skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's doesn't have to mean one nation's people are worth more than another's. But it does mean that a person may care about their nation's people more than another's.

This is the same principle as caring about your child more than a stranger's child. A nation is a kin group just like a family is.

Ingroup preference is perfectly healthy when channeled appropriately.
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Display port over USB-C should be this, the Samsung Galaxy
S8 was the first to support it.

Unfortunately, while quite a few docks are on the market, compatibility is a bit iffy, and rival USB-C alt modes like HDMI and MHL muddy the waters.
it mentions insulin a lot, and you cannot metabolise carbs without it.
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> (and t is not a stretch on my keyboard layout)

Colemak?
What is dystopian about not forbidding it. I didn't suggest we force everyone to live in cars, I suggested that it shouldn't be illegal.
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> The Army used to run fat recruits through a "fat farm" phase of 6 weeks of exercise. But they no longer do that.

Why not?
That is a matter of political interpretation. You aren't wrong, but your solution of reducing the availability of loans has the direct consequence of reducing access to education for poor people and reducing university budgets funded by that debt. I don't like these consequences. My solution is to increase government investment in education which is why I view reduced funding as the main driver of tuition costs. I believe this partly because I believe that a college education can be worth a million dollars, because it can increase salary by $80k/yr, not to mention the non-economic personal and societal benefits.
You have to break things occasionally or you end up in backwards-compatibility hell where every bug is a feature that is absolutely essential to somebody's workflow.

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Nuclear ICBMs already push us past that boundary. The world can no longer afford to fight a war seriously.
If you have a global audience, using a CDN can make a lot of sense. Most content will be static and having that part close to the user enhances the experience a lot.
> Turning things around would require changes of a pace and scale that we have no idea how to motivate and coordinate

Yes everything leads to that question: How can a problem of global scaled be solved, if it seems to be almost impossible to make some progress domestically?

I think I begin to see what the "solution" is going to be like.

The good news is: The planet is not going to die. The bad news: I guess you not gonna like the solution.

I'm convinced that in 10-20 we are going to live much more eco friendly. It will become much more expensive to waste natural resources. But as a downside of this we will loose a lot of personal freedom. Our highly individualized society will come to an end and we will live in a much more controlled environment.

Harmfull behaviour will either be punished with legal sanctions (like corruption) or in some form of social disaproval.

TLDR: In the next 20 we will see a greener but also more unfree world.
If you're fighting against robots the only answer you have left is terrorism, as a way to make people who drive the robots, care about the fight.

More drones, more robots, more terrorism.
That was at a time when the army was expected to walk up to the enemy and shoot them at short distance. The approach demonstrated its limits at WW1. I am no military expert but I do not believe this is compatible with modern warfare. Not to say that there wasn't drug abuse in later conflicts, but that these were probably not helping.
This would be another advantage to my plan. Maybe free parking would become a thing of the past and you could perhaps even get rid of all the parking lots and stop having a concrete death valley in front of every building in America.
>> Thank you for showing your interest in the Samsung for Galaxy project

This should be Linux for Galaxy right?
Did Japan just ban tattoo artists?
And in the meantime here we are, spending 200 kWh in energy per Bitcoin transaction.

Planet is doomed :(
For any Mac users wanting to try out text to speech and who didn't already know, it's built into OSX. Have a look in your Preferences panel.

It can be very useful if you want to 'read' something while looking at something else, like a game.
The new release looks really nice, congrats to the devs. Although I haven't looked into it too deeply, the new editing model made me think of Draft.js [1], which might be interesting to some people as well.

[1] https://draftjs.org/
It’s easier than ever before for someone enthusiastic to learn just about anything... and fewer people than ever bother. At least that’s my impression.

Perhaps related to modern children’s lack of free play https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hey-par... and everyone’s incredible amounts of phone time.
this is still my favorite https://anders.com/blockchain/
Implying it's a security issue.
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> How would you even know of there has been so little research on the subject? How can you claim to have an unbiased answer when you only research one side of a topic?

Like a plague, the millions or billions of human deaths is all the research we need. No benefit is going to counterbalance that.

Just to take one example (of many) of deadly things that are already happening that you yourself mentioned: permafrost melting.

"More arable land" also means "the release of incredibly dangerous, dormant pathogens like anthrax". Kinda makes the "arable land" moot.

https://www.vox.com/2017/9/6/16062174/permafrost-melting
No doubt it was terribly inaccurate, but the best they could do at the time. Even in the modern system, false memories implanted by prosecutors have been a real problem causing confessions.
As often happens, I don't understand why one would want to subscribe in order to be notified when it becomes public.

