skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Robots are easy to demonize in the US

You can't demonize robots, they are non-living. If anyone is being demonized, it will the corporations who are moving from human to automated labor in order to cut costs. If 670,000 manufacturing jobs since 1990 have been shifted from humans to robots, it seems only fair to point that out.

> None of these publications ever run with a solution to the problem.

Probably because it's hard and involves ideas like guaranteed basic income and 'robot taxes' that are very unlikely to be popular in the US due to social attitudes. Perhaps such articles will lead to the change of those attitudes.
ES2018 changes everything
Would be cool to have FFI into JS
I would argue that far from the concept of 'freedom' not meaning anything, it means many things - it's heavily overloaded. For example - I have the freedom to reply to your comment if I choose. The concept of freely choosing to take or not take an action is surely meaningful.

I'll assume that you're not making the statement literally, that 'freedom.... could [not] possibly ever mean anything', and instead ask /which/ meaning of the word 'freedom' do you believe to be an eternally-meaningless self-deception?
yeah sure. the open source services business model has some legs but they aren't that long.

in other words, yes it works, but not that great.
Last year from what I have watched on Dart conference in Munich, Flutter was still very much WIP, not sure how much it has progressed since then.
I was thinking the same thing at least from the point of view of someone who came from a state where the job market has been shrinking or at least not growing in pace with the population. I don't think I knew anyone around my age or a little older who were married where only one spouse was working. It seemed back home almost everyone worked full time if they could and possibly an additional part-time job to cover costs especially if they had children.
I am half joking on that one. But yes, I get the distinct feeling playing outside is becoming increasingly less common.

And when kids do play outside their parents hover over them and they can't explore or take risks.

Speaking purely from the perspective of someone in the US. I know other countries are very different.
Oof, I don't know. I love Lisps, generally, having gotten my start with Scheme back in the day. But that monadic thing just rubs me the wrong way. I don't program Clojure, though, so maybe it's just lack of experience. If they had gone with Rust's Ok/Error rather than Haskell's Left/Right, maybe it would be better to me. (Yes, yes, I know, the monad is more general than that, but if it's used 99% of the time for handling errors, maybe optimize for that use case.)

I program in Elixir now, which I'm totally loving. It's also a "no early return" and "totally immutable" language, so I wonder if any "cross pollination" between the languages is possible. This is how I would code the example given in Elixir:

with {:ok, x} <- foo(),
y when not is_nil(y) <- bar(x),
{:ok, z} <- goo(x, y) do
qux(x, y, z)
IO.puts "it worked"
true
else
{:error, :not_fooable} -> IO.puts("foo failed"); false
{:error, :no_bar} -> IO.puts("bar failed"); false
{:error, :no_goo} -> IO.puts("goo failed"); false
nil -> IO.puts("something (bar?) returned nil"); false
_ -> IO.puts("some other error"); false
end

Elixir's cool "with" / "else" macro is used for chains of calls where the intermediate steps can fail. In fact, it was introduced not too long ago, just to deal with nesting code issues like those raised here!

It relies on elixir/erlang's pattern matching to specify the happy path, extracting out the success responses (e.g. {:ok, x} will match a response of {:ok, 5}, and x will hold the value 5). If any of the happy matches fail, it falls through to the `else` and you can catch any particular failures you want there.

It's a really great system. Someone should try to add it to Clojure! Not sure how well the "pattern matching" aspect of it can work, though.
It depends, likely she would work part-time and we could continue homeschooling. But if she wanted to go FT, then yeah we would need to send the kids to school/daycare.
Same reason a casino won't tell you if they caught the person picking your pocket on camera. You don't want to release where you have your secret security cameras when it will do nothing to help solve the crime.

All releasing the video would do would be attempt to quell the doubts of conspiracy theorists who would immediately claim it was a jet dressed up like a plane or CGI anyhow since they don't want the truth since the truth is generally mundane.
> It's based on the re-use of the same exact techniques, including command-and-control server addresses and encryption keys that have been used in many, many other attacks that align extremely closely with Russian interests.

Is there an official source that actually breaks down the similarities to which attacks? I have my doubts about the attribution of the DNC hack to _state_ agents. The only specific I've read was the Gucifer 2.0 windows language being set to Russian.

