skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Possibly. But if someone is actually unfit enough to be "gravely" hurt, and multiple generations of their ancestors were all too unproductive to afford IVF and pre-selection even when not under full competitive pressure from superhumans ... then what kind of a person is this, who we are so concerned about? Does his/her loss of competitiveness deprive humanity of so much, that it is better to hold back humanity's best+brightest?
You're missing my point. I KNOW how bigger projects are done. My argument is something like this:

Imagine if people kept on saying "Engineering isn't just about building things, it's about design and aesthetics, it's important to know the elements of typography. It's all about that. As a Jr developer you can get away by not caring about design and beauty, but as you go up, it won't fly", then this would annoy most of us because even if it was an absolute requirement to know theory of types and aesthetics in order to do a work as an engineer in a bigger company, that ISN'T fundamentally engineering.

Engineering at its core is about building things, and on it's shoulders other elements (like design, users, engineering management etc) stands. Just like if you are an educator, at it's core, it's about teaching.

> Suddenly, I realized that I could achieve more by engineering people through writing design docs, code review, and cat-herding.

And you'd discover that by learning psychology, you are achieving even more. The problem is, in that case Psychology to HR is the same as Legal to HR, it's expansion of domain.
The thornier ethical/political problems surround the embryos that are discarded... A living organism with human parents is, at least in some sense, a human. To "discard" one on the basis of a disability while giving another a chance to live can be construed as a philosophical cousin to some of the most dangerous forms of discrimination.

Especially in America, where the right to life movement still holds a lot of political and religious/cultural sway, this will be an especially hard sell...
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I have read through about eight pages of one of Knuth's most recent pre-fascicles.[1] It took me about a month (on and off). I did all the exercises (trying the harder ones for at most a couple of hours or so before giving up), wrote programs to explore the things introduced, etc. It was good, quite doable, and a lot of fun. (Also, I found a few errors and got some of those Knuth checks.)

The best way to view Knuth's project with these volumes is that takes in all published computer science on a particular topic, digests it, and outputs into the books some sort of "summary" of the field, or whatever he considers the most important bits, but still organized as readable/learnable textbook material, and in the way he thinks makes for best exposition. (In other words: he's doing his best to explain, and his best is very good indeed. Often Knuth's writing is clearer than the original papers, and a lot more fun.)

[1]: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/knuth/
Also, it's applied in completely the wrong way. You don't watermark to prove ownership, you watermark to prevent unpaid use.
People with Down syndrome have high life satisfaction.
I'm 88% Eastern European by Family Tree DNA test. Terroir and all that stuff.

I think that the racial discourse is not just unfair and smelly, but also unfruitful. You ought to really look at culture. This won't help the right with the left, of course, because they hate to admit cultural differencies either.
That's always been true, and frequently been exploited throughout history.
>The emotional experience of dealing with racism is tough, especially if you’re the target. I think what’s worse, though, is not dealing with it and not being given any tools for dealing with it—to experience the injury and then not know how to deal with it.

This. I am of mixed South/Southeast Asian descent, but I frequently get confused for being Hispanic. Growing up in SoCal, one would think this is not a problem. My best friend was a Persian-American Jew, and my first crush was a Japanese-American boy. Ironically, the times when I felt most out of place were when I was around either side of my parents' relatives who were not mixed, and more culturally homogeneous.

And yet, I will never forget the summer I spent on Catalina Island, during the early 1990s and the heyday of Gov. Pete Wilson and the anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric of Prop. 187. I wandered into a gift shop, and was just walking around looking at items, and the white store owner's first words to me were, "If you're just browsing, please be aware that we have cameras all around."

I remember not knowing how to process what she said. It was only later that I realized that she had misjudged me. It was deeply hurtful, but I swept it under the rug, not knowing how to deal with it. 10 years later, I would experience the same type of hurt in my high school geography class, hearing my classmates mimic South Asian accents and ridiculing the names of places like Lahore. And I still did not know how to deal with it. Sometimes, even growing up in an ethnically diverse environment is not enough to steel one's self against the insidious nature of racism. Thanks for posting this.
Replace "unique soul" with "unique set of genetic attributes."
> Think about it: how many pieces of software design have remained in heavy use worldwide for 30 years. The fact that no one bothered to replace it in all that time is proof enough that

I think you've got this backwards. The worse a piece of software is the harder it is to work out how it works, upgrade it, replace it with compatible software, etc.

More examples: plenty of people knew OpenSSL was awful but have you seen the code? Nobody sane is really going to want to work on it. It took a catastrophe to change that.

