skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your "milestones" might be another person's hell?

I don't think the problem is internet addiction, it's two fold:

1. The economy is so much worse than the numbers suggest.

2. Mental illness must be at an all time high, with treatments proving slightly better than placebo in terribly designed clinical trials.(I am so disappointed in their statistical/methodology, I hate even using the word clinical these days. Clinical what? Clinical lying? They do get the symptoms right, it's the Treatment that's lacking.

4. I don't want to argue. I'm a nobody, so my views hold no weight.
> will be phased out by the end of 2020. At that point, Adobe will stop updating and distributing Flash.

Adobes stance on backwards compatibility in Flash has always been "Don't break the web". Where does this leave all the existing flash content that still exists around the web after 2020? As far as I know, those JS emulators are way to slow for most content.
I feel like you're really not giving credit where it is due.

Yes, the trope is that football consists entirely of meatheads. The infamous movie The Blind Side comes to mind where they falsely treat Michael Oher like moron in spite of his capability does nothing to put this to rest. However there is a lot of strategy from the coach picking the play to the individual match-up right on the field.

And to say that it is low skill - that's just a plain insult. Find me a 6'5", 325 lbs person who can deftly keep someone of equal or larger size from encroaching upon the quarterback's territory. Find me an Average Joe capable of consistently catching passes against two defenders. Find me another Average Joe capable of ball placement when their receiver has two defenders guarding them.
> Instead, the sensitive identities were pointed out and named in a second distribution with a request for all subscribers to remove these records themselves. This took place in open cleartext e-mail.

Jesus fucking Christ on a snowmobile.
HERA team completes 45-day mission to explore asteroid, from Texas
Because it's duplicitous on the part of the property owners, and it also probably isn't a welfare-maximizing use of space. Whenever I see a corporate campus with a huge manicured lawn, it raises my blood pressure.
Hey, very cool project!

As someone who is pondering about doing something like this in the future, i just watched some of your videos.

If I may, i want to give some suggestion. The first one is: consider adding some background music, for example when showing the landscape or walking otherwise it feels a bit empty. The second one is about the format: i think it will help you doing it as a sort of 'daily vlogging'. In this way you do not have the problem of having too much footage around as you mention and also it helps to convey a sense of story, even if it is just waking up - walking - eating - walking - going to sleep. It may also be a more watchable format for your followers if the videos are shorter.

Hope it helps you, keep up your adventure and good luck!
Pretty interesting perspective - maybe check out the Hologram Dash which is programmed with the Arduino IDE + has full compatibility with Arduino functions. It includes a cell modem as well: https://hologram.io/dash/
I wasn't aware of Gigalixir, thanks for mentioning that. Looks very promising.

I've been hosting my site at https://clever-cloud.com with good results. I've been using Docker there but they just added beta Phoenix support which makes it really easy. They're French, and I'm in the US. So there have been time zone issues and support has been a bit lackluster at times, but generally they've fixed all the issues I've brought up and have been responsive. Price is right.
I think neurons are closer to transistor analogs than core analogs. The brain wires them up into networks that have meaning vs passing along data that has meaning. And in that context we crossed the 10 billion transistor on a chip milestone recently vs 100 billion neurons in a human brain.
There might be certain expectation in society that certain kind of property is public, which usually means, that you can use it within certain limits, even if you don't own it.

Often this is because the property would be owned by i.e. state/city, and that would provide citizens certain freedoms, such as freedom to gather on a public square.
I am trying to look for the logic to layout the plan on a 2D plane so that the boxes don't collide with each other but so far no luck. Can you give me a pointer please?

The sample JSON of the plan doesn't indicate how big the boxes would be when presented on the UI. And also how to draw the connections between them.
I'm not saying there's an 0.0001% chance of it happening, I'm saying that if you give enough people a chance to create an AI, eventually someone will do it, even if 99.999% of people would choose not to. Right now, nobody knows how to do this, but my point is that eventually people will figure out how: once everyone knows how, then it's just a matter of time before someone does it.

I'm not second guessing human nature, just saying people do crazy things all the time. The vast, vast majority of people are not suicide bombers, for example, but it still happens sometimes. It doesn't matter how much collective responsibility we have; eventually you may just end up with a brilliant programmer with schizophrenia or something who writes an AI in his basement and unleashes it on the world.

I'm also certainly not resigning myself to catastrophe. There are probably ways to prevent or mitigate the negative impact of AI, like the one being suggested in the original article, for instance. I would hardly consider myself a cynic, but forgive me if I'm skeptical of the idea that every human in the world can somehow agree to never do anything that might create a dangerous AI. If it can happen, it eventually will happen.
I don't have a degree in anything (including CS, which is probably why as a self-taught programmer I reached a ceiling - but that's another conversation).

