skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to engage further if your summation of Evolutionary Psychology is that it's "unenlightening".

I can't stand this bizarre trend on the Left that holds up "science" as a vanguard in one context but dismisses it in another if it's politically convenient.
I'd say it has to do more with the absolutely tiny process feature sizes, where transistors stop behaving like switches and the statistical uncertainties of quantum mechanics start becoming relevant.
While I agree with you to a degree most airlines and hotels have APIs that can be consumed to get pricing information there are just restrictions in what you can do with that information.

Not sure about stock prices (I think it's pretty common to pay for real time data there?).

But I can certainly see sites that have a lot of data for their users facing major bandwidth costs if a lot of people were scraping their data. This type of detection isn't really an answer for that, though, as it's easy to mitigate for a scrapper.
What save government wants to stop tourism?
You're in a room. You give it label "room". Then you find a door, you go outside of the room, you don't call everything outside "room", you give new things new names.

For now we're stuck in our universe, we know it's expanding (in something, potentially). So we preemptively give the name "cosmos" to EVERYTHING. It's entirely possible that cosmos is equal to universe. But it's also possible there are other universes out there, or something entirely different.
Wow, beautiful!
So this requires a few things,

First off, single organisms can have pretty advanced local processing of control. An octopus has a nerve cluster for each tentacle that can operate independently of the main brain [1]. So in at least one case, biological brains delegate work out to another region of the body. An argonaut octopus actually detaches part of it body, which as far as i can tell, keeps living for a while. it's kind of creepy. The only thing i can't find an example of, is remote control. A detachable body part, with a nerve cluster, that responds to light or sound seems like what would be needed for the base creature. Evolution hasn't stumbled on that trifecta here on earth. But it sure seems like something that could have come about.

The latency argument isn't compelling. If i can send one message, i can send another hundred billion messages along with it. So, sure only a few thousand round trips, but a fabulous amount of information transferred. There's no actual biological equivalent to a semi autonomous drone, so i'm not sure what that would look like before the creature took to the stars.

There's also no real obvious way for this lone detatched tentacle to consume the resources of a planet. But whatever. I think one entity with those three features might have a chance.

Also, is the creature smart? Does it get to genetically engineer itself? do cyborgs count? That greatly simplifies things as well. The detachable parts could have detachable parts, and recurse down to whatever arbitrary degree is useful.

Alternatively if you admit superorganisms, then everything is much easier.

So anyway, you don't really need to send many messages when the message is "here are the latest designs for industrial architecture to dismantle a solar system and send the resources back" It's up to the billions of lone tenticles and their machines to execute the will of the super brain.

On the other hand, yeah, there's not going to be a galaxy sized amoeba or panther or anything like that. maybe an incredibly fine mist of fungus or mold, but i think it'd be too hard to keep a system like that from collapsing in on itself from too much mass. a galaxy sized ring of spider silk orbiting a black hole sounds like great science fiction. but i can't imagine that working.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Nervous_system_and_sen...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonaut_(animal)#Sexual_dimor...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism
That's really strange, since we've approved >96% of requests, and except for when someone is on vacation, it's usually within 3 days now.

Given how many reply to the approval emails that they found it fast and happy, i definitely find this surprising.

In any case, you are welcome to have those employees reach out to me, i'd love to understand their experience what went wrong.
Yes, they're a serious problem. What I'm saying is that they'd be a much bigger problem for GPS-based car navigation if there weren't logic in place to combine the GPS info with accelerometers and gyroscopes.
Hexagons are what you get when you squish a lot of semi-rigid round things together. It's not like the bees are designing hexagons - look at the cells on the free edges of a comb and you'll see little in the way of sharp hex-ey corners
...and then you can record anything you see, and then here is a way to rewatch it, and then it's a black mirror episode.

Paranoia apart, I'll tend to agree with other comments here.

A device like Google glasses, well why not after all, since you can choose to put them in a drawer (not debating on the fact that you potentially record other people, which is really bad). But having a device you might loose control over and can't switch off ?

It's like those webcam on laptop that can be switch on by a hacker or your OS without you knowing it. First thing I do is to put a paper on it.

Security matters. And I'm finally perhaps a bit paranoid after all.
This kinda says everything, "...compiled by higher education marketing company QS."

Oh, and it has the University of Texas on the list, even though it is over 100 years old !
Binocular vision is enough to resolve this problem. It doesn't really cause many problems to humans.
Guess it depends on the flavor of admin. With some regularity a linux admin "with decades of experience" will show up and announce that openbsd is terribly broken and nothing works, not even the most basic pkg-add command. Uh, did you mean pkg_add? See! Openbsd is so broken they called the command pkg_add while I typed pkg-add. I've never had this trouble with linux!

