skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our own cultures are mysterious to us. Why are we hurtling towards climate change? Why do we sacrifice countries full of people, like in Iraq? Why must we release toxins in water that lower people's IQs? Why do we need to cage so many humans?

Few have satisfactory explanations. (The most common ones don't stand up to basic scrutiny. Folk answers, ideological answers to explain away the ideology's problems, etc.)
It's worth seeing if you can upgrade the Wifi, I upgraded the abysmal wifi on my Asus and it has been great every since.

[ It still has terrible battery life, and chucks out a load of heat though ].
> Lack of a Debian-like alternatives system is really the only systemic problem I run into on a regular basis.

We'll, there's always Debian/kFreeBSD for that...
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And a counterpoint http://www.npr.org/2016/04/04/473002208/facing-a-growing-rat...

That example is why cats were domesticated in the first place.

Not having a healthy predator prey relationship in areas leads to public health issues.
The last episode of The Talk Show[1] spent a while discussing just this point, that it was a mistake for Twitter to accept MAU as a benchmark of their success early on, since it didn't capture the value of the specific users they were attracting.

Guest Matthew Panzarino also made the observation that Twitter's audience goes beyond active users: Millions of people who will never use Twitter will still see tweets every morning on SportsCenter. How to use that reach across media to make money is, of course, an open question for Twitter or a potential buyer.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2016/10/06/ep-169
Hey, no, not at the moment, but we'll be able to offer discounted prices depending on your specific requirements. If you're working with a startup we also have discounted pricing for that. Drop up an email on hello@overops.com and I'll make sure someone follows up
...and a culture centered on humanism might group infanticide with medical procedures like appendectomies.
I'm not making a "think of the children" argument here, but rather pointing out the argument that you didn't really address when you changed the "group of children" to "pedestrians that violated traffic rules". If you actually saw a child appear in the street in front of your car, I don't think the violation of traffic laws would be part of your calculations in the moment.

Yes, the scenario given is absurdly contrived, but the issue is real. In any collision avoidance scenario, once things have already gone wrong, you have to make tradeoffs, sometimes involving potential dangers to both people inside and outside of the vehicle.

If children run into the highway, blaming the parents doesn't answer the question of what the car should do. If nobody else is on the road, you can swerve. What if there is a vehicle in the lane next to you, will you swerve towards it and risk a minor accident to avoid one that is more likely to be fatal? How much risk would be acceptable to avoid certainly killing a pedestrian? In highway driving sometimes bad things suddenly happen directly in front of you and the only choice is between different accidents. Humans make these decisions and autonomous vehicles are going to have to make them too.
How often do you read it? I recently moved to the DC area so the Post is my daily paper, and while I wouldn't read it if wasn't reputable, I don't think anybody can call it unbiased. It's not just the presidential campaign, they have clear, almost plainly stated bias in lots of areas. I'm fine with that, because it's not hidden and it's not so egregious that they report false stories or something, but the Post should not be your only source of news.
Just to check, you've seen this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557500
simulating complex behavior requires at least 10mb of data

The author has not shown that that much is required. At most, the author has shown that it has been done with that much. Seeing as having only thousands of states is apparently enough to make a Turing machine's behavior independent of ZFC (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725), I really doubt this "10 megabyte" lower bound.
NOTE: I am not recommending this group for I don't recommend in this situation, but feel compelled to mention them to address this comment as a counterexample:

Mandiant was bought out by FireEye.

https://www.fireeye.com/services.html

I believe Sony was using them for forensics as well as establish their new more secure system.

It is important to set up systems so that hackers if (and when) they do breech, are found ASAP, and only get access to compartments and not the entire company.

There are also Israelis that I know of who have a good reputation in cybersecurity.
I see that you found the same outdated notice as me, when I googled: it refers to an exchange program, not a recall. Check out this foot-in-mouth quote:

> Canadian Note7 Software Update showcases Note7 device is safe for use.

