skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes - log/lin is one that I forgot to mention in my original list. It is a HUGE factor.
Easy. It has deeper roots in the internet for me than in insects. You know, multiple definitions.

Cockroach on the other hand is very strongly associated with insects and disgust.

I do think it interferes with adoption. I don't think it'll kill it though.
Aaaand I think this is the first public disclosure of malware using the Intel Management Engine / AMT's network connection (that uses SMBus, i talked about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309557 and gave links to appropriate datasheets). Nice.

AMT/ME being used by malware created by well-resourced adversaries is no surprise, and is why Intel needed to give an irreversible way of completely disabling it.
Ah, auto-play MIDI files!
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It's almost all spin. Enterprises are not adopting Dropbox (or Box) at any real scale because of privacy, security and control of data concerns. It's why you won't see any business that has data compliance requirements (such as banks) listed as a reference customers. The opportunity for large businesses to use Dropbox is very limited.
Technically it should but it's still a pretty niche site, what general populace regard as social media is things like twitter, facebook, youtube and sometimes google+ and reddit, I'm sure there is a couple more. But as a general rule of thumb if it's not owned by a major corporation and doesn't have millions of users no tv channel or newpaper is going to call it social media. So practically speaking it's mainstream websites where people interact, oligopoly so to speak.
Why not both? I'm more productive with a full night's sleep and a cup of coffee than either alone.
Well, you already know that the technique used is called a "force". There's a book that collects 202 versions; probably it's in there somewhere.
Yep. You need a niche. Like yik yak, but not.
> Google sells ads (i.e. sells their customers' data to advertisers).

They sell targeted ads, they do not sell customers' data to advertisers. i.e. Advertisers get to advertise on Google's platforms, but they do not get access to Customer data.
You could be right, but it isn't that far-fetched. Consider:

* A lot of users would be in the pennies-per-month level, charged by standard Amazon usage prices

* Owning your own data is a big deal - it's not uncommon for people to pay for backups, which would essentially be an included service

* It's not unreasonable to imagine a company of Amazon's size and competence doing a very good job of this, and including novel features that FB/IG/etc can't match

* It could also be a loss-leader to get people to own servers for other purposes, e.g. hosting a vanity domain
MIT OCW has been incredible for me as well, but I always get stuck on a concept or wish I was in a structured setting. Any tools or tips that helped you along the way?

I was thinking of starting some live study circles for the next topic.
When I hit a page with these kinds of ads, there's a good chance I will immediately close the tab and never read the content. I hope this shows up in the site metrics.
> On the other hand it is not specifically designed for concurrency, or any industry use, so it is less pragmatic than Erlang or Go.

Can you give clarification? Haskell allows concurrency nearly as easy as Go imo.
Suppose a company invented an aids vaccine, and then charged gay folks and injection drug users 20x, because of hey - those at higher risk are willing to pay more for protection would that be a great thing?

Or let's go back to the Paris example. If everyone is paying the most they can afford, that leaves less money on the table for restaurants, cheese and wine when actually in Paris. It's 'great' if you only look at the market dynamics of flights and ignore the economic/social benefits of cheap travel.
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Hope he makes it at Google with only a pdf where most hold a Phd or at least a double Msc.
Certainly a better way, but my gripe above is not just with volume buttons but with other things such as EQ, panning, time delays and a million other things that audio software can control.

I am guessing that screen UX designers wrestle with the same constraints that physical audio hardware manufacturers to - that of space restriction, and cramming as much as they can into a given space.

Hence I guess why things like recording consoles have a slider for the critical volume adjustments, but rotating knobs for other things like panning, EQ etc. above that.

Volume is one thing I don't mind seeing as a vertical slider, but then would panning be a horizontal slider? I actually prefer a round knob for that because the knob position is a better resemblance of the 360deg sensory perception around my head when setting the stereo space.
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Iowa (my part anyway?) has a hundred feet of clay before reaching rock. We've lost, reportedly, inches of topsoil in the last century. Maybe we have a millennia or two before that's a problem.
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I think that's an excellent way to view that project. Maybe something down the line can use some of Urbit's ideas.
Can we stop ignoring the fact that Quantum gravity exists and works for the most part.

