skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often it takes a third party to succinctly describe a software technology.

The website doesn't explain it like this.
The key concepts that generally turn actions from innocuous to culpable here are: intention, and benefit. In particular - malicious intention or ill gotten benefit turn acts into the sort we as a society frown upon and hence attempt to deter with regulatory or criminal sanction.
Homespring (2005)
Jarlstrom isn't being harassed and the woman in Tennessee has not been banned from touching horses.

Exaggeration never, ever makes a legal argument more convincing.
How did you figure that it would be "shut down" and what does this mean in practical terms?
They have a point though, testing patterns are absolutely a real world concern.
lol. Tests can be useful but this sort of polemic is rather symptomatic of the Dunning–Kruger effect, imo.

Have you read any research into test coverage and bug frequency ? From what I have seen it does not have significant impact.

I like tests for lots of things they are useful, but code can be exemplary without them. And enforcing x% coverage before release is ridiculous.
I may be misunderstanding your claim, but otherwise I think the article would actually interest you. Here's a quote from the paper:

"Instead of starting with the hard problem of why an arrangement of particles can feel conscious, we will start with the hard fact that some arrangement of particles (such as your brain) do feel conscious while others (such as your pillow) do not, and ask what properties of the particle arrangement make the difference."

Is that not investigating what makes something conscious (i.e. an observer)?

EDIT: after a bit of reading, this is not intended for non-scientists. The introduction is interesting, but otherwise your time might be better spent reading critiques of this paper instead if you're a newbee like I am. Here's one such critique: http://blog.jessriedel.com/2014/05/13/comments-on-tegmarks-c...
Any idea what the oldest piece of land on earth is that has been continuously dry?
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>Could you explain this?

I'm not intending to say anything particularly deep. If we could exhaustively list the features of a "conscious observer", every feature except for qualia (the qualitative experience) could be cashed out as some kind of information processing (e.g. knowledge of one's own mental states). And so when it comes to explaining consciousness, the difficulty isn't the observer part, but the qualitative experience part.

>In biological terms, fine. In physical terms, impossible.

But if biology is just physics, then it should be possible in principle. We should encourage people to bring their particular expertise to the problem instead of taking our own conceptions so seriously to the point of actively discouraging ideas that don't fit. I'm happy Tegmark seems immune to charges of being a crackpot.
What makes a road a 25mph road? One dangerous enough that people don't feel comfortable driving faster -- how is that a solution?
Limit = 55MPH, existing speed is between 45 and 70 = 25MPH max variance.

Enforce limit, speed is now 45 to 55 = 10MPH max variance, a 60% reduction.

Enforcing limits will reduce variance. Please explain how this is flawed?
> Why not enforce speed limits more frequently so people obey them?

As long as we do it consistently, actually stop people, and do it across the country... which is pretty hard. The are quite a few issues with just extra ticketing because speeding is dangerous.

The worst ideas imo are the automated checks during holidays. So you get caught on a random road, in a place you're never coming back to. You pay the ticket you get a week after the fact, and what changed? You were still speeding during the busy holiday weekend, you'll likely forget about it next year.

Another one is small speeding (5 km/h) fines in residential area. You're constantly changing direction, slowing down and starting again. Would you rather people paid attention to their dashboard to keep the right speed, or actually looked around for people/cars?

As much as people made fun of it, I liked the idea that was used in Poland (maybe still is?) where instead of actual cameras or patrols, a simple plastic shape of a car painted like the police cars was placed near the road. [0] Works great on non local people and sometimes you would get an actual police car behind it to stop people who get used to / ignore that warning.

[0] https://creators-images.vice.com/content-images/contentimage...
What's traffic pumping?
> I don't think the author has bothered to give them a try

The author is Ian Bogost, a veteran game designer, developer, and and critic. Check out his biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost#Bibliography
Are you afraid widespread usage of Toki Pona will lead to a more Orwellian society because you don't trust people to use it in a balanced, nuanced way?

I'm learning it after reading this article for the sake of testing the theory of if it promotes mindfulness. I'm also evaluating it in the context of nonviolent communication to see if it can adequately communicate fundamental human emotions & needs.
> It does have a 5.4 user score on Metacritic

User scores on sites like Metacritic are completely useless in understanding how popular a game is or isn't.
Very click baity headline. Good article none the less.
I've had a Flickr pro account since 2006. I'm not that into photography, I use it as a means to share pictures with extended family around the world. For that purpose it does pretty much everything I need it to, I don't use any of the 'social' aspects of it.
What I do hate is having it tied to a yahoo account which I don't use (other than signing in to flickr) and would rather close, and that downloading a dump of all of my photos for my own backup is not a simple task.
If I could find something that would cost me the same amount (30$USD ish per year) that offered the same level of privacy control I would probably switch.
No hypocrisy there, I would renounce to everything I have ever said shall someone prove me wrong in each one of them; which is something the non-rational punishment executioners we are talking about will never be able to do or claim.

