skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but we know that's not true. In the case of Christianity it arose in rural areas and was opposed by urban governments. Also, it did not spread in conjunction with urbanization but instead spread suddenly.
I tend to downvote sarcastic posts on hacker news because they are sarcastic in nature, not because I disagree with their content per se. I'd encourage you to consider the idea that people downvoted this post despite understanding it, and perhaps even agreeing with the underlying sentiment. Otherwise intelligent people thought it was inappropriate in this forum.

Sarcasm is generally perceived to be a lazy and ineffective way to make an argument, because it is imprecise, tends to strawman the opposing viewpoint, and lacks precise positive claims. The belief is that if the poster actually had something to add to the conversation, they should state it clearly and precisely, rather than relying on subtext and sarcasm.

As a general rule, I think this is correct. If one can't phrase a sarcastic retort as a concrete rebuttal, one's views are likely less clear than one would like. There generally isn't any interesting reason to prefer a sarcastic variation on a response to a straight-forward one, especially in a forum where non-native language speakers, as well as individuals who do not register sarcasm, are frequent visitors.

This forum caters to a distinctly older and more highly educated demographic than reddit (or whatever), and participants are held to norms that might at first seem strange or alien.
Facebook’s AI created its own language
Pretty independent of recent improvements, but one thing I feel people are forgetting about PHP these days is that, when given to a good hosting provider, PHP is essentially "serverless" programming, but without the vendor lock-in stuff like AWS Lambda give you. (and without the hype)

Admittedly, even on a good host it won't scale as ridiculously well as a lambda function does, but I'd wager scling from 1 to 1 million req/s in an hour and then back again is a pretty marginal use of Lambda. All the other advantages boil down to not having to manage your own server. Just deploy the code, and that's it.

Well, PHP has had this for decades. And I believe that people should really consider this when choosing a language. I don't know of any other language that you can code a backend in without thinking about servers and daemons and keeping nginx up to date, without getting vendor locked-in to something like Lambda or Heroku.

This is also why I don't really see the point of Hack/HHVM for any new product: If you're going to install some random runtime on some server as well, there's probably more ergonomic languages you can choose.
That sounds more like all you know how to use is a hammer, so everything is a nail.
"Isn't the purpose of a public library to collect, preserve and disseminate information freely to the public? Please explain how a homeless person "destroys" those purposes when they participate?"

By destroying books and furniture, screaming loudly when people are trying to read and becoming violent, among other things.

Next question.
"Real-world"? Musk said the Model 3 would have a 220 mile base range from Day 1, years ago. And it does. This isn't price creep. This is delivering exactly what you promised. And for most people, 220 miles is more than enough. How far do you drive to work?
You're very correct.

In the US, we've had variations of that in the US under the guise of a literacy test.[1] Promoting "understanding" sounds like a great idea until the test itself is made a weapon against groups that are considered "undesirable" by the majority of the populace.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test
Then turn the questions into factual "Which Senators are named as pro-life in this article?", "Which country's representative threatened to exit the EU?". Even when you disagree, you should be able to give an accurate account of the opinion you disagree with.
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I think it's more supposed to be a riff and a counter to the bs "Millennials are killing X" articles that are so popular lately.
Most likely Apple cooperates with the respective agencies as requested by Chinese laws. If not yet, they will have to start very soon or iMessage will also be blocked.

Are there any signs of Censorship on iMessage so far? Are terms that are known to be blocked on WeChat, QQ etc (e.g. 法轮功 / Falun Gong) still working on iMessage?
Pretty off topic, but this appears to be made by a family that's also a software company. Or the other way around. Awesome team page: https://www.workflowproducts.com/about.html
Intentional false positives need to be super-disincentivized.

If all is well, the system would be open enough that the whistle blower can blow their whistle in the open. And everyone would support the investigation, and the parties on both sides. Eventually truth does need to exist regarding the why and what was reported.

Although, this wouldn't work where:

1. There are still enough bad guys who would punish this person in the locker room.

2. Situations where everyone is breaking the law, but enforcement is always with discretion. Like ebay where most listings violate something but aren't given a look until "someone" reports them. Or like overlooking jaywalking until someone of "interest" starts walking.

There must be other scenarios, but we can be on top of them.
They're going to eat the person who made the robot.
Nope, I personally subscribe (pay) for "perspective" journalism. It just would be nice to have a more neutral source sometimes.
EU migrants make up over 20% of labour force in 18 British industries
The problem is that none of the default protocols work in China. Either they are blocked via DPI in combination with techniques like TCP RST injection / null-routing of the destination IPs, or they are known to be insecure, like PPTP (which is why it is removed in iOS 10)
I was somewhat skeptical, but here's[0] a chart of NPR funding sources. I really had no idea.

Turns out corporations give them a lot of money too.

