skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Steve Jobs he is amongst the group of people who could say anything anyway they like and some people will find a way to glorify it by a factor of a million.

If you remove their name from the things they have said or written, at least many of them seem fairly average sensible statements, like something you would read here from a random member.

I'd be interested to see a "blind test" for these things. I bet the bias would show.

As in, display something from Alan Kay but post it on a random internet forum as JoeSchmo11, and you will have lots of people disagreeing with it and tearing it apart without hesitation.

But oh look if Steve Jobs or Alan Kay or Elon Musk's name is attached to it suddenly becomes a unique gem of knowledge to be cherished by the humanity for the rest of time and surely the fault lies with anyone not agreeing with it right? Because after all they could not possibly be more right than those authority figures?

I'm not making a judgement about this, neither am I surprised by it. Just saying that you should ask yourself exactly how much of your own brain power and judgement do you use to judge the quality of an idea and how much of your conclusion is conveniently borrowed from your image of the author?

It reminds me of when Elon Musk talked about the probability of our universe being a simulation.

I'm not saying he is right or wrong, just using that as an example. But if JoeSchmo11 said exactly the same thing people would just dismiss it.

But when Elon Musk says it all the newspapers go mad and write stories about it.

Again I'm not saying it shouldn't be like this, reputation matters, I get it.

But my point is that the fact that this happens to the degree that it does is in some ways a sad admission that we are incapable of evaluating thoughts and ideas independently of their originators and on their own merits. Instead we borrow from the past credibility and the authority of the people they are attached to.
You can use a service that pings (or traceroutes) a given address with multiple probes. Round-trip lightspeed is 150 km/msec. So if you see a probe location with minimum rtt on the order of 1 msec, that's about where the address is. And conversely, if you see probes at the claimed location with minimum rtt over 20 msec, be suspicious.

Ping services with many probes:

https://asm.ca.com/en/ping.php

https://www.maplatency.com/

https://ping.pe/
> If it's so powerful that almost no one can use it, and it rules in almost no problem domains, ... how is it so powerful again?

Couldn't you substitute calculus, real analysis, or abstract algebra for Lisp in this statement and make the same claim?
Probably the biggest problem with using mass transit is latency; having to wait around doing nothing until your transport arrives. It's a constraint on your schedule and adds a certain amount of stress to your day. And if your desired departure or arrival time don't coincide closely with the schedule, you're going to waste a bunch of time even if the transport is quick.

Subways solve this problem by running every couple of minutes. Buses generally don't solve this problem well because traffic and alighting / loading delays cause them to bunch up. But on-demand self-driving cars can solve this problem, as long as there are enough of them close enough.

(It's also the problem Uber solved.)
Afaik electrician is still a solid blue collar job?
Thanks for sharing your view, I find it very illuminating. The notion of a nation-state must now adapt to be both regional and digital. We still need voting for local things, I want our =water supply to be clean, etc. Having people who are able to vote through the internet would theoretically strongly increase democracy-in-participation but it also brings in a lot of strong questions of how to do regional decisions when some people are casting their ballots remotely. If everyone became an absentee voter, the whole structure for regional decision making comes into question. Thanks for writing your write-up. I don't think I ever heard of an instance when a plantation's land was divided amongst the slaves that worked it, but that would be a form of social justice I can get behind.
Encrypted chat app Signal goes down for some users
Cord Cutting: How to Get High Speed Internet Without Cable in 2017
That's not true. There was no referendum in 2016 and there is no "keep asking for a referendum" because the only referendum held was 1-O, and did not come from an agreement with Spanish government.

If Spain would have agreed on a referendum, the current situation would be very different.
There's a huge difference between appeasement and allowance of basic human rights, dignity, due process, empathy, and even sympathy.

I have had to lay down suppressive fire. I was willing to do so, but I hoped anyone I hit was killed quickly. I hoped they were killed quickly because, well, I didn't want them to suffer. I hoped they were killed because they were trying to kill the other scared young Marines beside me. Killing them was the only logical thing to do.

I'm not some hopeless naive child. I've personally witnessed human depravities that scar people for life, a fate worse than death.

You're scared of the people on Voat? Go there and read for a week. Go there and talk to them. Go there and belittle them, if you want. Have fun with it. Amuse yourself at their expense. Toy with them and make them dance for your amusement.

When you're done with that, maybe try to change some hearts and minds. You'll have gotten that out of your system and realized how powerless and ineffective they really are. They are powerless keyboard warriors spouting memes and racist slogans in an echo chamber full of logical errors and bad science and bastardized religious quotes.

Also, they hate fat people. Reddit kicked out FPH. No, really, those folks seriously hate fat people, but they tend to stick in their sub.

One sub really likes trees. Like, real trees, not pot.

