skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, in the case of Musk's enterprises, where there is this larger goal that is finally seeming to become possible, I am torn. I feel that anyone that works at these places should know and be a zealot for the Cause...

While critics often mock the “cult” of Musk, his defenders usually deny the characterization. You rarely see such an explicit acknowledgment and endorsement of it.

The honesty is refreshing, I guess, even if the content is appalling.
Disaster Recoverable Data Persistence with Apache Cassandra
appears so - was just playing with it and similar to google docs/sheets there is 'Revision History'. It allows you to 'restore' to a previous save, or download that version.
I feel like while twitter user base may not be growing, it's effects on the average person's social life has diminished.

I feel like 5 years ago Twitter was really popular among st friends and we talked about things people tweeted, etc.

Since then I don't have a single friend who actively uses twitter, maybe it's that my preferences simply changed, but the overall visibility of twitter seems to be diminished.
> I don't see a big problem with that when they have a very solid track record.

Haha...you obviously don't have much of a memory about Apple first-generation products. There has been early adopter pain on many, many new Apple products, both with new software releases and hardware. Most of the time they've been able to fix problems with software releases, but there have been a few times where that hasn't been sufficient.

> I never met a single person who actually had this issue

Then I guess we've never met, because I experienced it personally. I could easily reproduce the issue--simply touching the wrong spot on the side to bridge the two antennae would make the call drop. Luckily for me, my natural way of holding the phone to my ear didn't involve touching that part of the phone, but it's easy to see how that wouldn't be the case for others. The iPhone 4 was my last straw that pushed me towards the wait-and-see strategy for Apple products. Since then, I've never bought their new hardware less than 3 months after release or installed their software less than 2 weeks after release. It's made life using Apple products so much more enjoyable.

BTW...I don't remember being offered a full refund, only a free case which deteriorated and became unusable long before my 2-year contract expired, so it really wasn't a fix. I eventually just learned to be wary of touching that part of the rim. Cue the joke about the guy who went to the doctor and said, "It hurts when I do this."
Strange how it's always Communism, seems like a random thing for campuses to pump out so consistently.
I think we should be careful about getting caught up in empty rants against the boogieman du jour, even if many people here feel like the author. It would be great to read a serious critique and defense of postmodernism, and if someone wants to allege that it has a widespread following on campuses, and that the sort of anecdotes in the editorial are widespread and that they are connected to postmodernism, they should present serious evidence of it. If we want to read about postmodernism, let's exercise our intellectual curiosity and learn about it, good and bad.

I'm disappointed in Scientific American for publishing a piece so lacking in any serious basis or reasoning. It's a rant of anecdotes; I'm not sure the author knows what postmodernism is - they seem to attribute to it 'everything liberal that I don't understand'. Such low-quality outbursts reinforce among people in the sciences ignorance of the humanities.

Someone famous once said: 'Dogs bark at those whom they do now know.'
"The FileSearchEX product has greatly improved the search experience when using Windows 10. Others say it has revolutionized their time spent looking for files and folders."
Introducing Brigade: event-driven scripting for Kubernetes
I would be curious to see just how many active users there are when you take all the bots out.
This is false. The CFPB rule only prohibited mandatory arbitration. It still allowed for voluntary arbitration if an individual preferred that path in a dispute.
I actually consider this to be good news overall. We do need to keep an eye on structuring things such that gig workers have the ability to grow real careers and have positive experiences (wrt adequate income and quality of life in terms of control over their time etc). We need to make sure these aren't structured in a fuck you way. But, I do gig work and it was a huge saving grace while extremely ill and homeless. It allowed me to develop an income and eventually get off the street.
Reviews by professional philosophers of Sokal's book criticize it harshly as worse-than-skimming of the texts the book claims to treat. Sokal's claim to fame in the anti-postmodernism conversation is the Sokal affair which was deliberately overblown: Sokal created a nonsensical paper pretending to draw philosophical conclusions from quantum gravity and shopped it around. He managed to find a journal that would publish it: One that wasn't peer reviewed at the time the Sokal affair happened. Even worse, the journal asked him to clarify his writing, which he refused to do, further weakening the implications of his stunt.

The Bogdanov affair [1] should be noted as a scandal in physics, one similar to the Sokal affair, though it wasn't a deliberate attempt to discredit the academic rigor of the physics community.

There are extremely good criticisms of postmodern scholarship. For example, criticizing the impenetrability of pomo jargon which is optimized for communication between experts is perfectly legitimate. It's also true that at times when authors are being sloppy it is misconstrued as an attempt to be provocative. On the other hand, authors like Deleuze were trying to be provocative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
Sure, that's one way to look at it. But also, since you have to actually interact with the server in order to discover such vulnerabilities in it, it could also be viewed as similar to walking in through an unlocked door and looking around. That, at least, is trespassing, I believe.
Just follow New Real Peer Review https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview

You don't have to scroll to find headline:
Feminist professor finds 'traditional science' is rooted in racism.

