skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I beg your pardon?
Where exactly did I accuse anyone of distributing "Fake News"? I was merely lamenting the slide of a publication, of which I used to respect the views and content, from champion of fact, and keen-eyed investigative journalism to another angry editorialist internet rag. Which, seems to increasingly fail to let the truth get in the way of their click-thru rate. TI's shameful behaviour during the recent incredibly dirty (on both sides) US election wasn't to stand back and give careful considered analysis, but rather pick an enemy and jump into the fray both feet first.
> Also, I feel compelled to point out that there's a public health interest in making sure everyone has a sanitary place to defecate. Societies that failed to provide this were regularly ravaged by cholera.

Here in Germany, there are very few free-of-charge, public toilets, and yet we aren't "ravaged by cholera", or anything close to it. In fact, there are very few public toilets, free or otherwise, and we don't drown in feces. Apparently public toilets are a nice thing to have, but not on the same level as not letting people starve.
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For once I agree with RS; I haven't used Skype in ages, particularly because it's just crappy software.

Honestly, I'd view Skype as malware at this point, the number of exploits is too damn high and it barely integrates with anything ever. It's the kind of integration you'd normally see from a cheap car purchase where the Entertainment System is a iPhone 2 taped to the seats and the trunk smells like dead raccoon.
I'm a self taught designer / photographer / developer. Worked in design and photography for about 7 years before slowly transitioning into dev work. I feel like my background in design and photography has helped tremendously in my front end dev work, especially on freelance projects. Good aesthetic sense always stands out!
Because I'd rather live in a world where a few pennies out of my pocket results in everyone living a decent life, sans street corpses. Seriously, even if you're an extreme individualist, is there NO price you would pay to not have dead bodies strewn about the streets?
I'm not sure how it's possible to miss the liar/thief part - the opening sentence is "Of all the lies that Edward Snowden has told since his massive theft..."

However now you're getting somewhere - criticism that he's picked up docs related to military secrets does seem pretty valid. I'd hope that it was just that he picked up a broad range of docs in the hope that that some would contain information supporting the surveillance issue (kind of ironically mirroring the "dragnet" approach to surveillance) - but we can't be sure I suppose.
So not exactly what you're after but I studied Law at university and was surprised to find the way I could use those skills in a programming context. I wrote it up as I thought other people might be interested to see there are transferable skills from non-tech degree disciplines - https://hackernoon.com/how-studying-law-helped-me-with-progr...
tvtropes.org.

plato.stanford.edu, which is a philosophy encyclopedia by Stanford university.
Exactly. The Linux console for example only supports a tiny number of colours. Folks use FB terminals for tty* for this reason etc.
But just because a minority does it, doesn't make it right (correct english?).

I don't share his definition of freedom applied to software, simple as that. I also don't think most of the society shares his values, i often get the idea that he lives in a bubble. Like somebody preaching abstinence instead of birth-control.

I get that "free software" has advantages, but for me it also has disadvantages and therefore can and should not replace all the "unfree software".
See https://twitter.com/oheard/status/817486353801900032

It's entirely plausible that the video interview was not actually Assange.

AFAIK there has been no cryptographic verification, that's the only thing that could prove all is well.
Iirc, links do not use sixel but rather a trick of X. Meaning that it can only show images when run within certain terminal emulators (not anything derived from GTK or Qt).
> Stallman has always come off - to me - as someone who doesn't really see the bigger picture.

This is pretty clearly a completely incorrect statement. Everything Stallman says is bigger picture. All your arguments are about the details.
So I had a flick through the website, and I fail to understand how this service makes any money.

This automatically makes me suspicious that either they'll eventually start collecting data, or the service will disappear as soon as they are acquired.
What I find puzzling is that many people seem to assume that AI can be generated using a specific uniform neurological structure, while the human brain is actually made of many different parts, some older, some newer, some more connected, some more isolated, some inhibiting others, some potentiating others, some mostly signalling with this neurotransmitter, some using that etc.
Judging by the experiments in both far-left and far-right governments in the 20th Century, we can be quite grateful that for the most part we have had leaders who are grateful to tinker at the edges.
I would hope that she would answer "white...?" -- eg., demonstrate the ability and willingness make a useful provisional inference, with the understanding that it is provisional and the curiosity to know more. That, it seems to me, would be the answer that is most useful and correct.

But you're probably right, the answer would be 'white', at least until a black swan comes along and utterly fucks with her worldview. Humans prefer certainties and binaries, and eschew uncertainties, probabilities, and multiplicities. So they employ all sorts of cognitive errors to avoid these things. This s a problem, because the universe rarely comes in binaries or delivers enough information for real certainty. I would hope that machine consciousness would avoid these errors, as I think they are the foundations of some of our nastier tendencies.
How much does Capt. Picard’s cup of ‘Earl Grey, hot,’ cost the Federation?
Why not just very good VR? Cannot believe it'd be more difficult than creating robots that can't be told from real humans.
It comes down to values. Our values have been shaped by stories that on average yield a high reward for a lot of people and they are based on aesthetics, empathy, social stability, food, peace, absence of pain and chaos and so on.

