skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think "death" is just another condition like disease or disability that will eventually be defeated through technology. Someday we will have medical immortality and maybe even mind-backups, to "restore" a person (or a very close approximation of them) in the case of accident/violence.

Backing up your brain does not prevent you to die. Your organic form will die anyway and you will have to go through death, it's just that a copy of you will continue without you. That's not defeating death at all.
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My grandma actually lives in Biskopsgården, I go there often.

Would I let my children go to school in Sjumilaskolan? Not if I could avoid it. But I also don't worry that my grandma will be harassed by the youths or the niqab ladies. Because she hasn't been.

The failure in these areas is obviously a huge problem and the state has fallen short in dealing with the issues. Hopefully the court system will take the hint and start helping the police but that's for the future to tell...

But I also remember the same kind of areas from 20-30 years ago. Where the social services put the drug addicts and alcoholics, where several cars would randomly get trashed because someone had a party, where the local nazi gang would show up to beat up an immigrant because of some rumor etc. These areas are not a new problem. I guess the big difference is they've gone from knives to guns. These are the areas where the most vulnerable in society live and everyone who can leave.
Could always become a cop.
It's very kind of you to have such empathy for another soul. The ones that have left here likely need that empathy less than the rest of do and so death helps remind all of us to be more accepting of our fellow human in this moment. I appreciate your words here and would offer that I believe all HN posts will eventually make it through (and past) the heat death of the universe.
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I'm right there with you, missing this blog. I sometimes see it on my bookmarks bar and click it just to see if something has been added, but nothing ever is. I didn't find his blog until towards the end of its life, but it taught me so much, and was a joy to read.
Mass protesting has worked in the past for things like women's voting, child labor laws, human working conditions, work safety, gay rights, etc.

This presupposes that enough people care.
Copyright is a restriction on both speech and press. And, it would be occurring by a Trust established by the CA Constitution if UC ever enforced such a restriction.

Which is prohibited.
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What if (full) use of the car is required? Sometimes things break (or rather, a threshold is crossed), but it won't become known to the car and thus the owner until the car is needed. A wife entering labor, for example.
Copyright assignment is done so that FSF has the standing to sue for GPL violations.
Here it is!

http://pastebin.com/hSF1zbr9
Sure there is! Idle philosophizing, gut instinct, and preconceived notions are all well-established alternatives to scientific inquiry. We note their extensive use in related literature dating back millenia.
I think you two have different interpretations of the meaning of the word "plan"
WhatsApp does store metadata in plaintext which makes it susceptible to law enforcement or 3rd parties.
The contents of the messages are still end-to-end encrypted; that being said WhatsApp does default to backing up chats in the cloud and those could be subpoenaed by a government.
To expand a little on this comment, it is highlighting some of the main ideas from one of Pieter's most recent posts (and one of his very best, which is really saying something).

It's presumably the parent's tribute to him, which I can appreciate.
You didn't answer his question. What stack do you prefer to use?
I'm hoping some updates on the VR work they're doing
I don't think we currently have a very good idea of how much of what we're like is due to universal properties, and how much is path dependent and wouldn't show up in a completely independently evolved ecosystem.
Sounds ideal, thanks. I'm reading the docs right now, and it looks pretty simple, conceptually.
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Learning in other industries is offered in institutional settings as part of the profession.

Learning in the dev world consists of aimlessly screwing around with an undocumented, unsupported, glitchy web/server stack for many many hours unpaid after you've already spent 40 hours that week putting bread on the table.

The whining has less to do with the "learning" and more to do with the yak-shaving part of it torturing us endlessly in the off-hours. And, unlike in medicine and law, there is precious little professionally-written, detailed, helpful literature to help us along the way. There's just "quick install" and then a command/api reference. That is... not up to the level at which medicine and law have their industry practices & standards documented.
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Get the PSA test if your over 45. Just get it. I just went through it as well as a biopsy because the PSA looked fishy. I did the PSA as well as the Free PSA test. I then had a 12-needle core biopsy, which, while unpleasant, let me know I was OK. I need to, as do all men my age (almost 50), get tested yearly. It's not a joke. It's tough to get men into the doctor for anything unless they feel they're dying. Guys, get tested, especially if you have a wife and children. You owe it to them, if not yourself.

