skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marginal unit cost of production moving closer to zero, the sharing economy, AI replacing human labor, descentralized crypto-currencies, universal minimun income, autonomous transportation, clean energy, space travel.

Fresco was right on the mark.

RIP wise man.
A Networked World (2015)
Yes, I definitely did.
This was internal tactical and polling information.
I'm just interested in his story, man. I really don't want to argue about this.
Not only that, all those magical solutions are doing is solving the easy part of development, which is laying down the widget-based layout. The actual hard parts (different behavior based on context such as viewport size/orientation, actual UI business logic) are an afterthought.

Impressive work, yet misguided in many ways in my opinion.
I remember speaking with Jacque in Miami at one of his lectures. He was a very honest and sincere man (but not to the point of trying to demean you to get his point across).

He will be missed.

Roxanne Meadows penned a lovely open letter concerning this: https://www.thevenusproject.com/

Their vision and ideology is an interesting one, but may take a few hundred years before viable for implementation. Too many growing pains still involved in earth culture.
Well you're trying to mix up two different function signatures...

# Sets the MYVAR variable in the cache
set(MYVAR 1234 CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
# Sets MYVAR in the scope above the current level
set(MYVAR 1234 PARENT_SCOPE

Though cmake is definitely not a "pretty" language... Don't get me started about lists.
I've had the misfortune of listening to Fresco on a podcast, and he came right out and stated that

1. Humans don't have a capacity for reason

2. If reason existed it couldn't lead to any truth

3. That people only find scientific discoveries via chance

So I wouldn't expect him to be dissuaded by a rational argument.

He also believes in the blank slate theory, so not exactly up to date in the science world.
I think a better way to phrase it would be "stop teaching C to people who think they're learning C++". I completely agree that doing even just a couple of weeks of plain C is an incredibly useful endeavour, but I saw the "C with classes" idiom a few too many times back when I was still doing C++.
Ask HN: Are IP addresses behind Cloudflare really hidden?
If I host a site behind Cloudflare, when I check the dns records, they point to IP addresses owned by Cloudflare i.e not where the servers are hosted.

Since Cloudflare is just a reverse proxy, an attacker could ddos my site if he knows my real IP. Is this something to be worried about or is my IP safe?
There are studies that show a sub-recreational dose is beneficial for depression and for chronic headaches. I haven't met a person yet that suffers from chronic headaches that is adverse to trying a low dosage.
They are, however I'm not sure the machinery of a coroutine will translate well to C. Gor does a pretty good breakdown of what's actually happening in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C8NnE1Dg4A which I would suggest watching.

Not sure it can't be done, but it would require a good design. Personally I think that a libdispatch approach works better for C, particularly with the blocks extension.
Not really.

At the moment, there are only two kinds of employees at Facebook. Those who care and are getting irritated each time these issues are raised on HN (see here [1]), and the dregs who bury their heads in the sand. I bet there is someone who works there who is reading this and realizing that either they will have to change their attitude, or soon the company will turn into another Enron. We don't still have Enron in our midst anymore, do we?

Once one company goes down, it is only a matter of time before the rest fall in a domino sequence because people will start wondering about the practices of its peers. I would like to think that these companies are a little more sensible than to imagine they are somehow infallible, its better for them to change now before it gets to the point where they are made to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13869759
Firefox got rid of the always ask option in version 44.
Raspberry Pi at heart of global computing skills plan
All sorts of people do, since Mozilla's financials are publicly available. See the audited statement at the end of https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2015/
it was no longer a level playing field. I never expected that the DNC was full of angels but I also expect that the GOP is also hiding some dark secrets.
Having a geopolitical adversary strategically hack political parties in order to change the outcome of an election to suit their interests is a HUGE problem. By selectively disclosing information a hostile nation can change the political landscape in the target nation to weaken alliances, change security posture, change positions on treaties, and/or create general dysfunction.

This is not a case where the public is getting information about everyone, it's a case where an adversary is attempting to illegally manipulate public opinion to our detriment. The goal and the result is not the public making the most informed decision, it's the public making a decision based on incomplete information specifically disseminated to help a foreign agenda.

This can only be described as an attack on our democracy.
> And gains of up to 19 centimetres for Dutch men and women.

I am a 6' Netherlander (among the shortest men in my family). I just traveled to Shanghai and met a lot of very short Chinese people - but I was surprised to see that there seemed to be a small population of some young men who were as tall or taller than me.

When I asked about these tall Chinese of a native, she explained that they were from northern China, and that they have a harsher climate and eat more fish and protein than locals. Many of the locals grew up subsistence farming under Mao, mostly eating rice, and she explained that the weak nutrition of the resulting diet resulted in less growth.

