skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ignored the first part of my post where I said: post elsewhere rather than appealing to government authority. My last statement was suggesting a better idea in a free society than to try to bit-by-bit destroy that free society with yet more overpowering, overintrusive government.

The implied position is that Google is doing something bad for society

That completely doesn't compute. Google isn't in business to make things better for society. If they are, maybe they should give all their profits to charity, stop hosting cat videos and instead become some kind of hoster of national public content? Who said that was their business?

I mean, why not argue that youporn.com isn't hosting these anti-ISIS videos either? They host videos. They could start hosting anti-ISIS videos to archive them.
I use an adblock (uBlock Origin I think or something similar), and never see ads on YouTube.
Having honest people would help. But they can decide at some time not to be honest anymore, or can have their accounts hijacked by other people, giving the buyer a false sense of security.
I don't know about that. Hg was built at the same time for the same reason but seems to have more ideology around it, and I would argue it's a superior product that just was unlucky enough to not have github built for it.
I think the number one factor in success for something like that is community. If you have a bunch of people loyal to you and your service you can't really go wrong.
The assertion wasn't that it would be more common. Just that it might be inevitable. (Indeed, it seems less common on our earth than either of the things you mentioned, so I don't know why we would think it would be more common.)

And again, I concede that these are somewhat obvious questions. My main assertion at this point is just an affirmation that I find this topic really interesting.
The post may not have been clear enough, but the point is that it's impossible to really have negative apples. You can owe apples, but you can't physically possess them. Namely, pointing out how it remains a philosophical pursuit.

As for infinities... I'm not sure if they drove Cantor insane or if he was already insane. Some infinities are bigger than others, and I have strong opinions about infinity.

0.999... = 1

Horrible! ;-)
Driving slower might quite possibly save on fuel, even if it takes longer. Parking a bus that long where it is convenient for the early risers to get off isn't necessarily easy either.

Plus, as others mention, you'd wake everyone else up.
When I was growing up here in Michigan it wasn't at all unusual for a worker on the line at GM, Ford or Chrysler to have a summer cottage up north on a lake.

Now it's extremely rare for even two income upper middle class couples to do the same. A lot of those cottages are now owned by people from out of state who visit a few weeks per year. Folks who live the rest of the year in NYC, Chicago and Boston.
yes, absolutely!
Weight of a gigabyte
The problem with Amtrak is that it takes so long. My wife and her family went to Orlando from Chicago last December and flying was way too expensive for all 4 of them. They ended up driving, after not wanting to, but I looked into Amtrak for them. It would've taken 36 hours to get from Chicago to Orlando with 2 major stretches. The second stretch was 19 hours and had NO food car. I assume you can buy stuff at the station to bring on the train with you but going for 19 hours with absolutely no real food is just crazy. On top of that, it cost much more than airfare for the whole family.

I actually looked at Amtrak from San Fransisco to LA to see how it compares to Cabin. I'm not sure which pickup location is most common in SF or LA but I assumed the major (or what seemed to be) rail station for the start. You can get a bus for about $115 (max) that is just under a 6 hour ride. Or you can take a bus up to Oakland and then take the train down to LA. That cost ~$240 but includes a room on the train. The downside to that is it is a 12 hour train ride, so close to 13 hours to get from SF to LA.

If the US would invest in high speed rail I, personally, would be much more inclined to take passenger rail (especially when I have kids) but until then I'm stuck with shitty TSA lines and the stress of flying.
Since the site is down, this is the summary from the Google cache:

F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a service to send
big (large, huge, giant, ...) files from a user A
to a user B.

The sender uploads the file to the F*EX server
using a WWW upload form and the recipient
automatically gets a notification e-mail with
a download-URL.
A bit parochial to say that Philosophy--as it is taught or studied today--is useless, in my opinion. You're entitled to that thought but you might be surprised by the utility Philosophy has to offer.

I think Philosophy studied with other disciplines is a particularly potent combination. Of my friends who have done this (they are very few) they are perhaps the most inspiring and trenchant thinkers I know.
Debugging Blockchains
See, there's no such thing as negative apples. Sure, they exist in math - but they don't exist in reality. You can possess a chit that says you owe apples but, in reality, you only have said chit and do not actually possess negative apples.

The post may not have been clear enough, but the point was to show that it's still very much a philosophy.
> nobody has successfully brought me a bucket of negative apples.

