skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that other causes were involved. But as for the need for more money, this happened when conservatives were taking over one state house after another, and a large part of their agenda was cutting state budgets, and one happy consequence of this, from their perspective, is that it forced public universities to become much more like corporations. And when this happened, they did nothing to stop it, and just sat back and smiled.

As to conservative academics, ask them and they will tell you American academia is overwhelmingly liberal. It is the conservative politicians who brounght about the change, not the academics. Also one thing the conservative movement did in response is set up a vast network of think tanks to give brainy conservatives alternative employment.

And remember, there are two sides to this. On the one side, they force universities to become more like corporations by cutting funds. On the other hand, conservatives are pro-corporate and so are happy that, in order to get the needed cash, they had to do the corporations bidding.

As to galloping careerism, that begs the question of why, for the first time in history, ambitious people go into university administration, when that has always been a poor-paying job for people who were basically academics.
I see two consequences related to tech:

- pornographic producers who can pull higher level shootings (lookalikes, reproduce context), faster and consitently will definitely benefit from the expected stream of similar news; they should increasingly be seen as a legitimate part the uniquely rich commentariat that the Trump presidency has already triggered; the porn industry has been through many changes recently, notably a trend towards lower production value (“gonzo”) but I believe that this could end that trend;

- I can’t imagine traditional conservatives to support Trump through what is just the latest amoung many relentless, outlandish accusations (whether they are true is less relevant than that Trump has been in the record saying if not worst, plenty to make those plausible and has alienated enough of the commentariat); this means that only influencers less expected to judge him for that will keep his support: people mainly known for defending family values might not be able stay (although they have proven shckingly resilient so far) but engineers like Musk or Thiel can easily always say they find anything too colourful profoundly shocking, or just refuse to comment, on the ground that they “care about creating jobs” and retain their position. The bet that Thiel made inveting in Trump when he was the least likely to be elected proves increasingly valuable in terms of influencing the Oval Office; whether that office will be able to keep power is… well, I really can’t tell.
Customers or readers? Banning readers is fine, I'd rather avoid your content anyway. Banning paying customers would be another story, though I would have thought it's one that would solve itself.
Actually, it shouldn't matter. A trailing dot in a hostname signifies a fully-qualified domain name, rather than a relative domain name. Without the dot the router's dns service could technically return 'cbc.ca.some.othersite.net.' as the FQDN.

For those interested, learn more at:
http://www.dns-sd.org/trailingdotsindomainnames.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name
Level 3 on major freeways in about two years. (Like Tesla claimed to have, but without the "slams into cars parked at the left edge of the road" bug.) Level 4, in the form of self-driving low-speed vans in campus-type areas, has already been deployed in a few locations.

Volvo loaned a family a Level 3 car yesterday.[1]

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/09/volvo-tests-self-driving...
Exactly - and a bunch of companies built phones that can run Android, so Google has won, in a way
Thanks, I'm interested in this topic, would you be able to suggest sources that are understandable by a layperson?
Why on earth is the NYT publishing an "unsubstantiated report"??? Is journalism really dead?
China export of solar cells up in volume, down in price in H1, 2016
It's worth noting that swearing isn't a commonality among Tourette's sufferers. The condition is more accurately "motor and vocal tics," not uncontrollable swearing.
Oh finally, Microsoft tackled NONE of Windows 10's privacy problems. I can't believe the most common PC operating system in the world tracks you by default and prevents you from completely opting out.

If only Linux ran Overwatch as well as Windows does, I'd never boot this spyware again.
Oh, wait, by careerism do you mean among the students? Yes, that is a good point, but again it is because the jobs they are after require degrees.
Spending $10 billion on the car project would not be "betting the company" level of investment for Apple. That's "let's acquire a Motorola" level of investment.

Plus, I think the latest rumors say Apple has given up on making a car anyway, and it's working on a Waymo competitor of sorts.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-t...

Check the disclaimers littered throughout.
I'd like to encourage anyone feeling depressed to take a good, hard look at their diet and to consider the possibility that they lack some essential nutrients.

I'm not saying that a poor diet or lack of nutrients will necessarily be the only or even the main cause of depression, but these factors could have an impact (sometimes a profound impact) on the severity or frequency of depression.

For most of my life I've had a pretty poor diet, and while I knew diet could affect one's mood, I really didn't realize how profound an effect it could have until poor health recently forced me to make drastic changes in my diet and to consider and study the potential effects of diet on mental and physical health.

What I learned was that many, many nutrient deficiencies could have very severe consequences on one's mental (not to mention physical) health -- including depression, dementia, and even death. Symptoms of a nutrient deficiency are not always obvious, and some of them take a long time to manifest -- so long that they kind of sneak up on you and you could almost feel like what you're experiencing is "normal" or just the way you are (ie. depressed, just because you have a negative outlook on life).

