skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason that there is little academic work in the direction of making emotional machines is because we don't have a clear avenue of attack for that problem. We understand so little about the brain in general, and emotions seem buried near the bottom of that mystery.

Psychoactive drugs and hormones are so good at altering emotional state that it doesn't seem implausible that emotions might be as simply "implemented" as logical reasoning, or that emotions and human logic are in fact different shades of the exact same biological system. The hope would then be that emotions will emerge automatically once we've developed a system of sufficiently complex thinking.

Even more extreme, some people hold the belief that consciousness itself is a sort of post facto illusion—that we don't truly "think" at all, and everything we perceive is a backwards looking rationalization that arises as an accident of the complex chemistry of the brain. Timed brain scans seem to superficially support this philosophy. If this is the case, then building mammal-like machine intelligence may not be so mysterious in the long run, though this raises some pretty mind-bending ethical and philosophical issues.

That all said, I fundamentally agree with your point. It certainly seems like there is very little work, if any, that's advancing our understanding of how to do anything other than optimize certain tasks. Those tasks are progressively becoming more and more complex, but they're still extremely narrow in scope. From where I sit, it seems like we'll have to solve a whole lot of "pointless" (unprofitable) problems before we come anywhere close to finding general AI. Not the least of these problems is our fundamental lack of understanding of what our own "thinking" even really is.
Has anyone else been experiencing redirects at kickass.cd? I have ublock origin but it still occurs.
I don't remembering mentioning forcing people to visit particular sites, I remember talking about telling people they weren't allowed to ever block ads. I also don't remember saying this was unique to pornhub, or mentioning pornhub in any way.
This exact question appears on HN every few days. It's like saying nothing about yourself and asking people to tell you what to study in college (or how to decide what to study).

The answer is that it depends on what you enjoy doing, what you you want to build, and how much time you have. There's no way to give you a specific answer without knowing anything about you.
Out of all the scenarios you posted, this is actually the easiest to solve:

> 3) I am 75 years old living with my wife who is 70 years old in the house that we bought in 1950. We are both retired farmers. Our pension is 500 euros in total. In 1950 the area we selected for our house turned out to be a popular one (in 1950 it was just an empty field).
Government passes the law and our house has a value of 500.000 (because of the area around it). Now out of the blue we have to pay property tax. What do we do?

You sell the house and move somewhere with a cheaper COL. Presumably the assumption here is that neither you nor your wife work, so you are unproductive members of society (this is meant without negative connotation). However, there's no reason you should continue to be subsidized by the people living around you who are, again presumably, fine with paying the property tax. They are more able to put this popular area to good economic use.
Was that through the Who's Hiring or the Seeking Freelancer ones?
They're referring to the argument you made for the internet in general, pornhub being the contextual example. No need to split hairs.
Electron is complete shit, especially for long running processes. Might as well use the browser version.
DNS-Based Secured Email
> [...] porn companies pushing the envelope with technology.

I used to work as the lead developer of a big adult online store and its associated social network website, at the beginning I was ashamed to talk about it with my non-coworker friends because talking about porn and sex toys is not well seen in my home country because there is a lot of religious people.

It was not until at year later that I realized that I was gaining more experience as a software engineer with the challenges in this project than in previous jobs. Now I am very proud of the work I did there, and although HR people still cringe every time I talk about it during interviews I always end up seeing a face of amusement when they hear about the challenges that my team had to face.

If it weren't because finding the careers page in these websites is difficult I would happily apply to work there. I understand that working in the sex industry is still a taboo (either as a model, manager, developer, etc) we have to agree to what my grandfather used to say: Sex and Food, that's what sells.
Just went to make sure I still had websockets disabled in FF but it turns out they removed the option. I shouldn't have to install a plugin to disable something like that.
Your argument would make sense if it weren't pay what you like, with the option to pay zero, and the default option being less than the price of a sandwich.

You mention that investors have lots of money and are therefore able to take on risks. I suspect that nearly everyone who would consider downloading this operating system has a lot of money relative to the $5 suggested donation, and certainly relative to the $1 you could choose instead. And if you truly don't have that, then you can do $0 instead.

You can make the risk to yourself arbitrarily low, selecting whatever you think fits your profile of cost vs potential reward. That is their rational model.
I agree the author made it very clear that this was not a millennial behaviour alone

>The big story here is not that young people are uniquely turning away from groceries. Rather, the story is a structural shift toward eating out at restaurants

>So what seems to be a strictly Millennial trend is in fact part of a much broader cultural shift.
I think you are trying to draw a scientific conclusion from extremely rare anecdotes.

