skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's very hard for me to condemn this when the outcome seems so inarguably positive. Truthfulness is important, yes, but so is outcome. And if this woman after ten or twenty years, when she is well-adjusted with a career and family of her own, finds out the truth, would she be angry with her mother - or thank her?

Given the amount of adopted kids that have been lied to, and later found out, she'll be absolutely furious. Her mother is a lazy, dishonest bitch who bought a fake father rather than finding a real one for her daughter. Japan is full of single men so it's not like that option wasn't available to her.
The medium is the message. I'd argue the underlying technology, that is blockchain, is actually the most impactful. Bitcoin is just an implementation and an example of how blockchain based technology can affect society.
But your experience is just anecdotal yes? You (and frankly me as well) have a resistance to the FB addiction, but the numbers of people on the platform are staggering and cannot be ignored.

And China has their own version of FB, what will that be used for in the hands of a totalitarian government?
This doesn't work if the wheel wells hug around more than half the wheel and are fixed in place to the chassis. The real reason it's so low is that it's a concept not meant to be driven.
And that's why the rest of the world's governments issue their own national IDs to their citizens. Heck, I have two!

I have one given to me at birth, which is a sequence of 13 numbers that gets calculated with a formula and has a control number at the end (kind of like credit card). This one is random enough for nobody be able to guess anyone else's (for example, how many babies were born before you on your birth day in that region is a relevant factor in the formula) and is used with government entities and government entities only (it is illegal for the businesses to require from you to provide that number to them to give you a service).

And I have the second one, which is the national ID number. This one was given to me when I was 18, and it serves as a proof of identity with the businesses.

And there you have it. Two distinct numbers. One for your government, and the second one for you dealing with businesses. Someone can't fake anything important (as in, government-related) with your ID, and businesses have a second number that is usually proven on the spot with the photo of you in your national ID.

Problem is solved.
This is common in the U.S. too. I can't begin to tell you how many threads I've encountered where people go "How do you make friends after college?" or studies that show that people lose friends over time and hardly gain any after college, on average.

But, I don't think it has to be that way in the US. I myself went from having few friends to having more than I can keep up with, thanks to a period of two years where I went to a ton of Meetup.com events, writers groups, board game groups, and the like. Generally speaking I just had to keep showing up, make a little small talk, and then eventually people knew me and trusted me enough to start inviting me to things outside of it.

And I'm an introvert at heart. I still struggle to talk to people outside of these events and I still get exhausted by social activities.

Most people don't make that effort here, though, and that's one reason why they struggle (also there's some personalities that are either very abrasive, self-defeatist, or otherwise off-putting, and those people struggle as well). I find it's harder to keep up with myself now that I have a long term girlfriend and a puppy, but I still make an effort.

I wonder if that's possible in Japan as well, or if that's not even really a valid avenue over there.
Yes - the fundamental limits to learning by induction
> I think there are too many possible risks of programming the vehicle to do anything except stop dead in an emergency situation - you rapidly get into very complex programming with all kinds of failure modes

Perhaps that limitation should disqualify AI from driving cars.
right, but I mean things that can't ever become digital. not media products, just physical goods.

and yeah I used to get netflix DVDs to my home. and hit blockbuster for many years before that. there was no possible good ending for blockbuster!
> Until you reach this point, the tab scrolling UI is hidden, so there's no concern for anyone who doesn't use tabs heavily.

Which is me. :-)
Just because something is cheaper, or more profitable, doesn't make it the right thing to do. You'd ideally include externalties that are not captured by the price.

To give one related example, just dumping your trash in the street is cheaper than paying people to come and haul it away but no one seems to make the argument all about cost in that case.

Particularly in the US, propaganda campaigns against the entire concept of recycling seem to have been very succesful. Often these are pushed by libertarians and you can trace the funding back to the Koch brothers who (entirely coincidentally of course) are invested in companies that supply the virgin feedstock materials to make new plastic bags or whatever.

They've also spend millions on anti-EV and anti-solar campaigns two other rival industries where their product is only "better" if you totally ignore externalities.
I am not scoping\targeting my statement to bitcoin's original intensions and white papers.

I am referring 'Bitcoiners', the social entity, which have a separate life from the original intensions and white papers , and why there is "vitriol towards Bitcoin", as the OP requested.
> This gives these media companies way too much credit.

I'm not giving it any credit.

> If they had this much self-awareness and intelligence they wouldn't have been caught out by the rise of social media in the first place.

That would be giving it too much credit.