I'd be worried about letting such a person admin linux servers, but I guess you can limp by as long as you keep your infra to what they already know. Ideally you'd weed such people out before hiring, but maybe if you need to hire an admin you don't know enough to do that?
Countless weeds that will die of drought long before the tree of Google perishes. Those roots go very deep.
The solution to this is simple. Disclose everything. Have these companies destroyed. Have everyone who works for them fired and become unhirable. Have their houses foreclosed on because they cannot afford to pay the mortgages or rent.

That's the only way to ensure that the security is taken seriously.
I believe you misread the two points you're quoting.

The point of the first, is expanded upon later in the article:

>Your brain may automatically make sense of someone’s movements in context, allowing you to guess what a person is feeling, but you are always guessing, never detecting. Now, I might know my husband well enough to tell when his scowl means he’s puzzling something out versus when I should head for the hills, but that’s because I’ve had years of experience learning what his facial movements mean in different situations.

The point is not that we, as people, should not partake in trying to find what someone is feeling, just that we can never be absolutely certain. Now, this would be an arbitrary philosophical point if we don't take into context that emotions are not bits. They're not on and off, but always different combinations of different signals:

>When we place electrodes on people’s faces to record their muscle movements, we see that they move in different ways, not one consistent way, when their owners feel the same emotion. Where the body is concerned, hundreds of studies show that instances of the same emotion involve different heart rates, breathing, blood pressure, sweat, and other factors, rather than a single, consistent response. Even in the brain, we see that instances of a single emotion, such as fear, are handled by different brain patterns at different times, both in the same individual and in different people.

There's no way we can be absolutely correct in emotional diagnosis, just the same as we cannot always be in the black when speculating on the stock market. There's too many factors at work and they'll never (rarely) align in the same pattern.

As for the "consciousness" point, I believe you're misconstruing unconscious to mean subconscious. Subconsciousness, in the practical sense, is part of the philosophical (and psychoanalytical) "consciousness" school. While unconsciousness is just the brain's autonomic functions, like encoding memory and recalling your multiplication tables.
Are there any efforts to make movie-type window styles for real use? The Tron:Legacy style would be a fun one to have, as well as the one used in the computers in Westworld (similar light-blue-on-black)[1] and Interstellar [2]. I'm sure it's a more difficult process than I'm imagining, but it would be really cool to be able to use the window and interface themes of the computers in your favorite show or movie, especially since some have such great designs.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikup60uEg0c
[2] - https://youtu.be/bmz9lMP6aQU?t=2m4s, visible for a brief second just after 2m4s
Are not those people also just speaking their mind?
It's always from Denmark and the Netherlands, these studies. Super-flat places with compact cities. Cycling to work isn't so casual when you have hills around or a 'new-world' spread-out city.
There are a couple needful tweaks to this BOM for anyone wanting to follow this..

Only populate one CPU socket. Zone allocation between two NUMA nodes is kind of hard, especially since Ubuntu 16.04 zfs is pre- OpenZFS ABD where memory fragmentation is reality.

I would recommend better NICs like a Chelsio T5 or T6. Aside from better drivers and a responsive vendor, you can experiment with some of the iscsi offloads or zero copy TCP.

Supermicro seriously under-provisioned I/O on that chassis. I'd add LSI/Avago/now Broadcom cards so you can get native ports to every drive. Even if it's just a cold storage box, it will help with rebuild and scrub times and peace of mind. The cost of this is not bad compared to the frustration of SAS expander firmwares. 2x24 or 3x16 and 4 drives on the onboard if you can skip the backplane expander. Supermicro will usually do things like this if you insist, or an integrator like ixSystems can handle it.

More subjectively, I would also recommend FreeBSD. It seems their main justification for Ubuntu was paid support, which can be had from ixSystems who sell and support an entire stack (Supermicro servers, FreeBSD or FreeNAS or TrueNAS, and grok ZFS and storage drivers to the tune that they have done quite a bit of development.
Internal Reactions to Googler's Manifesto Show Anti-Diversity Views Have Support
Probably would of been a good idea to have references to all those claims.
I know you addressed this, but this literally could have been written in 1999, and what's more, it was probably more accurate then.