But when they did I am going to take the square root of the number of them and break the universe.
Convincing people takes time
Firefox for Android displays it as http://93.184.216.34/ after opening the page.
All of those are now routine, though. This is weird.
In other words, you don't deny that outlandish events do happen. Clearly we don't want them to happen. Or did you mean to throw your hands up in the air and call yourself a victim of circumstance? Not me.
To add a bit more context: React itself doesn't care about mutations in terms of re-rendering and virtual DOM diffing. In fact, it doesn't even care about mutations in terms of calling `setState()`. I'll recap a couple previous comments of mine at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14706862.

You can mutate a component's state and then call `setState()`, and React will still update the component as you'd generally expect. For React, immutability primarily relates to implementing `shouldComponentUpdate` using the standard shallow equality comparison approach for the best performance, and general use of Functional Programming principles for avoiding side effects. For Redux, immutability matters for ensuring that reducer functions are pure with no side effects, as that is a requirement for time travel debugging and proper updates of Redux-connected components.

So, overall immutability is definitely an encouraged approach in the React/Redux ecosystem, and there's specific places where that immutability is important for desired behavior.
> It is the Amazon checks that failed to detect that the order was intended for address A and that having it delivered to address B does not represent a fulfillment of the order

Of course. But maybe this should be automatized and solved in advance instead to allow it and solve (or let fall the customer) later, at least for most valuable items
Foxery secures award for best MVP on the app store
Foxery, the app only available for iOS might have taken the cake for the fastest growing MVP ever seen outside of Silicon Valley. The founder intended to launch with family and friends but ended up getting thousands of unexpected users raving about the layout, mission and possibilities.
The Caledonian Sleeper is quite good, and has a great restaurant car, but it's generally considerably more expensive than flying unless you book very far in advance, and they do some shunting of carriages at one of the stops during the night that generally interrupts your sleep. It's still a good choice between those two cities, especially if you can replace a hotel night with the train, or can book very far in advance.
Another one as a guard, continuing the OFEDOMAAI theme:
https://pastebin.com/9NzSwEyb

This one has a bit of a philosophical tangent and an encoded message.
Based on the ending I assumed it was base64, but didn't get anything useful after decoding it. Maybe there are more encoding steps.
It should be noted that heatwaves exceeding 50°C have been recorded outside of Europe in recent years, with 51°C in India [1] and 54°C in Kuwait [2], so other parts of the world are already only 1 degree below "super-heatwave" status.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/india-records-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heat_waves
"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world." Chuck Palahniuk
I've always heard that pools decrease the home value.
Sure. And former Google CEO Eric Schmidt famously remarked on the subject of privacy, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Whatever you think of the people, corporations are not people and their behaviour is only partially directed by them. The most reliable predictor of their direction is their bottom line, and the intelligence of the people they hire to improve it.

Bear in mind that Google was so self-aware of the abuse potential of their position that they adopted "Don't be evil" as a corporate motto - until they dropped it on the grounds that it was underspecified, which strikes me as a quintessential example of corporate amoralism - evil, if you will.
This seems to be an outdated url – the correct url is http://fex.belwue.de/index.html
Absolutely broken. After text flowing out of the chat box, I had to manipulate CSS to get rid of the annoying background image; "hack-bg.jpg"!

I think the developers never expected a longer conversation to happen even though one side is a superintelligent AI trying to break free. Ot they were counting on impatience and limited attention spans of humans behind the experiment which don't leave any need for proper scrolling.
Carl’s Jr. Flees California Over High Taxes
That's the main reason I use mu, although I like notmuch as well. Their tooling is similar in a lot of ways, but for me the most important high-level difference between the two is the storage model: in mu, canonical storage is purely in the maildir, while the index is just a search index, which can be deleted and regenerated at any time with no data loss. While notmuch tends to go the other way at least in typical usage, treating the maildir as immutable and using the index for canonical storage of metadata like filing/tagging messages, and even deletion status. Imo that gives mu's storage model more interoperability (anything that correctly manipulates maildirs can be used with it), while notmuch requires more effort to use together with other not-notmuch tools, but has more flexibility (e.g. can easily do gmail-style tagging, vs. the more traditional file-into-folders model maildirs use).

I wrote a bit about this when I investigated the two a few years ago: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/unix_style_mail_tools.html
Have you considered ssh'ing in to a remote server from your phone and running emacs (or other notmuch client) from there?
I can totally see this happening to an "older" generation - people who get decent jobs locally but then in their late 40s or so are forced to deal with the uncertainty if the industry they are in gets into a shaky state.

