skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. There are many rich people in SV. That is why the costs are obscene.

Even if a house costs $2M in SF, you can earn that in a few years on an engineer's salary.

If you pick the right companies, and are relatively successful, it should be possible to accrue millions of dollars in SV, even with the costs of living. That's rich in my books.

But really rich? There are of founders of tech companies who earn $100M or more from a successful startup. SF is probably one of the most likely place to make that happen.
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Still not a perfect analogy. If the robot spews copyrighted content, the robot, its owner and the content receiver are now in trouble.
I need this. I spend so much time a day driving that it would be perfect!
It would be awesome if we could unleash something like this in our oceans without doing harm to the ecosystem (would be hard to do more harm that what we are already doing with plastic, but still).
Google and Big Data: Are we heading towards a dystopian reality?
The overall consuming emissions contribution of the transport sector is at around 20%. The building sector (hvac) seems to be similar.

Cars are not efficient machines. The engine is limited to around 50% efficiency, the heat is wasted. And you're typically propelling 1600+kg of mass which is almost purely overhead.
Zipcar no longer offers reasonable customer service, which means you may not be able to unlock your car, report problems, or extend a reservation. If you call, it will be at least 10 minutes of holding, not so nice when you are locked out of the car you paid for. If your rental car has problems, you want to be able to contact someone who can help. Even if you do get a person on the line, you will find them not very willing to help in any way. Getaround is not much better, but if you already know the car owner, it can be good.
In TNG/DS9/VOY it's both true and false at the same time. True, they're affluent in the sense of living in a post-scarcity economy with matter replicator technology; however the food they eat while in space, despite good looks, generally tastes like crap - as the characters frequently mention. Apparently 24th-century replicators are still not advanced enough to create something tasty, so they try to eat food from grown ingredients whenever they can.
I can give a very anecdotal example, where I live all the doors on the flat look the same, the just have small numbers over the door. Because the exit door is the same just without a number and it is next to the door of my flatmate. Because I was in a hurry I accidentally entered my flatmate room when I intended to get out of the flat. This is more or less the same.
Well I'm sorry you feel attacked.

The arguments (even though written in a quite short form in your post) are indicative of a much bigger and broader discussion taking place right now in the intellectual/philosophical world. This gives people the ability to infer a lot of information from even small statements, because the exact forms and phrases that you use are used in exact same manner by other people who have gone much deeper into this discussion and have a lot of thoughts about these things.

Sometimes on the internet one has to infer, because otherwise you would need every participant to first write a 100pages essay of all of their thoughts about the matter, before anything can be reliably responded to them without inferring.

In this case it seems you don't wish to have a well structured and formulated position with deeply going implications into this matter, which I inferred from your post. I guess sometimes inferring just backfires.

Coming back to having some kind of grounded argument, I would say that

> Non-determinism (as in QM non-determinism) still has deterministic evolution, since specifying the wave-function at any one point in time is enough to specify it for all of time via evolution by the Schrödinger equation.

is not really the case. Specifying anything in this matter (including evolution) works in theory and not in practice. There is no physically viable way to do this. Since science deals with physical reality first and foremost (math does not, but we talk about physics and the nature of reality, right?) - then scientifically that statement does not make a lot of sense. It is in fact not enough to specify the wave-function in such a way as to specify it for all time via evolution. This is the essence of Turtle-Achilles paradox and more prominently Chaos Theory, which has been an established paradigm of science for many decades now.

You write that "discarding chaos theory the statement is correct". Well, yes perhaps. It's about the same as to say "discarding Einstein's relativity, one could easily travel faster than the speed of light". Chaos theory describes the real world, better in this regards than other theories we have. It's not enough to just discard it: you will end up with faulty reasoning...
This could be a great plot for a sci-fi novel.
I would've liked better if they'd gone to extend XMPP clients to do audio/video, but this is ok as well.
In this case it's malware injecting ads, not Google

Will inevitably happen though--vigilance can't be constant
This is such a common problem in our industry, we see technology as the answer to every problem. You can see it here, some article will raise and issue and there will be a dozen posts suggesting an app for that. I guess there is some truth to that aphorism that if your only tool is a hammer then everything looks like a nail.
Yeah its a total win for the french tax payer who will spend a bunch of money on a service that they neither need nor want.
All of the mess in apps belong to developers and it has very little or nothing to do with the underlying framework.
Checking the Unity C# Source Code
Actually the source seem to be already available here: https://github.com/dinsic-pim
Signal doesn't work with desktop _only_ (without ever touching a smartphone). Matrix and XMPP does.
I imagine you’d run your own OS with reproduceable builds all the way down.
FYI - Judges aren't elected in Canada. Good point though. The real question is who continues this process now that it has clearly been exposed.
How are those quotes insulting? Maybe if you came up with the term "Hadoop Heroes" and thought it was amazingly clever?
Such a comment is meaningless without context. How often do corporate IT projects fail? How often do government IT projects fail?
Cointed: About cointed – cointed exchange – cointed wallet
Hahahaha. My sides.

