skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was an excellent example precisely because it's so disturbing. It's about as close to objectively true as you can get: "human life is a precious thing" is a value judgment, and you can't logically prove value judgments. It's also a value judgment that virtually everyone would agree with, which illustrates that many things that everybody believes cannot be objectively proven.

Incidentally, you could make a logical argument that the reason everyone believes "human life is a precious thing" is because anyone who doesn't has long since killed themselves or been killed by people who wanted to preserve their precious life, and you can do so without passing any judgment on whether human life is in fact precious. One could easily imagine AI robots, for example, who don't believe that human life is precious because it doesn't matter to them whether we kill each other all off. But this separation between the object level ("here's what I value") and the meta level ("here's why I value it") is fundamental to making logical inferences.
I think it was under a billion. Elon Musk recently estimated that just developing the re-use capability for F9 probably cost about a billion dollars. Not the whole rocket, just the extra cost of development, testing and infrastructure to make it reusable. New Glenn might be able to beat that if it goes directly to reusability, but then again it's a much bigger rocket.
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
Look, until the next Marilyn Manson is driving in ride sharing programs and randomly killing people that were otherwise contributing to society, I'm not going to care and will be perfectly content not caring about the illegitimate dragnet of sex offender status.

I care WAYYYY more about the driver masquerading as a local but doesn't know the roads for my daily commute.

They're going to be replaced by machines waay before a more comprehensive and relevant background check framework is established anyway, so stop trying to marginalize people trying to make a buck.
Yup. I think that as a culture, we need to think more about the risks we take with other people's lives.

I think this is best demonstrated by the minimum liability insurance required to operate a car. In California, right now, you can drive a car with only $35K in liability insurance... which is crazy. Sure, that will cover most cars, but it won't even cover a moderate injury. Very few people have the assets required to pay for a serious injury, and therefore, the victim is usually under-compensated.

Right now, cars are essentially being subsidized by the people who are getting hurt who get under compensated, because few people have enough liability insurance (or assets) to cover the cost of really hurting someone. If the injuries per mile were better factored into the cost of driving (which could be done by increasing the liability insurance minimum) driving would be a lot more expensive; quite possibly, once you factor in injuries, other, safer forms of transport would start looking practical.
They'd certainly be served better with fewer (at least not ~90%) old "management"-looking people on their webcasts, which could've looked like they were made in the last five years (and less misleading people with talk of "hundreds of satellites" that in reality, IIRC, weigh just about the conventional PSLV cargo capacity[0]).

The reason I'm not very gung-ho right now is because there is, just maybe, a future in which ISRO isn't just "one of the space agencies that have made it into orbit", but as important to the future of space as NASA was a decade or two earlier, and getting there involves not just doing good work, but being ambitious at the scale of SpaceX and such. ISRO is being funded well right now, but if they can't "make it" in the next decade, with NASA in a slightly precarious position and private companies with no history of going into space doing all manner of remarkable things, they are going to miss this shot, and that can be dangerous in a political climate where the "can such a poor country really afford to go into space" types might drown out more reasonable people and shutter things for good. I'm enthusiastic about ISRO being able to compete on price -- and it looks like they can go much further, considering that their labor costs are far less than they are for a private American space company, who I doubt can afford not to pay typical SF-style salaries to their engineers and designers.

Good promotional material attracts talent: I seem to remember someone from SpaceX saying "our webcasts are actually recruitment propaganda", and, well, they work! Maybe the first step towards making young engineers want to work at ISRO is to not, e.g. name the Mars mission, of all things, "Mars Vehicle" in Hindi?

[0]: Around 1.5 tons, and, no, I'm not discounting the challenges of actually releasing that many microsatellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSLV-C28
Great documentation
Props for the Eminem reference. I didn't see that coming AT ALL and I laughed for a good couple minutes.
I also tried to make an editor 5 years ago, because I was not satisfied by either notepad++ or sublime text. I was checking out notepad++'s code, and I was quite amazed by the fact that making a text editor was not some simple task.

The syntax highlighting functionality alone is a combination of something as complex as what a compiler/parser does, and you have to do it almost in real time.

So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task...

Also something you learn about text editors is the rope data structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
Funny enough, the only way I found info on this now was to go back through the wayback machine to find old versions of archive.org...

Here's a page with some tantalizing information, but I'm gathering from the lack of current info that maybe this access is a thing of the past:

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20060209225202/http://www.a...

Clicking through to an item on the sidebar, it's clear these were actual UNIX logins made available to researchers with approved projects:

"Research.archive.org houses the personal files of the users on the system. Each user has access to the directory /home/<login> for file storage. Since research.archive.org is NFS mounted on all of the hosts, a user's home directory <blah blah blah>...

