skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which news-sources do you use?

Which news-sources are you going to learn about?

Which news-sources are you for some reason very unlikely to encounter?

Now apply a real-time AI filter-bubble, able to also include government policies in its decision-making, onto those questions.

I believe the most important thing in life is thinking. I believe a key element of thinking is looking at "easy stuff", the stuff we just live with every day and don't think about, and for some reason be forced to think about it and make it simple.

Take the Snowden-leak. We lived a nice life being the good guys and that kind of surveillance was publicly thought of as conspiracy theories. Suddenly we were forced to look at what was going on. How much of it are we okay with? On the grounds of what principles and tradeoffs? This is all very unpleasant, but we're all better off for facing those questions and work towards new principles. We take a chaotic gruel of cons and pros, and try to hammer them into a few simple principles our societies may function by. For instance, the separation of power into 3 has served us well.

I fear that we end up in a world where raising such unpleasant questions becomes almost impossible - and we'll never even notice. Not because of AI (I believe AI to be inevitable and fascinating) but because of the way AI is used.

Living a life assisted by an AI, made and paid for by someone else, seems like the epitome of naivete to me.
We're doing something similar on riot.im with our new editor.
> how on earth is it possible that the most technologically advanced city in the country, maybe the world, can allow this type of poverty, sickness, drug abuse, and helplessness exist on its doorsteps?

should be

> how on earth is it possible that San Francisco is allowed to cause this type of poverty, sickness, drug abuse, and helplessness?

Do-gooders like this author are the source of the suffering. We shouldn't expect them to come up with the cure.

In my city they providing meals to the homeless without a professional food preparation license. I'm sure the idiots intended to improve the quality of food the homeless receive. Instead it just starved them. I'm sure next year they'll come up with another idiotic solution to the starvation problem. But they'll never admit they caused it.
The plus side of service economies is that they're a lot harder to outsource - you can't open a Manilla call-center to handle a nursing home.
Potentially this could have been titled: 'Technology, Freedom, Economics and Scarcity'. Rebecca is rarely well articulated, her arguments are innovative, nuanced and delightful to read; to which the closed social network issue seems merely as an aside.
>Which is easy for a coastal educated person to say, but to a line of family men who have not just eschewed education but actively resisted it, this is a tough pill to swallow.

I don't think it's so much a cultural thing as the high intellectual capabilities required for high paying knowledge jobs. Coding, for example, is just too hard for a huge segment of the population, regardless of how much training they get. If you really want to Make America Great Again, you need to make these jobs easier and accessible to more people, thus paying less but employing more. Easier said than done of course.

Within software, Haskell is the wrong direction. I haven't used it, but it seems like Go aims to make coding simpler. But it's not just programming languages; it includes large scale system design, which currently needs to be reinvented with intense effort at every firm, even repeatedly within the same firm, even within the same product.
Definitely a stereotype.
I don't think lithium batteries are allowed in check luggage. You're supposed to carry them on.
> … and you've got stuff to do, and the program isn't even broken.

Well, it may be — that's one of the problems with C: you never really know for sure if a warning really matters or not. But man, there sure are a lot of them!
So glad you got see Startup School live. All the talks this year were mind-blowing. Re coffee, email me at ooshma@gobble.com.
They need to give Macs touchscreens and work with Apple Pencil.

Intel chips are still useful so they can use Bootcamp for Windows or Linux.
> The fact is, many of the diseases we get vaccinated against: rabies, polio, small pox, chicken pox, etc. Are not spread through the air.

Whether a disease is airborne or not is somewhat irrelevant here (its obviously relevant to how easy it is to spread, but as long as a disease is communicable by some kind of contact, the increased danger from unvaccinated members of the population is qualitatively similar.)

> Meaning the less people around you who have the disease the better, as you pointed out this is the general idea. That totally breaks down for air born pathogens that aren't spread via feceal matter, saliva, etc.

No, it doesn't; it changes the shape of the "increased risk" curve resulting from changes in vaccination compliance, but it doesn't change that there is such an increased risk.

> Also, I'd argue that many of the reductions in disease rates have more to do with better plumbing and teaching people to stay home as opposed than vaccines.

Yes, that those things have reduced disease rates for many diseases is a well-established fact, not really a point in any kind of contention.
How long were you working without a team? How did you recruited your first hires?
Apple also works on technology that is meant to help users give up less of their privacy. They talked about this at WWDC 2016 under the headline 'Differential Privacy'. They're trying to use statistics to make it harder to attribute data points to individuals while still providing a workable data set on the collective of users.

Here's an article about that:
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...
I know...it's painful, we honestly weren't expecting this.

Here are direct links if you are in a rush:

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Adapteva/b/ref=bl_dp_s_web_9360745011...