But you should scroll so you can get a feel for the breadth and depth of this phenomenon. Those abstracts are a hell of a read, if you can wade through it.
This is a case where a little first-hand investigation might prove more fruitful :)

For example, Ersties.com, a site made by a German woman and owned by a Swiss company, accepts Paypal and Credit Cards.

Abbywinters, which I believe is currently Dutch, also accepts credit cards, as does GirlsOutWest.

Granted, this is not a big sample, just three whose content I happen to like, but it shows that it's hardly an impossibility.
I'm going to assume a charitable interpretation of your question and simply reply "yes."
My Grandfather still uses it on less than ideal Internet speeds and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and slower and slower for him.
Mine too. Our family moved house and that year we all shared a single present which was a 48k Spectrum, with a bundle of ten games. The tape-player didn't work, so my sisters lost interest - I read the (orange) manual from cover to cover instead.

I suspect I'd have gotten interested in coding eventually regardless, as most of my efforts were hacking games for infinite lives, but it was definitely my defining moment.
What company did you use? I have received 3 quotes and none make much sense.
Such an announcement would be really disruptive!
Linux already has video calls and screen sharing! Just no shared control / drawing.
I’m just gonna jump in.

The JVM has no problem hot loading, unloading, or redefining presently executed code. What I’m trying to say is JIT’ing dynamically loaded code isn’t rocket science
>Tying minimum wage to some function of house price and interest rates would be amazing.

My point is that the effective minimum wage is already tied to housing prices and interest rates. Get rid of low income housing, some poor people will leave, demand for labor will cause incomes to rise.

You're trying to solve the problem you created with low income housing by creating a new problem with hiking the minimum wage. The minimum wage demands that employers prejudice against the lowest skilled, lowest educated members of the work force by denying them the opportunity get training and experience by working. But that's okay, I'm sure next you'll tell me the solution to this new problem you created is to increase government spending on education and training for adults, and the cycle will continue.
You'd think that where workers are easy to fire such as in the US, there would be less incentive to use contractors over employees, than in places with very rigid rules for firing.
The Trump voters are laughing at the academics who are huffing their own farts.
It's a set of tools for photographers.
Slack shared channels already has calls (including screen sharing / shared control).
Japan was never Fascist
Do you have a reference for "when the brain was drives and pulleys"? I've never heard of such a theory.
Was true for a long time, and still is for the current stable version. This article goes in more than enough detail over the history and the various workarounds: https://www.haproxy.com/blog/truly-seamless-reloads-with-hap...
Facebook should consider having an opt-in feature for user-experience experiments that could have a high impact on important news reaching the general public. By having users opt-in they would be aware of the feature that they were opting in for and therefore there would be less confusion. Users could be made to explicitly either opt-in or opt-out of the feature being tested which would increase general awareness of the feature. Users should also be given the ability to upvote / downvote the new feature in favor of relying only on algorithms to infer whether a new feature is liked by the majority of users or not.
I know these comments are generally frowned upon, so I apologize for veering off topic in advance – but I'm genuinely curious.

For the most part, there's no reason for my wife and I to interchange phones at any time. Functionality can be replicated easily between devices to the point where there are zero essential situations where she needs access to my device, or the other way around. Would you be willing to share the use case where your

> wife needs access to my phone (and vice versa)
or redundant if they're using their Tesla stores to sell solar panels after the merger
that works fine, until it doesn't... multiple servers
All that article established was that some undetermined amount of Clinton fanatics accused Sanders of using sexist language for political gain (to promote Clinton’s presidential candidacy).

Your previous comment implies the criticism was more widespread and with more breadth.
Slack's beta Linux client already supports video calling and screen sharing.
Dungeon World [0] is a hack/slash dungeon delving fantasy game using the AW engine. Fantasy isn't my bag, so I haven't played it. But it gets good reports. It won Indie RPG of the year, too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_World
I tried to find what precedent the case mentioned in https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/fbi_agents_po... ended up with, but haven't so far. Would be pretty interested, since it's directly on point here.
Although I agree with you, you are also making an assumption that certain managers are not hiring mistakes as well. Managers can be just as bad as employees. Especially in a big company, bad managers can hide behind smoke screens by shifting the blame on employees.
A whole lot of the people propagandizing them spend a lot of time talking about it. I agree that “being influenced by propaganda about X” and “thinking about X” are not the same thing.

