skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I recently re-read it and was struck by how things have turned out differently.

Oddly, I get the exact opposite feeling.

> a dark future where computing, communication, and artificial intelligence technologies were dominant, complemented by significant medical advances, large inhabited satellites in Earth orbit, and considerable drug use.

Are not computing and communications technologies dominant now? Are not the advances in AI (having recently beaten the GO world champion) and the influence of AI in our society (Cambridge Analytica, Google, ect) becoming more pronounced? Aren't we making staggering advaces in medicine (even if these medical advances can only be afforded by an elite few - another cyberpunk theme) ? Aren't the Chinese in the process of establishing a moon base with several "megacorps" planning the colonization of Mars in the near future? Isn't drug use extremely widespread (both illicit and "legally" prescribed drugs virtually ubiqituous)?

I would suggest that if you look at where society was in 1984, and look where we are today, we are well down the path towards a future that looks similar to Gibson's vision in many ways - we just aren't there yet.
Mostly, no. But they work well if you want to emulate an articulating joint
it's totally kosher in the US.

In my failing startup that was acquired, all eng got a carve out. It was basically a bonus to get us to remain employees after it became obvious the company was failing and was going to be sold.

I'd imagine the legality goes like this: without that bonus, I certainly would have left. And there would have been nothing to be sold. So it was long-term better for investors.
It is indeed very american-centric while presenting itself a number of times as applicable everywhere. I don't think it is: for example, I don't think many western European would be able to sort themselves into any of his categories.
They do if the user can download and execute the code themselves. If the underlying app uses it (e.g. React Native app downloads updated bundle) and user can't touch it then it's okay.
Or confidence in their investment
I am a ~1BTC debtor of MtGox, and while I understand that this is a positive development for those with substantial assets, I kind of just want to get something and move on.

The fact that I now have to dig through my paperwork and refile another claim, and maybe wait another year or five is annoying.
Bird waives $1 fee for USA military and veterans
not really.

$4m over 1.25 years (and don't forget comp costs the company 1.3) == $2.5m comp to employees per year. That is not much for 22 employees.

math: (4/1.25)/1.3
While this is not my specialty, the field of "evo-devo" and developmental biology is the field trying to answer those questions. Honestly, we still know very little about how the genome results in morphology.

It is a lot more like a cellular automaton than anything else. From minute gradient differences inside the fertilized egg, recursively structure spreads out in very much a cellular automata like fashion. Cells respond to the bio-mechanical stress around them and to the signals they bathe in, to decide cellular fate, and in turn release new signals..

It's a very different paradigm of computation than the one we think of. Each cell is like a docker instance, containing the full source code. Perhaps these links explain a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6vkDr_Dec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mCgHK-X6lE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZOdrU1Du0
Well, it's supporting your argument, as I perceived it. Germany unnecessarily suppressed groups for reasons not related to maintaining its authoritarianism. During the First World War the German army had Jews like Fritz Haber. In the Second they didn't. I don't see China doing the same. If Germany is used as a model for what we can expect from China, then the values we would get have to be adjusted upwards to compensate for China not wasting its human resources* the way Germany did.

>(By the way, the death toll of Mao’s cultural revolution clocks in around 50 million.)

The 1970s wants its news back. China isn't doing that sort of thing anymore.

*There's of course a lot more to the Holocaust than "wasting human resources". Please read this in good faith.
It's pretty clear that you didn't even read the article. Unless you were surveyed by the study mentioned, your preference isn't relevant to anything.
I have never looked over the details of what Snowden made public. Can you give examples of info he released that does not pertain to mass surveillance?

I am used to just seeing articles like this: https://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/#...
None of that directly reveals military logistics.
I'm not sure how you get that from the article - could you cite where it argues that people who want to live in less-dense neighborhoods don't actually want what they think they want?

The point I got from it is that some people want to live in dense neighborhoods and others want to live in less-dense neighborhoods - and in certain areas that were built up more recently (e.g. Atlanta), there is more demand for dense areas than there is supply, while in some older cities (e.g. Boston) there is a short supply of both dense and less-dense neighborhoods.

If anything, your comment dismissing dense areas as "cramped arcologies" is more dismissive of other people's desires than the article is. Do you have trouble believing either or both of the following: (1) some (though not all) people want to live in densely populated areas where they can walk to most amenities and (2) modern urban building patterns have underserved such people?
Similar to the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (i.e. Obamacare) split, switching Gorsuch for Scalia.