Digikey:

http://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/a/adapteva/paral...
According to this poll [1], only 6% of Americans see college education as "not too important", and the rest see it as at least "fairly important". If there are people actively resisting education, they are a rather tiny minority.

1: http://www.gallup.com/poll/166490/americans-college-educatio...
If you want to work for a startup, check out companies in the Atlanta Tech Village directory. Most of them are pretty small, but every few months a company hits the 40-person mark and move out. Terminus and IO Education moved out pretty recently.
http://atlantatechvillage.com/membership/current-villagers/

If you're looking for a larger company, Salesforce Pardot and Cox have a huge presence here. NCR is moving their headquarters to Midtown.
> Automation? Oh is that how you see Foxconn employees? That would explain quite a bit...

Even if you "resurrect" manufacturing, automation means less people.

Quoting: http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/innovation/2015/0...

"Perhaps most surprising about the HRPF was the relative lack of employees on the floor of the massive facility. While ATI employs about 2,500 throughout western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the technology and automation of the HRPF only requires seven operators and nine maintenance employees per shift, making the operation safer and more efficient, according to Deluca."

That's not a recipe for a manufacturing job resurgence independently of whether you think that is good or bad.
Headphone hysteria and the man who broke the law for Walkman rights
TIL that the React ecosystem is a conspiracy against the poor.
> some found the emails annoying from PubPeer [since PubPeer notifies authors of comments] if Statcheck found no potential errors

I would.

> There’s a big, uncomfortable question of how to criticize past work, and whether online critiques of past work constitute “bullying” or shaming.

It's facts about your work. Learn to handle it or quit pretending to be a scientist.

> The gist of her article was that she feared too much of the criticism of past work had been ceded to social media, and that the criticism there is taking on an uncivil tone

Valid enough point. Criticism and correction can be done in a civil manner, and in an accepted forum.
The Health Effects of Youth Unemployment
> most wouldn't allow cameras

Because farmers are concerned that reporters are out to portray their operations as more inhumane or less safe than they really are. For example, nursing sows are kept in very small cages so they can't roll over and kill their piglets, but farmers know that most journalists would only see (and thus talk about) the claustrophobic quarters.

> Agriculture is ugly, and always will be.

I grew up on a farm; while there's certainly room for improvement, most farming operations are very humane. I can't speak to the extreme "big ag" end of the spectrum, but family farms--even large ones--tend to treat their animals well.
Luckily we have your sublime mind to enlighten the plebs.
Translation: edoceo built an app to help marijuana stores sell weed and keep track of weed and implement controls on the amount of weed purchased and where it came from and where it went.

Other apps either do the same thing or are less obvious about what their functionality is for, and Apple ignores it or is unaware or turns a blind eye.

edoceo thought an app which documents compliance with State law (and documents non-compliance with Federal law) should be allowed in the app store. Apple didn't.
> If you happen to know precisely where you want to go, navigating by searching is the way to go, searching forward with / and backward with ?.

It's worth noting that, after searching with ?, you can still move back and forth through occurrences using N and n, in the same way you would after using / for a search.
> I get that being able to check for non-termination would be useful—but is there more?

It's not just that "there is more", it's that there is everything.

The halting problem which we're talking about here is actually easily generalizable into a set of generic theorems about static analysis of programs in general. The usual first step is to prove the first incompleteness theorem (no axiom system proves all of the interesting facts about the integers), then modify that into a proof of the second incompleteness theorem (that every logic which proves its own consistency must be inconsistent). But it goes way further than that to Rice's theorem: every nontrivial semantic property of a computer program is undecidable. Put another way, the only way for the compiler to know that something is true is for there to be a really simple up-front convention which makes it true.

Suppose you want to make sure, statically, that you never dereference a null pointer. This says that the only way a compiler could ever be strong enough to prove this is if it's syntactically impossible to create a null pointer in the language in the first place, so that it's a "trivial property" of all programs that they never dereference null pointers.

Suppose you want to prove that a certain block of code is the fastest possible code which does a certain thing. The only ways to do this require the language to "normalize" all of its expressions so that there is only one block of code for everything you want to do. If there's more than one way to do it, then the analysis "is this the fastest code?" is nontrivial and you can't prove it! (You can always get heuristics of course to try to cover the most common cases, but your heuristics will never cover everything you want.)