But then, with that distinction in mind, I don't think Trump voters, in general, spend a lot of time thinking about political and social issues at all.
Yea I'd swap that for "wear a condom."
A regex can be used effectively to tokenize XML-like markup, including a lot of HTML—sometimes called shallow parsing. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6638578/234823

Attribute value minimization would be one limitation, since that regex is for XML, but it's a more robust approach than writing naive "<x>.*</x>"-style regexes.
Well they did sell Sketchup to Trimble when they got bored with that.
I do think his reasoning and focus of what's wrong with ML today is good. Online learning, sequence learning and "motor" feedback are all critical.

Unfortunately he came up with this HTM and appears to be trying to cram all advances into the same framework rather than stepping back and thinking about how those critical features could be implemented differently.

Also as far as I know hebbian learning (like HTM) has achieved ~90% accuracy on MNIST while SOA is above 99% accuracy. So it's not a small gap between HTM and state of the art.

If HTM was near 98% it would be impressive (learning is faster and transfer better). I think alternatives or hybrids are necessary, but he seems stuck on his pet project.

That said, the principles and "what's important for intelligence" I think he is right on target and articulates those aspects well.
I'm not so sure it was so cut and dried as that. The air force was using them to create a supercomputer using other-OS and Sony was selling it as a loss.

I think they were worried about people buying them up and not purchasing games.
China is not trying to change its image (at least not in a real way). It's trying to:

1) solve a real problem with pollution in its own country. Pretty sure its "image" or even the Paris treaty is secondary to that.

2) By pushing for renewable power in its own country, it's essentially funding its own renewable energy industry, which could end-up way ahead of everyone else in the long-term, in both prices and technology.

So it's not about the image, it's about getting ahead through renewable energy and for their elites not having to breathe coal day in and day out in China's largest cities.
The Malaysia of today is quite different from the Malaya of the 1950s.

My mother grew up in Ipoh. Her brother was drafted by the British in the 1950s for this campaign (as was typical of British colonial practice, he is not malay, chinese or english). His and his buddys' description of the process was pretty clear: 1 - all bumiputrahs into kampongs. 2 - once that's done you are free to shoot anything that moved (which he said was a euphemism for ethnic chinese), with no consequences.

Allegedly the British were fighting communist infiltration from maoist China, so the shape of your body was proof of your guilt. I have no idea if there really was infiltration and the cantonese/fujianese who spread through the British empire were typically hardly of the communist persuasion.
> Basically, they understand very well that top talents are essential for developing advanced technology they need

Because companies around the world are now aware of the fact that Chinese government steals technologies. Also, Chinese government is too late trying to get talents back.

Most of the laowais (expats) that were in Guangzhou, that were in technology, have left in recent years. The only foreigners left are africans trying to eek out a living and English teachers who can't make it anywhere else. You can imagine the reasons why: poisonous air that will give you cancer, poisonous food that will give you cancer, dirty water that will give you cancer, horrendous traffic (and everyone driving around honking and disregarding rules), bad mannered locals (imagine jackhammering at 4am, spitting, elbowing, cutting in lines), censorship, foreigners getting arrested without a reason, expensive rent (compared to quality), no way to be connected to the western internet without VPN (and recently, VPN have been failing as well), no way to talk to families overseas. And this is in the top province in China. Imagine tier 88 or even tier 2 cities. (shudder)

There's no reason to be in China other than to make money, then get the hell out. And that seems to be even harder now with the economy stagnating and everyone blowing bubbles into the real estate.

Thank god I got out of China. Many already have.
> I've also written up how to build an AWS AMI this way

If you've written it up in public, any chance of a link?
The vast majority of what google has grown in the "moat" and the "scorched land" that surrounds "the castle" of search and paid clicks is at best useless and often toxic. And then there is YouTube.

Edit: when useless, it is useless to a buyer, but not to a user. When toxic, it is toxic to both.
Amazon could use this idea to generate a unique code in your address every time you order a delivery, thus removing the requirement that couriers use a special app. The code would expire after a single use, after the package is signaled to have been delivered, or after x days -- whichever comes first.
WxPython: Drag and Drop an Image onto Your Application
> SpaceX made reusable rockets a thing.

The space shuttle was reusable. It just wasn't cost-effective. So far, SpaceX hasn't proven their resuable rocket is cost-effective either.

> Tesla made great cars with bleeding-edge EV technology.

Model X ranked dead last in reliability: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/consumer-reports-survey-m...

Model S owners have also complained about reliability and build quality problems.

I don't know much about SolarCity as a business, but the Tesla buyout has a lot of sketchy signs about it https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/10/18/solarcity-teslas-s...

I don't necessarily think Musk's companies are literally "Ponzi schemes", but they are less impressive than the hype surrounding them, and they all rely heavily on government subsidies.