In terms of interesting splits, South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. (recently subject to much discussion on HN) had a super interesting split. The majority opinion written by Kennedy and joined by Thomas, Alito, Ginsburg, and Gorsuch. The dissent was written by Roberts and joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.
> It's the fact that you had to preface with "nothing all that weird".

Yeah, but given the market it comes from and how prevalent it is there, that qualifier is really only used because some people don't realize saying "I watch anime" is sort of like saying "I watch a category that's a significant subset of Japanese mainstream television" when all people know is that the Japanese have some eclectic television by U.S. standards.

> And the fact that I've heard that so often on the internet only to find out that "well, except for that, but she's not as young as she looks, she's actually a 5000 year old dragon. But they're all flirting with her because of her magic powers, not because she looks 8." Oookay...

I hear you, and agree. That said, it's sort of like 5 years ago mentioning you use Reddit. Some subset of the public might only have heard about it through news reports/articles about some of the more problematic subreddits.

For what it's worth, my own tastes go more for the stylish and interesting stories that are harder to do when using live acting. There's some excellent (in style, story, or both) Science Fiction and fantasy that comes out as Anime (Steins;Gate, some of the Netflix series that have come out). Also, there's some really accessible ones I can watch with my son, such as Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (which we just finished watching together, and is excellent).
You are already on the right path. Keep asking yourself but also observe you are already better thinker by promoting feedback and being vulnerable by asking.
of the Doherty threshold? 400ms
That's great! I hope you share your story with others who've come from similar backgrounds. It's great to know people can make it.
I was just thinking about this in reference to organizations like the Citizen's Climate Lobby. The real technology that needs to be developed here is a politically feasible way to levy taxes on known carbon emitters.
Since you offered, I'll ask. What's the down low on IRCv3? Is it actually going to ever have any sort of impact? It feels like too little too late. Far too late to ever have support in most clients.

IRCCloud implements it but servers don't, and IRCCloud feels kind of dead development wise. And it doesn't really solve the problems that Discord solves, for example.

The dream of instant messaging being built on top of open protocols, just like email, doesn't feel terribly far out of reach but it also doesn't feel like we're making progress towards it and the efforts spent on keeping IRC alive feel, at least to me, kind of futile compared to say, efforts spent on Matrix.

I don't think it's crazy to leave IRC behind, and most people who mourn it will either do so out of nostalgia, or because of the loss of an open protocol. I'd rather centralize on something that has a future though.
As an embedded programmer, it is still very hard to displace C and will be for some time. The two main reasons: the compilers are well-behaved, and the debug tools are very, very mature. One thing newcomers overlook is the importance of understanding what the compiler does to the code. C++ is notorious for being painfully unpredictable, and in the embedded world, that is a death sentence. mbed is learning this the hard way. On the other side, debug tools are critical. Unlike the decade long surge of web-related programming with its sophisticated GUI-based debugging, embedded is a completely different beast, and requires much more attention to detail since reprogramming costs are so high. Because C has such a robust hardware debugging ecosystem, it is a clear winner.

It'll be a long time before anything knocks C down as #1 in the embedded space. Even as the definition of embedded stretches to include *nix variants (like Yocto), there will always be the squeeze to get rid of that and run bare metal with C.
Tesla to cut nearly 20 percent of its SolarCity installation locations
Yup, irccloud does media embeds and file uploads.
And right now, if you're anywhere else, you can't get Mexican vanilla at all. Last year I got a half a pound for $55, today the usual dealers are all out. What vanilla they have is going for $300 or more per pound. Back in 2005, when there was a similar shortage, the market collapsed almost literally overnight when there was a better harvest in Madagascar, but there's really high demand now. A few years ago you could get PNG vanilla for $20 per pound.
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets: bubbles vs. socio-technical systems
The ARM scalable vector extension
It depends on how much exactness you want. The fact that more CO2 means more energy coming into the system is easy to work out. What the scientific staff does is more akin to researching the 'potatoeness' of the Earth rather than just
figuring out it's round.

The economic impacts are researched as well, IPCC working group 2 I think? It's just not my area of expertise.
One of my greatest achievements back then was allprotection.tcl[1] (over 2000+ lines of spaghetti) LOL but I have no doubt that TCL scripting taught me a lot and gave me a huge advantage during my studies!

I'm sure you enjoyed what you were doing ;)

[1] https://github.com/sirfz/allprotection.tcl
Check out Toby, it works for me :) You can use it to organize your tabs into different buckets: https://www.gettoby.com/
There is no such thing as an "export version" of the F-35. All F-35s have the same installed mission systems, the same avionics, and the same mission performance. This was one of the big goals of the program -- to give the US, allies, and other friendly nations a common, capable, 5th generation strike aircraft.
If you get a journalist interested, you can tell your story to him (or her).