When I worked at Uber, a CS degree was a soft-prerequisite for all Product Mangers (they hired me, they hired a few other people without CS but it was rare). I hear Google is the same. At Uber I also saw a couple of Sr Engineers switch to PM.

In terms of suggestions, I would focus on where you already work and see if they have interest in helping you switch to the PM track. There's lots of ways an engineer can straddle the two and begin to do some PM tasks.

I don't know if there's any difference in mobility between PMs and Eng Managers. I would say that generally there are fewer PM roles in an organization than Engineers so that is something to consider, but good PMs are always highly sought after.
An interesting book on the subject is "The Science of Fear" by Daniel Gardner: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fear-Culture-Manipulates-Brai...
One of the useful things about Chrome in this sort of situation is its task manager, which often makes it much simpler to work out what's causing this sort of problem.
Cyber Security Dangers Caused by Employees Working While on Holiday
testing infrastructure: we have a bunch of teams that now need to run jenkins full suite tests, that comprise many servers, so there is an explosion of servers X branches that makes managing all of that very difficult.
Still is bundled with Chrome.
Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
Hah, that's exactly what I brought up in the interview - why squirrel?

I've talked to our CEO and the original core team about this a couple times. In their minds LUA, while 7 years ago was more widely adopted, was also less well supported and more volatile than squirrel. Squirrel got the job done, was pretty straightforward, and was small to get going. And, once the decision was made and customers were already compiling it onto live projects.... Well, at least there haven't been growing pains as a result, it still gets the job done and we have metric tons of libraries for it.

Also the files end in .nut which is incredible.

Edit: to note, it's not exactly squirrel, we made some changes: https://electricimp.com/docs/squirrel/learningsquirrel/
It's even worse when it's "you will die slowly and horribly years from now", which is what football is starting to look like. There's no "risk"; you're just storing up your consequences for later.
Or to start someplace that is much easier to develop, like in Texas. I understand the economics might not be as favorable, but there is a ton of truck traffic going N/S in TX that would be thrilled to skip over (or, I guess under) the major population centers.
See above. Someone mentioned Gigalixir, and I've been having success with Clever Cloud. I had to do a ton of research before finding a workable option (Heroku is not really a good option imo), so hopefully this helps.
Do you have any additional resources on the tenants of smart contracts, outside of that link? I read through it but did not see any deal breakers that could not be addressed in other ways.
That would be awesome, especially if you can keep the engine running for climate control, etc.
> Surely the most direct way of buying time is by taking a pay cut in exchange for more time off, or even taking unpaid time off.

We don't get those choices. I tried for YEARS to engineer a long-term part-time career in the software industry, and I couldn't get it to happen. I'm perfectly happy to trade more free time for less money, but there are just no takers out there. The industry isn't interested.

As far as taking unpaid time off -- usually, that happens after you've quit your previous job and before you've started the next one.
What about Adobe Connect? They have been talking about moving to HTML5 for years, but nothing seems to happen. Then recently they announce that if you don't have Flash you can instead download an executable:

https://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2016/02/add-in.html

Could this be the end of AC, or will they pull something out of a hat at the last minute?
Bitcoin: The Decentralized Currency – Or Is It?
One guy working in IT at the department in question apparently lost his job for refusing to implement this. He was also the one whom informed SÄPO about this.
Yup, the problem is our markets are wildly broken because of advertising. If you had to actually pay for the content you consume you wouldn't have any of this.

But corporations are allowed to pay a third party to build honey pots in order to poison your mind against you. The worst part of it is that it makes finding actually useful information almost impossible because there is such huge incentives to make superficially attractive information that's actually dross.

And people wonder why the foolish poor took on too much housing debt or why you had Trump running against Clinton.

"This world in arms in not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

But I'm sure sucking all our brightest minds into Google and Wall Street we'll innovate our way past global warming no bother.
You don't have to be so mean about others referencing old news: http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/05/13/71818/elon-musk-digs-dee...
A new deal could end Bitcoin’s long-running civil war
I'm not saying London is a hellhole, but all of the issues I mentioned are commonplace, and I will see every item on that list in the course of a typical week.

I've lived in various areas, currently a bit further out in Zone 3, which means I should add rampant fly tipping and unlicensed/uninsured/abandoned cars to the list.

Eliminating these nuisances from an area is a costly business. It requires round the clock security, extensive CCTV monitoring, constant maintenance and adherence to the "broken windows" philosophy.

It is essentially a luxury, which private property owners bestow upon their 'pseudo-public' spaces. The public would be outraged if councils sought the funding, through taxes, to apply the same to truly public spaces.
The Economic Policy Institute's Family Budget calculator, which is a better estimate of area-adjusted living costs than the federal poverty line "measures the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living"[1].

