skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm more concerned about Google using AI to mine every conversation I've ever had or my browsing history to classify me as a dissiden before I apply for a visa to travel to China or the United States, or as a deadbeat before I apply for a bank loan, or sick before I apply for insurance, or as unrehabilitatable before I apply for parole.

I'm quite paranoid about this, yet whenever I speak to people about it either people don't care, or already accept it's happening and inevitable.

I think part of the problem is many of us already feel we've lost the battle for privacy. Although, I'm not sure we ever seriously attempted to fight for it. Every street in cities in the UK is full CCTV cameras. The underground and buses track where you travel. Our internet is monitored and logged. This isn't a future problem that will manifest from greed and advances in AI, it's something we all accept and deal with today.

In fact, a lot of people will say to this, "if you don't do anything wrong you've got nothing to hide". They welcome it.
What would be the best way to install JupyterLab on a fresh Mac?
I think the focus in the article and in the comments is all wrong. The benefit of blockchains is on the businesslevel. If you have several manufacturers, of course you can integrate with all their databases, but that requires an enourmous amount of managements and hours in meetings and implementation. The next step, which i guess some banks have done is to cooporate on a common solution which is operated and run by a commonly owned entity. This also requires tons of management and a whole new organization which eventually becomes its own business area. A third option is like uber for transporting goods, a huge independent third party which is efficient, but eventually gets too powerful, so people revert to one of the other solutions. Blockchains on the other hand has a model for distributing trust and operations. It provides a more general solution to a mexican standoff than months of meetings and long contracts. Your contract is embedded in the blockchain. Of course the blockchain needs to be updated and maintained, so i think the real issue with blockchains would be that people cannot agree to using a single one for a specific purpose. But then it is much easier to agree to using a blockchain than to use solution x provided by company y because of all the organizational overhead it could abstract away.
Seconded. They don't actually warn you about the emotional impact of not being able to orgasm, and the added stresses it can add to a relationship. :(
To be fair, the chaos the traffic situation is probably inversely proportional to the labor cost of driving.
>This is a pre-release not a final one.

Which is not mentioned anywhere in the linked blog post.
Perhaps you fried your brain just right.
Because it's 2018 and everyone is looking so cool and we've got our history lessons and we fight inequality and all this stuff? Or, do you mean, this is just another circle of the spiral of human biases?
Seems the time is neigh for Proof of ( human ) Identity.

Something akin with Captchas / Turing tests, but antifragile against gamification, with requisite incentives, and without adverse surveillance.
I'm not sure I agree; for example, I associate Perl very strongly with Larry Wall, Clojure with Rich Hickey, and Erlang with Joe Armstrong (and nobody else).
The last few years we’ve seen a few others help carry the torch (from active discussion on the python-ideas mailing list, core contributions, and major library compliments driving the ecosystem forward):

* David Beasley
* Raymond Hettinger
* Yuri Selivanov

I’m sure there are more but those are the first few that come to mind.
No, there is not fear in the industry. It is just people that refuse to learn js/html/css ecosystem that get outraged when see a electron app. Will you seriously think that a company like Skype didnt think and weight every option before doing their electron app? Sure enough they are not as efficient as native apps, and sure enough there are a lot of apps that thinks everyone have an i7 and 16 gb of ram, but the same problems had Java 20 years ago, pretty much with the same promises than Electron (Write Once, Run Anywhere), and it did pretty good.
> a good approximation of the market force that restores a fluctuating stock return to equilibrium

Are we talking mean reversion here? A mathy example would be nice :-)
> I try VS Code on my 4+ year old chromebook with 2gb of ram and it runs just fine

It probably does, if it's the only thing you're running. I know developers think their app is the best thing in the world but they have to realise it's not the only thing running on my machine. RAM is a scarce resource on my dev box.
That's a shame. Really good long form writing is often well worth your time. Although this particular piece had some grammar issues that reduced it's quality but the content was still enjoyable.
The issue I have with what you said is that while they are victims, everyone is a victim of one sort or another and there are serious crimes and there are stupid "crimes" like being patted on the butt by some old lecher. We can't right every wrong.

As far as overwork goes, I can tell you firsthand that while higher education is bad, the corporate workplace is nightmarish in scope. They work you to death then when your health fails, they throw you away and get a new one. That's the reality.

One job I had pushed me to my absolute limits. I quit it after my manager succumbed to either a heart attack or nervous breakdown of some kind. I'm not even sure what happened to him because HR just came by and said he was taking "medical leave." I never saw him again after that since about a month later I gave my notice and got out of there after my wife put her foot down about all the panic attacks I was experiencing and didn't know what they were.