[0] http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances
Sometimes all you need is a hammer because it's actually a nail.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessma...
> In fact, a significant majority do not lose free agency; should they all be restricted because some people can't handle it?

What's the difference between this argument and "why should I have to pay for the insurance of others who get sick? should we all have to pay because a few can't live a healthy life?"?
Take a look at their "Convenience API" (http://toyplot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/convenience-api.html) that does indeed make simple two-axis plots a one-liner. toyplot.plot(x, y) seems pretty hard to beat!
One word: Amazon.
You don't see potential problems with a national registry of drug users? Like say, employers, snoopy neighbors and political opponents?
An orthogonal issue is that most if not all humans have a hard time distinguishing which aspects (all of them?) of their reality are just abstractions.
For front end, Vue.js. It is what angular 2 should have been in my humble opinion. Any time anything changes in angular or react, both recalculate how the entire application state should be (although there are some workarounds). Vue, on the other hand keeps track of exactly how parts are connected so when one part changes, only relevant sections are updated. When compared to angular 1, the difference is night and day. I added Vue to Amy current app on a page with too many watchers and it worked miracles. I will definitely be using it in the future.
No. But sweeping the floor exists as a function of cleaning the house, and if sweeping was the one thing done without exception, it would be a primary function.

The purpose would be for your house to get cleaned, but we can clean the house without ending in a clean house. We wouldn't however, not have swept the floor, for that would mean we didn't even attempt to clean the house.

Either way, this is semantics. My main point has nothing to do with "primary function" is debatable or not. Entrepreneurs create jobs. This is a fact that doesn't change however you word it.

I apologize if my word choice was poor, but feel free to substitute with your own wording.
The main title says PORN, the article is about PORN, what are you doing at work?
That's not super helpful, and not completely convincing.
I would love to see options for body enchantment. Becoming a cyborg is a very attractive thing, and no virtual worlds required. Can be real humans on real planets
Weaving a budget with org-mode and ledger
Certainly that's someone else's crime, and they need to launder their own proceeds.
Do an ICO.
"event-based" (i.e. asynchronous)
Someone who leaves a box full of spray paint cans out on their porch may be partly liable if some delinquent kids steal it and vandalise the neighbourhood. The young hoodlums are still guilty of theft and vandalism, but the negligence of the homeowner clearly played a contributory role.
Exactly, What's been touted as AI is not AI at all as intelligence requires self awareness.
Wait, you're HTP Ryan?
Is it just me or does this seem to be a scam? My BS detector is going off every second of this video.

I have a feeling the inventor is looking for cash with no substantiated product built.
That's the last thing I look for when evaluating a new language.

Well, actually I came to dislike static typing so much that's a big point against languages IMHO. I concede that it would have saved me time with data occasionally going to the wrong argument/method/function but every time I understand that I'll have to type almost useless stuff like Map(<String>,<String>) I hit back and return to HN home page. Moving to dynamic typing was as liberating as moving away from malloc/free to garbage collection.

I think I could stand languages with implicit typing. All I want is not to have to annotate my code. I'm happily paying some time and tests for that.

Btw, I don't like people downvoting to express disagreement so I'm upvoting you. My +1.
How is "zero" more of an abstraction than "five" ?
not unless the NSA also adds the new optics wherever they split the connections in order to keep us all safe.
> not so the reverse

That big grey text on the right of each arxiv paper is actually a link you can click form the pdf. Took make like N->\inf years to figure that out...

I used to complain about how heavy pdf docs are and therefore preferred websites that contained some metadata with a link to actual content, but websites these days... and at least the .pdf honestly downloads on anroid/iPhone, which are the only two platforms where I honestly care about bandwidth (and even then...)
A good example where gigabit connection makes it usable.
There's no concrete definition of strongly typed, either.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690544/what-is-the-diff...
Along with Java and a few other runtimes / frameworks that you may be familiar with.
+1 for nw.js...Electron is just a bloated version of nw.js
Commercial Pilot Catches Photos of Secret Chinese Missile Test
I can't help but wonder if the stamp person really sent his own collection, or if it was actually someone elses, and if the request for a video of it being destroyed was some elaborate bullying thing.
The subsidies in ridesharing seems to be shifting or easing due to the scale at which these companies now operate. Subsidizing riders is a lot easier at 100m rides/year then at 1b rides/year or 10b rides/year.
Watching Ben's inspired me to finish my Brainfuck-based CPU designed a few years ago: https://hackaday.io/project/4237-mental-1-a-brainfuck-cpu

Right now it has PS/2 keyboard input, and a 40x2 character display output.

