skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I actually agree with you, everything is driven by individual desire i.e. selfishness - even helping others, but it's a bit of a grim way of looking at things.

Like you're saying, it's a grim way to look at things and it's even a quite simplified view.

Sure, people sometimes help because of more selfish reasons, that they want to be praised, but I'm pretty sure that pure empathy for people can also be a quite big motivation to help.
Java: the language so ugly it has to wear a (IDE plugin) bag over its face while you're doing it.

Yes, I'll go have that talk with H/R now...
That's a worthless platitude. Your values mean nothing if you lose. Our ideals of democracy and human rights wouldn't be worth the paper they're written on if the Nazis or Communists achieved world domination.
This time it's different?

Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller could be on the list above.
Oh I agree that is how it works. Though I still think it interesting.

Historically, there's been a push-pull between engineering and the professions. Engineering (artillery, civil, metal-working and the like) being seen as low class labour where as the professions (law/medicine/natural philosophy then science) was seen as high class work.

I once believed this was because engineering always had a physical outcome, where as professional work could be done as a pure though experiment (e.g. law) or had literal connotations of power of live (e.g. medicine).

But looking at computer science/engineering, I wonder if that's a good hypothesis. CS is still suffering from the same low-prestige status despite having billionaires rise from its ranks, and despite that it has no physical equivalent.
That was excellent, thank you.
I think he just went back and changed the text file a few days later. I don't know how this works with the finger protocol (never used it), so it might just've been for himself.
Except for Middle America, South America, Africa, S-E Asia, the Middle-East, greater Persia.

But other than those specific local actions, taken in isolation, it's all been massively good and massively beneficial.
I would expect havefmt would read the indenting using the Python indenting rules (which cover situations where, for example, one line is 10 spaces and the next line is 5 spaces and 1 tab). It would then write it out to be uniformly 2 space indents (if you are a Google employee) or 4 space indents otherwise.

Yes, go has the benefit that you can do pathologically bad formatting and let gofmt fix it all. I love to type my Go code and rarely press RETURN, knowing gofmt will fix it. However, I also miss the Python indenting system.
If the cost of manufacture and shipping goes down, and the price stays the same, the company makes more money and it isn't immediately obvious to the consumer that anything changed.
I am becoming afraid of what I call excessive capitalism. Do not take me wrong I love capitalism as it is (coming from a post-communist and now socialist country). But what I see especially in the US and China and what I call excessive capitalism is worrying.

What I mean by this term is gathering too much wealth and stripping too much money and power out of masses. I am all for automation and killing obsolete jobs but it needs to be done in a much better way than it has been done in the past.

Do not take me wrong. I have no problems with millionaires or billionaires. The problem is with distribution and concentration of the money. I am not fine with people like Travis Kalanick who will sooner or later get rid of all of the taxi drivers without thinking much about the consequences. This is not only about taxi drivers or America or the entire world. It's impacting humanity as a whole.
I do not think that basic income or taxing Uber or banning Uber is the solution. I do not think re-educating these people is the solution either. The world does not need an army or mediocre programmers or doctors or whatever you think they could co.

People want to work. And they are not doing it just because of the money. It's because they want to contribute. Build something for themselves or society. Most of the people that retire suffer from being unable to continue contributing to the society. They are literally bored and feel useless.

I think also that people are getting tired of corporations or big companies in general. They are getting tired of globalized interconnected world. They are getting tired of capitalism. Today you go to a shop shopping for some "quality" made shoes and everything you get is mediocre shit built in some sweatshop in China or Bangladesh. Regardless of price or brand. If you really care you have to put too much time into researching this what is and what is not worth your money. They simply are tired of this freedom. People seek stability and want to have just good life. I think the most important problem in our society is how to ensure stability and good life for most of the people.
This seems like it has already been "solved" by trains- moving targets are hard, cargo is anonymous, stationary targets are in semi-secured railyards, and shrinkage is part of the cost of doing business.

Who wants to hijack a truck and find its full of breakfast cereal?
If you think such a thing that easy, you should do it. But it aint.
I like Ada'a response. It's very important to make sure that the startup team members get along and care for each other. Also if you detect BS in the vision or idea, its better to stay away.
A must-read no one has mentioned is macro-man.blogspot.com

Written by a macro hedge fund type guy (and friends) is brings cognizant analysis of the highest level, plus a bunch of finance slang you're going to need to get used to.
Strange that the last news from FAST was on August 9th: http://fast.bao.ac.cn/en/index_eng.html

Basically for month and a half pretty much no press releases from them.
Decline of Stack Overflow: How trolls took over your favorite Q&A site
The "intellisense" crowd always kills me with this: I don't really know what this does, but the IDE suggested it and I'm just going to run with it!

