skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adaptations are never so strick. Hollywood wants original ideas they can take and craft/mold for film. A great recent example is Jeff Vandermeer's Annilation. Great book, totally different movie that is unique and stands on its own though I much prefer the original book.

Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is another great example; the book and movie are vastly different, yet both stand on there own and one could argue are great for different reasons. I'd be hardpressed to pick which I love more.

I do agree with a lot of what you are saying about Asimov's Foundation series; however I think the core ideas are what they'll focus on and most likely they'll introduce a host entirely new characters when they rework it as a screenplay.
Git is much more complicated and harder to grasp, most people I know just remember common operations and commands to issue without understanding what these really do.

Also unless your organization's project is open source, you don't really need DVCS. In my organization we use git nearly exclusively, but in the end everything relies on the central repo. We actually would do much better if we used SVN instead of git and have less issues. For example we already had significant mistakes such as someone delete main branch or performed a force push (yes, you can restrict it, but with git you need to know what to expect before blocking it). We also have repo for CMS, where we would greatly benefit from ability to merge by directory. I also see people trying to checkout latest version from git for just specific subfolder, but with that is also difficult, but trivial and extremely lightweight on SVN.

Yes, for still has very valuable tools for the local developer: stash, staging changes, bisect, local history (great if you work without internet access), but you can actually use git with other SCM and get the best out of both worlds.

Unfortunately when I mention that we could have our main repo under SVN, people look at me like some kind of dinosaur that is proposing it, because I get confused by git.

Just because git is a great tool for Linux kernel development, doesn't mean that it is the best SCM for for your organization. And if your organization uses something else than git, it doesn't mean you can't use git, in fact the tool of my choice is still git, I just think that most companies don't need DVCS for their main repo.
I'd say Hari Seldon is the incarnation of an idea (the idea of "psychohistory"). We barely get to know him as a character, and since he is dead after 10 pages or so, he is not important for driving the plot forward.
I vehemently disagree with Tolkien not being a visual author. He spends a lot of words on descriptions, sometimes to the point of exhaustion. Asimov isn't nearly as interested in surroundings. Yes, he describes lots of planets throughout the series, but they are all pretty uniform. Trantor is a grey blob, others are mostly ice or desert, and that's it. Not something that really jumps out from the page.
Don't get me wrong: I like the series. I just think it is not very suited for TV. But of course, a good screenwriter might just do something great (for instance, I would have never thought that Chiang's "Story of your life" would make a great movie, but there you are).
I am literally copy-pasting my comment from above:

> This is called "whataboutism", and is an (often deliberate) attempt to create an inflammatory side conversation that, while compelling and likely rooted in truth, distracts from the actual (and more important) topic at hand.

I'm much less reluctant to downvote in this case.
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I'm not so sure it's a great time at all. Most alzheimer's drugs have failed dramatically. vTv Therapeutics is the most recent I think. They had a Phase 3 drug trial end early due to futility, and their stock tanked hard. In one day I think it lost 70% of its value.
The biggest incentive for them to work together rather than pushing for reforms specific to an individual country is to match the power of the US government on the world stage.

This was one of the main reasons for the creation of the EU to begin with, to compete with the US.

As powerful as a strong economic country like Germany can become, they still pale in comparison in size to the US.

Working together cohesively with other EU nations could create a superpower to rival China, USA, Japan, etc.
>, but that's because nobody talks about their flops.

The KPCB flops in "green tech, clean energy, etc" were widely reported.[1] Also, the VC firm DFJ and Tim Draper in particular were laughingstocks for investing in the Theranos scam because they didn't do proper due diligence.

>Fred Wilson [...] was part of Twitter's clueless board, the one that didn't think it was important to buy Instagram?

Is there a source that says it was Fred Wilson who blocked the acquisition of Instagram?

The story I read was that both Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook were courting Instagram at the same time.

Jack offered ~$500 million (all in Twitter stock).

Mark offered ~$736 million ($300 million of that in cash).

Basically, Facebook had the more enticing offer.

In 2012, Twitter wasn't generating any profits and didn't have any excess money in the bank to include any cash component to their bid.

On the other hand, Facebook was already profitable for 3 years and had ~$4 billion in cash in the bank even before the IPO in May 2012. Having a stock that was backed by real profits and a war chest of cash lets Facebook make more attractive acquisition offers.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=kpcb+green+tech+lost+money
It will eventually be automatically calculated. It currently is in some apps.
Speaking as a father of a large family ranging from 1 year to 14 years, to understand the child and their weaknesses and exposing them to the child at the appropriate time is paramount.

