skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Trump supporters are actually behind this. It's one of those things he never campaigned on but we're going to get anyway. Plus, it's congress that pushed it. Presumably, if it's unpopular enough he could veto it.

And the reason ISP is much worse is your ISP is your gateway to the internet. Everything you do can be tracked and it's directly tied to your personal identity. You can't avoid being tracked by it by using a different site. Want a list of cat owners in San Fransico? Comcast has that list and they'll sell it to you, names, addresses, etc. How about a list of people who have googled 'given medical condition' in the tri-state area? How about a list of names and addresses of people who are interested in gay sex in Utah? How about who have visited Ashley Madison in Washington, DC?
I think for a young late 20s, early 30s professional with disposable income, maybe a baby on the way, it's really a no-brainer deciding between a 3-series, C-class, Volvo, vs a Model 3.

And if you can only afford a Camry/Altima/Jetta/etc. a 5-10K increase in price for a much better (perceived) product is also a no-brainer. People will def max out their credit to get the upgrade to a Tesla.

The above, doubly-so for Chinese consumers.

Model T :: iPod --> Model 3 :: iPhone
The entire Brexit fiasco is a colossal balls up, and I genuinely hope that they can secede from the UK and re-join the EU.

It's even more telling when the politician who spearheaded this ill-fated campaign is wanting to immigrate from the UK if Brexit goes ahead.
For sale: Your private browsing history
Got it. Red does manage memory for you, but no GC yet so can't do long-running procs without care. I've written small Red apps that used 800MB, loading a large dataset. Totally stable but, again, maybe wait for GC if you're going to grind a lot.

Red's complete toolchain, compiler, linker, etc. are bootstrapped entirely in Rebol2. Red is more capable than R2 (though alpha, with features pending), so it's safe to expect that it can handle more than simple cases. In fact, one of the reasons Red 1 was implemented in R2 was to prove that Red would be able to self host. It's possible most of the current toolchain would even work at 1.0, but the team has learned a lot while building this version, and has said on many occasions that Red 2 will only keep the best bits.

All that said, even if you never use it in production, it's a great language to play with and expand your thinking, because it's so different.
Why don't articles like this ever link to the votes so you can actually look up how your rep voted (mine? Party line, no surprise)? Took me a few minutes to find it.
> It seems that China workers can make Macbooks and iPhones with high precision and low tolerances

thought I read it somewhere that china is literally the only country in the world right now that can do that at scale and change specs as rapidly as apple wants them to.
Congress just killed your Internet privacy protections
Does this even help? Are DNS requests encrypted? I had thought that they were not.
There is plenty of room in the future economy for more knowledge workers...

Maybe not. About half of new US college graduates take jobs that don't require a college degree.

We may need fewer "knowledge workers" as AI picks up. We need far fewer paper-pushers and middle managers than were needed in the 1970s. Sales once seemed safe, but consider Amazon and Esurance. That's what the decline of the middle class is all about.
Conquered lands are not exactly partnerships.
Amazon affiliate links. (Yeah, yeah, I need to diversify. Ain't easy making opportunities.) It works well if your site is designed to improve the shopping experience.
Before getting all spun up, I'd dig a little deeper on the issue than what the WaPo does in this piece.

These regulations were only voted on late in 2016 and never went into effect. To do the regulations, the FCC reclassified the internet as basically ye olde telephone system, which then made it subject to their purview based on laws created in the 1930s. This is classic overreach. Congress never gave this authority to the FCC and is acting to put them back in line with the law.

It's pathetic the the WaPo used their platform to create more heat than light on this, by selective quoting. Here's a more full quote from Rep Blackburn that explains her position more fully.

“The FCC already has the ability to oversee privacy with broadband providers,” Blackburn explained. “That is done primarily through Section 222 of the Communications Act, and additional authority is granted through Sections 201 and 202. Now, what they did was to go outside of their bounds and expand that. They did a swipe at the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC. They have traditionally been our nation’s primary privacy regulator, and they have done a very good job of it.”

The lesson here really is that if the issue is really important, then get an actual law passed instead of trying to contort regulatory authority based on laws from the 1930s. The previous president could certainly have done this, but chose not to.
While Twilio and Amazon Connect have some integrations it does not appear that Connect is built on top of Twilio. The Amazon FAQs says that all telephony services are charged separately by "AMCS LLC" which I'm guessing is a telco they've set up to do this at the lowest possible margins. If they went through someone else their pricing would be higher.
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iOS 10 supports the iPhone 5 which was released September 21, 2012 or about 4 1/2 years ago. If you're getting 4.5 years out of your iPhone, that's great. Unnecessary but great.
Ed Logg's plan form for Atari Asteroids
China's not really all that prosperous by developed-world standards, though, it's just huge. It's like 20% of US prosperity levels, and far more unequal.
"The U.K. government repeated May’s mantra that now is the time to pull together rather than take separate paths."

