skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think like in any (federated) service (email/jabber/web etc), it makes sense to bind your identity to your own domain, so you can move it between providers. This gives you mostly the benefits of both worlds (fixed handle and provider independence).

Not sure if mastodon supports (widely) such use yet, but if it doesn't I sure hope it is somewhere high on their priority list.
If we don't know that, our code has worse problems. It's the same in C-syntax languages with an if in a for in a function inline in a class. Losing a } is the least of our problems.

Clojure breaks readability for me personally, square brackets are a visual speed bump. And if different brackets improve things, Clojure should just use {} for blocks.
Buyer Beware, Your VIN Is in for a Scare
Every time this quote about computers in the home is brought up, it seems like people miss the point. It wasn't that the people saying no one needs a computer at home were entirely wrong, it's just that the meaning of "computer" changed. What computers did, what they looked like, their power and space requirements were reduced to fit into the home. The big iron of the era were the equivalent of trains, and it's true no one needs a train parked in front of their house. But powered transport was miniaturized too. So I agree, it boils down to a lack of vision on their part.
That's basically how packages are maintained today, they just don't have as much automation and there's a lot less packages as a result. If you made one package for every software update and had to review each one you'd spend a lot more time reviewing.

Trust isn't an issue in reviewed/maintained repos because you have eyeballs on everything. When anyone can just ship an app/library and release it automatically you get these malicious software issues.
> everything is blocked and you whitelist Youtube. Maybe even automatically does it if you click play on a few videos

That's basically what they're doing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_278v_plodvgtXSgnEJ0yjZJ...
That's not how it works. Cassini's primary computer also has redundant processors in a voting configuration (rad-hard MIL-STD-1750A's), a configuration common in high-reliability systems, which SpaceX borrowed. SpaceX is cheaper, possibly lower power, but not necessarily just as reliable.
I agree. One way to ameliorate this problem is to only allow sites to even ask for permission to autoplay content with sound if the user has manually played a video a few times in the past.

More generally, you can set permission settings to be very conservative by default and not allow sites to bother the user with permissions until the user has interacted positively with the site several times in the past. Here, "positively" could be a fairly fuzzy rule of thumb depending on the global trustworthiness of the site and the sensitivity of the permissions requested.
They're going to have a hard time arguing that the Play Store has a monopoly when any Android user can sideload any app they want.
I learned a lot from https://stackingthebricks.com/
Thanks! Considering it took 5 minutes in dev tools, I can probably fork it this weekend :)
There's another reason the Ares 1 doesn't have fins, which doesn't seem to be discussed in the OP, namely: big rockets have really thick boundary layers. The boundary layer is the layer of air that a vehicle (rocket, airplane, ship, etc) "pulls" along with it as it moves through a fluid, due to the friction between the skin of the vehicle and the fluid. Basically, you don't get free laminar flow right at the skin of the vehicle. If you want to use a control surface it has to be big enough to stick far enough out into the fluid to deflect enough air (or water) to be effective.

Boundary layer thickness doesn't scale linearly with size, which is why small scale model rockets can make effective use of fins, whereas the full-sized vehicle cannot.

Combine this with the fact that, as the OP discusses, a rocket is a really unstable system and fins don't really become effective until you get a high enough speed, and that explains why the Ares 1 needs a gimballed attitude control system in the first place.

Interestingly, really early rockets, like the V-2, had control surfaces that were directly beneath the rocket nozzle, in the exhaust stream. They were, effectively, gimballing the exhaust stream by deflecting it instead of pointing the nozzle. It needed them in part because at altitude the atmosphere was thin enough that the fins weren't effective. You can see them in the picture of the V2 in the Air and Space museum:

http://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/A196003...

The little red things close to the rocket nozzle are control surfaces.

Rumor has it that the Saturn V only had fins because Werner von Braun decided that a rocket without fins just didn't look right, and ordered the engineers to add them, even though they were so small with respect to the size of the rocket stack that they were very solidly inside the boundary layer and had no effect whatsoever.

You can see them clearly here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4858567248/
Teach them that it takes work to run a house. Dinner doesn't just magically appear, dishes don't wash themselves, your socks don't pair up on their own. Makes them more grateful and also capable of taking care of themselves.
> “Google deprives competitors, on a discriminatory basis, of access to the App Store, which an essential facility or resource.”