When a toddler looks in the cabinet for toys and finds poison, we find that as an issue. So, we put the poison up, and/or install a lock. The same goes for the dangers of teens. They aren't ready for some things of internet, including porn and cyber bulling. As parents, we use parental controls to limit access to xrated channels on our tv. It makes sense to limit content to internet connected devices that do the same. We don't need a formalized study to see what access to porn can do to a person. It's been documented many times.

My experience has been, at this point in a childs life, you need to have, or establish a good relationship with your child and help them understand that you are protecting them from harm that they don't fully understand yet. They need to understand this protection is a joint effort between you and them for their best interest.

Some may say this is overprotected parenting. Let's not go overboard here. I've seen so many uninvolved parents, which is far worse than overprotected. I've found the middle ground is the most effective. Add controls to obvious problem sites and apps. Watch remotely from time to time (as sathackr said, trust but verify). Then, periodically, sit down with your child to see how they are doing and how you can help do the right thing online.
I'm late to this post but a couple of years ago I visited the National Archives in Washington DC. It was my favorite stop and I was surprised at the effect on me of seeing the Declaration of Independence. It occurred to me at that moment that if any such monumental document were created today, it would be electronic and everyone would have one. With all the good things about that, something powerful is lost at the same time.
Gopher basically died once the web arrived, https came after that.

I did find this neat post though about using an encrypted data type for gopher data: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-01-10_Encrypted_Gopher
That’s because every time they make a change, no matter how small, they get a very loud reaction from pissed off users, many of whom generate the bulk of Reddit’s content.
What does that mean? Amy sources you can link to do I can read up on this more?
>I don't expect a CSV to be a plain text file, unless all the data it's encoding is plain text.

Really? So you might write a floating point value to a "CSV" file by writing the IEEE 754 bit pattern for that value? And you would call that a valid CSV file, and would expect generic CSV parsers to properly decode that value?

That's a new one on me. I have always been under the impression that CSV files are plain text. Perhaps you should edit the Wikipedia page so it doesn't continue to give unsuspecting people the wrong information:

In computing, a comma-separated values (CSV) file is a
delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values
(many implementations of CSV import/export tools allow
other separators to be used). It stores tabular data
(numbers and text) in plain text. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
I've always taken assignment to map to 'is', as in '1 + 1 is 2', or 'const foo is bar'
What low level improvements in C# 7 do you mean? Ref returns, etc? Anything besides syntactic sugar?
Encrypted Gopher
Would your 10 year old really watch porn?
Meanwhile I routinely use Lisp written before I was born (in 1986) that works out of the box in 2018. I’ve used Java packages (recently) from 1999. My company still uses python/pypy 2.7 and we see no compelling reason to upgrade. If there is any sort of upgrade, it will be off of python.
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I think the process was run about as well as it could be. It's just very, very hard to change a language like this, particularly something as fundamental as the type of strings. In retrospect more time should have been put up front in transition frameworks like six and for some of the compatibility affordances added to Python 2.7 and ~3.3; it took awhile for folks to figure out the best way to write code that supports both languages.
Post-quantum confidentiality for TLS
oh and Sarah Jeong just now:

"Going to tweet out amounts received by each Congressperson from Facebook since 2014 as they speak in this hearing"

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/984075571981266944

this is worth gold!
I have a different thesis:

Picking the ideal interface to abstract is critically important (and very hard).

In the case of ORMs, available solutions abstract the schema (tables, rows, fields), the objects, or use templates. My solution abstracted JDBC/ODBC. The only leak in my abstraction was missing metadata, which I was able to plug (with much effort!).

My notions for interfaces, modularity, abstractions are mostly informed by the book "Design Rules: The Power of Modularity". http://a.co/hXOGJq1
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Not to defend any of this crap, but if a political system is destabilized so easily, it probably wasn't very stable to begin with...
Because this whole thing is a desperate plea to investors for another 3-4 billion dollars to keep the party going for another two years.
Crawling 70 milllion images per hour
I'm with you. I like Foundation too much to accept anyone's interpretation but my own. But who knows? Apple's take might kick ass. I liked the Galactica reboot until the Starbuck weirdness in Season 3.
How Mark Zuckerberg Blamed Facebook's Problems on Openness
> For one thing, no one is talking about regulation of social media that has to do with life and death matters

You may not believe that if you live in Myanmar or Kenya. Large amounts of behavioral information in the hands of the wrong people can absolutely be a life or death issue.
From what I remember, you need to click "Learn more" in the "Deactivate your account" text which will take you to a help page that allows the deletion of the account as well. But yes, it is very much hidden and not meant to be found.
always-dark is the answer :)
And its application of the zeroth law is nothing like daneel's careful application, endlessly riding the line to becoming inoperable because of the conflicts it causes. That's an important aspect to the concept as Asimov envisioned it that's completely lacking in the film.

