skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god. Yeah there's a fair share of weird junk on that site, which probably goes hand-in-hand with having the necessary paranoia to build your own nonlinear junction detector.

I found the link on Hackaday way back when, I have no idea about the rest of this shady IP address. Should have probably been more careful about posting something like this, but the electronics builds are so well documented.
I am confused, modern Science Fiction has gone way beyond Cyberpunk. It takes into consideration what having real AI might mean for the world, or what a post-scarcity society might look like, or how horrible/painful the transition to that post scarcity society might be, as all the current holders of power do everything they can to maintain their grip on the world.

Modern science fiction describes worlds where people can clone their consciousness 50 times over, where it is possible to adjust the perception of time, and where plans take millennia to come to fruition.

Accelerando by Charles Stross. Recursion by Tony Ballantyne. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.

Yes, these are all evolutions of previous ideas, but Science Fiction has always built on itself.
If I have to get into a gunfight on the street because banning gambling machines would be against “freedom” well I guess I’m not that into freedom.
Only tangentially related to the title, but one thing that I have noticed about space scifi is that it is very difficult to find novels that do not venture into very fantastical elements and instead would root themselves into known science and engineering. Almost every novel seems to be filled with aliens of all sorts, FTL, omnious superhuman AIs, nanobots that are practically magic, and whatnot. The thing I found so refreshing about The Martian (despite its other shortcomings) was how everything was just so believable; pretty much the same as what Musk is promising to deliver in the very near future. Why can't more novels be like that?
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> If you can't code a BFS on the spot, sorry... that feels like far too low of a bar.

I would guess 99% of developers I've worked with couldn't do this on the spot and I've worked on a lot of teams at a lot of companies lol.
Or additions to / restructuring of the current regulatory bodies so that they can respond to such things faster.
> This is fantasy. You're comparing the average programmer to musical savants? What?

They didn't describe a musical savant. They described someone who learned to play the guitar without any background in music theory. The analogy was not someone playing a chord without knowing the name of the chord, it was someone playing a chord progression without knowing the formal musical basis for that progression.

That kind of intuition is very common in guitarists, and I thought the analogy was rather apt.
Maybe play some videogames with your kids, if that’s what they like to do.
Oh you made the code available too

https://github.com/aileenproject/aileen
That kind of anaemic Makefile in the article can be expressed as a single case statement in a plain POSIX shell script:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

case "$1" in
up)
docker-compose up -d
;;

build)
docker-compose rm -vsf
docker-compose down -v --remove-orphans
docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d
;;
*)
echo "unknown verb: $1"
;;
esac

I honestly think there's a phenomenon where, since the bash man page is too bloated, looking up shell syntax has become a no-no. So if people don't already know the syntax for what they want to do, they treat shell scripting as a lost cause.
Probably doesn't mention it because it's not a function of the gadget they're advertising. NLJDs cost several grand, after all.
If it is only for lookups and is static, why not do a dictionary with perfect hashing? You recalculate the hash each time you need to change the input.

(same as the postgres keyword lookup posted last week to HN using perfect hashing)
JS++ programming language looks to solve out-of-bounds errors
From this comment of the author's, it seems plausible things are different in the UK.

https://prisonuk.blogspot.com/2016/03/preparing-for-prison.h...
What's a light weight transaction?
Anyone using this in production? Any thoughts or tips on how to adapt traditional MongoDB workflows to this?
I actually implemented this (i.e, your parent's idea) for a product. Took me an afternoon to read the documentation and source of the logical output plugin and build a logical replication receiver (using the guts of an existing binary-protocol driver).

Of course, that is a testament to the quality of the documentation and the source code of PostgreSQL.

The fact that the Logical Decoding and Logical Output features were built for replication means that some decisions were taken not-in-favour of publishing changes, obviously, but it works pleasantly and straightforwardly. Even writing a custom logical output plugin would be simple, because Pg does all the transaction tracking, position tracking, change decoding etc.
Cyberpunk and its derivatives are indeed going on an almost 40 years' reign. What this article forgets is that so-called "golden age" space opera or swashbuckling space privateer style sci-fi had a longer reign from maybe the 1920s until the 1980s. The cyberpunk paradigm is comparatively young.