Macron is hawkish about surveillance, despite public appearances. Long term, they want everything.

I think the main idea now is: let’s make it appear trusted, and see who signs up.

End to end encrypted is no good if there are side channel attacks to get your keystrokes, like from say, closed source radio firmware zero days.
I find the failure list dispiriting. Because of what I think it says about the critics more than the critique. I still feel by intent and outcome it's more victory than failure. People learned things, including kids. Negroponte and everyone else should celebrate trying, if not fully succeeding.

This is judging the Newton by the iPad. It's judging stallman by torvalds. It's judging CDE by KDE
All I've wanted, my whole life, was to taste Meadow Cream. I have no idea what it is, but I know it's delicious.
It's been done at least once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Maiden_Arjuna
It looks like the linked library expects you to provide integer values only. You can do the same with cryptocurrencies (satoshis in the case of Bitcoin), but not all cryptocurrencies have the same number of decimal places (Monero with 12 instead of 8).

I've used the following library in the past:

* https://mikemcl.github.io/bignumber.js/

It's also worth noting that the maximum integer value that can be safely stored by the Number type in JavaScript is 2^53 (9007199254740992). So if you expect to be working with integers larger than this, you should use a library for working with large integers (private keys in cryptocurrencies). The one linked above works, but there are others as well.
https://github.com/dinsic-pim
A code of ethics: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-profess...

Just its existence is not enough to guarantee that anyone knows or cares about it.
Afaik they would still need Google Services, based in the US obviously, to run Signal.

There's technically an APK on the Signal website without Gapps, but it's not officially supported by the development team. On their issue tracker they "leave it to the open source folks", i.e. ignore serious bugs like massive battery life degradation and Signal silently not updating for hours.
Having harmful genetic mutations widely spread in population is indeed a risk, but it's a problem with medicine in general, and we are not close to that point yet.

Also a common cause of infertility that this technology will be helping with, will be old age. And though not marrying when you are young is not the smartest thing from evolutionary point of view, it's not harmful genetic mutation, and there is no good reason for medicine to not help these people.
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We build lots of durable structures out of wood. I don't think it would be a very serious problem.
Heating and cooling trumps the transport sector with 30%+. Globally, stuff does skew a lot from our first worldly habits.

If you do the calculations similar to those done in http://withouthotair.com/ you'd see your first worldly habits put your heating and cooling at the top, and probably your diet at the second place.
Yup. As a French citizen I’d trust a Chinese servicr more than a Franch one. Sure they evedrop more, but at least they’re less connected with French politics.
Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram
The provincial government or federal government appoints judges. [0]

But if it is anything like here in Australia (we are both Westminster systems) then this does not mean the government is held accountable. Judge appointments are assumed to be fairly neutral and it hardly ever comes up at election time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_appointments_in_Canad...
> automated build process

> Mac

Why would anyone run a CI server on a Mac?
This is one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever read.
Bird picks up all of their scooters every night: https://www.bird.co/sos-pledge-mar272018
That's not a correct counter argument, the information he got was understood to be public and there was no reason to expect or think there was any private information on there.
If the site had said "This site provides tax returns" then there would be reason to expect the files would contain private information.
The site in question gave no indication there would be private information in those files.
Also, technical nitpick, there are some countries where tax information is public so probably not the best thing to go with.
Enough to get started and enough to get more money eventually. Its a market, lets see how it gone go.
Is there any reason you didn't call the local police non-emergency line and report the abandoned vehicle that was likely violating local noise ordinances?

Doesn't matter if its a shared car, scooter, etc, if its creating loud noises late into the night and its owners are unresponsive, report it. I've done that a few times for Car2Go and ReachNow's.
I've tried to write some short stories on the theme but I'm no writer, I could never get something I was happy with.
I remember when a calculator was hundreds of dollars. Eventually they wound up hanging on a tab in the supermarket for $1.99 and then given away as premiums with [Your Business's Name Here] embossed on them. Quite the ignominous end :-)

E-readers haven't sunk that far yet, but they're getting close.
Sockguard: proxy for docker.sock, enforces access control/isolated privileges
Just because a device supports IPv6 doesn't mean you have to route that prefix to the Internet.

Assign Unique Locals ( ULA ) to untrusted LAN devices and no Internet router will carry them.