Those pressure cooker jobs are't worth the money. What's worse is that I've realize that all development jobs are shades of what I went through at that one place and that worse, while my health has recovered, any amount of stress pushes my buttons now. I'm about ready to shuffle off voluntarily now and maybe just go make $15/hr. in some bullshit job someplace. It's better than being carried out, which I have witnessed so many times I can't even count: At one large company I worked for, I know of at least three people that died at their desks and many others who suffered breakdowns requiring EMTs to show up.

The sad truth is that there is a never ending supply of ambitious people willing to try to push it all a little further. On a long enough timescale, they're all dead people walking.
At the moment "strong AI" is science fiction so what could you possibly say about it? How do you even know what the "only defense" is?
It seems to me that the only relevant standards to compare it with are Dutch.
Obviously the overall standard of living in NL (and most surrounding countries) is high, from a global perspective. It does not make the failure any less spectacular for me. And for the no-go areas in NL.. There is a strong political will here, and in neighboring countries, to defend this stance; It has become some sort of a mantra. I would argue that there are plenty of no-go areas in NL. Yes, Honduras is worse, so is Sudan, or whatever, but in reality there are many places that people will not go, or would be comfortable letting there loved ones go, because of safety concerns. You could compare this to some failed state/city anywhere in the world, or you could argue that anybody should be relatively safe (and feel as such) anytime of the day. The Bijlmer really is a "shithole" by any standard. (I am Dutch)
Both things are useful but no revolutions here.
Which is why I explicitly mentioned that, as the blog post is likely to confuse people in this regard.
I wish it were like that on WeWork offices…
Elon Musk quits AI ethics board following Tesla conflict
The salts work great for normal hangovers though.
I love that simple API! Here's a bash one-liner that checks if 'hello' is compromised:

curl -s https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/$(echo -n hello | shasum | cut -b 1-5) | grep $(echo -n hello | shasum | cut -b 6-40 | tr /a-f/ /A-F/)

Edit: Improved one-liner that only requires typing the password once and avoids storing it in the bash history:

(echo -n "Password: "; read pw; curl -s https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/$(echo -n $pw | shasum | cut -b 1-5) | grep $(echo -n $pw | shasum | cut -b 6-40 | tr /a-f/ /A-F/))
> it's beautiful

Beautiful is in the eye of the beholder. I much prefer consistent UI look and feel and Electron, may come close, it has it's nuances. It's probably my number one gripe. I'm on macOS though, so it could be different on your Linux desktop environment of choice or Windows. I still prefer TextMate 2.
I've been working in UI for almost 20 years. I've done flash, native desktop, games, web, mobile, etc, and I think HTML+CSS+JS is still the best abstraction for UI IMO.

It's certainly not without it's problems though. JS sucks and native performance is way better, but no one can deny it's so much more flexible and powerful than any other thing out there.

Here is a great article on this topic: https://medium.com/missive-app/our-dirty-little-secret-cross...
Year One as a Software Developer: Expectations vs. Reality
I don't think anyone outside the autonomous groups really knows how map dependent they are.

It's easy to imagine reasons to have detailed maps in the areas they are operating even if their systems are not wholly dependent on the maps. Stuff like being able to more quickly analyze how well the system is characterizing the environment or reducing power consumption or the map is necessary above a certain speed or …

GM made a detailed map of limited access highways in North America just to geofence the super cruise control in the new Cadillacs, so I'm also not sure the duplication of effort matters all that much.
I agree that like many of such documents, it is CYA indeed. I don't mind CYA, but this is just sloppy encroaching legalese gobbledygook.
I understand the need to change approaches and for companies to move to other manufacturing, etc., but 12 years??

Two years seems about right?

I always wonder when there's a long implementation period before requirements take hold if that's a politician making sure they don't have to handle the fallout but can still wallow in the glory.
The feedback loop is definitely a major component. It is why I've frequently entertained the thought of doing drugs. Simply because I feel a need for something to help me get started down the right path. Exercise, eat better, see friends, actually complete stuff properly at work etc.

Depression has a tendency to put you in a state where you are just barely holding on to life and doing anything extra each day to improve your condition seems like an insurmountable obstacle.
Those map-only trips were true only decade ago for most of us. And they sucked sometimes, one desperately trying to avoid big cities because it was nightmare to get through, especially in foreign countries (not so much of an issue in US, very real problem in EU).

I recall one desperate drive through Budapest, chasing any living being at 2 am somewhere no clue where, those few random people not speaking english and ignoring me naming big cities in direction we wanted to go. Of course no driving directions anywhere. Imagine the same task with any offline GPS map now. These days, you don't even notice big cities unless highways are stupidly done to lead only through the center.
Or release it as a web application and let the user use chrome's "add do desktop" ...
I don't like that you're dropping Linux compatibility, but understand the the reasoning.
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Nearly same boat here. We're based in Frankfurt where everyone is talking about FinTech so its natural to call our Accounting/Bookkeeping/Billing AI Startup [0] a Fintech, but to me initially the term was reserved for startups that process creditcards or do algotrading. I'm content now to use the term as long as its helpful.