Suppose Microsoft wants to fix Word and Excel's macro systems to a new form that cannot contain viruses: the only way to do that is if the macro system is either (a) Turing-incomplete, so that you can analyze its programs, or else (b) unable to do the virusy things that you're worried about in the first place. Otherwise there will always be a macro-virus which passes the virus-checker.
Wow. The censorship is heavy.
the cynic in me says that the "manages diseases" part will become increasingly untenable in the future, as antibiotic-resistant everything proliferate in feedlot environments, and american regulatory agencies fail to put a check on antibiotics mixed into animal feed.

reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/magazine/power-steer.html
The argument that BioViva makes is that it would be cheaper at scale and if they can eliminate age related disease, it would be financially beneficial for a government to pay for their population to be treated.
Some parallel algorithms will scale to bigger (more parallel) chips the way binary programs got more performance with clock higher frequencies. That's the holy grail..
With hammers?
Samsung to Acquire Viv, the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Platform
Who'd have thought banks would look for ways to save money?

Madness!
> Why would you not just pick and consume one, as you would in Python?

You probably wouldn't do that in Python; the regular expressions module is part of the language.
The laws of physics say we can't accelerate through the speed of light, but it doesn't say we can't travel faster than light, nor does it say time travel is impossible. Particles traveling faster than light can travel back in time. Communicating with those particles has proven to be difficult. Also, traveling faster than light is pretty difficult. But, the main law is that you can't accelerate through the speed of light. Another possibility is compressing space so that you're not traveling faster than light, but you're covering more space.

It's probably more likely that we could colonize Mars before we will have a vessel capable of compressing space and traveling through it in an efficient manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
We can start with the first sentence:

> A Texas banker who was so frustrated with regulators in 2011 that he gave up his banking charter and sold off his branches is now overseeing the sale of the rest of the company to Warburg Pincus LLC for about $300 million.

The title should at least get a year parenthetical on the Banker (who is not a banker [0]) claim, or maybe you can show me Depping's new charter?

[0] at the nonbank

Also, I now get the impression that this game plan is not so much a plan any more, but an operating enterprise since 2011.
>obsession with super light materials that "are strong for their weight" seems a bit useless

You couldn't be more wrong. Most of aerospace design is about optimizing ratios. Thrust/weight; strength/weight; specific impulse for rockets (∂momentum/∂fuel); lift/drag; lift,drag/velocity.... etc. etc. etc.

Aircraft structures also have an amplification factor. For every 1 pound of stuff in the aircraft you'll need 5 pounds of structure. Saving small amounts of weight can have big consequences in the range/fuel economy/speed/etc. metrics.

This material wouldn't just be used by itself, it would be compounded with a few other materials to get the right strength characteristics desired. Compare it to the honeycomb material that's all over aircraft today; the honeycomb itself is barely more than shaped paper, but glued to thin sheets on either side, it's incredibly strong.
The entire comment is an absurd stereotype, and about what you'd expect to find in this forum. Manufacturing jobs weren't (and aren't) filled with a bunch of meatheads coloring by numbers any more than are construction jobs.
Contrast a politician with a juror. There's no real reason for a juror to focus on anything but the case at hand. They don't have a career as a juror to pursue, yet they're expected to learn about things relevant to the case. There's almost no personal incentives involved (which also happens to be heavily policed) besides scheduling.

Now, a politician generally does things to further their political career. They don't research solutions, they're lobbied for them. They do research what they can say to get themselves [re-]elected. They make deals based on their their status and trajectory within their political party, maybe tempered by "the right thing" depending on how much they hold the concept of a public servant. Sure, there's some out there with passion for a particular problem, but that's not the common case behavior.

I say term limits on everything. Eliminate career politicians.

Huge bills are currently put together without one hand knowing what the other is doing, and in practice things like budget are fudged anyway to keep the machine mostly moving.

If career politicians with no real-world knowledge of the represented issues can do this stuff, then a random scattering of people with greater expected slices of real-world experience and fewer expected strings attached can do the same.
The commercial writes itself. Apple should be in negotiations with the guy already.
Just want to complain that I bought Dash 2, and there's no way to access it after the Dash 3 is out. I don't understand why the guy wants to make money this way. Good job Apple.
The issue is not bandwidth, it's the system cost. The chip has 1024 IO pins. (more than enough for MANY 10Gb nics...)
I think it's more about comfort than productivity. I find myself using control keys or reaching for the mouse far more often when using anything else to edit text, and it's just more pleasant to be able to stick to the letters on the keyboard as much as possible.

I think your point about productivity in VS probably has more to do with its IDE features than its text editing features doesn't it? I also enjoy using a good IDE, but I still lean heavily on (bad to mediocre) vim keybinding support. At least I can navigate and make small edits nicely, but for anything more advanced, it's straight back to the control key or right click menu.

