skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's because no cell phone means no mean to track you remotely, which can otherwise be done, even if your phone is turned off.

It is definitely taken as suspicious.

Source: an alter-globalist activist acquaintance who demonstrates (peacefully) every other day.
Person works 60 hours a week, and is thus clearly still freeloading on their parents? Are you attempting to be comical?
I'm also getting it. Could only get to the google cached version.
Are these processors or processing elements (PEs)?
did you catch the part where i said i work? happens every week, in fact.
This is not a meme, if can't back up EVERYTHING you claim, please, keep for yourself. Evidence is mandatory always, in any situation, no exception.
Ars did a post-mortem of sorts that explained just that, that Righthaven did not posses any actual interest in the copyrights themselves, and had no standing to sue.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-r...
Are you really telling me that you need $3K per month to survive?

Maybe we need to take him more literally. Maybe what he means is he owes the mob a lot of money, and if he doesn't pay them $2.5k/month they will kill him?
Probably not, considering Torkild got a cellphone under an US federal benefit program.
Why would they debate? It's very easy to test for [sentience or fake sentience programmed by a sentient]. Unless the aliens think we're robots they can do a mirror test or something.

But such a test does not work in a possibly-tainted environment. A neural net that seems to communicate might just have a hidden encoding of ELIZA.

You can err on the side of assuming sentience if you want, but don't think it's out of self-preservation-empathy-logic.
That might be the case for the US but in the UK and most other developed countries that isn't a factor and we still work a lot.

I think the main factor is that we both do more (waste time and push paper/design etc) than in the past thanks to computers. Also, many jobs are simply a function of population size, more people = more emails to send, calls to take etc.
I'll see your opinion and raise you an anecdote.

At our business we use Confluence. The earlier versions had a proprietary wiki syntax that us technical types found easy to use but the rest of the company did not.

Confluence added a visual editor and since then the quality of the non-technical documentation in Confluence has improved, because the ability to edit it is more accessible to the people that know the most about it.
I migrated a total of 6 websites (all are now 100% static) + some personal services that I use, like an IRC bouncer.
I am aware the twentieth century happened.

However, I have yet to see anyone seriously suggest that the Civil Rights Act was introduced because the police were terrified that black people defying segregation laws might shoot them, or the Supreme Court ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional because it had proved unenforceable. For that matter, those Southern whites who thought their rights were being violated by "forced busing" proved equally reluctant to resort to armed confrontation. It wasn't a hot war, or even a cold war, it was a culture war.

The right to bear arms was orthogonal to the civil rights movement: it didn't prevent the original introduction of the tyranny off "Jim Crow" laws which were effectively enforced for decades, didn't influence the legislative and judicial rulings against them in the mid 20th century and couldn't even protect the movement's key figures.
In-editor terminal? ^Z or :shell (Asking for an in-editor terminal makes about as much sense as my whinging that Eclipse doesn't have an in-terminal editor)

In-editor debugger? I admit this is less than ideal.

A REPL? Languages suited to REPLs have REPLs, and a lot of them support SLIME, allowing me to interact with the REPL from vim. For everything else there's tmux.

Build system? :make and errorformat

SCM integration? ^Z. Or fugitive I guess. (a third party plugin, yes. But if you think it's ho-hum, you probably haven't used it).
I guess that's a no, then.
That may ring true in the States, but in countries with universal health care? (Not having lived abroad, I wouldn't know)

Something more fundamental about our present economics may be at the heart of it here.... I'm no economist, but with expanding technology (Capital), diminishing demand for Labor could make for a mass prisoner's dilemma of sorts. Employees everywhere have such little negotiating room due to increasing job scarcity that they have to compete on hours worked and can't "cooperate" by working less. This seems to even hold true at the national level -- France has managed to keep most players "cooperating" (working fewer hours) but the country's economy has suffered in the global competitive landscape.

Another way to look at it could be more polarizing. The best of the new white collar class (engineers, entrepreneurs, executives, etc) has each unit of labor multiplied so significantly by the internet that there is tremendous incentive to work a lot. On the flip side, the blue collar of today -- those mentioned as call center workers, filing clerks, etc -- are just warm-blooded, more versatile machines, doing noncreative work of too little value to be worthwhile without long hours.
I would say that we no long have certainties about our future life, not just in healthcare.
We used to know where we were going to be when we became older. Because the chances were you would be dead by 50, or because your social status, or nobility, would guarantee your lifestyle when you were old, or because you had 10 children and better odds one of them would take care of you.

