skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very weird criticism - the membership list for these things is extensive, and it would honestly have surprised me if Schmidt wasn't a member of some of them. The Bilderberg conspiracies are especially funny, because so many of them amount to whispering darkly about stuff that's
literally posted on the Bilderberg Meeting website. It's an off-the-record meeting of the rich and power to talk about the issues of the day, you say? Well yes, that's the stated intention!

On a related note, the parent comment would be way better off looking at Schmidt's co-author on The New Digital Age. Jared Cohen came out of the Department of State, headed up Google Ideas, and is now looking at technical issues around censorship and "countering extremism". It's hard for me to understand how a vague reference to the Bilderbergs could possibly be more meaningful than the very open "hiring State Department staffers" connection.
I've been thinking about light a lot lately. I've been working on a photonic computer, however I've been realizing the importance of light for our existence. Your perception is largely light based and strangely enough all religions draw a parallel between light and their respective God/s.

I'm a religious person but I found this Bible quote to be a good summary of the book in John 5

"This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all."

TL;DR "We spoke to Jesus and he said the same thing: God is light".

This makes sense considering how light or heat was the thing that turned inorganic chemistry into organic chemistry.
Probably because it's labor intensive, something an automated machine can handle just fine.
Just a nitpick... but I’ve seen people who aren’t working on what i would consider typical embedded recommend eLua and MicroPython readily without ever mentioning the downsides that mPy needs 128k+ ROM and includes a ridiculous standard lib most of which you would never use on embedded, and eLua supports some Cortex m3 and is a dead project. These two you mentioned are more of people using Rasp Pi syyle embedded (Cortex m-series vs Cortex A/R series... small devices vs phone processors).

The issue is everyone has this “great idea” for an embedded language to replace C which means device headers in the Lang, and that’s way too much to support.

If the goal is to replace C imo it’s a waste of time. But there is a market IMO for an embedded lang that you can execute tests and scripts from C in a VM that can foreign function interface back to C functions.

There is on that uses JS called mJS but I found the one of the guys that supports it to be extremely rude and unhelpful. Documention is lacking. You basically need to be an expert in JS to get started. And then they doubled their ROM use age from 23k to ~50k. But it does seem to be the best out there for the goals I stated.

I’m still on the hunt.
Given that it gets around 5 FPS on a V100 gpu I doubt it can run on a raspberry pi.
When it comes to voting, strong opinions (one way or the other) will always end up on top.
This is why the patient's data needs to be in their possession and control so they can share and use as they see fit.
There isn't one way or reason to use cloud infrastructure. Maybe for smaller companies the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" narrative makes sense and I've used it as such in the past.

Managing tens of millions of dollars in physical and cloud infrastructure at multiple providers/dcs for a publicly traded company like I am now? No, that's not the reason to use cloud infrastructure at all. Cloud in this case is more about capacity planning and avoiding managing hardware inventory than anything.
"Normal" people get all sorts of accommodations and treatments - the world is set up to support their needs. People with different needs, who need different accommodations are then labeled as having a "disorder". It's a biased system which doesn't allow for normal variations between types of people.
I'm all for the magnets, and Zen's solution of education (vs the CSPC's banhammer solution).

However, this argument is exactly wrong -- it would create another commons problem, where your individual interest is against the interest of the group, and so everyone acting in their individual interest creates a big problem.

(fortunately, with education and careful use, we can avoid the common problem)
what other basic mistakes is he going to make? Bring a gun into work? ;)

Why would you think that bringing a gun to work is a "mistake"? Does one's right to self-defense stop the moment they cross the threshold of their office door?
this may or may not be an original thought - but i often wondered if we look at the efforts of Craig Venter and his "synthetic life" if that life form undergoes evolution - potentially even becoming a higher being than that of the creator's species, would it be appropriate to call Craig "God" and an event of intelligent design. I understand this is (currently) something of a far-fetched thought experiment, none the less it's a thought I have gone back to several times.
I refuse to use Skype because of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security#Eavesdropping_b...

I also remember a ToS change that allowed MS to listen in for quality control purposes.
> The team found that levels of two human herpes viruses, HHV-6 and HHV-7, were up to twice as high in brain tissue from people with Alzheimer's.

Yes, HHV-6 is common throughout the population, including in the brain. It's an endogenous retrovirus, so is inherited via DNA, or is easily transmitted from person to person, particularly in childhood.

The issue is severity, not presence.