Once I improved my diet and started taking supplements for essential nutrients which my diet still lacked, I felt so much better, and have had much more energy than I'm used to, don't need as much sleep, and my mood and motivation have dramatically improved.

I now firmly believe that many people who suffer mental issues, including depression, may be malnourished or nutritionally deficient in some way. Taking one's diet seriously, reading up on it, and improving it could really change your life.
"Google is not what it seems." The NSA and the plutocratic informal interest group best known is probably the best bet.

Ruling the narrative and how people behave and what questions they ask is in focus. The end game isn't simply to predict opinion as weather but to stear it (as it has always been for dictators and those who do not believe in democracy).
That's interesting. One of my pet projects is a compiler for Bethesda games quests - having source in text/plain file(s), that's the motivation - and as I am designing the underlying language, maybe I should consider coroutines as well...
If there is any actual proof it needs to be made public at all costs. This is not the time to protect methods or some other crock. Unsubstantiated info isn't all that useful, however, since it is easy to brush off.
More info from the writer, Mark Joseph Stern -> http://share.sparemin.com/recording-6618
Why does the formatter need to solve this and not the editor? The editor has more information available to it, like the present screen space.
I look forward to the day I can put on my brain hat and use it to automatically vote on Hacker News posts for me.
Modular design of PC's made the manufacturers all race to the bottom in price and nobody but Apple has made money from personal computer sales in 15 years.
What method are you using to replicate from MySQL binlog to various other systems?
My personal expectation is that Level 3 could be relatively soon given that companies like Volvo are doing legitimate pilots. Maybe 10 years? But the question would be how many places they would (legally) be allowed to drive without an attentive driver and under what conditions.

It's not clear to me how much L4 buys you as a consumer product. "No driver during defined use case." If you can't go door to door in a wide range of weather conditions, what's the difference between having a non-attentive driver and no driver?

ADDED: Yes, as was written elsewhere, low-speed campus use cases make sense. But that's not what most people consider self-driving.

Level 5. Many decades.
Jobs is complicated because he had technical knowledge and design taste.

Most engineers wouldn't have thought about having proportionally spaced fonts back in the 80's when personal computers only had 80 x 24 fixed withd character green phosphor displays.

When Jobs dropped out of regular college and dropped back in to take the classes he was truly interested in, he took calligraphy; years later that lead to the Mac being for first personal computer (the LISA had it too, but that was the $10,000 predecessor to the Mac) to have proportionally spaced, bitmap display.

That's not something Woz (or someone like him) would have prioritized for a brand new computing platform.
These books were created from Feynman's lectures to freshman and sophomore Caltech students. I have not looked at the books in detail, but I think that a dedicated reader who is comfortable with calculus should be able to understand them.
There is no sign of a slowdown as of yet. See Andrew Ng's take on this question:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603062/ai-winter-isnt-com...

Training neural networks is still an art to a degree, but it is becoming better understood, not less.
12 hours latency doesn't stop outsourcing the software projects, so it should be fine too.
> the company will plead guilty to criminal charges.

I am not familiar enough with the US corporate responsability but does that mean senior executives could risk jail time?
I find Swift to be getting worse each year. While sure i'm blessed that I don't have to write applications in assemble, I have grown jaded towards Swift. If it wasn't because I am an iOS developer, I would happily not use the language. I have been slowly positioning myself away from doing iOS development. I feel like a massive corporation like Apple can provide better tools to write apps for their walled garden than what they are providing me.
I don't have any proof that a market exists for these cars right now, but I can make up a story that suggests that a real market is indeed at play.

There's a proven market need for that entire field of technology in general, the market of "doing things that were never before humanly possible while making billions of dollars in profit along the way".

A self-driving car is a plausibly viable product, in that a person can imagine that it would provide him or her with personal safety, convenience, relief from effort, and extra leisure/work time. By itself, it could have a significant lifestyle effect both in terms of commuting and travel.

However, even if it were not especially economically viable by itself, it would serve as a highly useful prototype and legislative precedent for the rather more dangerous and less sympathetic self-driving truck.

The self-driving truck has advantages over the operated truck that go far beyond the savings in wages when all the truck drivers lose their jobs. It can operate continually and consistently, with lower maintenance costs; it can be prepositioned or rerouted at a moment's notice; it can integrate efficiently with other aspects of an partially automated logistics chain. It will create new value. In turn, it will serve as a prototype for other motile robotics technologies required by a fully automated logistics chain, all of which - taken together - will be a crucial step towards the full automation of the means of production.

It is plausible that the major automotive manufacturers are more than happy to treat the self-driving car as a loss-leader.