Now, with the benefits, like social flexibility, life expectance, and, sure, better medicine (that comes with a cost), we all live longer, entering decades we have no idea what is going to be of us. So, uncertainty, make we work harder.

Ps: as a non-native english speaker, it was very hard to deal with all those different verb tenses. I hope people can understand it...
And yet, the vast majority of US citizens still agrees. I mean, they have the right to bear arms so that when they strongly disagree with their government, they can form an army and overthrow it (or something, whatever that amendment is for). If not that, at the very least they can strongly protest against the decisions and policy made, vote for a third party and break the two-party system, or vote / demand the voting and government system to be upturned to stop having to choose for the lesser or two evils in the form of a single man who will get most of the blame and responsibility for poor governmental decisions.
I'm no expert, but I've found it's best to use kwargs near the middle of a class hierarchy. This makes it much simpler to build the internal API - the classes near the top of the hierarchy have specific kwargs, but their subclasses don't need to explicitly enumerate them. One can then write user-facing subclasses at the bottom of the hierarchy that have explicit arguments and keywords arguments.
It's not my extrapolation, it's from the TFA, yes they assumed lineaar scaling.
Sad that there's not even a short clip of what the performance sounded like.
>We have the machines to make that a reality today – but none of the will.

Correction: "we" don't have the machines. Society on the whole does not collectively own the means of production, and the workers who utilize the machines are not compensated for the entirety of the value they produce. Productivity has steadily risen thanks to mechanization, and real wages did at one point tend to track more or less equally with that rise, even if the wages did not entail the entirety of the value produced. That is until the late 70s. I think the more important question is: given how well we've been doing for the past ~35 years, why is our compensation still stuck in the 70s?
Funny that you mention the earn-little-spend-little 25 year old lifestyle... I'm currently living that lol (though contract work here and there has given me a decent amount of money).

I find myself fighting between that happy/relaxing fantasy world, and the other side which is a goal/dream to go big with a project. Though I guess there is a 3rd side which is work your ass for a company making a good salary to support yourself later, should you be injured or retired.

Anyway, I've always believed in work smart over working hard, but I think the 'work hard' mentality will take a while to shake off... but eventually robots/machines WILL do most everything and we just won't need to be employed (or everyone will have to know engineering?).
HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
I never left slashdot. I just stopped going there. HN was a big part of that. I wanted my tech news to be thought provoking, funny and innocent. I had plenty of sources for "real world" news and I wanted tech to be an island away from that.

Slashdot became more about the legal issues surrounding technology than about technology. It had a militant, fanatical vibe that soured the taste of its brilliant gems.

HN is starting to feel like a place where activists hang out. The topics are certainly important and worth discussing - but the tone takes away from the lightness and fun of technology. It's like eating cheese and drinking orange juice at the same time. The two are good on their own, but they don't go well together.
The tools that allow me to be more efficient are not only available to me, but to everybody including my competitors. This results in an efficiency jump of the whole industry.

Workers don't benefit that much, because my competitors suddenly have a lot of free time to sell, which drives down prices. Me and my competitors end up working more, until our previous work/life balance and wage level is restored.

End result: Workers are more efficient, but work the same amount, and earn the same amount. Buyers benefit because they get more for less money.
little sisters?
Fastmail.fm (Owned by Opera) is excellent.
I don't know for memory usage (although I'd bet containers uses less) but a VM take time to boot, with docker it's literally up in a second.
It correctly reflects events as detailed by the post. The post clearly assumes that "the FBI" originated the exploit code and has been using it to harvest visitor IP addresses. I believe "infiltrated" is a fine summarization for that.

I suppose it's possible that the founder had a change of heart two days prior to his arrest and started collecting everyone's IP and sending it to the FBI based on nothing but a sense of personal moral obligation, but it doesn't seem too likely, and it's irrelevant either way because again, the proposed title is an accurate description of the posted article, even if the posted article is an inaccurate depiction of Real Life(tm).
I find it interesting to see all of the comments on HN about the dislike of args and kwargs, especially given their necessity for higher order programming.

If you are making functions that modify other functions (like decorators), these are highly useful. In Python you can't guarantee that all functions you will want to modify are going to have the same type signature, so you need to be able to gracefully handle all possible combinations and pass them on to your function body. Sometimes you'll just pass args and kwargs on to a wrapped function...other times you'll do things like pick out a single argument from kwargs and use it to do something useful. But make no mistake, in Python these come in handy to have!
My favorites by Phillip Glass are his Violin Concerto[1], the soundtrack to Koyannisqatsi[2] and The Hours[3]. Minimalist Classical is sort of a precursor to modern day electronic music and I fell in love with the genre instantly after having a great professor at my University introduce me to it while taking an elective in Music Theory.

