skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For me keeping a secret is not without cost, its a burden, significant amount of work and inconvenience.

I'm personally fine with you not bothering with your own privacy if you feel it isn't worth the burden.

Privacy advocates see that sort of thinking as harmful though. If it becomes the 'standard' way of thinking it easier to pass laws that violate privacy. So "our" first step is trying to convince people that the right to privacy is important, even if they don't personally care about their own privacy.

It's a bit nonsensical to ask someone to fight for privacy rights when they don't care about their own privacy. It's easier to fight for something if they actually care about it, which is why you see so many privacy advocates (like myself) trying to convince you your privacy is important. I'm fine with you not caring about your own privacy due to the burden of keeping it, but I beg, not ask, that you care enough to defend the rights of people who find the burden worth carrying.
How much Bandwidth is consumed from voice communications such as when speaking to someone on Skype or over the phone, vs. the same words transmitted via text?

Perhaps future communication applications can have a WaveNet on either end, which learns the voice of the person you're communicating with and then only sends text after a certain point in the conversation?

I'm coming at this from a point of ignorance though, so correct me if I've made erroneous assumptions.
Nullification (U.S. Constitution)
too bad you can't do it from within the application itself. some of the security-related system calls (e.g. unshare) expect the application to be single-threaded or at least require acute awareness of threading. go's automatic threading makes this difficult.
Still worth comparing. And now, I wonder what they'll pull about 2 weeks before Christmas.

I'd be great to see a chart with this data. I wonder if they'll release it or if someone is writing a script to scrape their data.
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I wonder why that smear campaign is happening now.

Criticism of TSLA's use of subsidies isn't new[0].

[0] http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/20...
I find the 'deity' approach helpful and refreshing - we're so used to thinking in constraints that removing them forces new perspectives
> Trying not to buy as much.

This. Amazon makes it very easy with it's "frictionless" 1-click buying functionality to buy loads of crap that you don't really need. I make it very hard on myself, and put barriers to buying. Sometimes I will add something to the cart (since they force you to do it to show price for some items) and then let it sit there for days. Many times, I've come back and wondered why I even added something to the cart in the 1st place.
There's also a video following this guy (Ian Purkayastha) on one of his daily routes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sJ6IJZJhUU
It's not an autocratic thing. Protectionism is not uncommon among poor countries or in the region.

When I lived in Asia, I noticed this Bullshit and locals believed it was OK because they see it as a David versus Goliath battle.

Too be fair, in a free market, GE or Philips and other big western firms would have crushed or bought out their Asian competitors decades ago.
Yes. I keep thinking/hoping it's a temporary thing. Target is on my commute and Walmart is about 5 miles out of the way. I would much rather go to Target but I can't justify spending that much more to save the 15 minutes (unless I am buying only a few cheap things, in which case it's worth it).
Life's law: No matter how well you do, you'll get haters.
It's not that it helps in a particular way (though more on that below), it's just that starting with Python 2 now necessarily leads to rewrites later on. While you can see packages not supporting Python 3 (there are fewer and fewer of those), in the future you will see the opposite, some project already announcing end dates for their Py2 support (IPython to give an example).

I have to stress that I used 2to3 to tackle the vast majority of conversion issues. It was on a small codebase and, but still, it worked rather well. While I feel the transition has not gone terribly smoothly, I truly believe Python 3 is a better language - and as I noted in a different thread [0] - the unicode support alone is worth it (for me). While not significantly beneficial in the vast majority of computational sciences, it is helpful in some areas - linguistics to give an example.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12930793
Look, dude, it's not about inherent worth. Framing these discussions in such terms is a rhetorical trick to evade their actual subject matter. The real issue is that being cheated on, of losing "sexual control" over your partner (and that phrasing is another rhetorical trick, a way to disguise the real emotional structure of the desire for fidelity as, instead, some sort of patriarchal construct), is /subjectively/ devastating. It /does/ make you feel diminished as a person. It /does/ make you feel "worth less" -- which is, in fact, essentially the message semaphored by your partner deciding to seek satisfaction elsewhere than you. It is a terrible feeling to be told -- explicitly, or even more horribly, implicitly -- that you are not enough for your partner.

This isn't about sexist, fascist, or racist(???) language. It's not a fiction concocted by the far right. It's about the emotional realities of being a human being -- not some fantasy caricature.
I always took his qualifier as distancing from himself from the dictatorships that usually implement socialism. Most Americans think the economic and political system are the same thing. History has shown that to be somewhat true in practice, though logically they are not tied together.
Shades of Arrested Development.
True but thats not what we are talking about
This is something that I expect the tissue engineering community to break. I know that sounds weird but according to folks I've talked to who were looking at various lab grown structures, fungi are significantly easier than say meat. And an artificial hamburger at $350/lb sounds impractical, artificial white truffles at $350/lb sounds like a money making opportunity.
Hey! The products actually are recently sold by merchants who opted in to be featured! We populate the first 5 and then new ones come down through the websocket connection
Uploading media is best done by using something like ShareX pointed at an internal server though so that you don't send important information outside the company.