Technology has continued to expand, but I'd say the last 20 years have been a continuation of growth that's been happening since the 90's. Not all that much is fundamentally different today than it was in the early 2000's. Yeah, we all have smart phones and social media, and those are certainly cool and important things, but not quite up to breathlessly heralding a new age of humanity like you're doing.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14849775
Most secretaries of state publish pretty detailed instructions on LLC formation, and more support is usually available from a state small business advocate. Sure, there is value in professional advice, but I wouldn't say LLC formation is the kind of thing that requires it.
"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god"

From Aristotle, The Politics.
So you weren't saying that programmers are being rigorous when they write programs, but just that computers are rigorous when they execute programs? I guess I wouldn't really argue with that.
Train Your Deep Learning Faster: FreezeOut
Thank you for introducing me to the term Lysenkoism.
Where do you learn the outdoor and craftmanship skills you'd need to survive on your own in the woods? Lots of backpacking trips with more experienced people?
> As it turns out, those safe conditions render the helmet as unnecesary.

One wonders why competitive track cyclists wear helmets, then? After all, no-one is on the track but the cyclists, all moving predictably, and they minimise the weight of everything else... so why not lose another 400 grams from their race weight?
DeepSense: A unified deep learning framework for mobile time-series processing
I surely hope so. I think people should be allowed to discuss things like this in an open and civil manner, no matter how wrong or flawed their arguments are. As long as they are not openly hurting or disrespecting their coworkers, I don't see the issue with a document like this exploring ideas. When we promote "challenging ideas" and discussion, it applies to everyone, not only those we agree with.
Were the irc bots able to render javascript or were the bots using a cli lib like python requests?

I thought that a client which doesnt run javascript would be a huge red flag.
Nod, I've been more prepared going car camping for a weekend in the summer in a campground within walking distance of a resort than Chris Mccandless was going into Alaska for the winter.

He should not be the benchmark for this thing.
Yeah, I think that's the most common one. Strongly connected with the idea that evolution is "improvement" or some kind of step along a road to being "better", which I've seen trip up a lot of people who normally don't get confused about this kind of thing.
Wow, this paper is a textbook example of begging the question. The author makes a number of completely unfounded generalizations about women and men, then goes on to use those as a basis for protesting against Google's corporate diversity programs.

I wonder if the author would like to keep walking out on his very weak limb, and claim that African-Americans are under-represented in tech because of their genetic characteristics.
Drupal content supports translations, or language neutral.

The site administration is also translatable.
> Yes, but if helmets raise your risk of having a crash to begin with

That wasn't demonstrated in Walker's study. Neither correlation nor causation.

> that's correlation, not causation. Perhaps people who wear helmets are just more careful in general.

No, there is a lower death rate for riders given that they've been in an accident. That rules out rider behavior. Helmet wearers may have lower accident rates than non-wearers, but minor and major injuries often aren't reported, so we don't have great data on that. What we do know is that if you have an accident, your risk of death is lower if there was a helmet on your head.

I'm not sure why that's surprising or debatable. It's armor, it puts shock absorbing material between colliding surfaces. It seems rather obvious it would reduce the severity of the collision. We use padding and shock absorbers and suspension systems everywhere... because they're effective.

Having crashed quite a few times myself, and caused several minor and major injuries on my mountain bike, I'm pretty sure my helmet has saved me. Sometimes I wear body armor and a neck brace as well. My biking friends won't ride with me or let me ride without a helmet, and they expect the same of me.

Anyway, some studies on the effectiveness of helmets have controlled specifically for rider behavior, and ruled that out as a factor in the lower death rates of helmet wearers. Here are some starting points, if you truly are genuinely unsure and want to do your own research.

http://www.bhsi.org/shouldi.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00036941.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598379/
Because Evolutionary Psychology is not science. It makes no predictions. It has no theories. It is untestable. It entirely relies on just-so stories.
I ignore 100% of mails telling me my computer is infected, my paypal account is compromised, my credit card stolen. I even flag the most convincing as scam!

If I was on twitter, I'm sure I would do the same.
They used Processing some I think in the movie which now has a WebGL version.
Those things are all fundamentally different from "the logic in your code is dangerously flawed"
Follow your passion where you have potential and you can do great things!!
As was explained in depth in the HN comments, Red Hat's decision to not provide enterprise support is based on the fact that they don't have the necessary engineers to backport and maintain one of the fastest moving pieces of code in Linux today. All of their btrfs engineers moved to Facebook, and they're still working on btrfs improvements.

There are many decisions involved in deciding what to provide enterprise support for, and whether you like it or not, technical merit is only one of many factors. So Red Hat's decision was likely not entirely based on technical merit.

SUSE still provides enterprise support for btrfs (like we've always done), and there's still plenty of work being done from various large contributors.

[I work at SUSE.]
Actually I think innovation has totally stagnated the last 10 years or so.
If you want some more anecdata, then of all the people I've known, I've only known two of them to have been in a car accident where they were injured; one of them was before I was born. I guess that means that people don't die in car accidents.

