skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker but not just throwing in a container and calling it a day we use the user namespaces, seccomp etc. On top of that the machines running the code are completely disconnected (different cloud) from any user data etc.
They should lobby the school board not to do this nonsense.
Great--thanks for the examples.

I'm still a little hung up on the metaphysical part though.

Suppose we ignore all the baggage around the "mind" and just consider an input/output relationship: a visual stimulus goes in and some response comes out. We can formulate a theory about the transfer function that maps between them, and then test it by applying different stimuli and comparing the observed response with the expected one.

A) Suppose the device is a machine. It initially looks like it responds by beeping when illuminated. However, we falsify this theory by finding different patterns of light and dark, some of which cause the machine to beep and others that don't, falsifying that theory. However, it suggests that some feature of the image may matter, so we test it to see if varying the color of the light matters (it doesn't), or if the relative spacings of light and dark do matter (it does). We try more features and eventually discover that it responds to every single one of the barcodes we try, but nothing else, and hypothesize that it's a barcode scanner.

B) Suppose we're recording from a single neuron in a rat or cat's brain while the animal views a screen. In early experiments, we discover that cells in this brain area--and this neuron specifically--responds to visual stimuli. We adjust the stimuli and note that it only responds to some of the stimuli, so we construct a quantitative model giving the expected distribution of responses as a function of stimulus features. This suggests more tests of the model--perhaps the model has very limited spatial support and thus claims that far apart stimuli have no effect. We present the animal (and thus, the neuron) with stimuli outside the supported region and, to our surprise, the responses change. We revise the model to include some suppressive interactions, and try again....

C) Suppose we're recording the behavioural responses of a human subject. We show the subject pictures of other humans, and ask them to report whether the individual shown is a man or woman. We hypothesise that certain features in the image guide this decision, so we modify the images to enhance or degrade those features and repeat the experiment. Some of these changes have no effect, others increase or decrease the speed and accuracy with which they respond. So, we modify the images more selectively, or only in certain locations, and repeat the experiment, revising our model as we go.

It seems like you would admit A and B as being "scientific", but think that C is flawed. Is this right?
That's correct. Clearly the worth of the advice would be different for different people, depending upon how deep their pockets are. I was hoping to get some examples of just what kind of advice was offered.
In 1992 it probably wouldn't have had templates nor much of much else (it wasn't standardized until 1998). Modern C++ is barely the same language anymore.
I've been flying RC model airplanes, powered and gliders, as well as well as RC helicopters (not the toys from the mall, $2,000 to $5,000 machines) for over thirty years.

I cannot believe the irresponsibility and carelessness of some of the people flying these drones. Nor can I believe the manufacturers painting rosy pictures about the products they sell.

Here's the truth:

I don't care what you buy today. If it costs less than $250K it is a toy. Period.

And that means it is built with toy parts and a toy engineering process.

And it also means these things can fall out of the sky any time and any place for a myriad of reasons or no reason at all.

The "safety" features they have are nothing less than jokes. Things like "return home" are utterly and totally useless in the case of electronics failure.

A few days ago my family and I went to have a birthday dinner with other family members for one of the kids. After a great evening we set out to go home and get out to the parking lot. This is a location where there are a few nice restaurants and companies like Best Buy, etc. on the same property. Large parking lot. Lots of cars and people.

Sure enough, some moron is flying a quadcopter right on top of people, cars, building, etc. The drone was probably 100 feet up. It was night time so I couldn't see who might have been flying it. For all I know the idiot was inside a car.

I can't understand the lack of consideration and common sense. Some of these people seem to have zero concerns for placing others in potentially mortal danger. I've seen idiots flying these things around our local lake or the park where kids play. Insane, truly insane.

I have always --always-- flown from AMA (http://www.modelaircraft.org/) sanctioned clubs and flying fields. I carry a one million dollar insurance policy for both myself and my kid. And, of course AMA rules are such that this policy does not cover us if we fly at a location like the aforementioned parking lot. And there are rules beyond that.

I am all for people having consequences like jail time for putting others in danger. This is no different from firing a gun in the air. It's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
As much as I would love to see "Mike #2" publically castrated, there is a fairly high chance of causing an innocent person significant grief by going down this path. Please don't trigger a witch hunt. Justice must be discharged with tremendous care to protect the innocent.
I'd love to read about using LaTex. Even though I've read TAOCP (shock!) and been a physics grad student, I'm still semi-scared at the notion of using it for fun.

Most of my grad buddies (in experimental physics!!) had endless challenges with it.

