skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted it differently. The reason the Lessig et al. lost is because too much money is involved in keeping the status quo.

I agree that they try to paint their story their way, but I also agree with their interpretation of what's going on. Any change of any law that moves the US to a less free state needs to be blocked in every way. If this means even a 1% chance of him changing libel law, or a 1% chance of him trying to destroy net neutrality, or a 1% chance of anything the EFF has claimed he might try to do, that is 1% too much.
> Reversal of Fortune is a 2005 Showtime documentary that asks the question "What would a homeless person do if they were given $100,000?"

That sounds like such a great film about this issue. Ted sounds like a really hard-working recycling bum. Since Ted is employing himself, Ted is an entrepreneur.

A good thought experiment to put this into perspective is: what happens to the average employed person when they are given $100,000? Except we do not have to do a thought experiment; this scenario occurs thousands of times a year all over the world for lottery winners. The largest study of lottery winners that I know of found that receiving (average) $100,000 doubles the chances of a person going bankrupt: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00114

Some people who win the lottery and go bankrupt end up worse off than before winning the lottery (also worth looking at: http://brandongaille.com/22-lottery-winners-bankrupt-statist...). Ted, on the other hand, after spending a few months living the high life, went back to his old recycling business.

A lot of former tech entrepreneurs who gave up their dreams of running their own business (even some who went through Y Combinator!) can stand to learn a lesson from Ted's perseverance and positive attitude.
Isn't that sort of what a nuclear family living in a house or a college dorm is?
I agree with this wholly. I used to play chess on a service called FICS and it had a decent social scene in some ways for someone who was growing up geek in a town that wasn't really giving avenues for it (I grew up in the rural Midwest...it's no rural south but it's not great either) I went back recently and it's usershio is wwaaaay down
I'm curious what kind of spam you were receiving. I'm not sure I've ever received unsolicited email from them.
I was really surprised when I read the quote, they were worried about a runaway fusion reaction! I had heard this story before but always thought they were worried about "burning" nitrogen in the chemical sense, ie. creating nitrogen oxides. It seems doubly ridiculous to worry about fusion when we can't even get a fusion reactor to work.
I'll push back against the idea of smart factories leading to "a vast chasm between a new, tiny Hyperclass and the destitute masses." I mean, if the masses are destitute, they can't afford the stuff being made at those fancy factories, so the owners of those factories won't make money. Income inequality obviously benefits the rich (in that they by definition have more money), but only up to a point. We won't devolve into an aristocracy, at least not because of automation.
What about the reproducible build project. Is there some regular communication channel with them ? or just friendly acknowledgement ?
It contradicts one specific bit in your reasoning, namely the "[modern] clothes are worthless" part.

I think the point that Pyxl101 was getting at is that your assertion that modern clothes are of vastly inferior quality compared to older clothes is maybe not well-founded.

Whether or not that's true, idk. Whether or not it's fair to pick out one specific bit of your reasoning, idk.

If you have sources for any of your claims, then maybe we could continue discussion.
This is a startup that provides "valuations" of other startups after all. They sell shovels to the miners who think they are all going to get rich.
You can use map or and_then, you can write a macro, you can use try!, you can use if let, etc. There are lots of ways to handle errors in rust.
> My point is that there are other variables to take into account other than prices.

You said quality food was reserved only for rich people. People with a median income in western countries can comfortably afford to regularly eat locally grown, ethically-produced, non-intensive farm-shop food if that's what they're into. Bill Gates & Donald Trump aren't eating higher quality food than they are.
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)
I hear you.

Be happy where you are. It's essentially a form of self-delusion. And I DARE you to watch Ren & Stimpy's "Stimpy's Invention[1]" and not be happy, at least for a little while.

[1] in which Stimpy invents "The Happy Helmet" and Ren is his ... involuntary happiness subject.
And yes - it's on YouTube.

"I don't think you're happy enough! That's right! I'll teach you to be happy! I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!"
I don't think the argument is that automation creates no jobs, the argument is that (at least in the current instance of automation) it creates dramatically fewer jobs than it eliminates, and the balance is not being made up for over time or in other industries, resulting in a substantial net decrease in employment or wages.

Apple's 1.3 million-strong workforce is itself being automated out of existence... http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
Could be ransomware. The bitcoin killer app :)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/22/city-bank...
2 points that I am aware of- attempts in India to rein in the "black" cash economy- which is perhaps 60% of GDP and currently untaxed- so notes taken out of circulation etc.
And global jitters about banking and stability in general- I'd blame Trump but he may be a symptom, not a cause.
This is the same in rust. Panics end at thread boundaries. So you'd have some event loop with threads / coroutines doing stuff and if they panic you handle it at the top level.
The quintessential "rouge AI" scenario, pre-terminator SkyNet but post "Metropolis" is "Colossus: The Forbin Project".

