skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For how long will Americans blame FB for the rise of Trump?

For some Americans (about 15%-20%) and for all of the liberal media, a minimum of three more years. Trump's election was the first time social media worked dramatically against their interests. In 2008 and 2012, the Democrats had an advantage in that their voting base were early adopters of social media and various online strategies for organizing both money and voters. That use and understanding gap has almost entirely been closed.
What’s the alternative if it’s illegal?
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91696-new-nice/

This episode of radiolab goes into some theories about the process of fox domestication and hypothesizes that something similar might have occurred in humans.

I don't remember it in enough detail to summarize, but it's a fascinating listen.
in a time long before 'indie games' was a valid genre

Humble Bundle would not have made any sense nor would have had much to sell if indie games weren't a 'valid genre' in 2010.
Strangely, the only mention of Cython is to point at that we have had less developers than Julia: "as evidenced by the over 500 committers to just the Base language, more than projects like Cython has ever had!"
He's risked far more than most investors, including bailing out his own companies (SpaceX and Solar City) by taking personal loans against his stock in others that were doing better (Tesla).

If he hasn't infused the cash, SpaceX at least would have failed. There were a number of finance articles about it at the time "questioning" the odd moves, but paraphrased from Musk, 'If investors are risking their money, shouldn't I be risking mine too?'

If your metric for "enough" is "work to literal death" then I expect you'll continue to be unsatisfied.
Microsoft's Seeing AI app does this fairly well.
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Space X was a Falcon failure away from shutting down. Isn't that risking reputation enough? He's selling the world the vision of Falcon Heavy, BFR, Mars colony. Any of that fail and he will be known forever as an ambitious but failed businessman.
> Constructor Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory#Outline

Task, Constructor, Computation Set, Computation Medium, Information Medium, Super information Medium (quantum states)

The filing cabinet and disk storage are information mediums / media.

How is the desktop / filling cabinet metaphor mismatched or limiting?

There may be multiple desktops (RAM/Cache/CPU; Computation mediums): is the problem parallelizable?

Consider a resource scheduling problem: there are multiple rooms, multiple projectors, and multiple speakers. Rooms and projectors cost so much. Presenters could use all of an allotted period of time; or they could take more or less time. Some presentations are logically sequence able (SHOULD/MUST be topologically sorted). Some presentations have a limited amount of time for questions afterward.

Solution: put talks online with an infinite or limited amount of time for asynchronous questions/comments

Solution: in between attending a presentation, also research and share information online (concurrent / asynchronous)

And, like a hash map, make the lookup time for a given resource with a type(s) ~O(1) with URLs (URIs) that don't change. (Big-O notation for computational complexity)

Resource scheduling (SLURM,):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15267146
In my experience, unless you really enjoy programming and want to learn how a computer works, dealing with C is hard. As a professional embedded software developer, even after 3 years of programming in C, I sometimes have to stop and think about complex pointer structures.

So if you just want to play around, do cool stuff quickly and get moderately good in programming start with python, beware it might be hard for you to come back to C.

But if you want to become more than good and really understand what advantages python gives you, start with C. There is little extra effort involved: just implement every data structure in C once and learn about pointers. You will become a much better programmer. Also, you will enjoy coding in python more, once you know C.

I guess the shorter answer is to start anywhere. The longer answer is the question of whether you want to enjoy the act of programming or the results that you achieve with programming. In the former its start with C, in the later its start with Python.

SIDE NOTE: As caseymarquis said, if you want to go the python route, go for javascript. There is little lost in the process, but the value of doing something cool is exponentially increased.
Interestingly, the smsprivacy guy sent a payment to a faked bitcoin address, and that address has since paid an address associated with the Human Rights Foundation: https://blockchain.info/address/1GM6Awv28kSfzak2Y7Pj1NRdWiXs...
How do people there understand the difference between low performers and people who aren't fit for their job? The latter has the sound of something lasting that cannot be fixed, but I'm wondering how it plays out in practice. How do you determine that someone is not fit for their job as opposed to a mere low performer?
The problem with "using your network" for an older worker, is that in a severely ageist climate, your network has to be made up of those who are 10-20 years younger than you are. These kinds of connections across generations are difficult to forge in a way Dan Lyons illustrates better than I can. I have found that "network" as a resource is better explained as "knowing someone with CEO hiring power and strong desire to hire you in particular." If you are in your early to mid 40s, you may have built strong connections of this type, but many of those who are in powerful hiring positions don't want others around who can compete at their level, because they face the same thing comming for them. And many more who have this power these days are much younger than they used to be, which makes them less likely to hire someone they see as "mentor age". It feels awkward and unnatural--they want to hire those they can come up with, just like in any other time in history. I feel that this "get a job through your network" advice tends to become very thin at around age 35 and up, especially if you are a member of another protected class.
I think it's fair to assume it's "not a lot" because they weren't attempting to create an exhaustive list of mutually beneficial mergers and acquisitions.
[Audio] Semil Shah on Amazon and the Death of the Supermarket
There's no reason a well-paid engineer (let's say $75k-250k) should be living paycheck to paycheck, even with a large family.

