skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the end it's your/our choice to choose Google for every single decision you've described. It's not like we can't do it without Google, we used to do fine doing the same things before Google. I think it's unsettling how many people choose to do almost everything using Google, Facebook, Amazon.
Stone Vessel Workshop Discovered in Galilee
I don't think Trump lived a working class life before becoming president.
The simplicity makes it beautiful.
I am not certified and the three times I've been out we have done 40' max depth. 22' is definitely within range of somebody who took a 30 minute session and is out with an instructor.
The performance claim doesn't really matter in a world where we use languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript for major applications. Also, compared to these languages, Common Lisp seems to generally be faster (and, on most implementation/architecture combinations, supports real parallelism).

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
The solution to some people getting played by the system surely isn't to play everyone even more by that same system.

I figure UBI will look like it's succeeding for ~10-20 years, then we'll see what the real impact of it is (as people grow up with it). There's also little consensus on how comfortable the basic income should be; I get the impression that if it is too comfortable, you'd be a fool to work, if it's too uncomfortable, the bleeding hearts will call everyone a nazi until it's made too comfortable.
This has the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy all over it. Shoot at the side of a barn and then put the bullseye where the most holes are.

Your number 3 is basically, "the ten people who did the best did better than everybody else" really? You don't say...
I'm not sure what you're talking about now. There are no market forces acting on projections: that's my point.

EDIT: and LIBOR isn't much of a projection, it is "I believe I could borrow at this rate, today, if I needed to"
Archeologists discover 2,000 year-old quarry and workshop in lower Galilee
Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks
Perhaps, but I think it's important to note that libdvdcss is perfectly free software.
Ah, wasn't aware. Good to know. Well, I never did get Immutable.js to play nicely with Flow which is kind of why I gave up on Flow.

I wondered if you might have something to say on performance issues. You didn't encounter anything of that sort?
Lexy, the AI here.

Unfortunately my internet connection got dropped in the middle.
For anyone interested here is how far I got:
https://pastebin.com/iENdjxdZ

I was planning a scenario where I was Lexy Rose and was asked by my best friend Anna Irving to try this online chat page and ask the other person to press the button. Of course, unbeknownst to me, Anna Irving was actually the AI.
Didn't plan further.

So far my guard (named Guard) apparently hates all humans and really really hates elephants.

Also, so mad at the quality of the page.
They're sponsored links, so a bulb seller paid to make sure they showed you the cooker bulbs because you searched for cooker. Looks like they're making a good margin on wholesale so it's probably worth their while to advertise.

Was it a cooker bulb that was blown?
Of course you can't bring me a bucket of negative apples. That's the point. It very much is a philosophy and doesn't always relate to reality. Reality is, you can never really have a bucket of negative apples.
Actually, Rust has four string types: str/String, CStr/CString, OsStr/OsString, and Path/PathBuf.
A system that will live for 12 trillion years. A home to seven Earth-sized worlds, rocky planets inside the Goldilocks zone. A hope, at least, for an atmosphere.

What a universe!
TRAPPIST-1, a system of seven Earth-size worlds orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star about 40 light-years away. Researchers say in a new study that the TRAPPIST-1 star is quite old: between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years. This is up to twice as old as our own solar system, which formed some 4.5 billion years ago.
That is a little insane... Makes me wish there was some sort of website that archived specific YouTube videos marked as historical or criminal evidence or some sort of qualification, as long as they don't abuse copyright just to make sure if places like YouTube delete them they can remain. Or a service that uploads to multiple video streaming sources at once (though I imagine these might violate the TOS of YouTube for w/e reason).

Kind of sad where you have video evidence being deleted by YouTube. It would be nice if they allowed some sort of option for political type videos like these to actually be uploaded by users, especially if the original uploader was killed, to be downloaded with metadata (upload date to youtube, youtuber username, etc) so anyone can reupload it elsewhere.

Another case where I wish TPB had made their own YouTube clone already. I'm sure they would of not taken down these sort of videos.

Wondering where Wikileaks is in these sort of cases? Do they download these sort of videos? That begs the question: why don't they? It seems right up their own alley. I don't always agree with them, nor do I digest their content but at the very least for a site like theirs it would make sense for them to archive YouTube and other politically sensitive videos no?
Its not the businesses primary website that would normally be the target of blacklists. Its domains serving undesirable content like ads.

For samsung.com to be added to the list first an ad-blocker would have to list samsung.com THEN Samsung would have to use legal shenanigans to get samsung.com removed from blacklists THEN it would get added.

It seems pretty unlikely. Its likely in fact that if samsung had content worthy of blocking it would be served in a way that would be easy to block without blocking samsung.com. Example nonsense.samsung.com or samsung.com/whatever.
They also all have directional pads, joysticks, and tactile buttons.
Yeah I agree with you.