Traditional media is just protecting its own turf. Or it is trying to.
How many megawatts are being consumed by electric heaters up north? Replacing those heaters with GPUs seems to be a “green” mining strategy.
It's the other way around really. This "greater fool" system works as long as fresh money comes it to keep pumping the value. At some point you'll run out of "fools" to come in and invest money, at which point the bubble stops expanding.

At this point the most anxious investors will start selling their coins, fearing a crash. This in turns causes the value to start dropping and then you have a runaway effect as more and more people want to dump their coin, crashing its value more and more.
> Java compiles to native code since version 1.0, only not for free.

Well, there was GCJ, but I think that hurt more than it helped.
> A City of Las Vegas representative issued a statement that the shuttle “did what it was supposed to do, in that its sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident.” It also claims, lamely, that “Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided.”

Note a subtle shift, with government now shilling for the driverless vehicles. That's the first time I've seen it; I suspect it won't be the last.
So is there a UK equivalent of Nolo?
Survivorship bias. Press releases do not made when equipment work as expected
I second this. Not only is the code well-written, the whole codebase is architected in a modular and layered way. Many things are well documented. You can probably step up your game and write a plugin for VSCode as an exercise.

The VSCode codebase is evidence TypeScript is built to scale further then Javascript.
Amazon and Apple are the two biggest companies I can think of that does awesome CS, and that's because they do it in-house and they rely on consumer lock-in. If an Apple fanboy or an Amazon Prime member have a super-bad experience, they will leave and get locked in somewhere else.
it's unfortunate how bad some tooling is in the c++ world.
Sure you can. Many offer this option officially. For example, when I've ordered iPhones from Apple, they let me "pre-sign" online before delivery, which means the delivery person will drop it off if I'm not home.

Of course, the tradeoff is that if your package gets stolen, they're no longer responsible for it, which is why I've never actually done this.
How would volatility decrease in case of mass adoption?
Qt Creator handles this problem differently. If you call f<int>(0) and f<uchar>(0) within your code, then the Clang code model will process both in the background, check for any syntax errors, and show an error if either one fails.

It's very useful while coding because you don't have to wait until compilation time to see an error, and it's a feature I wish VS would implement.
Your second example is very fascinating. Is finding unique datasets like this part of your job? How lucrative is something like that?
> At this point, you are probably thinking: “Holy cow! All these rules, and he is not even done with Use Case 1!”

No, I'm thinking "Holy cow! He used so many words to explain such simple behavior!"

The initializer list rule seems like a bad idea, at least.
This trick from Effective Modern C++ has been a lifesaver:

template<typename T> class TD;

TD<decltype(YourTemplatedAutoClass)> td;

Compiler emits deducted class because TD is declared but not defined and can't be used.
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I'm glad to see the Trump administration rolling back these Obama era privacy violations.
Nice work! (Good problem to have.)

How long are the two clients for? (6 months contract? 12 months?) I am wondering if you couldn't do both if you hired a personal assistant to help with things like laundry, shopping, driving, etc. =) (Too bad they can't sleep for you!)

What do you want to do?
No, it doesn’t offend me.

I simply asked a couple questions (which are being downvoted).

Maybe James Damore shouldn’t have been fired by Google?
I find celebrity worshipping a bit... mêh.
A more humored take on "Dread pirate Bezos" regarding presentations from an engineer's perspective came from Steve Yegge in 2001. You might remember this from when one of his rants that was supposed to be internal to google accidently went viral outside.

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...
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Hell, I've seen this as a lead/senior engineer. I'm seeing it right now, in fact, as a person on our team wants to write some stuff in language X, which nobody else on the team has experience with, and which isn't used anywhere else in the company, and to solve a problem that is perfectly well solved (in both development time and performance) with the language and tooling we already use.

As far as I can tell this engineer just wants to stick "built stuff in X" on his resume. He doesn't have a good reason to not use our existing stack. If I were the manager I'd demand more technical justification.
I still play all the time and there's some truth to them all being the same. They get more and more polished on a UI level, and more realistic looking, but remain static mechanically.

For example, Skyrim doesn't do much mechanically that Ultima Underworld didn't. Ultima proper did all of that from a different perspective for a long while before that, too. The Witcher 3 is my absolute favorite RPG at least since Skyrim and probably supercedes it, but again, it's just super polished, it doesn't do much that's really new, that I haven't seen before in an RPG or other game. You pick speech options from dialogue trees, loot dead things, and fetch quest items, but you're in a cardboard world. The monsters just wait for you to come slaughter them, they're set-pieces whose purpose is to sit there until you arrive, then bite you. The world reacts largely in a single specific way: you win.

