skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Religious flamewars don't belong on Hacker News in the first place, but we certainly don't need to stretch so far to start them.
Uber Workplace Probe Extends to Handling of India Rape Case
It would probably be possible for smaller communities today, given how cheap bandwidth already is. For comparison, I'm currently paying ~$13/mo for a (symmetric) gigabit connection.

The main reasons for transcoding are downstream bandwidth usage and codec support. WebRTC mandates VP8, so codecs shouldn't be an issue. Downstream bandwidth usage probably wouldn't be a major concern when it's viable to stream at 1080p to thousands of viewers from a home connection (though I doubt that's going to happen soon). So you could probably ignore transcoding entirely.

However, marketing would probably be an issue, since this architecture would prevent streamers from having more than about a hundred watchers, meaning that the big fish would stick to Twitch. That said, I suppose you could have a failover system, where larger streamers would switch to a relay-based system.
Just watched it. Indeed, is enough to hack the TV systems in an very busy airport like Frankfurt or Paris.
Neurodegenerative disease.
Something isn't adding up here... if this is supposed to be supplemental therapy to talking with an actual human, but instead the actual human part is nixed and it is used as the entirety of therapy (i.e. outside of it's prescribed and tested usage) are we not worried about the negative externalities of replacing human contact with machines for curing social ills?

That's not even touching where you've just pointed out that we're essentially now decreeing that poor people get to talk to machines and rich people get to talk to humans, or the fact that insurance companies will jump at the chance to force the cheap AI down everyone's throats before they pay for human therapy, etc etc...
“A Mathematician's Secret: We're Not All Geniuses”
Not so Singletons in Kotlin
10th Circuit:Neighbors may file RICO lawsuit against state-lic marijuana growers
The point is, firing someone because they wouldn't end an investigation is obstruction. Sure, his intent wasn't to "obstruct justice", but his intent was to obstruct justice.
As an employee I do not know. But as an entrepreneur or self employed developer providing solutions, there are quite a few successful people.

Maybe they are flying under the radar.

Yes, there are some slick apps being done, with no need for a legion to deliver a sizeable piece of functionality.

Pharo forked from Squeak because it wanted to be a vehicle to deliver business value for real and not just be a research ground. Version 6 is a significant milestone in that direction. Iceberg (Git tool) was funded by the consortium. http://consortium.pharo.org/ Check the industrial members, this is no small fish.

I guess that we are on this trajectory: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...
I guess I'll ask for an example of when Trump has ever engaged anyone in respectful conversation.
>And how much did Apple have to spend marketing the iPhone?

You're joking, right? Even after 10 years they're STILL spending a lot on advertising it.
I recall the GOP publishing their support for Net Neutrality in a previous election cycle platform and then abruptly changing it within a week to the opposite.

Google is failing me in finding that original platform.
I'm not certain the details are problematic. If you rephrase the hypotheticals in the context of common carriers the detailed application is clear. So would a telco be allowed to block incoming calls from a competitor? [no] Would an airline refuse to ticket members of politically controversial groups? [no] How about from known hijackers? [yes]

Common carrier doctrine carries a lot of unfortunate historical baggage regarding regulation.

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If you were purely logical and rational you would seek to diversify your information sources but people actually do the exact opposite. They go out of their way to not be exposed to out-group information sources and will often violently oppose such sources. Even within the group dissenting voices are silenced.

There is no logical or information theoretic perspective that justifies or explains conformance behavior. It's all pure biology.
He was more specifically talking about the preaching of a specific type of marriage, and the rules and regulations around them which are quite often you must align with our views and values or not participate at all.

It's a valid point, you also make a valid point but miss the mark on his initial assertion
Does Having Kids Make Mothers Age Faster?
Ok, fair point. I've made up a title, even though we hate to do that, because I can't find any phrase in the article that neutrally summarizes it.
Try running https://test.webrtc.org/
Sadly, it seems it is. And yes, it's intended as an awful pun.
Cutting-Edge Technology to Unleash Your Creativity from the Palm of Your Hand
NASA picks 12 new astronauts from crush of applicants
Come now, you believe that more people don't found companies because of the stress? It seems far more likely that most people don't have the capital assets for that to be an option, except three groups... 1. The very young who have very low expenses, the ones who cashed out already, and the ones who started rich.
Brings new perspective to the modern American adage "find someone who cares".
And even in these comments, there are people who watched the full video and still came to different conclusions.
Wireless Home Network – A Complete guide to protect it
I feel like history and law bears out my answer: yes.