Every other attribution has been a "trust us, we've seen this before" but I am very skeptical of intelligence and law enforcement agencies unattributed claims and I think they've earned that distrust.
As incomes rise in the US (mostly in high productivity sectors), child care costs increase even though the productivity of child care stays stagnant. As a result, per dollar spent, the quality of child care has been getting worse. On top of that, the best nannies/day cares/schools are being bided up by more market forces in those sectors. As a result, the point at which increasing family income by a secondary earner is no longer net positive (especially when considering tax implications.. someplace where unpaid household labor majorly wins).

Improved educational attainment may have just made Millennials act more economically 'rational' than their previous versions.
OK, well, this had to be released before or later ;-)

Here you can find a script which automates the connection to bluetooth headphones, executing (in ruby) the steps outlined above, using the bluez commandline tool (including: retry until the connection is established...):

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8f6058df9a879292bc8dbd3aaf...

As usual, you need to give execution permissions, or pass it to the ruby interpreter. It's designed to executed via terminal, call it from GUI has undefined behavior.
The men could just as easily be the one staying home.
Too many then-important people still in power?
Connection method seems an odd choice. In terms of cultural changes, I'd pick from not remembering a time before (1) Amazon/web-selling, (2) laptops over desktops, (3) Google or (4) smartphones.
> Namespaces are really useful, and are probably here to stay. But as long as things can be accessed by names, the access will need to be controlled by something like an ACL.

Not necessarily. If your system supports first-class namespaces, then you can just build a namespace consisting of only the objects to which a program should have access. No need for any further access control.

A file open dialog from a program is simply the program's request for you to map a file into its namespace.
Can Amazon's Alexa Be Your Friend?
Europe has a much stronger culture of respecting part time work than the US.

I was surprised to hear that my parttime friends in Europe had benefits equivalent to their fulltime colleagues.
The majority of people who say "don't feed the trolls" have never been the focus of a trolling campaign, I've found. It is easy to claim this when you aren't under constant violent harassment and scrutiny. It is not fair to expect everyone else to have a "battle-hardened" stoicism when you've probably never experienced such a life.

I've never experienced such harassment myself and used to sing the "ignore" mantra too, until I tried to imagine myself in the shoes of those who receive frequent harassment, and I'm not sure I would be able to ignore at the same level they are expected to.

Also, I'm not sure you are arguing whether a cause of the issue is identity being coupled to your internet presence, but I'm not sure we can go back to the internet of the early 2000's or late 90's, so we need to deal with the world as it exists now instead of thinking appeal to tradition will solve issues we have today.
Conversely, "living where you work" is traditionally associated with human trafficking (what we call it now that it involves Asian and South American victims. In West Virginia we just call it "company towns") for brutally good reasons.

Yet, remote work is not a panacea. I work intensely locally (in a hospital) and also very remotely (in a research collaborative) and the remote work has real challenges.
I'd point out Google Code predated Github and for a while was the cool kid in town. They were late in supporting Git and slow to improve the feature set. Another lead Google threw away.
If you haven't read it, you may find Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism a worthwhile read. She offers a lot of analysis on the rise of a classless society, paired with a deep sort of aimlessness in state leadership.

It doesn't end well.
Some documentation is now available at:

http://www.octaspire.com/dern/

and in

doc/book/Programming_in_Octaspire_Dern.html
How is it in turns of speed?

On one hand, the website says that it's compiled to native code (so it can be same speed/faster than Java), but on the other hand, it's based on a soft-type language, which makes optimization difficult (even with V8, JS is still slower than native code).

Side question:

I understand that Dart was soft-typed because it was supposed to replace/compile to JS, but what advantage does soft-types have against "implied-types" (like auto or go's := ) combined with operator overloading (to allow string+int, for example)?
It's good that Altman recognizes that something needs to be done here. Something does need to happen.

However: Altman is a business owner and an executive. I don't think he can coordinate the solution. The kernel of the issue here is the disengagement rank-and-file employees have from the public policy implications of their work. Employees don't need permission from owners and managers to be accountable for those implications. The widespread, implicit belief among the rank-and-file that they do need permission is the first obstacle that we need to address.

Rather than staging meetings and attempting to help shape the outcome, Altman and other executives should encourage their employees to work amongst themselves. Getting directly involved, however, is problematic, and I think owners and executives should probably avoid doing that.
You're correct - our investment has shifted to Visual Studio Team Services (https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/git/). We use GitHub extensively for our open-source work, and VSTS for private/internal projects.

