skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing rarely said: if you are trying to get into a career where more people want to do it, than the market can give jobs to, in order to get a spot you will have to kill somebody else's dreams. The harsh math is, if there were 2 people for every 1 position, and you get 1, then somebody else gets to be a loser because you got that spot.

It's not your job to make that person a winner, of course. But that helps to balance out the propaganda part of "follow your dreams". If you pick a career where more people want to find someone who does it, than there are people doing it, you don't need sharp elbows to keep others out of your spot. Careers in acting, singing, non-profits that actually pay a salary, etc. tend to have harsh internal politics. This is why.
Still using my 2008 MacBook Pro, it gets security updates but won’t run latest OSX.
Practicing the Art of the Lazy Product Manager
How in the world would a grid of streets make autonomous vehicles easier?
That's only because the left+ extremists are tolerated, if not condoned, on the SV run platforms.
Is this using a properly sorted MTB (switching to fat snow tyres in the winter months)?

Or the heavy Boris bikes or the small wheeled shopper style that a lot of these bike share companies use and most of these bikes are probably badly maintained.
The service is essentially public, like education, health, and roads. We would benefit if it could be managed and paid for publicly.

The only issue is that Facebook's scope is transnational, so you can't solve this locally or nationally. The same argument probably applies to similar platforms that facilitate "public discourse."

Perhaps something under the UN umbrella will eventually emerge to fill this vacant space—not unlike how nation-states nationalised railways in the nineteenth century?
Yep, that makes a lot of sense, especially since 10G/100G waves and such on the FLAP route are so inexpensive. Getting a remote peering port on AMS-IX or something is probably a good move.
Vegans are not that extreme—some people do it for religious reasons (i.e. Hinduism), some for health reasons, and some due to their moral beliefs.
Maybe you are referring to the extreme actions by the vegan recently?
Why is it "theft" with these two games though?

Mario "stole" from Snokie which "stole" from Quest for Tires which "stole" from Jump Bug which "stole" from Wanted: Monty Mole which "stole" from Donkey Kong which "stole" from Space Panic.

The entire history of video games is taking an existing concept and adding small tweaks to create something new. Threes/2048 is no different but for some reason and incredible amount of emotion and vitriol is tied up in this one.
NPM (Node.js) might care about security
Gab was billed as a "free speech Twitter alt" by it's founders. The people looking for that platform happened to be the folks that have turned it into alt-right Twitter.
ISPs Aim to Use Facebook Fracas to Saddle Silicon Valley with Crappy New Laws
>3) it’s not a tiny detail. Animal agriculture is worse than the entire transportation industry combined.

Let's base arguments on facts please.

US Greenhouse Emissions (specifically CO2) sources:

Agriculture: 9% of emissions.[0][1] (4.2% according to UCDavis[2])

Transportation: 27% of emissions.[0][1][2]

[0]https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[1]http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/farm/hsus-fact-shee...

[2]http://www.caes.ucdavis.edu/news/articles/2016/04/livestock-...

And here is a report from the UN's FAO; it's not a comparison to other GHG sources, but it's good data nonetheless: http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3671e/i3671e.pdf
They are at least controlled and not practically used at the moment. And most people see them as lines not to be crossed.
So does the news industry.
Cool project, and a mammoth undertaking in terms of scraping and data processing. Would you be able to share any details on what your ingestion infrastructure looks like?
I have to say that your first statement seems totally ridiculous...do you really think that homo sapiens is homo economicus?? People are not rational optimizers, they're mammals. I'm sure I'm being a bit uncharitable to your claim here but your comment makes you sound like you actually are the 'older, wiser' economist in that old joke: "Two economists, one young and one old, are walking to lunch. The young economist looks down and sees a $20 bill on the street and says, 'Hey, look a twenty-dollar bill!' Without even looking, his older and wiser colleague replies, 'Nonsense. If there had been a twenty-dollar lying on the street, someone would have already picked it up by now.'"

As to your second paragraph...have you considered the possibility that you, specifically, didn't do a good job of cooking for yourself and that the fact that you failed to cook this way could be, well, your failure (to plan or execute or whatever), rather than a global failure of the idea "cook for yourself and use fresh produce"?

As for farm shares, many/most CSAs deliver, either to the home or to a central location in town (often a local co-op). So it is, in fact just one delivery truck driving down the highway.