The parts where it doesn't work are extremes like black holes where GR also breaks apart.
Depends on whether you believe healthcare should be treated the same as other products in the marketplace, or if you think they are a public good.
On the other hand, if you're further from the device, it will hear you less loudly, while it should respond more loudly. Maybe it could distinguish speaking softly from speaking far away somehow.
Why does the extension need browser history permissions? I see it states it does not use it, so curious what it's needed for. Cool idea regardless, just curious.
Lol, you can't even ask Siri to play a song on Spotify so you can forget about that. Anyway at that point why do you want to play telephone with chatbots? Just get an android phone.
< What happens if you change phone numbers and it gets recycled? Now a new user installs Lyft and my credit card is already on file! How can this possibly be justified?

There's an account you may access if you know the username and respective password or if you may access account's primary email.

So, just think of the account as your locker in Lyft's building. When someone with your telephone number enters that number and enters back received code, that implies he's the owner of the number.

The credit card is still under your account and there could be no relation to the other user's telephone number. The triggered routine would confirm the connection of the user and their telephone and nothing else.
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How about systems like GraphQL where the client specifies the attributes to be returned? To deprecate an attribute, just mark it as deprecated and wait until no client is requesting that field.
Or make it.... http://avawinery.com
This link is for only the owner of the video. Not a public link
So is this a personal suggestionby a developer in the webkit community? I see nothing that says this has landed anywhere?
Just yesterday I was looking for the other way around, CVS->JSON
You can use jsonexport with rowDelimiter: '\t' for a xls compatible output.
He didn't ask, "What cheese goes best with fruit?" he said "goes well with fruit." So Google's answer is technically more correct. The best kind of correct.
Hello everyone.

Since there's been interest in the D-expressions paper, I wanted to add that Jonathan Bachrach (the first author on the paper) is actually my Ph.D. advisor, and we just released a new programming language a few months ago called Stanza based on similar ideas. Stanza is a spiritual successor to Dylan of sorts: it has an optional type system, coroutines, a multimethod-based object system, programmatic macros, and an s-expression-based natural syntax. You can check it out at www.lbstanza.org.

- Patrick
The funniest thing to me is that this was started by the very first gif in the article, which looked like a real thing and result of a simple coding error... and the top comment for that was "prepare yourself for a week of volume sliders", referring to that past Bad Phone Number Input fad.

And as predicted/spurred, came the new wave.
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What I mean is twofold:

- They're paying much less attention to the "Unixy stuff" than they used to. Old versions of common things take forever to be updated. Compatibility has always been shit, but it is getting worse. SIP means a number of things I tend to modify, can't be, without hassle[1].

- With a workstation, I expect to be able tailor it specifically to my work requirements. This is becoming increasingly difficult at the proliferation of "cloud" daemons increases and they lock down the system - the documentation for most of the daemons ranges from "sucks" to "nonexistent", so it isn't clear if any given one needed for stable operation or if it yet another thing related to trying to sell me music or some such[2]. Reverting the machine to a state where "root" means "root" is rather difficult (See SIP).

Apple's focus is on chasing the flavor-of-the-month social features and keeping up with the GOOGs. Which makes sense - the set of people buying that stuff is much larger than the workstation market. But it means they don't care so much about it, and make choices like letting the core OS get as buggy and unstable as it has become.

It is mostly fine for me. I built a nice king-hell PC running Debian that I'm very happy with. I didn't think I would, but after my last MBP died unexpectedly, I ended up buying a bottom-rung used Air because I'm hopelessly dependant on OmniFocus and a couple other OS X only productivity tools, and I sync my phone local-only. So it tends to live in the dining room, where I work on my schedule and read mail via ssh over breakfast.

So yeah, Apple still has a place for me, but it is peripheral. I spent mid-4 figures on building a PC this year, and mid-3 on that MBA. And I'm thinking about what I really need out of OmniFocus, and how much of that I can build myself.

[1] This is a good thing for many people, but I expect full control of my machines, and I do occasionally sketchy things like patching Safari. The problem with SIP is that I only need full control sporadically, and not for long, but it is a serious PITA to disable/enable. So it just stays disabled.

[2] One example of many is `parsecd`. No man page. Googling about shows that a lot of people think it to be related to location-based lookups for Siri data. Despite the fact that Siri is disabled on my box, it ran and asked for network access all the time, until I disabled it. Now, WTF is 'LaterAgent', and why is it in my process table?
The problem with absolutist solutions to fermi's paradox (like this one) is that they assume all conscious entities are just like us. But that is a big assumption.

