skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you mind if I stuck your collections of data in the Internet Archive? I appreciate AWS' efforts in this regard, but trust the Internet Archive for access and persistence more (and the Archive serves every object as a torrent).
Ann Arbor cements its status as a tech hub to watch with first unicorn
Aaronson is one of my favorite philosophers.

But, what if there's a law of physics inside of the simulated universe that solves exponential problems in polynomial time? You could pack a more limited universe inside of that one, if you didn't want your inhabitants to have access to it. I think that computational complexity absolutely does determine how useful a simulation is to us, but it's not meta-universal enough to do this kind of philosophy with.
It's a fun solution to consider, but I'm also concerned in that lobbying for this solution already exists - mass marketing, which has already been mastered.

My parents had me at 17 and had no idea how to raise kids. They see a commercial of kids eating cereal and poptarts, so they feed me cereal and poptarts under the false assumption that that is a healthy meal, and that plus other factors led to me growing up fat and unhealthy.

Basically, if lobbying is a problem, disinformation through mass marketing is a MAJOR problem.
Limit colors to no more than 7.

Important stuff should be "above the fold" -- aka should be visible without scrolling down.

Less is more. Shoot for an engineering type "looking good" rather than an artsy "looking good." Form follows function will serve you well here.

Think about sites you use a lot and enjoy using (such as Hacker News) and why they work so well. Borrow inspiration from them.
As a Tesla shareholder, I advise caution going down the "profitability" line of argument when making comparisons.
David Mitchell makes an interesting argument regarding moral outrage against entities taking advantage of "loopholes".

https://youtu.be/m2q-Csk-ktc?t=25s
No, you can't, because the position of each item depends on all the previous items.

Flexbox only deals with a single row at a time, whereas masonry doesn't really have a notion of a row (given the 4th item in each column can be at very different places, depending on the sizes of the items above). Grid requires you to bind things to an actual grid, so you still can't do masonry (for similar reasons). The closest you can do is using multicol, but that's then top-to-bottom then left-to-right instead of left-to-right then top-to-bottom.

Note that this is mostly thinking about unequal height items (which is the common case of masonry); equal height you can do with floats yet alone more recent layout modes.
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Does anybody else find it incredibly weird?

They were able to manufacture batteries for 50k+ Model S/X.

But couldn't scale the same batteries for Model 3?
Thank you. This is great food for thought.
What Does Redux Do? (and when should you use it?)
Yes, the marketing piece is hard to operationalize and a 'creative lead' who leaves can ruin it - unlike regular ops where a 'finely tuned machine' can run for a long time with just responsible leaders.

The new CMO is from Burberry, and I think she will keep things humming well.

Johnny Ive is still participating, so they have a design front established.

Engineers can think of cool new things.

So they have a lot of momentum.

But still ...

There was a time before Apple, there will be a time after Apple :) ...
The main difference is that anyone can create a practically untraceable address as many times as they want. So if you have a lot of tainted Bitcoin and you want to obscure the source without risking putting it through a mixer, you can create N addresses and start sending coin to (and through) them.

Compared to checking accounts; I can't just generate a thousand checking accounts that don't belong to any identity and generate a transaction history that appears to show many transactions occurred between hundreds of parties.

It's still not as good as mixing with other Bitcoin of alternate origin (if I only have the tainted coins at the beginning, I will still have 1000 accounts with only all of the same tainted coins when I am done, and a careful analysis will show that these 1000 addresses were funded entirely by the original tainted coins). But each seller cannot be expected to perform this careful analysis, and as you are able to exchange known tainted coins for clean coins and mix them, you can increase the uncertainty that a legitimate transaction is taking place that is separate from the one that originally generated your ownership of the tainted coins.
And then AMD for x64.
So either he was "asked to leave" (fired) for somehow being responsible for the battery issue that was the rate-limiting factor for Model 3 production, OR he was being leaned on so hard by management to fix the problem that he left for work-life-balance reasons (ragequit.)

Either way, he gets to put in his expertise to found a new company in one of the hottest technologies there is in 2017, probably becoming rich by selling Tesla's own upgraded tech back to it, as well as to everyone else in the electric car race. All while not having Elon Musk looming over his shoulder. Not bad!
At some point you tax people too much and they leave your country for one with better taxes. Never forget that the top 20% of citizens are responsible for like 87% of all the tax revenue the US and state governments rely on.