[0] https://www.fastbill.com
In this case, if you needed a surgical intervention (or anything requiring sedation), its safer to be hydrated via IV fluids. Unfortunately ER's (and Hospital's in general) can move incredibly slow (often for no reason) and outside of emergencies are rarely good at any kind of prioritization. Add it all up and you get situations like yours :(
IBM and Unity Partner to Offer AI Tool That Could Make AR Apps Smarter
I don't get what's wrong with multiple styles.
Oh hell yes, and in 12 years a new set of politicians will kick the can again, that’s how it works.
That's kinda the point of the lawsuit: they can't. Redbox is buying Disney movies at retail. The only way for Disney to stop Redbox from doing what they're doing is to stop selling physical copies of movies.
Both of these issues seem like a timely reminder that everyday Linux desperately needs a proper application management and security model.

Installing software where your options are

1. running as a regular user, and the install script can put whatever it wants within your user's directories

or

2. running as root, and the install script can do literally anything to anywhere on your system

is not fit for purpose, when the risks from both malice and incompetence are both reaching new heights almost daily.

These are systems we use for real work, but even smartphones and their toy app stores do better now. How do we still not have controls so applications can always be installed/uninstalled in a controlled way, can only access files and other system resources that are relevant to their own operation, and so on?
12 years? 12 months seems plenty.

It's not like they need decades of research to reintroduce paper straws, paper bags and reusable bags.

Edit: I'm confused now.

"As of next year, food and beverage stores such as fast food chains must stop providing plastic straws for in-store use. From 2020, free plastic straws will be banned from all food and beverage outlets. From 2025, the public will have to pay for takeaway plastic straws, and a blanket ban is to be imposed in 2030"

They're banned free from 2020, but public have to pay from 2025? What happens in between then?
Bill Gates and China spur development of next-generation reactors
I use firefox and according to about:memory gitter uses about 20MB per tab and rocketchat about 50MB. Those at are the biggest memory hogs. The average tab with a static page uses around 4-5MB. On the other hand I see a lot of "fixed" cost

These values may not be accurate because they don't include images but they are still very far away from a blanket statement like "150MB per tab".

Clearly we can see that electron has a lot of room for potential and if they fix these flaws there would be no need to critize it, yet they don't even give the slightest damn about it.
turbo pascal ide and compiler are 600KB

at one point I don't care about multilayer super cute guis

btw turbo pascal had shadowed windows in TUI
You don’t really need the huge overhead of a block chain for that. You just need a hash and some redundant storage.
Maybe it is. But bundling everything still seems wasteful. A react native equivalent for desktops would in my mind help.
The Linux irony hurts.
> The case results from Redbox’s lack of an existing business arrangement with Disney. The rental service has distribution deals in place with major studios like Warner Bros., which allow Redbox to purchase physical DVDs and Blu-rays of popular movies that it then offers for rental at its standalone kiosks. Disney has struck no such deal, so Redbox purchases retail copies of the films and rents those discs, instead.

That's basically what VidAngel did -- a physical retail copy for each simultaneous rental -- but the courts shut VidAngel down.
That only works if all your friends and people who tag you in photos online cooperate.

That is, simply abstaining from posting pictures online doesn't work.
> In fact, a lot of people will say to this, "if you don't do anything wrong you've got nothing to hide". They welcome it.

Weird that those people want their poops and bedtime routines live on TV globally. Having something private is not bad and anyone who thinks so hasn't taken a second to think about it.

I think the extra dangerous thing here is propaganda along with the AI to convince everyone it is okay, and I'd say that is already happening, as your comment describes.

Aside from electing responsible people to government in order to pass regulations, what can a regular person do to change the profit incentives at scale of the companies who are building the mass surveillance systems? It seems a dire and impossible situation.
Going fully digital with info, verifying with blockchain is all well and good, until a malicious actor forbids/prevents people from using blockchain somehow. if you've gone fully digital at that stage, you're in trouble
Or just, you know, a cache.
> There is some work on having RISC-V backends in HotSpot and JikesRVM, but so far it is limited to interpretation IIRC.

Well, JikesRVM is a proper JIT. Palmer Dabbelt from SiFive has worked on a HotSpot port before (for a different platform). I'm currently working on a V8 port. The availability of platform software and language environments is obviously of paramount importance, since it'll shape the remaining first impressions of the architecture.

> The fact that Oracle is not jumping at it and pouring hundred of millions into it is beyond me.

Well, it's a lot of work, and they have their SPARC investment to continue.
How big is the plastic lobby in Taiwan?

I'm quite certain for Europe, the car lobby is very strong that governments say "By 2050" in the same sentence as "All cars should be electric!".

On that topic, some cities in Germany are so fed up with the pollution levels, they're thinking of banning diesel cars, which is being argued before a court today.

