skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're correct; I ought to just knuckle under and spend the money, if I want to consume from Audible. But I picked up the current MP3 player on a flier, and have become used to it - it does what I want it to, in a very simple and straight-forward way.

The content that I've spent money on already dwarfs the purchase of the player. Although that content is DRM-free, so I am free to use it on this player, or any of my various laptops and desktops, and any future devices that I buy. And it is in a standard format that virtually any audio playback application understands. And I can just download those files normally, without having to install the weird Audible download manager.
UNDER THE (LINUX) HOOD
That's silicone.
Software has very little in common with literature, so what are you talking about?

The regulation I believe is necessary wouldn't require every programmer to be licensed and wouldn't require every commercial project to be insured and signed off by a licensed software engineer. So what would have prevented you from working in your current situation? Nothing.

It's no less personal an issue to me. My first programming job came to me when I was 17. I was paid more than either of my parents ever made to do something I liked doing (something I used to get yelled at for spending so much time doing...). I helped make gambling websites in the 90s before there was any regulation of such activities. I had no code of ethics and I probably helped enable more than a few addicts relieve themselves of their future prospects. Had there been a requirement that at least someone working on the team to be a licensed professional then at least someone had to be conscious of what we were doing.

Personally I don't trust corporate interested to decide what is ethical. As many programmers here have lamented if they didn't do it someone else would and now we're stuck with an industry whose sole purpose it to circumvent privacy protections in order to track behaviour online and sell it to the highest bidder.

Fortunately we do pretty well when writing flight control software. But it's not a good enough system when it comes to web services or trading services. Or a myriad of other things that can cause harm without risking lives.

I don't have the answers for how it should work. And as I said I suspect we'll be bad at it for a number of years. But that shouldn't be an excuse for not trying.
Pupil Size and Intelligence
I'm relatively confident that Google/Apple obey data opt-outs, if for no other reason than there's class action lawyers who would love to sue them.
I believe big bang theories rely on an initial infinitesimal.
yeah, the banning of people is just of those the "left" doesn't like, not because of deeply offensive and racist comments by those getting banned. give me a break.
My Linux remark applied solely to the backdoor that used a ACPI table to make Windows install malware on every boot, which I had linked. It did not claim that installing Linux protected you from anything else.
Utility oriented testing
Scientists have figured out the reason London fog killed 12,000 people
Of course there's a danger to the company in this. "My bonus is tied to my diversity goals. I've tried hard, but I'm way behind and my reporting period is almost up! Quick, bypass the standard screening and qualification checks, and hire a bunch of people in underrepresented groups"
The whole point of the article is that visualizing time as space on a calendar is qualitatively different than adding todos to a list because it helps us remember that our time is finite. While the finiteness of our time is an obvious fact, it's the kind of thing that many of us 'forget'. I, for one, found this short article valuable.
Many environmental things have left the left/right discourse such as not being exposed to nuclear radiation or reducing smog to lead to breathable air.

Conservatives are unlikely to be OK with someone knowingly and intentionally exposing people to fatal levels of radiation in the way they are OK with adverse ecological systems.

It needs to leave the intellectual space of optional or preferential discourse and enter the one of rights and crimes.
They care about what you do for work. Do you use your phone to discuss proprietary information? Might that be of value to a Chinese competitor, supplier, or customer? Do you take your phone places where the camera or microphone might pick up something of value, even if left in your pocket or on your desk? Do you take your phone near wireless networks that might be hackable? If so, China does care about you.
I suspect that if we wanted to require a formal degree pursuant to licensure for software development (not to mention installation and operation of computers and software), that degree doesn't exist today. The closest thing might be electrical engineering.

We don't even know what computers or software would look like under such a scenario.
You're correct, in fact, it warns explicitly assinging a datetime unless it _has_ to be done by then.

That being said, the biggest reason my GTD practice fails is I rarely spend time getting things done, but instead end up grooming an ever-growing to-do list. Assigning datetimes to trigger reminders is tempting...
That ACPI table payload is conditional and obviously OS dependent. Overall not a huge threat.