What I'd really love to see would be an IDE designed from the ground up to be modeful, and to put the most common things you do in an IDE on easy to reach keys. The interesting part of vim isn't the specific keybindings, it's the philosophy, and as far as I've seen, nothing else embraces it.
Lots of service are personal services (the thing you are servicing is the customer), and categories of personal service expand and contract with, essentially, fashion. Service can literally be created out of thin air.
Why else is OP still employed?
It's interesting really. Systems that give you more flexibility and power might make good engineers more productive, while making many more mediocre engineers less productive. Of course, the former largely drive these innovations.

I've been out of web dev for a while now, but React's one way state to UI concept actually seems like an amazing simplification.
What are the odds this is properly investigated? Korean chaebol culture is notoriously close-fisted.
We are constantly talking with users but it's hard to filter their feedback. I guess you experienced this situation before you found product/market fit. How did you filter your user's comments? Based on your mission?
Transparency around what the problem was, why it happened, and how it was fixed.
At least now we have WSL to work with.
Why Viv Is Joining Forces with Samsung
When people say "there is no choice" it usually means there is a choice. A better way to have the discussion is to avoid the binary framing and talk about the tradeoffs.

Here is one key tradeoff I see: the App Store brings more visibility in exchange for a cost. This situation accentuates another downside: plug-pulling for intentional or unintentional reasons.

FWIW, I use plenty of apps not on the app store.
It's very much a common reality among working-class families of nearly any ethnic background in the USA.

I have plenty of friends and some non-intermediate family members that have reported that their friends and family actively discouraged continuing their education after highschool for one reason or another. In some cases, reasons like "you'll earn more working an honest trade", and "college debt is a scam" are given (in some cases, these may actually be true). In others, things like "do you think you're better than the rest of us?", "that's for white people", and "only f-gs and liberals go to college" are hurled at those that want to continue their education.

And in many cases, it doesn't even take active discouragement to prevent people from wanting to obtain any higher education. I have relatives that live in very small, rural farming towns that have actively resisted attending anything other than the local 2-year junior college, in part because the people that get 4-year degrees never come back to town. They're convinced that they would be betraying their family and friends by getting educated and finding a better living situation.
Hi Ooshma! Long time follower, first time question asker.

When you're preparing to pitch to potential investors, what do you do to get yourself in "the zone"?

p.s. If your answer involves listening to music, I'd love to hear about your playlist!
I happily use both: vanilla on servers, lots of plugins on personal machine. There are lots of nice plugins, and I don't buy the argument that using them makes me unable to figure out how to use the vanilla install when sshing.
VMware Will Team with Former Nemesis Amazon in Cloud Pact
You're correct that manufacturing too has a finite demand but it still has an order of magnitude more potential than the service industry. The vast majority of service jobs are extremely local or tied to a language/region/jurisdiction so those jobs have very little to export. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the world is not yet affluent enough to afford most luxury manufactured goods so as the population gets wealthier, the market for manufactured goods expands. As long as the developing world follows western consumerism, and by all vounts it looks like it is, there is a lot of room to grow. Developed countries who have centuries of industrialization behind them and a knowledge economy stand a much greater chance of capturing that newly generated wealth because of scale and experience. As long as higher labor and regulatory costs can be offset by automation, the manufacturing can be grown with the world while services can only really grow with the national population.
I'm running a rooted phone at the moment but you're essentially reducing the security of the phone. I wish I didn't have to root my phone to get all the features I want (removing apps, backing up apps to somewhere I control, redirecting audio)
Samsung to Acquire Viv
You have to look at all the numbers (I/O, on-chip memory, flops, threads) and see if the architecture fits your problem. Some algorithms like matrix matrix multiplication are FLOPS bounds. It's rare to see a HPC architecture (don't know if there is one?) that can't reach close to the theoretical flops with matrix matrix multiplication. Parallel architectures and parallel algorithm development go hand in hand.
Good on you - now just convince a billion other people to do the same and we should be alright.

A bunker does nothing to help avoid the war itself.
Both ANA and Air Canada had a Note 7 announcement at the start of their flights when I flew SEA-YVR-HND-YVR-SEA telling people not to use or charge their phones in flight.
I don't think so. Money creation through loans by banks is vital to the proper functioning of the economy, but is tightly regulated by the Federal Reserve and various other agencies because unchecked lending has in the past resulted in sub-optimal outcomes. Without a banking charter, and hence access to a reserve account with the Fed, loans must be made from pre-existing capital.
This is true for most companies that hire those consulting companies as well.
Being kind to others does make you ‘slightly happier’
No, it really didn't. The first iPhone was 2G and it was a year before the app store was available.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
Ask HN: What are some great sites you frequent that others may not know.
I find myself visiting the same group of websites by habit, most times typing the URL unconsciously.

Examples HN, news websites, reddit.

I'm looking to expand my range and learn new things.

What are some websites you visit that others may not come across often that you find useful?
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