Can't make this up.
> An equivalent would be...California wanting to leave...because it always votes Democrat

Between 1/3 and 2/5 of Californians voted for the Republican Presidential candidate the the elections since 2000 [1]. (California's electoral votes went to the Republican candidate as recently as 1980, 1984 and 1988.)

California also has a deep history of racism, xenophobia and conservative policy, both through its legislature and referendums [2]

[1] http://www.270towin.com/states/California

[2] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-immigration-...
Creating Tension in Your Startup's Marketing Positioning
When I first read this, my head saw "Fifty Cent"...

And I thought "A _rapper_ has just bought $1.7billion worth of Tesla shares???" and was all ready to make "Has Tesla already become the Cristal Champagne of car brands?" gags...

Still, half a billion return in two weeks on a 1.7 billion play is pretty nice money...
>Man, what happened to the people that created the British Empire?

They died, and their racist, slavemaking, mass-murdering Imperial ideals died with them, and good riddance to all of it.
Call your Rep's office, and tell them (politely) that, because of votes like this, you will be voting for whomever challenges them in the next election, unless you see your Rep's vote record improve drastically and align with your interests. And then follow through on that.
Yuval Noah Harari had interesting things to say about nationalism versus globalism.

http://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_nationalism_vs_gl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari
I was especially responding to this part.

This (intuitively) makes more sense to me than saying "information traveled" and "action at a distance"

You can not get away from non-locality in quantum mechanics. Because the outcome is only determined when a measurement is performed, this »information« has to travel to the entangled partner when the measurement is made. And this must happen instantaneously. In the classical example you can avoid this because the outcome is already determined during the setup.

I said that "there could be several different degrees of freedom to measure on" I meant this to exactly correspond to "the exact outcome is only established when one looks in the first box".

This are three different things. You can of course decide to measure the spin along any axis you like, that is you can choose the observable. When you do this, then you are not measuring different degrees of freedom, you are measuring the same degree of freedom, the spin, in different bases. But, and that is what I meant, even if you always measure the spin along the same axis, say along the positive x axis, then the spin of an electron in a superposition of spin either +1 or -1 along this axis is only determined at the time of the measurement. Before that measurement the electron had no definite spin along this axis.
Facebook to start testing GIFs in comments
> Do you think conservatives view NYT/CNN bias as "truth telling" or "propaganda"?

What on earth do their views have to do with reality?
People who don't get hired need an excuse for why they didn't, because they are unable to blame themselves. But most of the time it is solely because they were not fit for the job in the first place, whether it be knowledge, personality or experience. It also forwards the agenda of splitting and dividing the people, literally divide and conquer tactics.
Inside Marriott's social-media command center
I have no context on this... What were those regulations? The whole argument against this was that ISPs would be able to sell our private browsing history. Anyone know if they can really do that now?
Not a generator per se but a lure. It is a cycle where one feeds the other. People made great things and they needed talent. Talent goes there to hopefully be great those who came before. Repeat ad nauseam.
Has anyone tried building something like this, but doing the analysis locally and just pulling from a documentation repository like Dash? I don't like the idea of uploading my code to their server, or using a proprietary tool, but I really want documentation lookups in my editor.
Because it's while it has been happening and even accelerating for the last century(and longer), it is only now hitting a threshold/momentum in the past few years. We are now standing at a precipice of a substantial amount of people being automated with unlikelihood of them going somewhere else. Although predictions are unreliable, there is strong evidence that there isn't just going to be "more jobs somewhere else", like has happened in the past when things were automated or optimized (e.g. farming)

UBI discussions and increasing proponents are an outcome of this, not the other way around.
The polls have actually shown a significant decline in the pro-independence vote (apart from a single outlier) since Brexit. And if the pro-independence side had won the country would currently be out of Europe.
Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history
That's kind of how my old MSX was, essentially a MS Basic shell that you could program on. If you wanted to run a compiled program (a game, who are we kidding?), you used Basic to bootstrap the load and replace itself with whatever the tape had. Good times.
Mathematicians assuming P!=NP.
Night Shift compared to f.lux
Because he's literally describing committing assault. Also, this is what happened:

Trump, unprompted: I like to grab women by the pussy!

Women: So yeah, Trump grabbed me by the pussy.