I mean, I can understand subscribing in order to get a beta or pre-release, but if right now nothing is available and when it will be available it will be public, it seems to me nothing more than a personal data collection.

When it will be public there will also be a lot of publicity about it, so it's not likely that one needs to be notified.
On Chrom(e|ium), SurfingKeys[1] is an excellent extension.

[1]: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
Yeah, lots of wet land have been drained for farming.
It's the natural desire in a free market to gain monopoly status and the desire to decrease the support matrix. Therefore most smartphone companies will try to log you into their own choice of OS. It's not an asshole move, it's just the most logical conclusion given the context they are in.

The way to get around that is supporting such kind of project (like fairphone, ubuntu mobile, linux on samsung) and gaining a true majority in the user base. However that is unlikely since for most people it's good enough to just run instagram, whatsapp and spotify. And for that the OS really doesn't matter.

*edit: I thought about something one can do also. Not an expert about these, but these very flat laptops like macbook air, I think they are underneath the keyboard also a smartphone/tablet. Buying these may increase the desire to create smaller and smaller computers. If what is labelled "computer" gets as small as a smart-phone that's also fine for our usecase, but it may be easier to digest for marketing people of these big corps.
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And that's an excuse for genocide and ethnic cleansing of entire populations how exactly? "Because muslims?"
Right but with a good enough FFI and wanting to actually deploy models in some way, having the infrastructure to deploy general purpose applications in the same language (even if it's slower than say: go or the JVM) is really appealing. Lua itself while simpler owns a very different part of the application space than python does. There's a reason more peopple know it.

I would actually recommend against lua because of the lack of libraries for doing every day data science tasks.

I mean look at what facebook had to do to justify using lua, it had to invent the notebook for it.
It may grow fast, bug the pacific north west once was covered with HUGE trees. Those trees may seem normal, but they are small in comparison to how things "normally" looked before Europeans. https://www.google.cz/search?q=spruce+giants+olympic&source=...
MS only implements standards when they don't get to make one. They didn't want to implement WebGL in their browsers until Safari/Chrome/Firefox had it and they risked being behind.

Same thing here. "Web should just work for everyone" means "Oops, people are making Chrome-only websites, we need to catch up on web standards so we aren't left out". Meanwhile they'll boast how you need Edge to watch 4k Netflix.
Techno-Optimism nowadays includes Hunting Robots. What a time to be alive.
Yeah, screen size sucks. Didn't Intel build some wireless screen technology a few years ago? Somehow I never saw it in action, but as far as I can imagine I would like to have a >24 inch screen which I could use as a normal Display Port monitor, but also via NFC (+ some magic wireless technology) as a wireless monitor for my smart phone.

Does anybody know where I can buy such a device or why it is not yet available?
Google Duo puts the last nail in ViLTE’s coffin
In case of Linux, you forgot availability of drivers, cohesive user experience, stability and ergonomy rather than programmer designed interfaces.
Google’s strategy to capture the native communication applications in Android phones, using industry initiatives like RCS or ViLTE, will make operators irrelevant in Social Communications.
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One has the option of leaving the phone in a dorm room and going to the library.

> the problem here is with the student.

In all such things, we need to think about the combined student-device system, no? Especially since it is orders of magnitude cheaper and more straightforward to change the device than to change the student.
This reads more like an internal memo to the senior management of CFTC that don't even use a smartphone.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to offer any new information. Half of it reads like a typical"what is a cryptocurrency? pros and cons" article from LinkedIn.
I guess you never bother to actually program on it.

Tizen already went through these reboots:

1 - Replaced Meego SDK with Bada OS SDK

2 - Replaced Bada OS SDK with EFL + C++ SDK

3 - Dropped C++ SDK and replaced a new pure C API alongside EFL

4 - Currently adopting .NET Core + Xamarin.Forms

Then there is the whole issue of code quality.

