skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to even go into sci-fi land to reach a dystopian scenario.

With no laws to govern what technology like this is allowed to do and what can be done with the information from it, Facebook and companies like it will be able to create products that do what the press release implies with VR, but since they'll then have a direct monitor on our brains, they'll eventually be able to measure response to advertising, gauge public opinion, tell when someone is lying, and even flag certain types of brain activity as "potentially dangerous" if it's determined that certain patterns precede violent actions like police being in a gun battle or a soldier being in combat (or even violent sports).

I hope they don't manage to develop a successful product that does this, but I also think enough corporations are working toward doing so that we'll have to deal with these problems in the next 1-2 decades.
For those that buy Oculus Rift headsets in the near future, you might want to start looking for metal contacts in the headband where it touches your skin.
Are you more interested in eventually getting compensated for your time or having a piece of a potential larger valuation? Which do you think Jim is more interested in?

If you are primary looking to for the former, you could propose a deal where you get 40% up to whatever you both agree would be a market wage for the effort you put into the startup ($10/hr seems low, but I know nothing of your local economy). That may be more acceptable to Jim, and it keeps you from feeling like you got a raw deal if he has a great exit in a few months.
Doesn't .NET (and C# with it) have stop-the-world GC, very similar to Java?

Or do you mean something else?
Probably all the innocent people that die for no reason due to the use of these weapons.
I have my wife’s HP-15C that she had in grad school. Unfortunately it had an accident and got doused in liquid soap. It still works, but drains the batteries in just a day or two, and I’ve never figured out how to fix it.
Fair enough, that was very recent. Perhaps a vote between a more representative system than AV vs FPTP would have been different but it does seem too early to bring it up again.
I also work on holiday.
Mutually beneficial exchange? You fail to really ask who benefits, and the answer is Juul and company. Anyway, the ‘it’s my money’ argument is untenable, society doesn’t run that way. We should never indulge any interest merely because it exists.
Punching people in the face is called "assault" and it is illegal. Accidentally stepping on people's feet is not a crime. Your analogy is thus crap.

Also, under Trump, the US is enforcing its laws and nothing more. It's the media that has filled your head with ideas about how awful this all is. There is nothing xenophobic about doing what literally every other country on the planet does, which is protect its own borders. Bombastic? Obama was never bombastic? We got saddled with the ACA because of that twit and his Chicago political machine corruption.
You mean back to cheese grater. The cheese grater name was applied to the previous generations before the trash can.
I don't think Facebook is able to get away with that, at least not as easily.

With Google my #1 concern is they'll shut it down. With Facebook I know it's going to sniff up all my data it can get its grubby hands on (which is also the #2 concern with Google if the product survives)

In any case on the subject I don't want anything but my own hardware processing anything thought related. That is not something the cloud should be involved in
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Let’s be honest: Mom is the number one source of stress because of Facebook.
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"Finding a motherboard to match the Mac Pro's specs wasn't entirely straightforward. So, for the purposes of our price comparison, I simply searched for "Xeon motherboard" on Amazon and picked the most expensive."

Uhhh
Where the current headline is "Defend America - Defeat Multiculturalism", if you wanted to know how unbiased the source is likely to be.
I guess that makes sense, because those people are the ones noticing the most negative effects due to overuse/oversharing.
Autonomous vehicles could easily reduce the number of cars if they turn into a service rather than a product. Think of how much wasted utilization occurs while each car sits idly in a parking lot. There would also be considerable waste elimination through the ability to optimize ride sharing
Actually, the Queen was historically rather more involved than this in the era of Hume, Macmillan and Eden; and previous monarchs before her even more so.

I agree that in the current era though, she would only send for an alternate PM if they had demonstrated confidence of the House of Commons, which is very unlikely.
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Plenty of people have ideas on how to solve this situation, from straight up admit it's unworkable and revoke to having another referendum on "deal vs revoke".
Kotlin is no Java killer.

The only KVM in town is Android.
Also, http://js1k.com
How do you like the D-Links? I've got two plus one of their video recorder appliances, and have found them to be completely reliable but the app is hot garbage. Any tips?
> If _you_ don't want ads don't consume the content, you're not entitled to it.

The vast majority of on-line marketing is outright hostile towards the people it targets; it's a constant battle for attention, PII, and bandwidth and it comes with side effects like actual malware spreading through ad networks. Until that changes, ads should be considered as threats, and they should be blocked at the door regardless of what the content creator thinks about it.
If my colleagues are anything to go by, almost everyone thinks this.
> There is help. There are medications and things can normalize.