I would look at the adventists health[1] studies or the Blue Zones[2] for longevity data associated to diet and lifestyle.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventist_Health_Studies
[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
You should check out the submission guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

note that it says:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This post doesn't fall clearly in the "Off-Topic" section, so it seems completely appropriate.
Slack's Response to Microsoft Teams
Yep, I may not be the target demographic (working remotely as software developer, hiring remote software developers for personal projects) but it kind of sucks for remote-first companies (i.e. fully-remote) also, as it requires a location to make comparisons to.

The map at the bottom of the landing page would be cool to have as a proper tool (seeing salary-per-title comparisons across the map), but I can't seem to find it anywhere for actual use.
oh no. Another "flat design" theme. A button must be distinguishable from other design elements in my opinion. I hope this fad goes away soon, it's even more annoying than the glossy look or skeuomorphs.
Generally speaking, everyone hates the new guy. I'm a Gen-Xer and we went through the same thing, as I'm sure every generation before us did. My advice? Ignore it. It is meaningless, lazy journalism.
They can't even find info on SREs for the Greater LA area yet.
VELLO bike: A self-charging folding electric bicycle
It wasn't until 1983 that half of American daily newspapers included some color[1]. It was probably not economical before that time to print the catalogs in color. And if you're not going to print them in color, it doesn't make sense to capture the images in color either.

1. https://www.quora.com/When-and-why-did-newspapers-start-prin...
> they're all big improvements in user experience when it comes to watching videos online

Well, I'd say they're relatively minor improvements to watching porn online - where people want to skip to and from different content - which is a completely different experience to watching non-porn.

And before we get carried away at how innovative PornHub is, let's remember the entire site is nothing but a porn version of Youtube, down to the styling of their logo.

Thanks for your interesting post though, about things I hadn't considered before. I'm willing to accept those minor features in UX may have originated at porn sites, but I don't think that is what people (including the top comment) mean when they repeat the old myth that porn innovates or pushes technology.
I'm wondering who in the hell sits down all day in front of a blindingly bright screen, alone, clicking away to make games and tools that get other people to sit down all day in front of their computers... So they can afford to pay for a hyper-dense closet to live in, and be fed at their door like a caged chicken, so they have more time to avoid life by using a computer.
Airflow at Astronomer
To the other replies suggesting similar products from different vendors, you're missing the point. Microsoft bought Yammer in 2012 so could have very well used a lot of the same tech under the hood of Teams.
uBlock is available for Safari, but uBlock Origin is not.
> focusing on the "non-profit" vs. "for-profit" distinction is essentially meaningless when figuring out how a company is incentivized to run its business. They are both subject to the same underlying economic forces and the same incentives.

I think many of the incentives are the same, but not all. Or, better put, all the same incentives exist, but importance is attributed to them differently. I've known desire for recognition and ego to cause problems in an obvious way in a non-profit that while not impossible in a for-pofit organization, would appear to be far less common. I think the converse could be said with regard to monetary incentives. That is, it's not that when I say the incentives are different I mean some exist in one instance and don't in others, but that the relative importance applied to each is apportioned differently, and I view those as "different".
Which is one reason that so many people feel Uber's valuation is a joke. Austin is hard evidence that Uber hasn't purchased anything with their "growth spending."
Okay, I checked now, and you're right, there does not seem to be a way to sign out (or, as they call it, unlink) the desktop app from within the desktop app. I agree, that's weird.

As a workaround, you can unlink using the phone app[1], and I assume (but have not checked) deleting the desktop app will also work.

[1] http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21645978...
Maybe one way to describe MPLS is its kinda a VPN for VLANs. Or a way to put VLANs in something like a VLAN sorta.

I can't speak for them but I worked at what boils down to a semi competitor a decade ago doing network stuff. MPLS is old stuff now and you can google the specific cisco model numbers and MPLS if you'd like to read configuration guides.

Superficially only having 4096 VLAN labels on an ethernet connection appears to be a big problem if you have more than 4096 customers. However MPLS label space is 20 bits so you're good to a million customers.

Then you have some "fun" mapping games such that your router connects traffic on MPLS label 123456 (which is your customer number) to local ethernet interface port wtf on vlan 100 or whatever you have been given.

At least that would have been cutting edge a decade ago and probably still is today.