They are humans. Deplorable humans, I agree. They even have a Linux section. As a Linux user, that makes me pretty deplorable too!

Seriously, go visit them. They are horrible people. However, they are mostly scared children. There's no need to be afraid. They are pretty universally powerless and reviled, even at the national political level - really. No need for hyperbole.

If you want, I will even introduce you on voat.co and you can go harass them until you realize they are just a bunch of really, really stupid, inept, confused, probably insane, brainwashed, morons with a poor grasp of reality and basic literacy.

You're more likely to die on your toilet.
Consider Concurrent Smalltalk on the http://cva.stanford.edu/projects/j-machine/ -- a processor-in-memory massively parallel architecture. This seems like a better match to physics than a Von Neumann architecture with a few fast processors separated from a giant memory, because physics is local. I suspect systems like the J-machine haven't gotten very far for historical path-dependent reasons more than intrinsic ones.

It's true though that a parallel object language like Concurrent Smalltalk isn't the historical Smalltalk we usually mean.
The technology and the engineering side, partially, not the science.
iPhone X pre-orders are being scalped on eBay for $1,500, on average
The entire "diverse" idea to be on the list is terrible.

In the company I work at (small, ~30), I didn't even notice we are extremely diverse (the skin color is mostly white, but every person comes from different countries/continents) until someone pointed out that we are.

I just considered everyone "people", that's it?
It's not being diverse that is nice, it's the fact that there is no racism that is nice.

No racism = you won't notice you have different people in the team, it's just natural. That's how it should have been since the beginning.
Indeed, the usual as usual.

More speech from sources = goodright unless it's someone else's different message to a wider audience. Then it's badwrong. As long as you have the money to shout it loud enough and long enough you have the same equity of audience as anyone else.
Could this just be weird statistical patterns? See other ones:

microbiologists post-9/11
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/deadbiologists...

Russian diplomats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/07/i...
Do you think "generations better" is bad, too? Aeons are like that but more intense.
The Power of a Brand
I dated the granddaughter of a nuclear physicist involved with U.S. government projects. The CIA always watched him and he knew it as part of the job. They wanted to make sure he didn't leak and that he was safe.

I'd rather be watched than suicided.
Hi, zeryx:

How does this work in production? I'm especially curious about the stuff that isn't part of the TensorFlow graph like anchor generation and post-processing. Is your service running the graph directly or does it run some Python script that executes the graph?
That's what I'm trying to understand. Do successful companies all have devs working at 20% efficiency because of mistakes made in the past that there is "no time" to fix?
Am I just not cut out for this industry if I take pride in my work and can't see myself writing shitty code forever?
Is HN now allowing advertisements for services to be on the front page now?
Given that English is already fragmenting (just read a newspaper from Guyana) and with the example of the Arab language (watch an Egyptian try talking with a Moroccan - bring popcorn): I am not sure your advice is a good one. English, like every other language, limits what you can say to what can be expressed in it.

From personal experience, I'd rather recommend to dabble in as many languages as possible: Each new language so far introduced new concepts (of seeing the world, if you will) and forced me to break through the invisible barriers erected by the language I was raised with.

And, finally, if we need a "world language", can we please agree on French? I think it is so much more pleasant to the ear than English... and it saves those who already speak it from having to read "rsvp, please" ever again ;)
> how they faked those videos.

1) challenge police for two or three hours

or directly harass them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VochqAemgP0

2) keep the challenge until triggering a reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0GwYEfTgzw

3) Good job, now film it

4) Upload the parts that support your discourse to internet, carefully hiding half of the history
I'm the author of the article, and to be honest the only reason I did it this way was to make sure the period ended up in column 73. I've presented this in talks about half a dozen times now, and you're the first person ever to notice that. Congrats!
Not to mention its six radio stations, all of which are country. A brutal environment for anyone to drive through.
If that's the norm at your organization then it works out. However in general wherever I've worked if you can't be bothered to say something people won't seek your advice unless you are the known expert in the specific subject.

However getting to that level of prestige takes a lot of time and effort - Usually by being helpful on those long email chains.
Is Waymo still planning to launch soon in Phoenix? They were going to start offering rides to the public this fall without the employee in the car. Or did they change their mind? If anyone has ridden in those vans I am curious to know how well their early rider program is performing in terms of not needing the human driver to intervene. I check the news for a Waymo launch every day, because it will be one of the most significant events in the history of self driving cars.
They may be independent in some sense but it still matters a great deal. If other nations don't accept your sovereignty you can't really have trade or diplomatic relations. Just ask South Ossetia, Novorossia or Transdnistria. These days it's pretty pointless to be independent if you can't have foreign trade.
Automatically submitting your Internet-Draft from GitHub
Ah I thought you were referring to a vote on independence? How about a vote on independence instead?
You are confusing independence with nationalism. You can be pro-independence without being nationalist.
TIL, I haven't seen it outside of the greater PGH area.
I have thought something similar as well. If you have one Bill Gates and everyone else making $80k, then Bill Gates has a pretty low upper limit on consumption of scarce assets, and thus goods and services are not bid up. But when a larger and larger number of people make more than their peers, then you start to have a bidding war for scarce goods (ex: housing, education, etc). Hats what you have in the Bay Area. More people than ever making more money than ever before, while supply hasn't increased to keep up.