They can, but the odds and process aren't the greatest. It's a pretty common experience that people spend years going through different treatment options before they find something that really works. For major depressive disorder, something like 15-20% of patients never find something that works consistently.
Happened in 1997. And the point is not the length of the prorogation (as the Supreme Court decision makes clear) but the justification.

In 1997, the justification was to stop a politically damaging report being published before an election.

Again, Johnson is not denying Parliament the opportunity to vote on the deal. Nothing will happen now that Parliament is sitting again. The negotiation will still happen at the European Council meeting at the end of the month, and Parliament will still get a vote on it.

It is important to really think through the logic here: if Johnson wanted to stop Parliament he would delayed until AFTER October 31. He didn't do this.
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The old SGI joke I liked was any system that required less than 4 people to carry was considered a desktop. The future must have very large desks for their users.
Hogwash. CCTVs mean nothing unless the police will kick down your door and drag you away for something you said or did.

The Bobbies in downtown London won't haul you off for having a sign that shows the Queen as a Whinny the Poo character.

China doesn't even have free migration within their own country and is actively running concentration camps against their own citizens (Uyghurs).
It is entirely unclear whether or not the UK will be leaving the EU. There is currently no support for any particular next steps, it is entirely possible that there is now majority support in the country for remaining a member state, and there are obvious avenues by which Brexit may be avoided.

You are welcome to support or object to this process in whatever way you see fit, but please do not spread objective disinformation.
It is technically true to say the the GFA does not prohibit border controls. However the GFA was negotiated with joint EU membership as part of the existing political background, so it was taken for granted.

In practice anything which stops people crossing the border without let or hindrance will be treated by the Republicans as an abrogation of the intent of the GFA.
The technology they produce itself is pretty decent, but in the hands of facebook this is one step away from being a dystopian nightmare.
> .... You cannot spend 40 years cutting public education to the bone

The US spends more on public education than any OECD country other than Norway.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

Americans are kind of morons; pretty sure it has nothing to do with the amount of money we spend on education.
I take a different view of whether the results of elections are "by definition what the voters voted for". FPTP tends to produce results at odds with popular support. It has produced majorities in Parliament for parties that received a mere plurality of the votes. It has produced at least one Parliament in which a party without even a plurality of votes received a parliamentary majority.

FPTP can even deny a parliamentary majority to a party with a majority of votes. This is essentially what happened in the last pre-Apartheid election in South Africa, at which most voters voted for the anti-Apartheid coalition.

I'd even go as far as to partly disagree with your judgement that FPTP isn't a secret. Clearly many do know that the House of Commons is elected by FPTP, but even most political correspondents seem unaware of its far-reaching consequences. Among ordinary voters, many are unaware of FPTP. I've met UK voters who don't accept the UK doesn't already have PR for general elections.

(I've also met teachers who tell me their politics students believe we have PR until taught otherwise. I think it's a natural assumption that it necessarily takes more votes to win an election than to lose.)
It is as odd with the self claimed moral high ground.

If you write a piece titled "remove Stallman and all the other toxic people" and you build weapons, I understand better why you build them and what you really meant by "remove".
Most of those Java shortcomings are in the process of being fixed, while still enjoying one of the best language eco-systems currently available, with libraries for almost any kind of problem domain.
Very few laws in the UK requiring a prime minister either. That said, there is one missing power which is critically important: the Queen acts by convention on the advice of her ministers, and by convention that is the advice of her prime minister. So although there's very little legal power to the office of PM in either Canada or the UK, by effectively controlling the use of the Crown's prerogative powers its a very powerful office indeed.

Of course, the convention could change, and the Queen take someone else's advice. But that would be a major constitutional change that would make today's relatively small development pale into insignificance.
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Let's be honest, what aren't they complicit in?
Stupid statement. Nature doesn't care about country borders. Per capita emissions from India are extremely low compared to countries like the US.

The same site says that the US has "critically insufficient" commitments towards climate change.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/

Maybe look at your own country before blaming others. You have more work to do towards climate change than the Indians.
Thanks a lot for both the examples & a book tip. It was really a mistake that we didn't think about this earlier & I'll definitely have this put in place the next time I'm involved in a startup or other type of arrangement that could result in the problem I have now
In a world that respects free speech, you would be more empowered to criticise authority, not less. You're basically saying that Stallman’s speech must have consequences otherwise the little guy might face consequences by criticising him. But the pro free speech crowd are advocating for a world where you and stallman criticise each other harshly, but both get to keep your jobs, it being a strong norm that whoever calls for the other to lose their job over speech automatically loses the argument.