Its unlikely to be any more, or any less, secure than anything else in a virtualized cloudy environment.
Some of the items that I pay for out of my pocket:

1. YouTube/Google Play Music

2. Netflix

3. Webfaction

4. Name.com

5. Amazon Prime

6. GitHub

7. You Need A Budget

8. PyCharm

9. Sublime Text

10. IVPN
I am by no means an expert (actually this is all pretty new to me so I look forward to feedback), but that diagram seems a bit dated. There's a lot of potential for scripted blockchains like Ethereum to cut out a lot of transactional overhead in a lot of industries.

(2014) https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ethereum-next-generatio...
Sorry dude. Maybe next time don't out gay people and hide behind hazy notions of "journalism" when everyone gets mad at you.

Not that I support what Thiel has done, but if you live long enough you come to realize that in a given story, more than one of the characters may be an asshole.
What will become of Big Data?
Heh, i noticed a site recently for some framework or other that claimed it was "serverless". Meaning that it was designed to run inside a container or VM, and thus whatever hardware it ran on was not "your" problem.

I really do wonder what kind of accounting gymnastics this kind of thinking leads to, as at the end of the day someone has to pay the people that monitor and maintain the hardware, never mind the power bill.
I find it really easy to hit that price point.

When I was single I was averaging about 250 -> 350 a month. But I offset this by buying chicken in bulk at 40LB increments and that usually lasted me several months.

For two right now I'm average about 700 to 800 a month. I have a number of food allergies so ingredients or restrictive. The other half is as close to organic as possible.

I'd say the biggest contribution to the price is moving off farm sourcing. I don't have the time right now to process 40lb of chicken, or several cases of produce.
Ask HN: Bitcoin or Ethereum?
Bitcoin has not appeared to be used for much yet, but Ethereum allows programmers to create all kinds of new apps.
Why target the Japanese with that? I've yet to meet a group of people that didn't act like that in some way, many did it quite a lot when they weren't having to represent something professionally... And some did it even then.

I worked at a company where the local manager would occasionally dress in a cow costume and let employees throw foam brick at his udder.

Sure, the Japanese "invented" and named karaoke, but it has been whole-heartedly adopted by so many peoples.
I've had several Dell laptops over the years (4 from ~2003-2012), and while things may have changed in the last 4 years, I would be very surprised to see even a halfway decent trackpad, build quality, and battery life from Dell. I also have the HP Spectre x360 (from Microsoft Build 2015), which was considered to be one of the best Windows laptops available at the time, and its trackpad is one of the most awful devices I've ever had to use. The rest of the laptop is great (screen, keyboard, build quality, even battery), but if I hadn't gotten the laptop for free, I would've returned it for the trackpad alone.
"His staff filters important messages, prints them out and puts them on his chair for review"

A desire to filter out noise and apply their attention in a selective manner is probably the biggest motivation to avoid email. At this level, I imagine people would like to receive a concise written or spoken summary, think about the content, discuss it with the relevant people and then make a decision. Since they control their own time, and have staff to respond to "tactical emergencies," they're free to organize their schedule and staff in order to optimize the decision-making process.
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Okay, thanks for the explanation. It's just frustrating that something like this that is somewhat offtopic makes it onto the front page for quite a long time with only 18 upvotes and no discussion. Mysteries of the algo, I guess... or abuse.
While what you said is true, it sort of misses the point. The thought experiment demonstrates that there is some quantity being added to a system each time the demon opens or closes the gate, and that quantity is information. Now we have a relationship between information and entropy.

Edit: I think you might be speaking to my point that in the end it evens out, and that natural selection in turn does create entropy even as its generating information.
I have 3 outstanding bugs with ffmpeg that are directly related to m3u8 segmenting. I've processed 10s of thousands of files with ffmpeg. There are many edge cases and sharp edges still. It works pretty good but at high volume the small bugs add up quickly. It's definitely one of the better tools out there, but it's not as good as it could be.
I think they're marketing how you'll feel when you use the product, not what it looks like to use the product.
What’s New in RancherOS v0.7.0
Enterprise blockchains are a HUGE overpromise
Sure. Pay the toll, get free, virtually unlimited energy. Were you expecting them to do it for free?
> 1.80 jar of sauce

A jar of $1.80 pasta sauce around here is probably going to be more closely related to ketchup than real pasta sauce.

> tofu 1.5 / block

Hm. You clearly have much better food prices than I do in general, I guess.
Some of the early color photography is pretty stunning. I was watching a documentary on color photographs from WW1 using the Autochrome Lumière process the other day, and it was just incredible - it's hard to think of that era outside the black-and-whites and sepias that we usually see.