This is just a story I made up, rather than an authoritative or informed opinion, but I believe that it's fairly typical of the "imaginative futurist" version of the case for self-driving cars.
> Do you think hotels and restaurants can deliver reliable internet without charging for it?

Absolutely. 100% of the hotels that I've stayed at in the last five years have had free wifi. Almost half of those have still had captive portals.

Hell, my gym provides free wifi. The captive portal is literally just a button that says "Continue to the Internet" and redirects you to their Facebook page (not even a terms of use).

Every Starbucks I've been in recently has free wifi. Every library I've visited has had captive portal-free wifi.

I don't understand what sort of "scaling" you're referring to.
If I remember right, its just the calculator app. Lol....
I hope my medical data is sold so they can use it to improve my healthcare.

Good for you. But the point is it should be, you know, a choice.
The commenter claims Musk hasn't achieved anything at all, other than give some tech demos.

I'm perfectly entitled to ask what they've achieved themselves that puts them in a position to so casually demean what, by most people's standards, are quite considerable feats.
I'd almost sympathize with that mindset if it wasn't for civil asset forfeiture.
Ask HN: How to manage work, side project,social/hobbies and yet making a bank?
I see so many people around me - happy and ultra productive. Although this is not true, looking at them it seems that they are least or no worries.

As so many tech and equally affluent people hang out here, I want to know what is the secret?

My commute takes 1.25 hrs total daily. I work from 9 to 5. Then I go the gym at least 3 or 4 days a week. Sometime I go the coffee shop for an hour before gym. But, that's it. I could barely go to the office and gym. Whatever 1-2 hour I get on daily basis in the night, I browse reddit or 4chan/fit and then go the bed.

I am single and yet to find a women for dating ( which is another story in itself). How do you find time for side-projects, managing money, being social, marketing your side product, finding customers, daily-weekly chores and more?

Ultimately, I want to know how do I best manage myself?
Jobs also has over 300 patents to his name. His name is first for example on the multitouch patent, since he created many of the gestures and ui/ux concepts we use everyday: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/5328...
Is there usually evidence provided to the public in ongoing court cases? There is just as much evidence that the Best Buy employee was paid by the FBI. We have what is reported in the news.

So, with the reported deleted photo, and the reported photos on his mobile, yes, I have prejudged him. He can be innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the state, I am not the state though.

In this article [1] it says "prosecutors said", is that a good enough source? If a fact is not proven in a laboratory setting and peer reviewed do you disbelieve it?

1. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-geek-squad-child...

Edit: Oh, but what if someone emailed him those 800 photos, he only opened them momentarily and then deleted them? Get your head out of the sand.
Great, thanks! Also, could you enlighten me as to the meaning behind the FPU acronym?

Edit: found it -- disregard my last. Floating Point Unit.
I am not aware of general disagreement with what I said. sctb wisely detached this thread from the main conversation, since this sub-thread seems to have been taken over by a few individuals who sound like refugees from TheRedPill. Their opinions are hardly representative of the views of most people on Hacker News.
"Smaller than Alaska"
I've suffered from routers or captive portals poisoning my dns when they do dns redirects, so I usually opt for a nonsense domain like fjlsdfoierldoidflug.com

But I know that some appliances do content injection or 302 redirects which only work over http.

I like knowing about this neverssl. I like that all the page assets are inlined to limit the page load to one request. Makes it easy to see what is being injected by your browser and the network.
Ah. Not being a publisher, it hadn't occurred to me that they're a product just like us.

Always follow the money.
What about when (not if) the database gets hacked and sold on the dark web?
Vendoring only works inside a GOPATH; if you're outside the GOPATH, the vendor/ folder is ignored.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14566

There are many problems with running outside GOPATH. Among others, there's no
caching of built object files, so everything is much slower than it should be
(go build, go test, and so on). Vendoring is pretty low on the list of problems.

It may be that GOPATH should be reconsidered but if so it should be done as a
whole change, not just one piece at a time, like @bradfitz said above.

The solution for now is to use GOPATH.

> rsc closed this on 6 Dec 2016

Once the new dependency tool is done, it seems like GOPATH will be increasingly irrelevant with vendored dependencies and proper tooling.

(You may also be interested in this extended and active discussion on getting rid of GOPATH; https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17271)
> put the payment url on a sign, just enforce an ip whitelist until customer has paid. Or in extreme sign-less situations put it in the ssid e.g. "pay at portalpage.com"

This is a captive portal. But worse, because even HTTP sites don't send you to the portal.
Nah, I have zarroo cookies set for the Maps domain (gratuitous plug to Self-Destructing Cookies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... )
Trying to Overcome “It Just Isn't Done” Syndrome
'Are you a neo-Nazi?' No-one here knows, but you certainly sound like one. The swastika carries a very potent and toxic meaning today that it didn't until the last century or so. If you think symbolism and language are namby pamby liberal constructs with no inherent meaning, I'd encourage you to spray paint one on your house or have one tattooed on your forehead and see if the people you encounter as a result share your disdain for 'political correctness'.

