skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so China knowing things about me affects me much less.

Not if you have a few experiences when a recipient or sender verified with you that his/her/your email had disappeared. When that happened, we keep wondering did who say what which angered the email provider or hit the censor black list. Such things never happened with email provider from other countries. The same emails finally got through when we switched to gmail or alike.
I was recently at a bar where they showed a movie with incomprehensible subtitles (English to English). I assume this was because they skimped and bought automatic subtitling.

I think one important aspect is while humans miss words, they often get the sentence meaning correct. When computers miss words, they tend to substitute words that sound similar. That's readable if you have time but not necessarily as a stream of text going by...
Despite my disagreement with him, Peter Thiel has a right to hold an opinion on which candidate he supports, and the right to donate to the candidate of his choice. It's a presidential election. You can't call it a fair election if as a society, we're threatening to punish people for supporting one candidate over another.
FunctionalConf 2016 (Day 1/2)
Those Javadoc comments are useless. If you have useful comments, they would take up the same space even if the language supported properties.

Now you're left with something that could be fit on three lines (the "final" for the parameter is also useless and can be removed):

public Foo getFoo() { return foo; }

public void setFoo(Foo foo) { this.foo = foo; }

Even if you don't write the actual source like that, a good editor like IntelliJ can automatically display them like that (code folding).

The C# version is about the same length:

public Foo Foo {
get { return foo; }
set { foo = value; }
}

Also, you don't have to write the get/set methods yourself. You hit a few keys and your editor generates them.
...along with evidence of Russian hacking of elections databases?
Meet Snapdragon X50–Qualcomm’s first 5G modem
@etjossem

My source is too small for you. Your sources are too guilty of collusion for me. I'm not going to wait for Amazon's clickbait/advertorial farm to tell me something is true or not. Think it's a coincidence that WaPo has won almost nothing since Bezos took over? Not all journalism is created equal indeed.
pg: Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382765
How bad are ubiquity devices, and the state of security and firmware updates for them? I was thinking about switching to a ubiquity amplify home router from tp-link partly out of concern for this, and was hoping that their firmware and security updates would be a little more on-point. But one of their routers are on this list...
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944
Carpet bombing a larger area means you need even less precision. Picture throwing a 10 darts at a dart board with a 2 foot radius, vs 1 dart with a 4 foot radius.
The stereotype of lazy Greek is one of the most stupidest in EU.
> Rob Rhinehart, to compress all the nutrition the human body needs to live into one single, easily digestible formula, like the twenty-first-century version of manna. But that is fundamentally the opposite of the way we increasingly want to eat in America and in much of the developed world.

Uh, speak for yourself.

I order Soylent from time-to-time. It's a nice way to simplify about 75% of my meal prep, while remaining healthy and helping me avoid constant snacking. If I was on my own I'd consider 100% Soylent.

You don't need three gourmet meals a day. Food is a convenient social activity, but it's not the only one.

So many issues with this article, but this one...

> the persistent effect that progress in food processing has had on our taste buds, as we amp up artificial flavors in an attempt regain the natural flavor we have stripped from our food with technology

If you'd ever had Soylent, you'd realize that it's entirely the opposite of an "amped-up, artificial flavour". It's not bland - it has a light flavour that isn't offensive no matter how much you drink.
I'm not am artist and have only created software for hire so I guess my opinion is just that - opinion. And probably not worth as much as someone in the industry. But here goes...

I believe the original copyright term put into our constitution is reasonable. Fourteen years should be enough for an artist to publish, promote and reap the benefits before a work is released to the world for others to build on and enjoy.

And with the way things move so quickly these days fourteen years seems more reasonable than ever.

But I've heard arguments for varying copyright terms for different types of works, e.g. software, which changes very rapidly, only getting seven to ten years, movies, which ideally stand the test of time getting longer than fourteen years and music falling somewhere in the middle.

I'm open to persuasion on the topic I guess. But when I said "decades" in my OP I meant just that. I really don't see it as justifiable that people get continuously paid for something twenty, thirty, seventy-five years later.

I also don't believe copyright older than fourteen years should be inherited. I see nothing that society gains when the children and grand children of an artist not only get paid long after a work was created but in a lot of cases actively cause copyright to be extended over and over to the detriment of society. Not to mention the nasty disputes that arise between heirs that do nothing by end up tarnishing the original artist's good name and deeds. (E.g. Frank Zappa [1])

Finally, let's face it, this Spinal Tap story is not unique. Artists may get small residuals for things that are older than I'm comfortable with but that's a much lesser concern for me than companies reaping the rewards for things that have outlived the creators by decades. Extreme examples being Mickey Mouse and Happy Birthday.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/business/media/whats-in-a-...
You should also give the Ars Techinca review a shot.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/google-pixel-review-b...
Because people buy the bigger ones. The market seems to have established that the 5-5.7" range is where the money is to be made.