And to your final paragraph, I simply say that that is an utter failure of imagination. At the moment, it's absolutely true that participating in this kind of eating & cooking demands some flexibility of schedule. Mostly, wealthier people are the ones who eat this way. Now, why is that the case? Well, our entire food production and distribution system is built around a different model. Deviating from that model, given the current state of the system, is expensive. That doesn't mean that people with the power and resources to do so shouldn't actively work towards changing the system into somethign more sustainable and accessible for all. In fact, in NYC there is an incredible farmer's market (called "greenmarket"), which runs in several poor neighborhoods and accepts food stamps, and it's life-changing for many people. I think that if you spoke to a few of the people who shop there, you'd never be as offhandedly dismissive of "eat fresh produce & cook for yourself" as you are here.
A credible scenario is one in which none of the parts of the story have a giant leap between them. For example, with your scenario:

AGI gets built by a farming company

Okay, sounds fine, keep going.

gets programmed to farm more corn

Yep, this makes sense to me.

but there is no stop condition programmed in

Definitely sounds like something that could happen, with you so far.

so converts ever available land into corn fields

...and you lost me. I'm not sure how we ended up here.

The AI you're postulating is 1) intelligent and capable enough to be called "AGI" and arbitrarily terraform land into a useful field for corn, yet 2) dumb and inept enough to interpret its instructions absolutely literally, like a magic genie; meanwhile 3) the collective capability of the human species is apparently insufficient to stop this from happening.

I guess that could happen. But I take it about as seriously as alien life trying to invade us, a random meteorite killing us all, a solar flare destroying the Earth or malicious time travelers. Each of these what if scenarios also have a sensible build up followed by a giant leap in suspension of disbelief, and concluding in disaster. That's not a framework for intelligent discussion and productive rationality, it's a self-indulgent and conceptually incoherent exercise in mental gymnastics. While we're at it we could argue about how many angels will fit on the head of a pin. If I start a news cycle about how quantum computers will allow us build nanotechnology that can hack human brains, does my idea have any credibility? It could happen, right?

Our current capability with respect to artificial intelligence is so far removed from any reasonable form of strong AI that there isn't even a recognizable path forward. Established leaders in the field like Yann LeCun have publicly stated deep learning will not take us there. We don't even know how to consistently and rigorously define strong AI, let alone conjecture about how it would work or what its theoretical danger would be. That means we're trying to extrapolate the properties of hypothetical nuclear weapons from gunpowder. We are effectively children grasping in the dark, getting hysterical about a monster that may or may not be lurking under our collective beds. We can't agree on what the monster looks like, we don't have a rational explanation for why we believe it exists, but we heard the floor creak and we've seen plenty of depictions of monsters in fiction that sound sort of logical.
(2009)

The contrarian view is that the company really had outgrown the individuals who left. A large organization needs a bureaucracy to function more than it needs any one person. The point of the article seems to be that the new policies were a wake-up call, and the best policy is to avoid sending wake-up calls so as not to spook the folks who've been around since the start. But it doesn't work like that. If not the free pop, something else will signal that the frontier has closed. Your smartest people aren't stupid. They'll see the bureaucracy for what it is and decide whether it's something they want to be a part of.
That's not what that means.
He is neither.
a rail based launch pad could spin round and round around one of the poles and just let go at some point.
What true data ownership looks like
What kind of system requirements are needed to run this correctly?
>“autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group.”

This is not the first time this has come up. Even remotely controlled weapons are incredibly dangerous. I think the solution is not to ban autonomous weapons, they will be then used by non-state actors or "non-state actors". Governments need to enable better protection of citizens privacy. Currently any time I get mail, there is my physical address combined with my name. My phone number, current location and name are also bundled and probably visible to all kinds of people for all kinds of purposes.

It would be terribly easy to find my home address, tie small bomb to cheap drone and crash that to my bedroom window while I'm asleep. It's a perfect crime. All this could be done because I have said "I don't like nazies" or "I oppose Sharia in my country" in facebook post.
I think the difficulty of Riven is definitely cranked up a couple of notches too high. Myst seems to hit the sweet spot perfectly.

I felt like there were far too many moments in Riven where I didn't look in just the right place (the space at the bottom of a door, for example) and so I couple not progress. I played the original 5 CD version where you had to swap CDs as you moved around. Further into the game it finally requests "Insert disc 5". Somewhat fittingly for Riven I couldn't find the fifth disc because it was hidden behind other discs in the double CD jewel case....
A Snapshot of Corporate Profiling
You actually just described the modern approach to suburbs! Stapleton in Denver, Mueller in Austin are some examples. These basically become high priced, close in, suburbs.
What's the point of X-Planes if you aren't trying out the new toys?
iOS 11.3 update breaks iPhone 8 devices with third party-repaired screens
Doron Aurbach on battery technology
Fake and heterosexual.
How to avoid killing innovation in large organizations
How easy is it to change a battery in your phone? Upgrade the memory? What about them slowing down the phone when the battery degrades, and only just recently to be called out for that?
Looking at the Case-Shiller index for SF, I would agree it looks speculative.[1]

SF home prices went from an indexed 219 in Mar 2006, down to 120 in May 2009. That's a 45% decrease over two years.

Right now the index is at 259 and that's inflation adjusted.