This is something that my typical SF tech peer does not seem to grasp. Relative compensation vs your economic competitors (other knowledge workers in the Bay) matters much more than your absolute pay when considering your ability to afford the good life in a supply constrained environment.
Solresol
My gut feeling is that whether you are familiar with the popular cash sharing apps really depends on your social circle. Among young people/students etc, not surprisingly I see a TON of Venmo users. Among adults with steady reasonable paying jobs, not so much. I've seen Venmo reguarly used as a Verb in social media too.

I know for me personally I'm far more likely to say "you get it next time" than bill my friends for some share of an outing. If it's sufficiently expensive that this doesn't make sense I'd just split the check. If I was younger and still a student I can absolutely see the appeal though.
Maybe you should get a cat ?
That’s not my logic, that is the grandparent’s, taken to a more logical conclusion. You have to be willing to apply the same reasoning to yourself that you apply to others.
But Colorado is unique in that town and cities in the state have been able to vote locally on whether to overturn this ISP-lobbying-for-law

Once again Colorado has impressed me on the level of pragmatism they show in their state laws. They have been looking very politically healthy compared to the rest of the US, in my opinion, and I think it is going to pay off for them in the near future.
Definitely not dying here in Toronto
And that doesn't even cover the complete variability of traction from one yard of pavement to the next in winter, or the legibility of road markers.

There's a lot of challenges, and I'm glad they're finally getting to it.
1978-1975=3
There are apps that will count your streak. Some paid, some free. I've seen that help lots of people get consistent with it.

My own is to pick an easy time and duration to meditate for, such as every night before you get into bed for 5 minutes. I think for folks on the lazier side (like me) the habit for something like meditation should start with as much convenience as possible. That's how I started flossing every night (and started having good visits to the dentist for once).
Unified Logging in Java 9
This is not a few people mucking around on a map for fun. Although for an example of that, see Britain and France carving up the middle east with a ruler last century. This is people voting for their own future, it is vastly different.
Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From? (2013)
Beyond the Little Blue Box – Biographical Adventure of Captain Crunch
I forget that truckers and delivery drivers see these not as angels coming to save them from the tyranny of driving, but rather see them as devils, coming to steal their jobs away. And so media outlets have to "wear kid gloves" when reporting these articles.
They then proceed to wrench out that wiggle room to drive out the established players and create an impossible barrier to entry.
Server has an issued cert. Client has an issued cert. The publics are exchanged and authenticated. Each can then be chained up to an issuer to prove identity. That's nonrepudiation.
It would be nice to link to the source, if it's available online. In fact, the raw data would be far more interesting to me than digested nuggets.
I think that the reach of a language need to be considered, as influential and lovable those language might be most of the effect they had was by influencing other languages.
I'm similarly struck with how open the computer science frontier was in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Every effort required some first principles rationalizing to justify the R&D.

Alan, and others from Xerox PARC, have a very "meta" outlook on the entire field.
Ok, but therein lies a rub because some of the "help wanted" ads I see have been running for months and they've still not hired anyone, or at least the ads continue to run.

This one, for example, has been up since June and has been included in the CouchDB "Weekly News" since then. Seems odd they've not filled the position and that's part of what got me wondering about this:

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/142140/code-monkey-web-applic...
COBOL's data types look like they're well-suited to storing fixed-width, hierarchical data, with the format of the data being specified in the data type. The numerical types are oriented toward fixed-point decimal, with explicitly specified levels of precision.

Two variables holding common license plate formats might look like this:

01 LIC-PLATE1 PIC 9A(3)9(3) VALUE '1ABC234'.

01 LIC-PLATE2 PIC 9(3)A(3). VALUE '123ABC'.

[edit: added a newline to separate my examples]

("9" specifies a numerical digit, "A" specifies an alphabetic character, and there are other types that deal with sign, explicit and implicit decimal points, etc).

Assembly deals with memory layouts, but doesn't enforce any kind of higher-level data type, and especially not a human-oriented data specification.
Oh man, those samples on minus album are amazing.