Anecdotally, 5" is pretty perfect for me, and using an iPhone 5 is a very frustrating experience.
"Time spent at table doesn't age you" is one of my favorite sayings.

The real soylent sickness isn't replacing locally sourced, farm-to-table food with disgusting "food", as the author claims. The real soylent sickness is the culture of "meals are just input so I can keep working".
Please link to where the FBI said the Russians are conspiring to rig the election for Trump.
>IoT SIMs with decent data plans are a thing now!

[Citation Needed]

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What do you mean by decent data plans? I'm seeing plans that are between $10 and $20 usd per GiB. That's definitely not good enough of live video, but I suppose you could release new video every month.
> My criticisms here relate to authenticity, and choice of specific values - [not an] idealization of 'unselfishness'

Sure. So, is it not enough to just be nice to people, must we always be authentic too?

> I don't think this blog post is the worst thing ever

And I don't think it's the best thing ever. Honestly, I don't have much of an attachment to this essay either.

The only specific positive point I see to this essay is giving yet another tool to people who otherwise would fail to express their anger in a proper way. And this parlays into my next point:

> I don't want selfish, impatient, aggressive people to get better at faking being civil

People who experience anger are not necessarily all aggressive people. Aggression is "a behavior where the intention is to harm someone or something."[1] This blog post is about helping people retain their civility in the face of anger and avoid aggression, which I think is something you're in favor of.

It's not "faking being civil," it's just another way to help people be civil. Some people have legitimate issues with how they deal with anger (and aren't necessarily people for which an "introspection and re-evaluation of their values" is obligatory), and I think it's great to give them more tools with which to ease back into society.

I don't like "selfish, impatient, aggressive" (hereinafter referred to as "bad") people either. But angry people aren't necessarily "bad" people, and even then "bad" people have to start somewhere.

1: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-the-rage/201109/fiv...
Differential Line Generative Algorithm
Nobody cares about the difference between 0.025 and 0.027 inertial penalty.

I was thinking more along the lines of the difference between 0.025 and 2.5. There's also stacking.

I would recommend you to have several types of items even if that means the items have fixed statistics instead of having one item type with flexible statistics.

Darn. I was going to have just one type of item, called "Object." Everything would be a variation on that, and inherit behavior from it.

But seriously, I am going to have very specific functions for a set catalogue of items. The procedural generation is all about their potential for interaction when incorporated into a crafted item.
I don't think it's possible unless you add an app.

One solution would be create a companion app that determines the physical screen size, then makes that available to your network via web sockets.

There our a few steps I left out here but it's possible.

The app could be optional - if its installed that device will have fully automatic configuration. If it's not installed, you just fall back to your user prompt.
Show HN: All Endurance Race Blogs in One Place
China's government has to be authoritarian because of its history of being invaded by Western powers and because the Communist party knows very well that their country is very vulnerable to Western ambitions of conquest. That is why Tibet will and should remain part of China. And they still manage to jail less people than the USA and that IS the point here.

And would you say that the US press is really free? They drum up war against one country or another when the US government orders it. They avoid covering third party candidates when the Republicans and Democrats order them to. They write cheap hit pieces (21 articles against Bernie Sanders in a single day in Washington Post) when people in power order it.

Not really much freedom here either... And why don't you start comparing the USA with other democracies like Michael Moore did? The USA would still suck in comparison.
Another comparison of social mobility:

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81/1/WRAP_Naylor_twerp_781.pdf

Mobility is lower in
the U.S. than in the U.K., where it is lower again compared to t
he Nordic countries. Persis-
tence is greatest in the tails of the distributions and tends
to be particularly high in the upper
tails: though in the U.S. this is reversed with a particularl
y high likelihood that sons of the
poorest fathers will remain in the lowest earnings quintile
. This is a challenge to the popu-
lar notion of ’American exceptionalism’.
I agree that both are low. MIT's acceptance rate is a little under 1 in 12, and several Ivy League colleges have an even lower acceptance rate.

I further agree that there is a positive correlation between income and acceptance. I further agree that there is a positive correlation between income and application. What I don't see is any productive way to 100% eradicate those correlations.

I'm only familiar with the admissions policies as practiced by MIT in the late 80s and early 90s. There was explicit bias for diversity (which is good; no one wants an utterly homogenous population), but I also think it's perfectly reasonable to deny admission to a very selective university to a student who is utterly undistinguished in all aspects of their high-school career. Admissions to selective schools ought not become a totally random lottery.

