skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit less happy with my answer, on reflection. I'm using "complexity" to mean something close to Kolmogarov Complexity, which I still think is reasonable. But we may need more categories to have a sensible discussion.

I now begin to think we should perhaps distinguish between size, complexity of design, the number of moving parts, and I might also add redundancy (since it trades off with many of the above.) These can all vary independently. There's a sense in which redundancy (or fail-safe system design) can add parts but reduce overall design complexity, or at least management complexity/too many bad decisions that are too easy to make or implement. So maybe the latter is an additional meaning of complexity that should be considered. "Control Complexity." For example, an aircraft with no dihedral is simpler, but far harder to manage, to keep level.

Note re the above that the number of moving parts (and size) in a physical system doesn't nec reflect Kolmogarov Complexity since the Turing machine simulating that system can loop.
Raw, unfiltered me fifteen years ago was probably a misogynistic "nice guy" on a regular basis. Raw unfiltered me right now is all for feminism and social justice, and hates the shit out of that guy I was fifteen years ago.

If the worst quote attributed to him shows him calling people dumb for throwing their personal info at someone they have no reason to trust...that's not a very strong indictment of his character. And even though it's reasonably bad, there's no way fourteen years of responsibility won't change people.

The idiot who said "dumb fucks" is an entirely alien person to the person now. And the quote calling people dumb for giving some online rando their personal data doesn't exactly demonstrate a conclusive disregard for the value of that data. If anything, it's an insult to people's intelligence because they should care more.

It doesn't make him a hero, but doesn't make him a villain, either.
I think Apple's strategy with the iPhone is (or should be if it isn't already) to leverage their enormous war funds to build unique competitive advantages.

They used to do this with software. That's why we have OSX and iOS. They've expanded that to hardware already. The AX Processors, other smaller chips, camera. The screen is a natural extension of this idea.
Some throw away email sites accept incoming email on any domain, so if you have a spare one you can just point your MX record to the site and use that as a throwaway email. I believe most sites don't do DNS lookups when checking for scrap email addresses.
And what about those who don't indulge in the Facebook Likes game?
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People always say they want end to end control. But they don't actually build anything. It seems they farm everything out to contractors. I.e. foxconn
Are you by any chance a believer that half of the political spectrum is wrong? When people talk about trolls, it always seems like they talk about people they just don’t agree with, and conventional media is a more comfortable space for them because all the right wing doesn’t have the possibility to speak. You may consider the It’s-the-Russians disorder is not a disorder, but that only works if you want to live in a bubble where the other 50% citizen shut up.
Considering Lena doesn't object and by all accounts is quite happy her image is used, there really is no reason not to use her image. If you real want you can use Fabio instead.
Ideas are great but taking the first step to develop the product is very tiring. People just won’t have time to join your time. That’s common in India!

We were Always on the hunt for someone who could believe in launching the minimum sellable product. We met a lot of people and eventually we landed up with 2 Freshman developers from Waterloo. I had known one of them before he joined Waterloo and he brought in his friend.
An idea I've had in the past is that surely there's a way to detect eye direction as looking at the screen and tweak the image on-the-fly so the eyes are looking directly at the camera instead.

The idea is so simple I'm assuming it's not as easy as it sounds, so I've never really tried it (plus I have close to 0 experience with machine learning algorithms)...
My 2 cents : they are popular because they are pretty much the only ones in that pretty specific space.

It does not explain why no other company has tried to copycat them though.
CAPTCHA is an entirely pointless way of verifying humans, you can buy human-powered CAPTCHA solves for less than $1 per thousand.
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I'd never take a pension over a 401k. I'd much rather be able to pick some of the investments my retirement is funding/being funded by then none. Seems crazy to me not researching and picking the investments, but maybe I'm bias by my understanding and intelligence versus the average American.
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So wrong it's difficult to know where to start.

Just one fault as an example. A debt is denominated in, say, dollars. Interest, however, is denominated in dollars per month.

Conflating the two is like confusing miles with miles per hour.

It's a classic stock/flow mismatch.

Interest, in reality, is the wages of bankers. Just as profit is the wages of capitalists. And like all wages and pensions they are spent to allow people to exist. Bankers and capitalists are human too!

The rest is the same 'watchtower' style curve fitting to a belief.
Indeed.