(Disclaimer: I'm on the PM team for VSTS & CodePlex)
Oh sure - to be clear, the "better insurance to boot" was just my paraphrasing of the author. I fully agree with the idea that it is hard to directly compare whether a particular insurance in 1987 is better or worse than a particular insurance in 2017, for just the reasons you stated.
> MH370

Well played.
This isn't an ideological argument. Cars are safer than bicycles in almost all circumstances. I sweat to the point where I need to shower after getting to work. If I don't shower after I sweat, my hair is a mess and I will have breakouts, despite being a grown man.

I ride my bike to and from work almost every day from April to October, 8 miles each way. I think I have enough experience to say the barriers to cycling more. Perhaps if my ride was 2 or 3 miles I'd probably be able to ride my bike at a leisurely pace, but at that point I could also walk.

I think the argument that you acclimate to the heat is baloney. I play pickup basketball in a gym without AC 5 days a week, and despite that and the bike riding I still sweat a lot. Some people sweat more than others. It is just a thing. There is one guy I play with who literally looks like he stood in the shower ten minutes after we start playing. Other people can play for an hour and look like they just stepped on the court.

Either way, it's still a bit ridiculous to claim that if I really cared I'd ride my bike to work come hell or high water. There have been days when I've been able to drive to work where winds have been high enough to shut down the train lines, and when I'd almost certainly be blown off my bike.
I used to use 2708 and 2716 EPROMS for 6502 embedded controller work in the early 80s. The programmer was just a couple of buffers and a half a dozen discrete components plugged in to an Apple II.

Unfortunately I don't have the circuit but it was a trivial thing to put together and was printed in one of the many hardware magazines of the time, perhaps someone else remembers it.

It should be pretty easy to do now with an Arduino or similar. The only odd thing you need is a relatively high voltage for the actual write (it's a long time ago but I seem to remember 30V).
>Same reason a casino won't tell you if they caught the person picking your pocket on camera. You don't want to release where you have your secret security cameras when it will do nothing to help solve the crime.

I get it, but is it really a national security secret that the pentagon is surrounded by cameras.
HiDPI is still a huge problem in the linux desktop
I can't count the number of hours I've spent researching and fiddling with it.
Wayland is the answer, but it's slow moving, and Sway currently looks terrible when scaling double.
The fun thing is that things like rowhammer can cause errors in unrelated memory.
The conflation of "Obama is a monkey" type comments with people who legitimately dislike the man's policies is not a good faith definition of trolling.
Would you argue that phrack magazine is also not for the "curious programmer" - or would you say that the dividing lines are different now than they used to be?

I wonder because I read a lot of stuff in phrack as a "curious programmer"...
The physical space is a big one, I think. There are many ways a library could be "replaced": Wikipedia, content piracy, cheaper home Internet and so on. But simply having a physical place is something Google cannot give you. That's why library architecture is such a huge part of the literature, I think.

But based on our numbers and the community research we've done over the years, I think it's still physical materials the drive the bus. People like stuff, real stuff.
In 2001 there weren't high-resolution cameras pointed everywhere 24/7 like there are today. Nobody had a camera in their phone, the police didn't have red-light cameras at every intersection, we weren't all terrified of terrorists and school-shooters, and the only place you did expect to be filmed was at a 7-11 convenience store.

EDIT: One thing to ponder is that there are only a couple of videos of the first plane hitting the WTC that morning even though there were millions of witnesses. This is because back then things only got filmed when people were expecting things to happen.
As an American, my perspective is that this right here is why bachelor's degrees are becoming worth less and less.

By your own admission, you've learned little. You've put in just enough effort to pass your classes. You aren't seemingly interested in the field. And you're not motivated to learn more on your own in a field where knowledge is rapidly obsoleted.

The credential of a university degree was previously a signal of having learned about a topic, having worked hard in doing so, having interest in the field, and (at least in this field) being interested and/or capable enough to continue learning as necessary.

If it's no longer a strong indicator of these things, why should employers value it as highly? My own experience mirrors your admission here: fresh university grads frequently lack even the bare minimum ability that would be expected to be productive. Many don't follow this pattern, but they're the exception rather than the rule. And they get hired while the others don't.

It's not the degree that gets you the job, it's the ability. And if you have a degree but little ability, you're not getting the job. The focus on going to university should be about getting the ability, but it's become about getting the credential, even though the credential was never really the valuable part to begin with.