Isn't that the definition of plausible deniability?
Practically speaking, every face has to communicate, what, 20 bits of information, to avoid common doppelgängers via the birthday paradox? Probably even more. Very interesting.

People have proposed leveraging this to generate unique avatars, since you can just pick some random parameters for the arrangement of a stick figure face and it will probably look unique.
Google’s Kaggle now has 1M developers signed up for AI competitions
Coursera used to be great. I've taken several courses in the past. The problem is that most courses were one-and-done deals where they were put up and there was instructor + TA participation during the first 1-2 times the course ran. Subsequently, these courses are still run in zombie mode while users are asked to pay to take them (if you want to do assignments / quizzes). I find their whole approach very unethical since they provide zero actual support for education while charging people money.

To contrast, edX will typically run courses 1 - 2x times a year and any time they are run, they typically will at the very least have TA participation although in the 15+ edX courses I've taken, there has always been active instructor participation too. Moreover, by restricting enrollment to 1-2X times a year, it encourages more participation with very active forums and discussions, even when tackling courses that are 4+ years old. Caltech's outstanding Learning from Data course had over 100 replies on many HW discussions despite being run many years after the original edX course (though the most credit has to go to Prof. Mostafa who is an outstanding professor and educator).

edX does have other courses that are "archived". Some of these you are allowed to study at your own pace but they are upfront about the fact that you're on your own and more importantly, they don't try to get you to pay them money for a certificate when going through such a course. That is the right and ethical approach imho.
Their line manager makes sure the card goes round for everyone to sign, and spends what cash gets put in the envelope on something they'll appreciate. If anyone missed the internal eMail about this person leaving, now they definitely know.

People get told a few hours ahead (internal eMail) where the short presentation is. Line manager says a few words, hands over card and present. If they've been there quite a while, someone bigger than the line manager may also say some words. Leaver says a few words, everyone claps. Leaver says when they will be in the pub (repeated in leaver's final internal eMail to the department) and leaver buys the first drink for everyone who turns up.

That's how it's been in every company I've left. It's pretty much the UK standard. It's near perfect; everyone knows exactly what's expected and how it will work. No uncertainty, no mistakes, opportunity to chuck in a few pounds or not.
this breaks down quickly because most employment offers at startups don't use option compensation, er, optionally. it is a mandatory substitution for base salary.
Do you have another, more rigorous study?
In a direct democracy, maybe this would matter, but we have a republic. Politicians aren't machines that would collate the beliefs of the American people and act accordingly if only they had the information. They are individuals with their own agendas and incentives. So, the only way to get a law passed is to prove that passing it will result in positive outcomes for enough politicians to get a passing vote, which unfortunately tends to boil down to how voters react to the sound bite version of the issue, because not enough voters to matter will actually be thinking about a fully informed (or even marginally informed) version of the issue when it comes to voting day.

So, yeah, while there are some uses for polls to find out what the beliefs of the American people actually are, they are mostly academic, not practical. National elections are popularity contests and tribal pissing contests more than anything. Or maybe I'm just in a cynical mood.
You're behind the times. .NET Core makes true cross-platform apps (at least Windows, Macs and Linux).

Though the only way to create cross-platform desktop apps with .NET Core is Electron, so yes, not good.
I think it's pretty critical to note that, with only one exception, every website that works well without JS is what HTML was built for - static documents - and every website that doesn't, what HTML is famously bad at - apps.
The case for well structured 1099 work
GM wants to drive the future of cars that drive themselves
That seems like an arbitrary place to draw a line; it still seems completely, unambiguously figurative to me, but I'm not going to argue the point.
Amazon Imagines a Future of Infinite Computing Power
I am from India and I am closely aware of the wave that started with comedy groups in youtube of youtube and ended up defeating facebook's internet.org. I am little ambivalent about internet.org, but ended up converting 2 people to support internet.org. The common complaint here is this will make unpaid sites slow. This is partially borrowed by netflix event. They use "net neutrality" term, which most of the people have no idea what it means, and they get their entire idea from watching videos which shows faster and slower pipe. On asking them, for whom internet.org specifically is bad, they just don't have anything to say. I have to make them understand that this fight is not about a thing that will make their internet slow. The whole point of a million mails sent is not great care for the internet, but a feel good protest. They would have a much greater effect if they protested for better speeds for local websites, which kind of sucks more in India than one would expect. People are not very sad for seconds of delay, but are more concerned that some company will use faster lane to reduce delay by 10ms-20ms, which is of no use for company in a country which can tolerate very slow sites.