Another great Minimalist Composer is Max Richter[4][5]. Richter did a revision of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in a minimalist style that's quite good[6].

Minimalistic Classical is also one of the few genres I can write code while listening to and not have it distract me as well. Like the OP, I definitely recommend checking it out if one is looking for new genres of music or simply learning more about Minimalistic Music. The genre and Phillip Glass himself are highly underrated.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsioM3GaAAY

[1a] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZPWiUXYPg

[1b] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoClZ7JosM

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqn-w_4DgA

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTaACZxoc4&list=PLkUUnZ2-hGV...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0CVMpaQoVY

[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bb0k9HgQxc

[6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9Xqr6ZFOs&list=PL6wSqc1bLqP...
you're from latvia? i suspect it seems worse to you at the moment because of the extradition case. and in many ways the uk is as bad (or worse, at least the americans are in trouble for spying on americans) (and they're vaguely european).

but yes.
I don't really understand what you mean about population size. If the need for a job scales at O(P) and you have O(P) workers, population cancels out. Not many jobs grow per-capita when population rises.
What the NYT article omits is that a triangular grid [1] encoded by the grid cells is used to track movement, according to Wikipedia's entry for Grid cell. [2]

Further questions: How many grid cells are there? What is the largest area that can be fully represented? How are grid cells reused as the subject travels?

[1] https://twitter.com/th222/status/364156774309314560

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell
The Kinect Sign Language Translator
One amusing thing about corporations is that they tend to keep hiring people as long as there is at least some marginal benefit (profits minus costs for that employee higher than zero) to it. Most companies I can think of could probably operate quite well at half their current head count, or with 20 or 30 hour work weeks for their existing work force. It would work. They would still make money. It just wouldn't be financially optimal.
Yes we are very far away from the human brain on many levels. However, I don't like this kind of article because it doesn't make sense on the software level.

Mathematically, we could figure out how much computing power we would need to match the human brain (24 bytes per synapse * number of synapse, etc).

I think I would be more interested in what was the specific of their experiment.

- What kind of software were they running?

- Was the software bug-free(yeah right)?

- Was the software optimized?

- Caching?
But trying to achieve more for what purpose, ultimately?
What would you get from simulating both hydrogen atoms and the oxygen atom that you wouldn't get from simulating plain old water? The vast majority of a cell is just water, seems like you could cut your complexity in half with that abstraction.

I'm no molecular biologist, so i'll happily agree if you say there are some fraction of water molecules broken down, or formed by various cellular processes, but that must be a tiny fraction of the total, and could just be special cased.

It just seems like you're willfully ignoring everything physics has to say about how the universe works so you can get a big number for your calculation.
This looks promising - http://www.mailpile.is/
Totally agree. HN is kinda like Digg in the early days, but the signal to noise ratio is on the up and the 'New' section is almost shambolic.
When a machine replaces the work of a man, the value that work generates goes to the owner of the machine instead. I don't see why this would lead to less work for anyone, as the man the machine replaced still has to work to make money - until you have a universal income, or a high minimum wage, increasing automation does nothing to create less toil for the average worker.

In fact, you could argue that it's the opposite - by devaluing/automating the work that man did, you make it harder for him to make money, as whatever expertise he might have had is now worth less, leaving him to continue doing the same work for less money (as long as that might be possible) or moving to a new field and likely starting from the bottom.
Try:

http://www.plogue.com.nyud.net/philipglassensemble/
It's a problem I have in Angular since I've started using it. You put your data/model in a service, but you need some GUI elements to display the various states of these data, so you put html in the view, some helpers in the controller, maybe you create some custom filters too. At that point you start to think a directive would be better.

Maybe the solution is to make separate modules ?

I'm not good enough in Angular or Javascript to have figured out the best solution yet.
I didn't realize they hadn't selected final parameters yet. I guess I blindly assumed they wouldn't be so reckless as to run the clock down this far. Another reason not to trust NIST's judgement.

Nonetheless, you're still panicking over nothing. 3.4.0 won't be released until next year.
"Yay getting a parking space in Berkeley!"

I had to look up that one :) . It's only for Nobel laureates who work in Berkeley.