This is, of course, anecdotal. But in comparison to Dutch height gain, I haven't heard of a similar change in Dutch nutrition or health, at least not relative to peer countries.
Job solicitations are probably better suited for the monthly "whoishiring" threads. They are automatically posted 11AM Eastern time the first weekday of each month. The next one will be Thursday, June 1.
This is also good advice and a good book.

What I add to this aspect of innovation is a differentiation between standardizable work and original work. OP's approach to creating systems are different for each.

The other thing I define is the roles in innovation; creatives, systematics, and bureaucrats. The problem I see with OP is that creatives usually cannot implement the systemization that is required for the "franchise prototypes", let alone manage the system.
I had to convert units to miles per hour to get a handle on the situation. For others in my boat:

You're going 80-93 mph in the center lane, and the unsafe driver impeding you is going 80 mph. In order to overtake this erratic driver, you need to move to the left lane and accelerate to 93-110 mph. The trouble is, on the Autobahn, drivers in the left lane are usually traveling at speeds of 110-137 mph, and often times even higher, up to 200 mph.

With those numbers in mind, I can entirely see your point. Early morning traffic in Dallas flows at 80-85 mph in the left lane. People don't always treat the left lane as a "fast lane" or a "passing lane." Some people cruise at 50 mph without a care for the speed of traffic around them. In order to merged into traffic in the middle lane while rapidly approaching the dangerously slow car in front of me, I sometimes have to accelerate to 90-100 mph.

I was reading a traffic study that showed that the single factor that contributes the most to traffic accidents is delta-speed. That is, the |relative speed| of the vehicle in comparison to the average speed of traffic. If traffic is flowing at 75 mph, a car traveling at 85 mph (10 delta) is less dangerous that a car traveling at 50 mph (25 delta). My anecdotal evidence confirms this. Slow drivers are often scared, timid, inexperienced, oblivious, and unpredictable. They'll change lanes without regard for the speed of anyone around them. They cause faster drivers to rapidly change lanes around them. They cause road rage incidents and reckless driving.

Anyway, I went off on a tangent, but I agree with what you're saying.
It's hard to find in the article anything more than what already is on Photorec homesite since a number of years, the "Photorec step by step" page:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

is actually more comprehensive.
This looks cool but I wish it showed examples of different kinds of handwriting being detected.

Cursive?

European numbers vs American numbers (the 1 especially)?

Doctor (or other badly rendered hand writing)?

Seems like this technology isn't really all that useful if it doesn't work on various inputs, especially 'unclean' or 'sloppy' inputs.
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Replied in another comment, but posting here to reply to your comment too.

This is also good advice and a good book.

What I add to this aspect of innovation is a differentiation between standardizable work and original work. OP's approach to creating systems are different for each.

The other thing I define is the roles in innovation; creatives, systematics, and bureaucrats. The problem I see with OP is that creatives usually cannot implement the systemization that is required for the "franchise prototypes", let alone manage the system.
Almost all of the services people actually use Facebook for were things that they paid for in the past. It's certainly harder now that these things are "free", but I think there would be a market for a Facebook clone that said "Hey, just give us $5 a month and we won't sell your data or bombard you with ads".

Let's see, keeping up with your friend? That used to be the telephone, for which people paid by the minute - an hour long call with your friend or family in another state might run $5, every time you wanted to talk to them. Or you could mail a letter. Slower, but still costs money for paper, envelopes and a stamp.

Wanted to share photos? First you had to buy a camera. Then you had to buy film. Then you had to pay to get the photos developed (extra for duplicates). These are clearly things that are (or at least were) worth money to people.

But a stream of random snippets from people you haven't spoken to in 20 years, asinine clickbait, and political rhetoric? Yeah, nobody wants to pay for that.
Bose noise-cancelling headphones. That tuna ventresca packed in olive oil in a jar. One of those two-chamber syrup time toys.
I agree with everything you said but I think you place to much blame on yourself as a hirer. There will also be people who put on a good front but just want to coast once they get in. This is especially true in big companies that are loathe to fire.

I know people say to keep ramping up the testing and difficulties of interviews but we've started to create a culture where all you end up with is people who are good at that, not creating value for the company. I once had to fire someone because they absolutely refused to fill out an annual self review that would have taken 10 minutes. (There were other similar events that lead up to this). Technically they could do the work just fine but didn't want to live in the real world. I had many conversations about attitude and working with the team. I don't know how an interview process would capture this. Incidentally, I see him at local meetups and he recently told me his is thinking about quitting his current job because their office moved 5 miles away and he didn't want another 5 minutes of commuting.
I've met his followers in Berlin once, "naive" - the best word I can find to describe them. In the end, they struggled to answer the core question: "Why would anyone take seriously a man, who can't prove his idea in a lean way?".
Please, build a city where everyone is happy and everything is handled by the machines, show the rest of the world you're right!
Reminds me of wantrepreneurs who can't scrape together 10k to build an MVP for their startup idea. If you can't find money to build a prototype, then no sane investor should trust you.
All your stuff is here, sure. What about your great-grandchildren?
Very well put.