Actually, I thing modern RPGs have regressed, Ultima VI's keyword-based dialogue was better than our modern dialogue trees. You could speak in natural language about a variety of topics, some of which were hinted at by the NPC with highlighted words, and others you had to figure out for yourself. (you could just type "troll" or you could type "What can you tell me about the troll?" or "I have seen a troll, and need advice, can you help?", it was more fun and interactive)

I'm hyped for Underworld Ascendant, because just maybe they'll break some new ground for a change. "A living ecosystem", but with people who can (and have) backed up that claim. I don't see much else on the horizon -- the indies are our only hopes! AAA can't afford to lose now, so it's all cookie cutter sequels there, only the indies can afford the risk.

I think a huge, huge part of the problem is that games cost so much and carry so much risk now. Ultima Underworld got a full sequel _ELEVEN MONTHS LATER_. You could move faster and try more then, because art didn't cost so much, there was no motion capture, no voice acting, it was cheap to make a game. If a sequel flops now you can't just try again, you lost $75,000,000 dollars and are now bankrupt.

Anyway, here's a link to a free, breathtakingly good book on the history of CRPGs from the 70s through today: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
also not the point, this is about a representative sample of the population having the same entrepreneurial tendencies as any other segment of the population and having disproportionate impact from starting off with more, or having so many chances to fail with little consequence. The survivorship bias will lean towards those that can survive financially longer without taking decades of their life to recoup losses and stability.
Or use a Bitcoin mixer.
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> THis means you want to get peoples attention - at all costs.

But that is a very narrow view. The New York Times could claim they have proof Trump is an Alien from outer space. For the day, they would win the attention of the world.

But the cost would be their credibility, which would lessen the share of attention they would receive on every day afterward.

So the NYT pursues a strategy of building a customer relationship. And trying to get as much sustained attention as they can over the course of a relationship. They don't purse getting attention AT ALL COSTS on each individual day, and neither should Facebook.
That seems logical. To control such a complex system as an ant's brain, the fungus itself must be no less complex. So controlling ant's muscles directly is the shortest (in evolutionary sense) path to its goal.
Yes, a comma would have made it slightly clear:

> Yup, been there multiple times, in smaller hosting companies.

I find it funny that anyone would think I would or could refer to them as small (and get away with it)
> Conceptually they're a bit like passing marshalled data between APIs in that sense.

That's IMHO a great way to think about when it's Good™ to use them. Yes, there are times when you just have to use the empty interface type but it's really not as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

I love Go because it is explicit and because explicit types make everything easier in the long run. I get tired of seeing Go written like Python/Ruby/$otherDynamicLang with overuse of interface{} and/or reflect.
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Actually, the mistake is mine, I meant to write golint (but too late to edit). I have no issue with gofmt. As for golint, https://github.com/golang/lint/pull/100 is the kind of thing I'm thinking about.
Could you do this with looking at post-cooling images from something like FLIR One? http://www.flir.com/flirone/
This is a bit off topic, but you might just love http://www.SDF.org
>One answer is that the only reason they can get away with citizens is that they are a captive audience.

In addition to this, there's little citizens abroad can do to affect change in the US. Sure, we can vote; your "residence" for voting purposes is presumed to be where you last lived in the US. But say I write my Congressman about an issue that matters to me as one of his constituents who lives abroad? I'd probably safely guess I'm the only person who'd have done so within his district. I'd guess there are dozens of people in my situation in his district.

From across the US, there are estimated to be 3 to 6 million non-military American citizens living abroad. That's more than a number of states. Yet any hope of responsive representation is a fantasy.

Part of the hardship of deciding to live abroad, I suppose.

edit: State Dept. estimated 9 million abroad in 2016.
Append the modal component to the react app element, and then change the app state to open it. The disadvantage is that your modal exists outside of the component that opens it, so you can't pass in props from parent to child. But as long as the triggering component and the modal have access to the same app state store it's not a problem, and fairly clean.
> Do you get security notifications?

Yes, to my daily-use accounts. I don't forward mail from my master account so that my daily-use accounts have little to no mail from it (to keep it obscure).

> Do you travel relatively often and what do you do in those cases? Like can you completely turn off working?

Yup, I travel a lot, and I certainly do turn off work. When I'm at work, I don't work on my personal projects, and when I'm off work I don't work for an employer.

When I do travel and need to work remotely, I take two laptops: one for myself & one for my work.
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Well said. Credit is unlimited and it propelled real growth in the past. The sole use of Bitcoin would make this capability an anti-pattern.
We generally think it's ethically acceptable not to tell a child that they were adopted for a long while (possibly into adulthood), or not to tell a child that their biological father wasn't their mother's husband. We also find it ethically acceptable for a couple not to ask who fathered their own child.