An even better example: LAPACK. It's been around since 1992, and until fairly recently was written in FOTRAN77. Yes, the one where function and variable names can't be longer than 6 letters or they won't fit on punch cards. Take a look:

http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/dc/dd2/group__doub...

Yes, nobody is going to rewrite most of that. (Actually there is Eigen now thankfully, but it took some time!)
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Where do you draw the line and who decides that? Right now we're stuck in a situation where some people with strong religious convictions will never support even researching this type of thing. The "solution" we thus have is to wait for them to die and hope that future generations don't think similarly.
Can a mod add "July 25, 2017" to the title? It's not that long ago, but I thought this might be new.
And no SD card support, which is a deal breaker for many people.
Is SEPOS based on an open-source or proprietary derivative of L4?
Of course they are shrinking seats.

Their goal is to make ever-increasing profit, and they will get more and more efficient at it.

Whenever an article like this comes up I am shocked that it is "news". I thought everyone knew by now things are not what they used to be because everyone is trying to make more money. That is how the Western world functions. The sooner you get used to it, the better.
How do you begin to even read that notation stuff? Do you know of any resources for learning it?
Thanks for the correction.

Do you think we're currently equipped to breed a super race?
The author discusses some caveats to this approach. We might also take a critical lens toward trust as a default stance by applying an understanding of systems of oppression. I love the way this is discussed in AORTA's facilitation guide (http://aorta.coop/portfolio_page/anti-oppressive-facilitatio...):

> There are a few community agreements that participants often bring up that we don’t tend to use or bring with us. Two of the most common ones are “assume best intentions” and “default to trust.” The reason we don’t use these is because when someone is unable to do this (say they’re feeling untrusting of someone, or unsafe), having a community agreement telling them to do so isn’t going to change anything. These agreements aren’t always realistic, especially when we take into consideration that when people have been harmed by sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, they/we build up necessary tools to care for and protect themselves/ourselves. Agreements we offer instead that capture the spirit of these are “we can’t be articulate all the time,” “be generous with each other,” or “this is a space for learning.”
It seems to vary a lot by school for historical reasons though I haven't studied the subject. Some schools it's been connected to electrical engineering forever. Other schools it grew out of math. There are areas of EE that have very little to do with computers, especially decades ago, so I suspect that a lot of it is historical happenstance.
> The question in this case is whether the original Bitcoin could survive after the fork if this support is maintained.

When I read this kind of statistic, I'm a bit confused about why not, unless the 92% are planning to use some of their resources to try to actively disrupt the original chain (by censoring 100% of transactions or something).
I like this rule because not only does it seem to make me and the people I interact with happier, when it doesn't work (rare), I get to enjoy my warm and fuzzy moral high ground feelings. Like my dad taught me, you're never wrong to do the right thing.
Everything you say is true, but the protests and public comments need to happen anyway, for the record, since the current regime won't be in power forever.
Not parent, but in the comment ancestry.

Yes, as I said, I find typing on a screen difficult and I've put plenty of effort into trying.

To draw a close parallel, dyslexic people have been forced for years to use conventional mass market writing equipment and told that they were stupid for finding that difficult. Mercifully people have stopped doing this. Same applies to left-handers if you want a broad example.

I find this dogmatic "everyone must be the same" and "there's only one way to make a phone / writing tool" quite bizarre and a bit paternalistic. We're not all clones. We don't all have exactly the same needs, or requirements for 'optimum solutions'.

I'm happily typing this on my BlackBerry Passport, which wider than some other people's phones, and sometimes draws comment. But it does the job I need it to so I'm happy.
I wonder at what point would you say "Yup, that's been a failed experiment"?

Do your ideals have a metric by which they may be considered?

Do you believe the 'lesser of the two evils' to be a false dichotomy for this case?
So your saying that they don't lose money on new housing units, but gain it?

If the city doesn't make enough money, then it become bankrupt. Roads, schools, sewers and police can't function properly anymore. The money has to come from somewhere!
Couple thoughts:

a. Copyright isn't about audience, it's about author. Ask if the person whose work your using would care, not the people seeing it

b. copying is copying every time, not just after the n-th time

c. credit acknowledgement is good, but it doesn't pay the rent for people who work to create content

d. a rough rule of thumb would be whether you're using art to support a profit motive. Anything that happens for your work would be considered in support of a profit motive.

e. "ask" in point a is not used in the figurative sense
Yahoo is now part of Oath
Egyptian Cryptocurrency Exchange Coming This Month
Last month, the Central Bank of Egypt has shot down rumours that suggested it would allow banks to handle cryptocurrencies.
Just one man's opinion, but if you're looking for a quality phone for Project Fi, the Pixel is all-around very good, especially relative to the Nexus 6. I can't speak directly to the Pixel XL, but I've been more satisfied with my Pixel than any iPhone or Android device to date, and the general sentiment from tech reviewers seems to echo my opinion on it.
This is exactly why I think of bitcoin as a pyramid scheme. Early adopters buy some entrance into the system (via mining or currency purchase) and then focus on recruiting more people to drive up their purchased value.
jotato: I believe this can be defeated by tricking the watermarker in to generating 1000 distinct watermarks for the same image.

azdle: That won't work, because "there's exactly one distinct watermark per image, so 1000 of the same image would have the same watermark."