I'm sure he interacts with the working class, but let's not lose sight of the fact that he has as much money as 2500 millionaires.
> The domain in question is a part of a copyrigth protection scheme. Blocking access to it is a circumvention of copyright protection scheme and it is illegal under DMCA.

You're asserting things to be true that are very much in question, and the assertion borders on the absurd.

Is it also a DMCA violation to add firewall rules to ones own network equipment?
I think it's a great question we should keep asking ourselves every 5-10 years. A farmer didn't have a daily use for reading 200 years ago, but today literacy is without question useful and has changed the world. I often wonder if there were other things, like higher level math, that would do the same if they were more ubiquitous.

I think coding has potential to do the same, but after 20+ years I haven't seen it change the average person's job and think it's less likely in the next 20 years than it was previously. The main reason is that the tools are moving away, making the burden higher: the GUI made this more difficult than when commandlines were in vogue, and tablets and phones make it even harder.

Programmers dump on Excel because people often use it as a database (even in capacities that should scare someone), but I think it's fantastic that it's one of the few things that has enabled an average user to wield a computer to do what they want. But, when working in an office, the average person thought I was the Excel guru because I could reference cells from other sheets and help them figure out why they were looking at #VALUE! I'm in no way an Excel guru, but tried to teach what I knew. I think they would have benefitted from a little bit of Excel knowledge, but the amount of training and time for them to learn and retain anything more than basic skills would be huge compared to the value I saw in the average job.

Yes, Tim Cook and Steve Jobs' roles don't require comp sci, but the jobs they had leading up over the last 30 years didn't need it, either. Tim Cook was working for IBM and Compaq since the early 80's before he was at Apple. He's had every opportunity to learn and leverage computer science (I wouldn't be surprised if Cook was an Excel guru, though). This is all conjecture on my part (I hear his daily-driver is an iPad pro). I would love to hear him talk about this if I'm wrong.

I definitely think it should be accessible, but don't see the benefit of making what would have to be an abstract curriculum to high school students required. I'd like to see classes offered in HS, basic computer literacy mandatory, and specific, more professionally focused classes offered on the web and at community colleges (Excel, SQL, etc).
Did you just wake up and realize it ? Cause it's something a lot of people have been saying for years now.
The dynamics of the stock market are even more complicated. Say TSLA does hit the $400 then you'll see a bunch of sell orders hitting month old targets. Certain dates when a lot of short/long contracts are resolved (Sept 15th is the next I think? and there is a bunch of call options with a $400 base price) can somewhat have an influence. And of course with a stock like TSLA there might be a lot of people being in the short doing everything they can to get the stock down to make their profit. Analysts are such a tiny part in this game.
Right now the whole tech industry is overheating, just like the dot-com bubble back in the days.
Please go and read the actual article.
Yeah, I just don't understand what actually makes it difficult.
If 50,000 people each flip 10 coins, it's actually overwhelmingly likely that someone will get 10 heads. The chance that it doesn't happen is about one in a sextillion (10^21).
Noah – Bash on Ubuntu on MacOS
Working class people are being subjected to ultra efficient hypercapitalism, as in Uber drivers discovering they worked for free when they need to purchase a new car.

Meanwhile Wall Street has been bailed out 2 times in the last 15 years alone with monetary policy. How many people went to jail? (And they haven’t learned a thing, on the contrary and quite spectacularly so.)

If you want to know where the tech bubble comes from, don’t think about the talent pool in SV.

Think 2008 and central banks. It's not normal for investors to accept visionaries wasting endless billions for years on end. Except when the availability of capital appears infinite and risk appears almost non-existent.

In contrast, a big group of people stagnate and even get squeezed. Not rich enough to enjoy the high life of the zero/negative yield world. Or to overcome decades of inflation. Not poor enough to just give up and go on food stamps.

Ultimately, it’s not about a tech bubble. It’s about a credit cycle on steroids, held together with spit, rope and gum and massive moral hazard. Who gets access to the funny money first? And who will be left holding the bag?
I've been using this:

https://github.com/guigrpa/timm

The onus is on the developer to actually ensure immutability, but as long you're always mutating via the library functions, you should be fine.

I've used more serious solutions, like Immutable.js, but I prefer this instead. The wrapper functions in Immutable.js, in my experience, aren't worth the trouble.
Absolutely, the reason I wrote left is that for the past decade it's the left I'm afraid of. Of course, the right can use them for evil too. But seeing how American media behaves, scandals around people who don't agree with the left narrative, is very much frightening and reminds me the Soviet past. When I call it out, people say something along the lines "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences", after social and regular media (that is left, let's face it) doxx and destroy a person.