[1]https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=SFXRSA
How to avoid using srcset on Web Responsive Images
I wanted to sign up, but they wanted my phone number. Fail.
Perhaps this should be called "single-page" rather than one page. It's 6,000 words and paginates to 27 pages when pasted into Word without modification (13.5 point font.)

I decided to time myself reading it, I would say quite carefully. It took 15 minutes of slow, careful reading. (I did not stop to do exercises).

It's really excellent however, and if you have 15 minutes, go ahead and read it. It's very approachable.
Correlation != causation. The headline totally neglects this to be more sensationalist.
This is actually really cool! I'm guessing it is English only though? I don't see examples of any other languages and due to the complexity of word->audio matching I imagine other languages aren't supported.

I think a better title would be "Audio search engine for Podcasts using FluidDATA". It had briefly gotten my hopes up that I'd be able to make a search engine for my music, based just on the title.
2 strokes are still leagal ?
from the second paper linked in the article

"Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.”
You still have to host the images somewhere—they're not embedded in the document (which is what I meant by "inline"). Not that I think markdown should be able to embed images (that would be contrary to the whole point of the format), but it doesn't lend itself to easy, one-click (or few-keystroke) images.
> does this involve Robin and Rand Miller, the creator?

Yes it does.
Scientist walks in wearing rave gear: “Hey, puffin’s beaks fluoresce in UV light”.

Second scientist “Wow, how did you find that out?”

First scientist ”Err... pure chance”
As someone who's been a chronic primary insomniac my whole life, I would not be surprised if I die young despite being very physically fit and healthy. My constant sleep deprivation has already taken a significant toll on my capacity to concentrate and it was the bane of my life during high school/university. It'd be interesting to find out what the actual physical state of my brain is after operating for several decades on 2-4 hours of sleep every night.
Found the evolutionary dead-end.
Do you have a source for foreigners "treating American housing stock as their investment vehicles" and that driving up prices?

That was the complaint in Vancouver until they actually started tracking foreigner purchases and it turned out it was 10-15% of purchases (higher in certain neighborhoods). That means the other 85-90% of demand was from Canadians.
The roads normally belong to the state.
The United States spent $20 billion for air conditioning during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/air-conditioning-m...

Perhaps in the near term it only makes sense for business jets, but it is a step forward. It isn’t money down the drain and the research will pay future dividends.
I was excited but no Linux support.. rats.
Immutability and purity by default goes a long way to remove a lot of headaches. I could settle for immutability, but it seems ReasonML mixes things a bit.
Silicon Valley needs new laws, accept that, and make the fight about ensuring those laws aren’t burdensome, anticompetitive, and downright stupid. If you spend your energy trying to make those laws not happen at all, they’ll be done to us and not with us. It’s time to accept that a significant (more than 65%) of people want regulations in the tech space, and calmly, patiently explain what kinds of regulations can be helpful and which would be disastrous. Accept that it will be a matter of compromise (at best) and that means no one will be entirely happy.
That software is still created by humans, subject to human forces though. You can characterise many things as 'training' or 'evolving' humans to serve their purposes, e.g. gut bacteria, poppies, cows, dogs, toxoplasma gondii, hammers etc. The characterisation doesn't tell you much though.
Is there an announcement to go with this? Any idea what the bounties are?

I know of some apps that I’ve reverse engineered that were doing some truly heinous things with the FB API.
Landlord -> Property taxes -> Government benefits receivers, service providers and employees

The real beneficiaries are the people who gain from the increased tax revenue.
Not more interesting, more popular. There's a huge difference. Look at the frontpage of reddit or youtube if you don't believe me.

Besides how much money would the average user be willing to spend daily on such a website? $1? $2? That already seems like a lot to me. Compared to the amount of money being poured into advertising or politics I don't see how the balance could hold. Besides couldn't you recoup a lot of your investment in a voting ring if later upvotes partially pay for earlier ones? Especially due to the positive feedback that popular posts are more visible and therefore tend to become even more popular? And even more so if people are incentivized to vote on quickly rising posts in the hope to make money?

From a game theory standpoint it doesn't seem workable at all to me, at least if your objective is to promote insightful and interesting content over memes and pictures of naked ladies.
The obvious question which isn't addressed in the article - do beta-amyloid levels return to normal after some short span of good sleep?

Alzheimer's is associated with consistently elevated beta-amyloid levels, while this study was about a short-term increase. It appears on a skim of the study that the rate wasn't checked over later days, but is expected (from rodent models) to go back down reasonably quickly. That's not a criticism of the study - it's an interesting result linking the disrupted sleep patterns seen in pre-Alzheimers to the protein levels seen in Alzheimer's, and it's also the first study to directly study this link in humans.