Kdparker: So subtle alter the image, to trick the watermarker in to thinking the image isn't the same, thus generating more distinct watermarks for the (effectively) same image.
> Is that really your argument? That black people had less free speech in the past, so we should get rid of free speech now?

No, that would be you putting words in my mouth. I'm asking when was this supposed time in history when freedom of speech was much higher in the US than it is today; what peak is the respect 'declining' from?
You can do this with Find My iPhone too. The issue in question, though, makes both of those useless as you'd need to unlock the phone, open the app, navigate to the device in question, and then lock it. If you're in the presence of an attacker or other intruding force, it's doubtful they would let you continue use of your phone in that manner. Tapping the power button can be done subtly and quickly enough to still make it useful.
Good point. The telecom industry started this back in the 2000s with their astroturf "Hands off the Internet" campaign, implying NN was about applying new regulations to the Internet. NN's big failure was in not finding an effective way of pushing back against that.
Trello is freemium https://trello.com/pricing, they make money from users upgrading
Lessons learned from programming FizzBuzz in brainfuck
The best data scientists are data hackers
This is 100% off-topic and just about WP, but something just occured to me: I wish Wikipedia had a way to make new articles as stubs and mark them as such, so they don't show up on the main page, unless people are logged in and want that. Kinda like "showdead" on HN. Even better, make links to stub articles in other articles not be links either. I can't count the times I wanted to add something, but either didn't know enough about the subject or was too lazy to submit enough on the first try. I don't mean to sound entitled, but lowering the bar for "casuals" would be great, if it could be done in a way to not diminish quality (i.e. it would still have to be stubs about something that belongs in WP according to the rules, but not necessarily stubs of good quality). It's a bit disheartening to be shot down by deletionists who aren't even willing to give it some time.. if it can dishearten stubborn me I'm sure it disheartened a lot of people over the years, and who knows what articles could have been grown from tiny kernels by now.
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What if you were previously and recently rejected by Google?
I'm sorry, but no. If you have a million-dollar gold statue of a pig that you're unwilling to sell, your unwillingness doesn't even enter into it. You still have the million-dollar statue and it's still worth a million dollars. It doesn't matter what rationale you provide for not selling it. It just doesn't matter. Those reasons seem important to you. But they aren't important in assessing the value of the statue.
Articles like this are more about suppressing the masses than anything else. You think the rich and powerful want the populace to be smart, able, and healthy? Think again bud.
A secret manager using Keybase for encryption and storage
Actually it's called "X Window System" or simply "X".
Here in America, we prefer racial cleansing of the torch-wielding variety.
v8 wasn't developed by a separate company, but Bak did bring at least one of his colleagues along to Google (I'm pretty sure just as new employees to Google). And he had another company that worked on a SmallTalk VM called OOVM, targeted at embedded devices, right before he joined Google:

https://astares.blogspot.com/2012/04/inside-oovm.html

However it apparently wasn't acquired by Google:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040727005088/en/Esme...

Other discussion:

http://forum.world.st/OOVM-details-td4561492.html
"like the British and their "maths""

You should see my mathematic 8)
SaaS on Rails
Which cultural differences, specifically, are you talking about? Can you give some concrete examples?
You mean as in when the British were running India it was a better country?

Or when the Dutch traded the occasional slave but Surinam was an orderly place that it was ok?

I strongly believe that there are things that humanity should not engage in, slavery, human trafficking and Nazism are on that list.

There is no 'lesser of two evils' when those are involved.
Well-said. I worked at a place that had layoffs awhile back and it was a real bummer, in part because of the layoffs, but also because management lied about the reasons for them and the health of the company at the subsequent all-hands. Once management switches to "lie openly and often" mode all the interpersonal behavior incentives change. Like you said, it becomes reasonable to be skeptical and distrustful...
> That is how the Western world functions

American consumers routinely choose lower-priced tickets over those on more-comfortable airlines. And when ticket prices go down, Americans fly more.