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/12/samsungs_tizen_no_l...
That is a total nightmare. How are employers allowed to give that kind of information to Equifax? I do not get why Americans allow this.
3blue1brown is currently doing a terrific series on how neural networks work, which nicely compliments this blog post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
About those claims- this is from Russel and Norvig, 3d ed. (from 2003, so a way back):

Go is a deterministic game, but the large branching factor makes it challeging.
The key issues and early literature in computer Go are summarized by Boozy and
Cazenave (2001) and Muller (2002). Up to 1997 there were no competent Go
programs. Now the best programs play most of their moves at the master level;
the only problem is that over the course of a game they usually make at least
one serious blunder that allows a strong opponent to win. Whereas alpha—beta
search reigns in most games, many recent Go programs have adopted Monte Carlo
methods based on the UCT (upper confidence bounds on trees) scheme (Kocsis and
Szepesvari, 2006). The strongest Go program as of 2009 is Golly and Silver's
MoGo (Wang and Golly, 2007; Gelly and Silver, 2008). In August 2008, MoGo scored
a surprising win against top professional Myungwan Kim, albeit with MoGo
receiving a handicap of nine stones (about the equivalent of a queen handicap in
chess). Kim estimated MOGO's strength at 2-3 dan, the low end of advanced
amateur. For this match, MoGo was run on an 800-processor 15 terailop
supercomputer (1000 limes Deep Blue). A few weeks later, MoGo, with only a
five-stone handicap, won against a 6-dan professional. In the 9 x 9 form of Go,
MoGo is at approximately the 1-dan professional level. Rapid advances are likely
as experimentation continues with new forms of Monte Carlo search. The Computer
Go Newsletter, published by the Computer Go Association, describes current
developments.

There's no word about how Go is qualitatively different to other games, but maybe the referenced sources say something along those lines. Personally, I took a Masters course in AI two years ago, before AlphaGo and I remember one professor saying that the last holdout where humans can still beat computers in board games was GO, but I don't quite remember him saying anything about qualititative difference. Still, I can recall hearing about the idea that Go needs intuition or something like that, except I've no idea where I've heard that. I guess it might come from the popular press.

I guess this will sound a bit like the perenial excuse that "if it works, it's not AI" but my opinion about Go is that humans just weren't that good at it, after all. We may have thought that we have something special that makes us particularly good at Go, better than machines- but AlphaGo[Zero] has shown that, in the end, we just have no idea what it means to be really good at it (which, btw, is a damn good explanation of why it took us so long to make AI to beat us at it).

That, to my mind, is a much bigger and much more useful achievement than making a good AI game player. We can learn something from an insight into what we are capable of.
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Interesting. Does this work for USB-C enabled laptops, say the latest MacBook Pros? Or does Apple only support Thunderbolt over USB-C for display connections?
That will be a couple of additional terms in activation function. Or am I missing something?
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You are not affected, but there are people in the world besides yourself who do things differently than you.
It is important for dev-prod parity. You will want to test whether your code is compatible with preforking, which you will likely use in production.
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Sometimes the other way round; not just the extremes of the Nazis using methamphetamine to make blitzkreig possible ( http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2016/10/10/blitzed-the-thir... ), but the US army does have a history of both experimentation with performance enhancement and also the simple necessity of a lot of loosely secured morphine for field treatment.
Does anyone know of a good approach to debugging .vim files? I've not been able to find an interactive debugger or really even a good source of information about the program model of the vimscript interpreter.
The whole point is not to notify you, rather to get a feeling how much people would eventually buy it.
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I did something like this (shared kernel and chroot) on an old Nexus S back in 2012 with Gentoo. You can use a precompiled stage3 tarball which contains the fundamental filesystem layout and utilities (for the target architecture), and then for anything else that you need, you just use Portage (Gentoo's package manager) to compile stuff for you. Not super practical in terms of battery life and time if you're constantly compiling packages but a cool project nonetheless. This wasn't the exact guide I used, but it's the same idea: http://thinkmoult.com/installing-gentoo-android-chroot/
Are any of these books any good? I need to improve my standing at work and need some help.

Could anyone recommend any other books which are better.
> they have no proof of a real world vulnerability

So what. This "default allow" attitude is easily more damaging than any other source of security problems. You (or anyone else) cannot know all of the ways exposing new data could be exploited, or might already be exploited in ways that we are not lucky enough to know about.

Caring about security - which includes the future unknown unknowns you don't yet know to even look for - means minimizing what is exposed to the public attack surface to what is both needed (which does not include anything merely "wanted") and demonstrated/proven to have trivial risk with known limits.
Given that I spent much of my childhood staring at and placing things on ant hills, I'm not so sure a meadow is a terrible thing for children.
Obviously this is significant because this is the first release with Gnome 3 instead of Unity. I actually liked Unity a lot but also like Gnome 3, what are people's thoughts?
Exactly, deactivating location sharing for apps that don't need it will help a lot. Wifis can still be located but tracking over mobile network won't really work. At least in London, IP geolocation of phone networks results in a large radius, too large for anything but long-distance travel.