Then your laptop or phone can additionally receive a routed prefix. Remember with IPv6 you can assign an arbitrary number of prefixes and addresses to each interface, or just one. It makes for very flexible routing.
hear hear!!

All those big (tech) whales with no way to normally contact them, it is insane.
On Android (at least); you can verify that the apk is signed with the developer's key; and Signal provides reproducible builds. Then the app is designed to not trust the server.

I think we are in agreement that Apple or Google could patch the app before it gets deployed. But AFAIK it has never been done yet, and if it ever happens, it would undermine all credibility of the platform. Of course a state actor wouldn't want to be the first to find out.
Nevermind the ceaseless free ride promos, and Ofo offering an hour for a buck. I don't see how being more expensive and less convenient is competitive in the transportation sector.
> Earn.com allows senders to pay users for replying to emails and completing tasks

There was quite few sites with same idea 15 years ago. Back then it took me some time to understand that no serious business wants to show ads to people paid for watching them, since only people without significant income sign up for such programs and the incentive for fraud is high.
What!? How the heck do you think YouTube even makes money? It's exclusively through the content their users create, so they should treat them with some fucking decency. Not communicating with your users, or sending some canned responses at best is not. Just because they don't sign a formal work contract doesn't mean they can treat the users like complete shit.
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I suspect most big companies will have teams set up whose only job is to respond to GDPR-related requests.
> Airports are a particularly visible omission, for a certain class of people, but they aren't in the top 5 or so most valuable possible extensions to the subway system.

Speaking of class, some transit systems suffer more than others from lacking a healthy mix of ridership affluence (MTA isn't one of them). Descending into a spiral of "only for the poor" is one of the failure modes of transit systems. If an airport line "injecting" its share of non-destitute riders is what keeps the while system from falling off that cliff it would be worth far more than just their tickets or the directly prevented road traffic.

High status destinations have indirect benefits for the whole system.
I have been seeing articles on this topic for at least 5 years. What is stopping this from becoming actual practical process than just PR release that keeps poping up every now and then? Is there any real article on technical problems in this area that are still unsolved?
> multi-planetary species

...That means fix Earth too. We / he certainly doesn't want to trade Earth for Mars. Mars is just a good place to store a backup of humanity.
We get an article like this every week. Wake me up when any of these miracle solutions actually get put into practice. I'm still waiting for those graphite batteries btw.
I would switch to Windows in a heartbeat if they dropped NT and switched to becoming a Linux distro with a Windows emululator for legacy apps.
See also Larry Niven's Ringworld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
Dutch ovens are necessarily really heavy aren't they? To spread the heat uniformly. Though there's a "camping" one at that wiki link, I wouldn't fancy backpacking it. The aluminium one they mention would be lighter, but still not very light (for same reason).

I'm not sure about alum foil, but sounds worth a try. the melting point is high enough, but so thin... There's a (NZ) maori tradition of roasting by wrapping meat/veg in leaves (foil would do), then burying in coal and heated stones. Might work for bread, too?

If the idea of an oven is uniform heat (idk, is it? IANAC), that buried in coals & stones seems pretty good, with foil to keep ash out. If hot air is part of an oven (again, idk), maybe a little space at the top could constructed too.

When I've attempted damper, I've lost a lot, in the form of charred skin. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
I always wondered why tech companies had such an impenetrable inward communication until I came across the following insight:

"If you have a billion users, and 0.1% of them have an issue that requires support on a given day (an average of one support issue per person every three years), and each issue takes 10 minutes on average for a human to personally resolve, then you'd spend 19 person-years handling support issues every day.

If each support person works an eight-hour shift each day then you'd need 20,833 support people on permanent staff just to keep up. Amazing."[0]

It's not necessarily the exact same source that I discovered back then but the idea is the same. Even a tiny portion of customer service would still soak up a large amount of money, perhaps rightfully so, but at the scale some of these companies are, it quickly becomes unsustainable.

[0]: https://plus.google.com/+DeWittClinton/posts/1hRWj489oEz
Adding Facebook like button creates new page. Possible to merge/fix?
That yard full of bikes was a prank for a 40th birthday party. I hope you don't think that is common, I'm in Magnolia (the neighborhood where that happened) often and have yet to see a single bike in someone's yard. Same for Ballard, Northgate, Queen Anne & Fremont, people generally put these bikes right at the edge of the sidewalk or in the median between the road and sidewalk, the same space a telephone pole, tree or trashcan would go.
I agree that it's unclear why Youtube just changes the rules, disregaring their actual audience magnets and causal effects.

