skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would they "learn far more"? I am not a xenogeologist or astrophysicist, but landing a probe on a rogue planet seems like a shortcut to visiting another star system.
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I wish this was the top comment. So true.
Whoops you are right, I meant the Banana Pi m3(http://www.banana-pi.org/m3.html).
gcc and llvm weren't designed for the constraints of 8-bit (or 16-bit) targets. The support for 32-bit machines is quite good (and these days some of Atmels ARM parts are cheaper than some of their AVR ones!).

Also, for the extremely low cost parts (small AVRs, PIC etc) the margins on the parts is very low which doesn't fund a lot of software development. And hardware companies often don't have much software development resource.
Happens in Germany with Deutsche Telekom.
Tesla doesn't strike me as secretive at all. Elon Musk is constantly tweeting about future plans, they frequently discuss new features before they're released, and they talk about new products and new product lines years ahead of time. For example the Model 3 was first talked about a decade ago, and they have explicit public plans (up to and including allowing customers to buy the option right now) for fully autonomous cars which will no doubt take years to actually come to fruition.

Tesla in many ways has the opposite problem that Apple does with secrecy: they talk so much about what they're going to do, and it doesn't always work out, so people start to mistrust what they say.
The problem she talks about is nuanced.

One the one hand, any opinionated information will upset some portion of the public, the internet just makes it more visible to you. From that perspective, maybe the solution is to exert better self-control and stay off twitter, not google yourself, and care less about imaginary internet karma points.

Her ask for compassion is coming from a sincere place. I think however the real long term answer is to examine how rules of the forum incentivize certain types discussion (twitter=outrage, youtube=insults, facebook=food pictures & generic upbeat life-observations, reddit=jokes, news.yc=thougtful comments, buzzfeed/tech-crunch/whatever=unreadable linkbait).

Another way to look at this, is that these famous people get something from public validation. In a sense, it's a trade of inside information for public validation. If she really just wanted to get the word out there, she could do what the rest of us do, post on a throwaway account, losing the karma points, losing the automatic boost by posting as a famous person, and see if her ideas are packaged well enough to rise to the top.

The thing that's slightly offputting to me is that I get a sense that a lot of these public figures actually are not as right as they seem to think. For example, I'd bet 5 grand that if I could talk to PG for a day about the things he's blogged about, I could change his mind on at least one of them. Yet at the same time I think he was quite troubled when he posted his 1%-money piece and people were outraged.

There's really a lot to this discussion.
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Why don't you google "NSA google smiley face".
> Why has IT contributed so little to productivity? To understand this, it might help to understand that people in any organisation have two motivations. One is to create genuine economic value; the other is to generate a protective carapace of bullshit to protect their continued employment.

TL;DR - If automation could save work, but people are dependant on work to survive then automation will not actually save work. Who'd have known.
You nailed the entitled thing. I'm a born and bred sand groper .. So .. After quite some time abroad, getting to know the species, my sojourns back home to Australia led me to truly cringe at just how entitled folks are, down under. It was a bit humbling to have been driven off the edge of the continent by the culture, even though the land itself pulled me with much gravity, wave by dune by storm ..
No, but blocking it could piss off a large part of your population.

It all depends on how far you are willing to push the blocking and how much you are willing to disable so you can block anything.

Signal atm are using domain fronting. (iirc the app will soon test the network conditions before attempting to use domain fronting, but for now it checks the country code of your phone number)

It will open a HTTPS connection to google.com but after the connection is made sends a host request for something.appspot.com In order to block that you need to MITM the connection or block google.com (Not sure if DPI could be used to get the host header never really looked into it personally. I know that SNI Sends the host is part of the handshake so the webserver knows which cert to present you with. Could it be extracted, checked agasinst a list and then have the connection reset preventing connection? Dunno never played with it, but its an idea off the top of my head).

(Now for some mild rambling :-p)

Lets say you can't MITM/DPI s you can just block google then they would have to use another CDN, so you block that one too. How many you going to go though before your citizens get pissed off at you and do something?

But lets say you people really hated GMail anyway and put up with not having Google just so this message app was blocked (and the creators don't just change CDN's) then you just force your people to install your own Root Cert or they don't get any encrypted web traffic. Will people complain or just install the Cert and get their facebook back?

So people switch to using personal networks (bluetooth and WiFi hotspots when in a crowd of people) just jam Cell/2.4ghz/5ghz. Will people complain they can't use their phones?

And it just escalates to the point you need a Doctors note and a permission slip signed by your mum before you are allowed to make a phone call.