I doubt you are a neo-Nazi. But words have meaning, and while this may just be an abstract game of righteous keyboard warfare to you, perhaps if you have an issue with the objectivity or accuracy of the media it would be best to say that plainly. Code words and innuendo directed at other members of your clique won't convince anyone and may well offend people with a better grasp on history (though that was likely your intention).
Also off topic but if you don't mind sharing, how did you come to work in this field, particularly at such a young age? And were you working for the government/law enforcement or are there private firms doing this sort of work?

And most importantly, was there some kind of support system in place to help you deal with the sort of things you were being exposed to?
For 24th straight year, IBM granted most U.S. patents
Because there's no evidence either way. It's valid philosophically to consider the unknown or unprovable statement to be false, but the philosophers of science have pretty soundly rejected logical positivism[0]

Generally speaking the problem is that we can't treat empirical truths as some sort of strictly binary, completely true or completely false statements. Error is inherent to observation, so every scientific truth is a little bit false (or at least potentially so). The less rational part of me does consider that chocolate tapdancing unicorns are unlikely enough to be entirely discounted, but as a general philosophical rule it's more consistent to be a little more humble about what is known and can be known.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism#Critics
PCs weren't successful because they were upgradeable or because you could build custom ones out of commodity parts -- all that happened because the PC was successful.

The PC was successful because everyone wanted a computer that was like a PC, and two things happened: With the clone market, enough manufacturers could make the same thing, thus making computers affordable. Secondly, MS-DOS (and later, Windows) became a de facto standard preventing manufacturers from fragmenting the market with vendor-specific platforms. You bought a PC and it could run any DOS application.

Now, the clone market happened because the PC had standard components, which allowed any vendor to compete. Why can't standard components drive a new revolution in phones? Because everyone already has cheap, disposable phones. As far as the consumer is concerned, the mobile phone's "PC moment" already happened, except without the modularity.

If there's anything to disrupt today, it's the network.

(Would a modular phone be nice? Sure, probably. Would it work, physically? Not if you want to keep the form factor of today's slim smartphones.)
Very interesting stuff! They don't quantify how much energy goes into the process but imply that it is best suited to electricity-surplus situations to balance the grid (e.g. near solar facilities during daytime, wind farms during windy periods, etc.)

Paper:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/slct.201601169/fu...
Dell’s Latest Laptop Is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It with Ubuntu
Estimating pi with LuaJIT
Without hardware support AES isn't competitive with Salsa20 anyways.
Apple has done more than okay since Tim Cook took over as CEO: https://qz.com/765360/the-first-five-years-of-tim-cooks-reig...
I usually use rawr.com
It has no guarantees but the site hasn't been updated in a very long time.
Adult with obesity less responsive to memory training than those without Obesity
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Your mention of how it was 'impossible with HTTPS' to inject ads into web traffic made me recall how, two years ago, Lenovo shipped laptops with software ('Superfish') that injected ads into encrypted webpages:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/19/superfish_lenovo_spy...

Lenovo got approximately $250,000 for installing the malware:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/27/lenovo...
This is why I only pay for news subscriptions via the App Store (or the Kindle store, if reading a magazine there): I know I can cancel anytime, with a few taps, and without a phone call. And, I know they won't mail me random stuff since all I want is the digital content.

It's the best way right now, and it's silly because the news apps have to eat the Apple Tax just because their own internal policies keep me from signing up through them directly.
The methods of very powerful actors being brought to light are... falling for your hoaxes?
The Service Worker API is very general so it's like a one time cost of implementing something like the AC manifest using the API.
What OP has or has not achieved is irrelevant in my opinion. I think it's better form to just refute the criticism and leave OP out of it. But it's up to you of course.
How to Detect if Your PPC Agency is Scamming You
This report was briefed to the POTUS and PEOTUS today and several top Congressman by intelligence officials. That alone makes it newsworthy.
Your Brain Has a “Delete” Button-- How to Use It
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> just like the PC ate up the homecomputers

Ever increasingly cheap and plentiful clones made computers finally cheap enough for anyone to own?

Phones are already way beyond that point.

> where if a user needs more ram he would just add more, if he needs a new processor he would just replace the current, if he needs a higher resolution display the old just would get replaced.

Why would I ever want to deal with that?

No one wants to deal with that. Just works is way better than endless tweaking.