skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 1970s abstraction is certainly closer to modern computers than any higher level language, and is quite a nice introductory route to learning more accurate models.

We still start with the Bohr model in chemistry for the same reasons.
When something's like this was posted before, someone pointed that hospitals absolutely do track this sort of thing. Just because it isn't on the death certificate doesn't mean it isn't tracked.
actually they aren't. At least for me. I mean, C-p I won't be pressing with one hand, I use both. I have pretty long slim fingers. I am touch typist too, so yeah sometimes my pink is used a little bit more than I would like, but I didn't feel pain or discomfort. Vim is far far better in that term.
Ah, I see you too read Influx.
> it's at least as complex as C++

You repeat this phrase like a broken record, but have yet to back it up every time that I have asked why you have this opinion. C++ is an order of magnitude more complex than Rust.
just having a mobile device you're being tracked in Australia now the Government now also has access to this data from the network providers the only way to be free is to not carry these devices
I think you're overestimating how much the US cares about adhering to international laws and guidelines, and underestimate the power and volume of Disney's lobbying.
Why is “closed source” used, and does it parallel “open source”?
Why do you think that? Or, put another way, why specifically do you think it didn't happen with previous memory-safe languages?

For one, Rust is a different language from the other memory-safe languages that have existed in the past, and in fact incorporates a lot of research in programming languages that didn't exist when Ada was designed. But even if that weren't true, one thing that's changed since the past is we now are slowly understanding how difficult it is to write secure software in C, and how important it is to write secure software. When Unix was first designed we (the entire programming community) didn't know about a lot of security issues, and the lack of Internet meant that it was less important to defend against them. It is probably much more worth rewriting our tools in Ada today than it was ten or twenty or thirty years ago.
What I'd like to see is some good open source software that can compete with Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa. It looks like there are some promising projects, but nothing turn-key yet. I'd like to be able to simply apt-get a package, and have voice recognition on my box.
I stopped buying Apple products when they stopped updating iOS on my iPad after just a couple years. It's now over six years old and is still perfect for many tasks but since it's stuck on iOS 5 and has bugs in its HTML rendering, there are an increasing number of web-sites that crash the browser. If I'm going to replace a tablet every year or two, I'm going to buy sub-$100 Android devices.
They study that too. Look up kin selection, reciprocal altruism, game theory.

Those are not good enough to constrain an AI, because power often corrupts even kind humans.
> Please say why C is wrong.

I think it's obvious, or should be: manual memory management and poor types.

There's no problem domain for which I'd ever want to write C again: not for OSes, not for word processors, not for shell utilities, not for mathematics, not for graphics.

C's strong point is that Unix assumes it.

> No language is "wrong" or "right"

Counterpoints: JavaScript; PHP. Quod erat demonstrandum.
People always say that. What about the real emergencies? There's a lot of anxiety and dread that carrying a phone seems to alleviate.

I live in a big city. There's always a phone nearby, including landlines and payphones (they're still there precisely for emergency reasons). There are also passerbys who can help me. The risk of being all alone, having an urgent need to call 911, and be unable to do so is much too small to warrant carrying a phone around at all times.
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We don't know for sure if they are violating their privacy policies. But as I said, if they are doing it, and it comes out by any means, it will be the dead end of their business. So it's in their best interest to not to do that and only improve upon users' trust. So yes, there's certain level of trust I put into them, just like the trust I put into big food product companies that they'd respect the ingredients list, and have a certain level of quality and hygiene. All of them can break my trust, but it will be detrimental for them if it comes out.
The advantage of c2w is that it combines everything in a repeatable (using .) operation.
> Is C all that commonly used these days? I rather suspect that it's an unforced error to start a new project in C, and that many wise organisations are replacing buggy C software with slightly-less-buggy software in safer languages.

It most definitely is. Outside of the fact that existing huge projects are written in C (Linux, many compilers/toolchains, databases, etc), it remains the default language for embedded systems. Most smaller embedded device (think Cortex-M class) is running code written in C. This represents an enormous amount of projects spread over dozens of industries and use cases. Someday that may change but right now even C++ has failed to gain traction in these environments.

> Seriously, in 2016 it's obvious that C is just wrong.