All the time who actually want to encrypt their messages use math they can do at a desk away from a computer or phone and just use whatever method the Goverment do allow / they can get away with (Standard SMS but who and when can be got from the telco's, dead drops, IRL meetings) but sacrifice their metadata in the process.
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Will developers of prominent apps consider using hybird apps - eg like Uber, Snapchat ? Or will hybrid apps be restricted to 'lesser' downloaded apps.

Also why is that react can 'convert' to a native app and not frameworks like ionic ? Is there a hybird framework which plans to go along converting to native-app path ?
They were also enthusiastically funded by Congress. They want these things too, but they can pretend they're helpless while shoveling money at them.
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To some extent, yes. The base thinks it's fine, and the GP thinks Trump's win was a reaction to Obama. The media loves the tweeting, just like any time they could get Obama to weigh in on the latest racial controversy. So I guess to be fair, the reduction in presidential class is a real team effort!
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The PalmOS API was heavily inspired by classic Mac OS. The similarities are striking -- a lot of the system traps even had the same names across both platforms.
That's ironic, Apple IMHO is one of the few companies that takes UX seriously.
"... where they are prompted "think about apples" and then you record what comes back. "

What if you, one day, bite into an apple that has a worm in? You'll probably feel different about apples after that and you calibration data is now useless.

As I said, just consider the sparse information you get out of an EEG or FMRI and compare it to the vast information that make up your thoughts, memories, feelings etc. It's simple mathematics, it won't work unless you find a way to extract much more data non-invasively. Upon that, you most likely won't get away with a single calibration.

Yes there are awesome results, like controlling a cursor or artificial limbs with your brain. But that only works because your brain learns how to control it - not the other way around.

Continuing that thought, I can imagine a system where the user can learn how to express certain emotions to a computer - but that still leaves open the question of how to induce them into another user, which is a completely different task that we even haven't touched yet at all.
Accepting the frame that there is a "deep state" without requisite evidence is harmful to critical thinking. Thinking that Trump is being screwed by the Industrial military complex, instead of being their man, is reversed. Thinking the CIA screwed Trump somehow here, while the FBI hooked him up, is also cloudy. I thought leaks could happen by single people, why is it an entire "deep state" organization?

I would say that the accusation of a "deep state" is more inflammatory than Trump having hookers pee on each other or him. I'd prefer a world of watersports to shadow governments.
Not at the time it was made. This blog post is from December, the slashdot post from February. The feature wasn't even being rolled out until August. We'll see what happens at the next Pwn2Own...
Is their software actually any better than anyone else's? Or is it that their software is only expected to work on their hardware so they can fully optimize it for their hardware and it seems better? I have a MacBook and an iPhone, but you would be hard pressed to tell me macOS and iOS are truly better than the alternatives.
The 13th is more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week
No. But using the wrong gendered language for someone is still bad. In fact, this is why in general lots of folks advocate for the usage of singular "they" when speaking of people with unknown gender. This is the problem with "hey guys" in the first place; there are gender neutral ways of addressing groups of people. Yet you are choosing the non gender neutral way of doing it.

You haven't been arguing against gendered language here, you're arguing for using gendered language -- just gendered language for the same gender -- for everyone, when gender-neutral language has existed for centuries.

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Equality is about treating men and women the same. Having women feel like a fish out of the water by having their identity rejected is not the same. Having women feel like their identity is being rejected is not the same.

Equality does not mean rejecting individuality. Equality is not assuming that everyone is Bob and has the same personality, emotions, and gender as Bob. That's unfair to people who aren't Bob. Equality is treating them the same, or more specifically not treating someone worse because of an aspect of their existence that they have little control over. You can and should still respect their identity.
DNSSEC is something I don't want.
This is why some Americans are so pissed. There's a feeling that others are cutting in front of the line without paying their dues to the country.

H1B mills are gaming the system. What's the corruption rank in the countries where H1B candidates come from. That has a correlation to faked resumes and credentials.
To be fair, the blame lies with our 2 party establishment system and the machines behind them. If you take closer looks at recent presidents: Clinton's admin was an overall continuation of GH Bush's administration policies. Obama's admin was a continuation of the Cheney's administration policies. I'm not sure it would really matter which establishment candidate was in office, since the end result is pretty much the same and only the rhetoric would be different. i.e. "impeachment is off the table" or "we're continuing to socialize Wall St's losses and privatize their gains even though over 90% of constituents of both parties are against it"

We haven't had a someone from outside since Carter or even Reagan. Regardless of how you feel about Trump (personally I don't like him) he was the first real alternative choice in decades.
It's not the overarching thesis of the paper, but expanding on one of the points it is trying to make about the dangers of call-out culture with a reliable conjecture about the rise of Trump. The article states it worked to varying levels of effectiveness for Trump and Carson. Carson received more recognition than he ever had prior to riding the coat-tails of this call out culture, and playing the contrarian (in my opinion). You can look at it this way: a neurosurgeon with no political experience and a murky past won 9% of the republican primaries, ahead of establishment candidates such as Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum. The mistake was placing his name next to Trump when comparing the effectiveness of this phenomena, because Trump is the ultimate representation, but it was extremely effective for Carson as well.
I like the feeling behind this sentiment, but I figure that poster just wants a computer where they can copy and paste.

