skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet I could write a program to automate away the job of a start-up CEO. Think of the vast amount of money we'd save!

And the start up CEOs of the world, freed from the burden of making any money, could pursue their personal hobbies of... what is it exactly that they contribute to the world other than smugness anyway? I'm a bit unclear on that.
>Being a single mom in Western nations is mostly a business model anyway

Can you expound on this?
Like that one time when a guy sitting upstairs in a bar was bored and threw a mug downstairs and hit some poor girl on the head. Lot's of things happened.

I'd rather have him checked his smartphone.
No, dumbass. Most women are exactly as slutty as most heterosexual men. Source: basic mathematics.
Reminds me of my favorite demotivational poster:

http://www.despair.com/meetings.html

(Also: http://www.despair.com/idiocy.html)
Some involuntary exchanges (taxes, fees, fines, etc.) are structured specifically to address economic externalities. Note that I'm not saying "all", but "some".

There are ways of modifying transactions to increase the total social gain. And you'll note that Adam Smith's title was On the Wealth of Nations. Not, say, On the Ever Increasing Wealth of High Net Worth Individuals. His awareness of social issues and concerns in economic activity was much higher than many modern writers who claim to follow him give credit for (though those who've actually read him know better).

Are "slavery, coercion, blackmail, forced options" economic activity?

How would you construe slave trade, coerced financial transactions, and strong-handed bargaining if not "economic activity"?

That's not a voluntary exchange, now is it?

anoncowherd had stated "voluntary exchanges are the basis of all economic activity ever." (Emphasis in original).

So, you're either tautologically defining "economic activity" as only being purely voluntary transactions, which begs the question of what all this non-economic commerce that's going on should be called, or anoncowherd's statemens was, as I said, flatly false.

If you're going to base your defense of free-market capitalism on the presumption of purely voluntary exchanges, you've got some 'splainin' to do.

Suggest you read John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man while you're at it.
"I know I will be downvoted for this..." is a good example of a groupthink environment :)
The present is better (for humans) than the past. But that doesn't mean that everything is better.

When I go to Safeway, and have to go through a self-checkout, I do feel less connected to the people around me. When I order delivery, it's online through GrubHub, not over the phone. It's fairly obvious that automation is decreasing the amount that we have to interact with one another, and some people dislike that.

This is a specific problem that's because caused by automation, even though automation solves many other problems. It's a problem that should be thought about and fixed. And your attitude of "things are generally better now, so don't complain" is utterly counter-productive.
It may not be accurate to say "decode unit" anymore but who wouldn't welcome anything removing the large amounts of cruft from the ISA? Nobody uses most of the damn opcode space except where required for mode trickery or legacy code.
Sometimes it's difficult being comfortable with that when you're aware of your limited time on this planet. Of course, using up that time staring at a screen is hardly a quality alternative!
Propaganda for who?
BART was originally designed to run without train drivers. That was rethought after the automation system launched the "Fremont Flyer" into a parking lot.

You really need drivers for safety reasons.
It's clear that you have a very limited view of humanity. Go out and meet some people, and learn their motivations and what drives them.
Fix it? Sure, the US Founding Fathers
had all been there, done that, gotten
the T-shirt, and showed us how:

(1) Have freedom of the press so that
the press can put out the information
needed for an informed citizenry.

(2) Have freedom of speech and assembly
so that the citizens can learn, discuss,
and decide.

(3) Have the Bill of Rights so that
the government can't just run roughshod
over the citizens.

(4) Have three branches of government
so that there can be checks and
balances and keep, say, the Executive
Branch from becoming dictatorial,
self-serving, self-perpetuating,
and tyrannical.

(5) Have the President and the Congress
elected by the citizens, directly or
nearly so and, thus, have them elected
out'a there when the citizens don't
like them.

Then, presto, to solve the problems, citizens
just need to become informed and, then,
behind some curtains pull some levers.
Done. All the powerful, wealthy, connected,
crooked dirt bags in government float
belly down down the Potomac River.

Net, we just need to become informed and
pull the levers.

And, there's another way: Bring law
suits, e.g., citing the Fourth Amendment.