By the way, the variants of herpes in question are HHV-6/7, which are different to the herpes simplex viruses (HSV1/2) that cause cold sores and skin breakouts.
Yes, and no.

While nobody likes excessive animation, it is very important to let the user know their input was received. It's why the cursor changes on mouseover. It's how you know if the app is crashed, or merely processing something you requested.

I've seen a million times in UX testing where ordinary people go click... wait... click click click click click because they didn't receive any feedback to an action.

At one time this was one of Apple's UI priorities — feedback. Unfortunately, Apple has gotten away from a lot of its core UI values without a strong personality to enforce them.

>full stop

In the real world, nothing is ever "full stop." You should purge that phrase from your lexicon.
I mean, small wonder. Look at what was being done in the conservative name recently: separated kids in cages. That’s a hard legacy to justify.

I also think that the libertarian brand has been tarnished. I think it’s become associated with “justifications why you don’t have to care about anyone (except the free market)”

With these as your moral brothers, I can see how it would be hard to be out in a state often called the LEFT coast - who’s progressive politics are decades old.

I’m curious as to what’s next for conservatives who reject human cruelty and actually care about their fellow citizens, country, and human beings.
There are lots of potential security issues with npm (compromised accounts, spam packages, etc). I think failing closed is the right thing to do for them. It's a temporary annoyance and loss of productivity for a day - a good time to put your feet up and relax. Failing open could lead to a costly security breach that affects many people, and could lead to npm's demise.
Criticisms about organism design would carry more philosophical heft if humans had designed... well... anything that was capable of self-replication. We can't even do it cribbing off of the existing designs yet, let alone design something truly original. And if you cross that bar, there's still a long way to go before we've built something as complicated as, say, a paramecium.

I was talking to my kids about my job a couple of months ago, and showed them the view of source code I usually work with. They laughed and said it was colored funny. I'm not particularly convinced the criticisms of "obvious design flaws" in organisms are any more sophisticated than that.
Yeah, this is the real (non) story. JPEG has been turning out new standards for 20 years and the market has ignored all of them.
That would also be a tragic error on the driver's part. Although I think it's a much rarer kind.

(I would also question that, except maybe in rural areas where there are hedges right up to the road, if you are at risk of killing yourself if something unexpected appears, perhaps your speed is not appropriate for the road, visibility, and lighting conditions? This applies to human and inhuman drivers)
If you knew what the 'B' stood for without reading the article you're over 50.
That's exactly what I did. The problem I was trying to address is you shouldn't have to expect to read into the stdlib to optimize the code. Adding a ReadDirNoSort (as suggested in the initial 2012 pull) wouldn't hurt anyone.
Keeping the proceedings/minutes entirely secret doesn't exactly inspire a lot of trust.
As always, the coverage from SCOTUSblog is vastly better. They only have a 4-paragraph post on the decision, but it is much more info-dense than anything else:

http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/opinion-analysis-court-hol...

Further write-ups by them will come out as people have time to read the decision. You can also look at the 15 previous SCOTUSblog posts about this case before the decision was released which dissect the relevant issues:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/carpenter-v-unite...
AND a judge has to put their name on it. Granted, IDs of judges are kept secret for certain courts, BUT nothing stays secret forever, e.g. Stasi records in the former DDR.
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Non-trivial number of Googlers are Chinese or Russian. ;)
>punctured through the plastic housing (called a clamshell) and into some battery cells

Emphasis mine. I interpreted that as also popping some of the individual cells. If you replaced the individual cells that were breached you could probably be okay, but at the same time, look at how minor the defect was that was causing Samsung phones to catch fire
Both kinds of relationships can lead to power imbalances though. There's nothing special about a romantic/physical relationship in that regard. One can promote their (same sex, platonic) buddy for being their buddy, just as easily as they can promote their girlfriend/boyfriend.
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But that suffering may be the result of attempting to function in a system set up for a different type of person. "Disorder" is, in many cases, a biased way to look at it.
I'm no laywer, let alone qualified to interpret the SCOTUS, but from what I can tell he disagrees with the whole approach taken, which relies on the "expectation of privacy" test defined in the Katz case, whereas he believes that the court should go back to the Fourth Amendment text itself and review the data (such as the phone's location) under it. Specifically, he seems to be saying that just because the data is currently held by a third-party, that doesn't mean it's not the person's "papers" and as such fully defended from unreasonable searches.
It provides no more accurate of a view IMO, as it lumps together both groups of (a) people who don’t have jobs and need them and (b) people who don’t have jobs and don’t need them. I prefer looking at that figure more than “unemployment” rate, but it overcorrects on the pessimistic side. Maybe that’s why some of us like it.
Funnily enough, they had a HN "Who's Hiring" post less than 3 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16739153
That is not how it appears to function in practice. The investors of Uber are well aware that Uber is breaking laws. They are making a perfectly rational decision that it will pay off.
Let's face it - Google has cash to burn. They can entertain the development of 3 OS-es!!
> It is easy to become enmeshed in clients’ lives. I had one client who was young and impressionable and became very successful very quickly, and he was getting pulled in different directions by the people around him. He and I clicked and became very close. He bought a house and was away a lot, so I was at his house every single day, helping to oversee contractors, pick out windows, pick out drapes. I was a big part of his life. He died suddenly, and it crushed me. I felt like I had failed him, or could have done more.

