skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why this would carry over to Facebook. Amazon sells metered compute or hosting infrastructure used by half the internet, Facebook doesn't sell infrastructure to anyone. Going by their actual levers of market power, you absolutely would split WhatsApp and Instagram off.
Linus has a policy: Don't break userspace. See https://felipec.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/the-linux-way/

That's a great blog post; it's not just about the policy, but talks about some people who disagree, provides a lot of links, and is just generally better than anything I could hope to write here. I'll only observe that I'm not endorsing anything except that that's a pretty good post. I'm just pointing out the context, not arguing for or against "don't break userspace" personally.
I think the digression to whether the concept of a safety driver is flawed from the start irrelevant. Sure, maybe the process of having a safety driver backup is physically inhumanly possible because they'll get road blind and won't be able to react in time. But that didn't happen here. We have no evidence of that ever happening in self driving tests. Of the millions of self driving car test miles with safety drivers not once has a safety driver been looking at the road, but not able to react in time because of the monotony of the job.

What we have here is someone who was watching TV on the job. I adamantly refuse to believe that humans are incapable of not watching TV for a stretch of several hours.

If the driver had nodded off, looked out with glazed over eyes, or any number of other situations consistent with your scenario, then you'd have a point. But this was not that case.
Yes, a very strange argument. The GP seemed to be calling for making US AI research less efficient because it's the sporting thing to do?

I'm not just throwing stones here. I'd welcome some clarification from GP.
Interesting bit from Wikipedia:

“Linux's transition to ELF was more or less forced due to the complex nature of building a.out shared libraries on that platform, which included the need to register the virtual address space at which the library was located with a central authority, as the a.out ld.so in Linux was unable to relocate shared libraries.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out
Ok. I usually fly United. There Economy Plus is mostly just more legroom.
Yes, he's being sarcastic, but I think his words have a point if taken straight, so I'm being counter-sarcastic. PG says "You believe this thing I think is nonsense, right?" so I say "I absolutely believe this thing which you were serious about, right?"
> I am a former senior software engineer at Apple and I do not have a degree.

Are you the guy that wrote MobileMe?
Nintendo tried it both ways. FireEmblem Heroes, micro-transaction (gachapon) based, made more money than Super Mario Run ($10, one time only buy).

I'm amazed that they are still very careful with their experimentations, and not switching everything to the free-to-play model. Let's hope they continue this way.
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> If you convert Pi to base 2 you won't be penalized for those long sequences of odd numbers

There's no way to convert pi to base 2 in your head though...
It’s dead in the US but quite alive in other markets, especially Asia and the Middle East.

Some airlines even have four class planes with the rise of premium economy.
The Morning Paper: Paxos Made Simple (2015)
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I went to Alaska last January. It's like no place else I've ever been. The folks there both really care about the environment and really care about the oil industry. It is a question of much debate there. It's an interesting case study.

The state had a huge economic boom about 30 years ago as a result of the Alyeska pipeline. Lots of people (in relative terms, Alaska is not and will never be densely populated) moved there to take advantage. Basically everyone else is there because it has been their home for generations, or because they moved there for the nature aspect.

Economic booms don't last forever. Now you have people who moved there for money (which is gone) consistently at odds with people who are there for other reasons. The former want to bring back the boom times, and will pretty much vote for anyone who says they can do that. The latter just want to move on with their lives and protect what has not already been damaged.
Checkout Loomo, I have one for testing, it works well.

http://www.loomo.com/en/
It's only really a thing in long haul, where these days there are usually at least 4 classes: economy, premium economy (same cabin, slightly more legroom, sometimes a larger entertainment screen), business and first (and sometimes tiers of first e.g. cabin class).
nytimes writes so much shit about FB, then why they don't close their fanpage and stop advertising on FB
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> That is what I mean by a false dichotomy. It's not just that life involves both randomness and selection, but that they are not opposed things.

Ok but I don't see why the just world fallacy is a false dichotomy. It is precisely a fallacy, because people don't acknowledge randomness and selection.
To your point about regulating these companies as utilities, it seems some political candidates are looking to do that:

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...
Nice, I'd love to see a list similar to this, that includes tax relief as well — similar to The Netherland's 30% ruling.
Algorithmic trading can just mean trying to place orders with minimal slippage, e.g. if you were a bank that only places one order per day, that's definitely not HFT, but you might still want to get the best price for that order, which you won't if you just place it all in one go.
If Facebook really wanted to shift to privacy, they would add a paid, ad free, no tracking option.
Posted below, but this just paywallspam for Elizabeth Warren's own blog post on the subject: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/9ad9e0da324c
I have some issues with my arch and toes and my custom orthotics really help with that. I only really hang them off the side of the bed. Sometimes they are on the bed though.