When that album came out it was the only CD I had with me on a six month back-packing trip... memories - and those samples are brilliant
You could use emacs with tramp from outside: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
Hey! I think I know you. Hello!
It wouldn’t exist either if unionists had not fought and won a war against secessionists.
Can someone explain... why?
There seem to be two big camps that preach a "learn this weird new programming paradigm because it'll help you see things from a new perspective and will make you a better engineer" message: the lispy languages, and the ML-like languages. Both of these languages categories give you functional programming as well as metaprogramming, which is great. Having tried both, I've found that the ML-derived languages tend to have a stronger type system that's more rigorously enforced at compile time. I personally find this much more valuable in practice than some of the dynamic magic that you can do with lisp.

There are some notable exceptions, of course, but part of this is just inherent to the design of lisp, and I think it's easy to end up with a type safety system that feels more like it's bolted on than part of the language.
If you could save murder victims retroactively by just not recognizing the murder, this analogy might land.
When people in politics and journalism say "nuclear scientists", that's who they mean.
Or Core War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Zenefits paid a fine for misleading investors (with some contribution from the founder). The company is financed by investors, so in other words they indirectly paid the fine for being misled. Ironic?
I hope you work during your commute so you don't have to be away from family for 3 + 8
(Or more) hours. That means basically working the whole day all week, seeing your family only on weekends. I can't imagine what kind of comp someone would want for that (effectively permanent 55 hour weeks).
You are right, it was in november 2014, not 2016. My bad. Time flies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_self-determination_ref...

Thanks for the correction
Latin America is seeing a cable-car boom
Electrician can be a very good blue collar job - if I hadn't gone to college, I'd have thought real hard about doing electrical in a trade school. I'd be sort of surprised to see it significantly automated any time in the near future, as well.
On tangential note, California should secede from US.
Trouble isn't inherently a problem, and aligning this with VCs model of exiting either through being acquired or IPO'ing dumps the risk off onto someone else at whatever point it is decided that is best (for the company and some of its shareholders).
I think this is most analagous to simd in terms of issueing a single computation over multiple words of data, which would work well for both zeroing data and operating on scalar arrays.
So if you want independence in 2017 ... travel back in time three years?
You can see a clip of a hacker you may recognize in action here (dramatised): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhS-7jxBgXQ
Street cars and trains. I don't know why we ever stopped building them.
Well, I think you can assume there was bread, alongside the pomme de terre which are on the menu; and we don't have relative quantities for everything, or know how many people were eating. Variety, though, is a large part of what makes a meal opulent - e.g. tasting menus usually have 10 to 20 courses when you include the various little nibbles in between courses. And indeed, tasting menus typically have a different meat for every dish; if you listed them in this format, they'd look very meat heavy too.
I agree with everything that the article writes. That said, if you work in SF and are looking for a concrete way to improve your commute today without adding another car to the road, consider purchasing an electric bike or scooter. I've been commuting from San Bruno to SOMA (14 miles each way) for the last 3 months on an electric bike and I vastly prefer the experience to the available alternatives. If you live closer in, it's even more of a no-brainer.
LOL. A link to the Washington Times! Good job.

A significant portion of the dossier has been corroborated so far.

The GOP funded it originally.

The FBI funded it after.

In either case, the NYT loves Trump. Their "feud" is for show only. Trump is the establishment.
"It is effective and it is right for their progress as a nation."................I'm sorry, what?

What about all the journalists and activists who are arrested, harassed, tortured and disappeared in China? Is it right for their progress?
From the article:

> Starting in April, Waymo began testing a free service with select passengers in Phoenix, using some of its 600 minivans from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV.
An electrician in 1880 did a lot of design work. One of 1920 (and today) does it by rote - they just follow canned rules and procedures already worked out. It's all coded into regulations, too, so there's little flexibility.

An electrical engineer, on the other hand, does design work.
Depends. If you hit a bump or a pothole, you need the wheel to move vertically very quickly. But on smooth roads it's not a problem and having the mass at the corners increases the vehicles rotational (pitch, roll, and yaw) stability. I have not formed a personal opinion on it yet, so I listen to both sides. My suspicion is that the unsprung mass is bad and the arguments to the contrary are partly wishful thinking by hub-wheel advocates ;-)
Anecdotally, the huge developments in Downtown Brooklyn are driving down prices, not raising them. We negotiated a 15% lower rent by threatening to move to a fancy high-rise a few months ago just one subway stop away.
Be aware of goatse in the OP link
because it is a cost benefit analysis.

they received $583,000,000 and an amazing valuation by LYING. They would have received exactly $0 by not being so compelling.

they pay $1,000,000

they still get to be a unicorn success story that everyone aspires for. deal
I agree. China, in general, is not a good role model. U.S is a better role model.
Because these tests become too detached from reality if you inject everything. A silly example to make the point:

IAdder { double Add(double a, double b) }

Test:

car mockAdder = ... // Mock 1+1=2 etc.