If someone is, they should realize they deliberately chose that situation by failing to adjust for cost of living when comparing employment options.
That's definitely more economically efficient, but then people just pirate the content.

The caveat is taxation, though. If I earn the money and buy with it, I have to pay with after-tax dollars, but if I mine in browser, the money/cryptocurrency units never passed through me. Depending on personal income tax rates, that's as much as a 50% cost difference (for the income that would be earned by mining, though, not labor I have a comparative advantage in, of course).
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> Perhaps it would make sense to create a separate URL type for Tor services whose keys are signed by a certificate authority?

The onion IS a proof of key. If you use the whole onion address (which is a hash of the public key) then Tor requires that the hidden service be able to prove they own the private key. It's like a builtin CA.

The problem to me is that knowing someone has a key isn't as interesting as knowing that the person is a trusted source. And being anonymous takes some of the responsibility away.

It makes more sense to me that someone just use an HTTPS clearnet site and users who want to protect their own IP address can access it from Tor (it works just fine).

Protecting the site owners identity and then wanting to prove their identity to stop phishing attempts seems at odds to me.
That tends to be one cheap option to keep psychologically tied to the company.

I'm not for or against it, but I imagine being one of those workers it would suck.

Still, I'm all for automating as much as possible, and in the case of workforce reductions, gloating over the fact that things move so much more quickly and accurately.

I do like Elon Musks's attitude toward people wasting time. And this is head and shoulders above what goes on in China, India factory conditions. Not saying no one should whine and bitch and moan about it, but truly, it's not all that bad.
My neighbor, when I was young, had a half Siberian Husky half Timber Wolf. While a very independent animal, he was very good around people. He was free to roam our neighborhood and our canyon and he let strangers pet him (though with an air of indifference). He was surprisingly large. One late and dark night, I got dropped off at my house by a friend. As soon as the car left, I saw a large shadowed creature near me. I thought I was about to have an unpleasant bear encounter. Then "Wolfie" sauntered passed me on his way home. He ignored my verbal chastising him for scaring me :)
Is there any other field that is so technical and yet refuses to widely recognize an accreditation body that could establish this in an industry-wide way?
I agree they are scapegoats for bad management. They should start firing the CEO. He over promises and then grossly under delivers. Making people work in bad conditions will turn good people into bad employees/DEAD weight. They were DEAD weight because people need rest and time away from work to maintain optimal performance.
Sigh. Wish we lived in the world where it was Lua that ran on the browsers and DOM was sane.
> There’s one big slider, and you can adjust it whenever you want to change it. f.lux will remember what you choose during the day, in the early evening, and at night.

Does that mean I can’t adjust the preferred temperature at night if it’s currently day time? If so this is a huge regression. If not, the two sentences are badly worded. I already find the current f.lux interface badly designed[0] and this might just make it worse.

[0]: First, its main interface has a slider and a button group below it. That makes no sense because the button group affects what settings the slider display. It really should be a tabbed region enclosing the slider instead. Next, options like “fast transition,” “sleep in on weekends” really shouldn’t be placed in the menu bar. It makes the initial setup a lot more troublesome, and really makes no sense given you already have a window to configure it. And some options aren’t really clearly described in the first place.
Also if Equinox followed and an economic incentive by banning the guy even though he's a victim, he should perhaps return the favour by suing them for some large sum even though the problem probably wasn't really their fault. Such are the wonders of the legal system.
What effect would such a merger have on cross-carrier solutions like Project Fi, which uses both Sprint and T-mo networks? I'm worried that the new T-Sprint masters would deem Fi to be undesirable competition to whatever internal scheme they're mulling to join the networks.
WWF REPORT AN ALARMING AMOUNT OF GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS
I live in france, and a friend who did not use her real name on facebook was flagged and asked to provide her id card to prove her identity.

I mean there are not that many structures in the world, not to mention international ones, that can do such things (or should).

We even did a little research, and apparently if she did provide a photoshopped version of her id card, it could end up in a tribunal (the mere act of falsifying false documents). Meanwhile we live in france and an american private company can ask for such documents, it feels a little odd.