Anyways, my point here is this term sound more of a fundamental characteristic of internet that we are loosing, than it is. The commonly envisioned future that we have to pay by services is not happening. Until that, we have far more important thing to protest against. I personally think better privacy and less data processing by machines is what we should protest for more often.
How Ecosystem Cultures Differ: Results from a Survey on Values and Practices
I think religion works because parents coerce their children into it by denying them basic live necessities if they do not comply. E.g. they will not eat until they pray.
Is official policy important? If China or Russia or whoever decide one day that they need to make a first strike against population centers, it's not like they're going to say, "oh, I wish we could, but we can't, it's against policy."
Good. Please leave. I don't walk into a restaurant and demand that they cook my food without using a knife. Don't expect modern websites to bend over backwards for a (frankly rather juvenile) view of a modern web standard.

Code execution is part of the web, it's here to stay, the number of sites that support non-JS experiences will continue to dwindle.

You're not some special snowflake. Other people make real decisions based on cost/value models, and you cost way more than you're worth.
I'm not going to quibble over the exact wording I chose for my off the cuff example, but I will concede I could have phrased it better.

>It can only be resolved with policy, and if that policy is disliked, it's intellectually dishonest to hide behind individual portions of the bill being popular out of context.

But that is exactly my point. It isn't the policy that is disliked, it is the name.

Many individual portions of the policy are liked. Those portions have to be paired with less favorable portions in order to create a functional law. Overall that collection of policies is generally liked. However if you throw the "Obamacare" label on it the popularity of the bill decreases compared to the same policies labeled as "The Affordable Care Act". The label is enough to cloud the the public's true feelings on the policy. Knowing the clouded opinions might help someone get elected but it isn't going to help them write a new healthcare bill that represents the will of the people.
The original UUID's (from Apollo, as used in OSF DCE, e2fsprogs, Microsoft, etc.) used a 64-bit timestamp, with 100ns granularity. It uses as the start of its Epoch the beginning of the Gregorian Calendar (00:00:00.00, 15 October 1582), so it's good up to 3400 A.D. before it hits the 2038 problem. :-)

Note that UUID's, like IPv6 addresses, are sufficiently long that if users are needing to interact with them directly, You're Doing Something Wrong. So the whole base-62 versus using hyphens versus base58 discussion misses the point, in my view. Computers will generally be exchanging them in 128-bit binary format, and they should only really be dumped out for debugging reasons.
> passionate conversationalists

a nice way of saying workplace bullies.
250 varieties of apple on one tree (2013)
It's pretty tricky for the runtime to figure out that there are no side-effects, and that s.Min is not going to change, if the implementation behind it actually walks some nodes. Among other things, it would require it to prove that none of the walked nodes ever mutate anywhere else (don't forget that this includes backdoors like reflection).
The fictional book in the Dr. Strangelove film called "World Targets in Megadeaths" was no joke, it seems!
>If they were a company, it could serve as a recruitment tool or as an example of why clients should do business with you.

Call me picky, but the tone of the news anchor reporting nuclear explosions is so perky as to be cringe-inducing. They also use sun-lit storm clouds as stand-ins for nuclear explosions.
I wouldn't say "wide use". Google has only 18,000 total hits for the term, and most of those seems to be false positives (e.g. "hit tile").
> Instead, you should just ask: "Do you support Net Neutrality?" and nothing else!

Even that phrasing would give biased results, since "Net Neutrality" has a positive and virtuous ring to it.

That's probably why the phrase "Net Neutrality" is preferred by its supporters, instead of something like "Government Mandated Internet Usage Restrictions". ;)
Judge orders Uber to hand over report on its acquisition of Levandowski startup
Ah ok utility as in utilitarian, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Apparently Northern Pike can eat ducklings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_E4BUt1z8Y
Our (hopefully benevolent) AI overlords will be in control well before the US changes away from first-past-the-post, at least on the whole. The US is too geographically and culturally distinct (for good reasons, not just blue/red states) to implement proportional representation in a way that doesn't piss off everyone.

I had written some more explaining why, but the simple fact that you'd need to convince roughly half of US states to vote to give themselves less power means this would never happen. We can't even get reforming the Electoral College through enough blue states, and the President is supposed to represent all states.
> If we had a system in which you could vote for whomever you want (regardless of where they're from) and that person had voting power in the legislature that was proportional to the share of votes they got, then the laws we would get would actually reflect the will of the people.

More simply (and easier to manage) we could just have multimember districts with a proportional, candidate-centered, ranked-preference voting system like STV.