And please don't play dumb, that was suppose to be a poem I wrote when I was a bit drunk, not a final law with no right to be criticized for which to kill those who disagree.

EDIT: No, you changed it, I always meant "religious persons doing God's punishment" like I said in the reply on your first comment.
Is that so?

You could argue living in another country brings the similar benefit.

Though i agree that united states is pretty diverse from schools pov.
"Our analysis finds that AT&T has built its all-fiber network disproportionately in higher income communities. "

This isn't bad. I was thinking of proposing this exact thing for a local, high-speed ISP. I was going to say focus on denser, high-income residential and city just because you recover your costs back faster. On top of that, it's easier to upsell them on high-margin services that increase either profit or growth. The backbones-connected sites where ISP's can get cheaper bandwidth [in long run] are also usually close to such areas since they were similarly targeting profitable regions. Now, I have less data on that last claim to say how often its true or exactly how close customers are. I've just often seen cases where new ISP's might be able to get a quick start targeting the homes or businesses physically close to those sites for cheaper fiber. A bootstrap option.

"However, the copper could be replaced by wireless networks instead of fiber in areas where fiber rollouts aren't cost-effective. AT&T is deploying a 10Mbps fixed wireless service in order to meet its Connect America Fund obligations."

Now, this is a decent idea. NEPA, a small ISP with wireless, was already here showing it can work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13688595
In addition to OpenStax, there are quite a few OER repositories:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://www.ck12.org/
http://www.curriki.org/
http://beyond.psu.edu/bbookx/

More links to other OER sources:
https://www.oercommons.org/
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/textbook-listings/textbo...
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx?subjec...
http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/c.php?g=160393&p=1053364

I also know of at least a dozen absolutely amazing free textbooks published by the authors, sometimes even with .tex sources available on github.

Perhaps it's not a question of availability but of discoverability? Also, it would be nice if teachers could mix content from different sources of OER in order to create custom books.
Nope. Rent-seeking is A Thing but it's far from being the Only Thing as you assert.

I've gotta tell you that concluding your argument with 'Period' makes you sound exactly as convincing as Sean Spicer, ie not at all. Same thing with phrases like 'case closed!' and so on. Solid arguments don't need rhetorical flourishes like this.
So far, my usage never required any of the premium options. And I suppose a corporation can afford to pay those if needed and support the development.
> Almost half of passenger vehicle occupants killed were not wearing seat belts. Research shows almost one in three fatalities involved drunk drivers or speeding. One in 10 fatalities involved distraction.

Someone has a pretty big axe to grind when they have to lump speeders in with drunk drivers in order to get the statistics they need... I suspect that the number is almost the same even if you remove the non-drunk speeders from it. (I'm being a little snotty and disingenuous--I suspect that the issue is that the number of non-drunk, speeding fatalities is almost nil and that drunk and fatality almost always implies speeding as well).

And I still can't believe how many people die because they won't put on a bloody seat belt. Sheesh.

So, what we know is that using electronic devices in cars is more dangerous than speeding. So, we clearly need to remove the cellular towers near highways, right?
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Instead of coding, I am teaching my 15 year old autistic daughter Chinese, because she wanted this instead. It has been a fascinating year long journey thus far.

His addiction sounds like he wants to do better and better each time. Perhaps learning a language and being able to read/write/speak more and more might fit with him.
Day 32: Closed beta isn't working
Disagree completely. Social media is full of people worth being connected to for no other reason than they have connections. The work world is the same. No matter who you are and who you know you have something to share. Connect with people in a meaningful way and you become the maven, the hunted.
And the current economy is credit based and thus consumption oriented, and student debt is a form of credit in fact.
Need a bit of work on mobile, especially the "find how much your car is worth" forms.
Wait. What happened to Jonathan and Leonor? Did thy get married?

(Just as I was getting into the story...poof...ended :-( )
> If people and politicians do want to reduce road speeds to improve safety, or make cities more pedestrian friendly, Megge says “there are a lot of other things you can do from an engineering standpoint.” Cities can reduce the number of lanes, change the parking situation, create wider bike paths, and so on. It’s more expensive, but unlike changing the number on a sign, it’s effective.