SMM interrupt code comes from the very same BIOS image and is executed at arbitrary times regardless of operating system. SMM code can do pretty much anything it pleases, it runs at the highest privilege and priority level possible.
The allegation that Pence supported electroshock therapy appears to be unfounded. However, it's now well-established that back in 2000, at least, his campaign was in favor of state-mandated "conversion therapy". Do you really want someone like that as VP?

As to Sessions, per WP:

Figures also said that Sessions had called him "boy," which Sessions denied. Figures also testified that two assistant prosecutors had also heard Sessions, including current federal judge Ginny Granade. Granade denied this.[24][16] He also testified that "Mr. Sessions admonished me to 'be careful what you say to white folks.'"[25] Sessions was also reported to have called a white civil rights attorney a "disgrace to his race."[27]

In addition to his joke about the KKK, his undisputed reference to the NAACP as "un-American" and "Communist-inspired" and his open contempt for civil rights legislation, generally. It's also really hard not to interpret his remarks that "almost no one" coming from the Dominican Republic had useful skills to offer as not indicative of a racist mindset.

It's good that we all seem to be on the same page about Steve Bannon, at least.
You will add tablets also in the future?
Quick Guide: Animations with iOS 10 and UIViewPropertyAnimator
The cartoons make it look like marketing copy aimed at non-programming parents who want to buy lessons for their kids.
Open for critique, but just by going off of this article:

With "Proof of <wildcard>" you're essentially abstracting out how a community participates.

Proof of Work exists to demonstrate good will by saying "This person works to participate and add value in the community" There is a buy-in a degree removed from the coin.

Proof of Stake sounds like it just removes the work someone must do from the system and says "If they have money, they can buy in to the community without work".

It's like saying: Instead of people putting in the work to contribute to the community through effort the community finds valuable (i.e. Proof of Work, e.g. Karma), we're going to let people just buy karma and trust that they have the community's best interest in mind.

While this gives anyone the ability to buy into the community and participate in the consensus, this sounds like the opposite of what I want in a community, because these people don't have to work to demonstrate their value to the community that exists.

Another issue is this doesn't encourage liquidity, it encourages people to hoard their coins/currency to participate. This might drive the price of the coin up I guess.

Ethereum doesn't have a 'set amount' that will ever be released like bitcoin. They'll release coins indefinitely. Does this mean you'll have to participate in purchasing coins indefinitely to continue to participate to have a larger voice as the value of your coins gets diluted?

There might also be the problem of who controls the coins might always maintain a majority, since the tokens/coins are just issued, there is no real work required to obtain them. That's a little weird and totalitarian and not utilitarian.
Discussion of SMM interrupt code is irrelevant to the observation that installing Linux protects you from a Windows specific backdoor. That was not a claim that Linux provided safety against every possible backdoor. You seem to be trying to debunk a claim that no one made.
Ah, the classic assumption problem perhaps best demonstrated by lua:

"I wrote an hour's worth of code, and then I realized this language is 1-indexed when none of it worked!"
Here's how I would do it:

No degree, but rather a programmer publicly signs off on his code, and gets both credit and blame for it.

Anyone who wants can register for a programmer ID (in practice a public key). There is no test, just an administration fee.

When you write code you sign off on it, perhaps with some accompanying text describing what parts you worked on.

No more anonymous code shipped by a company entity, instead do it like how movies are done: Every single person gets credit (including QA and administration), every tool used gets credit.
Sadly, this article is mostly just a link to the Ethereum FAQ.

It should be noted that every Proof of Stake altcoin has eventually collapsed, and there are arguments that this is inevitable: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
It's the blades, not the razor :)

Yeah, cost of content definitely dwarfs the device over time. I'm not a huge fan of DRM (region locking particularly chafes), but I understand why DRM exists, and as long as it's reasonable (for some value of reasonable :).

One last parting gentle ribbing: the devices that play DRM-protected media usually play the DRM-free stuff, too ;)
I believe the selection is smaller but there is also Downpour [0]. DRM-free which means you should be just fine playing on your MP3 Player. The cost is comparable to Audible ($13/mo instead of $15/mo) and you get much the same deal: 1 audio-book per month with the "credit" you get.

