skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An instant messaging platform needs a network of users. I am more likely to use a platform that allows me to talk to all of my contacts, than to use multiple platforms that only allows me to talk to a few each. If I have multiple, I am also only likely to add the new platform if there is at least a handful of people I know there. Likewise, the more users that are on the platform, the more likely that new users will be attracted.

I am on Telegram primarily because it's the best I can come up with that my friends use, and moving my friends is an unlikely task as they have their friends on Telegram as well. You need to move or duplicate users from existing platforms to get a userbase, but you need a userbase to attract users from existing platforms.

I have been looking at Wire. They're using the signal protocol, but in a more closed model IIRC. I didn't know that they had a solution to this problem, though, and always just through of them as basic Signal clone. I guess I'll have to have a look. :)
> “This bird acts like it has four sexes," (...)

Interesting to see that one phrase was changed to make the title more interesting, by nature.com.
Well. Okay. What I really meant to say is that Open Source - to me at least - can really call itself Open Source if there is a collaborative effort to maintain the code, ideally through a version control mechanism.

For example, Android is not Open Source to me because the code is dropped after the fact.

But fair enough. I'll take the downvotes.
Can you point me to such subs? I have only been exposed to the 'joke' subreddit.
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Of course it is easy to be wise after the fact, but surely this is the sort of thing that should have been exhaustively tested (What happens if one sensor malfunctions and sends incorrect data)?

Massive cudo's for being public about the issue. It is not easy to talk about mistakes, especially those that appear to be silly in hindsight.

EDIT Interesting to see that I am getting downvoted multiple times on this. I don't really care about a few downvotes but would be interested to find out why.
When will people learn not to outsource anything important?!
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based on his public appearances, no
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"Messaging done right" Everything else done wrong? Why launch the site when its not ready? Ill never come back to this now, simply because it seems like you are too eager to blow your load, because thats all you have. Also, stupid name, dick gigalo?
So what, if more people want to read about Trump and upvoting the_donald, isnt that how the Reddit is supposed to work?
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There's the scenario where such a capitalistic gain oriented investor is contacted by a PRC intelligence agency and made an offer he can't refuse. Remember this is a country where such a refusal can land you in a forced labor camp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai) or executed with your family being sent the bill for the cost of the bullet (and they have the highest per capita rate of this in the world, based on the best available data, they also make this rather public).

It's also pretty natural for such a person to e.g. object to the PRC being the invaders in the remake of Red Dawn and make the company replace them with the DPRK (and while that's ludicrous, I wasn't exactly impressed by a Latin American Communist invasion of the center of the country in the original, although that got around the biggest logistics problem AKA the US Navy).
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Undisclosed collaboration and planning with primary subjects of your journalism is point-blank fraud. It might not be criminal, but it's beyond dishonest and therefore very unethical.
What part of "free speech" do you not understand? Is I think how the rest of this argument goes, ad infinitum.
> There isn't much career progression beyond that because they're appointed for life.

Progression: Supreme court judge. Chief justice. Maybe not many steps but huge ones. Also it would follow them as for both their remaining tenure and legacy, something they would be distinctly aware of and care about.

> This is also why we have lifetime appointments so judge's make legally correct rulings rather than politically appealing one

That's the theory but there is a reason each side wants to be in power during a supreme court position change. It is because political views shift their interpretation of the law.
I cant figure out the best way to explain this, but the power - voltage - current relationship is not being grokked well in this thread. Mismatched voltages between sources and components in circuits generally lead to pyrotechnics, never magical charging schemes.
I find reading Chalmers to be irritating. His first premise is dualism. If you read his original paper on the hard problem you'll find basically every statement presupposes this fact and then concludes this fact. It's maddening. Dualism cannot be assumed apriori.

There are several good rebuttals to Chalmers in this collection of essays: Explaing Consciousness: The Hard Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Consciousness-Problem-Jona...

One of the best IMO is Thomas W. Clark's functional identity hypothesis that says that experience is _equivalent_ to the processing system. Basically, this is what it feels like to be a human brain.

http://www.naturalism.org/philosophy/consciousness/the-expla...
Yes, yes he was. [0]

It's nothing new in UK, they are literally CCTV state now. Don't forget American folks that in most of the countries over here we don't have free speech ;)

And in the light of this news that Reddit CEO edited comments -- it's scary stuff -- for fun or not.

[0] http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-mom...
> You wouldn't use USB cables for that kind of current.