It's finally available on widescreen blu-ray in Germany but Universal has still not re-released it for the western audience.

The filmed exterior of Colossus HQ is Lawrence Hall of Science in Oakland, CA.
Oracle Java has patches for things that OpenJDK doesn't. That's the real bummer, as it causes behavior differences and makes migration away from Oracle JDK impossible sometimes.
If anything, programmers should (and often do!) complain that mathematical notation and terminology isn't defined rigorously enough, and that the main justification for many design decisions is “hysterical raisins”. By comparison, even the wackiest programming languages are the parangon of consistency - after all, they have to be interpreted by machines that can only follow rules.
Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant
Speculation is that it's a combination of Chinese investors looking to get out of the yuan and lower supply caused by the recent halving of the mining/inflation rate.

Another possible factor is the upcoming SEC decision about the COIN ETF, on Jan. 10. A Bitcoin ETF could unlock pent-up demand and drive the price to new highs, the same way it did for gold. However, a delay seems much more likely than approval on Jan. 10.
A great paradox of our hyper-connected digital age is that we seem to be drifting apart. Increasingly, however, research confirms our deepest intuition: Human connection lies at the heart of human well-being. It’s up to all of us — doctors, patients, neighborhoods and communities — to maintain bonds where they’re fading, and create ones where they haven’t existed.

Robert Putnam has written extensively on this issue and the underlying causes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam
Your 70m of sea level rise is entirely unsupported by the paper you link to, where the worst-case scenario in 2500 is 10m rise.

The latest IPCC report in the RCP8.5 scenario (very pessimistic, emissions keep increasing) predicts 62 +/- 20 cm of sea level rise from 1990 to 2100.

How on earth will that drive mass displacement of people in the US and Europe?

You're saying 75 cm of sea level rise will put entire cities underwater. Which ones, and why are they not already under water? Autumn storms bring waves much taller than 75 cm. Most coastal cities are built to withstand 2 meter waves, probably even more.
Besides, they lifted all of Chicago by that much already a hundred years ago. We'll have exactly zero problems fixing this.

Look, I'm no climate change skeptic. But the fact that no real life-changing effects are expected for young people today nor our children (in the US/Europe) is the biggest problem in fighting climate change. That, and the fact that literally everything we do today causes emissions.
>"But seeking permits to lay fiber is time-consuming and digging holes expensive. Former employees say Page became frustrated with Fiber’s lack of progress. “Larry just thought it wasn’t game-changing enough,” says a former Page adviser. “There’s no flying-saucer shit in laying fiber.”

Great example of the "bad" side of big thinking that haunts Silicon Valley: not everything can be a moonshot. Sometimes you need to roll up the sleeves and dig holes. Progress isn't always apparently glamorous.
It's recommended to use an agent to verify your goods before leaving China for this reason.

Alibaba has vested interest in removing fake vendors from their platforms.
They have a few automated ways to find fake vendors but a large part of the process depends on community help (i.e. users, brand-name companies, etc.)

Taobao is much more lenient than the international facing Aliexpress. However, reporting bad vendors does work & I do believe they incur hefty fees if they wish to return.

One thing I've noticed is that banned & counterfeit sellers often move on to WeChat for sales.
What percentage of people are Navy SEALs?

If I were a tiger, I'd probably think this island sounded like an excellent place for a fun adventure holiday with my tiger friends, and I'd be right to do so. Most likely outcome: good food, some exercise, and we can take some monkey heads home for our tiger cubs to play with.
> Taken further, this exact method is what makes the restrict keyword usable in practice. One of the main problems of the restrict keyword is that you shouldn't be aliasing pointers. [..] one of the biggest problems of aliasing: passing in two null pointers

You shouldn't be dereferencing NULL pointers. Aliasing them is perfectly fine.

The non-aliasing requirements of restrict kick in only when you are actually accessing (and modifying!) the object referenced by an lvalue based on an expression of the restrict qualified pointer. So NULL pointers don't matter because first, they do not point to an object, and second, if you dereference them, you're already in UB land anyway. Correct code will not dereference NULL pointers, therefore the restrict qualification means absolutely nothing on code that opts to not try access anything through NULL pointers.

EDIT:

N1256 6.7.3.1p4 under Formal definition of restrict (emphasis mine):

> During each execution of B, let L be any lvalue that has &L based on P. If L is used to access the value of the object X that it designates, and X is also modified (by any means), then the following requirements apply: T shall not be const-qualified. Every other lvalue used to access the value of X shall also have its address based on P. Every access that modifies X shall be considered also to modify P, for the purposes of this subclause. If P is assigned the value of a pointer expression E that is based on another restricted pointer object P2, associated with block B2, then either the execution of B2 shall begin before the execution of B, or the execution of B2 shall end prior to the assignment. If these requirements are not met, then the behavior is undefined.
People will stop downvoting this if you edit it to add a specific example or three.
Until the government starts to take seriously the idea that it has seriously broken trust with the American people, it's hard to take seriously any talk of the damage alleged to have happened due to Snowden's leaks.