At this point, I think that it is most likely that there will eventually be a global recall (how could there not be? that would be madness) but they just haven't gotten around to updating all of the other countries. Recalls are complex, I guess. But they should at least shut down the exchange program ASAP, that's just a waste of time at this point.
EURUSD Declines Further on Sell Off
They might not even use the Note name next time, it's been so badly damaged.

Maybe they'll revive the "Galaxy Mega" branding. Or maybe they'll come up with something new.
'Cyber terrorist' trades cufflinks for handcuffs
For me personally, I would rather corporations be honest with their customers, investors, and employees. I know it's unfair to generalize but the average behavior of corporations in the last few, well forever, hasn't been good. Forgive me for being skeptical.
>I never had to shift a bit in a C array in my life! And I never got a compilation error on a white board, when I need an hash set in Java I just use HashSet- I don’t fucking care about the complexity of this code block because I can afford another EC2 instance! So fuck you.

No, fuck you for making everything run so slow on our pocket and desktop supercomputers.
in part it's since the refugee crisis, there just aren't enough skilled administrators in germany to handle the number of people migrating here. That said, once you've got the paperwork, things are relatively easy.

What i mean by registration is that you have to register where you live, to do that you'll need your passport, copy of the contract and a letter from the landlord saying you have the right to live there. Sounds easy, but then not many landlords will rent to you if you're not planning on staying a long time or you don't have a permanent contract for your job...

you need the registration for everything here, you don't really exist without it, you can't get health insurance, you can't pay tax, you can't be paid your salary by a company, and you'll find it hard to open a bank account.
Serverless via Lambda has been, frankly, a disappointment so far. The benefit is that I'm supposed to not have to manage servers anymore, yet I find myself, well, managing servers.

I have to build and assign IAM roles, subnets, set up application configuration files in fixed external services (since you can't do things like set environment variables), configure the endpoints in nginx^h^h^h^h^h API Gateway, suffer through cold starts, fight against arcane packaging issues with site directories and .pth files (though this is probably just be a Python thing), fight concurrency throttling, external timeouts, manage out-of-band database connections, logging which requires even more IAM permissions...

This doesn't even consider how many times I've had to tear down and re-create an API Gateway setup because it got "stuck" and would stop working.

Finally, WTF is up with not being able to test API Gateway -> S3 integrations if the S3 bucket is in the same region as the gateway instance? It's a two plus year old bug by now, and a real pain (especially when coupled with other AWS services which require the bucket to be in the same region as the rest of a service - such as CodePipeline).

Perhaps it's just because I'm familiar with setting up and provisioning servers, but for basic web services and periodic tasks, Lambda is much harder to work with most of the time. Its biggest benefit so far has been the low cost.
Really wanted to love it, but I'm used to listening to podcasts at 1.5x speed. If they manage to do some download/buffering magic I would re-download in a heartbeat.
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
Thanks for a non-paywalled link.

Christmas's come early for Apple.
Plus, if you give in and subscribe to the WSJ they go out of their way to make it difficult to unsubscribe, requiring users to call in by phone and be subjected to a sales pitch just to cancel the recurring charges. It's a very scummy retention tactic.
President Obama Signs New Vision for U.S. Space Exploration into Law
>As long as companies think it good PR to even pretend to have a loftier goal, then there is incentive for creating and operating companies that actually do. This can only be good. Shouldn't we want them to have this incentive?

Transparent BS like this alienates insiders when it isn't based on substance. I'd say it hurts Twitter as an organization.
Countries can do this funny thing called "print money" to save failing businesses. Sure, that's bad for the economy too, but potentially better than the alternative.
This is an exact copy of Skeleton, css transformed to scss, that's it.
Ah. Well, I sympathize. When I first started using Linux, one thing I liked about it was the simplicity. Seems that simplicity has been getting eroded slowly but surely since I first started with it, but it has accelerated quite a bit in recent years.