The real price of a ticket has fallen consistently since at least the 1980s [1]. Full-fare (i.e. first-class refundable) ticket prices today remain around where any ticket price was a few decades ago.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/1...
What is that disturbing animation at the beginning of the article? Is it a "crash-test dummy" type test, an artificial simulation, a joke …?
The Mars Society has been doing a reduced version of this for several years now with different groups of volunteers. I think they use two different locations, with one being in a Antarctic like location.
Sucks when your ideology doesn't mesh with reality....
IMO these forks do a massive disservice to the mainstream perception of this technology.

From the outside, it looks like technologists are making technical decisions that impact businesses that are taking financial risk by utilizing the cryptocurrency.

Forks like this increase the risk, undercutting the efficacy of the technology.
Lincoln's Lyceum Address
This won't help the right with the left, of course, because they hate to admit cultural differencies either.

Yes, the remarkable aspect of this whole debate is how easy it is to feel superior to both sides ( https://xkcd.com/774/ ).
What is sketch? The page doesnt actually say. (I assume its some graphics tool).

Some of us not in facebook land have no idea what some of these things mean!
"It's hard to imagine that we would ever consider collecting, let alone sharing, sensitive information with a non-agent third party, but if such a day should come, we will first give you the opportunity to explicitly consent (opt-in) to such disclosure or to any use of the information for a purpose other than the one for which it was originally collected or previously authorized." https://trello.com/privacy
> if you declare a willingness to censor anyone

How is that what happened, though? This is explicitly an internal decision. CloudFlare made it on its own, without input. They didn't "declare" themselves "willing" to do anything.

Isn't their behavior exactly the solution to the problem you're straw-manning? You allow individuals in the private sector to make their own moral decisions about hosting. Problem solved.

I mean, I'll just say it again: if you can't trust a hosting/distribution agent to make their own decision about white power racism, then you live in a bleak world without any effective morality. That might work within your safe spaces on the internet, but those of us in the real world need to trust each other to get stuff done.
It seems like if you're retired and having trouble with property tax a reverse mortgage would be pretty attractive.
It is true that information is playing a greater role. However economic activity remains a good proxy for energy consumption, even whilst mainstream economics denies it.
I fired up Windows 2.03 in DOSBox, with its clock app, available on archive.org[1], and it took up 60.1 MB. This is fun! I think the OS would run fine (at least, enough for the clock) with as little as 512K of ram[2].

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/09xjyPs.png

[1]: https://archive.org/details/msdos_win2_03

[2]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/32905/windows-versi... ("512K of memory or greater" for 2.03).
New Proof that P =/= NP
When the Cookie Meets the Blockchain [pdf]
HORROR IN BARCELONA CLAIMS 13 LiveS AND SCORES INJURED
You might enjoy reading the Gervais Principle [0], which discusses the social strata in many organizations. One might not agree with it, but it's still interesting reading.

0: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
>88% Eastern European

I don't think you went back far enough, keep going and you are likely to find your Eastern European ancestry migrated out of Africa.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-to-getting-a-good-ai...

"The Embraer offers one of the best antidotes to the shrinking seat in Jet Blue’s “Even More Space” rows. The pitch between rows – that’s the measurement between one seatback and the next – is 39 inches, plus one of the widest seats at 18.5 inches. The regular coach seat is the same width but the pitch is reduced to 32 inches, in itself not that bad.

... Delta has also annoyed Boeing by placing a huge order for what is a rare phenomenon: an airplane designed from the start to give coach passengers a big break in comforts, the Canadian Bombardier CS300 ... There are three seats on one side of the aisle and two on the other. Aware of the stigma attached to the middle seat Bombardier made it a tad wider, at 19 inches. The other seats are still a generous 18.5 inches wide. Can you imagine, somebody thought the middle seat should, in George’s words, be made “more tolerable”?"
Are you suggesting a return to Social Darwinism? Because that worked out really well last time.
All Cogent traffic was being affected, not just Netflix, so the analogy doesn't hold. Everyone at the restaurant was being served, equally slowly.

You may also note that there were no repeats of this problem after 2015

Implicit in that statement is that there have been no paid peering agreements (the Netflix/Comcast solution) since 2015, which I know for fact is not true.

many high bandwidth services appeared and grew in this time.

Examples? What high bandwidth companies appeared after 2015 that have even 1% of Netflix traffic?
I thought I'd seen this in Bloomberg a few weeks ago, but it was a very similar article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/29/incredible-... .
This article doesn't seem to mention Chuck Schumer's efforts on the issue (at least as of last February; maybe he's forgotten it since): https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/28/charles-sch... .