And then you can (and should) obviously still use a VPN. The ad network can know it's a vpn and not necessarily present it as a location but they won't be able to guess you're real one.
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I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.
If not, I suggest you look at the cartoon at http://www.kurzweilai.net/robot-learns-self-awareness
Well, it depends on your point of view.

Microsoft, and Linux (just the kernel I'm talking about here), have both decided the point of an OS is to run programs, so with each update they both heroic efforts to not break userspace, often adding code just to make sure old programs that did weird things don't break.

Apple have decided to go a different route, and leave a trail of programs just a few years old that are forever unrunnable, as they won't even distribute old copies of their OSes. However, it seems many users are willing to take that choice, as we can see from their success.
> Shared data structure among multiple threads... this sounds utterly fimilar and evil!

This seems like a bit of a FUD.

With multiple threads and shared data, you don't necessarily have to share all the data structures with all other data structures and all the threads. You can setup your things such that minimum or nothing is shared. That's (also) what access control and immutaibility is for in programming languages, apart from other features.

Of course, different languages support these features in different ways, I don't want to get into the specifics, but in pretty much all mainstream languages you can create a similar share-nothing or share-almost-nothing design and it's not even hard, it might even be easier.

I really don't understand modern web/JS developers. They seem to ignore traditional solutions and/or proclaim them as evil, and then they go on to employ a 'new' solution that is 3× as complex, performs 5× worse and requires 10× as many dependencies/tools/frameworks/etc. Why? I suspect there's a LOT of largely irrational fear of concepts and languages that are unfamiliar. "Fear driven developement" in fashionable lingo.

TL;DR you don't need to be scared of threads, you just need to be scared of threading architectures that share too much.
In theory yes.

Android doesn't expose a proper Linux to userspace and Google has been clapping down what we are allowed to do with the NDK since Android 7.0 (edit: corrected, only started in 7.0).

So playing "what if", you can replace Linux with something else that is compatible the NDK APIs and no one would notice, other than the OEMs.
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And your right, individual action won't scale...

For the US you have a lot of work to do before you have a moderately decent working political system.
Why not give VNote(https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/) a try? :)
Thank you. I knew I probably had the name wrong. It's been a few years since my undergrad years and that's a painful reminder.
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Medieval priests weren't naive or stupid.

Even those that really believed, understood that miracles, if they existed at all, are not something that is forced just because they have a trial.

At best they were something that happens once in a blue moon, or in the biblical times.
It's not only a consequence of direct habitat destruction, but also the use of pesticides. According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946087/, more than a billion pounds of pesticides are used on lawns in the US every year. There is little regulation there.

All of those pesticides are designed to kill bugs. Why are we now surprised that bugs are disappearing?

We are sterilizing the planet.

According to this (http://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/lawn/...), we use up to 3.5x more pesticides per acre on suburban lawns than on agriculture.
Optimism has made wars likelier and bloodier
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And additionally, Taleb is enormously pompous. His books have some interesting ideas in them, but they’re enveloped in a cloud of his farts. Makes him very tedious to read.
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>What if a person is technically guilty but they have convinced themselves that they are not? Be it ignorance of the law, or just arrogance? They'll get let off.
Conversely what if someone who is easily brainwashed has been convinced they are guilty and given false memories?

Then some outlier cases will not be punished.
Can I use it to find out what my co-workers make and negotiate a better salary,
If they can. IP tracking doesn't work well in cities and you don't need to give Facebook (and others) location access. The only apps that need it are navigation and ridesharing and they only need it while you use the app.
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What about using WebRTCs to record, stream screen data?
This should work on Firefox, ... as well.
Nice and simple job!

Guys that do not want an extra preview panel could take a look at VNote(https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/).
I followed the link, but don't quite understand the product. Does Ubuntu Touch OnePlusOne replace the OS on the device?
So I buy one of the supported phones listed, and then erase and replace Android with this in it's place? Or it installs on top of?
This is an excellent point. If digital textbooks are sold as alternatives to physical ones, then I’m not interested as they’re the same copies but one is in a more convenient format (for me.) Why aren’t digital features taken advantage of more often? When I first saw iBooks, that got me excited. Sadly that kind of interactive eBooks never really took off.
I'd include Rust on your list (if we're defining production-capable at a level where Scala Native qualifies), and maybe even Idris.

I do think Scala still has advantages: higher-kinded type support which OCaml and F# don't have, strict evaluation unlike Haskell, and better IDE/tool support than any except F#.
It's certainly a decent plot for a bond movie.

Pesticide resistant super bugs could probably breed and eat all our crops in no time.