We also generally find it ethically acceptable to form and especially continue relationships based on factors other than true love, including stability of a family environment and economic stability.

What, really, is different about this? Just the fact that we're not lying to ourselves about what the relationship is?
We use TypeScript heavily at Ionic.

Ionic Framework 2+ is TS: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic

Our new web component compiler Stencil is also TS: https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil
Yeah honestly I'd rather cars not have anything to do with trolley problems built in. Build in "Don't hit objects" with a fallback of "hit the brakes, horn, and do the robot equivalent of pray" if there's no swerve options available.

My main concern with putting in code to handle trolley problems is what happens if (when) this code is tripped as a false positive? Some person walking along minding their own business when an autocar swerves into them because something on its radar looked like a crowd of people teleported in front of it
That doesn't seem like a fair summary. A human-controlled truck slowly backed into it and hit it. The autonomous vehicle was unable to react to the situation, though all the humans in it had plenty of time to see this coming and react.
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Mattresses have a crazy high profit margin (something like 60-80%) and salespeople in mattress stores work on commission-only fee structures.

Basically, mattress stores are cheap to open and print money. This is also why there are so many nail salons
Actually, it's still available in Chrome, Safari and Opera. I guess Firefox and IE still don't have it.
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Our city in it's infinite wisdom doesn't have public school buses except for special needs kids. So everyone drives their kids to school unless they are close enough to walk (most aren't). The school district uses full size buses for the special needs kids. It's insane. I'd gladly pay higher property taxes, or even a flat fee to have school buses.
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>It is still a kids series

Man, after having gone back and re-read them as an adult, it's only barely a kids series. Animorphs went hard in the paint with the horrors of war angle.
No, I actually agree with the person. Cryptocurrency is horrendously wasteful. But that person ignored what I said because that's not what I was discussing. That's the straw man argument I mentioned.
And the fixed costs upfront, not to mention the legalities!
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There are tons of ways, but ultimate is up to you if you wanna follow any of them.

One is using the Pareto principle: Ask yourself if the feature you want to work on is on the 20% side which solves the core problem, or if it belongs to the 80% leftover.
AI only needs to be better than people. I've seen a person drive the wrong way round a roundabout here. The bar is very low.
A semi truck backed into it.

If anything this just highlights to me how much commercial vehicles need self driving tech (I guess I, lamely, agree with the mayor).

My office used to be in an industrial district. The trucks there scare me. They absolutely do not follow the rules of the road, and it's dangerous for everybody around them.

Stuff like this: just backing up and expecting everybody to move out of their way, or taking a turn too tight and expecting everybody at the light to back up, were almost daily occurrences.

Yeah, self drivers need to account for this, but the bigger problem IMHO is getting those trucks and their drivers either off of the road or in compliance with driving laws.
On a trans pacific flight many years ago, I remember watching a Japanese movie with exactly this premise. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the name.
Yeah, forget autonomous vehicles having to cope with snow/ice etc, if they can deal with my schools parking lot at the start and end of the day, they'll be able to handle anything.
That was just a harmless (I hope) hyperbole.
I've actually used Go a couple of times for image processing workers and such. And that's when I developed my distaste for this language.

I mean, I get it, it's easy to pick up and use. Coroutines and channels are useful, and make easy to write async stuff.

But god damn, it's so dull and boring, there's no joy in it. We're programmers, we're supposed to extract abstractions and express them in the code we write. And IMO your language should definitely try to help with that.

Instead, Go wants you to do err, value = ..., if err == nil {
... } on almost every single line.
You can't adequately compose stuff. Well, you can try, but you quickly run into its ugly, verbose syntax for anonymous functions or lack of generics.

Maybe I'm not getting something, maybe it's just not for me, I dunno.
But next time I need high performance compiled language, I'll use Swift or maybe even Rust. Also I think Scala Native is somewhat stable already, gotta look into that.
> "deoptimization"

pessimization?

But the code doesn't have to become more complicated for it to be premature optimization. It literally just means improving something (generally performance) before there's a clear need.

> Writing the same code in a fast compiled language is just the default thing that you should be doing when you are not doing premature optimization.

I assume you mean "rewriting" here, since we're talking about porting existing code. Sometimes it's the best use of time, sometimes it's premature.
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Isn't that deflation?
But you could eliminate all of those things without bitcoin, and they are actively being reduced already.

There's nothing special about blockchains that will mean people suddenly won't use physical money, have a bank on their high street etc.