Slackware feels like one of the last holdouts, along with the likes of CRUX and Gentoo, but I fear that soon I will be forced to switch to some BSD -- which I wouldn't mind if my laptop hardware were better supported (I've been running various BSDs on servers for years, but Linux just seems to work better on my laptop; that said, I downloaded the 11.0-RELEASE ISOs a few days ago and I'll give it a shot on the lappy).
I ma not a very good runner, but runners high is the single amazing high I have ever felt in my life. I have tried few things that give you high so I had some baseline to compare to. I don't know if everyone gets runner's high
Pardon, I do agree there is still an unresolved desire for violence in even our own culture that we are no closer to understanding. What I found distasteful was pinning that on religion. I think there are ancient forms of knowledge -- often passed on by a story which becomes abstract after many generations -- passed on as culture, with clear evidence that parents pass on their behaviors, attitudes and values. Cultures I think blend discretely so that there are many subcultural currents. I would say all of these currents are in the same broad kind, but that their being alike in type does not imply one following the other. Even as a dire skeptic one must admit the possibility of at least a subset of religious teachings to hold some truth; perhaps passed on merely as culture, our most ancient (yet perhaps still most powerful) form of knowledge; or perhaps self-perpetuating due to its very own divine truth. I'm not a trained historian so I'd love further opinion, but the Romans did not seem to very much actually believe in their pantheon, and yet were a very mighty and violent culture indeed.
Breakfast is typically a granola bar (I like the old-school crunchy Nature's Valley ones) and a cup of coffee. 30% of the time the coffee will be a latte from Starbucks or the local coffee shop.

Mid-morning I'll probably have another cup of coffee, and will start trying to remember to drink water. I have a big plastic cup on my desk.

Lunch totally depends. I try to bring lunch. Often that's a sandwich or wrap (with fruit and yogurt)--it so happens that's what I have today. Sometimes it's leftovers. Otherwise I'll grab something nearby. We often have food trucks in front of the building, or I'll get a sandwich from the cafteria in the building (OK) or one of the couple nearby places (Peruvian chicken: heavy).

Mid-afternoon, I'll drink water, tea, or--if I'm having a bad day--coke. If I'm hungry, I keep a pile of Clif Bars in my desk drawer.

I'm usually out by 6:30, so will go home and make dinner.
Dear Dash Users – A message to all Dash users from the Kapeli Blog
That's a bit harsh. The analogy made is not an uncommon one, but that doesn't mean there isn't some merit to the idea. I appreciate that people are at least trying to learn new things and form their own ideas.
Cool! I didn't know about `lsblk`. Thanks!
Fear is the emotion which most leads us from our own control.
How one would use such technology? Let me rephrase - how would YOU use this technology if you had it?

Imagine you have a bot that convincingly passes the Turing test - what would you do with it?

Build a chatbot business? B2C or B2B?

Sell it to one of the big companies and if yes then how much do you think it would go for?

Give it to OpenAI? Open source it? If you answer yes to any of this questions, then why?

Edit: let me qualify - this would not be AGI, just a much more advanced bot than whatever is currently on the market.
I run linux on the desktop and 1password actually works surprisingly well via Wine. Even the Chrome extension seems to work.
I misread it. I thought this was a poll on whether Sierra was broken. My vote

All I know is I'm getting 50% less battery time this week.

Oh, and sqllite-ruby seems to be a bit grumpy.
The Reddit comment corpus is an awesome dataset. There's relatively little mark-up to scrub out, low duplication, good metadata, and a variety of topics.

We used it to train a syntax-enriched word2vec model. Write up and demo: https://explosion.ai/blog/sense2vec-with-spacy

Btw, the above was run on CPU in a couple of days, because spaCy doesn't use GPUs yet. I've applied for a grant from NVidia so I can fix that. If anyone from NVidia is reading, email me? :)
The Oatmeal has also exposed these cute murderous creatures: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

The numbers seem to line up.
Restricted donations are very common. Donors often have the choice of designating a fund when giving money to a charity. I believe the money in a restricted fund is legally required to be used for the designated purpose. As far as I'm aware, the legal limitations on fund restrictions are designed to prevent restrictions which are designed to circumvent the tax code.