What could possibly go wrong?

This is of course less ridiculous if some documentation about each routine is displayed as you up and down arrow through the choices.
> They mingle in groups of the top 5%, and feel quite 'middle' there.

I agree. I'd like to propose a thought experiment to anyone listening: how far back in your personal history do you have to go before you find a friend or a close acquaintance that doesn't share a similar life status as you?

For me, I have to go back to my friends before grammar school to find anyone where our life paths have diverged so strongly.

If success if the norm, then relative success can make you feel middle-classed vis a vi your friends, even when you most certainly are not.
I Can Tolerate Anything Except Factual Inaccuracies
My favorite Soviet-era film is Shooting Gallery. Fantastic jazz (!) soundtrack & minimal to no dialogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRSsybt9wAo
He mentions:

"There is every indication that this attack was launched with the help of a botnet that has enslaved a large number of hacked so-called “Internet of Things,” (IoT) devices — mainly routers, IP cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs) that are exposed to the Internet and protected with weak or hard-coded passwords."

How was the source being compromised IoT ascertained? The only way I could imagine being able to determine that is by looking at the vendor bits on the MAC addresses of the source. But being that IoT devices are generally on a LAN on with some RFC 1918 address you wouldn't have that information. You wouldn't even have the MAC address of the default gateway that routed it.

Can anyone comment on this?
Right, the price of anything is what people are willing to pay, there is minimal correlation with production costs. If the inputs get cheaper profits will go up but the consumer will pay the same.

Do we see massive price drops whenever any company outsources their call centre to India? Nope, the price stays the same and the execs pocket the difference in bonuses.
The funny thing is if you get successful people praise you for sticking to your preference.

It's like a fuck-you card.

People will blame the college kid for not dressing more professionally.

But suddenly if the college kid becomes Zuckerberg/Jobs people will praise him.

"Oh he just always wears [that hoodie/jeans/tshirt/turtleneck]. He's cool and simple and down-to-earth like that not like all these other stupid materialistic people who buy expensive clothes."
I didn't share your reaction to the video.

You talk about his ego, and say the video is terrible, and the data it's based on is biased, and also criticize him for being awkward. (Hey, I'm awkward. Careful.)

Most of these seem like personal attacks, was that the intent?

On the merits, I leaned far more towards his position when I heard Ray LaHood's response, which boiled down to, "I don't have the luxury of looking at data, because I'm a grandparent."

You said it was egotistical for Levitt to claim he looks at data, but his main opposition literally decries bothering to look at data, that's not a straw man.

If our transportation agency can't be bothered to ascertain whether something is a placebo or not before mandating it, I see no reason to treat it as somehow sacred and beyond pejorative.
You are welcome. :)

I love HN, I have learned so much on here. I'm pleased to be able to contribute.
Applying CNN for Urban Sound Classification
Looks like you got some down votes but I entirely agree. It isn't as bad as JavaScript, but turning typos into nil rather than raising an exception or having a compile time error is also annoying, in addition to the other things you mentioned.

I really wanted to like it for the small and simple implementation, but the language isn't pleasant IMO.
It probably boils down to your trust in people. Given many discussions with many people on many topics I tend to stay on the opposite side. Most peoples understanding is about as deep as the most popular news magazines headline, which is not enough for me to consider that they "understood fine, they just disagree" - they understood fine what they've bothered to inform themselves about. So, basically nothing.
Just to clarify, who is Marcelle Reich? Is March Rich a typo? (Marc?) Is the biography you're referring to the one by Daniel Ammann?
Historically prices of goods to consumers have dropped dramatically as automation and globalization have reduced the costs of production. Your hypothesis that most of the gains would be captured by producers in the form of increased profits is wrong for almost all consumer goods.
Out of all that, that is what you choose to focus on? I know, I've lived in the beltway, I was just typing this on my phone...
Yes, and this is old news, actually. We observed the rise of DDoS as a form of censorship in Russia roughly 10 years ago. People usually think that DDoS attacks are mostly used for extortion purposes, but in Russia it was routinely used to suppress some independent news outlets since 2006. Of course, now (since 2014) they have full-blown Internet censorship in Russia, so they don't need it anymore.
Sure. Example.com is an Internet standard. See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
Here in suburban Palo Alto they seem to have gotten rid of the school busses because all the parents drive or walk the kids to school. WTF? We rode with ours a few times on the bike and then let him take himself.
I do not think automation reduces the prices for consumers. In fact I think automation and cutting costs ( workforce ) will just lead to maintaining fat margins. This will just lead to creating another tier of "cheaper" goods and services. Meaning
goods form even crappier materials. Endangering the environment because of scaling out to poorer countries like Africa and so on.
Not good.