Also I don't think Asimov's robots would have ever had a slave mode that rendered them immune to application of the laws. They probably still would have gone inoperative before actually carrying out a massacre.
To clarify, I'm asking about why "media companies in Europe have been crying for help against Google News".
I'll be honest and say that a lot of those concerns seem like things that Redux couldn't possibly have any solutions for. How can the core library tell you "what to name action creators" or "where to put connected components"? Those are style guide / app architecture concerns that are going to be specific to each team.

FWIW, there _are_ a lot of chunks of reusable Redux-based logic out there (which I have listed in my Redux addons catalog [0]), but I'd agree that there does tend to be enough variation in people's use of Redux that sharing larger chunks can be difficult. I've seen quite a few experiments with various forms of Redux "modules", but yeah, none of them have fully taken off. There _are_ several very interesting higher-level wrappers around Redux that look like they offer potential solutions to the reuse / structure question, like Kea, Rematch, and redux-bundler.

While I sort of understand the concern in your last paragraph, I'm again not sure what sort of "guidance Redux could offer" in this case. If you've got suggestions for improving the docs, please file an issue, or even better, a PR, and we can work to get something in.
The “C” stands for company: http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/20... .
This is the logical step I've never been to follow and I am open to understanding. If Trump, the GOP. and all of his supporters are idiots, how did they win? If the liberals and liberal candidates were so smart, why did they lose so badly? It seems it would be easy to control a mass of idiots. I'm not trying to flame, I've never been able to follow this logic and am interested in how others view it
It's Time to Discuss Our Union
>Inducing dementia in terrorists and then allowing them to return home??!! or Inducing dementia in suspected spies? or inducing dementia on political dissidents?

I mean... none of that would actually stop the terrorists, spies or dissidents. It wouldn't be any better than, say,getting stabbed with a ricin tipped umbrella[0].

>Have the democrats already used it on our president??!!

No, unfortunately, he's just like that.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov
How will search results from Google/Bing etc be affected by GDPR?
GDPR needs consent in order to process personally identifiable information so lets say they scrape my personal CV site, or something else, will they actually require my consent before I'm available in the search results. This was just an example but the scrapers can hit on so much data that could be deemed personal. Is the inclusion of a robots.txt allow somehow to be taken as a form of consent here?

I saw that Googles AMP now includes a GDPR component[0] is this their way of trying to mitigate this? By having _all_ sites use AMP?

[0] https://searchengineland.com/googles-amp-project-announces-new-consent-component-ahead-of-gdpr-compliance-deadline-295633
I do the same, and it started accidentally. I followed someone on twitter who I thought was someone else, and they are hard alt right. After getting some updates from them in my email, I realized my mistake, and went on twitter to unfollow them, and got to reading their feed was was atrocious from my viewpoint, but I saw that it was good to know how the "enemy" was thinking, what their thought process and logic trains are. So I kept following them.

At first I stopped in from time to time to get my outrage on (I never interact with them, just read) and to feel smug that I am intellectually superior to them and their followers.

But then I realized that if way back, at the very beginning of your thought process you start from a false premise, everything else can follow reasonable and logical methods. It's almost like chaos theory, small differences in the starting position can have vastly outsized differences at the end.

I've used this experience to go back and look at my "starting" positions. And I've horrified myself too. So on the whole it's been an enlightening experience.

So now I can say that I am firmly on my way to understanding them now (and myself too) even though I diagram with them vehemently.

I don't use Facebook much, but if I did, I would want to be able to tell the algorithm "take 50% of what you want to show me based on my preferences and show me the exact opposite"
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Facebook Bans for Anti-Putin Poetry on Your Wall

After the ban they also enabled forced pre-moderation on all my wall posts (everything I post to my wall gets marked with "We removed this post because it looks like spam and doesn't follow our"), so now I cant post anything at all. Do we need more proofs that Zuckerberg is a Putin's friend? Hello, Facebook! I'm a citizen of Russia who is just being critical of Russia and Putin. How much Russia pays Zuckerberg to censor dissent opinion and promote Russian puppets, like Donald Trump?
To be a little bit fair, another robot did, it just didn't survive the application.
I recently re-read Foundation (only the first) with my kid, and I have to agree. The initial chapters with Hari Seldon, and the later segments with Salvor Hardin and Hober Mallow, fit exactly the mold you mentioned. They even call the episodes "Seldon Crises". The characters, as always with Asimov, are a bit overdrawn, but there are some gems there as well.
Parsing: a timeline
Here's the Palantir section of the hearing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/10...

SEN. MARIA CANTWELL (D-WASH): Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Welcome Mr. Zuckerberg.

Do you know who Palantir is?

ZUCKERBERG: I do.