Exactly this. Our government has to own up to the wrongs it has committed and take responsibility for fixing the problems that allowed those things to happen, and quit looking to make Snowden a scapegoat. Trying to handwave around the real issue and make this about Snowden is just doubling down on the same mindset that caused this trouble in the first place.
Over 95% of Bitcoin trade is speculation on Chinese exchanges; the rest is mostly drugs and then ransomware.

The "market cap" of Bitcoin is a meaningless concept - trading is thin enough there's no way you could ever realise the supposed value of a large holding. Single trades can send the price up or down $30.
Err, I hate to be the one to break it to you but those billionaires pledging to donate their wealth? It's just a tax dodge. They're moving their money into foundations before we pass stronger tax laws than we have at the moment. And it allows their families to continue to live off of (via salaries for running the foundations) the wealth for generations to come.

Which is not to say they don't do some good work with it, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has done some great work fighting malaria and bringing fresh water to poor communities.

But these same foundations also do a lot of other work, like furthering charter schools which benefits wealthy families to the detriment of poor communities here in the US.
Has been rising last two years, only on your radar now because of the ath
By licensing I meant the state granting a license for the system to operate on public roads. It won't be individuals signing away their rights, it will be the state declaring what rights they have.

Also, I'm sure there are large claims. My contention is that there aren't a lot of them.
@dang should delete that post. We shouldn't be spreading fake news here.
How? He specifically didn't have that information on him when he was stranded there.
Haha this is so funny as I found myself singing "happy happy joy joy" earlier today.
Not just old people, but having young people segregated into cohorts of kids the same age, being directed in activities, away from what adults are naturally doing at that time.

There is a whole age spectrum from 0 to 100 where the 20-60 year olds are providing the main physical sustenance, but the others are giving the main social sustenance.

Our society has organized all that away. So kids wait to grow up so that they can finally have freedom and old people wait around to die. That's a bit extreme, of course, but there is a kernel of truth in it.
No. ClearSky provides several features that Storage Gateway does not:

* ClearSky has a dedicated private network to every customer ensuring low latency.

* ClearSky fully manages disaster recovery; you lose no data if your datacenter is destroyed.

* ClearSky provides transparent instantaneous data mobility: you can move volumes to any other data center in a matter of seconds.

* ClearSky provides and manages the edge cache.

All of the above must be provided by the customer with Amazon's offering.
Marketing stuff. And I am not against them marketing their features but it should have had an unsubscribe button and sent in moderation in my opinion.

Interesting that I get downvoted for giving honest feedback. I would have thought it would help them improve seeing how different marketing ideas impact their users.
The new Salesforce headquarters in S.F. is rather ominous, not only for that company but for the state of the tech boom in general.
Palantir helps authorities track illegal immigrants
You're both right. There are such posts, yet HN is not a political site. The balance/tension there is delicate and important.

The problem with your comment upthread is that it was uncivil because it took the thread into political battle. We all know how difficult if not intractable that particular battle is, and how dreadfully easy to reduce everything to it. The pull of that black hole, strong as it may be, needs to be resisted if we're to have the civil, substantive discussion we're hoping for on HN.

Please assume good faith when commenting here. (We're going to add that to the site guidelines btw.)
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> When?

Tokio was only released along with futures like 3 months ago? It takes time to rebuild software on top of that. It definitely took me time to port from directly using MIO to using tokio.

After evaluating others options, I do believe tokio will be the default for most people.
>It will take a long time to mitigate the damage he caused

I am assuming he means a long time to fix the trust btwn the US govt and people? Because I am not aware of any concrete evidence that shows damages specifically caused by the disclousres.

Pretty sure most terrosits already knew that they had to be careful with their comm. as it was most likley monitored. And the bombings in europe where not coordinated by advanced encryption, but normal social media accounts as i understand.
The internet also brought us wikipedia, google, machine learning and a place to talk about the internet.

Machine learning advances are predicated on the internet, will grow the internet and will become what we already ought to know we are. A globe spanning hyper intelligence working to make more intelligence at break neck pace.

