skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definition of an object sound more like and agent http://robotics.stanford.edu/~shoham/www%20papers/AgentOrien... [PDF]
This is part of why I'm very excited for VR. Our system of navigating the web as pages on screens is incredibly limited. Once we can navigate content in space (think video games – you could still drop me anywhere in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and I'd be able to navigate to any other point on the map from memory), we'll open up all sorts of interesting new possibilities.
> Meh, that's a bit like arguing over "I could care less" vs "I couldn't care less"

Obviously an aside, but...

While the former quite possibly arose as a corruption of the latter, I like to interpret it as "I could care less [but only if I really tried]".
This is why even at my normal 9-6 type job, I always go out to eat for lunch. I always feel more refreshed and energized after I spend an hour away from my tasks.
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There's the loci method for memorization:

The method of loci (loci being Latin for "places") is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualizations with the use of spatial memory, familiar information about one's environment, to quickly and efficiently recall information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, or mind palace technique. Many memory contest champions claim to use this technique to recall faces, digits, and lists of words. These champions' successes have little to do with brain structure or intelligence, but more to do with using spatial memory and the use of the method of loci.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

Correlations have been found between memory and the playing of 3D video games, which also utilize our spatial memory. (Though wandering around in a video game is probably a subpar surrogate for doing the same thing in meatspace.)

https://news.uci.edu/faculty/playing-3-d-video-games-can-boo...

I also recommend this BBC video of a persistence hunter tracking and running down a Kudu, just as an illustration of how walking/running, language/tracking, spatial memory, and planning/creativity are all tied together as a system that was once necessary for our survival:

https://youtu.be/826HMLoiE_o
>FB is a positive force in the world do they?

Thats how I keep up with my extended family 1000 miles away. I do think it's a positive force in the world.
You can build a very nice and compact machine with a relatively small footprint using off-the-shelf components:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2016/12/17/1840

...integrated graphics are plenty good enough for a lot of use cases, but you're right in assuming the graphics card would need to change. Current GPUs require a lot of extra power and cooling that requires a (mini-)tower form factor...
For people wed to commercial design apps, I can totally understand the draw of running macOS on commodity hardware. But as someone who skews more to the hacker end of the spectrum and doesn't depend on commercial software, the day-to-day qualitative experience of Linux is head and shoulders above macOS these days. Ditto OpenBSD, etc. I'll never go back.

At least it does if you've already come around to using a desktop formfactor. For me I get lots of physical RAM (R / Pandas) a mechanical keyboard, and one of those straight-out-of-the-90s Logitech marble mouses that you'll pry from my cold dead fingers. Hardware support in Linux/*BSD for any Intel graphics based system is a total non-issue.
Yea, with a 0.001 BTC (~$1.42) minimum, this 100x100 pixel pilot could generate $14,200 if all pixels are colored and no pixels are contested. If it scales, in both pixels and interest, a decent amount of donations could be generated.

That said, cryptocurrency is much more niche than, say, an open-access canvas requiring only a Reddit account.
I worked there for years. Your "friend" is wrong. The way they make money is rather transparently described in their quarterly filings with the SEC. Since they're a public company.

Actually, I'm not sure what your "friend" is accusing them of doing, so it's a hard claim to rebut. It's embarrassing that a vague hearsay accusation (of...what, exactly?) is considered worthy of attention here.
Understanding how we're connecting human brains to machines
Try a kick-boxing class. Noting like getting some good cardio and gaining strength while taking out your frustration on a punching pad/bag :)
"The Handmaid’s Tale is the most horrific thing I have ever seen" - Someone who's never seen Threads.
>>every Intel platform with AMT, ISM, and SBT from Nehalem in 2008 to Kaby Lake in 2017 has a remotely exploitable security hole in the ME (Management Engine) not CPU firmware.

>>there is literally no Intel box made in the last 9+ years that isn’t at risk

>>SemiAccurate has been begging Intel to fix this issue for literally years

Am I the only one who is so cynical to think it must have been deliberate? Intel dragging their feet for YEARS -- what could justify such a delay? The paranoid side of me asks "Were they waiting to patch this hole, until they found a different one that could be utilized?"
Which begs the next quesion: Where is the NSA in all of this? It's the sort of thing that would be mighty handy to a group wishing to snoop on everyone and everything?

Last question: Why would anyone trust the encrypted management engine after this? (Why would anyone trust it before?)

>> What about embedded devices that are increasingly PC based? Digital signage perhaps? Industrial controls. HVAC. Security systems. Flight controls. Air traffic controls. Medical devices.