I don't agree with Ursula LeGuin that novelists shouldn't or can't imagine the future. The early cyberpunks certainly did imagine aspects of the future like the importance of cyber-security, individuals vs. massive multinational entities, social fragmentation, and the decay of the nation state. SpaceX's shiny rocket currently taking shape shows that some of the "golden age" space sci-fi writers imagined certain aspects of the future too. The greatest sci-fi is about both the present and the future.
Hoarding useful resources is an important instinct. When the instinct is so strong it causes serious problems, and the person is unable to control the instinct with his will and intellect, or is unwilling to try, then it's a disorder.

I think that's a perfectly reasonable definition.
The TSA has never found a bomb.
my understanding is that they had very bad difficulties drilling in CH for the Gotthard project: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-gotthard-base... .
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Guile's VM already supports this.
Being tongue-in-cheek, self-aware, and even being a deliberate parody don't preclude a work from being an exemplar of the genre it's parodying.
You're a bit out of date, the DPJ managed to get into office recently before losing to the LDP again.
> Campbell believed that the real problem with marijuana is that a teenager who learns to doubt what adults say on the subject is likely to become equally skeptical when it comes to cocaine, heroin, and LSD

There's some merit to this, but by the time they were teaching us about drugs, teachers had already lied to us about countless other topics. I wish they hadn't lied about the severity of marijuana, but that alone would have hardly changed my skepticism regarding everything else.
UX discussion here. Is there any UX/design/functional reason to have a round watch face on a smartwatch? Analog watches were round to fit the display technology available at the time, the watch dial, which is inherently round. RGB pixel displays are naturally rectangular.

My wife thinks that even the smallest latest Apple Watch is way too large for a watch. I wonder if there's some matter of comfort in a relatively flat backed round form factor for a watch? A relatively thick rectangle with a rounder back is going to have a center of mass that is further away from the wrist. It comprises a very small cantilever, which is still quite large on the scales of the traditional watch. (By something like a factor of 3 or so.) The slightly taller rectangular shape will also tend to funnel the motion such a cantilever experiences in an arc parallel to the forearm. None of this was at all an issue for most traditional watches, simply because they were much flatter.

Something has always bothered me about Apple Watches when trying them out in the store, and I think it's this. They're not bulky, but there's something about them which seems to keep them from disappearing from my awareness. Even my dad's old Rolex, which isn't huge, but isn't small for a watch, seems to sit on my wrist more comfortably. Even the Tag Heuer, which I think is a bit too big, seems to sit more comfortably on my wrist. Even the big old school watches just didn't have this stick-out-y character.
That would tend to fit with my upper limit idea - most people aren't capable of handling their vehicles much faster than that (or reacting to other vehicles doing unexpected things). Of course, when I do drive I'm often stuck in heavy traffic which is far slower than that, so it's more of thought experiment. That said, I'd personally be surprised if people would risk a citation for reckless driving to go 85mph in a 55mph zone.
If you're so unfamiliar with people who look or act differently from you that you need scientific evidence to prove why representation matters, I'm not sure what evidence I could bring that would convince you. What would that evidence look like?
Definitely these are not extreme joy riding, but I don't think an ethical doctor would help with highly above normal neuron growth, wakefulness, testosterone, or get involved with experiments starting from near normal levels in a patient. They might have some serious problems with a medical board.

It's a bizarre case that doctors will help normal people (journalists) experiment with some levels of sport doping, but it comes from knowing a little about the experimental professional sport dopers (where doctors try to stay anonymous.)

To give a different example, what about an anorexic that wants their genes to ensure their desired body image, i.e. 0 retention of normal fat? (Personally, I would be more concerned about bulk experiments in the beauty salons than the tattoo parlours.)
It would be fun to connect several receivers and use multilateration to estimate positions and make a heat map over the local area.
He does say at the end, "However, if you are sensible, keep your head low and steer clear of drugs, debt, stealing from other cons and ‘grassing’ (informing on fellow prisoners), you are unlikely to be the target of any violence."
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Where do I find one of these Starcraft LAN parties?
Is that a fallacy with basic algorithm questions, or with interviewing in general? How does another category of question provide objective feedback about problem solving ability instead?
While i don't envy their position - i think describing it as working without pay as a little disingenuous - while they have yet to be paid for the work they are performing, does anyone really believe that they are not going to be paid for their work down the road?
You might have a fundamental misunderstanding of how genetics and evolution work. The spreading of genes is a consequence of having sex, not its goal. There is no higher power that determined "spreading one's genes" as some sort of ultimate drive, then set about finding ways to make it happen.