Somewhere along this accelerating continuum of intelligence, we need to consciously decide to make thing awesome. So people aim to build competent self driving cars, that way fewer people die of drunk driving or boredom. Let's keep trying. Keep trying to give without thought of getting something in return. Try to make the world you want to live in. Take a stand against things that are harmful to your body (in the large sense and small sense) and your character. Live long and prosper!!!
You're ping-ponging all over the place. Which is it? "Glaring security problems", or impediments to fully exploring the solutions space?
I really wish the openwrt software ecosystem wasn't in its own little world, things like ubus + augeus would be nice.
It's also a great example of how government policies could hamper innovation.
static, const, and volatile modify the variable itself, not what values it's legal for it to contain. So the outcome should be:

static const volatile *unsigned char[X] arr;

Or, because signedness should be a property of the type, not an arbitrary modifier:

static const volatile *char[X] arr;
Uber snubs California, moves self-driving cars to Arizona
I was referring to fast-fashion brands such as Zara, H&M, etc... On a large scale in the near past, you can see a drop of quality in the clothes sold on the market. You may say that it is a conterpart of lower prices, but even expensive clothes are degrading quality in order to preserve their margins.
Fun, until the navy seal appears. It takes only one.

The same thing with AI, it takes only one, no matter how many dumber ones we entertained ourselves with before.
I don't think I've ever seen positive press about Uber and I think the negative press has helped it way more in getting mindshare than it hurt. After all, many people still have not used Uber, and many people also disagree with a lot of the bad press.
Take any edge cases in SF and multiply them by 10, and you get Pittsburgh.

Source: I grew up in Pittsburgh, and now have lived in SF since graduation.
exactly. if something had actually happend, as in they had hard evidence of a specific incident, they would broadcast that all over to prove that he is a criminal.

as far as i know, this has not happend yet.
Not to join a flame war, but R makes it pretty easy to test multiple models on a single dataset as well. I have also noticed it does better stats and missing data handling out of the box.
>There is a limit to how far a soldier will go, ethically.

What horrible things to you have in mind that armies have not already done?
2016 MacBook Pro: First MacBook to Not Receive Consumer Reports Recommendation
I'd say the first one is a bit small in numbers and the second one too homogeneous.
I wonder how it compares to kdb+ in terms of performance. Obviously it wins on price..
> an artificial intelligence would also initially not be embodied, it would be sitting on a server somewhere, lacking agency in the world. It would have to talk to people to get what it wants.

Organized crime and semi-organized criminal gangs stand to establish a highly effective symbiosis with amoral machines which "lack agency."

If a machine wants to kill someone, all it needs to do is find a person to carry out the task in exchange for some benefit such as cash or blackmail ("I will report you to the police for helping me steal the electricity I need, plus the small trafficking operation I helped you optimize last summer").

Two arms and two legs are not what make modern criminals scary. It is their ability to plan, optimize and repeat sophisticated operations. Soon there will be an app for that.
Gotcha - interesting. Just as another anecdote - I signed up ~8 months ago and have never received any non-transactional (marketing) emails.
Well, multiple negative events have occured re Uber this week. Makes sense.
Self-driving cars will take at least 5 years (probably 10-20 years) to mature. Right now, Uber is testing their equivalent to Tesla Autopilot (with all of its flakiness and a much needed human backup as well).
> I assume you really mean non-aggressive

Yes.

> Except we've moved the boundaries such that USG is non-aggressive (domestically, at least) - you've merely assented to a contract that says you will not use drugs, or USG will have the right to imprison you

No, In Libretarian Land no one has right to imprison anyone for any reason whatsoever. This is a simple objective contract and I expect unanimous consent.

But you can also have have two Lands one support giving up of this particular freedom as part of contract and one simply outlaws it. More choices the better (which also means few govts being true socialist states, is ok). Let the market decide.

> For example, you're actually implying these approaches are inapplicable because USG is not a corporation!

You would not need this with Libertarian Government (LG) because LG would be very minimal and limited. Even if LG does a bait-and-switch (possible) other LGs/Govts can trade war. I should point out I dont support there be one global LG but numerous smaller LGs. Depending on one single entity is risky irregardless of its intentions.

> At the end of the year, do you agree to this contract or do you leave?

Lets say I sign it. After 5 years relocate to another country B. Then USG claims I owe them citing the signed USC. But for USC to be enforcable, B also have to consent to it. That is, I dont pay just because I signed the contract but because the consequences would be worse if I dont.
Don't know exactly why you decided against moving to bare metal, but IMO you definitely should. We've got tremendous improvements moving to metal. I also can't recommend OVH enough. Best price on market plus great hardware and uptime. Technical support isn't the best but you shouldn't need it anyway.
Tokio is already eating the ecosystem, voluntarily. The authors of the only other two competitors, Rotor and GJ, told me at Rust Belt Rust that they're planning on deprecating their projects and throwing in with Tokio (perhaps largely thanks to the fact that the Rust/Mio devs asked them both for their input during the design of Tokio).
Coin offerings are the new stock. Venture Capital is now investing in both:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introduction-initial-coin-off...

So actually, they are now comparable.
>EE is open source

It is _not_. You cannot distribute it. That makes it not open source.
Alas, lots of bad things routinely get upvoted: snark, rage, and name-calling are a few. HN is not governed by upvotes alone. There are also rules, and we ban people for violating them, so please follow them from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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