Is this a legally sound statement? Specifically the last part about "essential facility or resource." I'm not at all a law expert. I personally don't believe in the implications of the claim, hence my question
This. If it was that easy we'd already be doing it on all our desktops and servers.
Public transit is a road subsidy. Transit provides 23% or the transportation in San Francisco in a lot less than 23% of the space. If that was to disappear, SF would need 50% more road space for a similar level of congestion. That would cost a lot more than $1 billion.
500 mile email comment in 3... 2... 1...
Still reading that last paper -- just so damn amusing;

"Two final examples suffice to show the array of situations in which the administrative application of the positive definition of income seems confused. The first involves the iconic American game of baseball. When contemporary players began to threaten long established home run records, it was clear that any ball that broke such a record would become a collector's item worth substantial amounts of money. When the records began to be broken and a fan caught the record-breaking ball, the tax controversy erupted. Practitioners, academics, and former IRS Commissioners all agreed that catching the ball, like finding old currency in a used piano, which was held to be income in a case known to virtually every student of taxation, resulted in the realization of income. But the public and Congressional outcry at such a prospect was fierce. How could the joy of catching the record breaking-ball be marred by the prospect of the rapacious IRS pursuing the fan for a cut of the food fortune? Legislation to ensure non-taxation was introduced. One IRS Commissioner, not a lawyer, dissembled. Years later, the Chief Counsel of the IRS, not only a lawyer but a tax lawyer, reportedly covered his head with his hands and captured the difficult position the agency was in when he responded to the question of whether the fan who caught and kept the ball had income by saying, "Please don't ask me that!"
sure, but Putin basically admitted Russia did it

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/europe/vladimir-put...
It's not a SpaceX-only scheme, nor is it novel technology. It's got a long history in fighter jets, as well as modern passenger planes for example (Boeing 777).

Triple Mode Redundancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy

Also, the longest life span SpaceX has ever really needed is maybe the Dragon, which is a month-long mission. Cassini has been in space for 20 years. Very different design requirements.
Can we go with 'incomplete' rather than 'false'? :) One of the most interesting areas of study for me is early childhood motor learning which is a fascinating combination of unsupervised, reinforced, and imitation learning. There are even significant intrinsic knowledge (instinctual/reflexive/morphological) effects. Also I really like to encompass non-human learning when talking about this stuff to remind myself of all the work nature did before we got to cultural transmission of knowledge.
Yay, let's install another extension with full access to all your stuff!
Biological plausibility is only silly if you assume that biology has NOT in ~4 billion years of evolution managed to explore the design space and arrive at good general maxima/peak design for intelligent processes and are not merely stuck on the first local peak design encountered.

It assumes that outside of this biological design space lies both lower peaks and much higher unexplored peaks.

While it is likely that somewhere in the universe are higher peaks of design schemes for intelligence, it is also likely that those peaks are difficult to reach from here (4B+ years of evolution hasn't done it yet). It's also possible that the Fermi Paradox is showing is that there is no substantially better general design schema.

So, the more successful approach would probably be to seek designs for the first Automated General Intelligence in a design space that has already demonstrably succeeded, then perhaps use that AGI to search for other better design spaces.
Technically the branch prediction benefit comes from partitioning the array around the critical value 128. Sorting is not necessary. Partitioning may be faster.
"In order to be on the Play Store, social networking apps need to demonstrate a sufficient level of moderation, including for content that encourages violence and advocates hate against groups of people,"

Is the same standard applied to Twitter and Facebook? How long does it take for Twitter and Facebook to take down such content?
if people couldn't drive to your cities, your city would become an abandoned wasteland of crowded concrete and glass.

people like you have gotten use to enjoying all the tax and revenues from people who do not think like you, like use a car, but become unaware its subsidizing your amenities (such as mass transit).
Is the Apache Avro file format named after this plane? I couldn't find any official documentation that states as much, but the logo hints at it.
You don't really connect to other instances so much as other users. To further the email analogy, if you stand up your own mailserver, you can start sending email to someone at Gmail without deliberately configuring either of those servers to talk to each other.

A good way to discover new users is to visit a popular instance - say, https://mastodon.social/about - and look at its "A look inside..." pane (which is that instance's "federated timeline"). Find a user who said something interesting and click on their post to go to their profile. Click "Remote follow" to follow them on your own instance, and voila! You have a new friend. You could also visit the Mastodon instance list (https://joinmastodon.org) which maps the current state of the network (aka the "fediverse") and search around to find themed instances that appeal to you. Want to follow a bunch of furries? Find an instance that caters to them, then start following all the interesting users you find there.
Stop wondering whether or not Russia did it.

Putin admitted as much
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/europe/vladimir-put...
Not all apps are like that.