A PSA test takes 5 minutes. It's a simple blood draw and you learn the results in two days. Like ovarian cancer for women, prostate cancer is the "whispering death". It's often too late if it's metastasized after it's detected, then your chances are even less. Get the test, doubly so if you are a family man.
I can read it as expanded phrasing. He clearly meant "they don't do it to white people as often."
I think a better example would be: be a contributor to Angular.js or be the creator of Aurelia.js.
Most people wear a good approximation of their W-2 in their hair and clothing.
I don't disagree though, that same heuristic is very often racist.
Though it's great to see these kind of efforts why did you pick a name that seems bound to cause discoverability and visibility issues?
Yes, some mitm entity between OWS and the internet would be able to deduce who is speaking with whom once a big enough number of messages have been sent. In fact, any big ISP could do that for parties communicating from inside its network.
Are we suggesting something different? Do we want guilty until proven innocent?
Looks like the few 5 star reviews are humorous.
I trust a well designed protocol over some murky promise not to collect data on me. They collected data when they weren't supposed to before...
Even worse, this matches the actual way URLs should have gone in the first place: com.site.subdomain/folder/subfolder/subsubfolder/.
That's exactly what I've always heard. On a long enough timescale, cancer is a virtual certainty.
The headline addresses Obama legislating instead of Congress regarding whether illegal immigrants will not be deported.

Only by reading the story does one understand that anyone who makes it to this country illegally, including the world's tech workers can get a job if Obama is allowed to legislate instead of Congress. This is a "work around" for H1-B Visas so that tech firms can hire as much low-cost tech labor as they want.

What I don't understand is how Obama is able to effectively legislate away H1-B visas allowing anyone that makes it to this country to work.

The Constitution makes clear that Congress is supposed to pass laws. The President has the power of veto, not that of legislation.
Not OP, and not sure I'd say 'held accountable', but I'll take a shot. I think there needs to be an honest investigation into the Clinton Foundation and whether or not there is a pay for play situation going on there. It could be nothing, but it also could be one of the deepest corruption scandals in the history of the country. The fact that most news organizations have shit the bed in their effort to stop Trump means that it's been almost completely ignored. That's my top pick.

*edit: removed redundant redundancy, also corrected word typo.
Political solutions change as politics change: I think it's better to be mathematically secure than politically secure, since the one is forever and the other only sure until the next election.
Just because you put words in that format doesn't make this a good analogy. You can teach someone to drive, including parallel parking in a couple of hours and then they just have to practice. The javascript ecosystem is legitimately complex. You can't just hand wave that away with a rhetorical flourish.
When does a computer scientist stop being a computer scientist?

It's sad seeing Bob and Alice used in such a morbid context but at least we know we'll be thinking in terms of protocol, complexity, and CS even on our death beds. It's something that will never leave us.

I've read very little of his work. I think I'll change that.
Could be an Uber/Lyft business opportunity in some cities to encourage some number of drivers to have a carseat installed?
From the article:

'Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he supports the commissioner’s decision to suspend Bigda because of the likelihood firing him would not survive a civil service appeal and the city would be ordered to rehire the cop with back pay.

" I am not happy about it. This is what was recommended," Sarno said. " It is a most severe suspension of 60 working days without pay and retraining."

Barbieri told The Republican newspaper that Bigda will be reassigned to uniform duty on a day shift when his suspension ends.'

The people in charge here do not sound happy, so I suspect his career prospects will be fairly limited going forward, but who knows for sure.

That said, I agree the focus should be on what can be changed. The primary difficulty appears to be the Civil Service Commissions - why are these organizations defending civil servants who are clearly in the wrong?
Well done, Pieter. Thank you for your excellent writings and ground-breaking open source work, and for sharing your humanity. Farewell.
Many of those checkpoints are also a way to collect revenue from out-of-state drivers who are unlikely to appeal the ticket or appear to contest it.
1. External, civilian oversight.

2. Federal investigation of police misconduct.

3. A DA who will build his career on rooting out corruption and criminality in the police force.

Pick any of the three.
All the training in the world won't change the fact that people have emotions that sometimes get the better of them.