I think that removing financial gates for those students who are accepted (need blind admissions) is mandatory and effective. Going beyond that is fraught with peril I think.
Cheers. I am absolutely sick of these McCarthy-esque witchhunts foisted on us. That combined with the recent attacks on freedom of speech have me very wary of the left in general this time around.

I was rooting for Rand Paul and planned on voting for Gary Johnson in the election but the blatant corruption and criminality that has come out exposing Clinton, her laundry list of crimes, the lack of prosecution by the DoJ, and the complete bias in media coverage has me in the Trump camp this time around.

It really makes me sick.
And your alternative of not allowing the user to access what they have clearly stated the intention to access isn't acceptable either.
And?

Chinese and Russian state hackers are constantly breaking into US systems. I'm sure American state hackers are constantly breaking into theirs. This is nothing extraordinary.

Thank you for validating that Clinton's repeated conspiratorial assertions are dangerous to democracy. It seems like you will doesn't accept the results you don't like, just Democrats have always done when they lose.
I think ISP's are going to start shutting off the internet accounts of people with compromised devices.
I'm trying to install it ( antigen ) but it complains that I already have a nvm installed ( well I do, but should I remove it ? )
Spending your whole life doing back breaking hard work, tilling soil, planting seeds, hoeing weeds, harvesting, eating and sleeping. Rinse and repeat for years on end, with nothing to show for it except that you've managed to stay alive, all just to die of skin cancer at the age of 65 from being out in the sun all day (or from being around so much fertilizer and insecticide chemicals). Sounds fulfilling!

Source: I grew up on a farm, too.
I wrote a book about this above but in short, I agree, I should have been more clear about my problem with the absurd lengths copyright can be extended these days. "Decades" wasn't really specific enough to get my point across. Given ST was 1984 I'd say somewhere between 1998 - 2004 would be fair and within the boundaries our original copyright laws were meant to cover.
Some Present-Day A.I. Inside 'Westworld' Hosts
Aside from all the other technical bits, one killer feature for my company is TortoiseHG (http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/). Unlike a number of the other Tortoise-* projects (which don't seem related actually), TortoiseHG is a really great cross-platform gui, written in python & qt -- runs just about everywhere, and makes working with mercurial uniformly easy.

The fact that instead of "hg ci" I can type "thg ci" and get a commit window with cherry-picking and meld integration right off the bat is really powerful. I've not seen any good git guis that come close to it's featureset.
Personally, I would love to live in a communist society unless the workings of it were not proven completely impractical and incompatible with basic human instincts.

So, we probably need prices and actual money for resource optimization, with human-sized goals for individuals to aspire to. But how to optimize human condition is partly a separate question and requires placing some value on the life experiences of individuals disrespective of their economic status.
It would take a very principled person to resist the various appeals of the military-industrial complex. Trump is not that person. All it will take is a couple of ex-generals making the rounds on Sunday morning saying, "if Trump weren't such a pussy he'd be bombing the Syrians already!"
Fun fact: its search for railway-connections in Germany is by far better than the original site (Deutsche Bahn).
"avoid political bias"

Their primary reporter, Kim LaCapria, "described herself as “openly left-leaning” and a liberal. She trashed the Tea Party as “teahadists.” She called Bill Clinton “one of our greatest” presidents. She claimed that conservatives only criticized Lena Dunham’s comparison of voting to sex because they “fear female agency.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/fact-checking-snopes-websi...
Not terribly novel or interesting; the article entirely ignores that Soylent culture is driven by a disinterest in cooking and a desire to avoid the time spent during food preparation, cleanup, grocery shopping, etc.

Grocery shopping for one is frustrating; either I buy portions I know I can not eat before they spoil, wasting money and food, or I buy only a few ingredients and cycle through the same meals over and over. Last week I was annoyed to discover Kroger discontinued its half-dozen egg cartons, and I still have not found any reliable way of buying small enough quantities of bread/buns before they grow stale or mold. I'm fairly confident I am doomed to forever spoil cheese and milk. It seems that grocery chains market portions to target a household size of four, exclusively. Soylent, on the other hand, has a shelf-life of 1 year.
Still, even at half design yield the Tsar Bomba had an instantaneous power output equal to 1.4% of the sun, albeit for a few nanoseconds at most.
I think the root of these articles is that people don't understand what Soylent is. It's not meant to replace your home made salad, or "Fish pulled from a river and grilled over wood coals", but the frozen pizza you have when you come home late, or the "fuck it, I forgot to bring my lunch to work, let's just go to Arby's".

Do people complain that showers are meant to displace baths?
If the author's assertion is true -- that "the most significant food movement is the purposeful pushback against the postwar industrial food system" -- then where is the demand for Soylent coming from? People clearly want it.