The biggest help was his sensible clock design. I modified it a bit in my design, but the techniques he demonstrates in his videos are incredibly helpful and provide a good base to build off of.
The article stated this in a very silly way. Infinite objects existing in nature has nothing to do with whether reasoning about certain infinite objects (e.g. The real numbers) is sound, any more than thinking about counterfactuals is impossible because they differ from the real world.
Zero was invented long after the rest of the natural numbers (to my knowledge this is the case in every culture that independently invented zero). At least in the case of the Greeks, its status was somewhat controversial; I am not sure how other societies viewed it once it was invented.
That is an absurd comparison and obviously the solution in both cases is to deliver something better.
if Google follows through on building a campus there

I wouldn't count on that. They just bought (final) some $600 million worth of real estate in North Sunnyvale.

Those parcels in San Jose were originally acquired for the ballpark that never happened, either. I suspect they offered them to Google at far below their value, as with the A's.
I realize now that I somehow misparsed your comment as saying that you had been charged for other crimes as a result of that transaction, but when rereading it now, the causality is actually in the opposite direction. I guess once they had a solid case for one, they just threw in everything else they found suspicious? Thanks for being so open.
So don't use them? Why would you care about someone writing software you don't use?
It's Oglaf. Oglaf strips
are only occasionally SFW (the author specifically marks them, it's that uncommon).

But yes, the parent probably should have said "NSFW" for those unaware.
I used to say stuff like this, but honestly... don't. If you're mentoring a young impressionable mathematician, explain the trade-offs in pure vs applied work, and explain how to determine which pure math is likely to be helpful in their useful lifetime.

Besides, "pure" and "applied" distinction is hilariously subjective and stupid. IME a lot of theoretical CS is more-or-less accurately characterized "pure math" and also far more financially remunerative than the bullshitty pointless PDE hacking lots of "applied math" folks do. Pure vs. applied is a stupid perspective these days because it almost exclusively defines a delineation among communities of mathematicians during the late 20th century; "useful in the next 3 years to ad tech folks" vs. "long-term/foundational importance in science and engineering" is a more useful and relevant distinction.

But once people choose to focus on pure mathematics, don't shit on them for making that choice. They KNOW it's not a great financial commitment. It's like telling a committed humanist that "no one pays for poetry". Like, they get it already... (and besides, sometimes you're wrong and then you're that asshole that always doubted them.)

Plus, plenty of pure mathematicians make high five/low six figures working 12 months with free trips all over the world. Or 9 months without the trips but with 3 months of freetime every year. And in both cases with near perfect job security. They don't have any social currency in the startup $$$$$$ obsessed world, but I bet they spend a fuckload more time with their kids and enjoy a lot more sunsets than any of startup founders. And probably make more money than the 90% of "failure cases" in the startup world too...

This article is great case-in-point. All the profiled folks are sure to live very comfortable lives doing work they love patronized by lovers of the mathematical arts (or anyways live off of rich endowments one way or the other) without ever having to figure out how to nickle and dime customers.

And none of this is to say that building businesses isn't valuable, since that's more-or-less taken for granted by the current venue. But it takes all types.
Precisely because this doesn't even cross the minds of the conventional, fetishists commonly "challenge" teens and young children on YouTube to, unwittingly, create fetish material for them. This phenomenon is up there in the top 5 most troubling things I've learned about the Internet.
More like, all you need is a Swiss army knife, and there are dozens of different Swiss army knives that can all get the job done. So use the one you are most familiar with.
Ah.. this brings back memories. 7400 nand TTL chip with Low power schotky transistors.
> Bitcoin is volatile and transactions are slow.

The Bitcoin blockchain is slow (as all blockchain are, relatively speaking) but most Bitcoin transactions happen off-chain, for example at the many Bitcoin exchanges, where bitcoins are transferred between customers at thousands of transactions per second using a central clearer (the exchange).
By depositing bitcoins at an exchange, you exchange it for that exchange’s Bitcoin credit, which has no limit on transaction speed, and when you want out you redeem your credit into a Bitcoin transaction.

This page shows the USD price of the credit instruments of the various Bitcoin exchanges: https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html — e.g. a Bitcoin on Bitstamp currently costs 2439.84 USD, whereas the price of GDAX (Coinbase) Bitcoin credit is currently a bit more expensive at 2456.44 USD.
And then after you move on, be cursed for all eternity when they have to find and hire someone with go experience to fix that tiny bug. Costing them 3x as much as if it was just PHP where anyone and their brother can work on it.
It would go something like:

> Zero is offensive and ungodly. With "five", at least there's something there to abstract. With zero, there's not even anything! How can nothing be something?

Cue angry biting of thumbs
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At least their reluctance to implement your feature requests for native formdata parsing seems to address your criticism that the built-in function library is too big.
This provides images you can boot over the internet - you install iPXE on a boot disk of some kind or offer it over your local network through PXE, and then you can choose between images that are booted into directly from their site.
This looks great! You sold me with the object dependency graph alone.