But it also has more direct causal motivation: If you don't fight for basic human rights, taxes, plurality etc., you will likely erode the stability of your own life unless you are completely emotionally, economically and technologically independent (which I doubt you are). There is always the possibility of an unexpected economic decline which a rational agent should take into account for maximizing their reward signals.
While I'm not arguing against the use case for Alexia, for something like cat litter, why not buy 1 bag every X weeks, surely your cat excrement production rate is fairly constant.
Will be picking up 1) rust and 2) one machine learning language, For machine learning still contemplating between h20 and tensorflow. Any suggestions?
Actually, she's quite different from that. For one thing, she can actually sing, and a fair few of her roles involve it.

My 5yo regards her as the definitive Cinderella, for instance.

Edit: Oh yes, and was the star of a movie that took $290m worldwide, from a budget of $29m.
Attention to detail was definitely my number one gain from an art / creative background. Can't overstate the importance of a good critical eye for detail.
also, here's a really good introduction to clojurescript with reagent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq6ctyZBb0A
Sounds like you should delete your account when you go inactive, and sounds like you should GTFO if their security is that terrible.
" Everyone successful at my Bootcamp had spent months / years practicing and learning to code beforehand. "

If you can do this why do you need a bootcamp? Genuine question. For help with the job hunt?
but only readable with custom CSS
Correct answer should be "possibly white", but "insufficient data for meaningful answer" should also be right:) There's a high chance of being right with swans, not so much with humans.
the correct answer, especially for any AI system should be -

it likely that it's white but there is no way to know for sure.

Australian black swans are black, but chicks are light grey:) Lilly could be chick while Greg could be adult Australian swan
> Without an on-premise option you wouldn't be able to get in to most organisations that have Lync deployed.

I used to think that, too, but with the rise of cloud offerings like Office 365, many orgs are starting to see that running your own servers for Sharepoint/Exchange/Unified Communication isn't worth it anymore.
> So many gifts for people that don't care because they have everything, yet you're socially obligated.

They have all the food they will ever eat for the rest of their lives ?

My unsolicited advice is buy the equipment for making chutney / jam / pickle/ candied fruit / dried fruit etc. and give everybody a container of that with a pretty label their name & your name on.
Alternatively, create multiple physical copies of each host.
do you have an example of a successful investigation involving online hacking ?
Are you not conflating 'things that make problems tractable' with 'things that must be'?
Exactly. The brain is not homogeneous. It has different parts with different functions.
Don't have an art degree but self taught since I was a child. I ended working for animation movies: http://feiss.be

The funny part is that I have a computer engineering degree though..
> it's still just as open of a question now as it was then.

that still makes the 'conclusion' wrong.
I really enjoyed westworld and found the coverage of ai amazingly not stupid as opposed to most other sci-fi shows.

However the biggest idea in the show was the relationship between god (Anthony Hopkins), self (the robots) and consciousness as an extension of inner conversation.

I had to look up the idea:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
That was my thought when I started watching the show, but as you watch more episodes you realize why the creator didn't go that route. I don't want to spoil it for anybody that isn't a regular viewer.
I would assume it might actually be easier to get there with a uniform neurological structure, as you don't have the "legacy" infrastructure left over from millions of years of evolution.

However, I think that the first AI humanity manages to build will be more or less a copy of a human mind and only later will we learn how to construct minds "from scratch". Akin to how a beginning programmer will often scrape together bits from various sources to build his/her first program and only later can make original work.
Only while there are comparable manufacturers offering devices with a feature set they do want.
Never checked, but I would expect it to have an API for that.
The problem with relying on "pure practicality" is that one may come dangerously close to opportunism and psychopathy. There are ideas which may be super-practical, yet plainly evil. At risk of being rage-downvoted: it's chilling to think of, but many of Hitler's methods and ideas were quite practical. For some, narrow part of population.
BFA in illustration. Started off designing web sites, then moved to programming to make them dynamic. It seemed like a natural step. Now I work with some pretty large data sets and have gone back to school part time to study math and machine learning so I can get more out of them.
I'm reminded of this the "urine reflecting wall paint" they want to apply in Hamburg. I highly doubt it'll solve anything: at the end of the day the streets will still reek of piss. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/27/walls-that-pee...)