The number of times I see people write root passwords or financial info in Slack is scary.
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> it was interesting to see that they use emacs

How so? It's a solid piece of software which has been around since forever (since before Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V conventions ever existed). We're all programmers, and Emacs is all about being a programmer's editor.

If you want to see an Emacs-user out-hipster every single web-developer who thought he was cool when he used HTML for his presentations instead of Powerpoint/Keynote... Then watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoPuv-xXMM

It's incredibly contrived, and incredibly nerdy, yet this, to me, encapsulates so much about what Emacs is. And I love it :)
For people who lost their jobs because of moving production to China and illegal immigrants going to Mars is not really important issue. It is not going to return any profits in their lifetime.
Less than China but we still have tricks up out sleeves. Western firms love removing European money from their pockets.
It's a monarchy in name only. They're both constitutional monarchies which are really strictly parliamentary systems. The actual monarch is head of state, not head of government, and the Queen has almost nothing to do with the actual running of the Government, especially in Canada (and Australia, and so on). In reality, a parliamentary system such as the modern UK and Canada acts as a republic, despite what it's named.

At this point, the Queen is nothing more than a vestigial organ. (as an example, did the Queen come out for or against the Brexit vote? Have you ever seen a head of government remain so quiet about such an important event?)
This has been asked multiple times (LMGTFY):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207360
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Google packs their cars to the gills with hardware, so just going based on what fully autonomous systems use today.
spyware : "software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive."

Nothing there mentions user tracking. If I don't know information about my computer is being transmitted, it's spyware.

> Legal threats

I didn't comment on this because I didn't say that.

> That is bullying.

I disagree. It is accurate, not disproportionate. Plus you misrepresent my opinion; it is not because "they collect usage data", but because "they collect usage data without your permission"; hence spyware.

> If the people doing those things think the I'm a fanboy for calling them out, since clearly logic matters little to them anyway.

In order to "call someone out" you need to argue the case, so bit early to bring out the ad-homs.

I'm calling you a fanboy because you suggested defending the author is your 'contribution' to his project, which biases your perspective.
He was talking about HAL9000, not Google's AI.
>Apple's reality distortion field

I always hear talk like this implying Apple's products are only acceptable if they live up to the legend of their hardware and software "just working"

Honestly, for me they could put a 100% tax on your average off-the-shelf, not-promising-good-build-quality, already-made-in-the-same-factory-as-a-macbook consumer laptop just to provide OS X with official support and I (and a lot of people I know) would be just fine with it.

Of course it doesn't help their bottom line or strategy to tightly couple the OS and their hardware so they'd never do it, but can we stop pretending that all there is to Apple hardware is branding? OS X is a pretty big deal. I'll take average hardware with OS X over average hardware any day.
... thank you, I have now changed my opinion of his actions from "morally dubious and dumb" to "morally dubious but absolute genius trolling"
I hear what you're saying, but I think the shift will happen faster than is commonly anticipated. The simplest way to sense this is to just drive a Tesla. Doing so is reminiscent of seeing early iPhones. There is a strong sense of, "Ah, yes, this is obviously the future."

As soon as the initial cost of electrics becomes remotely competitive with gas-powered cars, pretty much everyone is going to want one. Yes, there will be the much-ballyhooed challenges of installing charging stations in parking garages and so forth. All those commonly cited issues will remain issues, but they'll be like AT&T's initial network congestion due to iPhones: short-term problems that'll be overcome because the product is that good.
Absolutely:

> ...pixelates the naughty parts while leaving the TiVo lower third graphic untouched.

That was the sentence that locked in the "bullshit alert signal" for me.
Yet another perspective: From http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse-total.html in 2010 306 billion gallons of fresh water per day used in the united states. Volume of Lake Superior is very roughly 3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons.

V Lake Superior / (306 * 10^12 * 365) = 26.86 years

About 27 years of entire US water supply assuming no water cycle. Now that I do the math (hopefully I didn't screw it up), I'm not sure that's a big number or a small one actually.
Which nation will be the first to mandate citizens walking around with one hand tied behind their backs? Literally, rather than just as a metaphor.
If we had the ability to terraform Mars wouldn't we just terraform Earth?
The essay suffers from Ted-talk disease: lots of grand gestures and bromides, not as much rigorous thinking. The underlying problem is an important one, however.