It also seems a natural progression from walking around the house to laying on the bed to answer some texts.

I do it less in the winter or when it's raining. In that case I don't bother and leave them in the entry way.
Sure; sage is a mainstay amongst cryptography engineers.
No, it's not known that Pi is normal. This is a very, very open question. We don't even have a way of tackling that question at the moment.

You're correct that if Pi is normal, it's normal in all bases. But that's precisely the point I'm getting at - if Pi is normal, you need to use base 2 for this to work because your codomain is just {0,1}.

Mapping a number to another number such that each digit becomes its own parity is materially different from converting that number to base 2. They aren't the same thing whatsoever, and you can't generally take a normal number and create another normal number this way.

So even if we accept the reasonable conjecture that Pi is normal, you still need to map it to the same base as your codomain in order for its entropy to be preserved. The proposed function is injective and destroys entropy.
That sounds lovely. I imagine the weather must have been fairly warm?

I spent a few summers in my youth similarly barefoot in Virginia from June until September. I remember enjoying it, and it's something I often wish I could revisit as an adult.
The line between mistake and negligence is a lot blurrier than the line between killed and didn’t kill.
That’s United’s extra leg room product which is distinct from their premium economy product. That product is only available on long haul flights.
No joke, Emacs's Magit is the best git client I've ever used.

If you run it as:

emacs -e "(magit-status)"

then you open right into the magit interface.

Check out the manual[1]. You'll find that it's not too heavy on traditional emacs-isms, it's a lot more about pop-up menus that act as interactive cheat-sheets for the easy-to-memorize the vim-like verb-modifier language of single key presses it builds up.

[1]https://magit.vc/manual/magit.html
Handwriting recognition has been available on Android for a while (especially for Chinese). This article is "only" about incremental improvements.
Not OP, but my take on that is this: if that industrious 20x / 2x value creator could exist in a vacuum there's no reason to stop them. Im fine even with a 1000x / 1.1x split, ceteris paribus. My problem with aggregation of wealth and power is not with numerical inequality, but with the "evil" that can follow--rent seeking, externalization of costs, monopolization. If the externalities end up 0.5x-ing everyone else's wealth, this is a problem.
PG&E is fine with this model and they don't have to give up their IP or profits. Essentially it would turn Google and the other tech platforms into legal monopolies. That being said, I think this is probably the best way we can keep getting awesome technology from Google while at least having some government oversight. I kinda feel like were getting to the point in human evolution where we need giant giant groups of people to work together to solve really big technical problems. While problematic on many levels, a government sanctioned and regulated monopoly around google could potentially accomplish those things.
I'm not surprised that autocorrect came out of Microsoft. The best autocorrect I have ever used was on the keyboard of the Microsoft Zune HD. If you were even hitting the correct half of the keyboard, it would be able to solve the puzzle and correct your typing. It is the only onscreen keyboard that even comes close to using a physical keyboard on a phone, and I'm routinely disappointed by Apple and Google's comparatively pathetic offerings.
Anyone who thinks Google is out there demoting Yelp results is a moron. The much simpler explanation that Yelp is a cancer that everyone hates is more likely. It's sad that Warren falls for FUD like this and we shouldn't forget that these memes originate from Microsoft-funded AstroTurf campaigns designed to mislead European regulators, which worked because eurocrats are gullible. The last thing we need in this election are people without the critical thinking skills needed to see through a disinformation campaign. We need a candidate who can clearly see that Google owning a small thermostat maker is not one of the country's main issues.
Economy cabins aren't always packed - there's probably about to be a raft of replies disputing this. I say with ten confidence of someone that has seen many tens of economy class flights, domestic and international, so empty I could claim a whole row and lie down to sleep.
Reading Zuck’s post actually made me quite sad. I’m in perhaps the minority of folks that don’t really care too deeply about FB tracking and advertising to me, but I feel strongly about the social implications of FB and the fake news problem.

FB has had an undeniably negative affect on society as a whole because of its ability to let people dive deeper into their own bubbles of reality (whether truthful or not).

Putting curtains on the blinds only means the problem will get WORSE, not better. People won’t have that silly emotion called shame (not that they have much of it anyway) getting in the way of a good racist rant or news story about the end of the world or how people with darker skin are so scary.

At least now there’s a chance someone with rationality will chime in if a story gets spread far enough. In the new private FB our divide is going to turn into a canyon :(
Isn't Intellisense predictive typing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_code_completion

Does Microsoft still have the best code completion?
British Airways flies four classes on long haul flights.

