skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of an iffy article arguing "2016’s AI hype will begin to unravel in 2017" because roughly:

3) When something goes wrong, such as a car crash... who do you put in jail?

2) "The Consumer Doesn’t Want It" - eg clippy, automated call centers

1) "AI is a make believe world populated by mad people, and nobody wants to be part of it" - it's all a cult

Which is all a bit silly - 3) you don't put anyone in jail, you work on the algorithms to reduce our existing 1m+ road deaths a year 2) There's some crap but people like Amazon Echo and I want my self driving car and 1) hardly dignifies a reply.

Meanwhile in 2016, computers mastered Go, the tools became good enough that the likes of Zuck and GeoHot could make somewhat functional Jarvis like assistants or self driving cars in a few months hacking and IDC are predicting the "AI Market is projected to grow from $8 billion today to $47 billion by 2020."
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If you just care about hosting code and snippets I'd try GrepPage. It lets you search your stores from the command-line and the web.

(Disclaimer I'm the creator of GrepPage).
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If the product is better, even after paying equivalent tax and regulatory compliance costs, the yes, that is a deserved victory for AirBnB that I would support and encourage.

The problem, is that it is impossible to compare the two products if a large part of the appeal is lower cost due to regulatory arbitrage.

If an AirBnB host decided to operate a brothel, some may deem that to be a superior product to a standard AirBnB host...not really a fair comparison.
Well having one aspect related to sun position (leap seconds) living in the raw seconds counter and all other aspects related to sun position (time offset, leap years, etc.) living in the human readable date formatting functions is unacceptable imho.

We either get rid of leap seconds in UTC time and treat leap seconds as a date formatting issue or we somehow get all OSes, libraries and applications to start using TAI time as their fundamental time counter instead (this is preferred but it's a lot of work, so yeah you're right about it being laziness).

Or i guess we can just continue living with the inconsistency of some sun position stuff being in the time counter and the rest in the date formatting functions (ick! there's a reason this is causing bugs all the time!).
No doubt true, but same stands for about any megalopolis out there. In the end it's up if the place has right chemistry for you, and yes, if you can support the lifestyle to match. There's little point to live in NYC outside of Manhattan ;)
So I think you're agreeing with me? I can't really tell.

I agree that knowledge of best practices is really important, because why would you need to run a plugin on top of your site to force HTTPS?

I use Apache to force HTTPS, Apache to handle error documents, etc. My themes each have their own cache manifest.

It's common sense / best practice to have a second server to test updates on, that's what I do. Given I only have 12 plugins with a handful on active on each site, it doesn't take too long. I also add and develop plugins on the second server.

IMO the shittiest thing about WordPress is the library so by and large I choose not to use it when it isn't necessary, so pretty much everything besides querying posts and accepting AJAX calls since they make it nearly impossible to otherwise.

In general, I try to develop apps/plugins that run 100% independent of WordPress and just write a wrapper for the library that's used for administration on the WordPress dashboard.

An example of this is a plugin that's more or less a long test, with some custom GUI and other requirements (save progress, download CSV, take notes, etc). I wrote it to WordPress standards and used a short code to add it to a page. It was slow, sooooo slow.

So, I rewrote the entire front end to be an independent app that uses a custom DB table, propagated by a plugin on the WordPress dashboard. Result? 80% faster load times.

Another example, I made a simple app that gets some data from another custom DB table and sends tweets, triggered by cron. It uses a SQLite DB to track a few settings and a list of users to mention.

I wrote a wrapper for the library with a simple API to manage settings in the WordPress dashboard.

Unless there is a drastic change to WordPress's plugin system these apps will always work. Even if there is a change, pretty much all the code that WordPress cares about is displaying the settings page and receiving AJAX requests.

It might not be by the book but it's faster and in my opinion, pretty logical. This way apps are portable and can be transferred to other platforms easily, not necessarily other WordPress sites on shared hosts but they're custom so that isn't the point.

* Edit to say, I wouldn't recommend any non technical user maintain a WordPress e-commerce site, anyways. Square makes it so easy, hosted secure and has tools for inventory and other things, too. All included in standard credit card processing fees.

I'm sure they aren't the only ones but I was amazed at how simply someone could set up a site, as I know someone who has a store and uses square for payment processing already.
"You can spot the Americans who are responding to you."

American here (although I own a swiss business and travel there frequently).

The reason that americans do not embrace these things is that, for the most part, the United States still has a very, very flat social hierarchy.

If you put Joe-6-Pack and Larry Ellison into a room together, J6P will still hold his head high and demand equal treatment and respect - from both Ellison and other third parties.

But J6P intuitively knows something else: asking for favors alters that relationship and establishes an explicit power balance (as opposed to the implicit one which was obviously there to some degree).

On the other hand, if you come from Europe, the idea of a "better class" isn't so foreign - even if you disagree with it. That power balance is quite a bit more explicit and there is a fairly well established (sometimes in blood) "contract" between the people who work for a living and the people who own things.