Anyway i would love to have an open source Simulink-like IDE which generates C code. There is currently not much choices in model based tool, and none are open source.
Apparently the charge in computer power supplies can kill :/

https://www.cnet.com/news/teen-electrocuted-while-working-on...
I like Quiver, use it every day, but it's development has kind of stalled/stopped for a couple of years, and it has some significant limitations. It's search capability is limited, and it can't do search and replace. At all. In any form. I had never seen a text handling program that couldn't replace text, but Quiver now has this distinction. If you need to do this, you have to open up Quiver's JSON in an actual text editor.
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The Barbarian societies were often more complex, being less well-integrated and uniform than Roman society; Rome was far more interested in integrating conquered populations. Trust didn't work well for the Persians or Mongolians (at the leadership level.) I don't know a society that solved that one from my reading, highly religious and superstitious societies in which the ruling families were Gods, such as the Egyptians came closer to a solution. Simplicity of a kind.
"...a lot less 'magical' once you have seen how the sausage is made."

I remember discovering this phenomenon too coming up from a underprivileged background (to use a common term). I had great appreciation for recognizing this phenomenon reading a forward to some homeschooling book. You might appreciate this blurb too...

"The Roman writer Tacitus said, "Omne ignotum, pro magnifico," which translates roughly, "Everything unknown is taken for wonderful."

Think about it. Somehow we humans have this complex to assume great ideal things when ignorant of them. I've been pondering this for the past 10 months or so.
Hard to escape when each webpage you visit sends signals to the various social/surveillance/marketing companies. There is some legal push-back [1], but e.g. Facebook considers it 'industry standard' practice and tries to appeal/wiggle out of these data collection restrictions where it can.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/16/facebook-...
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rsync, ln -s, mv -T always worked for me -- NFS always presents so many problems, I almost never deploy it anymore given copies of everything are so cheap via various cloud storage solutions.
> No need to 'joke' about deportation. That's what disgusted me.

Yeah, I should have considered global cultural influences more before posting. Sarcastically joking about deportation is probably a bit too swiss for an international audience to recognize it as such. Let me assure your though, this was an attempt by a swiss person desperately trying to be funny.

Obviously it backfired.
Why would that be interesting? Jpeg is the wrong format for these types of images anyway, is it not?
Unrelated to Wren, but I felt that Bob's book "Game Programming Patterns" ([1] and a free web version [2]) was excellent, and a very down to earth treatment of the topic. All of the examples were relevant and pretty hard hitting.

I know patterns (especially "design patterns") have become a bit of a swear-word, something which hints at severe engineering malpractices, especially along the lines of introducing unnecessary complexity for seemingly its own sake. I think that view oversimplifies the topic greatly, so hopefully people don't dismiss it at face value.

[1] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
[2] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
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> Never once did I ever refer to any of our customers or clients as "dumb fucks". Why? What did they do to Zuck?

> Although, I did refer to AOL executives, FBI agents, Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors and lame wannabe hackers as dumb fucks. Both then and now. And I work with the federal government, with an agency that's often unfairly demonized by a variety of people.

Your argument against the possibility someone has undergone personal growth is that you yourself have not experienced personal growth?

Some of us can imagine having conversations like that, jokingly or seriously, in our teens while having better taste/a better worldview now as adults.
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At least in my childhood:-D
But it is French
Depends if you’d give them your inheritance.
NT 3.x was fine for a desktop OS. I ran both on Pentium machines as my development system.
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I had a privedged international education and taught at Berkeley and Chicago, but the hardest working student I ever knew was an undocumented refugee who started at CSLA and transferred to Northridge for his junior and senior years. To save bus fare, he slept in the bushes at Northridge. Last year he got his BS and found a good job. He supported himself through school as a sexworker. I'm in awe of his grit and endurance. We need schools that can accommodate hard-working students who succeed despite unconventional lives. And We need such people of remarkable courage and character to become leaders in corporate life. I'm proud to support the Cal State system with my taxes.
Not sure where my copy/paste went awry, but "they" should have referred to community colleges.

(I have degrees from both the CC and CSU systems.)
Yes he's entirely alien person. The one now will hide his sociopathy much better.

And make you disregard the moment when he showed his true self as a thing of the past.
the quiver dev(s) decided that converting characters/integers to emojis and adding bizarre hidden characters was a good idea for some reason? i spent an hour tracking down why the messages i was submitting to a queue weren't working and it ended up being the fact that i saved it in quiver. try snippetslab instead.
Am I the only one who thinks that Google is getting off easy? When it comes to 1) tracking people and 2) contributing to the perverse incentives which are transforming the media industry into an enemy of democracy, I think of Google and Facebook as equally guilty and toxic.