I mean facebook can now justify asking users for their real identity paperwork to fight against bogus accounts.
A community member actually annotates all the episodes with time stamped descriptions of what's going on in the videos; You can watch the episodes with them inline and clickable here: https://asafgartner.github.io/annotations_player/index.html
I think people question GM's long term commitment to electric cars based on its history and legacy ICE business. That may change, but it's going to take awhile from anyone who remembers how the EV1 went.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
How would such a plugin work? Say you're visiting a webpage with lots of graphical effects that require lots of computation. How would the blocker distinguish those computations from mining?
I think the kind of people who would fill these ai regulation roles would be pseudo technical bureaucratic types who would prove to have offered no value if sudden unexpected agi really did come about
I had to help a friend give a cat a bath once. It literally turned into a cylinder of pure muscle that I could barely control. Plenty of scratches and blood.
The only(?) good thing to come from the Trump election is that more people are slowly realizing that democracy isn't all its cracked up to be

The people who voted for Trump disagree with you.
Arbitrary code execution within Perl
Async is necessary sometimes... but I'm really hating the trend of designing APIs that make it unavoidable, with the assumption that it's necessary always. It just makes code illegible and thus buggy.
Hey how do i actually uninstall that ''thing'' so they cant track my data. I am a noob :(
It’s such a thoughtfully reasoned post, I hate to disagree with it, and don’t even have time now to fully argue it’s merits.

Say generally available computing power was instantly 1 million times greater. How much closer would that put us to AGI?

Its not even clear how much the recent impressive machine learning feats demonstrated will even serve as a precursor or building block to what the real AGI solutions are. It’s so much less of a hard coded problem than what’s being done now, the real solutions could require radical changes in direction. How do we know it’s even fair to use these as part of the argument?
I think one big advantage could be seemless integration of all applications. Genera on Lisp Machines [1] and McClim [2] illustrate how it works.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878220

[2] https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html

In classical OS (Linux, Windows, Mac) the developer is responsible for seemless integration (in KDE or MS Office for instance). It is easy to break design guidelines here which causes ugly interoperation, or even lack of interoperation.
Homestly who cares? I considered this a community for “hackers” so either they’re at large willful ignorant of the industry they work on or misguided or outsiders and in all these cases nothing I could add would be useful to them neither engaging in a discussion would be for me.
3. Or who worked a lot for previous employers or took school seriously. GitHub full of contributions is hard if you work 40 hours a week without slacking at work, basically impossible for those who do a lot of overtime. People who spend their out of work time learning (e.g. reading books or other theoretical stuff) are out too.

But really most importantly, it is important for reviewer to be prepared for things like performance anxiety, like shy people who are not good at looking confident, to people cant think out loud (don't hold it against them if they are silent for few minutes for christ sake) and so on and so forth.

But people here throw temper tamtrum over really simple well known questions.

Maybe the companies would to the best if they made their expectations clear and realistic in ad itself. Let people know how interview looks like before hand, let them know what exactly it is you expect and then stick to it.
How do i actually stop this? im kind of a noob when it comes to this
I find dog genetics fascinating. Wolves are fairly uniform in appearance, but dogs comes in fantastically different shapes and sizes. Yet they can still interbreed.
I believe Psilocybin is legal enough (decriminalized?) to purchase in Amsterdam right? I remember watching a Vice piece on truffles.
A native CPU or GPU miner is significantly more efficient than an in-browser one. This discrepancy could be much greater than the effects of text.
Modern democracies are always an interplay between mass media and electorate. The schema is roughly circular:

people in power => media => voters => people in power

The Facebook problem (and more generally the Internet problem) is that it vastly reduces the control that people in power have over the information consumed by the voters. Which could be a good thing in some cases, a very bad thing in others, as the powerful are usually also a highly educated elite that is capable of steering public opinion towards better choices.

However, I also agree with others when they say that blaming Facebook for Trump's election is an exceedingly self-absolving way of dealing with the problem of a very unsatisfied, poorly educated electorate. And the risk now is that a global, pervasive censorship will be applied by Internet giants to please the powerful elites of their home country.
If a Perl script has setuid root, if it loads any libraries, Perl will try and read @PERL5LIB. The @[[]] within string interpolation executes code to expand the string value, but backticks work here too.

I think this is going to be a problem...
The pot calls the kettle black. You could just as easily argue that for-profit journalism media outlets like the NY Times are not your friend either, and haven't been for much longer than today's tech companies.

Sorry to use this argumentation tactic..
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Not sure I believe that, but it might have. It seems these companies are mostly using middle men now, for example, see Unaoil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaoil.