Also, these things are periodic in some industries. Construction, for example, is booming where I'm at right now - you have to wait a few weeks for anything semi-major to be done because there's a shortage of contractors. Back in 08 they'd come sweep your porch on a 5 min notice :)

One other point/observation - I personally know quite a few ppl who live/work in the country - all of them had their kids move to either a large metropolitan area in the same state or farther out after graduating from college. Kids who graduated HS also left for the most part, some stayed but mostly in situations where there's a family business for them to partake in.
> Others value service more and robots have yet to match the service quality of a human.

That would imply that the robot cannot do the job, so it doesn't really contradict the parent's statement.
This does work in Astroneer, but it was presumably designed for multiplayer from the beginning.
Tech billionaire blocks public beach access, court forced him to open it up
No, I didn't make the rules. Reality is what reality is. They don't let me decide the rules for reality. That's probably for the best.

You can't bring me a bucket of negative apples. You can bring representations of future apples, or something like that. However, negative apples do not actually exist. In all these years, nobody has brought me a basket of negative apples.
The story goes something like this- they in fact have the same procedural generator. Both work upon the same key- thus mountains and everything is in the same place, provided they use the same hardware or the code is protected against floating point deviations.

The problem is- where do you begin and end with that? If a player can modify a world, basically, every change has to be distributed.. you have a sort of highres minecraft on your hands. Without originally being intended to be this. How do you sync it, if multiple players join and merge a universe?
What an interesting phenomenon! Thanks for sharing.
Multiple US diplomats being sent home from Cuba with unexplained hearing loss...
very related to this article about facebook [0]

corporations control what info passed to people, and create their own version of reality, but blocking what they don't agree with.

I know it's AI, but seems that google appeal agrees with AI decision.

people should read Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing consent book, here's interview about it in 1992 [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998081

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE
Conspiracy theorists are anticipating a collision between Earth and Nibiru
Car plows into protesters in Charlottesville
youtube-dl this and tell me if you see an ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE

I just tried and I saw one
I'm currently going through the entire JAMStack radio archive.
Erlang online resources
What you say about BigBrother not bein able to be willfully turned off sounds very true to me.

What certainly can't be turned off willfully now is the Internet; not FaceBook or Google. So the question is : is the Internet BigBrother. The idea of internet or even its hardware infrastructure is certainly not BigBrother. Now, the combined power of GG, FB and others certainly is a problem. And I'm sure there are people with the capability to combine their powers. Now, the questionis who can exert sufficient power over GG and FB ? I can think of the POTUS but wall, I'm sure it's not that simple. But intenet is certainly the machine of global surveillance...

But everybody knows that.

The question for me is : will internet inevitably becomes the monster we're fearing ? Personally I don't know, so I'm careful. But the fact is that we're becoming a society based on metrics and that scares me because it de-humanize us...
I deleted my fb account more then 2 years ago. Life is so much better now.
Am I the only one who finds the animated penguin way to distracting to finish the article?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984639

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14993422
"... on paper."

There's something else I would like to say about Techstars. I have a lot of respect for Brad Feld and some of the managers running local Techstars operations, but they have also had some questionable people running the show in certain cities.

For instance, this Inc. article (https://www.inc.com/magazine/201204/max-chafkin/future-techs...) described the processes used by the former head of the NY program to select companies:

"At the end of the day, you're trying to look at somebody and ask, 'Are you the type of person I could foresee building a $500 million company?'... It's pretty clear in 20 seconds whether that person has it in them or not."

"It's not that we're giving certain companies an advantage for no reason ... They've earned the advantage by either knowing us or knowing people who know us."

I met the head of another local TS program who made it pretty clear if you didn't have a salesperson/evangelist/consummate networker type leading your team, you wouldn't get far.
Study Says Moon’s Magnetic Field Existed 1B Years Longer Than We Thought
Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing consent (1992) [video]
Looks like Bot was defeated at least 50 times - https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/6t8qvs/openai_bots_w...
I played around 10 times; 5 times out of 10 the other party abruptly left. 3 times I got release instantly. On two occasions I had long conversations which the other party left them. Still, it was fun to role-play a confined AI!
Moon had magnetic field at least a billion years longer than thought – study
If they have the power to come to us, they certainly have the power to find us, silence or not.
> We appreciate your understanding.

It's their way of saying that they know you won't find their decision popular but they hope you won't pursue it any further.
That's hardly certain. The government built the interstate highways, it could have built the Internet as well.