First is like business, except your coat gets its own closet next to your seat, and you get Johnnie Walker Blue instead of Red like the plebes in business class ;)
Two things that styli do better than fingers are writing and drawing. That was the point of Samsung's use of it, and even Apple now has their Pencil. Yes, using them for everything, like in the Palm Pilot era, was annoying.
Paying for people to move is a lot cheaper than climate change.
There are very few airports where this is the case. FRA is one of the only airports with the setup you’re describing.
Excerpt:

"Thompson was faced with a hardware environment cramped and spartan even for the time: the DEC PDP-7 on which he started in 1968 was a machine with 8K 18-bit words of memory and no software useful to him. While wanting to use a higher-level language, he wrote the original Unix system in PDP-7 assembler. At the start, he did not even program on the PDP-7 itself, but instead used a set of macros for the GEMAP assembler on a GE-635 machine. A postprocessor generated a paper tape readable by the PDP-7.

These tapes were carried from the GE machine to the PDP-7 for testing until a primitive Unix kernel, an editor, an assembler, a simple shell (command interpreter), and a few utilities (like the Unix rm, cat, cp commands) were completed. After this point, the operating system was self-supporting: programs could be written and tested without resort to paper tape, and development continued on the PDP-7 itself.

Thompson's PDP-7 assembler outdid even DEC's in simplicity;

it evaluated expressions and emitted the corresponding bits. There were no libraries, no loader or link editor: the entire source of a program was presented to the assembler, and the output file—with a fixed name—that emerged was directly executable. (This name, a.out, explains a bit of Unix etymology; it is the output of the assembler. Even after the system gained a linker and a means of specifying another name explicitly, it was retained as the default executable result of a compilation.)"
Tim Cook didn't test new Twitter name outside Mac/iOS
Most have 4 classes
That doesn’t address the core issue of rule of law and property rights though. Pick any number of countries in Africa and air drop them ag-tech that’s 50 years into the future. I don’t for a second believe that it would cause much of anything to change or improve.

Your US example appears to have been constrained by the current tech and knowledge of the day. In Kenya like you bring up, they aren’t limited by those things but rather lack of rule of law and property rights. So how can you compare them apples to apples?

This isn’t a chicken or egg thing. Rule of law and property rights are the necessary condition to allow people and society to grow and flourish. You can’t skip those necessary steps.

I mean look at the agricultural output for Zimbabwe for reference.
I studied CS in college but I was a sysadmin level programmer before that so the programming classes were easy. I kinda wish I had majored in psychology though.
One of the enjoyable things about surfing is when you find there are other people like you.

Almost every day since the mid-80's, I have what I call a Tarnower lunch: half a can of pineapple chunks, half a can of mandarin oranges, a dollop of cottage cheese and a few walnut pieces, along with a small bran muffin. Tastes fine, not too bad nutritionally, and no congnitive overhead.
and your blood pressure would be through the roof in no time
Great story - thanks for sharing :) In hindsight, do you think it was any different? (Microcomputer vs mainframe for the disassembled you were talking about building)
I consider the University as a shortcut for knowledge.

Without University, how many years I would take to understand ACID databases, for instance. How many bad decisions and mistakes I would do, how less competitive I would be, how much time I would lose doing things wrong. In the University I was guided and tested. I learned theory and practice, through the books and also by the mistakes of others.
The difference is that none of those examples dominate their market. The problem isn't "Amazon uses their platform to promote their own products" it's "Amazon uses their market dominance to promote their own products which might not otherwise be competitive"
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It certainly expands your network and increases the odds of success. The MBA is the ultimate example of this.
I've always found it amusing that the Scandinavian countries lauded for being socialist utopias with the highest quality of life do so by drilling like Arabian princes, yet you only hear complaining about exploitation in the red state of alaska which only produces 5% of the nation's crude and has a generally so-so quality of life.
I notice the favicon is the vueJs logo. Anytime I go to sites that have the default favicon on them like that I worry about the developer's or the owner's attention to details. Might want to change it! Other than that it looks nice. :)
This is also true of Virgin Atlantic. I generally fly long haul with them whenever I can and when I do I always fly Premium Economy. It's well worth the upgrade.
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Pharo and Google Summer of Code 2019
Social sciences are completely untrustworthy because it's all survivorship bias. The writings of people who didn't get fired.

Basically any other source is more trustworthy than current age researchers. E.g. the bible, unkempt street corner prophets, uncle at thanksgiving, porn magazine, unmoderated comment section, magic 8 ball etc

It's nothing but fake science
This doesn't make any sense. There's no scenario that keeping the DB limited to being accessed by Heroku dynos would make it less secure than leaving it open to the internet AND all of the other ways you can access it currently.

Beyond that, if you leave it accessible via the internet, you are banking hard on postgres not having a zero-day that lets someone get through without brute-forcing the password (or heroku being slow to update your software).
Depends which airlines you fly internationally - A lot, if not all, of american airlines are increasingly moving towards removing first class from their international flights & having business class as their premium cabin offering - e.g. Delta with DeltaOne or United with Polaris. If you want to truly experience first class, it'd have to be one of the middle eastern airlines or British Airways, Singapore Airlines and the likes.
Pitfall II was the first cart I remember having a coprocessor -- the DPC, only used for this game since the 2600 was on the way out: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/144075-how-exactly-does-the...