So: if there isn't a WM for Wayland that allows their workflow, then they will stick with X.
> The way it was pushed on distros was problematic, in my opinion.

The technical term for this is "precommitment", and it comes from Tom Schelling. It's actually quite advantageous: once you're precommitted to a particular direction, you're emotionally invested in getting the most out of it. By precommitting you to systemd, the distros hope to get the community to leverage systemd's benefits.
Is Apple actually trying to have a universal map? Can you even use Apple maps if you're not on an Apple device?
I can't think of any jobs being created that require special training and then 'only exist for a moment'.

All I can think of are menial machine-handling jobs, that almost any adult could do, such as driving a car or picking items off a shelf in a warehouse.
Thank you, now I understand.
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The only problem with Python 3's str is that you don't grok it
The camera is fixed in an isometric view, sometimes called 2.5D, it's more targeted to causual people. The older Mario 64 had a third person perspective, the camera follows the character. It allows a lot more immersion and more complex level design.
This is hilarious, but the only thing I disagree with is taking a screen to introduce saving the princess. Yes the original Mario didn't need a narrative hook and this one doesn't either. But reinforcing the narrative of Mario adds value to their brand that has a long term payoff. Mario isn't just a video game anymore, in case you missed the closing of the Olympics. Yeah, saving the princess is a worn out narrative, but they get grandfathered in on being able to use it.
It's an interesting thought, but it would be extremely reckless for Obama to do this with the hope of undermining Trump.

Trump and those sympathetic to him could easily use the power of the intelligence apparatus to punish anyone who opposes him. We've already seen Congress pass a measure allowing them to reduce any federal employee's salary to $1. There's also a bill that would make future federal employees at-will hires that the president can fire. Imagine the climate of fear and intimidation that can be created if the president can fire anyway and has access to a massive surveillance complex that monitor all manner of digital communications.

Now maybe Obama knows something we don't, maybe he knows there really is damning information about Trump out there that just needs to find its way to the right hands. But even if that is the case, a more powerful surveillance state is not going to police itself, nor weaken itself even if Trump gets pushed out.
You mention you're self taught -- do you have an undergraduate degree?

The OMSCS FAQ[1] is vague about whether such a degree is required:

> "significant professional or other work experience with supporting recommendations may qualify as an adequate substitute for the appropriate academic credentials, however work experience will not take the place of an undergraduate degree."
So since you were holding for long term capital gains tax treatment, did you consider writing calls on them? Many big companies have deep exchange traded options markets a year out, where you can easily get an extra 10% by simply writing a near the money call (if you have at least 100 shares).
Welcome to our dystopian future

In the UK Teresa May just passed the 'Snoopers Charter'(Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act) which is at least as bad as this. Agencies like the 'Food standards agency', and 'Health and safety executive' now have powers to read your browsing history without a warrant. Somehow this is supposed to stop terrorism?

Now we have the 'Digital Economy bill' which is where the UK's 'Great Firewall' begins under the guise of protecting our children from porn.

Its Orwellian and it is disgusting. What is worst is how the press ignored it and the Corbyn opposition abstained from voting on it! I will never vote for a politician who did not vote against it, and that is a very small number!
you could easily define hash functions that work over A..Z if you wanted; there's nothing special about that.

The misleading part is about the reduction to a unique fixed length string; that's not possible unless the input domain is equal to (or smaller than) the output domain (and even then it's not necessary). Any other function is guaranteed to have collisions.
That would be a big shame IMO. I think, the Wii and WiiU have both brought interesting developments and that the Switch looks like it will develop things to - bring tighter integration between mobile and home gaming.

Surely the next step would be VR, though it's probably right to enter that arena partnered with an established player.

If smart-watches/wearables push on then people may move away from using a smart-phone form factor and instead have a paired device trailer more towards gaming and media.