Apparently the University of Chicago offers its Nobel Prize winners in economics free lunch at the Business School cafeteria.

http://www.metafilter.com/108251/The-golden-parking-pass
I've thought for some time now that corporate inflexibility was part of the cause. More of us work for large, bureaucratic companies than in the past. These sorts of companies often won't employ someone on a flexible or part-time schedule because it would be too complicated to manage. It's actually easier and cheaper to let you site at your desk and waste time for 10-20 hours a week than it would be to figure out and manage an alternative. Do you think this rings true in the UK? It certainly does (in my experience and observation) in the US, though I think in the US healthcare is at least as important a factor.
True, an engineer could make twice as much, but discussing compensation rather than strategy might be missing the forest for the trees.

Why do the Mailpiles believe privacy is the best angle to help people the most in taking email back? If you were to work on only one thing to fix email, would privacy be the most important thing to work on?

The counterargument here isn't examples of specific cloud services like Dropbox that people can trust. It's an argument for general global security. Organizations like the United Nations Security Council and NATO generally provide a much stronger joint defense against evil than individual pieces of armor offered to citizens.
Children spend ~ 35 hours a week, essentially preparing to be efficient workers. That is, if you ask them, usually what they will tell you they are at school to do. They will phrase it 'score high in exams, in order to get a good job'.
The fact is that they have to be there. They have to do as they are told. If they do not, the punishment lasts a lifetime.

There are other schooling systems, such as Stiener schools, which focus more on personal development. They form children who want to explore, then allow them to self direct what they explore. (That particular system also has many, many faults).

This is rather like 'work'. Your grandfather had to be in a factory many hours a day. You have to be in an office. Society says so. If you are the sort of person who is bad at knowledge work, you may well wish society told you to do something more physical. But the point is that you lack freedom.

The demographic of this message board is people working on, or thinking about, startups. Essentially, when you do a startup, you choose what you are spending your time doing. You trade in your job security for freedom.

I have known people 'drop out' of society, go on the dole, and work 14 hour days developing computer games that later sold for good money. Less admirably, I've known them to go on the dole, and spend all day playing computer games. They trade their place in society for freedom. This shows that in truth, modern society does give us the freedom. (in my country).

So why do people work? Or more pressingly, why do people work in jobs that do not meet their psychological needs for respect, autonomy, and purpose, and pay badly? Because they do, regardless of what you read in the papers, keep working at those jobs. My local supermarket is full of people who derive little identity from their work - I was one of them as a child and I know how the adult staff there think.

The answer, I think, is fear of what other people would think of them for scrounging. People like the post I am replying to. I think most people think like him.

He should, rationally, hate startup founders consuming someone elses money to mess about on a project that probably won't make a dime. And that contradiction is the problem. Societies attitude to work is not rational, and it forces people to keep doing jobs they don't want to that could be automated, instead of being free. Eventually, economics will destroy those jobs. A new role will be created that didn't exist before, adding even less value than the last (but the labour is there so why not use it). Those workers desperately take the work to avoid seeing themselves as scroungers, as the enemy. And their children will grow up desperate not to be free.
If each processor draws down 50 Watts, 20 billion of them would draw 1 TW. The US uses on average ~3 TW across every power source (including e.g. combustion engines).
Why AngelList Will Become the Android of Venture Capital
Obviously we disagree, I think the RKBA allowed a lot of blacks to continue pushing by allowing them to continue living, or living longer, or limiting the degree to which they could be easily intimidated.

One thing you're not factoring in when you compare this period to the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras is economics and technology. Everyone including blacks were much more able to afford small arms and ammo by the civil rights era, and guns were a lot more maintainable after we switched to non-corrosive primers and smokeless powder. And of course technological advances helped the economics by driving down the intrinsic costs of guns and ammo.
Factory Pattern In Python
It seems I need to spell it out too:
The Godwin's law is not about Hitler in particular. It's about making a (non-)argument based on some superficial and irrelevant observations. Thus, as you aptly noticed, it's inherently recursive as it's dismissing arguments based on no less superficial and irrelevant observations i.e. mentioning Hitler or Nazis.
Brooks & Marcus on PBS: Getting Just About Everything Wrong on the Economy
If you find the idea we should work less interesing, or in the contrary, revolting, you should read "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell:

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

It's a piece written in 1932, but that finds a surprising echo in these modern times.
Price of automation > Price of Chinese/Indian Labor Wages ... I think the reason we don't have things automated is because of how little companies like Walmart can get away with paying its employees.

A lot of people will look at automation as taking away jobs and thus a sort of 'immoral' pursuit. But I am not sure the average person these days has that much of a 'job' to begin with. :/ (And I mean in both terms of pay AND responsibility)

Is the morality of how humans should be treated (home, food, healthcare, etc.) distinct from how job-dense an economy is?
Does every program which accepts filenames also accept file descriptors? I can definitely see the use of having a name to pass around.