You can think of it this way:

- Presumably, some mammals would have been born that did not enjoy sex. Those would not procreate and their gene would die out.

- Other mammals would enjoy sex. They would procreate, and their genes would spread.

It's the sex and enjoyment thereof that is the driving force behind procreation. When you hear people saying "the ultimate drive is to spread one's genes," that's just a hand-wavy explanation used for simplification (which, unfortunately, many people have come to interpret too literally - as is often the case when simplification is involved).

It's the same type of simplification as when a nature documentary says "Nature found a way to do X". As if nature is some conscious entity with a will that is working towards achieving some goal.
This page eventually gets around to the point, but the intro paragraphs don't tell me what's actually happening, and are written in an extremely confusing way. I almost just closed the tab since it's not even clear that any explanation is coming.

"This change affects only sites which operate software which is not following published standards. Are you affected?"

Affected _in what way_? Instead of linking to the Wikipedia page about what DNS is (if your visitor doesn't know that, then the rest of the page is pointless), there needs to be a sentence or three up top telling me what is _actually happening_ and what the _actual impact_ could potentially be, and for that matter, which standards you are even talking about. Then, tell me what the forms you are asking me to type my domain names into are going to do.

As it is, this page is just going to leave a lot of people confused.
You think every programmer has a CS degree?
I'm currently reading an amazing book that touches on this very subject : http://www.marjoriekelly.com/books/owning-our-future/

I would highly recommend if you are interested in this topic.
>"As a result, many recruiters prefer not to see headshots on resumes, said Augustine."

In case anyone plans to move to Europe, any time soon, the opposite is true here.[0]

[0] - https://www.visualcv.com/what-to-include-in-a-cv/#europe
If DDG is not using some of that money to build their own crawler, they should give that money back to investors. It sounds extremely hard building yourself crawlers, but it's been done in various degrees by Archive.org, various SEO tools, and Common Crawl. The best time to have built the infrastructure was 5 years ago. The second best time is now.

I think the guys in DDG know this, but if they don't.. they're a bad business decision from Microsoft away from nonexistence.
I would suggest learning decision trees (which you are doing "mentally" currently), as well as probabilistic thinking. Also, start to slowly accept that some things are worth worrying about, and many you can just roll with the punches. I ask myself - could I change this in the future if it is a wrong decision, or will this cost me a lot in career, finance, life satisfaction. Also assess if you're a control freak, and either how to mitigate it, or how to use it to your best advantage.

Link: Decision tree primer https://hbr.org/1964/07/decision-trees-for-decision-making
Honestly can't tell if you're being facetious haha. It's not that I think the risk of them being attacked for being a TSA officer is high, but the risk they face at their jobs seems so low.
Why they're hardly even Scotsmen at all! Less humorously I'd say your definition of working class differs from that of the public. If you ask those tradesmen if they're working class, I'd wager upwards of 90% of them will say yes.

Working class to most people just means that they do manual labor. They work outside and in factories building and moving physical things be it burgers or buildings or balloon animals. The key seems to be that they don't generally sit at a desk with a computer on it for 8hrs a day.
Frank Herbert explored drugs an a SF context in several novels, as well as Dune.
Lies are a bad thing, but in this case if you read what people wrote she probably went too far and hurt people who had no other way to defend themselves, but to organize againt her. Also mass lies are hard to do with Blind, as you can't just register 100 users, there are real people working at big companirs behind each user, that's why I like it so much.
Disclaimer: I work at Density (https://www.density.io) building an anonymous people counter.

MAC address tracking is a good simple way to get an approximate number of people: it's very easy to install, it requires only a WiFi antenna, and the data is easy to translate into a count. However, there are privacy and legal concerns which have prompted phone vendors to obfuscate this data. And there can easily be zero (or more than one) broadcasted MAC address per human, even when filtering by OUI.