(Your version has all kinds of challenges, like how you manage a legislature of reasonable size while maintaining the general structure, and is more radical than is necessary for major improvements in representation.)
Project Jigsaw seeks to re-educate people with “wrong views” through ML
There isn't enough computing power on Earth to parse the stuff I threw at therapist when I did CBT (which waw a super good investment for me).
We're working individually with WebRTC sites to get them running. There's complications because many sites use legacy APIs that are not in the spec but still exist in Chrome. We're adding some of those for more compatibility.
How is sexism that's biologically based not sexism? Just like biologically based racism (not my race) still being racist?

The equal outcome is men and women both being given equal and fair opportunities to express their viewpoints.

If this isn't the case because {reason}, then to me that's justification enough to attempt to redress the issue through modified behavior.
It just goes to show that just because you think you know how to evaluate stock doesn't mean you do. I have a pretty good understanding of dilution, tax implications, liquidation preferences and so on. But that 5% of equity issued to employees => equity actually acted issued is shocking to me (I would have guessed 35-40%). A friend once told me: unless you're a founder the right estimate of equity is $0 (By which he meant: be comfortable with an offer in every other aspect, then take equity. If you only have a 1/20 chance of getting your equity I'd say that advice is more true than I initially thought.)
the way it addresses your objection is that the congressional voting power is proportional to popular vote received.

unstated in the OP, but my supposition (reasonable, I hope), is that there will still be a limited number of congressional seats so that candidates below a certain popular vote threshold will have 0 representational power. in that case it is still in the best interests of voters to vote for someone who is likely to clear the threshold and not throw their vote away by voting for a perfect ideological match (i.e. themselves).

this seems fairly elegant to me except that it might lead to a neglect of the provincial concerns of low population density areas (which was a major concern of the founders), but on the plus side, those rural voters can at least find an ideological match even if they don't find someone to represent their geographic interests.
For context - the author of this article, Ryan Dahl, is also the creator of Node.js.
> Simpler question: with a sufficiently-smart story generator, could you enjoy it if you knew it was procedurally generated? I feel that I couldn't.

I feel like this might commit you to having some amount of conflict with "death of the author"?

If one cares that the writing was written by a person, and not just transcribed by a person, but composed by a person, it seems to me like one probably cares that the writing was done with an intent.

I don't see a reason that one would care about whether the writing was made with an intent, in a way that plays a role in whether one enjoys it, but not care at all about what that intent was.

So, I would expect that anyone who couldn't, or at least most people who couldn't, enjoy a work of fiction if they knew it was procedurally generated, probably would care about the intent of the author in writing what they are reading.

I also generally care about that, but I think I sometimes enjoy procedurally generated works, though this might be largely due to my knowing about the intent behind the writing of the code that produced the procedurally generated content, which includes substantial bits of literal text to include in the output, so..
The audio capture fails, then the camera gets stuck on "Check resolution 320x240" without error.

If I tick "Remove Legacy WebRTC API", and retry, they all fail until it gets stuck with no message on "Udp enabled".
If there was ever a time to bike Hwy 1, the time is now. Few cars and certainly no RVs.
I used to compile my own bash from homebrew or alike and with that (newer) version, it worked w/o a problem.
If there was some minimum threshold, then yes, my objection goes away. But that wasn't stated.
Politicians don't care what their constituents want. Americans overwhelmingly support basic gun-control laws, access to legal abortion, single-payer healthcare, and lots of other issues. Politicians only care about what their lobbyists and financial donors tell them to care about. That's the sad truth. We created this perverse system, so we can reform it when we choose. The only way to reverse this is to make elections publicly funded and reform campaign finance.
Citus 6.2: Concurrent index creation and complex queries for multi-tenant dbs
Those people were designing devices to kill large numbers of (innocent) civilians.

Given those goals that they had, why would anyone expect them to behave 'ethically' or care about the side effects of their activity ?

Of course that was a 'blatant disregard for human life', since that was the very essence of the technology being developed.
yup, the very best machine learning models are still made from distilled postdoc tears...
This article[0] from almost 10 years ago estimated that the Google IPO resulted in 1,000 people having more than $5 million worth of Google shares.

So I guess it hinges on how you define "instrumental" and "almost none". It's a tautology to say that "instrumental" means "they contributed to the effort", so I would say "instrumental" means "it seems like no one else could have done it" and "almost none" means less than 5%. If you had to take a wild guess about Google, what percentage of that 1,000 would you estimate were instrumental? Furthermore, presumably there are more Google millionaires now, 10 years later. I wonder what percentage of those were also instrumental in Google's success?

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html
>"No they can't."

Can you explain why they can't? I was under the impression that this actually does happen.