[0] http://www.downpour.com/
Yeah, I dunno. I've done a ton of trade shows and never had that experience. There's the power strip, go nuts, that's how it's always been for me.

But I've heard about that rigid union electrician since I was a teenager (and wandered, starry-eyed, around my first trade show). 20+ years later, the story never matched up with reality for me.

But yeah, American unions often have a lousy track record. Better than nothing, though. I wish they'd make a comeback.
Would I Survive a Nuke?
Agree. Let me add. Infantile/childhood amnesia has many causes, but being unable to form a memory is not one of them. Memories in infancy are fragile, and context dependent, and even if retained through life are likely fragmentary, non-verbal, non-conceptually embedded, that we'd not recognize it as an episodic memory. Moreover, the medial temporal lobes and hippocampus (brain region critical to relational memory formation) are still immature before age 2, before which time the dentate gyrus in the tri-synaptic circuit of the hippocampus may not be fully operational, potentially leading to massive interference between similar memories from less efficient representational separation and a bias towards pattern completion. The last tidbit is particularly interesting as such a bias to pattern completion may support the rapid semantic knowledge acquisitions occurring early in life, which may benefit from layering of similar representations to extract reoccurring key features about the world, as opposed to the more efficient pattern separation later in life that allows more fine grained memory distinctions to be retained and allowing individual events to be better remembered.
Really? many commenters here are talking about actually entering raw hex (and calculating branch offsets by hand (!)).
> A union cannot function when there is competition.

The competition is individuals sourced through a variety of means or other unions.

Typically unions provide a degree value over other options to both parties, hence why you join one as a worker and you sign contracts with one as an employer.

Unions exist in the same market as the rest of us and must compete as well.

> The business would simply fire everyone and go hire those who are not part of the union otherwise. That is less freedom.

And break a contract they freely chose to sign with a union?
> Being shamed isn't an infringement upon free speech. Being subject to legal sanction that impacts your liberty or property interest is.

John Stuart Mill disagrees as I quoted previously: Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

"On Liberty" also delves way into harmful speech which Nazism certainly is, but all I'm really pointing out is that's a light year away from merely voting for Trump and seems to be done solely to dismiss others.
I don't try to debunk anything.

I think it's just silly to talk about some ACPI table payload, when there's a greater threat controlled by the same binary blob.

SMM can do anything that ACPI payload could do and more. And we need to trust the same entity for its integrity.

SMM is also operating system independent. It'll run no matter what operating system end user runs.
This is useful. It would be good to list whether the mattress is all foam (rolls up into a small box for shipping) or has metal springs. I would pay >2k for a good spring mattress without any memory foam.
My point is this, short of banning eating meat people will continue to do so; even if you made vegetables 1/100 of the cost of meat and fixed the calories / Lysine / Methionine issue (which would probably mean post processing the vegetables which increases costs). Banning means legislation, that means politics.

So seguing into climate change issues, this took politics too. It started with grassroots taking hold in the 60's counter culture, then the start of political pressure in the 70's. The first big political move was Reagan coming on board during the 80's; and also some lucky technology hook ups like solar powered calculators (never underestimate the power of logistical growth from a low end but widely used product).

The 90's brought us government sponsored research and industry backed development and product roll outs; this led to massive improvements in cost mainly though scale. The last 15 years have led to product refinements, financing options, and a greater society wide understanding of just how bad climate change could be.

And now we are at a situation of solar becoming cheaper than coal for producing electricity. 50 years!

So if you want to achieve the same with meat vs vegetables there is an enormous amount to achieve, above all you'll need to convince people at least as well as climate change issues, get government backing, make it as enjoyable as eating meat, and drive down the cost of Lysine and Methionine extraction.

In fact Canola (low erucic acid rapeseed) meal (what's left over after oil extraction) is currently used as livestock feed, this could be used for human consumption but would require further post-processing and possibly protein profile adjustment.
>If the supply of labor decreases, the prevailing wage will increase. //

So, all the low paid need to do is reduce the number of people available. Genocide has never been so easily argued for.
How about the rash of companies going public and, within 6 months, trading for well under the price of their last round?