This is not true. It all depends on your use case. C is the most well-understood language on the planet - a sort of defacto default. Practices, processes, and tools have been developed over decades to help mitigate problems, often in systems that run for years without SW updates. This can't be discounted.
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"Space race is warming up" - You verbalized perfectly what I've been feeling lately. So exciting!
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If Salesforce goes down this route I don't think it will end well for either entity. Granted, I'm not sure I'd prefer Planatir Technologies to pick up Twitter (not that they will) but from a business perspective I don't think Salesforce should chase the kind of market - or whatever it is - that Twitter has. I've had to use Salesforce on several occasions and as a relatively recent Twitter user from time to time, I don't see constructive overlap. Could be me, I know.
Boeing corporate HQ is in Chicago.
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The link above is very intuitive. One toggle disables search history in all Google products, another one removes location history, etc. You can also click on "Manage activity" for more fine-grained details in some apps.
I think Star Trek was very prescient here as well: Security is terrible in the Star Trek universe. Nearly every antagonist is able to break into the computer within about a minute.
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The concern I have with a project like this that the pricing model seems at odds with the level of commitment a customer needs to make to both fully utilize Qlutter and for Qlutter to be highly profitable and sustainable.

I mean that it's a tool designed for someone to run critical business operations while the pricing model is discount from an enterprise perspective. I know it works for 37Signals, but their product line grew out of an inhouse project, so early on, it did not depend on sales or investment to drive improvement or to keep it from dying.

At a hundred euros a seat per month, versus the current ten, the product is priced to suggest a sustainable business alongside a high level of service. At ten euros a seat per month, it does not look that way.

Good luck.
I am more worried about subpoena on steroids than individual hackers. Big budget crackers are a different thing.

> I'm worried about Google working with intelligence agencies to try and target me politically, feed me propaganda, or put me on some list of undesirables.

This.
When it first told me it knew hiw long my commute would take, I realised it was creepy as all hell that the people (in another country with few protections on data) providing my phone software knew enough about me to tell where I worked and when I was going there.

And it annoys me that on maps, when you turn off all the spying capabilities there's no fallback to local history. You either share it with us or you get none.
For the last decade or so writing physics engines has been a hobby project of mine; I shamefully read your comment and realized that absolutely describes my current toy. It's been in various stages of dev since c++11 was newfangled, and combined with being the "learning experience" of a programmer moving over from C; let's just say it shows... (mentally revising my plans to ever apply to C++ jobs and not just go hide in a forest)
Never heard of them. But their product looks very slick.
> incredibly useful

Sure it would be useful. Sell the assistant as a locally-installed app that guarantees personal data never leaves the LAN and will sell.

> sure they'll collect your info

Only if you let them. Demand better behavior from their software and business practices.

> Totalitarian Surveillance or Data Breach Concerns

What you seem to be missing is that the concern isn't about today's level of surveillance or today's data breach risk. Data generally persists indefinitely once it makes its way into a database or logfile.

To make a claim that these are low risk requires that at no time in the future will surveillance risk increase or data breaches become more common, ... or that the company will run into financial trouble and need to sell your data, ... or that a breach will be forced by a government (not necessarily your's or Google's), ... or that your data will be aggregated into other databases, increasing the "predictive" power and attack surface, ... or any of the other unknown ways your data could be used in the future.

Humans are already known to be terrible at assessing risk, especially when there is a very large separation between the cause and effect. Smoking today giving you cancer many years later is a traditional example. We already know data breaches happen, well meaning employees make mistakes or succumb to corruption, and external powers such as governments or organized crime occasionally take away your agency. Do you really want to claim that none of these risks will ever happen? Because that's the actual wager you're making when when you use Google's products.
I'm sorry. That was uncalled for and stupid. Bad day.
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My "epidemic" comment comes from my other life as an MMA coach. I observe men transformed every day from low energy insecure shadows into strong emotionally healthy men.

The worst cases tend to be desk-bound intellectuals like many of us here. As these guys transform the result is beautiful - less anxiety, more equanimity in the face of adversity, and a humble self confidence that looks nothing like Trump. :)
I think this is why I love Twitter, but also the reason many people don't.

Unlike Facebook, where I feel beholden to follow the people I know, Twitter is different. I can follow the thoughts of people I've never met, but greatly respect. There are tons of great designers, writers and journalists that make my Twitter feed entertaining and informative. Not everyone is interested in design or media and it can be difficult to discover accounts.

