skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you want to turn on airplane mode and put it in "airplane mode" for double-meassure security. Maybe you want a Faraday cage made with the finest craftmenship. Maybe you just want to ignore work and tell your boss that it wasn't possible because your phone had no signal and it wasn't your fault it had no signal (in case your employer keeps track of that sort of thing.)
> you are legally required to secure and can suffer potentially criminal and/or civil liability if someone steals it and uses it to commit a crime

Where does this happen?
One of the lines I disagreed with from the otherwise excellent column:

> Schools and universities ought to help us to understand that no book that talks about a book says more than the book in question, but instead they do their level best to make us think the opposite.

Of course, a great number of Shakespeare's works were riffs on old plots that had been done many times before, and up to a few thousand years earlier.

His genius was not the plots but in what he 'said more than the plot in question'. One could easily make a distinction between analysis of a work and reinterpretation of a work, but I still think it is foolhardy to claim that analysis and critical thinking can not create its own value, and even more foolhardy to imply that that value is in competition with the value of the original work.

Anyway, I think the better modern reinterpretations of Shakespeare tend to focus on the themes that Shakespeare added to the classic plots, than they worry about the plot specifics.
> Terry is tremendously talented... these accomplishments, however, don't in any way excuse his egregious behavior. He's a complicated figure.

A bit of a stretch, but your comment is on par with saying: Stephen Hawking was a tremendously smart person... his accomplishments, however, don't in anyway excuse his lack of physical productivity.

The point I am trying to illustrate is that the behavior most people, perhaps rightfully so, find egregious, is the best effort possible for people with schizophrenia. Having expectation for any kind of excuse, beyond the neurological condition, I believe is being a little short with compassion.
Off topic: I just realized that Pixar cribbed off Asimov for WALL-E (or the parallels are quite coincidental). Would’ve never thought of it without your comment. Kudos!
Per Terry:

>God said 640x480 16 color was a covenant like circumcision. You can be uncircumcised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mhxc9/templeo...
What a fantastic article. As an older gent, I have younger friends who seem so fragile mentally.

I grew up in Europe in some <shitty> part which meant I was mugged and hit quite a few times as a kid. I feel emotionally stronger for it, not that'd I recommend it to anyone. But god, people get offended for nothing these days, you can't even reason with them.

Live, or your life will pass you by, and it's bybyes.
> I would argue the analogy is more "the best way to clean dog poop off of your carpet is to train your dog not to shit on your carpet."

Well, I would argue this analogy is also rather inapt. Much better would be training your 7.5 billion dogs not to shit on your carpet. Until most of those dogs are trained, it makes sense to search for tools to clean up the poop.

We haven't yet extensively tested the vacuum cleaner, and it's not clear how effective it will be, or whether it might make the situation worse.
Wife's commute is 15 miles roundtrip, so we get good use out of it. Just wish it took less kWh in to get the same number of miles out.
It's better if you get out in front of it before someone with no knowledge of Terry's history comes in guns blazing with accusations that Terry is a mega racist evil person.
Additionally, the implications of non rotational artificial gravity are more significant in a science fiction context. In foundation, Asimov regards "gravitics" as the pinnacle technological achievement of man (psychohistory notwithstanding).
But maybe if he didn't have those same issues he would have never started TempleOS in the first place. It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own, and yet he is one of the very very few people that have succeeded at it.
This is the half narrative that needs to be made completed for us Indians to have an actual discussion.

How about this scenario - the govt one days makes every Indian pay a fine for holding cash, instead of using one of the many private e-cash wallets out there.

This would be a massive state subsidy given to digital players- but would it be fair or correct workings of the market economy?

Instead if the market was left to itsel the wallets would have invested in ways to convince people and improve services, all the while paying taxes and adding to govt coffers.

One model is wealth creation and the other is regulatory waste paid by us at astronomical costs (1% gdp growth for better metro city use of e wallets??)

No one who talks about this seems to mention the opportunity cost and massive wastage for effectively a one off payment to advertise private entities.
Don't sugarcoat 1984 quite so much. It is an important read, but it's also good to tell a reader that "the interesting bits" happen (very roughly) 2/3rds of the way in to the book.

At least it's not The Great Gatsby (blegh) 8 chapters of annoyance and one lonely chapter of actual non-world building.
It's sad to see this as top comment.

Banks have low funds, so you force the public to return their own cash. That doesn't solve the underlying problem of NPAs and public banks not being managed properly.

Also, FYI, RBI recently reported the cash in circulation right now is more than it was before the demo.

Increase in tax collection is great, but it's due to GST, let's not give credit to demo for that.

Yes it did some good, definitely, but have you seen how bad the situation got. I'm not sure if you've lived in a tier 3 city during the demo times but I've seen the plight of people. It was ridiculously stupid to just ban cash in an 80% cash society where majority of the small businesses (who bring in >30% of tax revenue) depend on cash.