Meanwhile, at the moment it's 45 degrees warmer than normal in the Arctic. It's like saying "In this movie, the hero will win in 50 minutes!" when the end of the movie is in 5.
Lots of people care about this. I think the solution is to produce policy papers about this risk complete with proposals for how to go about curtailing those kinds of abuses. The EU still cares a lot about privacy, and other government bodies are happy to help if you can suggest how.
If we’re talking about Rails, even there Ruby is possibly better. Rails has been around for a long time and its community is very clear on readability and maintenance.
Is it 90kb installer or complete app? Also what are using to build the interface?
Ask HN: Would you start a new project based on Riak KV
Two years from now, we have build a document center based on riak kv for internal used. It only took us a few weeks of work to be up and running. And the project is still actively used.

As I see a few customers that would need a similar solution, I was thinking about making this document center some sort of product. Because it was an internal project, the idea would be to start the "product" from scratch. As I was doing some research, I found that Basho, the original company behind riak, went bankrupt. The sources were bought by bet365 who planed to open the source code. I read here and there that there was several companies and individuals ready to build a community around riak but I could not find a announcement, real commitment and a plan for the project.

I'm now wonder if I could go with riak again or if I'm better selecting another technology (sadly because I was perfectly happy with riak). I can leave without paying support but I don't want to start a project from scratch with a technology that would be dying...
Media only solves certain problems. Fundamentally, it’s also a custody issue. Storing archive material with multiple custodians is essential.
Adding the the examples aianus posted here, Ruby needs no `__self__` or `self` being passed everywhere. You only use `self` when you really need it.
Detroit has great foods. For great places to eat, trust that you have never heard of them. Not nationwide chains. There are tons of random hole in the wall joint with amazing food. You just have to know them usually through luck or referral because you could walk past them many times and not know there's amazing food in there.
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I recently bought a set of reusable stainless steel straws.
They were expensive, but have a timeless "design" and have a build quality that gives the impression they will last a lifetime.

When dirty I throw them in the dishwasher with the other cutleries. They don't take any space in the washer so cleaning them is essentially "free". (Making abstraction of the ecological cost of a dishwasher.)
Thank you very much!
I don't really get upset for critics, it helps a lot to produce the next good work (noting previous complains).
However, hearing some really positive feedback is always motivating to spend more time on knowledge sharing. Thanks again!
Get Your Idea Ready in 8 Hours – The practical value of design hackathons
I didn't do that much Swing, but the feedback loop for UI design in the web definitely felt a lot easier.

I have fond memories of debugging C# with Msft tools, but I also suffered a decent amount on the debugging cycle in C/C++. Being able to just patch in some new code without going through a whole compile/set up the environment again is very useful.

I can understand thinking that the foundation of the web is bad, therefore web development is bad. But I would take the chrome debugger experience over C/PHP/Java debugging experience most days of the week.

(That being said, I could simply be unaware of some debugging tools in that space that make things nicer)
You don't mess with the Taiwanese bubble tea. Seriously, they use one hell of a lot of plastic crap in Taiwan for takeouts but a lot of people also carry their own utensils, for various reasons.

Agree, 2 years should be plenty. I'd stretch to 5 but in 12 we'll all be drowning in the stuff.
The Law of Unintended Consequences will:

* Put companies out of business that produce or import said goods

* Reducing availability and increasing cost of medical goods that use plastic because the aforementioned companies no longer exist or are importing products

* Put pressure on manufactures to use alternate materials (bamboo and glass most likely) causing shortages and rising cost

This in the long run is going to put an overall strain on on the country that is going to drive commerce away and make a black market. Just look at place that bans or places a sin taxes on certain products.

Soda Tax in New York that made people go to New Jersey:

https://nypost.com/2014/06/26/highest-court-in-ny-refuses-to...

Bicycle Tax added because people stopped using cars because of another tax so a new tax had to replace the car tax:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/17/first-bicyc...
"everything you would expect of a Facebook-engineered library"

So it collects your personal information, even when not using it, and uses it for profit?
also how does this handle pages that load with a small number of links and then uses JS to write in a bunch of DOM nodes and links?
there are many experiences like this.

the worst part: those people will leave the class thinking they have the whole story.

the part you mention won't ever enter their mind-- it isn't under the heading of "killing" because "killing" only happens to the groups covered in class.
When I was in the army we did this regularly. My barracks roommate was our platoon medic and would stockpile as many IV bags as he could without causing suspicion. Anytime we had a late night of heavy drinking, before morning PT he’d hook up a bag and 20 minutes later we’d be feeling great and good to go,.
Trope about bad guys? Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan worked hard to get the atom bomb. If the 'bad guys' had created it first, would the world be a better place?
Java's run as desktop/web application platform, is nowhere good. It thrived on server, where WORA had limited appeal.