CANTWELL: Some people refer to them as a Stanford Analytica. Do you agree?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I have not heard that.

CANTWELL: Okay.

Do you think Palantir taught Cambridge Analytica, as press reports are saying, how to do these tactics?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I do not know.

CANTWELL: Do you think that Palantir has ever scraped data from Facebook?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I'm not aware of that.

...

CANTWELL: Have you heard of Total Information Awareness? Do you know what I'm talking about?

ZUCKERBERG: No, I do not.

CANTWELL: Okay. Total Information Awareness was, 2003, John Ashcroft and others trying to do similar things to what I think is behind all of this — geopolitical forces trying to get data and information to influence a process.

So, when I look at Palantir and what they're doing; and I look at WhatsApp, which is another acquisition; and I look at where you are, from the 2011 consent decree, and where you are today; I am thinking, “Is this guy outfoxing the foxes? Or is he going along with what is a major trend in an information age, to try to harvest information for political forces?”

And so my question to you is, do you see that those applications, that those companies — Palantir and even WhatsApp — are going to fall into the same situation that you've just fallen into, over the last several years?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, I'm not — I'm not sure, specifically. Overall, I — I do think that these issues around information access are challenging.

To the specifics about those apps, I'm not really that familiar with what Palantir does. WhatsApp collects very little information and, I — I think, is less likely to have the kind of issues because of the way that the service is architected. But, certainly, I think that these are broad issues across the tech industry.
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Yes, 23andMe has a report on Alzheimer’s. It was released last year.
That picture is horrifying, as are the ones in the article's first link https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/10/27/idyllic-c....

I hope all of our needless plastic bottles, food packaging, and trinkets bring us joy greater than the centuries of destruction they bring.

Oh wait, they're mostly needless since humans lived without plastic for hundreds of thousands of years.

Regulation and pollution taxes can help, but right here right now we can each cut our plastic consumption by 90% without changing our lives at all beyond saving money.

EDIT: Thanks barrad0s for pointing out the picture is a "representation," which I find counterproductive, though it doesn't change the situation or images in the other link.
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I disagree. It all boils down to the way we use language - words have meanings, but those meanings are just pretty fuzzy boundaries in conceptspace. It seems that words represent concrete things from a distance, but if you look closely, it all breaks down. Hell, the meaning of words also heavily depends on context in communication, so they can paint barely overlapping borders in conceptspace from one conversation to another.

Programming is actually great for discovering this. Especially OOP, with its introductory examples of animal taxonomy and shapes.
I would think that is way too late unless she turns out to be an idiot without any interest in anything. You cannot reasonably research anything with a whitelist.
No it wasn't, it was pro Sanders and still is.
Curious if Sam has any preferences in music with respect to productivity.
Or, if the scenario they're thinking about is news aggregators: probably they don't want to see an aggregator (let's say Google News) to force deals for free licenses or the articles won't be included in its pages.
Maybe they didn't even think about other scenarios or they accept them as collateral damage.
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I personally don't have a problem with a robot uprising, tropes are tropes for a reason. They're a shorthand that audiences are familiar with, metaphors that can have deeper meaning, which it does in this case. Ie the embodyment of the menace the zeroeth law represents, in the otherwise peaceful, subservient robots that live among us.
Okay; for the sake of argument, let's say I agree.

The first problem that immediately arises is that of providing a 1984-proof who-made-what oracle. No, the blockchain won't work. :D

(Alright, alright, in a perfect-to-the-nth-degree world the blockchain probably would work, but it's generally a good idea to try and invent one new thing at a time, not invent ten interdependent things that all require each other and which all independently have discrete adoption inertia.)
That's not a real picture. Kinda screws up the article a bit in my opinion, no need for that.
Says right below the pic "A Greenpeace Philippines representation of a dead whale from ingestion of plastic. The representation is increasingly becoming a reality."
Judging by all the whataboutism in the comments, they're hitting HN, too
Why not? (I mean, assuming you aren't talking about forcing them to, which you probably would have to to get them to?)
2 years may be a bit too drastic for many forms of content (e.g. books, music albums) where sales need longer to recuperate the expenses that went into making them. 10 years would seem okay IMO.

I would like to have copyright end once your earnings from a certain work exceed some multiple of the expenses that went into making it by a certain factor, but I can see that this is not realistic for various reasons.
Fair enough, mine are 16 and 13, so perhaps I'm a little child-worn right now.
GDPR and automated email marketing
They want to get monetary compensation from Google News for something that is free, namely aggregation of news. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-copyright-news/eu-expl...
When kids’ autistic brains can’t calm down
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Try https://www.notion.so! It combines docs, wikis, and todos; it's collaborative, and it's beautifully designed. It's perfect for building knowledge bases for teams.

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