What about the sentient species that evolves an abhorrence for artificial experience? What about a sentient species with a radical minority of religious devotees who refuse the happiness boxes? (I can easily imagine that w our own soecies)

In short, it seems to me that all or most of the fermi paradox solutions require a serious lack of imagination
Sounds to me like an opportunity for a dual trademark business model. Similarly to a dual license model where you receive the software with a restrictive license like AGPL whose only purpose is to make the software undesirable to companies and a paid permissive licene like MIT you could also use an undesirable trademark for the free version and a professional trademark that companies are willing to associate themselves with.
I'd love to see the antithesis of this collection - whereby smart UI designers try and improve the current audio controls to move away from the old style knobs/sliders, to something far better represented by todays interfaces, such as this concept for a car audio control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbuk3jizGM
> Just as a pixel is the smallest unit of an image on your screen and a photon is the smallest unit of light, he argues, so there might be an unbreakable smallest unit of distance: a quantum of space.

I thought that that role was fuffiled with the Planck Length. I've seen it used in conjunction with the speed of light to calculate a theoretical "refresh rate" of the universe, was that based on a flawed assumption?
Completely disagree re: Paper. It's one of the most-used tools at our company, and we love it.
I believe you're missing the point I made, or maybe I'm not articulate enough. I don't think there should be any fear. Just awareness. "How should the good people of Chennai act accordingly to the delicate situation they might put me in for asking too many where-are-you-from's?" - That's the thing though, it might not stop with where-are-you-from, and as long as a few people in the group are aware of that, there'll be enough empathy to go around to prevent you from getting "othered". I did mention that it happens everywhere. Nothing is ever done with malicious intent. I can also go into what exactly the context was for this question. Kayla asked me something along the lines of have I faced any issues in the tech industry being a woman of color. And I said "No. Not that I can think of. Sometimes, when people know that you're a person of color, tiny microaggressions....[blah blah] work. But that happens everywhere, not just the tech industry. But I don't think I've ever been discriminated against for it".

Edit: Or it might just stop with "where-are-you-from" :) Which is even worse. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against small talk. And I understand how difficult it can be to think about all this when your sole intention is just to be friendly with another person or build some common ground. I've been scenarios where, after I've told people where I'm from, I've been asked if I've ever had sex (since it's common knowledge that pre-marital sex in India is frowned upon) and I've been in scenarios where people don't know how to take the conversation forward. But I've also been in conversations where the outcome has been a fantastic cultural conversation! My only point being, there's more of a chance that you get asked these questions when you're in a minority group and if you've had certain bad experiences, you might get your shackles on when that question gets repeatedly asked. Is that making any sense? I'm happy to be educated if I'm missing something or should be thinking about this differently.
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Quick question: as an "new-grad" applicant with two internships AND an internal referral, my application to Google was categorically rejected on the basis that they are "no longer hiring fresh undergraduates for the Software Engineer position". No initial phone screen, just an automatic email.

Given that this self-taught dev was given an interview, would I be better off applying without listing my CS degree and just highlight professional experience, GitHib, etc and say I am "self-taught"?
> and I hope (and believe, for now) that we are very, very far from a civil war.

There is not going to be a civil war in the US. Modern-day rebellion in the US looks more like the violence around the time of the BLM protests. It's certainly not going to be organised at anything like a state level; the US is far too interwoven now. Not to mention that there's no core issue to galvanise a significant bloc into armed action; no core leadership; people are too comfortable these days to actually go into the field and fight on that scale, let alone a bitter war.

Likewise, in the 19th century, a citizen could become an effective soldier by donning a cap and picking up a gun. Not so these days, as the US military has far more toys at their disposal, both in terms of arms and intelligence. The idea that 2nd Amendment enthusiasts have of taking on the government's military is pure fantasy.
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Is the identification of classes/methods/etc generated automatically or manually?
> What if the universe were entirely empty except for two astronauts. One of them is spinning, the other is stationary. The spinning one feels dizzy, doing cartwheels in space. But which one of the two is spinning? From either astronaut’s perspective, the other is the one spinning. Without any external reference, Einstein argued, there is no way to say which one is correct

There is a 50% chance each is spinning, and we'll know which is correct when an external reference "observes" them. The fact that there's no external reference is what makes this situation be "quantum". If the conscious astronauts are conceptually incapable of being 50% "feeling dizzy", then that would mean conscious beings also require the external reference in order to exist.
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I don't really see that as lazy. I see that as considerate/beneficial to the user. I much prefer to be asked in context what/how the app is going to use the microphone for rather than on initial install, when I might be like "why the heck does this app need to use the microphone?"
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Too low, too low, too low, ears bleeding. Thanks, PulseAudio for teaching me the difference between log and lin
I don't believe the parent meant a physical shutter button, but a specific area on screen designated as the shutter button instead of the much easier, "anywhere".
> Contrast this with the government's role in creating a vocational structure that saddles students with enormous debt right at the start of their working life

And contrast that with how it was a few decades ago when the government funded universities and a summer job was enough to pay your yearly tuition.