Does anyone know what public toilets cost (in construction and maintenance)?
The article itself cites the Guardian, who cites the European Environmental Agency, who cites REVIHAAP, which is only a review. REVIHAAP (http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/193108/R...) mentions a lot of studies that estimate the proportionality factor between mortality and NOx concentration. This is precisely the method I described above: assume proportionality, then estimate the proportionality constant, then multiply by millions of people and get a scary number. Few studies in the REVIHAAP report cite actual concentrations, but when they do they are invariably much higher than the 20µg the EEA applies as lower cutoff.

(The study you linked to doesn't include NOx. REVIHAAP itself has more inapplicable stuff, such as one study that actually looked at proximity to roads, then noted that they can't tease apart the effects of NOx, ozone, soot, etc, then proceeded to make a claim about NOx specifically anyway.)
> Google supports the TPP because of three mostly-evil provisions that would benefit Google

According to the link he gave to Google's statement on TPP, here are the three provisions as described by Google:

#1> The Internet has revolutionized how people can share and access information, and the TPP promotes the free flow of information in ways that are unprecedented for a binding international agreement. The TPP requires the 12 participating countries to allow cross-border transfers of information and prohibits them from requiring local storage of data. These provisions will support the Internet’s open architecture and make it more difficult for TPP countries to block Internet sites -- so that users have access to a web that is global, not just local.

#2> The TPP provides strong copyright protections, while also requiring fair and reasonable copyright exceptions and limitations that protect the Internet. It balances the interests of copyright holders with the public’s interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works -- enabling innovations like search engines, social networks, video recording, the iPod, cloud computing, and machine learning. The endorsement of balanced copyright is unprecedented for a trade agreement. The TPP similarly requires the kinds of copyright safe harbors that have been critical to the Internet’s success, with allowances for some variation to account for different legal systems.

#3> The TPP advances other important Internet policy goals. It prohibits discrimination against foreign Internet services, limits governments’ ability to demand access to encryption keys or other cryptographic methods, requires pro-innovation telecom access policies, prohibits customs duties on digital products, requires proportionality in intellectual property remedies, and advances other key digital goals.

#1 and #3 sound like things that Stallman would like. Anyone happen to know what he dislikes about them?
thank you for being honest. I always thought these kinds of posts draw exaggerated reactions and it's good to see some other answers.
That's one of the aspects of Westworld that I think you have to just more or less accept and move on. The nightly reset is implausible at all sorts of levels: economically, scale and effort (even to buildings burning down), and just logistically (does the park just shut down for a few hours every night). And we're shown that, as you say, this all seems to be a very manual process for the most part.

Something else you pretty much just have to accept is that through all sorts of mayhem, the humans stay safe (well, until the end at least). There's some rather inconsistent hand waves around guns and bullets but one has to believe there are still ample opportunities for serious injury in some of the scenes we see.
Understanding selective coloring in Adobe Photoshop
First Brexit, then Trump, and now, behold the smart hairbrush
I didn't go to art school, but since my first invention was a new medium with new modes of expression that no one else understood like I did, I couldn't help myself making art with it despite my PhD being in physics. I had several solo gallery shows in New York City, pieces in museums and shown across the U.S. and some internationally, a couple big public pieces in Manhattan, and I taught a couple classes in art/design (at NYU's ITP and at Parsons).

Now that I teach and coach leadership (not IT work, so different than the question asked), I find art training tremendously valuable. Our educational system is strong on intellectually challenging people, but socially and emotionally teaches more passivity and compliance.

Creating art forces you to express your emotions, be sensitive to others', to face criticism on what you consider beautiful, to face vulnerabilities, to grow and learn in ways that lecture, problem sets, case studies, reading, and writing papers don't promote.

I also took some acting classes. Their structure has become the structure of how I teach, which gets very positive reviews from my students. They commonly comment that they never learned this way before, that they didn't know they could learn what they do in my courses, that they value it deeply, that it's immediately practical, and they wish they had more of it.

We teach fields that are active, social, expressive, emotional, and performance-based differently than academic subjects and that training teaches genuineness, authenticity, self-awareness, and other things that traditional academic education doesn't.
It sounds like you're assuming that people who choose practicality do not see other issues. I can assure you that I constantly see lots of issues: technical, social, economic, etc. And mostly I'm choosing a practical way through, picking specifically what to oppose and when. We all have filters on what we'll actively fight for. But it would be wrong to assume only people fighting for/against X see issues related to X.

Now what exactly you see as the "bigger picture" mat depend on your opinions about the subject...
I strongly doubt if the average western consumer has any problem of choice.

On that topic, Barry Schwartz has a very interesting TED talk, aptly titled: The Paradox Of Choice. [1]

PS. See the toothbrush phone example? Yeah, that is now a thing. [2]

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_c...