People died, lakhs of businesses shut down, multiple factories shut down where they depended on cash to pay daily wages. Lakhs of jobs lost. GDP taking a solid 2% dive. So you're saying all this was worth it? Ground realities are very different from what your comment portrays.
That notion is conradicted by numerous articles about WPA2 cracks.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wpa&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&...
Jobs
Jobs in the economy today are becoming very hard to get, even when they are entry level.
Did Terry die or is it a very elaborate hoax? I've even seen screencaps of his brother's facebook posting memorials of him.
Why I Like Java (2014)
Once you hit the point of "well then people will think X and choose to Y" ... all bets are off.
I think it is worth noting here, that for Australians into politics, linking articles sourced from the Institute of Public Affairs is akin to linking article from Breitbart - heavily politically charged and not a good source of objectivity. (The author is a member of the IPA).

For context, the IPA is the think-tank that are responsible for the rise of far-right conservatism in the Australian Liberal Party (the currently in power party), and have shaped their policy for over a decade - indirectly putting the current party in power on the payroll of big mining companies. (The IPA sources their money primarily from donors like Gina Rinehart).

E.g. the faction that caused the Leader of Australia to change were people with heavy links to this group.

That doesn't necessarily summarily dismiss this article, but I would caution to read articles like this with that in mind - throwing the "left" side of university people under the bus is almost certainly coming from an extremely politically biased echo-chamber that historically does everything in its power to degrade progressives/unions/"leftists" etc.

Edit - Should have expected it, but downvotes for giving good context? This isn't crazy talk here, it's normal knowledge of anyone of Australian political interest.
Fancy interviews doesn’t mean they always select the best out of the best.

There’s good chances that even Jeff Dean would fail some interviews because “he’s not a good culture fit”.

I work with a number of Xooglers and they don’t seem to be laying golden eggs every morning.
Yeah but isn’t that because aviation is an extremely highly regulated industry?
Questioning the wisdom of having massively centralized stores of physical artifacts right now. Museums, libraries...
The problem apparently involves questions around timing of revenue recognition.

https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-at-risk-of-delisting...
thankfully we have algorithms for that now
Please avoid commenting without first reading the article.

> If we want a break, why not turn off our phones?

> “Does anyone do that?” Morenstein asks.

> What about tossing our phones into a shoe box?

> “Maybe it’s too easy an answer,” Cronan suggests. “This approach was
> about having a certain presence.”

> In fact, Cronan and Morenstein set out to add a ceremonial aspect to
> disconnecting. From opening the heavy lid to placing your phone in the
> cradle, each analog movement becomes an intentional affirmation of the
> digital sacrifice you are about to make. To complete the gesture, close
> the box and encapsulate the device.
What do you advise using instead?
One book I really liked on the topic is Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff.
Really good "generic" advice in this article that applies well beyond React (which I don't even use).
Awesome, so this makes sense. So I guess people are against it because they like the explicit simple nature of Go rather than some sort of abstraction magic?
But maybe only centralize them when you can provide reasonable assurance of the safety of the items. In the meantime, place them with more secure facilities for safekeeping. I think national pride gets in the way, though.
No, because his behavior really is over the top and is going to draw attention every single time.
Yes. The target demography is backward cast people and tribal people who are more or less disconnected from a mainstream society. Obviously they are extremely poor but it is more about social acceptance. Once converted, they feel like their social status has become higher or they have become part of better community.

On Christmas and other christian festivals, I personally noticed surprisingly large number of 'poor' people attending church prayers. And I found out they were all converted (though not sure about the extent money played a role).

Depending on the region, such conversion may or may not face any backlash.
What the average person is reading or writing is irrelevant to whether or not great writing is being produced.

There are vastly more people who have pursued educations and careers in literature and writing than any past point in history, including reading the classics you expect. We've gone from populations that weren't even literate, to university degrees being normal.

Plenty of people are putting out great writing. The problem has become finding it in a sea of publications.
I think the probability of public viewing is down to zero now, so that didn’t work out so well, did it?
"Thou cannot kill God" - Ecclesiastes 640, verse 480

It sadly seems so, but it has not been confirmed.

What is weird is that his site used to have a donations button - https://archive.fo/ltjBH
Then someone changed it to suggest donations to charities in honor of his passing - https://archive.fo/M8Iut
And now it's completely removed - https://www.templeos.org/
As an aside, “Exeunt, followed by a bear” from The Winter’s Tale was probably one of the greatest stage directions in English literature.

One point worth mentioning is that Shakespeare was not particularly high literature for his time: these were plays written for the 17th century theatre-goers to enjoy. And they had plenty of risqué one-liners: http://mentalfloss.com/article/54442/10-shakespeares-best-di... has a list. That said, Shakespeare at his best easily outdid his peers — his tragedies particularly, although they aren’t particularly historically accurate.