I wonder if Switch can (in theory) run Android, whether it'll have Skype or other video calling (I didn't notice a camera?).
This is very interesting. What is the comparison to the glTF binary format?
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In line with this, I'd also like to recommend 'The Gene'[0]. The author has informed me of new things (Even though I studied biochemistry during college) and also focused a lot on the ethical discussions relating to genetic modification. It also directly discusses CRISPR as it is quite new. I'd recommend all of Mukherjee's other books as well (Mainly Emperor of all Maladies).

[0]https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476733503
Yes. Heat-pumps will make up for some losses from all other steps but I highly doubt it all togrther will reach efficiency of purely thermal system. Heat pumps also rely on access to medium that they cool down to get the additional heat and are at least as complex as a fridge or air conditioner.
I used Xfce and switched to i3. I can't imagine going back whenever I'm in Linux. My work environment is MacOS and its frustrating having to manually move windows and like others have said is just plain clunky after having used a tiling window manager. It did take a bit of time to get used to i3, but once I did it was glorious.
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Along these lines, has anyone heard of Neurable? http://neurable.com/

They raised some money (https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/21/neurable-seed-funding-brai...), and are from my town.
Can you write a tutorial on mesh deformation and all of the other stuff that goes into skeleton animations?
> often only about one bacterium in 10 million will gain a spacer that lets it defend itself.

Incredible... The scale and probabilities involved in these processes are mind blowing.

In general I liked this article because it posed a few open ended research questions and explained why they were relevant. As someone who barely knows the difference between a bacteria and a virus I felt it was pretty understandable.
The Watch was. Quite a bit. There were even photos of it on the wrists of various people before it was announced. It was another example of those not-a-secret secrets
Obama must be compared to other presidents as well as to the popular notion of what a black man would/should be like as President.

It's pointless to compare Obama to Trump because Trump is not yet a President. That job changes you, and if there is a god, it will change Trump too.
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Online poker is already full of bots and algorithms. Serious online players use hand-tracking software to analyze their opponents.
Except that HERE has more of the world mapped than google...
how does that help, I think tor can be blocked..?
Because local ISPs are terrible at running DNS. They're slow, usually vulnerable, poorly scaled, and not very redundant. I've seen a lot of ISPs in the US have "outages" that are merely "our DNS servers are down, so everyone thinks the internet is down".
Not only that it's also false from a practical perspective because you can easily find out that 'cat' was the original word by going through a list of hashes of all English words (>rainbow table attacks). That's why you use salts.
Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" goes into great detail about Isaac Newton's life, and his focus on alchemy and theology. It is of course fiction, but well researched and utterly fascinating. I recommend it!
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Uncanny - I just whipped this up: https://getvoicecapsule.com

Not a social network, but private audio, selective sharing, etc.
A low value secret though, most Apple customers don't know or care about swift/llvm/etc.
I can see how you would leave the receiver in the dark by sending them the original, deferred message, but how would asking the sender's device to resend with a different key not result in a notification?

Furthermore, as soon as the sender attempts to deliver another message to the recipient, they would get another notification (because the encryption key changed back to the real key); alternatively the attacker could continue blocking (and reading) messages to the recipient, but the lack of delivery would be noticeable.

You could escalate it into a MITM rather easily, though, by attacking both ends; but again, a key change notification should be displayed to both parties.

Assuming the closed sourced app works as advertised, obviously.
Lambda-Native uses Scheme (Guile)
http://www.lambdanative.org/

There's an example program on the front page to judge for yourself how much knowledge is required which is basically just an understanding of the scheme r5 spec. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/learn/
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In my experience, contractors do not own the product. It's a very technical product that requires communication between multiple stakeholders within the company and customers. License cost varies between $100k to $750k per year. Making the sales process very long (9-12 months).
Oh, it's just the Japanese Disney.
Did you think he sucked across the board, or just on foreign policy and domestic surveillance? It's a huge job.
How does being a colony affect this? Or in what way does the meaning change versus a switch of "colony" for "country" and "colonialist" for "politicians"?
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In Romania they are still using Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS, released in 1992 to teach programming.
While I was reading 1984, I had to put it down because it was so depressing. It would be the end result of our experimentation with surveillance state coupled with AI management that outperforms even the smartest human being.

In the end, it won't be our willful submission to AI overlords but economies of scale heavily valued by our capitalist economy that will be our undoing.

but this also means untold riches that build & sell the new AI driven economies of scale. we've previously seen titans arise from the industrial revolution by doing the same thing.

It's no time to be a Luddite.
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Right, but it would be much more clear, without needing to read the tooltip, if it just said "Allowed - X", which IMHO is pretty clear that it is currently allowed and can be revoked with the 'X'.