And yes, I understand pseudo-ipo round investors get protections such as a ratchet that make it reasonable for them to pay more than it would be worth in the open market, but this nonetheless is pretty bubbly.
Humans are rationalization engines.
You need something personally identifiable, not just personal of nature to constitute as PII (I deal with actual PII on a daily basis). Adding up PII-related info together doesn't constitute PII.

Many people gladly share personal details with activism sites and social networks well in excess of what this app is requesting, the only thing surprising here is the Streissand effect that wal-mart will get by naming this app.
Programmers are not lawyers, and this isn't Edward Snowden. There is a logical train of legality and one can debate the ethics of a task most likely with the owner, or legal counsel. The other option is to get release of liability which is not uncommon in realms where developers are asked to do things that are shady. If they don't have the fortitude to stand up and say something .. then just walk away.
I actually did some casual research into this 3 years ago before my kids were born. All the theories and speculation in the article have been disproven - specifically theories about autobiographical memory or narrative memory being important. What actually happens is the brain undergoes periods of shift/growth/change that nuke the ability to recall earlier memories. Most of the incorrect explanations come from adult-oriented bias: The memories are so far gone we can't even remember that we were once capable of remembering earlier times.

Children can remember events clearly from before they acquired language. No adult has ever been shown to have this ability (it is always due to mis-remembering the time period or making educated guesses based on other knowledge). As children get older and gain a better mastery of language they can often describe _more_ memories from very early childhood, indicating that the memories exist even when kids lack the ability to describe them in words. These abilities to remember early childhood (even <1 yr old) begins fading around ~10 yrs old. By your teenage years those early memories are mostly gone.
Thanks for the link. I had not realized that things were that bad.
You've never changed the configuration of a service?
lol this is not how you become diverse...
Stand Above Violent Extremism
I somewhat like learning languages this way, I rarely forget my own mistakes I have to fix.
(Feigns shock)
Why Our First Alien Encounter Could Happen Soon
Don't do it!

Instead, let your list go a little wild, and put the stuff you truly don't need to do in that "Someday" pile and don't look at it until you've gotten a few projects done from the pile you've determined is important.
I don't think I'm as addicted to HN. I use to be pretty bad with facebook and ...oh god..sigh..myspace..but I think there was a point sometime in 2009 where I just felt my use had to be curtailed. Reddit naturally replaced facebook and I was pretty addicted to that as well. Reddit was probably the most difficult to curtail mainly because as I was earning my phd I belonged to some subs on the specific topics I was studying and found the stuff being posted to be relative to what I was studying. Post-PhD and what not, I use a new account there and don't really post much. I prefer to check in later in the day along with HN to catch some of the interesting reads and read up on the responses in the comments. But usually that's only after I've taken my lunesta and am winding down for bed.
‘Right to be forgotten’ case stalls when data is found in Bitcoin blockchain
We recently had a presentation at my University from a number of local industry leaders, and the topic of Social Media's role in the hiring process came up.
I've been in the process of slowly reducing and removing social media where possible, and the reaction I got to a question regarding an individual's lack of a social media presence was quite negative.
Basically the consensus was that if, during the hiring process, the managers / recruiters / HR were unable to find social media accounts (or found highly private / restricted accounts) for the applicant then they would view this as an immediate red flag and indicated that they have previously dropped candidates from consideration purely for this reason.
I could have imagined this happening in isolated cases but I was surprised to hear it from 2-3 of the presenters, none of which had any relation to one another.

The irony of this whole situation being that the reason they scan applicants social media in the first place was to look for red flags in the applicants behavior outside of the work place and/or to find reasons they shouldn't be considered for employment.

Kind of ridiculous.
If the commons of national agreement on truth, reality, and facts can be disrupted then democracy, as an effective tool of government, is largely over.

If there is one common thread in the Kremlin’s many narratives it is the use of conspiratorial
discourse and a strategic use of disinformation to trash the information space, break trust,
increase polarization and undermine the public space for democratic debate: This is a war on
information rather than an “information war.”
City's are big, when you have a million+ people you can find a small group doing just about anything. Further, these people would shoot up somewhere else without public toilets.

Most telling if you had twice as many of them you would not get twice as many people shooting up.