I just wish HN would take the same critical eye to Musk that it does toward other business luminaries. It seems like far too many people are easily seduced by "Mars colony! Hyperloop! Rocket around the world!"
from their submission history: https://scotte.org/2016/12/ZFS-root-filesystem-on-AWS
Live streamer agency is revolutionizing the industry
Ill-Advised C++ Rant, Part 2 (2016)
one cool feature is of this release is the Performance Insights dashboard which makes understanding and analyzing performance much easier https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=4462hcfkApM
Knowledge is carried through generations and by interrupting that, you cause irreversible harm. That's effectively what the mongols did to the Islamic empire.

The mongol invasion of the Islamic empire had as an objective made an example out of any nation that did not agree to pay tribute to the mongols. They did this by razing the cities to the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destru...

The Siege of Baghdad resulted in the death of many scholars, the destruction of the Great Library of Baghdad, etc.

Curiously enough, their most important cultural achievements have survived in our own culture, after the Spanish reconquista and the Latin translations of the 12th century in Toledo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_translations_of_the_12th...

The European Reinassance was essentially the assimilation of the cultural wealth amassed by the Islamic empire. Once the Roman Catholic church was influenced by philosophy (e.g: Saint Thomas Aquinas, who studied from translated material), they stopped prosecuting science so severely.
This is definitely a pretty app. I can see from the quick video that you put a lot of effort into. However, it looks just too fiddly for my taste[0].

[0] As in, too many touches required.
Wasn't the Kinect technology acquired by Apple? My impression is the top sensor bar in the iPhone X is essentially a miniaturized Kinect, so we should see more Kinect-like applications now that it fits in your pocket.
What the hell does that even mean? When my father had trouble with his union doing illegal shit in the 1980s, the Dept. of Labor back then was useless, as was the NLRB, and when the trouble became to violent threats, the FBI was zero help, too!

I know you meant that as a veiled criticism of Trump, but here's the reality: The US government under Trump is getting itself turned around after decades of mismanagement. It won't happen overnight, but there are clearly much-needed reforms in progress and a lot of people don't like that. And the rest just take cheap shots because they simply don't know any better.
Your account was created 1111 days ago.
Sorry now at the moment; watch Show HN for now ;-)
I am not trying to create an axiom meant to generalize to all cases. I am just willing to be a little less pro-union (and this point has gotten lost here apparently) than I am usually when it comes to THIS set of companies, for very particular reasons. That is because I tend to think of these companies (at least SpaceX) more as causes than as companies. When you willingly work for a cause, you expect these things. If you are fighting to treat victims of war near battlefields, you might get be indanger, and the organization might not be able to do much about it, or provide you the kinds of benefits that would be deserving in a perfect world.
So he downloaded a list of files. That's like going in the door, opening the refrigerator (or filing cabinet) and making an inventory.

The list itself could have private and protected information.
It existed at my smallish Canadian university back in the '90s, using much of the same language. Postmodern left-wing student radicalism isn't some new phenomenon. What is new is the reach of the internet and my guess is a lot of this silliness is magnified by that medium.
That's definitely a huge part of it. But MS would still be happy to lose money on kinect if game makers were making nice games for it.

The only game in my house that could ever utilize it was the original Dancing games from the demos. The last time I saw my daughter playing it, she was holding her phone, and using it for the sensor instead of the kinect through their integrated app.

I asked why she would do that? Just plug in the kinect and use it, don't risk dropping your phone while dancing, but that's not how she wanted to play.
For cause terminated employees don’t get unemployment.

My guess is that since Musk companies don’t feel constrained by rules, they figure they’ll save money in UI taxes by forcing workers to adjudicate their UI benefits. They get the benefit of cooking their balance sheet as an additional benefit.
>A problem with that is people will be desperate enough for those now higher-paying jobs that they'll spend hours commuting from distant cheaper places. All that time spent commuting is equivalent to getting a lower hourly wage.

A lower hourly wage which may still result in a net increase in quality of life, right? Because they live in a lower cost of living area. But surely not everyone would commute that distance.

>We've already figured out that having no minimum wage lets desperate people suffer worse.

That's certainly not what I've figured out. What I've figured out is that we put poor people into low income housing that unsurprisingly has no-choice crappy public schools and then we use the minimum wage to force employers to prejudice against the very people in the low income housing we forced into an education system that doesn't give them the skills/education necessary to earn a decent living. Minimum wage, low income housing, and no-choice public schooling is the holy trinity of liberal policies that harms poor people, and especially minorities, over the long term.
There already is something else “like” it: the front-facing camera in the iPhone X.

On one hand, you could see this as fooling around with Kinect tech now requiring a $1000 investment in an iPhone. (Or buying a Kinect used; there are still plenty on the market.)

On the other hand, you could believe in the inevitability of Shenzhen to take the probably $3 part Apple has designed, stick it into a little housing with a micro controller, and commoditize “Kinect Minis” within the year. :)