In fact this already happens at the state level in the US:
http://www.howmoneywalks.com/irs-tax-migration/

If the new cut cut cut tax plan passes and Californian's can no longer write off state income tax on their federal returns, you will see even more people leave California.
>easier for lobbyists

Elsewhere in this thread, the concept of lobbying is being questioned as well. Find a way to prevent this and that removes a huge chunk of the problem, in my mind. Not that I can figure out how to prevent it.

Stopping corporate donations to political campaigns would be another thing.
There is no rule (lobbied-for or otherwise) that says that publishers can put publicly-funded research behind a paywall. That they can is simply a result of the fact that all creative works are copyrightable, and people are free to publish copyrighted work on freely-negotiated terms.

If you asked the public "should there be a special law excluding scientific articles from copyright protection," I suspect most people would say "no." Sometimes the public agrees with the general principles of a law, but disagrees with specific applications. In those cases, we give precedence to the legal principles, not the public's opinion on a specific situation.
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Yeah, the unresolved bug reports are pretty annoying. I ran into similar problems trying to get Live Edit working with AngularJS.

Symbol navigation sometimes picks up random unrelated functions from ignored folders instead of the one sitting right beside the file, because it has the same name.

Even after excluding a directory? If you have autogenerated build folders (e.g. dist/, out/, etc) you have to mark them as Excluded: https://i.imgur.com/E2uXJzu.png

Odd. I haven't noticed that, but I'll watch out for it.
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Given that it's the government's responsibility to educate its populace, wouldn't it then be the government's responsibility in the end?
If you step back and look at Mozilla's performance, it looks like they have been struggling.

https://www.w3counter.com/trends

Hopefully they are on the upswing recently because they have found more focus and direction.
That's conjecture. There are many reasons why a person might leave a company, and not all of them are because the person is unhappy with the company or the company is unhappy with the person. I'd rather we didn't jump to conclusions in the absence of evidence.
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You're showing a pretty serious case of cognitive dissonance here. What previously was a theoretical problem was actualized with a real world example with actual affected users, and you've shifted to an entirely subjective argument that the breakage is "not integral to the application".

You also chose to rationalize the breakage by shifting the blame to the victim -- they have "no business hosting anything themselves". Well, great, but that isn't going to stop them. Maybe they want to ensure their web forum isn't censored by a hosting provider. It turns out that people still host their own websites in 2017, and until they all shift to centralized monolithic providers these bugs will persist for years, and you will persist in rationalizing the breakages as "flu shots".
I have had a couple of videos and images deleted from Messenger that were sent to me. Usually involving some level of nudity. Sometimes weeks later.
What's the correct order of elements?
For me Google Keep takes care of all the organizing stuff. With Google Calendar at times.
>> You've basically described a lot of mobile games though. Candy Crush for
>> example.

I guess I have and I totally believe games like Candy Crush are exploitative,
perhaps even at the same level as gambling.

I remember reading an interview with Tarn Adams (I can't find it anymore)
where he pointed out that games that make people perform repetitive actions
for some in-game reward are exploitative. At least that was the gist of it. I
think he had Cookie Clicker in mind- although maybe I misremember that,
because Cookie Clicker is more like the opposite, a game that doesn't hog up
your time (it plays itself).

In any case, I think what he said is true. A game that makes you want to press
the same key 100 times is just stealing your time. There's always rewards, of
course, but if you think of what you could be doing with your life in the time
it took to press that key 100 times, it starts to sound a bit pathetic.

The worse thing about this for me was realising that many of my favourite
games are exactly that kind. I play lots of shmups, for example. In fact I
used to play shmups since I was a kid, when you could find them in arcades and
you had to pay to play. I played some of them long enough that I got to the
point where I could finish them with one or two coins, so I could say I had
some sort of control on the game, but the truth is that each one of those
games I liked as a kid was specifically made to draw me in and hook me up, by
plugging into my reward centres. And there's no escaping, either, that no
matter how good I got I couldn't play if I didn't pay at least one coin.

So, yay, I do 100% think that there are other games besides slots that we're
used to think of as bening, but that are also designed to hook you in to some
useless rewards and to make you waste your time and your money.