A little-discussed solution to this problem is one I would like to see tried, distributism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

A book I am currently reading (and enjoying) on it is:

https://www.amazon.com/Toward-Truly-Free-Market-Distributist...
I think 150 million is a crazy underestimate. Since electric vehicles will be categorically better than gas vehicles, companies will be forced to produce them just from competition.
Apart from the 'easy to sandbox' (also debatable, as that depends way more on the functionality of the application than on what it is written in, but let's ignore that) does that matter much? pledge isn't only, or even primarily, a defense against you accidentally making syscalls you don't want to make, but a defense against malware that, having invaded your application's process, attempts to make such syscalls pretending to be you. That's code you didn't write, making the programming language choice moot.
That's an interesting device: http://www.nvidia.ca/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html

Also can't remember the last time I saw a USB port jammed on sideways.
As the tweet says:
"Just how much have we fucked up when robots doing all the work is somehow a bad thing?"
Doom soundtrack has been (and still is) my favorite game music. It was groundbreaking when Doom came out. Sometimes, I find myself humming to Doom 2 intro music while working. Back in the 90's, I remember having to buy Soundblaster (compatible) card so that I could enjoy the music while playing. I pray that he recovers. (PS: is $10k enough for the treatment that he needs?)
I was just on Amazon and checked out the "fine art" section which had some interesting items. I selected "framed" and was surprised to see stuff in the $20 range. So I clicked on one and while it said "frame" in the title it didn't say it in the description. I suspect that it meant that it could be framed and that they aren't selling a frame with it.

I suppose that's an issue when you sell tens of thousands of art items and try to do categorize automatically. It just makes me trust them less.
In other words, no, you have no evidence.
As an active member of a half dozen "good, small subreddits", there actually are some really great communities on Reddit if you can find them. I don't disagree that much of Reddit is a goddam mess, but there absolutely are some redeeming subs.
The Lounge is nice (I use it for IRC), but it has no persistent history, no search, or any of the other features a company would need.

IRC works for a devops shop, but it's unsuitable otherwise.
Don't buy new, don't buy off the plan, don't buy in new high-rises especially.
Not the person you replied to, but I'm actually quite conflicted on this count. I enjoy C, both aesthetically and for its performance, yet I care a lot about security, so I feel obligated to avoid C for anything important. I'm a big fan of Rust, but it's nowhere near replicating what I like about C.
I haven't left Apple completely, but I've gone from having just a Macbook to also having a Thinkpad X220 running Win10 and Linux, an Asus Zenbook running Win10, and a beefy desktop running Win10 and Linux.

My goal has been to make it so that I can do most of my development work on any of the OSes, on any of the computers. Before the Win10 Linux subsystem, it was a little bit painful on Windows, but now it mostly just works. Node.js and Ruby native extensions have so far worked perfectly in WSL once I apt-get installed build-essential.

So far, I've only run into a couple of issues:

- A few ruby gems with native extensions have given me some trouble on OS X, but were fine on Linux and Win10 (using the Linux subsystem).

- Last time I tried React Native (a few months ago), there was a bug that prevented the build system from working on Windows. I found a fix had been added to the master branch, but hadn't yet made it into a release. I added the fix on my machine by hand and everything worked after that.

I mostly use VSCode and Atom for editing, so my editing experience is pretty consistent across operating systems. I've done a bit of F# in Visual Studio on Windows, and was able to load the project up unmodified in Xamarin Studio in OSX. I imagine it'd be the same now in VS for Mac.

I only use Photoshop occasionally, and it seems to perform a little bit better in Windows.

Other thoughts:

- Ultraportable, high DPI laptops are a much better value outside of Apple land. I picked up an Asus Zenbook with a hidpi IPS touch screen, and pretty well exactly the same specs as the current Core M Macbook for $649CDN on sale. The Macbook sells for $1549.

- Consider a previous generation Thinkpad if you'd like to run Linux. I picked up my X220 for $300CDN earlier this year. It was technically 'refurbished', but they refurb'ed it so well it looked like new. It had a crappy TN display, but I picked up an inexpensive IPS panel for it on eBay, and it was super easy to install. The Core i5 it in still performs well. A bit slow clock-for-clock than the newest i5s, but still lots of power for most tasks I've thrown at it. I'd say that Win10 and Linux Mint perform equally well on it.

- Lots of Thinkpads make good Hackintoshes in case you ever want to try that.
> The CEO edited a comment and admitted he edited it, and it was stupid, and he shouldn't have done it.