I suspect some of Asimov’s and particularly Stephen King’s works will be “classics” in 500 years time.
I'm implying that multi-user systems were supplanted by web applications, because multi-user systems did not offer good value, and do not scale. Neither do I see these systems being advanced in this thread based on their utility.
Maybe we should stop expecting perfection from public figures. I'm sure there's plenty of dirt I could dig up about you, if I rifled through your past, all your actions and opinions.

I'm really tired of the idea that a hero has to be a perfect saint by modern, vogue definitions. We have a news media that is so rabidly searching for reasons to destroy people, that Musk headbutting a car in frustration is somehow news. So what? Who hasn't banged their head in frustration? Then we have more serious cases, like attacks on Gandhi, where compromising situations with 18-19 year olds (which I'm not defending) get transmuted into accusations of pedophilia.

Can we just stop!? Let good actions be remembered, and let truely bad ones be punished in a timely fashion. By speaking ill of the dead, we rob ourselves of heroes and examples that are genuinely worth following, just because the whole person isn't who we want to be.

Edit: transmitted -> transmuted
> Live, or your life will pass you by, and it's bybyes.

Your life will pass you by regardless, but that's beside the point.

It's weird, I see it just the opposite. The younger generation is adapting well to a radically changed world, while the older generation seems bent of going out in a blaze of inglory. The younger generation do have a tendency to talk back and speak their mind, which older people seem to interpret as a hostility to differing opinions.
My favorite book on sales tactics is Chet Holmes, the Ultimate Sales Machine. Here is a summary:

https://capitalandgrowth.org/articles/893/book-summary-the-u...
The real flaws with cryptocoins(partially excluding monero and similar projects that fix some of the flaws).

1.They're not anonymous(IP addresses are exposed). Less private than a bank(where each transaction is not viewed by every other bank user).

2.They're not providing fungibility(unlike gold), each transaction can be traced to source(via blockchain viewer).

3.They're requiring absurd amounts of electricity to generate(esp. Bitcoin which consumes enough electricity to power several countries)

4.They're not fast enough for real-time transaction and real-time finance/trade. Long confirmation times ruin potential to customer-centric interaction.

5.Volatility of value: coins depend on the market trend dictated by big spenders/owners who control vast majority of coins in a cryptocurrency.

6.Concentration of wealth: early adopters and cryptofarming facilities owners hold most of wealth(see point 5).

7.Lack of security: despite being protected by blockchain, most cryptowallets are at risk of being hacked due websites hosting them being far less secure than banks. Lots of cryptocurrency theft doesn't inspire confidence in it.

8.Limited goods market: cryptocurrency is still not adopted enough to be a worthwhile investment, majority of commercial use is for unregulated casinos, illegal goods/services, and donations.
It’s not the easiest to get SE books onto Kindle unfortunately, though we obviously supply them. I personally read on a Kobo, and I think they’re starting to be available in the US now? You can just drag and drop our kepubs into the mass storage and it’ll import them. Apple Books works well too if you’ve got an iDevice (although there’s a lingering bug with forced page breaks that I really need to fix).
These sorts of things interest me so I went though a few of his posts. It’s interesting that his “God says” messages are all 32 words long. Makes me wonder if it’s a cypher, just gibberish or some combination of both.
I'm curious how you distinguish a consolidated reputation system from a centralized one. I would expect that a consolidated system, in which one can get the same answer to the same reputation query from multiple places and perhaps multiple parties, to effectively be a centralized, distributed system. It seems to me like a distinction without difference - what am I missing?

Once you have a strong centralized reputation system, you are pretty close to having re-centralized your decentralized system once again. Especially in a context where a relatively small number of systems send and receive most of the email to begin with.
Did your banker friend tell you that bank employees were supposed to pay fines for whatever counting mistakes they did while being overworked and underslept?

Did your banker friend tell you that most people in queue were not millionaires but laborers and mostly people who didn't even fall under a tax bracket.

Did he tell you people couldn't withdraw money for months? Their own hard earned money. Not govt money, their own hard earned white money was locked up in banks.

RBI governor wasn't even in support of this decision so he was kicked out. Like how low can all this really get?

Doesn't all this sound like a dictatorship to you?
Did The Book of Mormon have a future without Joseph Smith?
Great series. It mentioned salesforce.com a couple of times. Any other tools that we can use?
One of those is not like the other.

All you really have to do to lose weight is to eat less (where less is defined as "fewer calories").

There's nothing more to it. That's the entire method. Everything else is just there to aid you in accomplishing that goal. This is a perfect example illustrating why simple and easy aren't synonyms. Losing weight is simple (it's literally a single thing you have to do), but far from easy since chocolate is really tasty.
Novelrank is gone
I've been to Ft.Wayne. It's about 250,000. They actually had a bus (i rode it), it didn't come very often, and wasn't at all wheelchair accessible. I live in a similar size city in Canada. Bus system is miles better, and it still doesn't compare to the infrastructure they have in place in Europe, even for smaller cities in Northern climates like Helsinki.

Don't know why that person was going on about it only being temperate places, then comparing to New York, which has to be one of the richest places on earth.
The OS was started before he had significant health problem. The religious theme was applied to it later.
Google News favors mainstream media
I'll create the root makefile that invokes AutoCMake, then CMake, then Make and then all the edge cases CMake can't handle, plus add a much more usable interface.... Take out AutoCMake and it's actually what I'm doing right now.

> Yes, m4 macros are back in the game again!

Actually, I did some codegen experiments recently and found M4 to be really nice once you get past the bad documentation and actually understand it, along with ignoring any experiences with autotools of course. Besides the general substitutions and macros, the divert/undivert primitives are simple yet this is where the real power of the language is, they easily let you write to a number of named/numbered buffers and then pull them back in where needed. The wikipedia article probably shows this off more clearly than the documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
SE books all have rebuilt ToCs, yes. Gutenberg’s ones follow the presentation of the original scans, which basically isn’t useful for an ereading experience.
it seems eminently fair to remember the whole person, not an idealized version of them.
Was it even tried? I'm yet to see "believable simulations" shown to the general public. Something that doesn't look like a video of an indexed-color Earth with randomly rotating palette, but is explainable, explained, and possibly interactive.

I myself believe scientists working on this have such simulations. But I've never seen any being discussed with regular people.
Dark Reader - a dark mode for every website
Suppose you lived alone, and this scenario unfolded. The plaintiff would reasonably argue that because you lived alone, you were the infringer. Would a court believe this to be reasonable? The ruling doesn't say. Now, if you then, using your own money, hired a computer forensics tech who discovered evidence you had been hacked, and also surrendered your computer and router in discovery and it was confirmed the router showed signs of unauthorized access and the computer didn't have file sharing programs or the file in question, I think it's fairly clear this court would let you off the hook. On the other hand, if your forensics tech found no evidence of tampering and did find filesharing software on your computer, I think you'd have a much harder time asserting that your alibi causes their allegation to fall apart.

The court is saying "Look, you can't just saying the IP address is the person, you need to offer a reasonable claim that it is". It is not saying IP addresses are useless or that your identity must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Neither my first post nor this post were meant to be normative -- I'm not from the US, the country I am from makes passive filesharing (i.e. uploading while torrenting) more or less legal, and I would be very happy if legal rulings stopped piracy fishing expeditions. I just wanted to describe the substance of the ruling in a more substantial way than the headline did.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

What is your observation on the performance of such a system, when compared to systems where the middle language has all the logic and the database is used just as a dumb datastore?

Also, what are your observations on the scalability of such a system you have mentioned above?
It really depends on the cost benefit analysis. If we can convince the largest polluters to reduce their pollution levels to bellow what can be removed via beach cleanups (which are relatively low effort), eventually that gets a clean enough ocean.

Framing the issue is important. Yes, the environment is all good, but what the polluting nations will gain from reducing their pollution needs to be highlighted. Less plastic in rivers probably requires less plastic on streets which probably requires better sanitary conditions in general which means healthier workers and higher productivity. Cleaner air means less breathing problems means healthier workers and higher productivity, etc. Eventually, people might notice the nicer environment and develop that as a cultural goal in itself, as the US eventually did after getting tired of rivers catching on fire, but emphasizing worker productivity is probably a quicker way to get developing countries on board. Something about healthy oceans = more protein from the sea should help a bit too.
Babylon 5 was a whole new ballpark when it came out in the early 90's. Good television is now everywhere, but when B5 came out, it was completely unconventional to have a continuous plot over five seasons. At the time "one plot per episode" was the accepted standard, and while the dramatic arcs of for example Star Trek, the Next Generation (ST:TNG) eventually became longer as the script writers got more confident, the arcs of B5 were supposed to last through the seasons from the beginning.

The writing is occassionally weak, and thus it pales in comparison to more younger fantasy productions like Battlestar Galactica reboot, or Game of Thrones. But at it's time it was groundbreaking.

The moments of epic were really good since they were preplanned and they could be foreshadowed much in advance. Hence moments like (spoiler alert...)

... Earth falling into totalitarian state, bombing of one of the alien homeworld, the Shadows overwhelming Centauri prime, etc, were nearly unheard of narrative high points due to the buildup to them over the series.

There were lot of not-so-high quality filler episodes and so on, which make the series more of a cult classic rather than
... an obvious classic.

And yes, I categorized space opera as fantasy :)
thank you. that was a lifetime ago, but I feel like my life is more complete. :)