[2] https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/817531891494457345
I suspect he set up the redirection before HN was opened up beyond the ycombinator set.
Attitudes like this are one of the many reasons why porting complicated OSS software (like SageMath) to Windows is so hard.
No, but a quick Google turned up two in the Bay area:
http://www.spinnaker-sailing.com/timeshare-sailing
https://sailtime.com/san-francisco-bay/
That is certainly true for boat ownership (although you can save and learn a lot by doing everything yourself). But you don't have to buy a boat just to sail. Plenty around already!
Sure, then don't complain others don't port their software to your platform of choice.
Plus--I find the acting spot on. Evan Rachael Woods does a great job. In all reality, I don't ever think I have see her in a bad movie, or role.

She is one actress that carries pretty much every role. I would actually be suprised if she wasen't the highest paid actor on that program. Yes--more than Anthony Hopkins.

(I'm trying to remove her good looks from the actor, and I can't in her case.)
"The most obvious alternative is a long-distance phone card."

What part of Stallman's position makes him fine with communicating and encouraging people to communicate using switches running proprietary software?

For that matter, how does he justify using the Internet rather than anything other than community networks running open source routing software?
> I need tabs.

At some point, every application (browser, terminal, tmux, ...) re-implementing their own version of tabs is kind of silly.

Ideally "look at 'window' X of application Y" (where window == window / terminal tab / tmux pane / whatever) is what the local window manager should be used for.

E.g. instead of 1 tmux session with 4 tabs in it (or 1 terminal window with 4 tabs in it), I will run 4 mosh/tmux sessions (or 4 terminal windows) with 1 tab each, and use my regular window manager commands (i3) to switch between them.

In theory this is a better separation of concerns, and I can have one set of key bindings to do all window switching. Not:

1. Use window manager keys ctrl-foo to get to the right desktop/terminal window
2. Use terminal keys ctrl-bar to get to the right terminal tab with my tmux session in it
3. Use tmux keys ctrl-zaz to get to the right tmux pane

(Obviously a contrived example.)

...that said, I still use a crap load of tabs in Chrome, so theory != practice.
Well, everybody knows the basic threat model from which all threat models are derived is: "Mossad or Not-Mossad?"[0].

[0] https://vimeo.com/95066828
I just remember the commands I use most, namely:

´sudo pacman -Syy´ to update the package db

´sudo pacman -Suy´ to update all packages

´sudo pacman -S package´ to install/update a specific pakage

´sudo pacman -U package.pkg.tar.xz´ to install a package from a local file (useful if you're using makepkg)

Those are usually enough to maintain my system. I'll have to hit the wiki for the various query options though. But if the CLI side of pacman bothers you, I'd suggest defining aliases in your shell's RC. I track my dotfiles using git and share them on all my machines, and this method works quite well for me...
Reasons to use Skype:
- you need to talk to someone, and by the time you've explained why you don't want to use Skype you could have already been done
Having never thought my current terminal emulator was slow I was surprised to immediately see a difference with Alacritty!

That being said, every time I install a package useing apt-get (Xubuntu) Alacritty crashes with the following:
thread 'pty reader' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 24 but the index is 18446744073709551615', /buildslave/rust-buildbot/slave/nightly-dist-rustc-linux/build/src/libcollections/vec.rs:1371

I guess we're not quite at 1.0 yet but looking good otherwise!
If we're limiting ourselves to deductive reasoning, then yes – the facts as stated do not give enough information to deduce that Greg must be white.

If instead we use abductive inference, we might seek the simplest and most likely explanation given our universe of observations. Sherlock Holmes was a big fan of abduction!

Much of real-world reasoning is abductive to a greater or lesser extent. There is a well-known joke about some motley band of engineers, logicians, mathematicians, statisticians, etc etc catching a train through the Highlands. They see a black sheep, the engineer says "look, all sheep in Scotland are black!", the statistician says "no, you can't say that – just that MOST sheep in Scotland are black", another says "no, we can only say that at least ONE sheep is black", another says "no, it's only black on at least one side", then the one you're stuck next to at the party says "you're all wrong, we can only say that at least one sheep in Scotland is black on at least one side at least some of the time". The last statement is fully deductive; the rest of them are abductive, and more-or-less useful.
Interesting write up.. I like the idea of thinking of misplaced commas in contract law as a parallel to software vulnerabilities!
Don't worry, nobody will.

If you hate people who use windows, then don't be surprised if they do same to you.
Sun? This must be 10 years old at least... (Or the author has not stepped out from the basement where he/she lives in the last decade)

Also after having checked his/her works I'm not sure why would anyone want to use them (on windows or otherwise). For most of them there are other alternatives with less bigot authors for whom, if needed, one might even send contribution.

Bigots like Stallman or this author do the most harm to the image of free software movement.