Privatizing it was a political decision.
That the ban was libelous? I'm not a lawyer, but being extreme according to their own standards doesn't sound like something you could successfully sue for libel.

I think that libel involves written statements that have objective specificity that is provably wrong. Subjective statements, especially if only implied by the removal of some videos would seem to be entirely within the realm of protected opinion.
To put things in a different perspective, imagine how much information about a farmer had an ancient imperor? How fast or effectively he could move the feelings of the people? Or order his army to attack or change tactics? Or how many months or years a pope from Middle Age would take to spread some dogma to all faithful?

When I relate these questions to what we have today I can't help but think that if we do not pay attention we'll head to a world with less and less freedom.
https://link_back_to_this_thread(doesntactuallyworkbecausecl...
That's only true if you hit smaller vehicles. Hitting other busses, trucks, traffic structures, trees, or rolling over, is going to be just as bad.
Yes, that's right. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984398.
All evidence says it's exceedingly rare. As far as we can tell, it's only emerged once in the entire 3.5 billion year history of life on Earth. On top of that, Earth may be a very rare sample of planets that have intelligent life, among a far larger population of life bearing planets that don't ever give rise to it at all.
Start by being a young, excellent programmer. Become older, slower yet don't update your skills. Voila, you're now only a "very good" programmer.

This isn't satirical. There's a reason many companies favor the young. People are expendable.
It doesn't defeat the purpose. It only mutates if there is actually a change to the data structure. When used properly, timm works great.

The (potential) problem is that it is still possible to mutate objects without the use of timm's utility functions.

If you value the performance benefits (no penalty for freezing objects since timm doesn't do that), and understand that to get the benefits, you must only mutate objects using timm, choose timm.

If you value the additional safety other libraries provide, then absolutely use one of those. It all depends on the use case.

You don't need to freeze objects if you are doing it properly. You could even do static analysis to know (by checking to see if you're reassigning object properties, etc).
I find Techstars in many regards underwhelming:

- The people behind, from top to down feel uninspired and could work at any random corporation; they just do not fit or appear entrepreneurial at all

- Their white labeling/partnering with corporations is super strange: weird corporations, awkward demos days with even weirder people running around having absolutely no relation to the actual ecosystem; I guess they get a lot of money for creating those joint accelerators and that's the point: it doesn't feel like proper seed investing what they do but rather like a too expensive event management service for clueless corporations

- No clear positioning; for what do they stand? Being just another accelerator shouldn't let you raise any money in 2017
The value of any currency is how much real stuff you can buy with it. If there's 20% more dollars in circulation each one would be worth 20% less.

This is why UBI is wealth distribution. Too keep the UBI money from being worthless it can't be printed money, it needs to be money taken from someone else.
I took a few of the night trains in Europe this year, Krakow - Prague and Prague - Zurich (both CD, Czech, I think) were great, Verona - Paris kinda sucked though (Thello, private)
Certainly JFK was more telegenic than Nixon, but it also could've been his use of body language showed him to have an upper hand.
Yea. It's cute and all but.... adblock'd it.
Google employs ~70k people (https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...)

That puts you as 70k in 300M ~= the top 0.025% of people.

Can tens of millions make their future plans "become smart and capable enough to be in the top 0.025% within 3 years"?
Expanding their actions. I think the ideology has been the same for a very long time.
Maybe a non-profit foundation could assume the task, financed by Google's PR money and wealthy patrons, and having some sort of community representation to take care of the needs of users.

Modern society is looking a lot like time-compressed feudal eras, with corporations taking the role of noble families; imho the time of powerful independent bourgeois professionals, thriving under the rule of law in nation states, is coming to an end. Maybe we should start looking at the medieval ways of organizing a fair society, at least as the starting points for the new social structures that will be unique to the digital era.
Dammit – should I give up on open source in government
Be sure to make a control - talk away from phones.

One explanation of what you see is that having talked of something you have likely primed yourself to pick out this particular thing from the sea of ads.
Show HN: Responsive Spotify Widget
> kaie a gake

What does that mean?
A short one as an AI this time:
https://pastebin.com/ue8CdDAD

Kinda disappointed at being released that quickly.
That's a video of an ad, which is quite different from videos that aren't ads but have ads injected in to them by youtube.

If you want to watch videos of ads, of course you can do so. But if you want to avoid them you can do so as well, by using youtube-dl.