So,

Q. Go to war in Syria?

A. Not without money voted by Congress.

Q. Implement ObamaCare?

A. Not if the citizens and/or courts
don't like it.

Q. NSA spying on US citizens?

A. Not if citizens vote to stop that
stuff and/or court cases get brought
and are successful.

Q. The spying on US citizens as in the
OP?

A. Not if citizens don't like it
and/or there are suitable court cases.

Q. US Customs taking mobile electronic
devices of US citizens and extracting
and keeping all the data?

A. Not if, right, the usual, citizens
and courts stop it.

Etc.
The author missed one of the main reasons the west is involved in Syria: Energy. Syria sits right in between the oilfields in the Middle East and the oil consumers in Europe, so when a pipeline is built connecting the two, Syria has a vote for or against its completion. Since oil pipelines are both necessary and quite profitable, this can lead to very large disputes. Al Jazeera covered this last year here [1] where it was suggested that the West would be inclined to usurp Assad for someone more favorable to the West's long term energy interests. It seems their prediction was correct as the US (along with Britain and Turkey) is escalating relations with Syria, using chemical attacks and civil rights violations as justification.

The Guardian also has a great summary of the issue here. [2]

[1] http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/20128513344...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/au...
Te imaginas poder ver la radiación Wi-Fi
There's twice as many mothers in human history as fathers. Source: DNA studies.
Funny thing about memory. You walk around you look at things. You experience them. And two or three months later it's nearly all gone. Two years later you remember only things you took picture of plus maybe one or two things that was strong experience (like spilling coffee over some guy).

People record to actually have any persistent memories of the event. Worn cameras will make this easy on you. People don't hold cameras to hold cameras. They do it just because so far it's the only way.
Actually, your use case was the #1 reason for my problematic proclivity toward Facebook. I too have friends from all around the world (people I worked with on open source projects, people from programs and schools I used to attend, etc). It was because of these connections that I felt attached to Facebook -- I couldn't exactly bump into someone living, as you suggested, vastly out of my proximal social circle.

How have I delt with this? Well, I'm not completely sure. For some who I am particularly close to, I text or IM them on occasion. To keep in contact with a few people, I actually created a new Facebook account with only those people as friends, and then only used the account as an IM client via Facebook messenger.

Honestly, the latter idea makes me wonder: maybe the reason my Facebook experience was so problematic and low S/N was because I (due to typical social pressue) was friends with way more friends than I genuinely want to stay in active touch with?

I don't know. You make a good point, and clearly I don't have a good answer; I've addressed those needs on a case-by-case basis.

If I can dream for a bit, I think my ideal technology solution to this would either be teleportation or immersive 3D video conferencing. It'd be pretty damn cool to "grab lunch" and catch up with someone on the ohter side of the world.
I have to say that, having done Webforms over the summer, it's pretty bad but not that bad. Webforms does have some (a few) strengths. There are a lot of simple apps where the "just freaking synchronize it" model works well. You could probably got most of the benefit/ease[0] with some stuff on top of, say, Django.

[0] Notice I didn't say "simplicity". ;)
The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the
more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership
and planning coterie. This must result in minimization
of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an
increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent
system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased
ability to hold onto power as the environment demands
adaption.

Julian Assange is seeming more and more prescient every other day.
My bad for using sensational terminology, but the heart of the matter remains.

The privatization and collusion between government and private entities at the expense of We the People has brought the USA to a point where it's obviously become the land of the corporation and the home of the wage-slave.

Lobbyists with vast funding avail their corporate sponsors of representation which is denied to those who lack such deep-pockets.

Only those with similar vast funding are able to attain high level elected positions within our government, from whence they enact legislation which furthers the divide between the plebiscite and the proletariat, which falls right into line with Marxist "liberal-democratic" ideology, where the government becomes the tool of the Bourgeoisie at the expense of the Proles and the Plebes.

This socioeconomic stratification is quite visible in today's USA, and programs such as "Hemisphere" exemplify this situation.

I too find the exclusion of electronic communications from 4th Amendment protections to be an egregious failure of our Constitutional checks and balances, yet due to my own limited understanding of the situation I have always considered our electronic communications to be analogous to the "... papers and effects..." outlined in the 4th Amendment, but my motivations are different from those who have been appointed to interpret our legal structures.

The very notion of "Too big to fail/jail" is yet another example of holding those with vast resources to a different standard when compared to the average Joe Public who worries about how he's going to continue to feed his family as well as keep an acceptable roof over their head.

Where it leaves us is at an increasingly disadvantageous position, unless we are of the Bourgeoisie and able to purchase our way through the system on par with big banks who launder cartel drug profits with impunity; where political appointees can perjure themselves before Congress with impunity; and where every day words are redefined by our public servants as they maneuver their way through the system with similar impunity as relates to their questionable acts.
If anything, it would seem un-fair to pay a US-based programmer the same salary as to someone working from India. Just look at it from the US guy perspective.
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Don't discount the state of constant warfare most aboriginal societies live in. If you have a neighbor, he wants your mongongo nuts.
…actually works outside of theory. We're not talking cryptosystems here, we're talking about intelligence and counterintelligence.

You don't call a spy's disguise security through obscurity.