I can't believe people are so short sighted about free speech. The people who are happy with control of speech will regret advocating for it as soon as it spreads outside of the domains where their allies presently have power.
> This prorogue was for an extra four days

That's not true. The prorogation was for 5 weeks. This does include the planned recess of 3 weeks, but it's not a forced recess. Given the importance of what's going on, it could be adjusted/cancelled.

You can't say "it's 4 extra days, because I expected you'd do the usual even though the situation is extraordinary". There was clear opposition to that before the prorogation was officially announced.
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In 2010 I was 24 yr old and built a myspace clone SaaS with music and video hosting with everything it implies: large uploads, background jobs, compiling an nginx patch to support range requests, ajax to have videos and music playing while browser, with Django on a 20 bucks/month server.
If you're not convinced I don't know what will.
> A president in Australia would be a significant departure from the current system

There are parliamentary systems with presidents as head of state with no significant power. E.g. Iceland. So it doesn't need to be much of a departure.

Iceland simply replaced their king (also the Danish king) by a president, made the president elected, and changed little else.

US style presidential government would certainly be a big departure.
Facebook will try to use it to make profit in favour of using it to benefit people, which is what automative technologies should be for. That is the nature of the beast, and in facebook's case making profit ends disastrously, as opposed to any other particular company.
David Brin’s (sci-fi) version sits in your mouth and detects minute muscle movements to determine which words you are thinking of saying.
> Maybe anonymity shouldn't be a thing […]?

I see that it’s time to link to this again:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...

In short: requiring “Real Names” is a really terrible idea.
Unless your political views include an opposition to royalty.
> Yes, and he has a majority in Parliament...that is why he is the PM.

He doesn't hold a majority.

> And the big plan that the opposition has is: to go to the EU, negotiate the same exact deal that has been voted down 4 times, and then whip their MPs to vote it down again.

No it isn't. The plan of the opposition is to get an extension, and hold a general election as a proxy for what should happen: Tory party for no deal fuck you up the arse brexit, Lib Dems for revoke it and put out the fire, Labour for a 2nd referendum with clear options that involves significantly less self-mutilation than an empty "leave" deal.
Yeah, I would have been in a much worse situation if we had the company structure you've mentioned :)
The issue of course is not about the Law, and not even with the actual right to be forgotten (right or wrong is another question), it is IMHO more about the fact that this (or that) search engine will have different results depending on from where you make the same search.

Now these differences may well be only for the searches related to someone who invoked his/her right to be forgotten, but the moment the results of a same search from different places can be different, it opens all possible avenues to remove (or add) other kind of information selectively.
Do you mind posting your rc files for this config?
The time wasting aspect was never really the issue with social media. It's the way it warps peoples' view of reality without their understanding of that fact. Humans are really really good at being social. We have these skills from millions of years of evolution and existence in social groups. We're really good at filtering out bad actors and building strong communities. But when those communities are algorithmically mediated, chopped up, and repackaged for each individual, it atomizes people and has the effect of replacing actual human interaction with an artificially created situation whose purpose is to profit a single entity. It short circuits all of those safeguards we have to protect our selves and our minds. I refuse now to take part in any form of online social discourse that isn't completely unfiltered, because I understand the dangers. But most people don't, or don't care, and I fear that these behemoth walled garden "curated" experiences will turn out to be the most harmful thing ever done to human civilization.
Yep, that is a common misunderstanding. The solution is not the deal, the solution is the strategy.

The reason we are in this situation is because the UK essentially agreed to everything the EU wanted, and MPs voted it down. That is democracy.

Johnson's approach is to say: we need to leave. The EU has red lines, that is fine, we will try to come to whatever agreement is possible but if no agreement is found then we will just get on with it.

Your argument is that Brexit cannot happen because it is impossible. That is fine. But the UK voted for Brexit, Parliament voted for Brexit, and Brexit parties won a general election (and there is no Remain majority). So the solution is equally not to ignore voters.
The pejorative 'Macaulay's Children' should have given ample idea to where his comment was heading, and it did not disappoint.
How is having water problems related to having nuclear weapons? Please explain.
The settlement potentially includes up to 194 million people, so if even just small part of people asks for money, they'll get just dollars. Situation with Equifax repeats itself.
China could probably pull that off if they wanted to. The same way they made international companies rename Taiwan, including Air Canada, they could force search engines to erase Tiananmen Massacre references if they want to continue doing business in China. However, last I heard Google is blocked in China, so the company is one of very few to resist Chinese pressure. Is that still true?
It's worse; facebook no longer have to play guessing games with what we text one another, and can instead have a direct interface to our actions and possibly thoughts.
You have failed to read the judgement handed down. These issues are explicitly dealt with and you are not correct. Please don’t spread misinformation.
Because there's no close sound to щ /ɕː/ in many European languages.