Some examples from a Time piece[1]

[1] http://time.com/3803957/rare-color-photographs-from-the-tren...
- Don't touch for a while. Wait for things which are still alive in a few years.

- Learn & use new things which are in demand by companies (especially, the ones you'd like to work for).

- Run pilot/trial/research to find new tools to solve current issues we face.
Peter Gray: We Have Almost Destroyed Childhood
it's a metaphor?
I think the difference is in the scaling: cooking doesn't scale vs income in the same way that eating out does. So in the absence of enjoying the act of cooking (which I happen to) there is absolutely an hourly rate threshold past which it makes no financial sense to cook.

If I save approximately the same amount cooking vs eating out, but it takes me the same additional amount of time to cook (again, assuming you don't enjoy that), then as my income grows the smaller the savings become as a percentage and the larger the monetary value of a given amount of my time becomes worth.
With Amazon Prime I am starting to feel like I am paying for shipping twice, first for Prime then baked into the item price too.

Very often I am looking at an item that would cost £5 in a store and it costs £7 with prime. Alternatively I can buy it from a non-prime marketplace seller for £4 + 3 in shipping. Then there is an "add-on item" for £5 where I have to buy at least £30 in total. And finally a 4-pack for £21 with free shipping. Either way I am clearly paying for the shipping.
Hey I was going to post about iRobot, and you beat me to the punch again!

On this - I was one of those hired by iRobot from one of these threads, and this was the guy who I first spoke to about the job!
Glad someone else had the same experience, was trying to figure out how to disable that tacky animation.
It's not the fact that I hate Grocery Shopping. I hate going into the store during peak hours. I know I can always go before or after peak hours, but working second shift makes that difficult when most stores near me close at 11pm. Coupled with the other issue: People. Hacking and coughing, not covering mouths, kids running around with no parental supervision. Or those same kids walking the cart into things or other people. (I know that not all kids are like this, but "one bad apple spoils the bunch")

I understand that going to a restaurant is no better, but at lease I can call ahead, pick up the food and leave.
In a private blockchain setup there really is no need for incentives - the parties participating in the blockchain are covering the expenses.

Financial institutions do "trust" each other to a higher extent than some random actors but they still maintain ledgers that are getting reconciled and in the vast majority of cases the funds aren't dispersed to their intended recipients until the reconciliation flow completes unless the sending counterparty maintains a balance in recipient's system.

Blockchain implementations take this trust to a different level and as a nice side effect make reconciliation/dispute resolution a breeze compared to a standard setup.
Oh, you are right, I did the math wrong. I pay $11 for a three pack of 1 pound guacamole boxes. That's closer to $4 each. I'm in California which has a lot of Avocados. In the summer I can reliably purchase large Avocados for 4 for $5 at local markets. When I can get those I use three to make guacamole.

My general food purchasing scheme is to attempt to only purchase the foods I can get at the best prices. If I am shopping and see a 10 pound bag of organic carrots for less than $5 I will buy it and have lots of carrots that week. For example: carrot salad, egg-rolls (carrot filling freezes well), soup, or stir-fry.

I can always buy tortillas for about 3-4 dollars for at least 6 dozen. I freeze them into one dozen stacks and defrost in the microwave until they can be teased apart and finished on a pan.

Some of the best deals I get are at Whole Foods. They often have very good sales on frozen foods. Otherwise I get foods at Costco, a local family market, and Trader Joe's. In the summer I occasionally go to a flea market to get specialty items and seasonal produce.
Who Ya Gonna Call for DNS Issues?
$20/meal is not reasonable. Me and my wife's homemade meals are about $2.50~$3.00 each and we eat meat every meal.
> everyone also knows there are things you put in email and things you only discuss face to face, or over the phone

Sadly, this is not true.

I get many emails from people with URGENT in the subject that require an immediate reply, as if they expect I will see it in minutes.

I have gotten emails about outages from clients, even after telling then "outages are always a phone call".

Some people assume that everyone lives in email, like they do, and has push notifications setup on their phone, etc.
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We are working on exciting projects to rapidly accelerate our transition from a single integrated Java system to a set of connected stand-alone, multi-tenant, apps. We’d love your expertise, energy, and help as we continue to evolve. Knowing both Java and full stack JS is a bonus.

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Often things do not "just fit" for me. Pants, definitely not. Even the same size shoe from the same brand as one that does fit me, may not fit.

It would be rad if that were the case though