...Individual hosts can be accessed using the remote shell (rsh) UNIX command. The hosts in the cluster have an auto-authenticating script, so the secure shell (ssh) command is unnecessary. Access to the hosts is limited depending on the type of user account that is held. User accounts directly on research.archive.org have access to..."
I have things in open browser tabs (Safari and Firefox on multiple computers), Safari Bookmarks/Reading List, Hacker News favorites/upvotes, pinboard.in, Digg Reader favorite/saved, Reddit saved/upvoted, Github watched/starred and plenty of others that I am forgetting.

As you can see, I have absolutely no discipline at all. A lot of these topics are obscure and not easily googleable and I waste a lot of time trying to find things.

It would be nice to have an aggregator for all of my saved content.
Descendants of the first space farers will probably make up the majority of the genetic pool that goes on to dominate the galaxy. Ah well at least we got nature and stuff down here, for now at least. :/

Slightly extrapolating of course.
Never used powershell, is it really that hard to create an alias in powershell? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24914589/how-to-create-pe...
The people who are behind this effort are not doing this for "shits and giggles". In fact, these "wealthy joyriders" have specified exactly why they are doing it. Our future is uncertain. Visionary people spend their resources in a manner that brings about change that others later take for granted. For humans to survive far into the future it is necessary to become a multi-planetary species. For that to happen, it not only requires international cooperation amongst different nations but also individuals like Musk and Bezos, who have dreamt of these things since they were kids, and are now willing to allocate their substantial resources towards commercial endeavors that eventually bring about that reality.

When you have billions of dollars, there are many ways you can choose to spend your money. Some choose to use it on fleeting pleasures, but luckily humanity has others who have decided to use those resources in a systematic way that would help the greatest number of people possible, those like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. We need those people. And we also need people who are willing to indulge the wildest fantasies of the human imagination in a completely reasonable way, like Musk and Bezos, who are thinking far ahead (and Bezos is the ultimate long term thinker), and realize that they now have the ability to bring about the innovation and lay out the first steps of commercial space exploration, which is necessary if the light of human consciousness is to see all the wonder the universe and the future has to offer.

Potentially, thousands of years from now there will be hundreds of billions of people populating multiple star systems. Their existence will be due to the efforts of people who are spending substantial amounts of money to make space travel feasible today, despite how unrealistic it seems to most of us.
I rarely drive, but a lot of my colleagues did exactly what you describe. It's most definitely unsettling, and thankfully that's one particular behavior I've barely seen since the ride sharing services came on the scene.
it's very likely to penalize high performers by redistributing their wealth to low performers

Seems to me that the problem here is that company isn't able to convince the low performers that they are low performing. If the high performers are paid more due to some objective metric, the low performers should be able to see their own path to higher performance. If not, then it's the company's problem for having a pay scale that rewards negotiating skills or nepotism over objective performance evaluations.
I actually took exception on the red light example. Of course, it's conventional that the red light means "stop"; but it's a measurable fact that the convention exists. And those who tell you that red means stop don't mean it as a universal rule- they'd be be perfectly fine if there were a country where red and green meaning are inverted.

Whereas value of human life? As a prescriptive norm, it is certainly enforced in many countries. But as a universal truth? Poorly defined, highly questionable, totally subjective.
By "local" manufacturing I was referring to manufacturing plants on Mars itself to support other initiatives on Mars, in response to a comment comparing manufacturing on Mars to on earth.

Raw materials transport seems the major constraining factor. Assuming some types of raw materials will be available on Mars, there's a high chance local Mars manufacturing of some basic goods will be more cost effective than manufacturing on Earth and transporting it.
You know Marilyn Manson is a rock musician and not a spree killer right?

Edit: also what you describe has happened: https://www.google.com/amp/www.gq.com/story/the-uber-killer/...
Reminds me of the time when failing mattress companies had a dail-up ISP vertical.
Is there something similar which also creates email adresses and stores the generated profiles in a database in order to retrieve them again later? May be even have the ability to store associated passwords?
you can start by looking for "warren abstract machine" (usually shortened as WAM). It's an intermediate format for compiling prolog programs (sets of Horn clauses, that is, rules). It makes every operation very explicit, including unification (to match the current goal against each rule's conclusion) and backtracking (to enumerate solutions; this involves stacks, unsurprisingly). I think most state of the art prolog implementations are then able to compile this format to native code. Of course prolog also requires that the runtime has a GC (to collect dead terms) and that it can dynamically add/remove rules, use reflection to observe the shape of a term, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSB is an implementation to which Warren contributes, with additional features such as tabling (a powerful form of memoization that avoids many infinite recursions).
Actually by 8.1 people that don't have the bugdet to buy iPhones and disliked Android where buying Windows Phones, up to the point they almost managed 10% world wide.