Pure speculation, but Anton Yelchin?
And yet there are many of us that use Slack in a way that is not intrusive, doesn't stress us out and adds incredible value. (I am unaffiliated with Slack, the company.)

I recently started paying for it, after having used it free at my company for several years. We wanted full comment history. I will say, the bonus of video calls doesn't work at all, and I still pay zoom.us for that. (Yes, did a customer support interaction, told them my problems, they thanked me. They have a lot of work to do. Or, they should just purchase or merge with zoom.us.)
You can think that if it makes you feel better, but I'd be perfectly happy giving the cake back.
There are some nice non-JIT embedded languages such as Angelscript (resembles C++, uses refcounting instead of GC), Squirrel (extension of Lua syntax to support classes and other nice features), and recently Wren (has a nice class system and uses fibers for concurrency).
Probable cause is a low bar, but it's quantifiably higher than no bar. What constitutes sufficient PC for a warrant is a related, but distinct issue from whether PC (however interpreted) is required at all.
Yeah, it's really nice! Good job.
In fact, I wrote it the other way first, and but when I read it on the screen, it looked a lot like I was saying they were an asshole, and so ratcheted it back, since that wasn't what I was trying to say.
Empirically however, it's an artificial distinction.

You can see this in very high class concierge services, where they have deep dossiers on their clients, but a rotating staff of concierge's. Often there is a primary point of contact concierge that relay's the client's preferences to the others.

Taking that same approach, especially when it comes to measurable behaviors (types of foods/drinks, media consumption etc...), why would it be any different mechanically other than the fact that you prefer familiarity with the person you are talking with?
"As technology has enhanced the Government’s capacity to encroach upon areas normally guarded from inquisitive eyes, this Court has sought to 'assure[ ] preservation of that degree of privacy against government that existed when the Fourth Amendment was adopted.' Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 34 (2001)."

This is a sensibly balanced way of thinking about the Fourth Amendment.
Notable excerpts:

What’s left of the Fourth Amendment? Today we use the Internet to do most everything. Smartphones make it
easy to keep a calendar, correspond with friends, make calls, conduct banking, and even watch the game. Countless Internet companies maintain records about us and, increasingly, for* us. Even our most private documents—those that, in other eras, we would have locked safely in a desk drawer or destroyed—now reside on third party servers. Smith and Miller teach that the police can review all of this material, on the theory that no one reasonably expects any of it will be kept private. But no one believes that, if they ever did.*

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf#...

Judges are supposed to decide cases based on “democratically legitimate sources of law”—like positive law or analogies to items protected by the enacted Constitution—rather than “their own biases or personal policy preferences.” Pettys, Judicial Discretion in Constitutional Cases, 26 J. L. & Pol. 123, 127 (2011). A Fourth Amendment model based on positive legal rights “carves out significant room for legislative participation in the Fourth Amendment context,” too, by asking judges to consult what the people’s representatives have to say about their rights. Baude & Stern, 129 Harv. L. Rev., at 1852. Nor is this approach hobbled by Smith* and Miller, for those cases are just limitations on Katz, addressing only the question whether individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in materials they share with third parties. Under this more traditional approach, Fourth Amendment protections for your papers and effects do not automatically disappear just because you share them with third parties.*

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf#...
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So every other country is some tiny 3rd world nation? You do realize there are major superpowers that are currently kept at bay through the promise of force? Or do you think they’re just being nice?
I wonder if the lack of strongly statically typed embeddable languages is due to an accident or a fundamental limitation of implementations of such languages. Is the type checker code too big? Is it too complex?
Consistency is what draws me to material design, despite its usability shortcomings.