The current loan system is an awful mess of perverse incentives. When people talk about what the government should be doing, they're not talking about the current system.
I'm sorry you feel alienated Kenji. That was not my intention at all. There's more context in my comment above. If you have the time, do take a minute to read.
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I take your point but sometimes thanksgiving dinner is the only time uncle earl ever comes into contact with someone with a higher education.
Most people are broken. Only people who have had a fantastically privileged upbringing and have never felt want don't feel broken in some way, and even then, they likely fake it to fit in.

I feel like I'm living in a reference counting memory management system - once nobody else depends on me then I will be reclaimed as garbage. It's what keeps me fighting to stay connected to everyone I know, but it's so tiring.
Yeah, Dean is missed. I don't believe he ever did it on El Cap. either - I sort of wished he did, as it would be an interesting argument/philosophical point FOR "basejumping" within the Park, as it would show an extra level of safety when climbing. His relationship with the rangers within the park must have been interesting, as they certainly knew what he was up to...
I wish the default rule would be: don't say things out loud that you don't wish to have to defend.

I mean, I don't usually try to start arguments on purpose over a family dinner. But when someone, out of their own initiative, starts talking complete nonsense and expect me to take part in that conversation, then well... I understand social objects, but I believe accuracy of beliefs is more important than talking for the sake of talking.
Just for the case, anyone doesn't know. Be carefull with opening CSVs in Excel or just don't do it.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/CSV_Excel_Macro_Injection
I'll also be coy, but will make an observation: you described what you saw. but, you didn't describe everything that actually happened.
The branch prediction problem is true for every language that doesn't JIT (pronounced: "cheat"). Furthermore, Forth is not limited to threaded code. You can have some simple code generation (subroutine threaded code+some primitive inlining) if you really want to prioritize speed. Finally, Forth is a simple language with simple implementations so it's often easy to add the primitive(s) you need in order to deal with the bottlenecks.
I don't have a problem with them asking. I politely decline to tell them and move on. I have yet to have it be a stumbling block. An employer asking is a fairly standard practice, as is a potential employee not providing that information.
I don't really understand your distinction between intents and commands. I've created apps that leverage a variety of bot frameworks, and most of them seem to fall under your "command" criticisms, but are labeled as intents. I think I understand the heart of your argument which is akin to saying google handles intents / actions as if it were filling inputs on a web form that ultimately goes to an api for response generation.

Having said that, I don't know how you can say that Siris backend is much better from an intent perspective without being able to leverage it properly because of the shortcomings related to the UI. From what I've seen, it doesn't even handle context well. Now it sounds like Siri will be used to do proactive things which is certainly new and different from Google Assistant. Yet, I suspect that logic is just being branded as Siri because it is a push to label Siri as your intelligent assistant as opposed to the weird robot thing you can use to check the weather
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>> The so-called AI as pursued by Google & other tech companies isn't AI at all. True AI won't need as much data.

>Deepmind / AlphaGo, Watson, and other like them are about the best thing we have nowadays when it comes to AI. Let's not even talk about True AI, which if you take any of the definitions can only become reality with so much data we're only brushing on it actually. Saying True AI won't need as much data is failing to understand how much "data" it takes to make a human brain function, and while that is a whole other can of worm, one thing is certain it's a shit load accumulated over time.

I think you and I are saying the same thing. Namely, intelligence is an accumulation of years of experience, information & data (though human sensory system). But, once intelligence is established (say after 21 yrs of training in case of humans), learning is rather easy (i.e. one shot learning is sufficient to accomplish new, mundane tasks). You don't need to know someone's whole browsing history and emails to make personalized recommendations or to give intelligent answers to queries. The more intelligent the algorithm, presumably, the less personalized data it needs. So when it comes to true AI, you don't need to know as much about the user to help. This is one way to rationalize Apple's approach.