For instance Sago Mini makes amazing apps that do not use addiction techniques to hook you. They are just fun and let your explore however you want.

https://sagomini.com/apps/

I completely agree that some apps are inappropriate for various ages though. Pretty much anything that purposely tries to addict the user should only be played by people who can handle the it. Some adults can't.
Facebook moves to prevent advertisers from targeting haters
While I don't think Gab will be successful, I'm glad they're suing. Anything you can find on Gab you will also find on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and scores of other apps in the Play store. Google is wrong to treat one app differently than the others for what seems to be purely political reasons.
> Yep, but only if you play in their sandbox.

So true. Why is this becoming more and more common?

The internet, and all its byproducts, used to be open.
Switching between profiles in Firefox is the most painful experience ever. Running multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously requires using a terminal command.

Switching between profiles in Chrome involves clicking on an easy to find button, and lets you easily run multiple profiles in parallel. No terminal involved, accessible to anyone.

To be fair, running multiple chrome profiles in parallel kills my (somewhat old) machine (mostly by virtue of having too many tabs in each profile), so Firefox does win there.
Non-paywalled link: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/09/15/free-speech-social-...

Their attorney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randazza
Gab could use this as an opportunity to build up an app store of their own. Line has an in app store. Gab could too.

Encourage users to side load gab, then you have a dedicated core audience who wants to support your platform. In app purchases could make them a ton of shared revenue. Apps, stickers, MAGA hats.

If Gab succeeds in replacing Twitter, they could generate further revenue by front running Wall Street with gabs. I can't imagine how Twitter has money problems when they have the POTUS making market moving tweets regularly.
I think the downvotes are more to do with how vague your answer is. Before I saw your other responses I thought that you were being sarcastic.
"Schooled human intelligence"? What does that even mean?

I think you are severely underestimating humans, and probably animals too.

People have multiple modes of learning. You can try to get an A in school ("optimize" for the objective function), but you also might be skeptical of what the teacher tells you. Likewise you might be skeptical of what you read in a book.

You can also correct the teacher based on common sense and what you already know.

Currently, a computer can do no such thing. I think he's right that there is a fundamental difference.

Humans also learn from extremely small amounts of data. (Sometimes they learn badly, but they can change their minds, or not if they still manage to navigate the world.)
You are talking about limited binary compatibility instead of source compatibility. These are two different things and can't be compared to one another.
My big issue with this argument is that usernames and passwords are a means to an end. That end is (in many cases) establishing identity. One can establish identity in other ways. For example: every morning when I open the door to my house after my early morning run, my wife greets me in the kitchen and asks me how my run was. She (thankfully) does not hit me on the head with a frying pan and call the cops about an intruder. My biometrics work awesome for establishing that I'm "me" in the real world. I don't think it's too big a stretch to imagine a world where my computer is as good at looking at me and identifying that I'm "me" as my wife.
Cassini: The dying of the light
What about Web Browsers? I can use Firefox, which I downloaded from the Play Store to get all sorts of inflammatory whatnot.

Should browser's be required to censor the web to meet this standard?
If you have low power devices with basically no external input but a build in clock and a network interface that receives one packet every few minutes (often it even only sends data!), how do you create cryptographically secure random numbers for your encryption?
IMO the reason Gab was created was because users kept getting banned / flagged on Twitter. So yes, the same standard applies.
I remember watching that and the live discussion afterwards.
> Certainly nobody is arguing that sexism is mostly caused by video games.

"Mostly?" no. Substantially? Yes. See various popular video series...

> Sexist games are a problem because they are a space in our culture where women are inferior, or are only sex objects, etc.

i.e. Sexist means "sexist towards women". Because when the average male character is either muscle-bound or a world-class sniper... that isn't sexist.

Or this nonsense:

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/okay-to-objectify-men/110...

Objectifying women is bad. OK... sure. Objectifying men? Woo! Let's do it!

> I hope we are eroding the culture in which it is acceptable to see and treat women the way they are portrayed in these games.

Here's a question: what happens to the average male in a video game or movie?

Answer: killed by the dozens, if not by the thousands.

Even kids movies aren't immune. The average movie has henchmen getting killed or injured by the dozens. But if one woman is objectified, that's a crisis.

So yes, I'm somewhat cynical about this whole process.
Each person is responsible for a different subsystem on the spacecraft, as well as supervisors like mission directors.
So, don't let them carry the tablet everywhere they go?
I don't see how good experimental design could benefit from type theory and such. There is no need for an intersection, just the first group of researchers working on programming language design.
Those not around (or aware enough) back then don't grasp how staggeringly little computing power there was, and how enormous the effort to do that paltry processing. Sure there were "desktop computers", but they barely did anything; a computer sophisticated enough to do anything meaningful in one's home would have required an entire room devoted to it - and still wouldn't do much.

Today's Lightning cable literally contains more processing power than a "home computer" from the early 1980s.