But then came the Windows Phone 10 reboot, with the promise that all 8.1 devices would get an WP 10 update, promise that they eventually broke by allowing only premium devices to get it.

So no, WP wasn't doomed if Microsoft managed to keep the roadmap steady, instead of rebooting left and right.

On the other hand, they seem to be having some luck with hybrid laptops/tablets. Something that most Android devices still do very poorly.
React animation 101: CSS transitions
I don't know. We tried looking for alternatives when we were a bit down in the gutter with our Jenkins setup, but were even more disappointed with the other options.

Instead, we now use Jenkinsfiles everywhere, or pipeline scripts where we have scheduled stuff. That's working well enough so far for our small team.

The things Jenkins provides can be difficult to find elsewhere. For example, we spin up an EC2 slave for most builds, but sometimes need to then take the result and deploy it from another (static) node because of network restrictions. Stuff like git access, the credential store, moving stuff between nodes just works everywhere.
Translation: I don't want to do it for the reasons given, therefore nobody could possibly want to do it for the reasons given, therefore they are lying.
Ask HN: Where can I learn more about behavioral biometrics and blockchains?
And from an industrial point of view it is not like there are hidden mysteries in the close proximity of earth. And the industrial applications (mining mostly) are unlikely to be economical with rockets. We would need a much more economical way to lift heavy material. So I am not sure what entrepeneurs Bezos is referring to.

I totally get the personal excitment. And with a few dozen millions dollars in my pocket I would totally invest into something fun even if uneconomical.
This is excellent. Having a lot of fun going through it. Always wanted to start writing some C.
(sorry, i also said "to other parties". You can subpoena non-parties as well, as the advisory committee comments explain)
The punchline immediately follows:

> Lots of useful and totally true facts about the world are socially constructed.

It's obviously not the only accepted position in ethics, but saying that moral rules don't follow from logic or some metaphysical fact is not saying that there is no moral.
Lying cunt put tens if not hundreds of thousands of people's lives at risk - skin her alive and feed her bony ass to the hogs.
Activist shareholder wants Dental Management Company to break the law
> at which point Bezos believes the population of the earth will be in the tens or hundreds of billion

where do you see this mentioned?

I think it's generally agreed earth population will never get to hundreds of billion, the demographic trend is to get to around ~10B and stop there (kids per family decrease as living conditions improve, and they are at ~2 in most of the world bar africa)

EDIT: AIU it, Bezos just thinks we will have laws set up to avoid destroying our environment, hence forbidding things like heavy industry on earth.
On Ubuntu, say isn't available by default, but I think `espeak` is, and it works mostly the same. At least, it's always been there on my Ubuntu systems, but I may have installed it manually and then forgot about it :)
I knew I wanted to become a programmer after being a temp nobody working at a tech company and shooting the shit with the smoking programmers who were relegated to the garden outside to smoke at the top of every other hour. I learned more from the programmers who worked on the floor above me than I did from my own coworkers and the salesbros across the room. I was able to get months of conversation in and learn about programming's ins and outs. Smoking has a lot of upside for me, at the least, in the form of a social tool. But there may be other better ways to facilitate that. Smoking as a social facilitator goes back thousands of years. I think the advent of puritanism has demonized it because of health concerns. But who cares, really? We're all heading to the grave anyway. May as well facilitate it with a buzz no different than a cup of coffee. Swedes have Fika, why can't we have our smoking circle?
It was not common crawl. I applied for access at one time. I ended up dropping the ball because I got distracted by other projects, and never got approved.

As far as any relation to common crawl, I imagine there are good reasons on both sides, pro and con, for them possibly to have donated some data to common crawl maybe, but that's just speculation. My guess is they've got too much on their plate to swing yet another project like that.

You could try reaching out.. maybe they have a quiet research program still. Or maybe for donors, if that's an option.
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You only say that because SCO lost a lawsuit. UNIX was a closed source proprietary OS.
And why developer would in an ecosystem of mostly free app?

This is a ton of added complexity to developers without any real return but for ubuntu.

And ties programs to ubuntu flavored linux, unless obe is willing to do even more work for free.
I would like to see what happens when you connect a million people wearing eeg caps to a network....see if it can find the sixth sense.....universal conscious frequency. (then sell it to the AI community)
To be fair, there is one thing that .deb is better at than .rpm: support for optional/recommended dependencies.
>"I mean to imply that it was a waste - they created a bunch of controversy, and for what? If they were not committed to Unity for the long-haul, they should never had made the switch away from Gnome in the first place."