Surmountable, of course, but I wanted to aim for an easier skill set.
Great points. Despite my cynicism and strong bias towards the self-destruction of mankind, there would be always be moments when I thought "hey, I'm glad this guy/gal existed because the world is a better place because of them." Things do get better when you look at the world around you.
This must be fixed.
Hurray! That's fantastic!!
Great, as long as the world is black and white and completely susceptible to binarization.
Masayoshi Son Interview, SoftBank CEO, Owner of ARM
For anyone who doesn't catch Destination Unknown (TV series), this was a prominent feature in an episode... while its a bad sign for the climate in general, it's at least unlocking 300,000 years of geology and archeology to discover, specifically Wooly Mammoths
I don't know about c++, but turbo pascal compiled so fast that it felt like an interpreter back in the day.
Additionally, what benefit do we have to gain by preserving these recordings? The whole thing seems massively risky for no reason other than to make a few bucks.
Yea, I am not a rocket guy.

However, the minimum delta V to land on the moon is ~1.72 km/s, and you need another 1.72 km/s to get back into orbit + some safety factor ~2.2-2.4 km/s. By comparison it takes ~8km/s to get from LEO to low moon orbit and back to earth. Though you can reduce this by how hard to hit the earth's atmosphere. So, having fuel to land and take off from the moon is not that much worse than getting to the moon and back.
It's the same in Danish. And it repeats (in German too) for every 100, so you get "einhunderteinundzwanzig" in German or "(et) hundrede enogtyve" in Danish.

I imagine it can really trip you up with large numbers that are usually grouped by thousands, millions, billion, etc. when saying them out loud, like 123456789: "hundrede og treogtyve millioner, fire hundrede seksoghalvtreds tusinde og syv hundrede niogfirs", literally: "one hundred and three-and-twenty million, four hundred six-and-fifty thousand and seven hundred nine-and-eighty".

And Danish has yet another quirk. The names for 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 aren' based on multiplication with 10 but on multiplication with 20, so instead of saying something to the effect of "five-tens" we say "half-third (i.e. 2.5) times 20", and then we even go and shorten it to obscure the fact that it's based on 20-multiplication.

I envy no one who has to learn Danish numerals.
> The hard part would be minimizing the radionuclides.

Not necessarily. Tsar Bomba, the highest yield device ever detonated, was also among the cleanest because they tampered the third stage with lead instead of U-238.
Just a question on top of my head, could Mozilla make a SaaS, like a email services ( example only ), and have those money go into continuing develop Firefox.

And as a non-profit entity, could they retain some profit they have as investment or cash somewhere. In case some day they run into negatives they could use those as reserves?

But at the end of the day, Mozilla need some very serious management restructuring, starting from the very top end. Having been a Netscape user from over two decade ago, I finally left Firefox. And if you follow their decision, mailing list etc, you can feel how bureaucratic they are.
Slow response to market changes, completely lack of ( actionable )vision, often having completely unrealistic target. Extreme inefficiency in development of its product.
And these aren't my thoughts or comment only, their are many ex mozillian employees who felt the same. We all thought Mozilla should have been a great company achieving far then then they are today.
It does feel a bit like Uber's CEO trying to get rid of credible replacements.
How else are you going to get out of a country surrounded by water?

At least w/ Canada there's an agreement for the Canucks to tell CBR that you've left the US (Source: I tried to surrender my i-94 at the US side of the border. The guy told me to give it to Canadians). Not hard to envision another agreement on the Mexican side
So. Eich funding discrimination is free speech, whereas OK Cupid blocking his browser is not. Because why?

Aside: great insights into the victimhood mentality of the free speech zealots.

https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-amer...
Alternatively, you can take a different page out of King's book, and get ripped on Schlitz and PBR and cocaine and write away in a blackout haze. Most of us probably won't produce some of our greatest work like he did, however [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo
I would have thought that the end-customer paying only 40% of the actual cost would be more troubling; investors are subsidizing the cost of rides. Does Uber have a practical plan to get the costs down to where they're profitable? Without breaking the law?
Ooo. We've rediscovered both Anselm's Ontological Argument _and_ Gnosticism at the same time!

The demiurge will be pissed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Anselm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism#Main_features
Stuffed toys leak millions of voice recordings from kids and parents
SpinaliS Pilot Series Executive Chairs for Active Sitting
Do you know the difference between punching up vs punching down?
I can't address the general impression, but as someone who spends nearly every moment of my day in git (and only twenty percent of my day dealing with conflicts, I jest) I think my advice is more towards impedance matching.

When working with folks outside of tech, something like Word expedites the process as it's their native tongue. While tools like diff and patch are great (I was a Unix admin at Amazon back in the Jurassic period), they'd limit my options for copy editors.
It sounded to me like you only have to pay if your message gets a response. So I just assumed it would be a lottery as to whether he even ever saw my message. I figure he must devote only a very small amount of time to perusing his messages, and then he must devote an equally small amount of time composing an answer.