As an example, lets say you give money to a charity. You could require the funds be used to create and administer a scholarship for youth from your home town. You could not require the funds be used for a scholarship for children who live in your household.

This is based on what I've incidentally learned working for a non-profit. I'm not an accountant or a lawyer, so I might have missed some nuance, but I think that's the gist of it.

Here's a link to some information on managing restricted funds:

https://www.thebalance.com/restricted-unrestricted-nonprofit...
Yuan vs. Bitcoin Chart
Visual CSS regression testing with a free QA automation tool
Yeah but the S7 doesn't have a swappable battery.

I pretty much never charge my S4 these days. I have an external battery charger at home, a charger at work, and 3 batteries. It takes about 30 seconds to swap in a new one and then my phone is at full power instantly.
And yet any sort of program that gets fleshed out right now will get trashed in about three months time when he leaves office and congress turns over. Yay, political infighting and sabotage!
The s7 does not have a user-removable battery.

http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/skp/faq/1102126
I'm looking forward to a bot making a joke about banging my mum...
Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.

WSJ should not be classified as having an easily-bypassable paywall.
AFAIK Cloudflare only deal with HTTP and HTTPS, so nothing else goes through their proxy.

Which doesn't matter anyway because the traffic is still going through the edge networks (the ISP and a little bit upstream from there), so is still bandwidth impacting at some point.

We really need a way of getting the ISPs to talk to the providers upstream, and a way of notifying back that a particular host is causing problems. Unfortunately ISPs don't want to do this because unhappy customers = revenue. Also I don't want my traffic analysed on the way through, so there's a freedom issue on this too.

So it's not an easy problem to solve, but the ISPs could do it. But they won't.

On the flip side dealing with this sort of stuff is why i'd like to work for Cloudflare, Google, Facebook or others. It's fascinating how technical solutions can be bypassed by customer or provider inertia.
I don't think that is very surprising - after all, nature literally had billions of years optimizing the ___ out of DNA and how it encodes (among other things) behavior.
A conversation with the co-founder of the Call of Duty franchise about VR
[not a mod] I guess it's just a certain amount of user flags. This submission was flagged/unflagged a few times already (big karma users can vouch for an unflagging of a submission).
Anyone find it weird that workplace.fb.com is a wordpress blog...
If you offered a charity a 'donation' of $10,000,000 you could certainly attach conditions to their acceptance of it. After all, if they don't accept your restrictions, you can just take your money and walk away.
Well, it was never the intention of Alfred Nobel to have a prize for Economics. The so-called "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics" was established after a large donation from the Bank of Sweden in 1968, but has been regarded by many (including Nobel's grandson) as an inauthentic award.
Oh, and I'm a day late on this and you may not see it, but for the love of goodness do NOT answer the "And what are you currently making?" question. Evasion, coyness, anything but a number. ("Enough that I've been staying at the company but not so much that I'm not shopping around to see if I can do better. They've grown my responsibilities but haven't grown my compensation to fit. You'll have to decide what that translates to in your offer, which I will give due consideration to; I wouldn't be here if there wasn't an offer that would make me switch." Something like that. None of that will sound weird or suspicious to an interviewer. This is business; you're allowed to make more for doing more.)
There are over 250 species of bird present for at least part of the year in the city where I live, which has a population of 880000.
What's vastly different between software instructions in dwarf fortress vs DNA is what actually computes the code. There is a negligible amount of complexity in made-made computers vs what goes on in a cell. There are layers upon layers of complexity that goes from genotype to phenotype.