As someone who's fed himself as a PostgreSQL DBA for over a decade now, I'm excited to see what this can do for me. Thank you!
If we find out some alien race started using positive numbers and zero at the same time, do they then become the same level of abstraction?
Some info here: https://github.com/workflowproducts/postage/blob/master/Fact...

Postage is based on 'envelope' and works the same but the envelope repo has more info about architecture: https://github.com/workflowproducts/envelope
I still do my saas projects all in PHP. I mean, I'm not building NASA control software it anything, but I have incurred very few problems due to dynamic typing. Not to mention the fact that I can hire php devs for half of what a ruby dev wants these days.
Yay! Lots of secrets everywhere...
The trusting trust issue is solveable. Also, the deeper you go the more powerful you assume your adversary. If you limit the power of your adversary, you can stop before going fully back to a root of trust you can verify without a computer.
Only data-savvy retailers will survive in tomorrow’s market
I think there is a point here that is being overlooked. The vandalism, a couple of small stickers, would be less detectable compared with a whole missing sign.

I can see such attack methods evolving to produce undetectetable (to humans without software) adversarial images.
Yes, I would expect distinctions between human and machine to weaken. I mean, why would one stay stupid and weak?
Beware, though. It's true that the war on drugs seems to do much more harm than the products they try to prevent people from consuming, but I would worry a bit about a world where big pharmaceutical could suddenly research recreational drugs as business opportunities.

Medicine is only for sick people. Recreational drugs would potentially be for everyone. Plus, they can be made extremely addictive. It's the perfect commercial product.

New drugs already exists that are more addictive and powerful than old ones. Like Fentanyl, for instance[1]. Who knows what research labs would come up with if they threw lots of money and brain power into it?

A global legalization of drugs would be quite a Pandora's box. I'll quote Noah Harari and say it would start what he calls "the chemical pursuit of happiness" [2].

In the end, the risk is that we end up like the woman with an orgasm button[3], or turn us into some kind of vegetative state, as described in "the metamorphosis of Prime intellect"[4].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Deus:_A_Brief_History_of_...

3. http://boingboing.net/2008/09/16/brain-implant-result.html

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Int...
Does this support JSONB column types? I was using Jetbrains Datagrip, which I've been very happy with except for the fact that it doesn't seem to support JSONB columns. I've switched back to PgAdmin 4, but the UI lag is really distracting.
Me too. I'm trying to decipher what was typed, and not sure if I get it right. I'll try with spaces.

So, 2 + 3 * 4 is indeed 14 in J. The reason is J does calculations from right to left, so first 3 is multiplied to 4 making 12 and then 2 is added to that making 14.

The expression 4 * 3 + 2 would evaluate in J to 20 - not to 24. That's because first 3 + 2 makes 5 and then 4 * 5 makes 20. All verbs in J are of equal priority and evaluated right to left - no exceptions for arithmetical + - * % they are all equal and only right to left order matters.

May be I got it wrong and it wasn't 2 + 3 * 4 versus 4 * 3 + 2 but something else which would make 14 and 24 as results. But may be it's just a typo.
A man is teaching his friend's son the finer points of the Queen's Indian Defense. Three teenagers are planning a camping trip, scouring every detail of the map to find the perfect site. Two old friends reminisce about their days in the navy. A young girl hears Maisky playing Bach's Cello Suite No.1 and starts to wonder where she can get a cello from. A Syrian man is learning how to say "I love you" in German.

What are all these zombies doing, staring at their phones?
You can generalize this to: Someone still has to understand everything in order to make it actually useful for humans. You can build a robot to do work previously done by a human, but you can't make it actually understand when it needs to be working and on what. That would be an exponentially harder problem to make a computer solve.

Making computers want interesting things is perhaps THE problem in artificial intelligence. If you can solve it, you've got AGI. You can hand a machine learning algorithm a very constrained environment and it can work out some basic goals, like making a high score go up.

But increase the complexity of the environment and all of a sudden, the algorithm needs to learn how to simulate it, significantly ramping up the difficulty of what it has to do.

Humans are going to start getting inexorably shifted out of things that humans really shouldn't be doing in the first place, to be replaced by the just-as-difficult task of commanding our new robot slaves. Maybe for a little while it'll be difficult for humans to find purchase in the brave new world, but the limitations of machines to literally read our brains and tell us what we want is going to quickly make themselves known and humans all over the world will take on the role of specifying the behavior of machines that are getting increasingly smarter.

You're going to see the same sort of stratification of haves and have-nots you have now, I see little about the new production modes that's going to change the fundamentals of economics. But everybody is going to have more of it, because making things is going to get much, much easier, even easier than it is now, and it's already really easy.
I've posted an issue for it. Thank you.

https://github.com/workflowproducts/postage/issues/334
Chomsky wrote the foreword to a French book denying the Holocaust and spoke at the headquarters of Hezbollah - an internationally recognized terror group - amoung other asinine things. Why does anyone respect this guy?