This paragraph is really key. You want to design the road and the area around it to encourage an appropriate speed, and then set the speed limit at that speed (which should work out to the 85th percentile of what people would drive anyway). IMO most freeways, at least where I'm from, should have higher speed limits (and are already designed to support them). Some residential streets should probably have lower ones, but would need design changes to encourage people to actually drive at an appropriate speed.
1) If you're going to say that, actually quote what you consider to be evidence, I did read the article.

2) HN guidelines specifically prohibit questioning whether someone read an article.
"Internet access that's only 768Kbps."

The problem is that cell service and sometimes Internet services are becoming close to a necessity for getting jobs or cheap goods. There's a lot of people in rural areas kind of stuck because they don't have such things or have them periodically. I know some. Two of my family members were in that situation with one sort of out of it now. She got a job right after I bought her a single month of phone time. She had to borrow time on our PC and Internet to do all the online applications. All she needed were two things hard to get for the poor.
Based on a job at my workplace that could be available for your students, this is practical:

Make them use a JTAG debugger such as the Ronetix PEEDI. Make them debug timing-sensitive boot code, such as SDRAM detection routines that use GPIO pins to bit-bang SMBus protocol to the SPD EEPROM. Have a hardware watchdog enabled when this code is hit; it should reset the CPU after a few seconds.

Another suggestion is to use the debugger that is included with IDA Pro. Make them connect IDA Pro to a remote system, then debug a kernel driver without source code. The "trace replay" capability may come in handy.
That seems a bit high-ish for that year range but achievable at BigCo (if you negotiate savvy).
It's worth mentioning that libfaketime [1] is a more mature alternative with macOS support and more complete coverage of the relevant system calls. Nothing against the current project but that might be a better choice for many people.

[1] - https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Cassini’s First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones
I've been using Powershell for awhile but I've been trying to learn GO. I've certainly realized my lack of CS fundamentals has made it quite an uphill battle.
Oh yeah, ban me but don't ban the brigading asshole.
Ftp is an old protocol, it was good for it's time but http is just better now.

Even though you can't have anonymous sftp you can have anonymous ftps.
What you propose is taking something that has essentially 0 effect on speed right now. And then doing that thing harder. Furthermore the result of not having an effect on speed but posting an authoritative sign that has little to no reflection of the actual speed has a detrimental effect on safety for pedestrians and non-automotive traffic.

There's a famous saying that goes something like this: "The definition of Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result."

The article is proposing not doing the insane thing and instead doing something that studies show have the actual effect desired.
Something seems way off on those SmartAsset numbers. There is no way you are renting a $600k place in Manhattan or a $195k place in Dallas for only $1000/month.

Ante for renting a standalone place in Manhattan right now is around $2500/month, but I can buy places for as little as $500k (if I don't care about space). Some condos in Manhattan don't even allow rentals.

We just sold our house in Dallas for $220k, and I guarantee we would have been renting it out for a hell of a lot more than $1100/month if it came to that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping
Really interesting analysis, but constraining their keys to 64-bit integers and using 'hash functions' that only accept 64-bit integers as input skews the results away from real-world use cases.

In practice I've found that a variant of Robin Hood hashing with cache-line-sized bins and a hard limit on how deep to search for movable keys when inserting new keys (max of 3 possible bin locations per key, max search depth of 3 moves per insert) gives very good performance even with high load factors.

-Austin, author of MurmurHash
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You clearly aren't a me-too cool kid.

Most tech decisions these days seem to be more about cargo culting than actual suitability for the task.
Consistent enforcement is not hard: photo traffic enforcement devices.
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Or perhaps not removed and fixed instead.
What's the name of the documentary?
Nobody acting in good faith is smart enough to be 100% wrong.
I'm confused as what part of this is peer to peer?
I'm not sure I buy that. The woman then comes to live in a country where she might not speak the language well, definitely doesn't know the culture or have a job or have any friends or know the law, and she's essentially totally dependent on her spouse. I have a foreign wife (not a mail-order bride, to be clear) and I feel like there is a big potential for abuse there. For quite some time I had to handle basically anything official.
Thanks for this link. I really enjoyed how they broke down the concepts.
Unless this vision can be directly disproven, why should anyone attach labels like "grandiose" or "nonsense" or "empty"?
The miss isn't that eBay made money on the transaction in the end.

The miss is that eBay completely failed to secure the IP rights to Skype. Zennström (CEO of Skype) was essentially able to sell his company twice and eBay made less than they would have without the mistake.
Palantir Cofounder Says “Social Justice Warriors” Helped Create Trump
That doesn't sound right.
Having just had our first child, I see a lot of room for improvement.