I am a bioinformatician with a genetics background. I've always had this abstract overview of DNA as a highly compressed dataset and geneticists are essentially trying to figure out the encoding.
Robot band plays Ace of Spades
I wouldn't be surprised if, except for cases of extreme violence, if video games (especially, much more than TV since the audience takes part in the action) and the like serve to pacify their audience in the long run. Perhaps a pacifistic steady-state solution to human nature doesn't involve denying this part of human nature, but indulging it in such harmless ways?
Apple clearly doesn't care about the Mac platform and derives only a sliver of revenue from it compared to iPhone, music and app sales. Apple believes that Mac exists solely as platform to develop iOS apps.
The current policy is that articles from sites with easily-bypassable paywalls are allowed.

The WSJ paywall is not easily bypassable. The usual techniques to bypass paywalls are inconsistent with WSJ. Sometimes opening the 'web' link in an incognito window works, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't work, there's no way to get to the article.

The WSJ paywall should not be treated like the NYT paywall. It's a different animal, and it shouldn't be allowed here because it fails the easily-bypassable test.
How does this work, if at all, for local development? Is there a pseudo-Lambda server that runs locally?

If not, this introduces yet another environment variable or it requires changes to be pushed constantly to Lamba for test.
"Sorry, this item can't be send to your selected address". I fail to see how a standard error message is proof of any hack.
VC backed (Iconical, Skype co-founder Janus Friis who's involved in product dev), premium features + platform play targeting enterprise will monetize.
Brexiters want currently legal EU immigrants to leave. It does affect science, because scientists and students who are currently working/studying legally in the UK may lose their rights.

Comments stressing immigration laws are only about illegal immigration are almost tautologic. Of course illegal immigrants are illegal, but the real issue is who the policy makers want to declare illegal.
> how many people continue to insist to me that OS X is a great UNIX. It may be a great desktop OS

Between 10.2 and 10.8 it was both, culminating on 10.5 and 10.6, the crown jewels IMHO. After 10.8 it took a definite turn for the worse, acquiring the worst of 'modern' practices and slashing many historic features that users loved, from user-friendly stuff to power user shortcuts and customizations.

I haven't even tried 10.12. The previous releases (10.9 through 10.11) have thoroughly butchered the interface, usability, compatibility, performance, and UNIX-level features.

I'm now back on GNU/Linux (Mint 18 Cinnamon) and I'm loving it! I have yet to find a feature or program I'm missing, while many things are so much easier. (Focus follows mouse, middle button paste, and Alt + window dragging, how I missed you! Not to mention apt-get)
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2016
Also feels a little weird that he did those shoutouts in alphabetic order.
> elevating monsters and putting them at the same level as you might Bono.

I disagree with the dehumanization of people who do dispicable things (e.g. the Boston Bomber or Nazis) - they were not monsters but humans like you and I; only with very warped belief systems. There danger is that categorizing them as monsters will limit our understanding of how they come about and/or how to prevent this from recurring in the future.

On the issue of appearing on a magazine cover - I do not think the glamorizing was intentianal. Good-looking people dominate covers, and monster or not, the dude was good looking. Hitler was once Time magazine "Man of the Year" - they were not lionizing him, but only declaring he had made the greatest impact of the year.
AWS IO Performance: What’s Bottlenecking Me Now?
Does Cloudflare still host (edit: proxy) the companies that do DDoS attacks thus serving to justify the use of Cloudflare services?
The way this headline reads, it sounds like NSA could, at any moment, flip a switch and _poof_ there's a backdoor in your crypto. I'd prefer to see some deeper explanation that gets us from "NSA" to "backdoor in your crypto."

Personally, I understand that NSA has made recommendations to NIST for decades. Those recommendations typically make it into standards. Those standards get implemented in software. I also understand there's lots of ~paranoia~ concern about anything NSA recommends and that oftentimes, software authors don't take their advice. (Sure, we don't know if the NSA recommendations are honestly excellent, or designed to facilitate backdooring; but not knowing whether the recommendations are trustworthy is part of the problem...)
My vote is for not running experiments when we may not like the results. (But we won't do it anyway - our votes do not matter.)

There are plenty of passive ways to gather the same data, that don't broadcast our existence into a galaxy we know nothing about. Let's use those first, and after we learn, decide if we want to talk back.