As for "blame Youtube for encouraging", well, yes, sure you can blame Youtube for encouraging other people. Ponzi schemeres also "encourage" you to invenst. Snake oil vendor also "encourage" you to buy this insanely expensive wonder tincture which is supposed to heal just about everything there is. Ironically, in the US, the tactics of the so-called confidence men are not illegal. In free trade a sales pitch is everything. If anyone can convince you to fall for a scheme then it's your own damn fault. If you know that, you avoid that.

What do you think how many Ponzi schemers were murdered and quartered just because somebody fell for their shady ways of "encouraging" the money out of naive people's pockets?

I'm sorry, but let's face reality here. If you fall for that kind of "encouragement" you probably should review your own naive world view. The reality is hostile. If there is a way to take advantage of you it will be taken if your aren't careful.
Insane!
Telegram is blocked in my country too but they didn't block millions of IPs I think to achieve that!
Lots of modern construction wood is laminated together with plastic. I'm sure people would adapt though.
I agree, even if we assume what he did is illegal, its sort of like impounding someone's car and arresting them for dangerous driving because they went 1 mph over the speed limit. We don't do that even though it is technically illegal because that would not be a good use of the legal resources we have, which are finite. Same thing if we arrested and imprisoned everyone who fiddled with url parameter, it would be a waste of finite resources. Probably a phone call saying 'Hey can you please stop doing that would suffice in most cases.
No, what he said is they might average the same as their normal pay check but that doesn't mean that what they earn normally is necessary enough and that overtime is some kind of fun money.

What the person you responded to has pointed out is that a lot of workers do not earn enough to have savings. So waving away loss of income in such situations as just spending some money you might have earned previously is not exactly nice.
> it hits that sweet spot requiring specialist knowledge to see through the hype

Couldn't have said it better. Another real life manifestation of this is the vertical rocket landing thing. People are flabbergasted when they see one landing, despite the fact that we regularly employ control systems that are as sophisticated (or more) than required to land a rocket vertically.

When they see them landing. they "feel" like they are witnessing sci fi, for real, and they worship the man behind it as their new (false?) prophet.

And then there is the mars thing, and space tourism. But the most blatent display of this I have yet seen is the 'bio weapon defense mode' [1] in Tesla cars.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9421719/tesla-model-x-bio...
I don't quite get the need of messaging service for the government when there are already other secure/official means of communication. Would any corporate promote messaging app over official email communication channel for employees?
>So it's easy to get trapped in a feedback loop where your sub-par experience can only land you offers with companies that provide more sub-par programmer experiences.

Sorry but could not understand this. Can you please explain?

Also can you please guide improving your skills - It means learning new languages etc or improving deep understanding.
The article only mentions the enzyme breaking down polyethylene terephthalate (PET), not other kinds of plastics. So those would be safe from the enzyme.

Of course, the enzyme could be engineered to break down all kinds of plastics but I doubt that is biologically possible. It would become like the old joke of the 'acid that can dissolve anything', at which point the question becomes, "So what do you use to contain the acid?" :-)
Does grandma brag in front of the tax collectors about how much her children are making? Does grandma rat out the grandkids partying too hard to their parents? Grandma isn't stupid, grandma can keep secrets, but no one explained to her that Facebook isn't a benevolent entity. Her perception of Facebook is a cozy digital dining room where she can talk to the friends and family that don't have time to visit anymore.

I think it's important to remember that Facebook provides a service people really want, which makes it hard to convince them to mistrust it.
> Wasn't PGP illegal in France in the 1990s?

Essentially yes (and not just PGP), strong cryptography fell under arms regulations and required, essentially, the equivalent of a firearms license (but was, by contrast, almost impossible to obtain). Import and export of cryptography technology are still regulated, though [1].

> Do they expect people to trust them?

I’m not sure what you mean by that: This isn’t a trust issue, the French government is/was completely upfront about these restrictions.

[1] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFT...
How is the corporate failure rate relevant?
CRM and ERP: What’s the Difference?
Thinking about it, Google and Apple actually don't even need to patch the app, they have access to all key strokes and screen rendering. It just needs to be a few lines of code hidden anywhere.
Meet the 15 top-funded blockchain companies in Singapore
Which is the most ideologically diverse American city?
Since when is "intention" legally enforceable?
It's a misleading estimate because it doesn't define "user". In the case of YouTube, there are a billion users but only creators would require support.

Maybe there are 100,000 YouTube creators who get paid anything meaningful? (I have no idea, just guessing.) If 0.1% of them require support, that's 100 requests per day. Any moderately successful mom-and-pop SaaS gets that much.

There's no financial reason for Alphabet not to provide personal support to YouTube creators. They just don't want to.
calling tesla a car company is a mistake right there. it's like calling emacs a text editor.
Agreed. The Bank of America tower right next to it is far more interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pov_steve/3456068987