"Reducing your income by 25% may sound bad, but if practically everything becomes ~20-30% cheaper"

I do not think this stands as an argument. Just look at the costs of the livings vs incomes in "poorer" countries than US. You can be a middle class man somewhere but that still does not mean you will be entitled to buying "quality" goods or healthy food.
Eh? LuaJIT has got to be one of the best pieces of C I've read, and the documentation while scattered (mailing lists and wiki) is pretty solid.
Reminds me of http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious....
True. That's what I was implying. It's "easy" to attain that level of net-worth. Easy as in--if you are so lucky enough as bad things do not happen to you and run out your savings, it will compound over decades to become a substantial amount.

Then if you do single-inheritance, then your child stands to start emerge into their 30s or 40s, starting off with the same net-worth you have now in your 70s and 80s.

It's enough to push them above the middle class boundary, but they will still feel middle class because they grew up with middle class parents and had to work for most their lives.

Most people don't realise that if you own 2+ houses, you literally do not need to work; you could manage the properties indirectly and still earn enough income to survive as a small family.
Why Isn’t There a Landlord Blacklist?
The Altman quote is on target "I think it’s good to start studying this early. I’m fairly confident that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, we’re going to see some version of this at a national scale."

However, it will likely be called something different in the near-term in order to gather momentum. Often the argument focuses on the concept as opposed to the practical benefits. Putting it in different terms could serve to reframe the argument to focus on the benefits.

These are interesting as well:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/
https://salon.thefamily.co/enough-with-this-basic-income-bul...
Just write it in an email what TV shows you watch mate.
The Carbide demos show the original source data values updating in response to manipulating the output. I'm assuming that's still possible with g9 just not hooked up to the editor component?
A lot of the time the passenger will be holding a beacon that communicates their position to the car.

It also seems to me that such things won't be a big deal. Some Google demo shows their system recognizing a bicyclist making a hand signal. It's the dynamic traffic stuff that will take longer to deal with.

I was thinking about one problem the autonomous systems will have to handle on my run yesterday; pedestrians can look at drivers and use eye contact to make sure the driver has noticed them. An autonomous system doesn't have eyes to look at. The first idea I came up with was a highly directional light source that the system could point at the system could point at the heads of pedestrians it had recognized. Not a laser, but a moderately bright light in a recess that limits the direct visibility of the source.
Domains usually don't fall back into the "available". A squatter will frequently pick up an expired domain under the assumption that a once-owned domain might have value.
Sleeping Sickness Hides in Human Kkin
It depends why you want it. When Facebook bought fb.com, I don't think it was for the backlinks, age, or traffic.

People want things for a whole variety of reasons.
Even worse is the extreme latitudes in summer! I tried sleeping under just a mosquito net in Alaska when the sun stayed up until 2am and rose again by 4. I brought a sleeping mask but found it hard to keep on, as we'd encountered three separate grizzlies earlier that day…

At lower latitudes, a full moon over snow is stunning and surreal when you can get away from local light sources - no flashlight required. Light at night (of appropriate color temp) is quite natural.
A list of global events on virtual and augmented reality in November
I disagree. At most one decade, but I would bet it happens much sooner. As some have mentioned... the economic incentives are too high.
He seems to reduce biographies to some kind of self-improvement books or life lessons. Maybe some are marketed as such, but the genre is much more diverse than that!
Sunlight and exercise helps me a lot, but when I am at my worse (heading in that direction now..) maintaining these good habits (also regularly eating, eating nutritious food, taking pride in my appearance/home) just evaporate.

I live in a major metro area and can't think of food worth leaving the house for when I used to be so into trying new places and love ethnic cuisine. Guess it's depression?
I'm not saying they don't it just not the most interesting thing you may want to look at ;)
Anyhow don't bother with even trying to use physical machines as your primary platform, VM or better instruction level emulation is the way to go, not foolproof but it is at least scalable and flexible enough.

You also seem to conflict what detection means, detection can be easy "is this a known binary" if not > malware can be a pretty easy (if unrealistic) classification, when researchers talk about detecting malware we are talking about understanding what it does.

Diffing disks isn't really going to get you far.
On my phone it was nice and short becauze the article had its own non-functioning scroll bar. Only about one-eighth of the article was actually visible but it was more than enough to understand his feelings.
"I probably had my personal "moment of truth" around the beginning of Doom 3's development, when it became clear that it is no longer possible to deeply understand every single part of a modern application. There is just too much. Nevertheless, I found that I could still enjoy my work when confined to a subset of the entire project, and I have thus remained committed to the high end. However, the appeal of smaller systems still lingers." [0]

I am very much having this moment with the current state of web/app development. Being a generalist, you end up primarily working to meet a product end, be it new user features or product milestones. All the time making many compromises along the way, as any good engineer should. Yet the depth of the web/mobile stack, the sprawl of libraries, and the abundance of computation for most tasks makes you operate at a very high level (30,000 ft) and only dive down to the bits when absolutely necessary. This has its own joys, primarily one of productivity, but it does starve a primordial part of most developers' brains that craves order/perfection/optimality/complete understanding.

