtown when I've got the car.

We rent in NP and pay around $1000 (we got lucky) for a 1bd. We're anticipating needing a 2bd within the next two years (he's got two kids) and that should run us up to $2000 by the time we need it. That'll work though, our incomes can support that. If either of the startups I work at do well, then we'll be looking to buy in the next 5-6 years.

Housing is nowhere near as expensive here as it is in SF or NYC, though. Even better if you're DINK (dual income, no kids). We probably have to pay more for his kids from a previous marriage than we would if they were ours (child support any whatnot), but it's possible to afford housing here.

Where are you now?
I'm 25, but I think some are blatantly obvious:

> Food distribution

The world produces enough food to feed everyone, but there isn't a framework in place to eliminate waste and feed starving people at the same time.

> Education

Lots of people are working on this already, but highly effective education tailored to every specific person available for free, worldwide, would be a game changer.

> Infrastructure

The US in particular is falling way, way behind where it needs to be. Look up the situation with bridges, and that's to say nothing of our electrical grid.

> 100% Renewable energy

No brainer but difficult to solve.

> A new way of interfacing with computers

Mouse and keyboard are great, but what if we didn't have to use analog methods for communicating intent to a computer quickly and unambiguously? Could also allow for paralyzed/incapacitated people to communicate easily and maintain social interaction
What's wrong with posting a bitly link?
I look it up Ford, GM had sales over 100B that year. assuming maybe Toyota as the 3rd.
I have no clue what you're even talking about. Sorry, this will be my last reply.
There are plenty of oddities in that syntax. I can get behind pseudo-code, but this seems to not be a solution to the problem.
Part of the reason is that it assumes nuclear weaponry or genetic modification are not major, major issues. Moreso the latter than the former. I'd say that the consequences of biotech need to be paid attention to a lot more for the same reasons we should pay more attention to the consequences of AI.
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Ah, shoot. I forgot that happens there too (at least you can close that popup and get back to the content :) )

And definitely noted!
It doesn't make sense to you probably because you haven't had enough education in philosophy. The thing is that philosophy rarely happens in a vacuum. Usually philosophers build on and respond to the ideas of other philosophers.

So to really understand and see where they're coming from, you have to understand their predecessors and the dialogue which has been going on for thousands of years.

To understand the trickier philosophers like Derrida or some other Continentals, you're probably also going to need the help of a talented teacher who understands these philosophers themselves -- someone you're unlikely to find in Analytic philosophy departments where contempt for Continentals reigns. At best, you're going to get a strongly distorted view of Derrida as Analytics see him. That will not do justice to his thought.

That said, I'm not a fan of Derrida myself. I much prefer Nietzsche and Heidegger. Foucault's cool too, though, for his attempts to address power, punishment, mental illness and marginalized portions of society -- all subjects that other philosophers ever touch. I should read more of him.
Not only that, but in US salaried status is routinely used to avoid paying overtime, when overtime is a tacit requirement of many jobs.
That line of explanation was never satisfying to me because it doesn't adequately address what happens when any company gets so large that they can apply a full range of non-regulated techniques to extract rents far above value provided?

Without government don't you get the the same place faster?
I actually find that the laid back attitude helps weed out the people who aren't serious about what they're doing. It's possible to have a life, enjoy the sunshine, and work hard. But you're right on the long-term R&D cycles. I agree with that.
It's not the role of government to brush my teeth.
The article's wording is a bit misleading here. The first-tier and second-tier compilers are always available throughout the entire lifetime of the program. The first-tier compiler performs very few optimizations, but compiles very quickly. It is a simple and literal compiler -- most direct translation of byte code to machine code. It's meant to be a quick win to get out of interpreted mode, which is vastly slower. The second-tier compiler is slower, but also takes advantage of the data collected during runtime profiling to make optimizations. Basically, there's a trade-off between the time it takes to run the second-tier compiler and the time it will save. By comparison, the first-tier compiler is almost always a win over interpreted code, even if the code is only run a small number of times.

Now, sometimes optimizations can be "wrong", in the sense that something new has happened that invalidates an assumption used during second-tier compilation. Here's a real-world example: I have an interface and only one loaded class that implements that interface. The second-tier compiler will use this information to basically do this:

function doStuff(MyInterface a) {
if (a.getClass() != MyClass.class)
deoptimize();

// Do everything from here on assuming
// that a is an instance of MyClass.
// This includes inlining simple getter
// methods to pure field accesses, etc.
}

Now, when a second class that implements `MyInterface` is loaded and makes it to that function, it will hit the `deoptimize` branch and go back to first-tier or even interpreted mode. Eventually the function will be recompiled by both tiers with the new assumption -- two implementing classes.

So, in the case of deoptimization, it can be a win to keep the first-tier code to fall-back to.
Getting rid of a video out would be the single dumbest idea they could ever have. You will literally lose every professional on the planet who needs to present. I don't know of a projector in a corporate environment that supports airplay. 90% of them are still stuck with vga.
Did you just stop reading the comment after that sentence?

I was able to fully charge my laptop from a power bank using a phone's USB cable while everyone else was relegated to simply using their phones and waiting for power restoration. What is not "working" about that?
I don't know why you are being downvoted. You put forward a valid point.
Perhaps the fanboys here could understand the desperation most of the world still lives in, even today!!!
That's worse than Win32 since it gives you a false sense of security and you have no way, AFAIK, to see what the app is doing (or to check if it's a true "native" UWP app). Some app uploading my personal stuff without my permission (no extra privileges required) is worse than a cryptolocker.
I use the same set of headphones with an Aune T1 DAC (I'm sure there are better ones out there, but I bought it a few years ago) and it works great. The thing I really like about this setup is that the DAC is class compliant, so it will work if I connect it to any iOS or MacOS device, although it requires a powered USB hub when I connect it to my iPad.