For the San Francisco, CA metro area (which in their model includes Menlo Park, where the family lives), they estimate that this "modest yet adequate" standard of living would cost ~$116K per year, inclusive of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, other necessities and taxes. Even removing housing from the equation ($32K), that leaves about $85K to meet a basic family budget. So I think that their experience that their income is a real stretch to meet basic needs is not so far from reality as you might conjecture.

[1] http://www.epi.org/resources/budget/
My dad played both college and professional football. He had early signs of dementia 15 years ago, but it became really bad about 10 years ago. After a long struggle, he died just earlier this year.

It's hard to deal with
Have you profiled it? At any time over the last few years when I've done that Chrome has been behind Firefox, which is behind Safari, but getting closer. That said, if you're reporting anything about browser performance the first step is usually to test without any extensions installed to confirm you're not chasing the wrong codebase.
A metric TON of them are.
I think the US losing all the data for everyone who ever got a security clearance is worse (thankfully mine was before they were stored in a modern system). But this is pretty much beyond stupid. When you outsourced control of your information, assume it will become public.
No, Musk was saying NYC to DC in 29 minutes. That's more than a 200 mile route, so you're talking average speeds of > 400mph.
From Ghost to Hugo (with Netlify)
what is/was source3?
super intelligence will not happen overnight. AI will keep evolving with us and before it's truly conscious it will give us better understanding of math, physics, medicine.. This will help the AI grow, but at the same time we will be growing with it. It will be a symbiotic relationship.
That's why "bookmarks" were invented for...

I never understand any of my friends who keep having tens of tabs open. Just bookmark the thing and free up some CPU/RAM. It's a keystroke away.
How to Install and Uninstall Python Packages Using Pip
One of the authors here. The neat thing about this set up is that these streaming examples are executing against a real stream processor in the browser.
The interactive examples were built using [Onyx](https://github.com/onyx-platform/onyx) and it's cross-compiled JavaScript sibling, [onyx-local-rt](https://github.com/onyx-platform/onyx-local-rt).
I say this every time someone brings up Flash's failure, but ... It's a tragic failure on Adobe's part. The tools for 2D animations and games in Flash are far beyond anything else out there from a creative standpoint. There isn't a product on the market that comes even close. Everything now is too technical, too specialized.

There are lots and lots of artists and developers out there who learned Flash's toolset and got good at it -- and now all that knowledge is useless. And there aren't even better tools to replace it.

It could have been different. Too bad they let it fail.
The Boring Company is initially focused on local 200 kph tunnels, which would absolutely revolutionize commute-distance transportation.

https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
Yes, this is why the "but many other things are dangerous and people do them knowing full well that [...]"

Of course the problem is that you can go half a life time doing this thing, and then it sneaks up on you and there's no reversing the damage. The danger isn't presented as clear or present as with anti-smoking messaging, or with something like solo free climbing which needs no warning.
What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It
How is Shumway doing?
Amazon Could Bigfoot Rival Payment Services with a PayPal Clone
A lot of people roll their eyes at the idea of addictions to something other than drugs -- gambling, sex, video games, etc. Having done some in-depth research on gambling addiction, I am firmly convinced it is every bit as addictive and problematic as drugs -- affects the same people, by the same physiology, and leads to all the same destructive behaviors.

If we don't turn around our concept of addiction to something that extends beyond chemicals, we're in for some major societal problems very soon.
instrumental?
Get Started with F
Thailand seizes assets of dead AlphaBay founder
It's not about worthiness, it's about having a solution or not. If Musk has a solution for long distance but doesn't have one for commuters, should he not pursue the long distance solution because reasons? That seems absurd.
The BOM indicates that the clock oscillator is just a vanilla quartz crystal. http://www.ti.com/lit/df/swrr135b/swrr135b.pdf Does the firmware do any clever temperature compensation using the onboard thermometer, or are you just sending lots of clock skew correction packets as the mesh warms up and cools down diurnally?
If you're investing your own money, then you'd definitely want to test it out so that you can ensure that 1) it's easy to build and 2) people are willing to pay to use the tunnel.

However, if you want the government to subsidize it / provide tax breaks, then you want to be able to go to politicians in every state and show them how this tunnel is going to bring jobs and money. You pull up a big map and say, "This is going to go from San Francisco to New York, and if you are willing to help we'll make sure it goes right through your state!"

That's the political game that you play. (It also makes it politically unfeasible to shut down later. See: military contractors in every state)
'my life today as a worker is better off by a factor of at least 10,000.'