NES carts actually have an audio pass-through that can replace/remix the built-in APU sound. Atari 2600 does not, but the DPC gave it three-voice music. How? The CPU has to read from the DPC once per scanline, then manually shove that value into the volume register, generating the audio waveform at a 15.7 kHz sample rate.
You should think in the terms of opportunity cost.

The alternative to what you suggest is not zero growth of wealth. It can be even larger growth of wealth when the markets work better.

The type of anti-markets and pro business approach where big corporations are shielded from the markets and monopoly powers are allowed as long as antitrust felony crimes don't happen is perversion of capitalism. The ideological foundation for this tinking was laid out in Robert Bork's book 'The Antitrust Paradox' (1978) that Reagan administration used as their bible.
The Airbnb / HotelTonight Deal Should Be Stopped
I love Airbnb and HotelTonight - they're both awesome products. But they should remain separate.

If this goes through, we've effectively learned nothing as a society. We let big tech companies (like Facebook) acquire competitors, creating monopolistic giants that have had the ability to not put their users interests at heart (for instance, being lax on privacy, sweeping the rug out from under businesses and content creators, etc).

This will be worse if we allow it to happen in the so-called service economy, where users have to pay. If consolidation happens there (e.g. Airbnb acquiring competitors), not only will we have the same risks we did with social media consolidation, but there will be pricing risks since these businesses are transactional.
At that particular company at that time you could bank the difference between actual spending and allowance and either spend it on travel in a different way (such as airfare upgrades), donate 100% it to designated charities, or cash out a fraction of it at the end of the year.
Actually quite often on long intercontinental hauls, the front section has usually 2 subsections - you can see it on the seating arrangements (something about better bigger seats vs couch-style where you can properly lie horizontally) - at least those are differences as seen from peasant's perspective
> Economy cabins are always packed.

They are not always packed. It depends on the route. I've been flying DXB-KUL too many times and I end up with two empty seats next to me. Free first class.
At least the U.S. government does an absolutely terrible job with the capital-intensive infrastructure it touches. Having it be in charge of something like a nuclear reactor or a chip fab would end technological progress.
I'm no math expert, but to me the only question that should matter is: how random is the parity distribution of digits in pi? If the answer is "perfectly random", then that means each digit in pi should have a perfectly random parity. If the answer is not "perfectly random" then that means you should be able to predict the parity of the next digit based on the parity of previous digits with probability >50% in the long run, which I don't think holds true for pi (I could be wrong).
A great product and still evolving! :) It is crazy how powerful it becomes with Kibana, but you still have the option for DIY graphics and integrations!
Volkswagen Taps into $50B War Chest to Take on Tesla
The (napkin-sketch) model of that behaviour is interesting. I'd guess that when you are pressing 4 buttons, your "internal pseudo-RNG" is incorporating a broader scope for entropy that isn't visible to the algorithm which only "sees" the two horizontal arrows.

Incidentally, I also got about the same rate (59%) of success from the algorithm when I used only the two recognized keys.
Is it even a widespread idea that "art promotes empathy"?

I feel like nowadays we're talking about morality of art mostly when we're talking about mainstream media (representation in popular media etc).

I'm no art critic but I've always thought that generally accepted truth about art is that there is no single concept, idea or purpose behind it. It used to be something along the line of "art is beautiful" but it's not even that now.
Anything can be art and art can be anything and it can be perceived in numerous ways.

I haven't finished it yet tbh but I find this piece of writing weird because I really don't see where it's coming from.
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Google, Amazon and Facebook
True but then we need to treat programming as a trade.
Roscosmos should have been smart and required China to license back any improvements. Then they could have gotten a bigger and cheaper Soyuz with no development costs.
Oh yeah, can't edit my comment, but you've got the cost wrong. It's a two part application process, so when you apply to get endorsed, it's £456. Then, once you've been endorsed, you can apply for the actual visa using the endorsement you got from tech nation. That's £156. It used to be £268 for each stage, so split 50/50.

I'm also very confident there's only 400 a year. 2000 is the total for all the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visas, across all industries and disciplines - so engineering, art, music, etc etc.

Details here: https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-exceptional-talent
It's not only mysql though, our first system was mssql with asp and the database was cleared or filled with spam several times per month until we made a new one with php and mysql. About 15 years ago I guess.
Is this a good idea? Giving "fair time" to not only YouTube malcontents, but also actively bad actors i.e. state funded shills?

I don't see how this could be implemented to the best interest of the USA without "censorship" being involved at some point.