So I figured I'd have to get pretty lucky to actually wind up spending the $100 (or $110) in the end. Even so, I'd hate to spend the $100 and find the response was disappointing.
I might watch too many spy movies but maybe they wait for a time she will be away from her phone, like the camping trip she has been talking about for weeks or a school field trip that can be easily learned and googled from conversations about class or sports competitions based on googling team names. These are all things that are likely to come up in regular, routine conversation.

The real question is why you wouldn't already be terrified about having a microphone in your house that is open to the internet.
Make sure he has access to a computer easy to learn program with and also a good internet connection so he can flip between different websites. I don't know the nature of the accident but don't forget the basics - the learning environment, the people he has access to.
Computer/network security will never be important until governments start regulating this stuff through specialized agencies. It's the opposite of profitable to care, so businesses who do care are disadvantaged.
Nice native advert.
Probably don't wear a shirt with blinking lights on it either.

http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
In the embeded world, we're using it in cars.
Cargo-fuzz findings in capnproto-rust
Can we not let them back? Make up claims about space rabies or something?
For lack of a better word, that was meant more cynical than something that has actually any chance of working. It just seems to be a somewhat logical continuation of the idea of a war where everyone just sends robots to the front lines to fight things out. But you are of course right, the correct conclusion is probably that there can not be a war just fought by robots.

After one robot army has defeated the other one it has to go after human soldiers, assets or even civilians to achieve a victory or must at least be willing to do so unless the opposing country surrendes at this prospect. Just defeating the robot army and then doing nothing will not be effective beyond the inflicted loss of resources.
Their ability to do harm with Flash has been limited so they had to branch out.

Really though this is pretty cool, when not used for nefarious purposes.
Just to be clear, the modern world I referred to was the product of industrialization that mostly matured in the 20th century, with automobiles, airplanes, antibiotics, and the likes. Most, if not all, of which were developed upon the foundation of European scientific methods and mindset. Compass, woodblock printing, gunpowder played some roles but less pivotal than many other technologies based on science.

Thanks for the last link. It's very interesting. I wish they would include biological-genetic information that predates hominids as well.
Let's see:

- many tens of billions extra will be spent on armaments (America first, sure)

- nationalism is at a roughly 70 year high in the Western world

- as is xenophobia

- in many countries politicians of extremely dubious character are waiting in the wings with elections around the corner

You're treating it like it is business as usual. And I can assure you that it is not. I haven't seen this kind of alignment as long as I've been alive.

Now let's hope things will get better before they get worse.

I don't see what you being an Iranian American has anything to do with it though, for all I care you could be born in Brooklyn or Paris, it would not make any difference to me.

And if you feel this story is blown out of proportion then I hope that your family is with you and will not attempt to join you anywhere in the next couple of years, noting how Iran was part of the not-Muslim ban.
"You think – excuse me – if you’ll pardon me – do you think American Presidents reward virtue?

Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? You know, I think you’re taking a lot of things for granted. Just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us ? Well, I don’t even trust you to do that."
-Milton Friedman
I guess my comment came across as rude, I didn't mean it that way.

I originally wrote a reply something along the lines of "I hear that argument a lot: if we didn't raise animals for food they wouldn't even be born!"

But I thought it would be better to ask you to clarify rather than respond based on an assumption.
"Why is this being modded down? It's the truth. Big companies almost always come out on top in trials because they can afford the best lawyers, and they can afford to game the system to bankrupt their opponents by filing never-ending motions to delay and other tactics which increase the legal costs to the opponent. You're almost never going to get a positive result if you're a rank-and-file employee; your best course of action is to leave the company and find something better.
"

You claim this is the truth.
On what do you base any of this, other than TV?
Ask HN: What do modern web applications use for analytics?
Ask HN: Does the NSA profile HN readers?
This forum gathers probably more technologically savvy and powerful people than any other public forum. And we're mostly social libertarian, worried about eroding digital rights.

Isn't it probable that this forum is a prime target for Big Brother to create detailed profiles of us based on our posts?
The other really remarkable thing about that time for me (I was working for a TomTom competitor) was that Nokia also paid a whopping US$8.1 billion (€5.7 billion) for NavTeq. This was right before Google ate both companies' lunch by switching to doing their own mapping for Google Maps using the Street View cars. The iPhone was announced about 6 months later.
Yup. That's the whole point of dialogue. If all I do is down-vote it might feel good for five seconds as an "attack" (anyone who thinks this way needs help) but nobody learns a thing.

Constructive dialogue is key. We all fall into the trap of engaging in less-than-constructive dialogue from time to time. That's OK. Nobody is perfect. Just have to keep trying.
I've never really done anything with VR, but can someone explain why VR seems to so desperately needs a standard/API ?