It just seems like an important caveat because the New Scientist article is a bit fuzzy on whether individual bad sleep events are being seen as a model (yes) or a risk factor (not so far) for Alzheimer's.
Perhaps someone with more experience can answer this question: is this an exceptionally large contract ($247 million)? The article implies that it covers the plane and its delivery, not the whole research project.
I've noticed the chip and pin systems getting much faster. Safeway in the DC area had a sign that they're speeding it up, and it was really insert, pause, remove. More like swiping.
I'm a middling JS programmer myself, but I have two tips to share.

First, when you're wondering how to do some specific thing (say, filtering an array by some predicate), search for 'es6 filter array', rather than 'javascript filter array.'

Second, make liberal use of google's 'tools -> past year' feature.
Encryption is pretected by all three of those amendments.
If you are ok paying. I think the frontendmasters.com has some brilliant introductions. I specidfically enjoyed the React course on it done by Brian Holt. Spends a lot of time on tooling as well which I think is really important long term.

You will also get access to a course on d3.js by Skirley Wu(look her up) which will help you tie in react with d3. If you are short on time and dont want to spend time research the right material to stufy on this may help.
The Apple Podcast App Is UX Garbage
Creating a Blueprint for Microservices and Event Sourcing on AWS
> I’m sorry: what problem do you think Facebook is ignoring? I have heard interesting arguments elsewhere — but not on the company ignoring anything.

I think they've been willfully ignoring the likelihood that this sort of data exfiltration has been happening on a very widespread level for years. Many of those 800,000 "quiz" apps are likely designed for this purpose, and their proliferation should've set off warning bells inside Facebook - it did outside.

Zuckerberg's being out there acting like this was all an unforeseeable, shocking, limited-scope issue is disturbing to me.
Don't even know what a "HBO Go" is - never seen or heard of one before.

EDIT Actually, I'm going to put aside disingenuity for a second.

I actually have the closest equivalent of HBO with my provider, it's called "Sky Atlantic" and it's only available through Sky, of course.

So I'm fully paid up and legit as far as GoT is concerned but only coincidentally. If a competing network were to start showing $competing_popular_tv_show you can be guaranteed I wouldn't be switching, or taking on a second subscription ...

Take my $$$ by all means, but if you get greedy you'll get nothing.
The creators of iPlayer must have had a meeting with the specific goal of making it worse than realplayer
I doubt it. That would make it either way too transparent and open, or just a blockchain implementation of a centralized black box.
I used to use Firebase. I was ecstatic about the fact that I didn’t need a server.

Then I spent months where Whenever I needed to solve a use case I’d spend more time thinking about how to structure my data, how to secure it. I’d spend a lot less time actually building features and more time twisting myself into knots figuring out how to make it work with security rules. It feels backwards to me to have security dictacte the structure of my data rather than the business needs.

I switched to Azure functions front ending my data, which resides in Cosmos DB. Now I can structure my data in a way that suits the business need. Security is incomparably easier now and more flexible.
Much of YouTube's own early content was stolen from elsewhere. Subversive can become mainstream surprisingly fast.
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
I've never had a problem with Bank of America bill pay in the decade plus of using them. Never had to write a check in my life or have a checkbook. You just put in the name and address of who you want to pay, the amount, and BoA mails a check to them.
I think community colleges are a great solution, particularly for those that are pretty much the same anywhere you go. Certainly cheaper.
Is Bitcoin for something other than drug dealers and speculation yet?
Perhaps there's military applications of their research, so they might do this to get more funding. And once they get more funding, they can spend it elsewhere (or not).
Hmm, that's interesting as new versions have driven hardware sales - and vice-versa - in the past. Wonder how hardware companies will adapt?
Silicon Valley doesn't need new laws that's bullshit. People and privacy need strong laws that protect them. Irregardless of who's doing it.
The name of the blog is the big hint. They are advicates of using the law as a weapon of war. It's extremely authoritianism.
"HBO GO. It's HBO. Anywhere."

click

"To access HBO GO℠, you must reside within the fifty states of the United States of America."

Some time ago while traveling I actively tried to find a way to pay to watch Game of Thrones. I failed miserably.

Also I really don't like having to have and manage subscription for various providers, nor do I like to be locked in with one. I would love to have a single subscription or even better pre-paid option somewhere which can be used across services and my money gets distributed accordingly.

Same with news media. I would be more than willing to pay a set amount per year for consumption, but I'm not willing to pay that amount exclusively to you.
Nice... I just plugged the channel page into feedly and they got me the feed... I had never thought of doing that. Since I really don't care about commenting on YouTube, I'm now "free" of the bonds of logging in to view youtube.
Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials
Thanks for the detailed breakdown! Any idea if the new VM itself will be accessible? Or will everything have to run in a container?
Yes right this is just the whining from the usual suspects I remember the same arguments against seatbelts.
Manhattan has bus lines that basically go in one direction: up/down the avenues or crosstown. Just worry about starting and stopping and less about turning.