A better solution would be to require all police brutality cases to be immediately reviewed by a federal court, with a guilty verdict resulting in immediate suspension of duties and benefits, as well as criminal charges. Defendants have the right to appeal, but they cannot use public funds for their case.

Essentially, this would reverse this current system which makes it easy for bad people to get away with bad things, and hard to punish them for it. Changing this system ensures a fairer and safer society for everyone.

Which is entirely the point of law, and law enforcement.
Why is it an antipattern? What does it make more difficult?

Pattern matching? Creating useful state snapshots? Curious to hear more about your experience.
It may still be comforting for people to get their loved ones back in some way.

Even without such "resurrection", medical immortality in the form of immunity to aging and disease and disability could be considered as "defeating" nonviolent death.
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You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

By Lee Atwater, an American political consultant and Republican party strategist. He was an advisor of 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the campaign manager for 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Interview with Alexander P. Lamis (8 July 1981), as quoted in The Two-Party South (1984)‎ by Alexander P. Lamis. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

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So, the talking point here is: "When does it migrate from blatant full-on racism(Darkies, nigger, etc.) to policies that directly are racist and affect certain races much more negatively (totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse)?"

Or, further, should we be taking data on how our policies affect different demographics, and adjust how policies are done? Should we not strive for equality, even in areas where it's simple economic decisions that do disproportionately affect certain peoples?
I think it would be a good start.

Notice that the value of the heap counter would at all times by the upper bound on the memory usage. In other words, we may always assume that there’s unreclaimed garbage memory that we’re still counting in. But that also means that if throw an error if and only if we detect that the limit has been exceeded, the only error we can be in is a false positive. For sandboxing scenarios, that’s at least some good news after all: what we definitely don’t want are false negatives and we won’t get these.

Now, when we've detected that the limit has been exceeded, we don't have to signal an error immediately. The execution can be suspended (as with CPU accounting). We can resume the execution any time later, or terminate it with an out-of-memory error. What we actually do depends on the application: we could simply decide that getting false positives is a risk worth living with and terminate the program; we could try calling System.gc() and check the limit afterwards; we could increase the limit temporarily and check in X ticks if this was just a spike in allocations etc etc.

I see the chances of getting to 0% false positive rate almost impossible (at least not on a generic JVM), but I tend to think that such a technique could go a long way.

Regarding other solutions to this problem out there today: I agree! Using a programming language that evades these problems entirely would be a solution, but I'd be skeptical about the chances of persuading users that it's for their benefit.
Fantastic =) Recreation of one of my favorite games, having fun with it this morning.

Noticed that you have to keep a high cash balance -- once the population reaches a tipping point every citizen will be unhappy if there isn't enough security, resulting in instant negative income and an unrecoverable downward spiral. Razing every room isn't enough to remove the "need security" flag.
$300 a month falls well within discretionary spend for even moderately sized orgs. This would need at most, VP level sign off.
Yes, but zeveb makes the following points:

1. "the contacts, or even a hash of the contact" are being not stored by choice rather than by necessity.

2. If OWS chose to start storing these metadata in the future, they could.

3. A protocol where the metadata could not be stored intrinsically would be preferable.
> The ISV (Inter-Session Variability) algorithm provided a decent comparison score of 0.79 for Kanchan Prabha Devi which was much higher than an image of Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir. However, the results of the CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) algorithm were not as clear-cut. Devi only managed a score of 0.42 while Zubeida got 0.50.

> So, which algorithm to trust?

This is an excellent example of the danger in using algorithms that produce point estimates, but not variability estimates. Whether you model it or not, any inference or prediction exercise implies a probability model (else you wouldn't need to conduct inference at all). Failing to make that model explicit, whether by nested cross-validation or an analytical technique, leads you down a dangerous road of making arbitrary comparisons And breaking near-ties on the basis of "field knowledge", which can turn out to be a little more than glorified gut instinct.
I have to disagree. In my experience, the frameworks get me to 80% completion but I'm not spending the next 20% on achieving completion. I'm spending orders of magnitude more than that fighting the framework, trying to make it function the way my product needs to function.