Trump & conservatives: Bitches be lyin'
Well, it's debatable. It was memory safety in the sense that they were using a buffer to manually manage memory and then messing up there. Languages like Rust won't save you from that, yes, but it is still at a basic level the same kind of bug. The question is if someone writing the program in Rust or Go or w/e would have used such a custom-allocator approach. It's unlikely, but such an approach is unlikely in C too, so it's not very clear-cut :)

(but my general point was about sandstorm not fixing all the problems, just a subset -- not about whether other languages fix all those problems)
A few posters on the thread [1] for the Senate version's passing have noted [2][3][4] that this is the case, but those points appeared largely lost in the discussion to follow. To quote the comment at [2]:

"This undoes the 73-page publication published on 2016-12-02 by the FCC, most of which took effect 2017-01-03, some parts later on 2017-03-02, both after the election and one of them after the inauguration."

Meanwhile, [4] says:

"This pending rule change is not in effect at all yet; it was only put through 3 weeks after the 2016 election and wouldn't have taken effect until next December."

Not sure if it's [2] or [4] that's wrong about the dates of taking effect, but it's clear that the FCC rule was enacted very late.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942345
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943942
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943458
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13944790
Also note that there are some language features which are surprisingly syntactic - which are well within the scope of Reason : For example, some basic facilities for export/import as well as async transformations. These are all being discussed/proposed in the Reason channel, and they can be implemented in an opinionated syntax without needing to fragment the OCaml ecosystem - providing full interop between existing OCaml packages / tools. Once/if a build system is standardized in the OCaml community, there are even more interesting features and tools that can be built, and can be given first class syntactic treatment from within Reason.
There are no Scots sitting in Parliament? There have never been any Scottish kings that ruled the British isles?
I know that CA has voted Republican in the past. But right now it doesn't. I'll change the post to make that clear.
That's fine. I am aware that properly configured VPNs are DPI resistant.

I am also aware that they aren't foolproof.
Ask HN: What software can I use, that runs on Mac, to write a book?
I'm writing a book on basic monitoring for DevOps engineers, just for fun really and something for my CV. BookPrintingUK will print from a PDF, I'm aware I could use MarkDown, and I could use LeanPub - but I want a physical book.

Can anyone recommend some software they've used to write a book?
Actually, the barrier to entry to build a car isn't that high - it only appears that way.

Most of the parts - if not all - are available. All one really needs is the knowledge (internet), the tools ($$$), and the space ($$$$) to build.

I have a friend whose father is in his 70s, who builds custom VW vehicles; one of his last vehicles used a shortened chassis and the cab from an old electric truck (might've been a Cushman). He finished that one, and is moving on to another.

Plenty of people fabricate rally cars and sand rails using tubular steel and fairly simple tools (tube bender, a notcher, mig welder, grinder, plasma cutter or torch, etc). In many cases one can do this all in their garage (but it is better to have a more dedicated space). Engines tend toward the VW end of things, but nothing says you have to use such an engine; there are plenty of new and used engines and sub-frames to work from.

I've considered building something similar to this flatpack truck:

http://oxgvt.com/the-ox-all-terrain-vehicle/

I figure that the parts from an old VW Vanagon could provide most of it; that or use some front-wheel drive vehicle, then build the cab-over part.

The only real compromise on all of this would be the safety aspect; pretty much any home-brew vehicle is going to be a likely death trap in a real accident, but that is outside the argument of being able build one. There's also the issue of registration and insurance, but this too can be overcome (at least here in the United States - other countries may be more or less lenient/easy to do this).

The information is out there to build a vehicle, and fairly cheap too. You just have to be willing to get your hands dirty (and suffer some injuries - it seems any kind of automotive work requires a blood sacrifice, not unlike PC repair).
Most of the US will kill just to have a choice of which ISP they use though.
An industrial design friend of mine and I started https://enstaved.com after I had a really positive reaction to the Pythonic Staff of Enlightenment (https://jimter.net/pythonic-staff/) at PyCon AU 2016 (more than one person asked me "where can I buy one?").

We've just started selling customised modular staves to people who use them as props, novelties or promo items. We've become good at 3D printing via much learning at our makerspace (http://sparkcc.org) and so with a couple of printers we can basically run our own small-scale manufacturing business.

Currently we just take orders via email and word of mouth but we're building a website that allows people to customise their own staff (like in a video game).
Fifty Cent got a minority stake in Glaceau instead of a payment for endorsing their Vitamin Water. When Glaceau sold to Coca-Cola, that equity was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million.
Using Optane Memory Like a Hyperscaler
The question you're asking your grandma isn't the issue they're concerned about. The quesiton they're asking themselves is if I go against my party, how is this going to affect my re-election. That's why we have party line votes like this. They don't give two shits about the people they're representing, they only care about maintaining office.
This is probably the only good answer in here. Also maybe java.
Abstract link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1028
I'm not arguing that all bad decisions should be outlawed, so I don't exactly see the relevance.
Hey really great comment that's worth taking seriously!
Bitcoin Helps People Circumvent Economic Sanctions in Iran
If you don't have SNI, then the server's IP address is going to be tied to a specific domain name anyway (unless you do a shared certificate like CloudFlare does, which now makes actual data more vulnerable). A government or telecom company is definitely going to have precisely zero trouble linking IP addresses to domain names absent SNI.
Why not just `#define never (;0;)`? It even looks like an alien emoticon.
From Hunter S. Thompson's obituary for Nixon:

"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful."