Personally, I like the American arrangement but I think it's days are numbered - eventually the sorting will complete itself and workers will have more days off ... but "gentlemen" will have certain privileges like english lords do in 2016.[1]

[1] Exemption from jury service, immunity from arrest for civil cases, "access to the sovereign".
Neither of those things is required for evolutionary processes to occur.

"Evolution works like a Yahtzee dice game minus all the Yahtzee rules"... How does that make sense?

"Chess works like checkers except you remove all the checkers rules and just play chess"
With enough capital there are enough ways to mitigate risk to the point that wealth increase is assured.
Not just price, but density is the reason. The next noble gas up is neon, which is quite scarce and more expensive than helium, and denser anyways. After that it's argon, which is cheap and plentiful, but about ten times denser, so it's not nearly as good as helium.
To me it does. How do you know? We don't even know if it's a they a him or her.

I understand the blockchain concept but still we can't accept it as infallible.

Nobody should be shouted down for asking questions.
The easiest way is to run your side business as a sole proprietorship company. You only will need to get a AHV number [1]. To get this number you have to prove the AHV that you are not fictitiously self-employed [2]. This will require invoices from at three (or more of course) different customers. A recurring payment like eg. from an Adsense account should be sufficient also. If you have this number you can fill out your tax formulas and conduct all expenses of your side business [3].

[1] If you have a work visa you already should have a AHV number.
[2] If you would work as a "freelancer" for only one customer it will look like your "employer" just want to avoid to pay into the social system.
[3] Your sole proprietorship company should be profitable after about 5 years.
I'd love to know what people who work full-time with C++ think of the "Orthodox C++" concept (link in the article) that this project adheres to.
"Then click Install Now, and follow the rest of the instructions until you get to the “Who are you?” page. Make sure to choose a strong password — if someone steals your laptop while it’s suspended, this password is all that comes between the attacker and your data. And make sure that “Require my password to log in” is checked, and that “Log in automatically” is not checked. There is no reason to check “Encrypt my home folder” here, because you’re already encrypting your entire disk."

Above quote is from the section titled 'How to encrypt your disk in Linux' on the page at

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-m...

I'm just a bit confused about how Windows can remove keys without messing up file handles &c when suspending to RAM.

The level of security I have now is adequate to my purpose but certainly something for others to take into consideration. Thanks for posting.
That's multiple complete losses now that have been caused by issues with COPVs. I remember reading some discussion on /r/spacex about SpaceX going with really aggressive COPV technologies to shave as much weight as possible, but they're definitely paying for it in reliability. Hopefully they can iron it out, and maybe they'll switch to less aggressive COPV designs soon?
That's some serious WTF, unless you were the only person in the company able to do that and it was an extinction event for the company if nobody dealt with it.
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> "Dismissing anecdotes about failure as FUD is not constructive. FUD is first and foremost a business tactic."

Hm, reading {your, UnoriginalGuy, mwfunk} comments, I realize "FUD" is a loaded term. I was using it literally, missing the strong stuff associated with it. Point taken, thanks.
The thing that really bothers me (or rather the preception they create) is their stance towards American Tech companies. They have an automatic impression that American companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google are ripping EU off because of their success and stopping local innovation.
Wow. And people ever look at a european salary and think "whoa that's not a lot". Well...

I do 8-10 weeks off every year (the proper no-email kind) now that we have the 480 parent days. Together with the 6w holiday you can just slowly take those parent days and make longer paid holidays.

I'm not sure how many more percent pay I'd want to accept 0 to 3 of weeks of not-quite-off, and no parental leave. 50%? In any case, it puts my measly european software salary in a different perspective.
Plans for greater military integration appear to have been discussed recently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/06/europe-forges-ahe...
The internet in its current form is not under threat from Russian and Chinese government but rather from EU, France & Germany. Germany with its outdated publishers trying to seek rent and France with its bureaucrats practicing neocolonialism on internet (only french residents being privileged enough to be forgotten). If the US government does not counters EU, it wont be too long before Silicon Valley loses its edge. Sadly over last few years the valley has rolled back its lobbying effort. But it cant afford to do that in future.

Currently Chinese entrepreneurs can already innovate faster than American companies due to the lax IP laws. In Xiaomi & DJI you can already see this happening. Imagine if USA lets EU dictates new set of convoluted copyright/internet laws designed to keep old-money publishers and out of touch bureaucrats happy. The eventual casualty would be American businesses which rely on both USA & EU for revenue.
AI for business is about saving money. Can AI help business save money by reducing those pesky meat bags called employees. Yes, yes it can. And that's all that matters. And it will be doing more of that in years to come. There is nothing that can be done to stop this or slow it down. Meat bags are much more expensive than bolt bags.
>Yet they offer more representation and individual freedom to small countries than does the American constitution

I had to laugh after reading this line. American constitution gives much more power to the residents of the smaller states because of the Senate and the electoral college. In addition, US offers everyone much stronger civil liberties than most European countries. Compare the First Amendment with Germany's hate speech laws for example.
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Julias talk on the topic at 33C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8229-copywrongs_2_0
> For example, I've never quite understood how a site like Pinterest isn't flagrantly violating existing copyright laws

They have a DMCA process which seems to protect them.
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It's not that big of a deal to get a gun in Canada. It's easier and faster to get a firearms license (weekend safety course) than it is to get a driving license. People don't feel like it's a big burden to carry their driving license when driving either. Canada just doesn't have that big of a gun culture is really the main difference, and if people have guns they don't really talk about it. For example, my father had a few hunting guns since forever and I didn't even realize until 10 years after he bought it!