I want to be clear here that there's no judgment on my part of you or your character. You're doing what you think is best and/or necessary in your life and it's not my place to try and find fault with that. I'm only trying to point out that your approach seems symptomatic of a larger problem — and one that I don't have meaningful solutions for. I do worry though that just getting the credential won't be enough to give you the chance of success you're hoping it will, but I wish you luck regardless.
Naw mate, you're not wrong. Look there are heaps of examples of certain kinds of people in Australia being a bit backward? People bang on about wogs, poms, abos and decry political correctness ('gone mad I tell you'). Then you have your polis like Pauline bloody Hanson who appeal to that. There is definitely something there but is it really any worse than say the rural UK or just look at who is running the States now? Probably not. I'd be as worried about a widening class divide in Australia.
There have always been too many questions about the whole thing. There have always been too many questions about every single one of these things:

- No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
- We can't see Bin Laden's Body?
- No evidence that Russia hacked the DNC and a report released by the DNI solely talking about motives displayed on social media?
-A year after Bush Junior is in the presidency we are back in Iraq where his father left off?

To me it's obvious something is up. You can get stuck on various discrepancies in evidence or not. It very well could have been a terrorist attack--that the powers that be were waiting on to counter-punch exactly as they had planned. It doesn't matter. Who actually wants us in the middle east and if we all as citizens wanted to get out, how easy would that actually be, or would the military industrial complex make that something that takes forever to happen. Wasn't Obama meant to have gotten us outa there. It hardly seems so. It seems like we're just using new more focused technology like drones to do the same with less actual boots on the ground.

If you're telling me, you think we belong over there, then you watch too much news by the mainstream media instilling fear in you. How many journalists on CNN are actually wandering around over there compared to how many report it? Exactly, it's a game of telephone with someone triggering the overall direction of their message, based on their own "biases." Perhaps that at their yearly Bilderberg group meetup they agreed to manipulate the public in order to more easily execute their plans of making the Middle East willing client states.
Yea - they probably should be. Discussing the cost of day care with friends it amounts nearly an additional mortgage payment every month.
Based on your extensive experience studying plane-building collisions?
No video would convince the conspiracy theorists. There would just be a fresh round of claims it was Photoshopped or filmed on a set or something.

Now that doesn't adequately explain why they don't go ahead and release it anyways, but it's still worth noting, imo.
One of the reason airliners are so safe is that every single part is tracked for its entire lifetime. There are a metric shitload (technical term) of serial numbers on an airliner identifying all the various parts. Once you have the serial number of a part, it's trivial to link that back to the airplane it was in, since it's all tracked.

For comparison, consider that debris from MH370 was positively linked to the airliner despite the fact that the plane disappeared almost without a trace and only a couple of pieces have washed up on shore: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/world/asia/malaysia-airli...
But very good feedback none the less.
>NASA is going to spend $20B on development before it's first flight

That number (18 billion) includes the Orion flight vehicle and launchpad upgrades. The actual cost to develop is 10 billion. Again SpaceX is the only company that beats that, nobody else comes close. Nobody else could even do this at all, most likely. The SLS missions run from 2018-2030 currently, so development costs are at most 200 million per launch.

>the $500M/launch number doesn't likely include annual operating costs for the massive infrastructure it requires.

...The $500M comes from Bill Hill's 2 billion annual production and operation budget, with four launches a year[1]. He wants to get to 1.5 billion.

>And you assume that NASA, which has never hit it's cost forecast for manned flights,and under-estimates costs as a political necessity, is going to hit those cost levels.

NASA is great about staying on budget. The shuttle is completely different and was a result of military interference. All the mars rovers were on-budget except curiosity, which was 20% over budget not counting delays. If the cost of production and supply rose 20% from 1.5 billion annually, SLS would still be cheaper than the Falcon Heavy.

>And you are quoting launch capacities for the SLS that won't exist until later versions many years later, if they ever exist at sll.

There isn't even another organization on earth, government or otherwise, that has announced any rocket of this size. Not counting the MCT, because it's reliant on tech that also doesn't yet exist. If you are going to count the development costs, you have to count what is actually being developed, not just block 1.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/how-much-will-sls-an...
I guess that's downside of focusing on a single metric for defining success (and the rewards that come with it). Wine ratings, stock prices and standardized tests have the same downsides of driving homogeneity and risk avoidance.
ChromeOS is only a major success in the US schools, I am yet to see someone use it here in Europe.
That said, if someone moves from an older (and therefore cheaper) apartment into one of the new and expensive apartments it frees up some mid&low end housing.
Yes it does, sometimes. But you can configure it as well. I think they used predefined lists of hardware though. EG if name contains tv then scale is 1
Anyone will be able to download a project's archive from the CodePlex Archive site once it launches.