I don't necessarily disagree with you (or agree with Thompson), but I always liked that quote.

I do think "Objective Journalism" is a hard line to toe, and I don't think the NY Times does the worst job with it. Sure, the paper is clearly anti-Trump. My perspective is that this is only really a problem if they fabricate evidence. As long as they're presenting the world as they see it, it's hard to complain.

I'd apply that equally to right wing publications.
Pup inflation: A statistical analysis of WeRateDogs
because he's worried about losing incognito mode?
Right, because clearly adding some annotations (which is similar in effort to writing test cases) is a non-starter while rewriting hundreds of millions of lines of code in new, immature languages is going to solve the problem faster. And that nonexistent-in-practice approach is commonly used in safety critical software.
Dries is a cop? Chain of custody is a law enforcement problem not a normal person problem.
I created ruby gem knapsack to speed up testing and I built a Pro version which is SaaS https://knapsackpro.com

I definitely learned a lot during last year while emailing with people interested in the product. Thanks to that I improved my tool iteratively while the early adopters discovered new areas or edge cases about testing I didn't even think about.

This week I published success story about running tests across 100 parallel CI nodes with my tool:
http://docs.knapsackpro.com/2017/auto-balancing-7-hours-test...
Political freedom has often been the primary motivation for groups of people to emigrate. Hypothetical sea-steading aside, moving somewhere with no existing political system in place is not possible on Earth. Wealthy patrons might sponsor the pioneers. This was how much of early New England was settled by Europeans.
Thanks for pointing this out gonzo, when I checked out injection molded plastics and assembly in the Austin, TX area, I saw no reason to head overseas. I went into this thinking China would likely be my only affordable option but I was pleasantly surprised at how things balanced out in the end.
It's problematic that the "experts in AGI" are generally self-designated, and have mostly produced little that is concrete, either in the form of theory or engineering. We should be concerned about long-term outcomes of technological progress, but I'm not convinced the current conversation centering on the term "AGI" is productive.
> The Network of Women Students Australia has its impressively long list that includes classism, corpses, skulls or skeletons, drug use or talk of drugs (legal, illegal or psychiatric), eye contact (scopophobia), food, gore, insects, medical procedures, mental illness, Nazi paraphernalia, needles, panic attacks, pregnancy, slimy things, snakes, spiders, trichitillomania, trypophobia, vomit, warfare and weapons.

So, they're going to ban eye contact, spiders, slimy paraphernalia, classism, pregnancy, and needles from the university?
What would make you think that 4.5 years of service of an electronic device is unnecessary? I have multiple devices that old or older and I hope very much that they will last way longer.
#KillaBite; a challenge to avoid eating processed snacks at work
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>That's odd - didn't the fact that this measure passed 69-59 imply that there is political consent?

Not really. The polls show that there is no public appetite for a second referendum, especially one before the terms of Brexit are known. It's an opportunistic move by the Scottish National Party that seems likely to fail.
European Patent Office to Grant UC a Broad Patent on CRISPR-Cas9
You can't just say the regulations are old and therefore invalid because they're old.

Remember, the telephone industry was regulated because telephone companies merged and cooperated to create regional monopolies and destroy competition, all at the expense of consumers. Comcast, Time Warner and the like have all been doing the same.
Tesla registers domain names for UAW Union fight
Freedom Affairs
> The British have always been rather keen on giving people the "right to vote" when it is best for them

Brexit was a massive miscalculation by Westminster [1].

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/tory-fury-as-davi...
I don't think it was conquest. King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne in 1606. Then, in 1707, after the ruinous failure of the Darien scheme bankrupted Scotland, both political establishments supported the act of Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707#Scottish_pe...
Make it a mark of shame that does real damage to their reelection campaign.
Right. The point is that soon they'll need a whole lot more of them, and first party repair centers as well. "Sorry, we have trouble with quality control at 3rd party shops" isn't going to cut it for a mass market car.

Re: Ford and Delorean, this is not the hill I want to die on. But what I mean is that the batteries, charging stations, etc, all live or die with the cars. If they can successfully create a mass market for consumer EVs, sky's the limit. If not, you can see a future where Detroit eats their lunch and the Model S is a footnote.