Retailers have been using specialized "people count" technology like infrared break-beams, thermal cameras, and CCTV+CV systems for a long time. CCTV is the most accurate by far, but it's also commonly considered to be an invasive level of surveillance (and rightly so). It's also not particularly accurate in adverse situations. At Density, we looked at (and tried) many of these technologies - but ultimately found them lacking because they were either too invasive or too inaccurate. The device we've built uses a lower-resolution depth-only sensor because it can return extremely accurate results, without having the capability for facial recognition or other analysis techniques that are harmful to privacy. So far the technology is working very well - with an algorithm based on a deep-learning "human classifier" we're seeing accuracy above 99% in many of our deployments.

Here's a cool (and in-progress, excuse our dust) summary of some issues that the technology has to navigate: https://faq.density.io/algo/
You're not confused, the article is confused. It boils down to a gripe against the suffix "-punk" and it tries to make some connection between that and the lack of originality that is to be expected when art meets mass-market.
When I decided to move away from Google Search I went with DDG for some time, since it seemed to be the more independent / open approach, compared to Startpage. I found myself switching back to Google way to often, for either performance and / or relevance of results. I then switched to Startpage and used it as primary search for well over a year - only switching back to google for image search.
I still feel like DDG would be the philosophical superior option and with !s in mind I will give it another try, to see how far it came.

I'd be interested in more concrete reasons to use DDG over Startpage. First thing that comes to my mind is that with Startpage, Google still "reads" your search queries, which might leak info. What else?
No and it's literally in the first few lines of the legal document linked in the second paragraph*

Notification of a decision to the applicant
Alicante, 11/01/2019
TOMKINS & CO.
5 Dartmouth Road
Dublin 6
IRLANDA
Your reference: MT9434
Revocation number: 000014788 C
Contested trade mark: 000062638
BIG MAC

If you read the eight pages it's infuriating the rationale the court used.

"Taking into account the submitted evidence as a whole, it is concluded that the documents do not provide conclusive information that the products marked with the EUTM are offered for actual sale…"

Here's the evidence BTW »

The evidence to be taken into account is the following:

 3 affidavits, signed by representatives of McDonald’s companies in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. They claimed significant sales figures in relation to ‘Big Mac’ sandwiches for the period between 2011 and 2016 and attach examples of the packaging of the sandwich (boxes), promotional brochures and what appear to be menus, further referred to below:

 Brochures and printouts of advertising posters, in German, French and English, showing, inter alia, ‘Big Mac’ meat sandwiches; and packaging for sandwiches (boxes); the materials appear to originate from the EUTM proprietor and are dated between 2011 and 2016. The brochures and posters show asandwich on the menu along with other products, or on its own, and the prices are also provided on some of the materials; other documents appear to be blank menus in which the price can be filled in. The EUTM appears on the submitted material in relation to sandwiches.

 Printouts from the websites www.mcdonalds.de, www.mcdonalds.at, www.mcdonalds.be, www.mcdonalds.cz, www.mcdonalds.dk, www.mcdonalds.es, www.mcdonalds.fi, www.mcdonalds.fr, www.mcdonalds.hu, www.mcdonalds.ie, www.mcdonalds.it, www.mcdonalds.nl, www.mcdonalds.pl, www.mcdonalds.ro, www.mcdonalds.se, www.mcdonalds.si, www.mcdonalds.sk, www.mcdonalds.co.uk, dated between 07/01/2014 and 03/10/2016. They depict a variety of sandwiches, inter alia ‘Big Mac’ sandwiches, some of which state that they are sandwiches made with beef meat.

 A printout from en.wikipedia.org, providing information on ‘Big Mac’ hamburger, its history, content and nutritional values in different countries.

Having examined the material listed above in its entirety, the Cancellation Division finds that the evidence is insufficient to establish genuine use of the trade mark.

* https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bi...
If you increase competition for jobs you can push the cost of training onto employees.
> Will VR be the new "hot thing" like smartphones were after the 2008 recession

I don't think so. Mobile phones were already a significant thing before 2008 and the morph to smartphones was already in train (first iPhone was 2007).

VR still has to emerge from a relatively small set of niche use cases. Augmented / Mixed reality is more likely, given the ubiquity of good cameras on smartphones. Arguably AR/MR will let the phone manufacturers keep pushing device upgrades for longer, as the smartphone market saturates.
As someone who's been required to maintain bug-compatible software before, this fills me with great joy. Congratulations on getting to deprecate the brokenness!