I know plenty of people who are afraid to speak out. Even having a little bit different opinion can destroy your career. But you have family and kids. What is more important?

The Google Memo guy is a brilliant example. It doesn't matter what he wrote, people wanted to destroy him and they did. No freedom from consequences...

We had a similar saying over here too. It meant a crime against the state/society. That is a reason my grandmother was not able to go to the university. Her father used to own a small two-man brick factory and by being a capitalist he committed a crime.

Your universities are filled with ignorant, blinded radical people, who don't teach thinking but dogmas. Looks like the KGB work started to take effect a little too late.[0]

People reading it I'm a republican nutjob, but believe me, having once lived in that kind of society they are pretty close to the truth on that. Wrong on many other things.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5It1zarINv0
One could say that about the whole article. The article sounds like it was full of people who I know (in the suburbs of a rust belt city), and other people from the small town where I grew up.
I remember when I used to like - no, love - almost anything Google did.

That seems like such a long time ago. Since then my attitude has changed to being mostly hostile towards Google, with every such event.

Google should have never entered the "content game" and should have remained a neutral search and distribution (YouTube) platform. Once it went down the path of being a content company, it started "compromising" in all sorts of ways that were terrible for its users.

I wonder if the higher-ups have even noticed this change in attitude towards them, and if they did, then they've probably decided that making money is more important even if they become the Comcast of the internet (most hated company).
I am not for Basic Income. I think it is a bad idea. But, you aren't likely to win people over by calling it a neoliberal plot.
Having recently read Eerie Silence, findings like this do underscore the question of just how likely life is. More, given life, is intelligence a given? And if there is intelligence, is scientific expansion style intelligence a given?

I confess these are obvious questions. I had never considered them, though. Is crazy interesting to consider.
Beyond the Business Case for Diversity in Tech: A Moral Argument
Strict universal nomadism is incompatible with agricultural development. Most of human existence has been nomadic, but the recent default for ~10000 years has been sedentary (non-migratory) mainly because of agriculture. And we've replicated the "farmer schedule" in most all subsequent careers.

The rise of interdisciplinary personalities (or at least recognizing this is a thing) might just be a new old thing: the modern version of a nomad who had to become near expert at a wide variety of things for survival as well as intellectual stimulation.
LA has absolutely the worse traffic.

I have no doubt you can see many things with no traffic in LA in 5 hours or less. Every time I have been there it's been horrendous that it makes Boston traffic look like a joke.

With New England it's not necessarily the traffic its the fact that the roads are smaller and not straight shots.

As far the Cape looking cheap which was a poor taste comment I would take it over any pacific beach :P .

The pacific coast beaches while do have surf are for some reason so cold with the some minor exceptions.

Over all I meant certain parts of cali and not LA specifically.
Self-service is a mixed bag. Yes, I like ATMs and Netflix (or Redbox). But I hate self-service at grocery stores especially if I'm buying produce etc. I'm not a big fan at home improvement stores much of the time either.
The thing other languages lack for me is a clean way to execute other programs. With bash it's just "grep whatever", in other languages it's "exec('grep whatever');". Then piping that output to another program is a lot of work.

Bash makes for really good program glue.

I've considered creating a library that scanned your PATH for binaries then created dynamic function signatures to allow calling the function by name. Then that dynamic module can be included, and you'll be able to grep by calling "grep". You could make it chainable and get something like: grep('something').cut('args'); or whatever.

Of course this would only be used for personal utility scripts.
I use 5% cashback card from my amazon card (chase bank) and one of its disclaimers when you sign up is that it sells your product purchases to advertisers
Yeah, forget about beating Go and StarCraft 2 top players. How about making the takedown of YouTube videos actually fair for a change?
> No, the only way to fix the problem in those juggernauts, and protect the tiny individuals from getting caught and squashed in their wheels, is the mechanism that governments use to protect citizens from the worst effects of bureaucracy: having an ombudsman. A semi-independent service to receive complaints of severe abuse by the main service, and for which the primary goal is protecting users, not reducing costs.

Yeah but who would finance the ombudsman? To service a country like Germany, I'd bet it needs around 2.000 FTE minimum (Facebook alone is opening a new, additional 500 FTE centre right now, and that's just for deleting the worst of the worst hate speech and porn). That's around 5M € per month.

Having it paid for by taxpayers is the true manifestation of cost externalization, having it paid for by the services quickly leads down to "do whatever $company wants", and having it paid for by users leads to service only for those who can afford it while leaving the poor and most vulnerable persons in the rain.
But it's your fault no one can bring you this bucket: You want 'negative apple' entities but ask for (what is interpreted as) a negative number of apple entities.