True, though USB — Power Delivery 2.0 handles up to 100W (20V@5A)
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That's not how they select peers.
I've been transitioning goskive.com from alt.js to mobx for the past half year or so. The reason it's taking a long time is I'm doing it incrementally. If there's a store that needs to change for a feature then I convert it to mobx.

I've got nothing but praise for Mobx. So far the only feature I'm missing is observable Sets.

I was using Immutable.JS with alt.js and ended up writing a lot of boilerplate. While I sometimes miss the API from Immutable.JS, the simplicity of working with mobx more than makes up for the lackluster API of vanilla JS data structures.

Admittedly there's very little high performance stuff we do, although our study mode with moving questions/flashcards has had poor performance previously and I had to optimize parts of it.

Happy to answer any questions you might have. FWIW I've never worked on an app with Redux.
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It's publicly available data that takes a few minutes to dig up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13026642
But you don't know which IMU is misreporting. Now, given the nature of the situation you could probably say it's best to err on the side of acceleration. If you've stopped accelerating and haven't initiated landing procedures you're either wrong or somehow already landed and can afford to wait.

It's also not clear to me that this was an issue of erroneous data. All they said so far was that a rotational sensor maxed out for about a second. I don't think a simple delay-and-retry would have sufficed here. When attempting to land a second seems like a pretty long wait.
They have already tried to change the algorithm.

The real sensible thing to do would be to recognize reddit as a platform for open and free discussion. saying the wrong things or in the wrong way should be as far away from the admins concerns as possible, so long as the org itself is not threatened. I think reddit is far too obsessed with /r/thedonald, to the point where their obsession is actually becoming tangibly harmful (see: this post)
They mean, JavaScript solved all their problems.

It's one of those anti-jokes. ;)
This really puts China's censorship into perspective.

There's just too many forces that want to make sure China doesn't become a superpower that spreading fake news would be a huge weapon against the government.

Even "real" news would be spun in a way that could hurt the rising stability of the Chinese people so I can see why the government would rather just ban the foreign instigators.
Maybe,

But publicly denying your platform[0] did not affect the recent election; After research have confirmed prior to the election that Facebook have a fake news problem.

Does not do his credibility any good.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...
Has Google ever suffered a breach on this scale? Having worked in IT in the government vs. the private sector, it really seems as though government could care less about security.
> An USB can provide between 0.1A and 0.9A.

That's "Low Power Device" to "High-power Superspeed device". The Battery Charging 1.2 specification increases that to 5A@5V, and Power Delivery 2.0 (over standard or type C connectors) to 5A@20V.
Can you provide more info on the Apple thing? Can't imagine the stance of a company using a library (for free?) to the library author that would allow any sort of offence as the "short notice".
>>>>These exemptions are meant to cover people in certain job roles where output is measured by work delivered, not hours spent, and where the person has independent responsibility for controlling their working hours to certain extent and were overtime as such is in theory voluntary.

While that is the stated reason, if you actually read the law it becomes clear that these exemptions are meant to cover people in certain job roles where the lobbyist paid congress the correct amount of money to get their preferred job roles exempted

>>>>It's worth noting that this change also follows a change in 2004 that went the other way

Yes and many (myself included) are wondering why the 2004 Rules in favor of business are with in the scope of DOL power, but the 2016 rules are not.

Legally speaking if the 2016 rules are not valid than neither are the 2004 rules
> A random 5 words is hardly simple or easy to remember

You use well-known the mnemonic trick demonstrated in the last panel of the comic.
What's all the hubbub about fake news now? We've always had fake news: The Onion, Not Necessarily the News, Fox News...
> I'm not sure this particular example fits the "sarcastic" angle

Ok, but Trump disagrees with you: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/12/donald-trump...

> Perhaps DT's objection is over the implication from HH's statement, rather than to be taken literally

Perhaps all sorts of things. That's the problem - throughout the campaign all sorts of Trump surrogates found themselves saying "What he actually meant was...".

> It would certainly be great if DT had the eloquence of Obama, and his statements were well-crafted and not so open to interpretation

It's totally fair to be suspicious of well-crafted statements of career politicians and prefer the "honest simple speech" of outsiders. I'm not sure that's a good description of the way that Trump talks, however.

It's impossible to prove, but I believe that he deliberately speaks ambiguously to serve his own purposes - which is the opposite of honest speech.

> He will eventually become President, and be forced to make decisions - actions are much easier to evaluate than words.