The only reason I've heard that this even remotely defensible is because it was against Trump supporters.

I'm sorry, but that doesn't cut it with many of us.[1]

I don't care about political beliefs. He abused his power in such an obvious & egregious way that he should be terminated.

[1] And not that it should matter, I hate Trump as much as the vast majority of Reddit & Hacker News.
Some providers have PPV or subscription adult channels.
Then you shouldn't like BCHS or pledge because the author likewise tells you that you should use it and not other things. Regardless of that, this page is all about making the web apps secure. The BCHS page talks something similar. Then, within all this, they recommend a language that goes out of its way to make apps insecure when alternatives exist that don't. Big communities behind some these days.

Recommending against C for web apps is wise in this context.
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Uh, no. She owned a healthy portion of a public company and hung out with plenty of political types.
Why do you believe that the difference between the developments in the US and Europe is explained by different central bank behavior, when there is also a huge difference in effective fiscal policy behavior that is consistent with the difference in outcome?

You're right though that central banks really target inflation. Inflation -> Interest rate -> Market transactions.

If you look broader then the US you will see that the idea of the liquidity trap has essentially been demolished, multible countries easly expanded on zero rates. Switzerland did it for example.

The talk about a liquidity trap doesn't actually say that growth is impossible at an interest rate of zero. What it does say is that if you're at an interest rate of zero without growth, the usual monetary theory policy prescription of "just decrease the interest rate" doesn't work. I wouldn't say that that's discredited just yet, even though some central banks have started to implement mildly negative interest rates.

The proof of the pudding would be if a country implemented significantly negative interest rates, but that would force commercial banks to charge negative interest rates on regular bank accounts, and nobody wants to go there (for good reason IMO - messing with institutions like that is not something you do lightly).

I would also say that the interest rate is not the only transition mechanism, and not the one monetarists focus on.

Can you explain that? So far, whenever I've talked to people about this issue, they usually don't come up with any alternative transmission mechanisms at all (i.e. it's all hand-waving and fuzziness/buzzwords), or ones that actually misunderstand what's going on (e.g. confusing open market operations, which are asset neutral, with "helicopter drops" that are basically fiscal policy in disguise).
> One of the mistakes they made that we're all still suffering from was in how difficult it is in practice to amend the US constitution.

Completely disagree. It keeps us from screwing it up. Don't mess with something that isn't broken. And no, it isn't broken.

There's a reason the US government is one of the oldest in the world. They got quite a few things right from the start.
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If you want to terraform Mars, it's probably not because you decided Earth was beyond salvation; I haven't heard many people wanting to abandon Earth. Most people in favor of terraforming Mars want to have a 'backup' for intelligent life, or want to begin humanity's expansion past the bounds of Earth's atmosphere. The 'backup' motive is comparable to suggesting someone backup their electronic data instead of just trying to get very reliable drives.

I am also not sure that it is possible to 'terraform' Earth. 'Terraform' means 'to make like Earth', and Earth is as Earth-like as is possible, no matter how hot or cold it is.
At this point I've already come to accept that fulltime labor for everyone is simply not going to happen. We just don't need it.

The big question is will the majority be able to maintain enough power to obtain income for those who aren't working, or will we see some kind of serious class warfare/starving populations?

This is a huge question in human history and it remains to be seen how we as a species are going to answer it.

[My hope regarding the labor is that it meaningless work can be replaced with research and development]
360-degree feature request:
interpolating 360 degree video from standard 16:9 Lost episode format. This should be doable as most information is there in previous and future frames so a 3d Photosynth (Microsoft) like model can be build. The rest can be guesed or be given a default texture themed by the surrounding pixels (like Philips Ambient), similar as to how people color black and white pictures or enlarge pictures with fractal-based interpolation techniques.
I wish that such a process had existed in 2011 when I went to work at Google; my experience there might have been less miserable and consequently less brief.
It is not important to take reddit seriously

It is serious, though, to not discount reddit as important.

The point is that you shouldnt, generally speaking, take reddit as a serious place (puns, memes, trolls, inside-jokes, meta, etc) -- but it is HAS accomplished something very significant; actually achieving being the Frontpage of the Internet....

Look at the chaos and beauty that reddit's userbase can create...

Dont take reddit seriously - but take the people who use reddit serious. Seriously.

if you can leverage them as a LOIC you can achieve some amazing things --- or fuck up really bad...
> you can disable it

if you know about it

> There are many more that do the same things without telling you

This makes it right?

> Will you choose to make its progress slower because of no real security reason

Some will, you think it's OK not to give them the choice?

> How do we expect open source to become better

Is opt-in that hard?
shopify is still written in rails? :)