> We might as well wear full body armor on the sidewalks

Lacerations and broken bones heal. Broken brains are generally for life.
"99% server uptime is enough!"
Senate Bill 43 Has Been Signed, NAACP’s Missouri Travel Warning in Motion
Here's another one: https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan/blob/master/src/io/lacuna...
> When was the last time you saw a cyclist try and text and ride?

Often. I've also seen a cyclist using a laptop while riding. Yes on the street.
Her toddler suddenly paralyzed, mother tries to solve a vexing medical mystery
Women were allowed into the bar long before hiring them was routine. The New York bar admitted its first women in 1886. But it was in the 1970s (as a result of a class action lawsuit) that firms were forced to routinely hire women attorneys. Today, half of associates in large law firms are women. That's the legacy of affirmative action programs. The change turned out to be self-sustaining, even after the programs were removed.
I assume they are .. however, they take no risks with their shaming.
That was an insightful comment, thank you. Like a few others in the thread, I was skeptical of AR's practical potential - the demos/apps I've seen so far felt like "a solution in search of a problem" - but your examples and concise summary helped me to imagine the range of possibilities.

The ability to "layer contextual information over objects in your field of vision".. I see, that is the crux of it, to further integrate the "real world", the sensory experience of a person, with the global web of information and computing. Great examples you gave of industries that could utilize this, in healthcare, political/social/interpersonal sphere, athletic or intellectual/educational/artistic uses.

It conjures a vision of near future where people enhanced with AR - or maybe "augmented senses" - would have distinct advantages over people without access to such layers of contextual information.
That was quite beautifully explained. I think I feel all of that to a smaller extent if I just turn off all my devices and let myself be alone with my thoughts for a while.
I notice you talk about what you have been doing (programming, proof writing) and what you haven't been doing (watching tv, reading), but not at all about what you'd like to be doing.

Find something you'd like to do, and the only way to do that is to explore other things than what you are currently doing (since you are obviously not finding real satisfaction in it).

Might I suggest volunteering your time or a charitable activity? That can be a very fulfilling activity for some.
> Zfs on Linux has data loss bugs.

Please don't spread untruths. Somebody who doesn't know better might actually believe you.
> It is sadly also common to see...

Why is this sad?
> ... be ready this holiday.

I think everyone needs to spend a year living in the other hemisphere so they know to never again announce something on the Internet as 'happening in summer' or 'ready this holiday'.

'Open-Source' appears six times on the posted page (source). With a properly versioned web page I would have expected it would be easy to publish that as 'Soon-to-be-open-source' and change that to 'Open-source' when it actually is. (Usual ambiguities about what 'open source' actually means to one side.)

Having said that, it does look like a lovely interface, and a good way to manage static sites -- though without a GNU/Linux release I won't be able to try it out.
Especially the battery part.
Why not invent and install spiral escalators? That would give you the high throughput of the paternoster more safely. You could still have a few elevators for travel between the higher up 'elevator lobbies' people mentioned.
I hate to break it to you but they are going to select for their own bias regardless.
Wouldn't you say autonomous vehicles (2020-30), mass adoption of seeing robots for manufacturing and warehouse work (2020-2030), CRISPR-based gene drive to nearly eliminate disease-carrying mosquitoes and other organisms (2020-2030), embryonic germline-editing for human enhancement (2025-40), and possibly Artificial General Intelligence (2030-2050) cause changes as massive as or more so than the rise of the Internet?
If they use a proper vaporizer or an edible or any number of other techniques, the smell isn't a problem.

Only uneducated idiots actually smoke the stuff anymore. There are so much better delivery mechanisms nowadays which are much less harsh on your throat and lungs, it's not even funny.

Source: I used to live in Denver, and I knew a lot of friends and co-workers who used vaporizers and never had a problem with smell.
I used Turbo Assembler in college. Not the Borland version a different one sued by Borland over the name.

My professor joked that ASM operates by voodoo that is really hard to learn and master. I haven't programmed it in a long time. I got VB experience so I am glad to see this, thank you.
A Bizarre USC Case Shows How Broken Title IX Enforcement Is
(I'm not the OP, so I might be misrepresenting taysic's views here.)

I think for clarity I'd add a comma:

> Usually, if it takes work to distinguish, it's not worth it within a work environment.

Such that it's read as:

> Usually, if it takes work to distinguish [whether it's worth it,] it's not worth it within a work environment.

The idea is that in a professional environment, part of "being professional" is avoiding those situations where your comments might be read as unwelcome. With a viable rule of thumb being to just err on the side of assuming they'd be unwelcome in any case where you have to think about it.
That's the point. Relativity is a barrier and we want a way to break through it.