Is it? I see this kind of argument in many places: "I don't have to wash clothes by hand" or "You wouldn't be saying this if you tried picking wheat for 14 hours"

But I think the issue with the argument is they are comparing against the wrong metric. We should be optimizing for human happiness. Innovation is a terrible proxy for this, as we are only marginally more happy than our predecessors in some areas. The main problem with happiness is that it is relatively indifferent to things that are unpleasant (such as picking wheat every day for 14 hours), as our brain quickly adapts and this becomes a new baseline. The things that make us unhappy in the long term (lack of exercise, lack of space, less predictable life, lack of control) are still around for almost everyone, regardless of them being saved menial chores.
Lamping's Abstract Algorithm
It seems likely that some activities are orders of magnitude more dangerous than others for CTE.

Maybe you'd rather your kid play football or learn boxing than lay on the couch. If the risk is 10x that of baseball, and 50x that of track and field, however, you might steer them to different activities.
> While thousands is ridiculous, a hundred isn't that unreasonable

That reads like "while <more than I use> is ridiculous, <as many as I use> isn't that unreasonable".

I never have more than about ten tabs open, and a hundred strikes me as ridiculous too. To each his own, though, I guess.
A Cleaner Way to Create Mocks in .NET
Why Poor Women Don't Have the Right to Privacy
In enterprise you might end up with different gate keepers, each maintaining a differe service... getting changed or added is impossible
> ...most ARM chipsets are focused on mobile applications where low power is necessary. They are not powerful enough to compete with x86 on the server... but soon they will be for most customers... I think it makes a lot of sense for Intel to try and address this concern, and competing with ARM/MIPS head on for the IoT market is one way to do this.

I agree with most of your reasoning - it's the strategic choice to go after the embedded market that I think was unwise. The makerspace move was Intel trying to compete in a whole different sector than their core competency (embedded devices vs server chips). A more sensible strategic move, in my opinion, would have been trying to optimize the power consumption of their previous generation server grade chips. That allows them to sell through their existing channels (which they're very good at), but segment based on those customers that care about power consumption. It's all of the advantages of ARM, but eliminates a lot of risk to the customer by being x86, and legacy compatible. Plus, it gives the sales guys the option to say "Well, if you don't care about power, and do want maximum performance, we can always discuss our cutting edge line of server cores..."
Nine Lifestyle Changes Could Reduce Dementia Risk – The Lancet
Is there any attempt to save all the classic Flash animations and games like they did with old arcade games? Any "emulators" which can be used to preserve them?
For single a web api server Elixir is going to be far behind, performance wise, against nodejs, the JVM and Go. Their big feature is reliability/clustering but in the context of web requests, scaling them is real easy today, just use a load balancer. For me Erlang/Elixir have very specific niche use cases(at which it excels at) but its fans confuse beginners promoting it as a "general purpose language" that they should use it for everything.
> we set out to recognize, organize and analyze branded intellectual property in user-generated content

Looks like technology to fight copyright infringement
I can't upvote your comment enough and I would add geology to that list.
Just some topics, can elaborate on those later, if you want:
- Development Setup (e.g. minikube)
- Circuit Breakers
- Managing Backpressure
- Service Discovery
- Encryption
- Monitoring / Metrics
- Domain Translation
- Load balancing / Fail over / retry
I think the prevalence of concussions in football compared to rugby is proof that "better equipment" doesn't prevent concussions. It has the paradoxical effect of causing them. Better shoulder pads allow for people to launch their bodies without fear of separating their shoulders. Conversely, helmets are not designed to protect the brain, only to prevent skull fractures. Thus, I don't think your argument holds water.
In the context of a restaurant where they take it away, I agree. Also, if they actually require a signature.

But the sweet spot of <$50 transactions that require neither PIN nor signature (admittedly, this depends on the retailer) is really quick and easy. It is certainly much quicker than pulling out my phone and fiddling with the poor feedback in Android Pay.
The Best APIs in Real Estate
Do you have any links with more information on this?
Dylan Roof was fed by police: True

Dylan Roof was fed by police shortly after arrest: True

Dylan Roof was fed fast food by police shortly after arrest: True

Dylan Roof was fed Burger King fast food by police shortly after arrest: True

Dylan Roof was fed Burger King fast food by police shortly after arrest at Burger King: False
Go 1.9 Release Candidate 1 is released
We should upvote this to the top, it's a pretty good summary of the whole situation.
The thread on LtU is ongoing as we discuss the inherent limitations of the platform. More links and discussion is still taking place (I just posted more), so check over the next few days.
I'm sure it was. Two years seems like a pretty good amount of time to test the market for a semiconductor company. I think we're just seeing Intel's leadership decide that the test didn't generate sufficient interest.