They do sometimes highlight things that wouldn't be what you would have, or distort things a bit, but it would get out there.
It doesn't seem that hard to comply. From the article:

"...the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill."

If you don't collect personal information it's easy. If you do collect it, just don't sell it and let the customer tell you to delete it.

Doesn't seem too different from dealing with credit card payments and lots of companies have figured out how to do that.
Use the bookmark function. And for performance reasons you have plugins like tab suspender.
It’s also an app issue. I run a 4K monitor on Ubuntu and the majority of apps take the entire screen when they start or open a window. And in many apps I have to tweak things so it becomes readable.
That is why I got into the habit, very early on, to always, always enclose blocks in curly braces (or begin-end, depending on the language). If it is ingrained deeply enough, one no longer has to think about it.

But it is nice if the language enforces it. I would even go so far as to claim it is common sense.
The book "Slicing Pie" delves into the topic of how to split equity before receiving any outside funding in detail:

https://www.amazon.com/Slicing-Pie-Funding-Company-without/d...

https://slicingpie.com/

The idea is to dynamically adjust equity based on how much everyone is contributing.

Some people report good experience using this dynamic split method:

https://cofounderslab.com/discuss/has-anyone-used-the-slicin...

With that said, I am sure there are a lot of different methods that could work depending on the people involved, it's not as if there is only one "right" way to do it.
Some languages intentionally have an unsound type system in respect to variance, and rely on runtime checks for safety. It is a facet of the old static typing vs dynamic typing tradeoff.
For anyone interested in looking at or running ND4J benchmarks, these links may be useful.

https://github.com/treo/benchmarking_nd4j/tree/master/src/ma...

deeplearning4j.org/native http://deeplearning4j.org/workspaces

We have our own garbage collection as well as native config and off heap memory management.

We use this

https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j/blob/master...

to specify use of MKL.
Well the regular government really dropped the ball there, fortunately the dwarf government was more vigilant.
Everything in this post except the personal sentiment could be about any semi-anonymous text based communication medium, be it mailing lists, web forums or any other chat system with group chats / channels.

As somebody who has been on irc for over 20 years now, and shares most of the sentiment, I still wouldn't invest into the tech. As others have written, the protocol simply isn't adequate for today's usage scenarios.

This is a problem that people have been fighting with some success on xmpp, which is far more flexible and is a superset of what irc provides, and there are the obvious web stack based solutions like Slack, Matrix and Mattermost.

Still, people rather use Facebook groups today, and we won't convert them by making irc better.
Nobody can predict anything today, with president temper tantrum throwing weekly wrenches into the global economy. But over the last decade they would have been right; and keep in mind that even in China, most economic gains have been captured by the elite — which anyone educated in a top American university would be a part of almost by definition.

Also weighing heavily on people are family and cultural conflict issues. But anecdotally I can say that the majority of Chinese students don’t want to stay in the US for a variety of reasons; and that many feel their prospects are at least as good in China as the US.
Ironically being condescending would be a better approach for once as opposed to unstable rage. As in "Sigh this is a speciality scientific market for big professional markets not a consumer one - more likely swayed by actuaries than shiny. Past decades indicate they care about function over form. Get some hands on research before speaking for customers because your old norms probably don't apply here."
I’ve heard a lot of that, too – client devs getting approached and offered jobs with PIA.

I’ve gotten an "offer" once, too, inofficially, but I assume it was just a joke from them.
The correlation of the rise of Europe/US and the decline of China/India (55% of world gdp at the time) is directly tied to a massive amount of illegal drugs pumped by US/England/France into China for a 100 year period.

The reaction of a society to a forced drug epedemic will create 2nd and 3rd order effects (like a closed society) that are very easy to criticize today by people who are unaware of one of the largest poisonings in modern history (done by Roosevelts and Forbes family) ...but I digress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_%26_Company

https://imgur.com/a/eGdznWP
Hi zajd, I want to upvote your comment but I don't think I can do that while it calls HN downvoters "bootlickers". Would you consider removing that part?
Hmm, ok that makes sense. I’ve misinterpreted it as China apologetism. Mea culpa.

And yes, it’s pretty scary to think about a WWII scenario with Jewish talent on the German side...
I'd think most people would agree that infix notation is far easier to read and write than the Polish-like bracket notation.
> If the employer pays the employee up front, the employee has control. Otherwise, they don’t.