This matches my experience too. I regret buying them.

The series is not for those who were used to, but subsequently lost touch with, c++03 and earlier.

I found it better to learn the modern version by 'porting' earlier C++ code to use modern idioms.
I agree that humans and internet access are suboptimal. I'd just like to point out that there are beaches without humans or internet access.
He always reminded me of fellow utopian Paolo Soleri (who died in 2013) -- even though their ideas were impractical (at least in the short term), we really need dreamers like them to make people question whether current society is really as good as we can hope for.
Boston Marathon: you can qualify by time or by raising money for a charity.

Qualifying by time is out of reach for most recreational runners, and there are only a few thousand charity spots, so people regularly raise 5 figures in order to run.

http://www.baa.org/utilities/charities/official-charity-prog...
I do wonder how much of that is the browser's fault, and how much is because of website developers not understanding that we have a website obesity problem[0], nor the concept of "optimizing for fan noise"[1].

I'm fairly conscientious about this myself since I'm working on plotting data, and the dumb client-side number crunching involved is actually pretty good at eating CPU cycles.

Most plotting libraries want to show off how smooth and incredible their animations are. What I really want to know however is: does your library keep updating the canvas at 60FPS, or does it only refresh when the data does and idle otherwise?

[0] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/61.html
Gp's claim does not imply teleology of any kind; it's entirely plausible in terms of increasingly larger animals being selected for their hability to communicate over increasingly larger distances. Finding mates in a larger volume of ocean comes to mind.
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My first job as an intern, I was afraid and shy and just complete garbage, but the people I worked with were strict yet forgiving. My second internship, I had no clue what I was doing, and probably did not deserve to stay there, but my boss/mentor was a jerk (something I realized later on) and I was fired/laid off.

That termination taught me a lesson to:
* Only bite what I can chew.

* If I am not confident in doing the job, I should not take it.

*If I can chew very little, then I focus on expanding to take on more.

True Entrepreneurial Spirit followed.
It is perfectly reasonable and avoids mistakes. It's better to have a module that's unused than to break your whole build.

If you want to try something install it and then remove it. That's the more conscious decision. I don't want to have to remember to save the module if I end up liking it, but I will remember to remove it when tearing it down from the codebase, and if I don't, nothing bad happens.
It is should have been Model E, like it was originally intended.

But I heard that some people didn't like the idea of S/E/X...
I have the impression that everybody uses SMS for authentication. Everyone from Bank of America to Uber to even Whatsapp uses SMS to validate phone numbers or for 2-factor authentication.
> They said it was the Russians trying to get Trump elected. Is that not good enough for you?

Only if it made sense. At nearly every angle you look at, it doesn't.

If the Russians wanted someone they could push around, then Clinton was their candidate. She's the one who signed off on the Uranium deal, and had several large donations she received as SCOTUS from the Russians. John Podesta (her campaign chair) had financial interests in a Kremlin funded company, and was also on several of the corporate the boards of said company.

Compared to Trump (some smoke, no hard evidence, lots of "anonymous sources"), the ties between Clinton and the Russians are way stronger and have far more substance to them. If this is the case, then why would the Russians want someone they know to be a wild card and prone to being impulsive compared to someone they already made deals with, and had far deeper, established relationships with?

If they were going to influence the election and wanted a puppet, it makes 110% more sense to discredit Trump and put Hilary in office.
This hasn't been true since last August when it hit release. Multi-process (which I'm assuming you meant instead of multi-thread) has been enabled by default since January, except in specific cases where it's likely to cause compatibility issues. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule
I have a different take. Never forget that you can get fired but also never forget you can fire!

You can fire jobs.

You can fire friends.

You can fire customers.

Makes life so much easier!
That espionage was a major factor in the soviet bomb program seems uncontroversial. Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project

Richard Rhodes is probably the definitive source for this history in The Making Of The Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun. Both excellent reads.

I don't say this to discount the abilities of the Soviet scientists working on the problem; it's an incredible achievement even with the extra "stolen" knowledge. But keep in mind that the US pursued four totally separate technologies for uranium separation and built massively expensive plants for each because they didn't know which was going to work out. The Soviets benefitted by avoiding a lot of very expensive and time-consuming dead ends.
Firing people is a failure on both parties part. If you're seriously thinking that firing new hires within a week is a good idea, and you're not talking fast food or day labor, you're a menace.