This is very true. And who knows, he might do great things - I'm not hopeful, though.
Voting record? Nope (At least not in the UK. I've heard it's the same for the US, too). You can only get who they say they voted for. Anything else is a gross breach of several data protection laws.

Party affiliation could be faked in some way, but isn't an absolute thing any way. I could easily see ~alt-right~ fascist journalists donating $1 to many different left-wing parties to get a record of affiliation, and then undoing those donations by writing opinionated articles against those parties.
How do we know his apology is real?

Maybe he posted "I did not do this. Get off my back people. I don't know what is going on here."

Later, another admin may have gone in and changed Spez's comment to read "Yep. I messed with the ...".

(I'm being facetious)
>I think Shadowban has an important role in spammers and (heavy) trolls.

Shadowban is a common knowledge at this point, writing a script that checks if the account is shadowbanned is trivial. At this point it only hurts actual users.
Ruby has optional parentheses around function parameters (usually it's recommended to avoid parentheses if possible). Shells have no parentheses around command arguments. These languages are mainstream and no one complains about this.
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But what do you do when there is a bug with the hardware clock, or with the image analysis software that recognizes how far the ground is? Or, supposing you installed a laser measurement tool to gauge distance-to-ground level, with the software interpreting that? You could of course have quorums - with the majority of the systems deciding which solution (still a while to go / imminent crash!) is the correct one, but what if you had a problem with that part? And that's just the problem of figuring out that there is a problem.

>The first thing to do was to try to seal up the hole. This turned out to be impossible, because the ship’s sensors couldn’t see that there was a hole, and the supervisors, which should have said that the sensors weren’t working properly, weren’t working properly and kept saying that the sensors were fine. The ship could only deduce the existence of the hole from the fact that the robots had clearly fallen out of it, taking its spare brain-which would have enabled it to see the hole-with them.

You could stack layer upon layer of fault detecting modules and supervising software and error and redundancy modules, but then you'd probably wind up with something like Dark Star's Bomb 20:

>Unfortunately, Doolittle has mistakenly taught the bomb Cartesian doubt and, as a result, Bomb #20 determines that it can only trust itself and not external input. Convinced that only it exists, and that its sole purpose in life is to explode, Bomb #20 states "Let there be light," and promptly detonates.
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In the '80s K. Eric Drexler warned of the danger of nanotechnology in his book "Engines of Creation". The terrors of the "gray goo" haven't materialized, perhaps in part because of his warnings. I believe that the IoT does need to be more secure, but I was also part of a start-up in the '90s that had an Internet connection for years without a corporate firewall. I think we'll continue to learn and adopt improved security as we go.

As a systems architect that spends a lot of time thinking about scaling, redundancy and resiliency, it's also my opinion that we need to do some work on DNS ... it's probably the most vulnerable part of the "Internet stack".
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It can absolutely be a valid strategy. I have used both, the true apology without excuses, and the FU one.

It depends. Do i really regret what i did? Was it the wrong thing to do? Then i'll apologise, and try to get rid of all the excuses.

Was someone offended and want me to apologise, but when i look at it, i stick to my guns? Then FU strategy, no apology, i'll fight for my point all the way.
4chan has a much, much narrower demographic appeal than a generalist site like Reddit.
They have to, unfortunately, because general public (including journalists) doesn't understand that mistakes happen, and ESA being seriously underfunded as it is, cannot afford bad publicity.

Also, this was a test flight designed to gather data about the performance of the orbiter/lander platform, so it did perform its mission and according to the collected data, the platform behaves mostly as expected.
I seriously doubt he individually looked up comment ids and updated them with database commands.

And if he did this for "about an hour" as he said, he clearly didn't use ... WHERE content='fuck u/spez'

It seems likely there's code in the front end that gives him the ability to edit user's comments in his browser. That should not exist.
The problem is identifying potential risks. It's obvious if I build a building it might fall down. It's not obvious if you sell web cams they might be used to take part in massive DDoS attacks.
The article mentioned that Trump wanted to get rid of this legislation.
> community is so large

Maybe it is large? I mean, around 50% of Americans voted for Donald. Why do you want to find some kind of conspiracy... like it not, racist or not, but this is half of your society.
Well, this is the point. It's really hard to convince people to make a change, especially if it costs them anything (such as synced chat logs), on basis of something they don't care about.

I would say that it is a massive problem that users don't care about security, though. They just don't know, because they haven't been screwed over yet. People cared a lot in retrospect when the password bruteforce leaked iCloud pictures, for example. People don't care about politics before it's too late, either.