Note that I'm not condoning mass government surveilance, only objecting to its criticism on the grounds of "security through obsecurity".
OT: Anyone used QUIC protocol in production for non-Chrome purposes?
A critical piece of the background is missing in my opinion - a lot of what is going on right now in ME, Central Asia and North Africa (I think that the events in all countries in that regions are one global trans national crisis) was set in motion by the Great Game, the colonial era, the messy unwinding of the Ottoman Empire and the less than stellar ending of the colonial regimes.

It has been brewing for a long time.
could not agree more. thanks for the long post - I actually came back to see whether this particular post got any responses - shared a copy with my friends.
Or maybe they wanted some anonymity.
I rather read this to be a worrying signal that sysadmins are now expendable, and the NSA is happy to have an excuse to shed them.
I disagree. I went through the whole series and then, when I sat down to write an angular app, found that I had no idea what I was doing.
Machines are predictable and trustworthy; humans are shifty, fickle, and expect things like 'rights' and 'livable wages'.

First they came for the computer janitors, and I did not speak for I was not a computer janitor.
An aside: the animated expansion of the code blocks make the site feel twitchy
Generally, you'd leave the table to do that.
Their "problem" is easily solvable by pairing sysadmins up. Make sure every command or windows click is seen an authorized by another, maybe even an anonymous sysadmin at a different location. If one sysadmin "steals" secrets, the other sysadmin would be implicated, so they have a lot of reason to pay attention. Costs will increase, of course.
This is either a good thing, that the NSA will not be able to attract the type of talent to continue doing these types of activities forever.

Or it is a bad thing, that incompetent people will still be doing these activities - thereby making it more likely that their systems will be more easily compromised and the data end up in the wrong hands easier.
Restaurants maybe, but I think more than any other food service job, bars see people who just want to talk to somebody. The bars know it too- you can tell, when they learn your name after just two or three visits.
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Don't forget that without any groupthink at all, there wouldn't be any startups.
Costs will either increase, or collusion or both.

Imagine they double their headcount - just to get more leaks, because they have more people looking at the data.
Hi,
I normally handle my code snippets in a private git repository and my personal notes as well. Company related stuff goes straight into the business wiki or other company tools.
I know git isn't for everyone but it works for me.
More like "a westerners introduction to the Syria conflict, as narrated by our media". I do not claim to know what is true and what isn't, but I do know that I can't even read or understand the language of the majority in Syria. I have no insight into sunnis and shiites. In 2010, Syria ranked place 121 in internet penetration.

Frankly, I would not trust most any of the journalism on this topic. It's not malice or propaganda, it's just very likely to be very poorly researched.
It is slightly boggling to imagine what the new sysadmin hiring criteria might be after these statements.
Sure, if you were building it from scratch today, but Vertical was founded in 2005 - the article talks about data going back to 1987. Cynical-me suspects the NSA has been "requiring" them to retain all that data since before it became easy/practical to expire it properly.
Even real-world cryptography can benefit from security through obscurity. It's all a time game- how fast can my attackers attack my security, how much time do I need to buy. If security through obscurity buys you time, why not?
Why knowing English is important for every software developer
There is a very big difference between having no formal education and having a background in something. Especially in computer science where so many people are self taught.
I recently read an article about prisoners who had cell phones from which they posted to their Facebook pages, replete with images of their drugs and snack stashes, even facilitating communications between inmates in different prisons.

It was only after investigative journalists brought the situation to the attention of regulatory agencies that the prisons clamped down on the security breaches within the prisons.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/tennessee-inmates-post...
Capitalism has historically functioned as an economic system only.

I'd suggest you revisit your history, specifically David Ricardo's Political Economy, a theory for which he purchased a seat in England's Parliament in order to spread its precepts (Arnold Toynbee describes this in his Lectures on the Industrial Revolution). Later championed by the banker who purchased his personal papers, as well as The Economist Newspaper, whose founding prospectus declared that "free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day."

http://www.economist.com/node/1873493
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Sex sells. If its good enough to flog cars and energy drinks, why not at least use it for something worthy?

Stupid question: If a pornographic imagery some how increased the likely hood of help or even peace to Syria, should people use it such a tactic? Would "we" think less of them for doing so?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/
The NSA like the military relies on people to not question authority and blindly follow orders.

Unfortunately for them, as society becomes a bit more self-aware every decade, it's harder to find such people and they also throw away their best talent when questioning orders is unacceptable.

This is why I find it horribly ironic that there are military people now who are anonymously posting that they "didn't sign up to bomb syria" (and punish the chemical murder of 1000s of civilians). What exactly did they think they were signing up for? To pick and choose what orders they would follow? Does the person who sits at a desk in the military think they have better morals for not actually pushing the button that literally fires the missiles?