I've had hundreds of employees under my direct or indirect supervision. Other than pre-career fast food type gigs, I've had to fire 2 for cause. Even in the fast food/retail gigs, I think we canned like 5-6, for attendance problems or pilferage... most problem people there came down to needing a frank discussion about showing up on time and could be addressed without termination.

People aren't robots. Your supervisors, managers and leaders need to know how to hire and manage people effectively.
I have a couple of git merge, rebase, mirror cronjobs, which fetch from some crazy svn or mercurial remote, rebase my branches and commit to my GitHub forks, triggering CI and even deploy. Mostly upstream is not able to or too slow catching up with proper dev practices.
I also had a combined openssl/libressl repo, keeping thrm up to date, but the CVS bridge was too unstable.

Git rebases rarely need manual intervention with rerere enabled.

Summary: git bridges
I use SRWare Iron, a privacy aware derivative of Chrome. It's fast, supports the Chrome store, and claims to send less data to Google. In the end though, what does it matter if Google owns the browser? The browser could change to a non-Google product and they will still collect their data on everyone regardless.
“Fairly recently” in this case meaning “within hours of release” – CrowdStrike was already publicly connecting the dots to military intelligence by June 15th:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

A number of people find it easier to act as if this was a big post-election surprise but that's just wishful thinking to avoid having to consider the implications of many people knowing but not caring as long as it got the political outcome they desired or, in the case of the media, accepting responsibility for their coverage decisions.
> If you can't find money to build a prototype, then no sane investor should trust you.

Sounds like a circular argument to me? I would agree with the notion that the ideas seem naïve. But how could grandiose ideas not be that?
ObjC equivalents to Swift solutions #3: Singletons
Thanks for the comment!

The algorithm works on a large variety of handwriting (currently only support English).

It's a NN that was trained on ~100k different handwriting examples, and it's pretty robust to cursive / sloppy handwriting. Haven't tried European vs American numbers yet but I'll definitely give it a try now that you've piqued my curiosity
I never heard of it before, and this about page isn't exactly helping:

https://lineageos.org/about/
> So the GOP is directly admitting

I don't know that I would assign the actions of a GOP consultant to the entire GOP.
All the minivans I looked at had the auto slide doors. I have 4 friends and myself who have experienced catastrophic failures of the auto sliding door mechanism on their minivans. I've always bought used cars and have experienced my share of problems and quirks. Not being able to get in or out (well, my kids not being able to get in or out) without a series of arcane jiggles has been one of the most frustrating.

After that it was only vehicles with hinged doors and 8 passengers so...SUV or commuter van.

edit: also I live in a northern state in the middle of nowhere. 4 wheel drive and high clearance were not insignificant factors for us.
They seem to have sent that to everyone, so there's no targeting, and telemetry won't make a difference.
If you're in New York and would like to get some professional experience with reagent / reframe, shoot me an email at e.smith@soscapital.com. We're looking for a junior developer at the moment.

SOS is an alternative lending startup. We have two main apps under development. Both use Clojure on the backend. One is React/Redux and the other is ReAgent / Reframe.
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No, no concrete evidence was ever presented. The entire premise of this huge ongoing media sensation has still not been proven and begs for quality, in-depth investigative journalism, but only fringe ultra-right or ultra-left media outlets seem to take any interest in this. The likes of New Yorker or NYT Magazine seem utterly uninterested in digging, or readily assume this as a proven fact, for no apparent reason. Except maybe "what's wrong with blindly trusting CIA and NSA to be truthful?"

The closest to an in-depth critical look at the evidence presented by the government I've seen so far is probably this: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/13/did-the-russians-real...
> I've seen several articles about how webpages are bloated, but I don't see any real proposition on how to fix it.

Amp - Google = Fast webpages anyone can host.

Webpages are slow because of either fetch time (which can be addressed by not sending more data than needed) or processing time (which can be addressed by minimizing your time spent in Javascript).

Pure HTML/CSS pages are always going to be fast. Just look at HN for an example. It's when you are asking users to download huge images/movies, or when Javascript is used to do all of the DOM creation and fetching of assets, that things start to slow down.
This is a true loss for the world. Although his revolutionary ideas were IMHO by times a little over the edge, he envisioned and fought for a world without poverty and war, where earth's resources are not being depleted by hunger for money and power; A resource based economy.

Thank you Jaques Fresco for opening my eyes to this and RIP.
Religion wasn't prohibited in Yugoslavia. Islamism and Sharia, sure. That guy was an Islamist.
EVs have boatloads of torque available, so they can generally propel you near the top speed in reasonable time before it plateaus, and more often than not the problem isn't so much on the mechanical power side of things but on the electrical power storage and delivery one (heat, battery wear). So it's entirely unlike a 2CV which can't go fast and can't go halfway near top speed quick because the two values are directly tied to mechanical power delivery. An EV with a 145kph top speed says nigh about its acceleration profile.