I also have lived in Seattle and SF for 5+ years, and like Canada you never see anybody but the police carrying guns around. Worrying about gun violence in the USA is fear mongering, you should still be far more worried about motor vehicles.

Also CC license people have much lower rates of gun violence and crime than the general population, it's not those people you have to worry about.
This story is all too predictable and the ensuing debate is the same as always. Americans will point to the small size of European country X, compared to the US. The problem with that reasoning is that it is pretty much like this all over Europe with just variations. Some places have lower salaries, some have longer vacations or maternity leave. Still there are about 500 million people living in systems offering better work-life balance than what 300 million Americans are experiencing.

The American reaction seems to be summed up as different variations of denial. Either one accept that America is like that but one denies the possibility of America changing. Or one simply denies that things really are that bad.

What a multitude of European countries are doing isn't magic, nor is it humongously expensive. America is much richer than Europe as a whole, yet Americans are completely convinced it is impossible for America to afford any sort of work-life balance.

Or the retort is that, if this is so great then why don't everybody do it? Well lots of European countries do for that reason. It isn't impossible in America either, but Americans keep voting against their own interests. They keep voting in favor of people who will hand their money over to the 1%. Since the 70s America has grown its wealth tremendously but regular people's income has changed rather little since all the wealth has gone to the 1%.

People are sold the myth that all this wealth is going to innovative founders like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or whatever. Not it isn't. Most money in the US is not made from creating new products. It is made in finance. The US economy has been financialized. People who push papers around are taking most of the money not the innovators. The very same people who brought the American economy to its knees in 2008 is taking most of the money.

You don't have to believe me, you can just research the finacialization of the American economy yourself. You can read about the rising inequality and the 1% yourself. You can read about how policies in the US tend to favor the will of the rich minority rather than the average majority.

And these people can keep screwing over Americans because they keep making Americans believe that their real problem is poor Mexican illegals stealing all the benefits, jobs and money. They can laugh while the poor fight among themselves for the crumbs, while they eat their fat steaks.
I agree there should be a minimum social infrastructure but shouldn't there also be more? In a near future where automation has made most jobs obsolete people shouldn't have any form of luxury at all? No capital to speculate? No hobbies? Seems like a very dull future.
The following is a non-value judgement. We see generally better outcomes when we just hand people cash than when we make them jump through hoops, and partake in non standard services to acquire resources. It also generates more administrative overhead than if we just hand them cash.

I don't know if this would hold for a universal social services infrastructure.

My personal analysis is that I would tend towards decentralization via cash payments, so as to enable choice, and not have the state takeover the potential economic activities enabled by such cash payments. Nobody wants to be given food from a government kitchen or government food box, but most people, I would think, would not mind getting $X per week/month/year to supplement their other income from the government.
At a recent lunch with a VP of human resources for the largest tech employer here in Seattle I asked why their company was so parsimonious with providing paid vacation and work life balance.
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> Porky's favorite response to the prank came in 1980. He received a letter from an attorney in Denver, inside of which was a clipping from the Denver Post with a photo of Mt. St. Helens erupting. Attached was a note that read, "This time, you little bastard, you've gone too far."
We will integrate OAuth2 and after that we also want to integrate federated pull requests so that you can create pull requests from other gitea instances as well.
Is this a re-implementation of GNU social/OStatus in Rails? Nice work, I might have to kick the tires on this a bit.

Folks at organizations you should start looking at running your own social infrastructure in the same way you run your own email infra. An org such as a state agency would prefer to own its own namespace, a huge improvement over the status quo.
> hoarding money
> investments

Pick one. Those are literal opposites.
I use borg on rsync.net (and I just noticed the second link is to my post), and I'd recommend it strongly. Basically, if you need to back stuff up, use borg, period.

Rsync.net have also been very good and competitively priced, as per the above link. I can recommend them as well. (no affiliation with either product).
No wealth increase is assured.
The key difference is that in most western European countries you are forced to participate in that socialist system, in America you are definitely more free and probably have the best opportunities in the world. I don't need more! Thank you :)
Interesting this only used 11tb worth of video.

Makes me wonder what this could produce with youtube's entire library.
It means taking the massive chunk that goes to the 1% and instead redistribute it evenly to everyone (including the 1%, but this time they get a much smaller piece)
Note that the company that used to produce COPVs for SpaceX had a large explosion during testing at their factory. Some testing now takes place on barges at sea, and the huge carbon-fiber tank for ITS was also tested at sea.
Mine is always around 8 hours (same country, no direct flight) :)
Hey there, I am interested. Is there an email I can reach you at?
The European Commission thinks that by putting roadblocks in front of American companies they'll be able to foster home-grown tech giants. Unfortunately for them, innovation doesnt work like that.
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