I never understood why some people would play with a low level language like C or assembly outside of work in their free times. After 10 years of professional application coding, I get it.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-ar...
I was originally going to post something along these lines, but then I realized that this argument doesn't work the same in this particular context, and the parent isn't necessarily arguing against password stores in general. Sure, it might be better (in the sense of not concentrating your risk to a single file) to have a strong (importantly, private) scheme for creating passwords (say, based on the site and account name). But if you're restricted to some inane restrictions ("6-10 alphanumeric characters"), then there's not really a strong argument against a password manager in this case.

Sure, in general, you want to avoid password reuse to isolate password compromises / security breaches (some companies are still storing passwords in plaintext in 2016, ugh). But in this case, we're talking about private keys that should never leave your local machine. If those are compromised (even passphrase-protected), then it's not inconceivable to think that your password store might also be compromised.
> Most people don't enjoy having to spend any time on getting anything to work or customizing anything to their liking.

Well that's great, because those aren't words I ever said. The first person to start talking about customizing things is you.

I'm not going to be nudged into mounting a defense for an argument that I never tried to make.
> FWIW: This is literally the retort everyone has to anything they disagree with that gets approved.

Probably because it's true in most cases. Most people don't have a deep understanding of even a single issue, let alone multiple.

This could have very well been another "Brexit-like" vote in Switzerland, where people were just scaremongered into voting for the law without understanding all of the implications.
Given that products like Fiddler still work against live.com domains on Windows 10, either the pinning isn't enabled, Fiddler knows how to bypass it, or this isn't actually related to pinning.
NIC.IO now has backordering. In order for park.io to continue being successful with landing and selling premium domains, he must be appraising the value of the domain and his chance of selling it in one of his auctions. Then weighing that against the NIC.io backorder price of 60EUR (67.35USD) + 60EUR registration fee and finally backordering it himself far enough in advance before someone else does (because only 1 backorder can be placed on NIC.IO).

Interview here: http://www.domainsherpa.com/mike-carson-parkio-interview/
People always talk about how SO is so terrible, and yet it's still the best resource by a mile. People have just forgotten that the lack of that carefully curated environment created the complete mess that was all the forums we used to have before.

Sure, it's not ideal - SO could do better in terms of helping people understand the site's goals and enforcing the rules in a less hostile way, but they are working on that (a lot of the more hostile rule enforcement tropes are banned and filtered against), and it's a hard problem.

SO isn't dying any time soon, and the content is still good. If you want to kill it, please go ahead and solve the issue of explaining to users how to contribute quality content and getting them to take that in instantly.

I used to contribute a lot, which tapered off as I had other things filling my time. Towards the end though, the help vampires were getting to me, and I understand why people are harsh towards new users in some situations, it's an easy trap to fall into. Trying to fix that problem by stopping the curation of the content is insane, however. That's a fast route to going from some people being turned away to having no decent content.
I've found that if you go to Stackoverflow for a fast-moving topic like Javascript, the first answer isn't correct in modern terms. The next set of answers, without check marks, are likely more correct.

So you have to read the entire page to get a glimpse of the truth.

This can be bad if you're just looking for an immediate solution, however for learning its fantastic because it shows you a recorded history of how things evolved over time in a framework.
Here's the thing... It's a "driveway" and it's unreasonable to expect no wear or discoloration on untreated concrete (ask any concrete company if that is reasonable and they will tell you "No").

If he was concerned about that he should have moved his car to a place on his property where this could not occur.

If he did not tell you that was a concern before you started, and especially if he parked the car there and told you to clean it there, I don't see how he has a case.

I would check to see if he's done this kind of thing before (and I'd be surprised if he hasn't) because that is evidence that he purposely set you up. If he has bring those records to court with you there's a good chance a judge would toss his case.
More decline in 2016. Questions are not being answered in general or there are professionals responders who don't really understand what you are talking about.

In the other hand there are exciting discussions in the other *.stackexchange.com sites (e.g. reverseengineering, ethereum).
> unconditional surrender with conditions

I don't think that means what you think it means. Unless you are comparing the defeat of Germany (as in Debellatio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debellatio) and that of Imperial Japan which was a conditional surrender - maybe a typo on your part though, in which case, sorry.