Yet Google seems to get only a fraction of the negative coverage, both in the press and in the tech community. Why is that?
Brave. Tried both native and Desktop mode.
Every pixel on the panel must work, otherwise the whole panel is useless. Now imagine you have one broken pixel on average for every million pixels. Apple Watch screens have 100k pixels so on average 9 out of 10 screens test OK and can be used to make a watch. But the iPhone has about a million pixels, so you end up throwing away about half of all the screens you make.

More pixels = lower yield.
Two ways:

1. Votes can replace older votes - although this has issues because they could just make sure you don't vote again by pulling the trigger.

2. Let the voter assign 1 and 2 to A and B himself when receiving the private key - which means that when the time to click 1 or 2 comes - only the voter knows if 1 => A or 1 => B which makes it impossible to know who he is voting for.
Stop guessing start learning. It sounds like the person doesn’t understand what each configuration command does.
because... not many people use Google+?

sorry.
> Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac?

Yes, which is ironic because the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform.

The developers should have developed this app using native libraries instead to offer a good performance.
Why do you suppose that this is part of some international conspiracy against Facebook instead of Facebook finally being called out for their BS?
Such a security apparatus would collect any and all information it can get its hands on, and then use it whenever it needs it. For instance to protect the state, to protect itself, to influence and manipulate situations to its advantage and to the advantage of those in power, to destroy opponents and of course for fun and profit.

A contemporary Stasi would control Facebook and use all algorithms and all available data sources to figure out who the persons of interest are. Even assuming that the StasiBook app wouldn't auto-upload all pictures and microphone data (why would an upstanding citizen turn off their mic?), they could still correlate many invisible patterns.

So all in all, I think they'd be the biggest fans.
We know exactly what those genes are - or more accurately their phenotype.
> Finding software written for Win32/Alpha, though, is likely to be a challenge.

As someone who actually had one of these at work[1] back in the early 90s, there was hardly any software compiled for Alpha even when it was a current product. Lack of software support, was one of the reasons that WinNT Alpha never gained a foothold. Which was a shame as the Alpha hardware was pretty great.

--

[1] It was the only one we had, I think we got it as a freebie as the rest of the computer room was choca full of DEC VAXs.
GPP was great.
Plus, Bob's new book is about writing interpreters!

http://craftinginterpreters.com/
The sort of person that would check transaction histories is not the sort of person that's going to believe, even for a second, that "@e10nmussk" asking for people to send them money is genuine. I would expect all those transactions are genuine. There's a lot of naive people in this world and they seem attracted to Twitter like flies to a light.
I agree. When they must have started to monetize their platform through ads, they must have realized how useful their data was. For e.g., search engine advertising is based on customer's intent because they know what the customer is searching for, whereas a social network's knowledge runs deeper than that.

This is when they must have decided to turn into a surveillance company, to become a data-crunching behemoth it is today.
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Group policies were introduced with Windows 2000 and Active Directory.
Too bad it's Mac-only, it would not fly well with collaboration.

Would love to have a similar UI but self-hosted alternative.
It is not the same thing.

Emacs is a tiny portion of what a Lisp Machine was capable of.
Assuming he's the same person as back then but hides it better, do you think that his true self thinking people are dumb to give an unknown and untrusted online service their information extremely freely is wrong? Or just an asshole at the time?

Point is, as much as it might color his character, so does his observable conduct in all the years since. Reiterating: with context (would appreciate if you don't forget I'm not disregarding it and talk past me) - it really doesn't give much context, though it's an amazingly compelling soundbite.
Well, besides that quote there's also the part where he's running and expanding the world's biggest (or second biggest?) corporate surveillance machine which might indicate that he is a person of questionable character.

But other than that, I'm sure he's a great guy to have a beer with... most evil people are quite nice when you get to know them.
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Ah sorry then, I did not know it was that cheap :/
Because it is likely true?

Having too little money definately lessens your quality of life significantly..

Having enough or slighty more (most gauge that (slightly more) to be in the 100K$ income per year range for a western nation) is very nice.

Having vastly more has some negative effects:

- risk of theft (and breakins/robberies/ambushes) - risk of kidnapping of your loved ones

- lots of people wanting money from you (because you have enough)

- loss of old friends (as they haven't got the money to follow your lifestyle, and they likely won't take donations
- or they belong to the group before, and stop being real friends)

- (for some) a feeling of being unjust rich

I am in the "enough" bracket, and cannot see how vastly more money will better my life..
People did/do take chances: it was not always clear what was allowed and what was crossing the line.