Some languages approximate it with /ʂ/ (think "sh" in English). For example, Romanian: borş.

Most languages approximate it with a combination of /ʃ/ ("sh"), /t/, and /tʃ/ ("ch"):

- "sh" and "ch",

- "sh" and "t", or

- all three, "sh", "t" and "ch".

Or an approximation thereof.

In Swedish: Approximation for /ʃ/ is "sj" /ɧ/. Approximation for /tʃ/ is "tj" /ɕ/ which yields "borsjtj". Though they could've gone for just "bortj" :)

Dutch is "Borsjtsj": Approximation for /ʃtʃ/ (sh t ch) with sj /ʃ/ and t

German is "Borschtsch": Approximation for /ʃtʃ/ (sh t ch) with sch /ʃ/ and t

etc. etc.
There's no reason why one has to give a president any more power than the monarch they're replacing.
> He has been fired. I don't much care for people like him but he is not part of the problem with Vice.

He left on his own, at the top of his career, while he was still admired as "the godfather of hipsterism"

He turned from hipster god to far right extremist

And that's more or less what happens to everyone thinking to be "edgy" and "modern" and "free" when they start to understand they have power over people's life.

They become shitty persons.

Stallman never became one, because he was always unpopular, boring, pedantic, never cared for power or money or being socially acceptable and that's why he's been a good person after all.

> Can I get a link or reference for this? It is a big fact...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/selam-gano-089895ba/
> Couple more of these and they will be in Buzzfeed level of trustworthiness.

This is unnecessarily harsh. The New York Times is a massive company with hundreds of journalists and editors.

If every once in a while a journalistic organization makes a mistake, I think it's reasonable to point it out, have them publicly correct the record, and then let it go.

Harping on every honest (if sloppy) mistake as if it is evidence that an organization is totally incompetent or dishonest is something autocrats do to de-legitimize journalism itself. So long as 99% of the time, they don't make mistakes, and so long as they promptly acknowledge and correct the mistakes when they are called out, I think journalism done in good faith (like the work done at The Times) deserves our benefit of the doubt in an era when it is under unprecedented attack by leaders worldwide.
Maybe it's a price anchoring tactic to make the subscription plan ("The Great Courses Plus" - which includes this) look like good value.
Seems r/The_Donald is now also infesting HN, sad times.
I'd be ok with that. The problem would be the emergence of unscrupulous DoH providers.

Presumably the fear is that having DoH built into the browser lowers the bar to entry for people who want to use it as part of engaging in criminality.
Sorry, can't read the article, paywall. Mind giving a quick rundown?

This is just based on what you said, and you might clarify afterwards. But I find it weird that palm oil planting was US led. They're only 6th in import: http://www.worldstopexports.com/palm-oil-imports-by-country/

I would imagine china or india being bigger driving forces in clear cutting forests for palm oil planting.
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>My life as a conservative is much better without social networks where they censor me non-stop

I would have thought that it's the best time ever to be a conservative.

Seems to me that we are awash in conservative views, and that conservatives have had much more success in framing the debate than 'liberals' have.

As evidence I'd cite the fact that we are debating each and every issue that keep social conservatives up at night.
I don't really see any value in that. We can all agree that the sun rises in the East as well, but so what?

That said, while providing little benefit, the monarchy also causes little harm and there are more important things to be done than toppling figureheads.
I have mostly given up on Radio when I am driving my car ( Thanks Bluetooth and Amazon music). It has gotten worse over the past few years. I live in Delhi, India, and we have our fair share of Radio channels here.

Over the last ten years, I have noticed a pretty interesting ( disturbing ? ) trend in the Ads that are streamed across all the Radio channels. Back when the whole Radio scene was just starting up, the ads were few, the RJs used to talk a lot more ( and made sense ) and songs were played in entirety.

Slowly they have changed to a point where RJs are just meant to be show pieces who are there to say not more than four-five lines of jokes/sarcasms during a two hour period.

The Songs are not played in their entirety. They are stripped at both ends.

The Ads have gotten louder, more offensive, aggressive etc.

And now some Radio Channels tend have small sound bites that are played repeatedly all day, that justify the streaming of Ads. This I really don't understand.

Edit: Typos
The Russian military is a shadow of what the Soviets brought to the table. Their main aircraft carrier has a habit of catching on fire. However their ability to spew propaganda, and to bribe businessmen with penchants for East European women, is unsurpassed.

The real counter to the US military is China, both in a direct military sense, as well as economically/softpower-y.
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Using your downtime in a way that you don't regret is non-trivial. I totally get what you say about something else filling up the boredom void.