What, indeed? Is this the method used to interfere with Iran's nuclear program centrifuges?
> the only difference is that your compiler cannot tell you that you are doing it wrong while a strict interface can be checked at compile time

In most compiled languages with closures, the parameters are type-checked. In some, the return type is also type checked, but there are typically ways to add type checking to the return type if that's important.
And still the geographer that wrote the article has the temerity to suggest that the pattern was obvious in a simple plot of the data.
I don't socialize online at all as it would quickly feel like a burden to me.

I don't work freelance or have any income at all, but I'm very low maintenance as I don't eat much and don't like material possessions. All I own is a few computers and a toothbrush, but I don't have any debt either. I think it would be impossible to make my life more minimalistic than it is now.

Once a month I do my laundry and all other time is spent at the computers. I work on a project for some months, delete it after completion and start over with a new project.

I think my parents has gotten ‎acclimated to it as the change was gradually over a long time and not from one day to another.
Agreed. I think it could be a great way to raise money for some kind of cause though.
Yes, to keep the position secret in theory. Though I bet Russian and Chinese space surveillance radars will pick up it's orbit the first time it passes over their territory and amateurs will find out where it is eventually too.
I enjoyed watching Blue Origin's landing as well (https://youtu.be/9pillaOxGCo) and from their video it looks like engine restart is at five thousand feet with full burn at one thousand. Do we have similar numbers for Space X?

I am curious what threshold differences there are between teams, both are doing amazing work.

btw, this portion of the return where they did the entry level was most impressive for space x (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzQpkQ1etdA&t=1145s)
How are you calculating that?
Have you tried a standing desk?

I am short, and my arms don't seem long... but I've had shoulder pain and arm pain. Things that have helped:

1. Staying warm! Air conditioning is your enemy.

2. Standing desk. Make sure you have separate levels for monitor and keyboard, so you can put keyboard at exactly right height. Also get a good mat, or your feet and back will hurt.

Long version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/18/rsi-solution/
I'm curious if you've looked at some of your predecessors(?):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(social_network)

Edit: Aslo, why not just piggy back on GNUSocial/status/pumpio/etc.? Having a node that can be federated if/when the owner (i.e. you) wants to seems more scalable.
Theoretically yes a lot closer but solving the problem of small/medium businesses paying freelancers/contractors on time isn't a simple problem.
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NRO-39's patch (the one in the wiki article) caused a small controversy - the tentacles enveloping the world seemed like pretty poor taste in light of Snowden. They probably decided that their PR team needed to see them first from then on.
I think confusion arises when people hear 'measurement' and jump to thinking "wait, what's so special about measurement? Would the world not exist if we weren't there to measure it?" This is due to an imprecise understanding of measurement, and should be corrected by pointing out all particle interactions are measurements. Our classical world exists without superposition because there are enough particles interacting with each other that everything is constantly being measured.
> It's odd how this is portrayed as a negative aspect of Japan's militarism, when the Allies were fighting the same war with the same attitude.

That's not the point, obviously. The point is Japan's militarism combined with their utter over-the-top brutality and expansionist agenda.
>but sorry I am not going to spend $113/season to watch on MLB TV

I can't argue with the amount you're willing to pay, but I can offer that I think $113/season (or about $18/month) is an absolute steal.

They aren't squeezing all the pennies from me they could be.
It'd be interesting to figure out how Yelp generates the negative reviews. I'd love to see somebody setup a "honeypot" business - fake, doesn't exist in real life (well, physically/location wise)... and then sign up with Yelp and then cancel. Do that with a good 10-100 fake businesses, and could you drum up a case against Yelp?
It's certainly possible the urea helps. I know that Cody from Cody's Lab used urine to get nitrates when he made black powder. He did, however, let the urine sit, to allow bacteria to break it down.
Because the cost for supporting random hardware will probably run to more than they make from running such a program.

Not to mention Apple doesn't seem to care about the developer and/or professional consumer anymore.
The 'hardened' kernel he mentioned has recently (~40 hours) appeared in the Arch repos:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/linux-ha...

Not a replacement but at least an alternative.
A non-bachelor's education program seems like a great way to help. Many people attend university without a specific goal because they believe it's required in order to get a decent job. They believe that because for the most part, it's true. But perhaps employers just use it as a simple signal/shibboleth. If so, maybe "tech trade school graduate" would be just as good and hopefully more cost effective.
Absolutely. I have a 2008 Mac Pro and it is still going strong, an absolute workhorse of a machine with 4 hard drives; incredibly reliable. At least, it was incredibly reliable with Snow Leopard, but MacOS X has been a bit downhill from there as far as reliability of the audio subsystem. The only real downsides to this machine have been that it is loud, which is problematic when using it for recording. But I would happily buy a modernized version of the same machine, and I'd be _especially_ happy to do so if it was much quieter.