Unless the goal is to create art, consistency is a great thing for both users, who can eventually learn what's going on, no matter how bad the metaphors, as for developers, who can grow beyond checkbox-of-the-week towards well tested patterns.
No, your rebuttal misses that there's a numerator and a denominator in mine: hazard and utility.
Read the case: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf
It seems every "how to do Slack right" post emphasizes that you shouldn't use Slack as a chat service. Well that's what it is. Why not use email for the beefier conversations that don't need to take place right away, and use chat for what it was intended?

Chat is great for the occasional situation where you want to have a conversation about something, you'll have a bunch of short messages back and forth, and you want to keep a record of the conversation. Putting other stuff in there just clutters things up. Slack is a great replacement for Reply All with 20 email addresses. It's not so good as a replacement for other things.
Windows 10 has full HEIF support, but you need to install the official plugin from Microsoft separately from the store (presumably for licensing reasons).
Agreed, on my searching a VM to run foreign code is limited. You need a system that can run compiled code in order to be efficient, and interpreted is much more common but then you run into FFI issues. As to serialization of an interpreted it’s annoying that on embedded I’d have to send the letters “f” “o” “o” “(“ “x” “)” “;” which obviously kills some of the point here.

mJS does the VM and FFI part OK, but I didn’t like some of the way it handled JS types coming back to C, it wasn’t clear for example that a C defined value passed in would return as a signed JS/NaN until converted.
Stealing IP definitely helps innovation. To get to the innovation stage you first need to reach parity. There is no faster way to reaching parity than to steal IP.

As for the "the culture that creates new tech is something that china can't steal and it can't replicate it without giving up authoritarian rule", that's nonsense that would have found an audience in the 1950's or so when talking about Russia, but it really is out of place in 2018 when talking about China.

China has a lot of catching up to do but this kind of reasoning is so far off-base that it makes me wonder whether or not you've given it much thought at all. The political system of a country does not magically stop people from thinking about technological problems. It's mostly a matter of degree of efficiency than it is of achieving a certain capability.
"In Go, one has to always write the if-else bodies in curly braces (and, the opening brace should always be on the same line)."

If you really want to twist the knife... even Perl 5 gets this right. Even Perl 5 thinks that naked if/else bodies is too crazy and error prone.
MicroPython is a subset of Python intended for resource-constrained embedded devices, unlike Gravity which is designed to be embedded in applications. This is a significant difference - a while back I considered embedding MicroPython in an application (the Lua/Gravity/Wren scenario), but the Python programmers I discussed this with generally disliked the idea.

It seems those who already know Python want either the whole Python language, or not Python at all. I guess it's easier to learn a whole new language, than to use a language you already know but where some parts are suddenly off-limits?
In our case we're too centrally located to make shipping stuff offshore economically viable, unlike say the coastal cities. But around here we do have plenty of cheap land available for landfill space, so that's where a lot of our stuff probably ends up. I know that our local recycler does feel at least some of the effects of the Chinese situation, though, and while it hasn't happened yet I fully expect that sometime soon they will be making changes to our current recycling system.
Once the horse starts tapping its foot to accurately detect cancer better than humans, then, parlor trick or not, you've got a fine horse there.
YouTube has dug themselves a hole and this method isn't getting them any closer to getting out of that hole sorry nice try, we see what your doing, next time be original
Yup; what they want to be able to do is track and store all data, so they can retroactively go look for evidence. Something to be said about that of course, but, it's in violation of privacy and not far removed from science fiction like 1984 and Minority Report.
FWIW Patents killed those, not lack of quality or interest.
Ok, then it's purely my aging brain playing tricks on me.
Break time is mandated, no? I assumed he was referring to time at work outside of break time, because otherwise it would be completely pointless to say, if not illegal to dictate what employees do during break time.
Nobody mentioning the biggest hope for basically having ventures bundling abundant energy in space and sending it to earth?

Carbon free with nearly no infrastructure costs beside some huge foilmirrors and heat collecting powerstations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
The Russians had a head start in various materials sciences knowledge, notably metallurgy.
That depends on your point of view. If you're an authoritarian who sees dragnet surveillance as a desirable project, then requiring a warrant for each and every person you track is an insurmountable barrier.