* the allowed range of expression used to depend on the political climate (in better times/under liberal rulers you were allowed to say more)

* the rules are often not clear as they are not stated explicitly. (however the subjects were expected to know them)

* Also some people had more liberties (different degree of toleration, depending on the position in society)

* decision to go after someone used to depend on the arbitrariness of some official.

Disclaimer: my knowledge is based on historical events, i don't know that much regarding the realities of the present day.
I don't think there's a stronger way of stating that your users are dumb fucks than running Facebook or Google.

And indeed, with enough algorithm magic, free stuff and lobbying, it turns out that the majority of us are dumb fucks.
Holy crap that's a lot of RAM for 1998.

I hit 2GB about 10 years later when I got a Core2Duo workstation.
"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post."

Facebook doesn't sell information, it sells ads. It's in Facebook's best interest to share as little of this information as possible with third parties so they continue buying ads.
> Makes you wonder what pioneers back in the 60s and 70s could have accomplished with modern hardware.

One of the best Bret Victor talks is about that.

"The Future of Programming"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

> And it kills me to think that Smalltalk and Visual Basic had a built-in GUI editor and layout manager, unlike the web.

Anyone of us doing desktop/mobile development on .NET, Java, Android, iOS, Qt development can still enjoy such goodies.

With web, one day it might catch 90's RAD tooling.
Such an obvious hatchet job. You can tell the news media companies are on their last legs when they can’t even be bothered to hire quality people who can FUD the market with a modicum of nuance.
Of course it is, it's funny that there even is any arguing about that in the comments. Since when it's even a question? The real question is: so what can we do about that? I, for one, don't really see an answer to that. All this babbling by Snowden or anyone else for that matter is worth nothing. If there is any war going on, FB is hopelessly winning and I don't see any attempts (or even possible attempts) to change anything. Fuck, nobody even uses any somewhat "secure" messenger, people use WhatsApp and Telegram (and even dare to speak about them in terms of "privacy", which is mind boggling) and nobody gives a fuck about anything — and "somewhat secure messenger" isn't even that hard to achieve if people would really want it. And here you are talking about FB or Android being evil — yeah, of course they are, but they don't even have any plausible alternative to cover people's needs, so what do you expect…
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They're cheap and the vendors like to pretty up the speed charts by ensuring any speed test will mostly hit the cache, even if it comes at the cost of loosing data during a power loss.

Some enterprise SSD/HDD do have large enough capacitors to quickly commit the cache to a flash version or write it out, though usually you have a battery backed RAID controller for that.
In Germany there is not a single(!) district with above-replacement rate. Only certain demographics (migration background) have (much) higher rates.
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connectionism is an approach to the philosophy of mind, the most successful approach as evidenced by recent deep learning hype

the only book in the OP I thought was even mildly relevant was the one by Dennet, and it's generally acknowledged that it's pretty bad.

A more interesting but flawed approach, that resonates as someone who loves Dawkins and Hitchens (atheists and advocates of evolution), is Gerald Edelman's Neural Darwinism (1978). There is even modern research (that is real, working code) at the University of Texas that could be considered a successor to Edelman: NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44
Nice perspective. A revolution for other countries, garbage bullshit in our own.
As a public utility, the river is worth money to the government. If it goes to waste, less people will be able to use it to make money, which leads to less taxes.

Any agency brought up to protect the environment has per it's mission an incentive to protect the environment and doesn't suffer the problems of a corporation, namely limited funding. A government agency doesn't need to make profit to receive lots of funding if it's important enough.
I don't know, from their actions it looked quite like they actually wanted the information. They needed it, among other things, to sow mistrust among the right groups.
And yet surveillance is the foundation of the primary service they sell right now. If a company makes clocks, we tend to say it's a clock company.
Seems there was a lot of hoopla about lead-free solders back in the day, but it seems industry did figure out such solders and protocols to use them properly, and contrary to various predictions, the sky hasn't fallen.

Looking at the state of e-waste "recycling" in 3rd world countries, I personally think it was darn good we got rid of lead solder.
There's a substantial difference in DPI, which probably makes it easier to make this big screen than an iphone screen with near the same resolution.
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Well the best solution is to check if .+@(.+) matches and then try to lookup what the capture group returned via your DNS resolver. If it has an MX record (or CNAME to something with MX), then deliver the mail to there.

If you can't resole the domain part, return an error.
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