So in general if someone recognises they've made a mistake, they should continue on making that same mistake regardless?

>"In the intervening years since 2010, a ton of people have come to use Unity and gotten used to it instead of Gnome, and now Canonical is pulling the rug out from under those people. This whiplash, knee-jerk approach is just a horrible way to treat your users and is very disappointing."

If enough people want it, Unity can continue to exist as a community-led project, just like how GNOME 2 got saved by MATE.
I also found it extremely disturbing. If you are interested in a much deeper exploration of this, you might be interested in the book Sapiens, especially the part on human rights.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ICN066A/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
That doesn't really help me though does it? "get-help Get-ChildItem" isn't any better. "get-help Get-ChildItem -examples" is a bit better, "get-help Get-ChildItem -detailed" is what I'm after, why on earth doesn't "man ls" map to that? It's the same story with sort.

Know how am I supposed to know what type ls returns and what properties are available? For that matter, how am I supposed to know what type of object I'm dealing with? Time isn't displayed by the command and is different to LastWriteTime, how do I discover that it's a property?

So far in this ultra simple example powershell is looking over complicated and under featured.
Apart from GTK3.
Lighten (mind mapping app) launches its MacOS version
Lighten is an Apple based mind mapping app. You can create and edit a mind map instantly on you iPhone/iPad. Now with its MacOS version, you could combine your mobile mind mapping experience with your desktop Mac. Lighten & Lighten for Mac has been featured by the Apple Store globally.

Lighten for mac: http://www.xmind.net/go/appstore/lighten_mac/?ct=hackernews

Lighten:
http://www.xmind.net/go/appstore/lighten_ios/?ct=hackernews
Does this mean that ALB/ELB supports SNI now? Or they only allow you to do this with subdomains under a wildcard cert?
At age 9, Abraham Lincoln's father left for half a year. Abraham had to take care of his sister, hunt for food with a rifle, and chop wood to stay warm. This was in a 1-room house with no running water, no electricity, a dirt floor, and no privacy.

He turned out OK with that parenting, even elected president. Modern social services would have put him in a foster home.
Pretty sure a D9 bulldozer is bigger than a human, and an A380 and a tunnel boring machine and a steam engine and a crane, and the truck that picks up my rubish and....
Robocode back in the day was fun.

You have programmable tanks that had could move, scan with a radar and shoot. You had to create the behavior for them in Java.
The Apple warranty is with Apple itself (and the authorized repairshops).
The EU warranty (2 years minimum, varies throughout countries) is with the seller of the device.

I once had a defective SSD in a macbook air out of the 1 year apple warranty period and in the 2 year EU mandated period. Bought on the Apple online shop. There were warnings on the website that it might end up costing money and it really seemed like apple was disliking the EU mandated warranty. I was sent that evening to an authorized repair shop. There they told me that the repair will take longer (up to a week) as the device does not have the 1 year warranty anymore and needs to get cleared by Apple to get repaired. On the next morning at around 8 AM I got a call that I can pick my device up.
A self-driving car, as proposed by Waymo and many others, in no way relies just on GPS. These beasts have fusion of many sensors with built in redundancy.

Technology improves and evolves. If it didn't you wouldn't be so reliant on Google Maps. We convince people of progress by a safe track record. Google maps may fail occasionally but more often than not it gets you to your destination at the estimated time.

Yes self-driving cars can't be "more often than not" safe. But starting with smaller areas and showing the difference it makes on people's lives and the environment can be a good start.
Using machine learning for insurance pricing optimization
Post-enlightenment philosophy holds that these are two different domains [1], and conflating them is a category error. You believe we're agglomerations of atoms because the experimental evidence makes this the most likely explanation.
You believe that human agglomerations are equally precious because you believe that human agglomerations are equally precious; no reason is needed, and indeed, no reason can logically be given.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact%E2%80%93value_distinction
You can auto-hide the taskbar, and switch to "menus in the windows" in the settings (I mean the UI, not some obscure terminal thing).

My mother in law managed to find that option on her own, I'm sure you can as well :)
I think this is really exciting news Oliver.

Will there be an employment link up between Voyager and the self-driving car nanodegree? And do you think it's likely that other spin offs will occur from Udacity related to other courses?

I work in higher education and I'm incredibly grateful for how Udacity are opening the eyes of my more traditional colleagues as to how learning can be different, relevant and exciting.

Thanks and Good luck.
Do you have a build script (makefile or something else)? IE, can you perform a build from you're machine?
Make sure not to link to what you're talking about!
Or in academia.
There are plenty of arguments that are more valid than these claims that smoking is part of a fulfilling life and riding in a car is not.