"Document processing", today a simple matter of scanning a paper at >300dpi and running OCR, was a huge undertaking just to identify & fragment documents (varying extreme compression of components based on differing legal importance of preprinted content vs handwritten content vs legally-binding signatures) precisely because there was so very little space to store anything in. One common image today could easily overwhelm an entire storage unit back then. (Tangent: I believe this is a major & widely-disbelieved source of much of the consternation surrounding Obama's birth certificate).

The notion of utility-level remote computing was necessitated by computing problems of real practicality requiring such scale, not just of straight capacity but of complexity to squeeze maximum usability out of such under-powered hardware, that doing it at home was unthinkable.

Nobody expected computing power would increase, per volume & dollar, so incredibly much. Some 40 years later, processors are about 10,000x faster, displays 10,000x more detailed, and memory & storage & networking 10,000,000x greater. I remember my brother taking all day to download a large book; today we use as much data for 1 web page.

"These experts believed that an isolated computer at home would be too under-powered to be worthwhile."

It was. Think: modern insulated automated-HVAC 2000 sq ft home, vs mud hut. They couldn't comprehend what was to come; most today can't comprehend where we came from.
Google could have not been evil by not bastardizing the idea of a package repository.

Apple Store/play is not a new concept. It's a closed off, propriety version of a Linux or BSD package repo or ports tree.

All either company had to do was allow third party repositories. You get a nice list, choose which companies you trust, have a nice interface where you could download an app.repo file, view it's cert and add it to your phone. 90% of people wouldn't use it, but for power uses and beta testers, it would allow a single easy software update system that could be free for all. I wrote about this a while back in a post I did on OSS philosophy:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...
Encourage users to side load

Is there a utility that makes side loading easier?
> I hear this sort argument a lot. But I never hear of anyone doing it, that is working on a 15 yr old computer for a while. I imagine with Linux it might not be too bad.

The Internet has made this infeasible. Everything has moved online, and 90% of online resources have grown very bloated, though Wikipedia would probably still work well.

Security is another problem. Windows XP would work fine if you can find 15yr old hardware that still functions (hardware rot is a real thing), but the number of 0 days out there is far too high.

All that said, I wonder if any Shoutcast streams still exist. I'm using Youtube Live for the same thing now days (orders of magnitude more CPU being used!).

Coding would work fine, except the old IDEs don't support newer C++ standards, and I'm accustom to my niceties in life, but if you can ignore that, life would be fine for writing code. Modern web platforms wouldn't work that well, writing code would work OK, but the resultant webapps wouldn't run that well.
I don't think that current anti trust law is a good way to address this. This isn't really a competition question.

If we want to protect speech that travels through semi-private networks, I think we need some new laws written.
The issue isn't the `cmov` itself, which is extremely forgiving nowadays (4 per cycle!), but the fact the `cmov` introduces a dependency on both inputs and the condition. A predicted branch introduces a dependency on only the predicted input: the other input is never calculated and the condition is checked after-the-fact.
> Sexism stifles and limits men and encourages men to be toxic-

It's weird... sexism against women hurts women. Sexism against men makes men hurt others. (i.e. be toxic)

It's almost like the normal use of sexism is, itself, sexist.
Hey brianjoseff,

Thank you for the kind words. I am an art historian currently doing a PhD where I investigate the use of digital methods for art historical research. So my usual work is more academic in nature. In the meantime though, I work closely together with a developer and we like to create all sorts of visualizations, put together datasets, etc.

For The Met Globe we actually just wanted to create something nice for a large touch screen setup we have in our department. So the idea is that when people sit down for coffee and chat, they might get (un)consciously inspired by beautiful historical artefacts. There is a picture of setup on my twitter account: https://twitter.com/FloorKoeleman/status/908239636660736001

Floor
Which qualifications does a "remotely technical" degree meet to operate security at Equifax that a "non-technical" degree does not?

You imply that Music is a non-technical degree, which is arguable, but it's certainly an Arts degree rather than a Science degree. If that's the distinction by which you draw the line, you're wrong to do so. If you reject job applicants to a technical role on that basis someday, that's more overlooked high-value opportunities for others to hire instead :)
After the British company, not specifically this aircraft:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AVRO/Index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro
Except that by the age you reach school you already know amazing wealth of knowledge about the world and how it works, particularly the kind of commonsense knowledge that AI has always had enormous trouble to acquire. See Moravec's paradox.
As an adjunct, here's a journalist in 1979 struggling to comprehend Ted Nelson's vision that the computer would become a creative tool for the masses, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI
Orbital maneuvers are so precise that when they say 'estimate', they are probably still talking about a small margin of error.