I'm not pro corruption, but I'm also aware that in many parts of the world, if you want to operate in a certain market, there will always be a need for some "greasing of the wheels".

I would assume that, as a country develops and grows, the amount of corruption will generally naturally decline.
Buffering of the leadership is part of any top down culture. The hint that corruption may lead to the top is naive, as it almost always does. Plausible deniability often comes into play.
"Metaphors We Live By" explains conceptual metaphor ("internal representation" w/ Clean Language / Symbolic Modeling) and lists quite a few examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor

Our human brains tend to infer Given, When, Then "rules" which we only later reason about in terms of causal relations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given-When-Then

It's generally accepted that software is more correct when we start with tests:

Given : When : Then :: Precondition : Command : Postcondition
https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/software-development...

... "Criteria for Success and Test-Driven-Development"
https://westurner.github.io/2016/10/18/criteria-for-success-...
It seems the only stories you hear of them are interviewing people and then ghosting them. If they actually cared about hiring people you figure at least they would treat their candidates better. In my experience even amazon has been more on the ball with the recruiting process.
I'm in Australia and something like this seems very weird, you sometimes take for granted fair work laws till you see what happens in countries without them.
Podcast on Netflix's practices: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episo...

They're pretty brutal. In one case a woman works herself to the point of chronic back pain. They tell her to take as much time as she needs to recover. But when she comes back, her job is gone (they didn't hire someone else, they just eliminated it).
Nope, you can still adjust three sliders independently for daytime, sunset and bedtime.
It seems there are C interpreters, I wonder how convenient it would be to use a C interpreter versus using LUA for example.

Although I've never tried using an interpreter in a program, bridging calls from a script inside your compiled program seems difficult.
You can adjust daytime/sunset/night-time under one view (via upper right "grill"-options icon / "Adjust day & night colors together") as 3 separate sliders - works fine for my use-case scenario. What I'm most happy about is that they've fixed the stuttering issues when using special graphic modes (games..etc.) in v4! :). Also, for the lazy Win upgrade: https://justgetflux.com/dlwin.html
Sure. It's just less easy to detect and maintain a list since there is no visual tipoff.
My understanding is that SoftBank has been very unimpressed with Sprint’s pre-acquisition talent and was set back by having to staff up with competent managers from outside. If that’s true, then I would expect T-Mobile’s team to have a decent chance post-merger and Sprint incumbents should be very worried about the purge.

Edit: This article confirms my suspicions[1]. SoftBank appointed a Chief Strategy Officer to Sprint who I believe is looking to arrange a best-case exit for SoftBank after the leadership in Kansas completely failed to step up. Also, SoftBank has always wanted TMobile as part of their original strategy, but the Obama administration blocked them in 2014.

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/06/06/sprin...
I'm not sure you can read into these three you linked.

Josh Ensign left to become COO at a different company and his stint at Tesla was the longest in his list of experience: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-ensign-3604431/

Greg Reichow worked at Tesla for 5.5 years and switched jobs to become an investor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregreichow/

Kurt Kelty was at Panasonic for 14 years and Tesla for 11.5. As far as we know from LinkedIn he hasn't got a new job, which you could see as fine (left for personal reasons or simply burnt out) or bad (left because he saw doom ahead, even though he didn't have another job lined up). https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-kelty-5604bb/

What is so bad about these departures? Simply the timing?
Yes. Where are you applying from?
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So basically what you have is Musk over promising and under delivering but it's the worker's fault he could not meet unrealistic deadlines he set himself ignoring all reality.

Musk set Tesla up for failure and now the non-management people have to suffer as a result. The fact that this is even being talked about right now may hurt Tesla's chances of hiring great future employees...especially with that scathing article basically saying they were being fired for bad performance and not laid off.

Can you still get unemployment if you are fired for unsatisfactory performance?
I knew someone with a what they claimed was a half coyote half dog mix. It was energetic then it grew up and quite the backyard hunter (which added some credence to the half coyote claim.)

It also became hard to control and somewhat erratic. After a couple biting instances, the last being pretty severe it was decided to put the dog down as it was dangerous to children and the other dogs in the house.
You should find out. Just wondering with underlying vague conviction where "things seems" forever is not a good thing.

Even Adam Smith knew that 'free market' is idealization and don't fit into everything without tweaking. Most non-regulated markets suffer from market failures and contracts have negative externalities. Smith's invisible hand was not all seeing hand.

As a market advocate myself, I approach markets as an economist. They are something can be made to work, but it usually involves mechanism design (= reverse game theory).

Collective bargaining and labor laws can have both positives and negatives. To make it work well requires discretion. Workers competing against each other with lower benefits has some very negative effects for the society.