And I haven't even touched on my one true addiction: Magic the Gathering. You
don't want to get me started :)
Network. Even if you're just networking with other new grads right now, in 5 years those new grads will be experienced and doing all sorts of interesting stuff.

Nobody grows exponentially in a vacuum. (Except marshmallows I guess)
Point taken. FWIW, I used the "post to HN" bookmarklet to add the link and didn't think twice about removing it.
> Non-Copyleft licenses say "do whatever you want, just give us credit."

Wrong. "Non-copyleft licenses" are, well, anything that is not a copyleft license. It doesn't have to say "do whatever you want." A standard commercial license is one kind of license that is obviously _not_ a copyleft license.

I'm not really following what point you are trying to make.

Selling software is selling software. Do you consider any kind of selling software to be 'extorting money' (I think that could be a reasonable position honestly, I'm not going to dismiss it out of hand), or something special about the 'faircode' license that gives the software free to some entities but sells it to others that makes it 'extortion'?
I wonder what are the challenges against implementing an open "near-full-automated" journal?

- anyone can submit a paper. which is stored in the yet to be reviewed section.

- only users with confirmed university affilation / users that published more than X papers can opt in to become a reviewer.

- a reviewer is randomly selected to receive a review offer [in his indicated field] which he can accept or decline.

- the user and the reviewer are than linked together anonymously and their correspondance is stored to be published with the paper under review section.

- after that the reviewer makes a decision.

- when enough reviewers have made their decision, the paper is marked as rejected, or moved to the published section according to a majority rule.

- if the paper failed,the user then can choose to either:

* (modify the paper = optional) and resubmit

* keep the paper public but indicate it failed the
review process

* delete the paper

- if the paper gets published,trusted users of the site can then leave feedback (through the UI) to indicate:

* whether they could reproduce the results or not:
this might help alert the author if there are unclear
parts in thier methodology description.

* if the paper was helpful/intresting to them.

* add community questions under the paper, which can
be answered by the author / or a trusted user.

- authors can edit their work to correct in anytime they want [ allowing a faster correction of mistakes] , change history is kept to prevent abuse.

from a programming point of view it doesn't seem that hard to do. so what are the relevant obstacles?
You don't have to make pages that look identical in every browser. Make something that works for everyone and then use newer browser features to make it as good an experience as possible depending what features are available. CSS even has the "@supports" feature for doing it - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%40supports
s/the/a/

Panama Papers and the ICIJ are a very large effort. But yes, a Maltese reporter, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who worked on Panama Papers (about 80 reporters in total) was assassinated by car bomb in Malta last month.

ICIJ are now over 200 journalists.

https://www.icij.org/blog/2017/10/investigative-malta-journa...
> The fact remains that no entity can successfully prove to another entity that it has inner experience, so how would proving you have subjectivity to _your own mind_ work?

If you are trying to 'prove' subjectivity, in the sense of providing an argument for it, then you are missing the point: you already experience it directly by definition, so there is nothing to prove.

> This is a bizarre and unsupportable statement. Clearly physical processes can carry out computation, which is a special case of mathematics ...

I am arguing against the idea that the computation (i.e. the math part) carried out the physical process—not the other way around.
Stephen Hawking says AI could be 'worst event in the history of our civilization
I've been thinking about this recently, too. This was just on the front page of HN yesterday:

"Does anyone remember websites?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631565

"Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well. But finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.

The wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet."
Instead of a pivot, it just looks like a side pet project for the WeWork founders. The article says they're considering making the program non-profit.
> A tip: Strangely Safari tend to need flex-basis value everywhere

Most of the Safari issues should have been fixed in Safari 11, FYI. (The implementation of flexbox was largely copied over from Blink.)
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/08/03/2192188/electric-vehi...

GM lose $9k on every Volt right now after subsidies and are also having trouble selling them.