On a positive note, Facebook seems to be screwing itself over in usability and content. I used to be on there reluctantly, but now I only check the input every two weeks or so to check for annoying relatives that might message me. The news feeds are nothing but uninteresting clickbaits, and they keep making it harder and hard to just check the bloody messenger inbox.
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But the same can be said about the infamous "SRS" and yet the admins have taken zero actions against it.
Avie was one of the lead developers of Mach at Carnegie Mellon as well, so his legacy extends beyond macOS and NEXTSTEP.

But I'd argue that beyond code, probably his most important Apple role was establishing a steady release schedule. After the disasters of the Pink (later spun off as Taligent), Copland and Gershwin megaprojects, Avie managed to get Apple to focus on making small steady releases.

And while MacOS X was a megaproject, it too was released in steady steps: Rhapsody, Mac OS X Server 1.0, MacOS X Public Beta and then finally Mac OS X 10.0
imo he's gained credibility
I notice that his attempts to seed fake news on the liberal side always got promptly debunked. I think this election is going to be the high water mark for fake news, its just that liberals are ahead of the curve in being skeptical about information on the Net.

What this needs is a click-baitey headline to make it go viral on the Right. Something like "You won't believe how this liberal guy made $$$ scamming conservatives!".
This one off the reasons why Debian (and others) are working hard on reproducible builds.

That would allow you pull the source code and rebuild a package to check it matches the official one, theoretically you could setup build mirrors and match them automatically against what the Debian mirrors are serving.
The real trouble is that its CEOs are all far far far too involved in the going ons of the communities.
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It isn't too clear from the description, but isn't non-saturation of the inertial measurement responsible, rather than saturation? I'd expect that some computation did not saturate its output, and the result overflowed (and hence became negative), which in turn was fed into altitude measurement.
Reading your other comment:

"I am finding that everything we say about consciousness is just an artifact of our language. If we are careful to always include the subject of the sentence as well as the unspoken assumptions then I have not come across any questions that don't have a straightforward answer. Same with morality."

It sounds like you're influenced by Wittgenstein, or at least his ideas. If you assume all these issues are artefacts of language then there's no way I can give you an adequate summary in any amount of writing, and especially not one comment. Human minds can only communicate by exchanging strings of words, after all.

To give you a straight answer, though: in vipasanna meditation you focus on one thing (typically the breath, though I often used ambient sounds) and attempt to break down your experience of that thing into constituent sensations. One thing you learn from this is how frequently your attention wanders, and by really training yourself to focus you learn how your attention is directed from moment to moment. The main thing you are trying to gain, though, is a first-hand experience of the Buddhist view of reality: that solid objects do not exist, and that existence consists only of flickering sensations, with no permanence or independent existence.

I really can't summarise Ayn Rand, since her writing is already extremely well summarised and essentialised. Click around that website if you want to learn her views on any particular topic. The relevant ideas here, though, are her views on concepts. There's been a long-running divide in philosophy between people who thought concepts reflected something intrinsic to the universe (e.g., that all horses contain an essence of horse-ness, or reflect Plato's ideal horse) -- and the people who thought this was nonsense and that language was therefore an arbitrary human construct (this latter view is currently dominant). Rand found a third position: concepts are human constructs, but they serve an objective purpose, and there are objective rules which determine their formation. ITOE is the only place where you will find her full argument.

To compare the two: Buddha takes sensory experience as the gold standard for reality, and concludes that reality exists, but is ultimately transient and lacks identity. Rand takes perceptual experience as the gold standard and concludes that reality exists, that the everyday objects we perceive really exist, and that therefore reality is logical and consistent.

(As for Wittgenstein, he says human language is just an arbitrary game which can never describe true reality, and ends up in a kind of quasi-mysticism (man helpless in the face of an ineffable, incomprehensible universe)).

I predict you will not be satisfied with this answer, because you are following a very misleading philosophical framework, but I wrote it up for the interest of lurkers.
A ZeroHedge story about fakenews literally killing people. It's like we're reading the thread directly from a screenplay.
> Here's the problem: thedonald is a subreddit full of both real trump supporters, AND trolls who're acting surreptitiously to rile up the real supporters and piss off everyone else

Shouldn't the mods clean up after the trolls who don't abide by the subreddit rules? If a post stays up for days, it is safe to assume the mods condone it whether it was posted by a 'troll' or a 'real person' - this goes for any subreddit.