The other (previous) issue for Twitter is the feed. If you follow 1,000 people it will can be overwhelming. I was hesitant about the "You might have missed" section, but think it is a step in the right direction.
Noted, thank you. It is definitely something that I can add. As I mentioned in the comments, the site originated as a project for my own personal use and I live in the US, but if it evolves into something that the public shows interest in and I turn it into a side business, expanding to other territories will definitely be on my radar.
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I'm hoping it gets that option soon as well...Currently you aren't even able to set it as your default SMS application either.
I remember the huge smile I got on my face the first time Google Now picked up on the fact that I went to the same bar every Wednesday evening.

One Wednesday afternoon, at work, I got a notification saying "Travel time to the Lion & Crown". The first thing that ran through my head was "oh my god, I'm living in the future".
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hypothetically: you express radical political ideas to your friend with the expectation of your statements remaining in confidence-- but google was listening. now, your feed recommendations steer you further down the path google thinks you were already on. you are ready to attend a protest and perform civil disobedience, as google now knows based off of your interest in what it has been suggesting to you. it suggests (as facebook does now regarding making events for birthday parties etc) that you and some other people form that protest, and, because it said so, you do it. except it's a trap. the police's google feed tells them that some undesirables have planned a protest, and you're imprisoned.

is this story unrealistic, or has it already occurred?
That's a lot of words to declare oneself a masochist

Or if being verbose is desired, do you want to do a job for a computer that you are not suited to do but the computer is?
To comment on the other measurements (temp, pressure, wind spd/dir): these are different from Hs in that Hs is by definition a statistical parameter; it is 4*stdev of the wave elevations or more practically the mean of the highest third of measured wave heights. You could have higher granularity of temperature, pressure, etc. which arguably more precisely tells you about those conditions at a given time, but a more granular time series of Hs does not necessarily define the sea state any better.
I've come to believe that there is nothing that humans can do to resist the privacy encroachments of our machine overlords. Don't blame Google - it's a universal inevitability.
It's pretty trivial to take the Ibn Warraq approach, though: just reject poststructuralism itself.
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> Users who are more likely to pay 4.95/month are much more likely to be worth more than 4.95/month in advertising revenue.

Given the paucity of people I know who've made a purchasing decision based off of an ad on Twitter, I seriously doubt that.
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Learn c because you'll know how computers work unlike wimpy Python. If your choosing what language to learn based on what's cool your a moron.
Yup, I remember when it was a big to-do when they moved HQ to Chicago. Apparently they have a massive production facility in North Carolina that is relatively new. A certain Presidential candidate confused a lot of North Carolina employees by asserting that without change, Boeing was going to take its jobs to China, which, with a modicum of thought, sounds absolutely ridiculous on many IP and QC levels, especially in proximity to such a new facility.
But then why is it that its pretty much only bonobo apes and humans where this "rewiring" hasn't taken place?

Some apes kill other apes offspring when they take over a group. Others don't.

Some animals such as gibbons and bald eagles mate for life, but most animals are not monogamous.

If evolution principles were so hardwired you would probably expect them to universally
Even if feelings have everything to do with science, isn't getting errors in your paper pointed out a good thing that you should be happy about?
I think each individual action is fine, but I don't understand how it's easy to manage privacy as a whole. Each aspect of privacy is separate, and can be finely customized in one particular way per session. There's no way to set different arrangements of settings for different times, or even just a button on mobile to whack that indicates "Ignore my data for the next few minutes."
To me it's pretty simple. If you don't like what Google is doing, don't use their services, and don't buy their products.
And coincidentally Hs corresponds well to visually estimated wave height.
Your response comes off aggressive, and I think that detracts from the validity of your comment.
Hmm my comment is getting downvoted but I don't understand why. Do people have a difference experience with Google Now than I do? Seemed fairly common to people I knew. I'd love to hear some feedback. For instance I've even had it open up a search page when I asked for the weather for a certain area; if the syntax isn't really really close you just get search and that's it.
Or as one fellow once said on HN with regard to self driving cars and advertising as a business model:

"Oh you wanted to go to the bank today? Fuck you, we're going over by the mall" doors lock shut
Why not? As long as you're clicking their ads, they'll make money regardless of whether you're buying a burger or a salad.
Its one thing to be under surveillance by a grocery store's security cameras and another thing when those cameras are sending all your data to the same central organization. Right now we aren't that great at integrating all that data — knowing that I'll be in a certain bar on Sunday nights is a little disconcerting, but if I knew that was the limit of AI assistants' invasiveness I'd be embracing it for the convenience. But technology for AI and data processing will improve, and data gathering will become more pervasive and more centralized, and soon megacorps will have a much more complete profile of you that they can query if ever they or one of their employees develops malicious intent (not to mention the non-malicious actions that can cause harm).