I've done a bit of OpenGL, and that I can understand needing standardization b/c you're talking to really complicated non-standard hardware and the graphics pipeline is pretty involved. But with VR... aren't you ultimately just outputting 2 warped video streams? I understand you have to talk to the hardware a little bit (to get eye and wand/controller positions) and u need to know lens parameters, but it seems like a very thin wrapper around the graphics API.

Am I missing something?
I hope they'll remove some of the "growth-hacker" stuff from the chrome extension. Modifying the new tab page and injecting links on pages by default is super annoying.
So are these uber guys the kids of Enron guys? The managment style, the flouting of rules and decorum, seems very similar.
It's a security feature, often malware will send encrypted traffic over 443 in an attempt to bypass firewalls. If BlueCoat can't understand the traffic, it drops it as it assumes it's malicious.
I have this sense that home prices all over the US are being artificially inflated. That said, if you figure 4% interest on $1 million, that works out to about $3333 per month. Q: Are there enough people in the Bay Area who are willing to spend ~$3333/month to live in a home currently priced at $1M in order to support that price level? A: Yes, I think so. (Granted, $1M would be quite low for a house near where I live in Mountain View, but maybe the numbers don't seem so crazy?)
Yes, even if you only get 0.3-3% of that 100M exit it's going to completely change the equation if you ever try again. Or just do something else with the rest of your life. Further, if you have another exit of that size again your likely to end up with a much larger chunk of the second company. To the point where it's possible to be better off with 2 x 100M exits than 1 billion dollar exit.
As others have already ventured, it's an artifact of solar's rapid growth. Solar at steady state does not look very labor intensive. (I apologize if you've seen me post the analysis below before; the issue keeps coming up.)

Coal plants, particularly the older ones most at risk of closure in the US, require significantly more labor per MWh generated than cleaner sources.

Here's a recently announced coal plant closure: http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20161001/News05/1610099...

...

the local job options could be pretty limited in far-western Montrose County once two of its major employers close their doors, eliminating what are currently 55 jobs at the plant and 28 at the mine.

...

According to the EIA, the Nucla plant generated 416,150 MWh in 2015 for an annualized average power of 47.5 megawatts: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/plant/527 That's an abysmal productivity per employee (or a fabulous job source, depending on your perspective): 0.86 real annualized megawatts per employee at the plant ; 0.57 megawatts per employee if you include the mining jobs.

A well-sited utility scale solar farm like Desert Sunlight can produce an average annualized power of 147 megawatts with just 15 full time employees, for a ratio of 9.8 megawatts per plant employee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Sunlight_Solar_Farm

https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/news/pressr... ("Expected to create up to... 15 permanent jobs")
Technical publishers tend to be much friendlier to alternatives. I delivered my book in OpenOffice format, generated from DocBook XML (translated from DocBook SGML midway through the writing process), to my publisher, and they were comfortable with it and had versions of their templates and such for it, and that was ~14 years ago. I would hope it has improved even more since then.

And, I'm glad to hear Word has gotten cheaper. Didn't you used to need to buy the whole Office suite to get it, and wasn't it like $250? I genuinely don't know. The last version of Office I bought was much more than a decade ago. Oh, nevermind. I checked. It's sold as a subscription. Costs $99.99/year, so it is much more expensive than it used to be, it's just spread over several years. It used to be reasonable to keep the same Office version for 5+ years.
As someone who has only gotten recruiter spam from LI: Was it worth sifting through all the spam? I've personally never known anyone who has gotten a job with them, so from where I sit it seems like a lot of work for no payoff. I'm curious as to your experience, though.
Thought it might be bleak for those who are ill-equipped to deal with the modern types of chaos (eg anxiety and depression). Like someone else said, this could all be a matter of labeling the world as "good" or "bad"; the problem with these labels is that they are rarely self-examined partly because it takes a lot of epistemological thinking and self-awareness to reach that level of meta-cognition.

From your points on conflation, just to clarify, are you saying that meaning does not determine our feelings about the degree of bleakness? Maybe meaning is a multiplier of feelings depending on the direction you are interested in. For non-bleakness, meaningfulness would multiply the amount of enjoyment, and for bleakness, non-meaningfulness would multiply the amount of hatred. Those two assume that state of bleakness is naturally attached with intrinsic feelings.

I wish I've read more about this topic; it is ultra interesting.
All of which I am sure are lovely countries. I have only been to Romania out of that list and I loved my time there. You are free to visit and prefer wherever you want. I prefer spending my time in Hong Kong or Singapore if given the option. I just view the complete halting of tourist markets to a to a country for a political statement because less than 1% have problems with local authorities with what probably amounts to them misspeaking about the nature of their trip (work vs tourist visa debate) and the TSA being the right mixture of incompetent and evil is a bit hyperbolic.