The real mistake here is the implication that everyone who consumes Soylent replaces 100% of their meals with it. That isn't the use case, and this has been explained many times. Soylent serves a specific purpose, just like astronaut ice cream, Tang, and TV dinners. The author says: "no one in their right mind would chose [astronaut ice cream] over the cold, creamy stuff on a hot day," but he's wrong. Many people did for the novelty, and many people prefer Soylent for its convenience.
Considering that since then some three or four kings/dynasties have been rather unceremoniously disposed of ... looks like a bit of a formality, to rub it in.

I mean, you execute/exile/etc the person you owe the debt to, and keep paying it to the one you pick to replace him in the job of president - er, I mean, king?
For example only certain players in the galaxy (it was an MMO) had the skills to craft the very best items. They could do that because they knew where to mine or buy the very best materials (randomly generated in those areas).

I am going to have a procedurally generated tech tree in my MMO. I'll only know statistically that certain powerful combinations in crafting are possible, but even as the dev, I won't know precisely where they will be, what they look like, or exactly how to get the components for them.
I'm part of the "strip back protections" to a more reasonable frame of reference. His argument, to wit, is bullshit (if I'm reading correctly). Reasonable Copyright Reform is basically "Life of Artist + X years" where X is the variable.

A single digit extension, say like 5 years, so family members can enjoy a last bit of revenue stream / protection of works, and then it goes back to the public benefit. Nobody other than Copyright Abolitionists assert that Copyright should expire while the creator is still alive - I mean, I guess somebody could assert it but it's so far out as a non-sequitur it's laughable. If I misread his argument or your summary then I still think there are significant problems with that line of reasoning in a serious Copyright Reform discussion.
Thanks, as I've mentioned elsewhere me saying "decades" was probably a bit vague, and yes, you're literal interpretation is in line with what I was thinking.
I agree that handling promises should be by default better than remembering to 'if (err) throw err' but my original comment was about how spec-adhering promise polyfills like es6-promise are basically broken because they silently swallow the most egregious errors.

They silently swallow all runtime exceptions, not 'error from reading said file you told me to read, that there should, by any sane degree be SOME KIND of error handling for, and for anyone serious about programming in a dynamic language, also test coverage for'.

Those two things are different issues, on different levels.

> Yes, it's not great that Node and some of the browsers initially "missed" the "great try/catch in the sky" catch all logging, but again that is easily resolved at the runtime platform level

That's all my original comment said. The platforms (actually the spec) failed to get it right initially, the implementation was broken and now it is fixed.
It should. It's extremely bad to exclude people for disagreeing with their political positions. We need to learn how to disagree politely and civilly, and how to keep our disagreements from bleeding over into our total personal evaluation of the opposing person. That's applicable to both sides. Our civilization and democracy depends on mutual toleration and an ability to separate the personal from the partisan.

Cutting people off only further isolates them. If you really want to convert Trump supporters, you have to show them the error of their ways gradually, just like with everything else. Writing them off as irredeemable based on their political preferences is not only inadvisable, but fundamentally destructive of the binding social fabric of the republic.
a George Orwell reference I presume
> I don't want to use services based in China because they're ultimately subject to the will of the Chinese government.

Exactly. Compare this to the case of the United States, where the government never forces its tech companies to share their data.
some comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731059
Section 9 in the paper[1] is all about comparing these mistakes between the system and humans. The most common mistakes for humans and the system are in tables 9—11.

We find that the artificial errors are substantially the same as human ones with one large exception confusions between backchannel words [acknowledgment words like “uh-huh”] and hesitations.

The difference they found, but suspect might be a result of the different transcription guidelines of the training corpus: we see that by far the most common error in the ASR system is the confusion of a hesitation in the reference for a backchannel in the hypothesis. People do not seem to have this problem.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05256
"You can now buy reasonably priced organic foods at many supermarkets across North America"

I think this is only true if you are upper middle class or above.
Rise and fall and rise again of one Open Source project
I'm trying to argue that these are largely unrelated questions. You can ask weather Great apes are self-aware in each sense, and get different answers:

(i) Great apes pass the mirror test, which certainly requires some level of self-knowledge.

(ii) Bernard Baars (a neuroscientist who studies consciousness) has a hypothesis about the part of the brain that gives rise to the "theater" of consciousness. I forget what part of the brain it is, but Great apes have it too, so if his hypothesis is correct then they also have a "theater".

(iii) Great apes don't speak, so they don't have anything like our inner monologue.

Honestly, I have no idea which of these three attributes an intelligent AI might have. And I see no reason to assume that they go together.
Yes :)
I'll write it toworrow!