Imagine how moral the US would be if every government agency like the military, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the TSA had a draft instead of volunteers. They would actually have a consciousness instead of scandal after scandal because people would not just accept the system blindly.
Not so much the photo, but the title:

>Also, it doesn’t hurt that Syria happens to produce a lot of gorgeous human beings:

WTH? Doesn't hurt what?
You can just use projectlombok.org and

val x = new Foo<Things>();
By the way...this NBC admission of Snowden creating new profiles and impersonating high-ranking intelligence officials is proof positive that Snowden wasn't lying.

If he could create any profile and impersonate say Gen. Alexander...then it is easily conceivable that he could access anyone's records.

Not that we didn't know this already...
This is hilarious? What's harder, doing things manually, or automating things in a way that the automation itself doesn't break, is self-healing, etc?

The kind of people that need to automate these sort of systems need to be even stronger systems programmers and administrators than the incumbent batch. Automation can be backdoored as well.
if anyone has not seen Brazil, I recommend watching it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
I found these to be excellent resources when I started with angular almost a year ago.

http://www.yearofmoo.com/2012/08/use-angularjs-to-power-your...

http://www.yearofmoo.com/2012/10/more-angularjs-magic-to-sup...
I used to think Nathan Jurgenson was just a clever guy who found a kind of cultural-intellectual niche to fill, but "IRL fetishization" is a really great thing to be aware of.

Also, this, from the original article, the Stanford professor says:

"People make dinner reservations on OpenTable; check in on Foursquare when they arrive at the restaurant; take a picture of their food to share on Instagram; post on Twitter a joke they hear during the meal; review the restaurant on Yelp; then, finally, coordinate a ride home using Uber."

Ha-ha, really? Who does this? Jeez!
Oddly enough, I find the "tuned out" nature of most checkout people to be an opportunity. At least for the past fifteen years, I play a game with checkout people. My goal is to get them to smile. I make some comment about something, anything, with the goal to get them to respond and hopefully smile at me, and take me as something other than one of the hundreds of people they contact each day. I'm about 90% successful, but I keep trying for 100%. Every once in a while, either I'm really distracted or I see they are so distracted that I don't try. I have an ulterior motive: as I polish my skill at making a random stranger smile, I get better at tossing out a verbal gambit on very short notice to an attractive stranger.
The optimist in me wants to argue that there may be OPEX vs CAPEX reasons to have not invested in "building in the capacity to delete", or possibly even tax implications of development budgets vs ongoing maintenance which might reasonably explain why you'd choose to build such a system as "append-only, archive indefinitely". The pessimist in me fears you're correct…
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That's what one of my undergrad mechanics classes was. Actually that was just a project in the course, along with all of the usual theory, lectures, assignments etc.

I don't think that's terribly unusual.
Remote control crane machine based on wifi.io
Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5141770
The moment you do something useful to society with the tax revenue.
I don't have the resources to cease working in order to campaign for office, and no big backers are supporting my positions, so although it may be only me holding myself back in the eyes of some, there are extenuating circumstances which work to keep me in my place.
There is a small community of RVers who park in Palo Alto (outside Cubberly Community Center), which is a 45-minute train ride from SF. The city is currently working to make life harder for these RVers, of course... as the RVs parked on the street / in the park are an eyesore next to 'million-dollar' (single-story 3-bedroom) houses.
> Julian Assange is seeming more and more prescient every other day.

Quite true.

He was considered quite bold and respectable for all his work until the cables happened. As long as his leaks did not have anything to do with back home you know. At least that's how it all seems to me.
The agony and the irony are killing me...
Yeah, you're probably right - they knew the risks going in, and it's not like they haven't benefited from the Asset Store.

Ultimately I'm willing to bet that improving the core product will mean there'll be more opportunities for asset store publishers, not less.
> You really need drivers for safety reasons.

One incident does not a point prove. There are many completely unattended trains in operation, several of which are in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_trains
> computer automated sysadmins.

Who will administer these 'computer automated sysadmins'?
The entire matter reeks of nothing but bluster by a control freak overseeing a witch hunt. Further evidence that we should not assume the competence of intelligence agencies.
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Well, they can if all you do is expect them to actually fly the plane. And even then, these autopilots make trivial mistakes if the get the wrong input data.

Human pilots make tons of non-trivial decisions that don't have anything to do with the actual maneuvering of the airplane, including where to land the airplane in an emergency. So again, the fallacy is believing that the job is a specific, well-defined task. When we have sentient computers that can process 3D vision, hearing, smell etc as well as a human and exceed humans in decision making, we can replace human pilots and expect the same performance.