skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It would be interesting to see what else COMT levels are correlated with especial religious and social beliefs.

Very interesting indeed! Maybe it's my 'I'm such a rational thinker'-pride, but I guess I'm in the group that doesn't respond strongly to placebo effects. I'd be more than happy to pop a social-wellbeing pill in combination with whatever pill I need to treat my condition. As opposed to Mr. Kaptchuk’s view that it would be a shame if we lost this dependency on other humans and their empathy for healing.
IMHO (and I emphasize that), the main difference is that when I was that age, getting a job, making money, and being independent were my goals. For the younger generation, they came into the world at a time of economic turmoil and skyrocketing student loan costs. By the time things recovered, housing markets in many areas were back to the races before they could catch up. Throw in more of an emphasis on doing, making, and experiencing things, and hustling for a buck is less of a priority.
For all the flak it's received, PGP has no known flaws if you know how to use it properly. IronChat may have had some security merits (I can't say), but until there's been some in-depth audits you can't trust it.

It's not about the technical features that are theoretically available, it's more about how much you can believe they actually hold in reality.
I think both types of design will coexist soon- The advantage of the inward-folding version is that it would be likely to survive a fall, a desirable feature to have on (what I think is likely to be) a $2000 phone.
As of this summer, Florida is in the same boat as well, though one step further (the state legislature hasn't yet voted for it in CA).

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-puls...
That would be amazing. I really like using Storyboards if only just to better separate layout from logic but there are so many downsides to them that I just don't really use them all of the time.
I've come across a couple of websites selling LibreOffice rebranded.

While I know it's permissible, it does leave a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

I sort of feel like there should be a banner on the frontpage acknowledging it.
The most obvious way this could have been done is by MITMing the key exchange. The giveaway is in the last paragraph: "The IronChat app, Schellevis reported, also failed to automatically check if the server it used to exchange messages with other users was the correct one."
agreed, but what else can you actually do about it
Solutions for responsible use of the blockchain in the context of personal data [pdf]
IRC: No code-block formatting. Can't even receive messages when you're offline, out of the box. No message delete/edit. No built-in file hosting, must upload elsewhere and link it. No drag-and-drop. No real ergonomics in general. Way behind on community-building/-management features. Only particularly liked by the sort of person who considers tweaking their .conkyrc as a Friday well-spent.

I hang out on freenode every day. But I have higher expectations of chat in 2018 when it comes to what I would choose for an actual organization. So does everyone else.

IRC isn't blowing anyone's mind. Especially that first time they try to reply to someone but their message is never received because the other person closed their laptop.
21st Century Victorians
And there's the real issue. Not about what's best for the kids, but what's convenient for the parents.
Apple are paving the way to A-chip laptops, not only by building excellent tech, but also PR-wise.

Their last keynote was clearly a gymnastics exercise to ignore Intel CPUs and dismiss laptop performance while later praising their own chips which power a tablet that has no software ready to use that much speed.

The fact that one of the most secretive companies executes a PR-stunt by providing an exclusive interview to one of the most respected tech outlets only confirms this strategy. Expect similar movements in the following months.

Now, it is only a matter of "when", not "if", Apple will start selling laptops with their chips.

As as an aside, this strategy is extremely similar to the one they used when dropping the headphone jack on the iphone: "leak" the news to a respected outlet, perform damage control before the keynote, and test the reaction of the market. When they introduced the headphoneless iphone, that topic was so beaten up that it got much less attention compared to a surprise revelation.
Untestable theories don’t explain anything by definition. If it influences the physical world in an ongoing way, in principle it must be testable. If it’s not testable, that can only be because it is not making a difference.
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yes it basically hijacks the phone
A lot of jobs just act as distractions to create jobs

A better target than automoting away cashier jobs at pointless retailers would be to target universal access to healthcare and social services as the key economic drivers

Then folks aren’t tethered to dumb jobs and can make jewelry or chairs and such for personal needs when they’re on vacation from their job that supports the health economy

Creating is an important human outlet. Don’t think it’ll do to automate it away. But we can open it up to anyone learning to create whatever so long as they don’t need to be tethered to a dumb job
It took us 10 minutes to run a production-ready Zulip server. The installation script handles everything without any issues.

https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/install.ht...

> just to run a chat

Don't overlook the fact that this is a scalable and stable solution used by many companies with thousands of users for each instance. I would have my doubts about the project if it wouldn't use those components.
I've got no rhythm, who could ask for anything more?
Samsung Announces Infinity Flex Display, One UI and Talks about Bixby's Future
So, my understanding is that the machine vision technologies discussed in this article don't really work that well, at least not once deployed in the real world, outside of "the lab" and away from the controlled conditions of a scientific experiment reported in a research paper.