Identical outcomes is a low bar, in the long-term. So then the question becomes, is the short-term pain worth a much safer future.

One of the interesting things about humans is we're all born preterm, because of our large heads and narrow hips. So you can potentially extended gestation by another term.
The point of the article is that for 85% of the people driving on the road the speed limit most emphatically does not act as a target. If it did then modifying the limit would be a useful knob you could turn. Since it isn't all it does if give the non-automotive traffic a false sense of security regarding how fast traffic might be coming at them.
14 Google Tools You Didn’t Know Existed – Feet Love Socks
You have a constitutional right to face your accuser. Traffic cameras have got to go.
How is this voted to second place on front page? Feels like Reddit where people obviously vote on the headline before reading the article.

A side point form this, it would be interesting if HN/Reddit or other platforms brought in a quality score to peoples upvotes to negate people who do tend to upvote catchy headlines.

That or 287 people other than me found this article interesting and useful...
It's pretty well known that simply building more roads does not fix traffic problems, it basically only generates more traffic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14187783
Perhaps I'm missing something, but that sounds pretty much exactly how Win16 apps worked on 32-bit NT.
> The so called recovery from the Great Recession included the paradox that corporations were recovering and thriving, but individuals didn't feel so. "But we're doing so well!" they say, as they gaze at the ticker. Well, not so much. Look down.

"JPMorgan CEO Dimon says in annual letter that there's 'something wrong' with the US"

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/04/jpmorgan-ceo-dimon-more-busin...

It appears that business and political leaders recognize that a problem exists, but are not willing to concede that the solution might not be beneficial to corporations. Income inequality is not going to be fixed with the rollback of regulations and a reduction in the tax rate.
This season of Silicon Valley is getting good.
The only reason I ever remember preferring FTP over HTTP in the 1990s was because FTP usually meant that I could resume large downloads if my connection dropped mid-download. That was a big deal when it took several hours to download something. That benefit largely disappeared for me as broadband got faster and the connections became more reliable.
This argument is disingenuous.

The same feature is available in any language with a decent FFI (must support loading an arbitrary shared library, marshalling/demarshalling data between languages, and invoking functions in the shared library).

This is possible in Python, Ruby, Java, Racket, Rust, Perl, Go, and plenty of other languages I'm forgetting or haven't used. Yet who would seriously argue that "Python is compatible with Perl" because you can embed libperl in a Python program?

You might as well argue that "Rakudo is compatible with libssl", for all the relationship Rakudo source code has with Perl source code.
I've heard that Adobe's poor software engineering has provided a huge malware/virus vulnerability surface for windows. Maybe MS should force them to break/rewrite.
This is great and all but textbooks for me, while expensive, were nowhere close to my tuition cost. I'd love to see some traction on tuition cost reduction. I know that's trickier but hey, Amdahl's Law.
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Metacademy – Package Manager for Knowledge
What does "small tool" mean here? There seem to be a wide number of different comparisons.
>What is an observer?

There are two issues when it comes to consciousness: the experience and the experiencer. If we conceive of these two concepts as ultimately one in the same problem, then there is no issue with focusing on kinds of processing rather than observers as its ultimately addressing the same issue from a different angle.

If you conceive of these two concepts as separate issues, then your target should be the experience rather than the experiencer. If you consider all the features that make up an experiencer (sans qualitative experience), then these features can be cashed out in terms of information processing. The mystery isn't here, but in the qualitative experience.

>Most of our insights into how human mind works actually describe how a philosophic zombie will work.

Only as far as our descriptions of a brain are "local" in the sense that they don't consider global properties of such an information processing system. That is, we can have a description of a system that makes accurate predictions without making any high level statements about its processing. We can conceivably describe the workings of a biological creature without ever (explicitly) mentioning molecules, proteins, cells, DNA, action potentials, etc. Yet if we concluded from this that biological zombies were conceivable (physical systems that behaved exactly like biological organisms just without cells, proteins, etc), we'd be mistaken. But this is the same kind of leap that we make when take the p-zombie argument seriously.
I wasn't aware Dropbox still offered a free plan?
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No... in addition to being prohibitively expensive, the other model being put forth to make it less expensive, ride-sharing, also has drawbacks which make the idea a non-starter for most Americans.

If ridesharing was awesome, we would see it now with luxury cars. We don't because it is stupid and will not reduce the price of the car dramatically enough to outweigh the negatives.
The court orders them to stop using any code or designs that were touched by former Google employees, AKA all of their code and designs.

They would then have to hire a new team of people who never worked at Google, or with the former Googlers, and do a "clean room" reimplementation of a self driving vehicle, based on publically available materials and tools.