Does that mean the contractor that comes to work on your house is your employee?
It's very difficult, for certain. As is clear from this thread, "normal" levels of drinking can vary wildly between people and social groups. For the two people I know, it wasn't an overnight thing. They were already fairly regular drinkers, and at some point it got out of control, either by some triggering incident or something else.

One thing I'm grateful for is that because alcohol affects me greatly I'm careful to never drink more than three pints when I go out with friends; usually one is more than enough. And after seeing the horrible effects of alcoholism, I made a conscious effort to reduce the frequency from a few times a week to a few times a month, and feel a whole lot better for it.
And if they could fix that for $1B/year, they'd do so.

Instead, you can find industry groups quoted in that article complaining about the study.
1. That's certainly one way to observe reality.

2. Competition for your otherwise private or your public data sets?

3. Right, because China has bad habits therefore all your data should for sale.

I'm kind of leaning the other way, really. I'll take the privacy laws and let tech adapt or die. The only part that I actually need is the pipe anyway (sort of the antithesis to big content AND data brokers, I guess, but there you go).
As if code was an appartment
Maybe the intended contrast isn't between IRC and Matrix, but between Matrix and Slack (which a lot of people like to call "modern IRC" and which isn't FOSS).
You'd be surprised but I work at a company who has a product that is a Slack competitor in the business space (although they've repositioned to not go head-on at it any more..) and "doesn't have emoji/custom emoji" comes up A LOT. Probably the #1 most requested feature.
Ted Nelson is the Nikola Tesla of computing. He came up with so much brilliant stuff that we will be kicking ourselves for not adopting wholeheartedly later on.
> Requiring a warrant is an extremely low bar to pass. Yet somehow law enforcement has been moving away from even that cursory glance since 9/11.

I agree, it is unfortunate that for almost two decades fear has overridden rights and warrants even though they are easy to obtain and explicitly stated in the 4th. Warrants provide visibility by at least another party and make mass surveillance more difficult. Maybe warrant records need to be public after x amount of years as well to help monitor surveillance abuses.

Warrants need to extend to all your digital data not only as a protection against unneeded surveillance but to protect business ideas, data and more which corrupt watchers may be intercepting without this oversight of a warrant. Decades in the future if this mass surveillance continues it will be compromised by corporate espionage, compromised people/assets by foreign powers and much worse.

We essentially need an amendment that affirms digital data as part of your "persons, houses, papers, and effects". It could be argued that digital data are your "papers" and "effects".

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

However, my guess is law enforcement using surveillance has become the normal procedure since 9/11 two decades later and recent technological advances (i.e. triangulation, NSLs, metadata, association, IMSI catchers, stingrays, etc) rather than warrants and detective work, the latter which is truly the desirable configuration of justice per the Constitution.

Currently it is way too easy for enforcement to monitor people without a warrant. Noone even knows who owns what stingrays and IMSI catchers even in D.C.[1] I wonder if enforcement even knows how to do actual detective and warrant based work after two decades of abuses. Foreign assets definitely are abusing these systems as well as corporate espionage, blackmail/kompromat collection and more.

> An undisclosed number of surveillance devices known as “Stingrays”—used to track and intercept smartphone communications by posing as legitimate cell towers—are suspected to be in operation across Washington D.C., leading to fears foreign governments are using them to snoop on the capitol. [1]

Too much surveillance and too much data collection without warrants becomes a security hole and a bigger issue than just doing detective/warrant work on actual targets instead of everyone.

I am very happy SCOTUS isn't fully compromised as of yet and this is a victory in privacy but only a step. Privacy invasions based on fear will end badly if it isn't curtailed, not just for individuals but for businesses and nations from corrupt people and foreign assets that use those systems against us.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/who-tracking-dc-cell-phones-homeland...
Control means control in how you do the work. I think you're thinking of control in terms of power dynamics?
Thanks for the chuckle.
was at a startup where the split was 72.5/10/10 (eng)/7.5 (me) when we got into an incubator; investors tried to convince the ceo that we should do an even split iirc, but he felt the business was built up enough that the equity split was fair. we were all dumb kids (oldest was 21), and didn't know what we were doing. when the 16 hour days with no pay were too much for me, the lack of equity made it very easy for me to walk away.

i would never do a split like that again, and would not recommend it. i still can't watch Silicon Valley because it reminds me of those times haha.
Sigh. The lawsuit "shows" no such thing. It alleges it.
Run for office or support candidates who align with preventing/mitigating climate change. It is the only way. All of the tech in the world is useless if you can't enforce its use.
This article clearly recognizes millennials as adults.