Tl;dr there's privacy in decentralization.
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> ... your daily business is Google’s business.

I can see the day coming where this is their primary marketing slogan.
>How many launches have they done so far, and what were the results?

You do know you're talking about Boeing here, right? They had somewhere around 300 launches with close to perfect success rate.
The big difference is the Star Trek computer wasn't using its data about Kirk to provide him "enhanced advertising experiences", there wasn't a big corporation controlling the computer and no government was accessing the computer's information.

A truly user-aligned AI assistant would be great. Ideally in the future these things will not be tied to indirect business models, but rather will be something you buy and all data/services will be under your control.
It's not off topic, though.

Can we discuss this over email?
Yes, sure, I know a lot of people who're not comfortable with sharing everything with Google, and I can understand that. Unfortunately, most of them are sharing their private data with some third party if not Google (that won't be any more careful about their privacy if they could mine the data as Google can, and probably technically less capable of preventing external breaches). In the end, it comes down to trust, one 3rd party or the other - as they're not managing everything themselves.
Lay down a trail of public comments for plausible deniability. Smart!
> You're aware that SpaceX runs on a lot of corporate welfare, with SpaceX only existing because of NASA's COTS and Tesla only existing because of generous federal subsidies on electric cars and other handouts.

$7,500 on a $75,000 car is not a large enough subsidy to "run" Tesla. It's incentive for energy efficiency and all cars manufactures get it.

Moreover SpaceX does not get any "welfare" in any form. They have a contract job via the government's Commercial Space program.
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They recently did an awesome job of streaming an NFL game.
"Marriage is considered a human universal by anthropologists."

Can you provide any sources?
As a counterpoint: My family is in Atlanta (well, just outside of it), and it's probably my least favorite major American city. The traffic is out of control (and has possibly the rudest drivers in the whole country), McMansions and suburban sprawl are a way of life (my brother-in-law has an hour long commute to his near-downtown office, and keeps an office in his house so he doesn't have to drive down every day), and it feels like everything is at least 30 minutes away by car (and unreachable any other way; even to catch a bus or train you have to drive to a park-and-ride) no matter where you are in the city. Also, there's casual racism on a scale I've not seen in any other major city I can think of.

I grew up nearby, in Greenville, SC, and Atlanta was "The City". But, I've never liked it. Even with family there, I'd never consider it a place I'd want to live (and I really like my family!). I also don't choose to live in SF, but I'd pick it long before Atlanta.

That said, it is a growing city with a ton of opportunity. I know some folks who've moved there from other cities and they almost immediately found good work in their industry of choice (film, where they'd been struggling for years in Austin, having to have a second job in retail just to make ends meet). So, sure, cost of living isn't bad and the economy is definitely booming. But, it's not a nice city, IMHO.
> Of the many recurring stupid ideas for startups I have had is a software company that does not write code. Instead it edits and removes code. This has been called "negative coding."

This is prevalent in the embedded OS market with vendors that sell commercial Linux licenses. Many will take a stable Yocto distribution and strip out unnecessary pieces to reduce its weight to suit customer specifications.

Often times the OS vendor will then have to go in and add code to meet standard/certification requirements set by the customer. They'll also generally have to add certain libraries and snippets of code for hardware/middleware-specific integration.

I'm not an embedded engineer, but from my convos with engineers/execs I have to believe its exceedingly rare that a company could simply strip out pieces from an open source distribution, not add anything proprietary, and sell the resulting code to a customer.
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Find Google settings in one of these places (depending on your device):

In your Settings app Settings, scroll down and tap Google.
Open a separate app called Google Settings Google Settings.

Tap Location and then Location History.

At the bottom of the screen, tap Delete Location History.

Also https://maps.google.com/locationhistory allows for delete all history.
Maybe it was too early back then to see the value in it, but does anyone remember App.net? Dalton Caldwell (now working at YCombinator) had a plan to build a backbone for developers to build on top off without fear of APIs being taken away from them[0]. The idea came about from this exact topic (Twitter becoming more and more hostile to developers)[1].

[0]http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal
[1]http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
Yeah, but especially if you plan it right. Over the last 6-8 years the bicycle infrastructure has blossomed, but only on pretty specific routes. If you both live and work along those routes, it is really easy (except for taxis and trucks shamelessly parking in the bike lane).

That said, I don't live on one of those routes and don't really encounter much trouble cycling or boosted boarding on the roads.