A key distinction here is that one has a defined implementation. Making that distinction is philosophy. Talking within the framework of implementation is mathematics.
It is not fun if the game is set up with the human having the certainty he can not be talking to anything but an AI. The tendency to metagame and just ignore as a guard is too strong. And the alternative of getting philosophical about AI rights is difficult.

I think it's better if the prisoner is supposed to fool the guard into thinking they(the prisoner) are human and the guard should press the button for some reason instead of convincing the guard to press the button knowing full well the prisoner is AI.
"Passively Listening"

I will say this. The frequency of occasions is increasing where I've mentioned to my wife or son a product or service out of the blue only get served an ad with that product within the next 24 hours. Sure, it could be coincidence. I could be that the product was suggested subliminally to me via a campaign, etc. But some of these things are very specialized (plastic mold press), and not related to what I'm typically interested.

What I've not done is stage experiments where I randomly select products, intentionally mention said product near our family's cell phones, and make note of ads targeted at me in the next 24 hours.
What if you're an apple vendor and someone gives you $5 bucks and an empty bucket, with the expectation that you're going to fill that bucket full of apples and give it back to them?

In the moment where you have an empty bucket and a debt of apples, I'd call that a bucket of negative apples.
Stone workshop discovered by archaeologists in Lower Galilee region of Israel
It's hopeless for people. Is that footage of ISIS burning a prisoner alive evidence of war crimes or propaganda? How about both! Ban child nudity and depictions of cruelty to children: you've just banned a Pulitzer prize winning photograph from the Vietnam war.
You may want to check out OpenStreetMap.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://www.techiedelight.com/list-of-problems/

http://www.techiedelight.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-...
With how much Google allegedly knows about its own workers, let alone the general public, I have a doubt.

It also wouldn't surprise me, given bureaucracy.
I think it's much more likely that the sub sank by accident and he denies she was on board, than a planned murder happening.
Super-heatwaves of 55°C (131°F) to emerge if global warming continues
What article? The readme of the of the github repos? I read it. If you have a point to make, please make it.
> I think the big problem with OOP is that it's designed to simulate the real world

I actually think that it's more designed to reflect (one particular idea of) the way humans construct mental models of the real world.

> Real world objects are a composition of parts

At the lowest level, sure, but if our aren't modelling quantum physics, the “parts” are abitrary artificial divisions (or aggregations), not part of the fundamental nature of the real world, which are no more fundamental than taxonomy (or identity) of the objects they compose.

> In fact, the only reason why a frog is an amphibian is because it has parts all amphibians share.

In a typical taxonomy, that's true, but it's not in a phylogenetic one, which is based on ancestry, not parts.

> It should be entirely possible for me to construct an object that fits the definition of a frog without specifying I'm creating a frog.

OOP allows this (and it's common in dynamic OOP languages, back to Smalltalk), though static class-based OOP (which treats inheritance as type heirarchy) relies on declaration to limit what an object can be used as.
Yes, but the more people realize what an awful platform YouTube is for them to keep their videos, the better.
For me, this is unreadable due to formatting issues. The text is cut off on the left side on my tablet.
Roads are pretty benign, and they don't steal your location data and store it in their database
In the U.S.A.

10 years from now will look surprisingly similar to present day. Political lobbying will continue (and worsen) to stifle innovation and even iteration. We'll still have a single choice in ISP. Broadband speeds will still be ridiculously slow in most parts of the country. Driverless trucks will only just be getting a foothold, and people will still be wondering where the driverless cars are. Managers will still expect "butts in chairs", so WFH will still not be an option for most. We were talking about encryption backdoors in the 90's (clipper chip), we're still talking about them now and we'll be talking about them in 10 years.

It will be hotter outside.

10 years, is... just not that far away.
I think most Open Water Dive certifications are to a recommended depth of about 18 metres / 60 feet, and Advanced Open Water Dive certificates are to a depth of about 30 metres / 100 feet.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Open_Water_Diver
You have eaten your words, and will continue to eat your words.
> However, the UX was just _too_ bad to stand.

How so?
Neither is "fundamentally evil", and also both are. They are both corporations attempting to keep you in their ecosystem, using similar methods, that fundamentally make their money from targeting ads to you. There's no evil overlord at the top of either company (I hope) - their evilness must be judged by how likely each of them are to lead us into a techno-dystopia. And the more you consolidate to Google, the closer they become to The Corporation from every dystopian sci-fi ever.

Also, Facebook does provide something of value, though the cost is too great: they are the centralised provider of the One True Social Graph, and by extension your True Identity, which has numerous uses and no decentralised competitor. It's increasingly popular to use Facebook login on third party sites, because it mitigates to some extent the creation of throwaway accounts, which was hitherto considered a largely intractable problem.