I wonder, then- do the authorities of the various countries (by far not just China) who make use of this kind of technology know how little they add to their ability to spy on their citizens? If they know- do they use it anyway just so that lucrative contracts can be signed and money exchange hands? Do they (also?) figure that the fear of being identified by all-seeing, all-knowing cameras will keep the population in the straight and narrow, even if the cameras are blind and dumb as bricks, in practice?
> That requires a good support team that follows process.

> It falls apart when support doesn't train newcomers in what engineering needs

It requires as low skill level from support as you can get. Some rudimental diagnostics skills and understanding of the product itself are needed; from there, if it's not in the FAQ, let engineers handle it in full.

One of three things then happens - in my experience, anyways:

* The engineers prioritize fixing the stuff they don't want to repeatedly deal with.

* The engineers populate a FAQ for the stuff when it's low impact enough that they're OK with support copy/pasting the FAQ item until they address it - if ever. Which can lead to further questions that get fixed or expand the FAQ, but that's fine too.

* (In rarer cases) some of the engineers quit because they think support is beneath their pay grade.
I kinda agree with both you and 'yantz'. I think there is government subsidy in both cases and I also agree with you that the government subsidy muddies the waters a bit.

I am someone who believes that private businesses should be free to discriminate with regards to whom they provide service but we are faced with varying degrees of subsidization and I'm not sure where you would draw the line. Another issue is that there is really no non-subsidized alternate choice of note to these corporations at this level in the United States. These large corporations lobby and help craft favorable legislation on a continual bases. There is a very complex and murky relationship between the large corporations in the United States and the various governing bodies.
Strange you don't consider Vietnam a major war. I won't blame you for forgetting Korea though as even contemporaries did so.

For me the definition of "major war" is were civilians forcibly conscripted.
I'd be curious to see just how large the commercial benefits of standard ML actually are. The only reason it is hyped right now is because the media is leading people to believe something close to AGI is right around the corner, because we can bruteforce Go and index a million image dataset...

Anyways, all the AI/ML hype is generated not by actual commercial value, but implied AGI. So, it would behoove us to question the underlying assumption that AGI is actually possible. After all, it is the scientific thing to do.
The rest of the world can thank people in the US for spending rather large sums on certain treatments. In the UK the treatments are covered by the state at no cost to the patient, but it's only a limited set of available treatments which are considered cost effective. In the US there are plenty more options, if you can pay for it. People may decide to bankrupt themselves or sell their house for these treatments that could enable them to survive or not, but either way they are contributing to real world data that informs the rest of the world of the efficiency and cost effectiveness of a particular treatment.
Or, apply bat to camera.
Foolishness from the California legislature? Nahhhhh.
Yes, absolutely. However, we know from leaks over the past decade that this is not always the case for this types of surveillance methods (the methods being made public).
For the English readers without Dutch sources, here is some additional information which might or might not be in the article:

Police seized and operated a server of a company called Blackbox Security which offered 'crypto phones'. Basically phones pre-installed with some software sometimes with all ability to communicate disabled aside from that application. The price for these phones was 1500 EUR including a 6 month plan, afterwards 750 EUR per 6 months for usage.

While the Dutch DA and Police have not given any details as to how the security was broken there are some clues (this is speculative as fuck):

* A users guide that used to be published on the Blackbox Security website hints towards their chat application being XMPP+OTR.
* Real-time access but no historical access hints towards an MITM to change the previously exchanged OTR keys (a common way to 'break' into a conversation).
* The application seemed to not enforce and/or check the key signatures for changes.

This is not the first time the Dutch DA and Police have taken action against a 'crypto phone' provider. Ennetcom, another provider was taken down a year or so ago: https://www.zdnet.com/article/police-hack-pgp-server-with-3-... leading to arrests as well.

The reason given by the DA for the publication of this news is that threats of violence and reprisal were being made on the taken down chat messages by owners of these devices after police action was taken against them. They wrongfully blamed the people they were communicating with of leaking the information. As tensions increased retribution hits were likely and the risk to the public would be there. Hence: release the information.

To re-iterate, there is so far no reason to believe the actual cryptographic protocols in use got broken but that yes; taking over the server allowed them to MITM the OTR key exchanges and/or pretend to be another client. I could get more technical but since this is all speculation I don't see much value to it.
> What matters is whether the person being forced to look at the shit gets a good deal or not.

Funny, and true.

While reading the parent post, I found myself imagining Mr. Burns from the Simpsons rubbing his hands together as he considered what an awesome 'CPM' he was getting.

Like you, I also think some concepts are bullshit and totally deserving of willful ignorance.