http://fortune.com/2017/07/17/gm-shutdown-chevy-bolt-supply/
Thanks for clarifying your thoughts. I actually just finished Tegmarks new book Life 3.0, which touches on consciousness and qualia in the context of understanding AGI, and I think he'd actually argue that qualia is an "emergent property" of certain categories of information flow, much like waves are an emergent property of certain types of phenomena. I'm don't think that is a sufficient argument to explain subjective experience, but it's an interesting train of thought and would provide clearance for having his argument about a mathematical universe being consistent with qualia -- the qualia is an emergent property of information flow, several layers of abstraction detached from the underlying media of the multiverse. In other words, citing qualia as incompatible with the MUH would be much like citing waves as incompatible with the theory of atoms -- two totally different domains. Under this theory, you could arguably get qualia to emerge in other media, like a bunch of logic gates, without having anything to do with what those logic gates were composed of.
My point is not about increasing or decreasing the power of Government (in a democracy, Government power cannot really be 'increased' or 'decreased', but it can be concentrated or spread out though). The Chinese Government is not a democracy, so not really relevant to this discussion.
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John Locke: Diminishing Marginal Utility as Limit to Claiming Nature as Property
Wasn't WebRTC 1.1/ORTC supposed to fix the mess by 1) modernizing the API by making it object-oriented and 2) separating the new stuff from the legacy cruft? Whatever happened to that?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/08/ortc-webrtc

I'm surprised it's not ready yet. I wonder if they are just waiting for AV1/NETVC specs to be finalized.

I wish we got a webtorrent spec, too, but with the MPAA now on the W3C board and the majority of the W3C board seemingly being in league with the MPAA now, it doesn't seem likely anytime soon.
> This has created a strange ecosystem for app stores in China, which depend on vulnerability exploitation in varying degrees for installation privileges.

Can you explain that a bit more? 3rd party app stores are legitimate on Android, so why would they depend on vulnerability exploitation?
I've been describing Tesla as a "battery company" for a while now; it's essential for their solar roof and electric car businesses.

This makes me nervous as an investor..
I just run the installer pointed at an external hard drive partition. You can boot from that and run the OS installers for the same or later versions but you also have the full OS if needed, including extra apps like Carbon Copy Cloner or whatever, not just the recovery environment.
Out of curiosity, what cart are you using? And are you using a Nintendo or custom expansion pack?
Yep! Thanks for the clarification.
Apple has been using tax strategies since the '80s and pioneered many of the techniques [1]. Samsung or Huawei weren't competitors then (perhaps Sony is the bogeyman you're looking for?)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...
I suspect that her very unusual life (practically every aspect of her life has been unusual), amplified by her unique and powerful mind, has created for her a mental condition well beyond what any of us could even fathom.

Given that, I don't think it's fair to judge her inaction or reduce it to merely "satisfied with her life and doesn't want to leave her mom". Her reasoning could be much more complex.

Besides, she's still quite young. Even if she's just satisfied and not wanting to be apart from her mother, is that so bad? I would argue that she's earned a break.
"It's not a hardware problem, it's a human problem!"
Absolutely, did not mean to imply I wasn't standing on the shoulders of giants in that genre cross-over, more that the existential dread seems to get more dreadful today [0] than in early cyberpunk. In addition to examples you list, certainly Charles Stross' Laundry series is a particular influence for me here as well. (One book of which was so close to home I felt a need to only read it outside during daylight.)

[0] ETA missing splice: as opposed to "punk"/DIY/rebellious/creatively-destructive. It's almost hard to imagine we've crossed some blurry line where early cyberpunk seems almost positively hopeful compared to reality.
Oh no, the Internet Monopolies are instituting "Rolling Blackouts" ahead of the FCC decision on Net Neutrality!!
As much as I'm into Tesla, a friend of mine has a Bolt and they're way fun to drive, for a Chevy and that kind of car. They accelerate pretty well. Nowhere near what I'd expect of a Tesla, but still pretty torque-ish.
For anyone reading this:
- appearantly this is done unsing http://ml4a.github.io/guides/DoodleClassifier/

- also www.computervision.ai enabled me to get started with images files pretty fast, drag and drop to train a classifier
I have not ran it yet, but historically these statements
that they make are true.
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I thought you needed a many-GHZ scope/logic probe to capture modern ethernet.
It seems similar to the appeal of platonism over the centuries. The human mind evolved to categorise things to make sense of the world, and to dislike uncertainty. So the concepts of some abstract, ideal essence of things are easily understood and liked.
The narrative I've heard is that the secret sauce is the battery-pack that combines the cells, controls temperature, balances loads, etc. Not sure if this is an accurate narrative.
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I was a little skeptical too but it seems to be encrypted locally before going anywhere, so it seems like it's alright to use. Anyway, if the deletion's compromising security as much as you say it might be an acceptable trade-off.
Be aware that this is huge: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Library_Genesis