If Apple offered me a dead-silent Mac Mini, even one with not much CPU capability, I would use it for tracking -- that is, right in the room where I'm recording. Also for Skype stuff for podcast recording, and streaming; probably two of them. These machines don't need to have a lot of CPU to record; they only have to do a modest amount of live audio processing. They don't have to run dozens to hundreds of instances of plug-ins like when I'm mixing.

Then the Mac Pro can go in the room where I'm mixing and mastering. So quiet is important but dead silence in the Pro is not really a requirement for me.
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I do not want to be too snarky, but your comment highlights the mindset that is criticised here (the lack of ethics among engineers in SV).

a ton of companies, even many startups here on HN, generate revenue from ads

'The rest does it as well, so it can't be wrong.'

There's no social network lockin for gmail as a webmail client

Except if you want to use a competing service or run your own mail server. Then you cannot deliver to Google Mail, you cannot find out why Google Mail does not accept your mail, you cannot contact Google to whitelist you. Moreover, as a non-Google Mail user I cannot opt out of my mail being scanned for advertising purposes. And no, I cannot just avoid sending to Google Mail addresses, some people forward their e-mail to Google Mail.

Google [...] easy to ignore.

The parent asks what it feels like to use your intellectual capacity to build an advertising machine that in the end aims to know as much as possible about every person with an internet connection. Your answer is, 'look here, perks'? Really?!?

I mean, questions like 'What if we ever got a dictator? He/she would have a field day with all the data that we are collecting.' or 'Isn't my company stepping over the bounds what is permitted by privacy laws to gain more ad profit?' must cross the minds of a Google engineer sometimes, I hope? And doesn't it feel bad to be complicit of constructing what is one of the largest spying machines?
Because they're sports players, first and foremost, and people aren't watching ESPN for evaluation of role model behavior? Scrutinizing the behavior of celebrities outside of their work is more along the style of gossip channels like E!.
Living with the internet has made rational people less tolerant of ignorance, as the real answers are certainly out there to dispute dubious claims.

However, the internet has also provided enclaves for those who wish to embrace ignorance with solidarity.

The big question: are we as a species and a civilization moving forwards, or backwards?
The lesson is, with no secret sauce, you're competing against everyone else with a home equity loan and some desire.

Any secret sauce would have helped. Not literally caramel flavoring syrup but anything at all that makes the business special or unique. Fund all your capex off kickstarter. Hybrid model "hacking" the local zoning codes by putting software devs in the back room and having meetings with amazing coffee in the front. Offer non-traditional food, maybe coffee and gyros or coffee and bbq. Organic and healthy is massively oversold, how about molecular gastronomy coffee that tastes like watermelons or stinky cheese, or is florescent orange. A lot of cash based local retail is only in business long term because of money laundering, you can't compete with a guy stuffing $25K/month of weed growing cash into his register when you're not growing $25K/month of weed, so I'm not saying you have to do something illegal, but if the numbers don't work out if you do everything legally, that's because the successful competition is doing it illegally, so you'd be a fool to compete solely legally, and in some cities that means you simply cannot compete in cash based walk in retail unless you're willing to grow weed on the side, find another city, find another market, learn some gardening skills, but if your competitor has an extra $10K of cash revenue that you don't, you can forget about it.

A job looking fun cool and trendy means you'll have the local divorced dentist or ER doctor funding it as a hobby to be cool and meet people. Again you can't compete unless you have a similar funding source. You can't sell coffee if a local NBA player thinks financing his mom's coffee shop or antique store or froyo shop would be oh so trendy and cool. Very few NFL players or CEOs think that their wives should operate a septic tank pumping business as want-raprenuers to keep them out of trouble, therefore you can make great piles of money going into exactly that kind of work.

"We're gonna be just like everyone else" is in good times and bad, and the bad times are really, really bad and business lifespan is extremely short, so with a strategy like that, they're doomed like every other cookie cutter that fails.
"New collar" is marginally skilled people who can fulfill a set of tasks without a lot of upward mobility. Support techs, call centers, etc. Employees get a job that pays better than fast food, employers get disposable employees who don't voluntarily churn.

Basically the next generation of mainframe operators, except with public funding of their vocational training.
Not quite the same thing, but related and IMO just as cool: human echolocation.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-human-echol...
NSA Director sounds like a more fitting position.
Ask HN: (Kubernetes) Jessie Frazelle context for emotional outburst
Source: https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/859029259586867200

What's going on? Another harassment?
That's true, and often a well-designed object needs setters, but I think what the parent is getting at is using objects to model dumb data instead of behavior encapsulating state. If an object has getters and setters for all its members, then it isn't really an object. It's a degenerate object that is equivalent to naked data. Not much changes if it has only getters: then it's just immutable naked data.

(Which I think is a good thing, and I hate it when people make blanket assumptions otherwise! And I hate it when languages like Java make it awkward to express dumb immutable data. I think the pieces in a program that are best modeled as "behavior" and "state" is a subset, usually a proper one, often a small one, of the data and functionality that needs to be modeled in a nontrivial program. Often there's a lot of data in a program that is most clearly modeled as dumb data, or at least as transparent data packaged together with some common operations. "Behavior" and "state" is mental overhead that only pays for itself when you have to express a certain amount of complexity. That's why it's so important for a language to let you start in one style, with plain transparent data (and lots of immutability), and switch to encapsulated behavior when you discover that part of the code is complex enough to benefit from it. Otherwise you pay a high mental cost to future-proofing every piece of data with getters and setters and private data when it's possible that only a small portion of your code will ever benefit from it.)
My ignorance is showing, but what product lines are impacted?

Obviously things like Xeons and Core iXs, but what about things like Atom processors in tablets?
I don't work at either company but I MUST disagree.

I can't imagine something that has had the positive impact on my education and entertainment like google.

Take youtube alone- if google did nothing else, they've enabled a infinite compendium of how-tos on almost every topic imaginable to everyone on the planet, free of charge.

That is _amazing_.
Can you run OS X on it?
You are correct. And that's the beauty of Riot's distribution. They do not lock you into a single platform. I'm not very familiar with traditional sports, but it seems most broadcasts have very limited viewing options.
Another possibility: walking is a means of seeding your brain's RNG with new entropy. That would explain why some sedentary activities (like driving to work or fiddling with a toy) can help you think too.
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And the other alternative, because an object still usually needs some type of values would be:

class Foo
{
Foo(string bar) { _bar = bar; } //Foo is the constructor
}

The benefit being that once an object is created, it is guaranteed to be in a valid state.

But by classical OO an object represents state + behavior. So why not do both?

Assign the value in the constructor to guarantee that the object is always in a valid state and use a property (if the object is an entity as opposed to a value object), when it needs to change?
I disagree. Encapsulation is the only universal property of object oriented abstraction (see Will Cook's papers on OO vs ADTs).

Identity is merely a property of some objects, not all objects.
Hypothesis 1: Schroedinger's cat is either alive, or dead, but not both. We will not know what the outcome is, until we take a look inside.

Hypothesis 2: Schroedinger's cat is simultaneously both alive and dead. Our taking a look will "collapse the wave function" which could then result in the cat dying.

Is there any concrete evidence to believe in hypothesis 2 over hypothesis 1? If not, I'd rather go with the hypothesis that doesn't sound absurd.
Thanks for your responses. I'm not often moved to make long comments but this "tablet computer" and the apparatus that was necessary to create it really hit me hard for some reason. So real.
> Maybe because in programming there, often, isn't a clear right or wrong (like in this case) so it pays to structure the problem/solution as a story to make people "feel" rather than reason.

This is pretty close to my thoughts. Though I would add that engineering often lets you solve a problem in several ways. In that way, there's no one "right answer". The exercise, instead, is to consider trade-offs. Koans (1) draw a bright line under the tension between competing but valid ideas.

(1) OK. Non-ironic koans. I consider the git koans to be mostly about poking fun at git's inconsistent porcelain.
It's not just design, there's also a heavy reliance on Mac only (or at least Mac and Windows only) pro video and audio programs. I will say though, I've always loved running Linux on desktops where this isn't the use case.
From a consumer standpoint, I stopped using Yelp when I left a 3-star review (neither good or bad) and it was flagged as "fake". I was so puzzled, i contacted support. They still refused to publish it. I figured the business owner must be an advertiser.

I use TripAdvisor exclusively for restaurant reviews now. Even local ones.
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I was going to mention taking a shower too.

In my opinion, it's not necessarily about getting blood moving. It's rather about relaxed (a.k.a. diffused[0]) thinking. Let it be driving a car on the highway, taking a shower or spending time in green spaces - both make our thoughts roam freely, thus, more creatively.

For me, the more important question is: why & how our thoughts start to wander around when we are doing such activities mentioned above. Is this default mode of human nature? How does our brain extracts "creative things" that we are never aware of in diffuse mode & where they come from?

[0] https://abraininitiative.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/focused-vs...
My friend has a retail business in New York, he had the same experience, he cancelled his advertising contract and immediately most of the positive reviews became hidden and negatives were pouring in and his average rating dropped from 5 to 2 stars in a matter of couple weeks
Is this to say that `attr_accessor` is too "heavy handed" when just using `attr_reader` could have sufficed?
The post appears to claim that literally everything is affected, albeit probably only locally exploitable. I think that's what it means at least.