I don't know what CPM is either, aside from an OS I used 30 years ago, but if it makes advertising seem reasonable or desirable, I'm sure I don't want to know.
Sound like advertiser's heaven. Sign me out please.
I like “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”.
You wouldn't be rolling your own crypto? You could use standard crypto but with your own app/UI to make the crypto easy to use.
I don't think they will. They have already expressed the iPad is their vision of the future of computing. A completely locked down platform allows apple to have full control over the entire computing life cycle and achieve results unparalleled elsewhere, whilst also making their product incredibly sticky.
How is a basic database, cache and queue too much?
I found it a reasonably constructive reply, because the operation of a "black box" cannot be properly observed, whether or not some of its behavior adheres to a particular contract or protocol.
> but until there's been some in-depth audits you can't trust it.

OTR uses AES-128 w/the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, and SHA-1 hashes to confirm integrity. So in terms of technology it is a pretty well travelled road. And the advantages of OTR over PGP make it worth seriously considering for secure messaging.

As to specific implementations I cannot say, but that's true with both OTR and PGP.
Every roundabout in D.C. has lights: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9020548,-77.0505595,3a,75y,8....

Some have through streets with lights mixed in with the circle: https://ggwash.org/images/posts/201611-221233-1.png.
Maybe rethinking 9-5 is more productive to society than forcing everything else around it. Lots of schools start each day in the 7:00 hour.
Mattermost has threads inside channels as well, but they end up underused since posts need not be to any specific thread.

The idea is you subscribe to a channel, but then any post to the channel needs to also have some sort of logical subject.
In am a fairly loyal Emacs user, having bought the manual from FSF decades ago when that was a meaningful source of revenue for the FSF.

Now, I only use Emacs for org-mode, and for Lisp languages (Common Lisp, Scheme, and Haskel - which I consider a lisp language).

For just about everything else I now use VSCode. Recently when I discovered how even the symbolic debugger works great for Python, Java, etc., I let my yearly subscription to all of the JetBrains products lapse next year when my subscription runs out.

Love VSCode (and Emacs).
From interviews and first-hand accounts I've seen, Steve was able to digest very technical ideas and concepts and extract "cliff notes" and first principles from them. Take the example/myth of him visiting Xerox and seeing a GUI interface and mouse for the first time.

Additionally, Apple is and has been a consumer company, so understanding the nitty gritty technical details is not the core concern. Instead, building a premium brand, with a cult like following, and being able to identify market opportunities was his genius.
These areas are way below 3,600 pcu/h, maybe down in the several hundred to a thousand area. We’re talking residential side streets.
A) the US is not a democracy: see the senate.

B) this is not an excuse for the consistent course towards militaristic, authoritarian state fueled by fear.
And why would "your own" app be easier to use than somebody else's?
The data we were using didn't change more than a few times a week. So we would generate JSON files using Python and the Google Sheets API. Since we never had to hit the Google Sheets API in any live fashion, it was basically small cached data files.

This was fine even as we approached >100K monthly uniques.

We moved more the data to our CMS as traffic grew for ease of use, but we could have used this method basically indefinitely.
The followup argument is usually something along the lines of quantum mechanics is just probabilistic as far as we know.

Quantum physics doesn't allow for free will in an otherwise deterministic universe, any more than hooking up a RNG to a computer allows for the computer to have free will.
> They don't "welcome" gay scouts, but permit them.

This information is outdated.

They had "don't ask, don't tell" for a very long time.

But they've had openly gay Scouts since 2014 and openly gay leaders since 2015.
That’s because there aren’t any honest prices for a single jet. The R&D cost is so high that how one amortizes that can make 2 orders of magnitude difference in unit cost.
Already been tried in the '70s and it sucked: https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-sav...
Why would they switch to PDT year round as opposed to just switching to MST ?
> Social media is a more recent scourge on the gullible.

Social media is even worse, because it co-opts regular people into doing the advertising.

Now it's not just ad execs in office towers dreaming up ways to fill your perceptual space with cues and prompts, it's your friends, it's the surf shop down the street, it's everybody advertising to each other all the time.
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You seem to be taking the name of one specific company a little too literally. As I showed previously it is a public protocol that interoperates with open source clients, it isn't a black box in any way shape or form.

I feel like this discussion is getting away from the original premise:

> anyone with even a basic understanding of crypto would do things the other way around.

i.e. use PGP instead of OTR. Nobody has yet even attempted explain their reasoning as to why? Bringing up one specific vendor is a deflection, rather than an answer.
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Don't buy Samsung TVs. It's the same with websites, not using the service sends a stronger message than blocking ads
What does fork() even mean in a modern multi-threaded process?