In other words, all of the time saved to get to 80% is lost, and then some, because the framework can't do what my project needs.

I've seen this time and time again, with every framework I have ever used.
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IANAD but from what I understand the PSA test has a high false positive rate.
> The presumption of innocence needs to be a two-way street, surely?

Historically, the presumption of innocence has two legs: one, the Latin "Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, (the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not on one who denies). This is something like the theory of knowledge rule that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

The other leg, in the western legal tradition, is that the state (and particularly the prosecution) is always the bearer of the burden of truth.

In this sense, it actually makes sense to presume that the police are "guilty," or at least that they must prove that their actions are legal and comport with the boundaries of state power.

So, in the western tradition, it is only those accused by the state of a crime who enjoy the presumption of innocence; people acting on behalf of the state do not.
> I figured it was a new service by GitHub for musicians to version control their music

This is why I feel the new TLD's are entirely a racket.

ICANN builds a system which is favorable to squatters - and when all the "good" domains are taken for com/net, they start to release new TLD's (instead of clawing back unused squatted domains) which corporations and celebrities must rush out to purchase or risk someone else using their brand name.

There's the infamous story of Taylor Swift having to purchase her name on the .xxx, .adult, and .porn TLDs[1]

And now presumably GitHub will feel compelled to purchase GitHub.academy, GitHub.technology, GitHub.build, GitHub.buzz, GitHub.careers, GitHub.codes, and many many more!

So now ICANN can kick back and enjoy all those extra fees, and Registrars can kick back and enjoy all their new registrations... meanwhile squatters buy up a bunch of new domain names on the new TLDs, putting everyone right back where we were before the new TLDs were released.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/03/23/taylor-swift-adult-domains/
Shouldn't the title be "FSF blocking RISC-V in GGC unless UC Berkeley hands over copyright"?
That is precisely the statute when an officer "smells" drugs or "sees" a weapon. The accused is not set free, they are locked up (often on charges of "resisting arrest") with rapists and murderers until someone posts bail.
I'm not asking from an applicant's perspective. I've got no interest in applying.

I'm asking out of pure curiosity.
Not exactly the university's fault if state keeps cutting funding.
Ha, seems that way.

Adjusting your values and convictions is seen as a flaw, so in a sense we have disincentives evolving of thoughts.
Depends on your needs - Stripe is about convenience IMO and works best for small shops. I've heard from people in the payments industry that Stripe's actual payment tech is sub-par and dated - cannot compete with the Braintree/Adyens of the world. If you require complexity then choose a more established vendor.
I don't disagree. But it still doesn't prove that they don't have the data. You can't prove a negative like that.
There are even Top 20 US cities whose only public transportation option is still mostly just a public bus system.
I feel like everyone needs to be reminded that this post is probably more of a joke than anything. Not criticizing JS so much as a buzzword-iness surrounding it
It sounds like you've bought into a narrative unsupported by facts.
> They have leaked information that mass media would otherwise not have been anywhere close to exposing.

Is there a specific case you're thinking of? For instance, with the DNC leaks, or with Chelsea Manning's leaks, I believe that the information relevant to the public interest would have been disclosed by any reputable major news outlet (NYT, WashPo, ...) that received it, so long as its authenticity could be verified.

I prefer that leakers go to traditional journalists (à la Snowden) rather than WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has a track record of creating collateral damage with its disclosures; for example, exposing SSNs and credit card numbers of people who happened to be donors to the DNC and who were otherwise uninvolved with the shenanigans going on. A responsible, ethical journalist would take care to exclude personal information that is tangential to the actual public interest.
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I guess they deserve each other?
Great question. We have played with a bunch of different names. As soon as we changed to hyperloop our visibility shot way up. We are not convinced that its the perfect name, but so far it has really helped generate interest!
Heat, actually.

All the energy the star produces has to escape into space somehow. The way it does this is by heating up the sphere until it radiates out into space at the same rate at which the star irradiates the sphere. The bigger the sphere, the cooler it is, because it has more surface area to radiate away heat.

So if your sphere is too small, it may end up glowing at red heat, which might make it difficult to live on.

Calculating the temperature is straightforward:

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