It's kind of cool to have a lossless, high quality audio setup you can listen to with a mobile device, although I'll be the first to admit that you could spend a lot more money if you wanted to get a better setup.
Just got this set up internally and it seems pretty slick, but my chief complaint is the heavy focus on Logstash (which we don't use), instead of Elasticsearch (which is really what's meant). Also, it seems to be missing support for wildcard indices or hourly (non-daily) indices in Elasticsearch.
Sorry about that, we're back up now!
A UFAI would be an extinction level event for our species. That involves studying decision theory, which will improve our ability to make the right choices.

Cheaper access to space would make lives easier for humans on Earth, give us better internet through the use LEO satellites. We would be able to mine space rocks and bring it back to Earth, reducing some material scarcity on Earth. Same for space manufacturing.
I have business class internet in a rural community in Tx. Advertised speed in 10/2 but I usually get around 20/2 for $100/month. It is fixed wireless.
Good job man, despite all the hate from linux users to windows, truth to be told, this might be helpful instead of running arch on a vm..
Totally disagree. Vive owner, btw.

There is a huge lack of content in the VR space. It's a total blue ocean and anyone with a computer and a platform to dev on can strike gold on every try right now, especially on the PC-based ones like Oculus and Vive. The lack of VR content means people is just consuming whatever that is available--Youtube, Netflix, and so on. It's not that they aren't interested in 'real' VR content, it's that there aren't any VR content to be interested in.
Out of curiosity: what would it take to turn that disk back into a working boot disk? I can only imagine how difficult it must be to find an Alto _with two disk drives_ these days to dub a boot disk onto your scrubbed one.

Does the Alto have any sort of recovery environment? e.g: boot from the (3Mbit?) Ethernet, or boot from a floppy/tape, etc. that would aid in such a task?
When you're using TCO-guaranteed language like Scheme, what's important is you recognize tail position, where TCO is guaranteed. Guaranteed TCO lets you express, for example, state machine using mutually recursive functions. You do see the tail calls as gotos and you heavily rely on that while you're coding.

In that regards, I feel that tail call "optimization" is misleading, since it gives an impression that it's some kind of optional bonus the compiler gives to you. The transformation such as your gcc example is, certainly, an "optimization". If you get one, you're lucky; if you don't, fine, you can live with it. Guaranteed tail call elimination is totally different---if you don't have one, you change the way you write code.

(So, the blanket statement of "Lisp" might be inappropriate, for it's only a subset of Lisps that has guaranteed TCO.)
nginx as a cache is very minimal-featured compared to Varnish. If it fits your workload, great. If not, Varnish is an exceptional tool.
Are you completing any of them? If not, delete all of them. This will prevent cognitive load.
"I find aristotle a bore, he was too myopic and clinical when philosophy is no such thing. He was firmly rooted in the shadow cast on the wall and not what was casting the shadow for my taste."

So which philosopher, in your view, got at what was casting the shadow?
The delta from "people die" to "people no longer die" is a massive technological problem. By comparison, once we have that technology, making it available to everyone is many orders of magnitude easier, and much easier to get funding for. Do you really believe, given a cure for mortality, that we couldn't get it to the rest of the world in much less time than it took to develop in the first place?

And with that in place, thousands of other smaller problems evaporate along with it.
I agree, when I first saw the splash image, I assumed that was the one being replaced! Because it doesn't look like pixel art, it looks like a high quality image was pixelated. By replicating reality so closely, you really easily see all the drawbacks of pixel art. Namely low resolution, and limited colors. Because it's not taking advantage of the medium of pixel art, but instead shoehorning realism into it.

They complain about the shape of someone's arms in Street Fighter? Who cares about realism, these characters can shoot fireballs from their hands. Look at Link in Link’s Awakening! His head must weigh 3x more than his body. If you find a screenshot with his sword, it's even weirder. The sword is simultaneously smaller than his head, and yet larger than the entire rest of his body. And have you ever seen a tree or wall that looks like that? But it looks freaking fantastic at that resolution.

I don't care if the author's art was entirely hand-made, it looks like a high quality image was pixelated by a computer. The art in King of Fighters' may have been done entirely by hand, but if the end results looks indistinguishable from a 3d render at low resolution with terrible aliasing, who cares what means was used to get the crappy look? The author restating things about "embracing the medium", but I don't believe they did.
Comparing yearly wage with market cap makes no sense. You should be looking at gross profit / year.
Unfortunately the DC we're at has yet to implement IPv6.
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Thunderbolt to VGA is only a $29 adapter ($19 if you want to use a non-Apple branded one) that I'm happy to carry to avoid having a thick, ugly notebook computer.

The DB15 adapter is insanely thick for a modern computing device. It should have died years ago, but unfortunately it's still required for most aging conference room video equipment.
English is really confusing as a second language. To make it even more complicated, words with racial or other 'insults' change from place to place. Not only that, but the English that is standard through Europe (outside of the UK) is slightly different altogether - folks will be able to talk to other Europeans, but yet get lost when going to an English speaking country.

But no worries, honestly, except for this minor slip, you seem to be doing well.
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Removing this comment as I misunderstood the intention behind the above comment. It is still useful to understand the differences between the phrases trans man and trans woman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_man