A lot of new kernel features have just given up to the point where current advice is to never call it unless you plan to exec immediately after. But the technical debt within the kernel for this misfeature is massive.
This is a great example of why local rule is generally preferable.
I can tell the difference between Coke and Coke Zero, after having limited myself to mainly Coke Zero over the past few years to limit calorie intake (in the carbonated beverage arena - most of the time I am drinking water).

When I first tried Coke Zero, I found it better than Diet Coke, and closer in flavor to regular Coke. For me, Diet Coke has that strange Nutrasweet after-taste, which I have never liked.

I didn't find that with Coke Zero when I first tried it, seeking something that was nominally "zero-calorie" without having the bad aftertaste I associated with "diet" beverages (and other foods for that matter).

Now, though, when I drink a regular Coke (or worse, a Pepsi), I find it extremely overly sweet. I can still drink other "regular" colas, but they're not my go-to beverage choices any longer.

I do wonder how Jolt Cola would taste to me now; probably absolutely vile or something (I've also found that Grape Crush - which was already ultra-sweet - is almost unbearable to drink from a sweetness perspective).
>I can't say for sure that the author or interviewee even knows what the definition of an algorithm is.

I feel confident that the author has also not gone through an FDA approval process. My wife works in regulatory affairs for a medium sized pharma. There are a lot of hoops to jump through, egos to stroke, and huge costs involved. Want to blow a few weeks and a couple $million because a picture in an ad might be showing someone smiling too much (you can't imply a drug will make you too happy unless is indicated for such), go to the FDA. Don't get me wrong, the FDA exists for a reason, and is far, far better than not having oversight.

Even if (beyond all logic) a reasonable case could be made for government oversight, the FDA is the wrong model.
Introducing Spaces on Quora
Who are you saying is accused? AT&T or the customers? I don't believe there is any legal proceedings related to any of this?

I think OP's point was that if this bothers you and the recent de-platforming of people and websites does not, maybe you should rethink your position. But maybe I misread OP?
>"It’s mostly fast and performant but nothing escapes the occasional “drop all UDP to your endpoint”."

Does the GFW start dropping UDP packets between two endpoints beyond a certain threshold? Is WG generating that message or something else?
A Crisis at the Edge of Physics
I think it's impossible, because the whole concept of Zen architecture is to produce 4-core dies, and then glue them together to create a gigantic 8-core or 16-core processor. There isn't 6-core (or 8-core) Ryzen mobile processor, because it wouldn't physically fit inside the laptop.

But Rome architecture, unveiled yesterday uses 8-core dies, so there's hope.
Unless if they were forced to do this by the authority, that’s an amateur hour mistake.
This seems like the natural conclusion of a welfare state, not a capitalist society.
The answer is pretty similar to that for Rocket.Chat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18401587

With the addition that Mattermost is open core, not fully open source.
I'll take anything as a job now. I can get my own Working Holiday visa. But I've been turned down by farms and construction companies, not only tech companies.

I don't know how to find people on LinkedIn, but I created a new account just to spam that way. I'll keep trying to add lots of strangers and hope I find a friendly one.

Yes, I used an Apple II with ADTPro to migrate data off lots of old 5.25" floppies for archiving purposes. I thought that I could start a business to do that, if I could get computer repair shops to advertise for me. So I asked the repair shops, but most didn't even reply, and the only one that did told me that I should set up the business first and then they'll ask their manager whether they'd be willing to put up a poster. My logic is that older people are rich and powerful, and fondly remember their old computers. So the data migration would put me in contact with people who could give me a real job later.
The demolition of Fukuyama’s delusions can actually be pinpointed to a single day in 2001.
Steve did electronics projects with Woz as teenagers before they ever considered making a company. He was heavily into phone phreaking which is not a layman activity.

He wasn't as talented as Woz or Bill Gates at engineering but I don't know how you can call him "not technical".

Fun fact: That was BillG's favourite put down if he thought you didn't know what you were talking about, "I guess your just not very technical".
Zulip founder here; I should add that Zulip hosting is free for open source projects: https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/.

A bunch of other cool open source projects use it, including Python Core, parts of the Rust community, MariaDB, Coala, the Lean Theorem Prover, the HL7 standard, and many more.
https://zulipchat.com/why-zulip/

For me it's Zulip Topics - they make it very easy to organize the communication. You have channels and they contain topics. This is one of the most useful features of Zulip.

Most features of all chat clients (riot, slack, mattermost, rocket.chat, zulip) are pretty similar.
They have PST and PDT, depending on which part of the year it is. :)
I do. Cops don't have this tech.
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zuckerberg please stop. too damn fast. If facebook is the first AGI - god save us all
You can use sshfs and any editor.
The only conclusion here is that you believe free will can only be explained by dualism. Quantum nonlocality [1] provides at least one other explanation as a place free will may hide.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality