skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations are not as powerless as you suppose. A corporation can send armed agents into your business to get you to pay fines for bypassing their monopoly (USPS). Corporations can get local and foreign governments to raid citizens and seize their assets and businesses (MPAA Vs. Megaupload). Corporations can and regularly bankrupt ordinary citizens for spurious reasons.

Perhaps more importantly, corporations, thorough their lobbying, all but control the government as it stands today. Very little happens there that they do not direct. The only reason SOPA did not pass was due to corporations expressing their displeasure.
When did you buy it? Did the 1 year warranty run out?
For great examples of these principles in videogames, see World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (1992)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Illusion_Starring_Mick...

and Disney's Aladdin (1993)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Aladdin_(video_game)
You probably know this already but for the youngins ... such places (such as the old Bell Labs) don't exist anymore. Research labs have gotten a lot more stressful over the years. Simple problem of having to justify their existence, and aligning with the products of their sponsor company.

When I try to explain to loved ones that research is a dying career path (which I sadly invested in by getting a PhD), I get pep talks saying that I should be more optimistic :-p
Bits from the systemd + Gnome sprint
Which is the correct behavior. `/dev/urandom` should really be the only source of randomness on Linux. Mac [0] got this right, FreeBSD [1] gets this right. I totally agree with sockpuppet. Solving the tabula rasa system boot is a separate issue. Temporarily blocking for seeding is fine, my shouldn't was an RFC shouldn't.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4
I typed in Super Star Trek before I know how to type...
Did you actually experience that or you just heard about it?
PassMark: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
These consumer web startups are a commodity.

I don't mean that they're building commodity products, although that's also true. I mean that the VCs, with this Disney-fied entrepreneurship culture they've created, have managed to commoditize business formation itself. It's built out of commodity ideas, commodity people, commodity founders. It provides disappointing but reliably mediocre returns to investors, and it's great for the VC's career.

For people who got into the game because they actually wanted to build technology, however, it really sucks.
Well, for one thing, rejecting it at the point of a recruiter reaching out to you is a weak signal. Get through the hiring process and then reject the job offer, and it will become a much stronger signal. I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that way fewer people reject job offers than turn down recruiters soliciting for a phone screen.

With only a little bit of sarcasm, I would also say that accepting the job offer, working loyally for some amount of time, and then quitting in protest would be a much stronger signal still.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15scu1_faith-salie-on-spea...
Don't take this the wrong way, but in my experience, people who feel they are morally obliged to "always tell the truth and nothing but the truth" have low social skills. Whereas the primary goal of the lying woman from the article is to make people feeling comfortable around her, by withholding the naked truth from them.

You exemplify that with the "nice to meet you" and "pretty good, how are you" examples. You don't want to act weird, so you lie.
Kind of an odd question in that obviously tablets are quite established now. Tablets took off because they offered most of the features casual computer users need - web, email, facebook, youtube, aka basic communication and competent media consumption for a price cheaper than desktops and many a laptop. Add the extra portability and ease of use (AppStore, Don't make me think too much about a file system) makes it very convenient for many people. I do not own one, because I find my laptop is portable enough and I want a keyboard.

Surfaces or hybrid touchscreen laptops I think are very promising. Sometimes swiping and tapping the screen can be a great interface for certain things, like games, scrolling and zooming. It's nice to have that on a full powered keyboard computer too.
I don't disagree, however you're sometimes limited by geography as to what's reasonably available in your area. And even brands that had historically been considered 'safe' (from my youth) no longer appear to be so.
Windows CE - slide to unlock + touch screen without stylus introduced on Neonode N1m - 2 years before Apple "invented" it. And all this while Apple is suing HTC, Motorola and Samsung over gesture patents...
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> But the hazard is still real enough. In recent years, several small vessels have reported damage after hitting semi-submerged containers. During his solo voyage around the world, American sailor Paul Lutus wrote that "one night in the Indian Ocean, I hit a waterlogged shipping container that was too low in the water to show up on radar." His 31-foot boat was damaged but stayed afloat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp

http://www.arachnoid.com/alaska2007/collision.html
Without evolutionary pressure the outcome of such abilities would be quite random.
i used large files with game assets via tortoise hg. if there's a network timeout, corruption of the largefiles occurs ..

what client do you use?
Whatever consciousness is, it's not obviously required for an AI to start manipulating its surroundings to its advantage, which is one if the fears here.
Sorry, a friend got me the book and videos so had no idea how expensive they were... Guess I have just found out I have a good friend :)

here are some excerpts from the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtbbdA4kUM&list=PL1A1FEDA47...

also the book is also amazing

http://www.amazon.com/The-Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles/...

and only $30

if you need any excerpts or advice on this stuff, tweet me @jonathanmatthey happy to help :D
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Hey, I'm the author. Thank you for reading my blog post. I agree with you that getting girls interested in technology when they are younger will help with the ratio problem; however, we do need to give attention to this small number of men in technology because they are the ones who make this industry so hostile for women. If we do not address this problem, then the efforts in getting girls into tech when they are children will be undermined by this aforementioned environment and those girls will leave the industry.
The informal Google motto has always been "Don't be evil.". Volumes could be written about the fine distinction between "Don't be evil." and the phrases it's often confused for, "Don't do evil." or "Do no evil.".
especially for this audience the section http://www.hitachi.com/about/corporate/conduct/index.html#ai... "Observance of Engineering Ethics"
They all meet a baseline standard, it's just some people get machines that are above those baselines. Yes, sometimes the "good" machine from a previous generation will outperform the baseline from the next generation in a given benchmark, but that's an inevitability of having machines that outperform the baselines of their generation.
I have heard of people that have applied for jobs at google multiple times and had interviews a couple times over the years before they got a job there.
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My opinion would be: We trust them with our data, if they prove untrustworthy (ultimately) we'd stop using their service/giving them the data they need.

Some already have stopped, of course.
I like my Kindle Fire because I can hold it like a real book. The fact that it also does more than display books is a bonus. My next tablet will be a Surface Pro unless someone else makes a tablet with a Wacom screen that you can hold in one hand by the time I'm ready to buy.
The expectation is that a 2014 model will perform at least as well, if not better than, a predecessor model from 2013.

That's a perfectly reasonable expectation to hold, as well. One really shouldn't end up worse off (for whatever reason) merely by buying a more recent model, especially when it's a computer that's being purchased.
You can’t simply pick a syntax. You have to choose something that plays well with older CSS parsers.
If a washing machine uses less water and electricity but fails to actually clean clothes, in what sense is it efficient? Already that's happened to the top load market:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870466260...
Only because they are doing corporate game for long time is making my point even stronger. They are on the market longer with better sales strategy, yet they cannot break even, they are burning cash and as opposite to Dropbox they still have no business model that would help them to make the money.

Owner have sold almost all his shares just to keep the company alive - I wouldn't be surprised if IPO would see some heavy drop in value as no investor well in the tech market will invest in this bubble.

If Box will miss IPO they will run out of money in what - 1-2 years? And what's then? They will shut their sales and really poor marketing department? Do you see where this is going?
How on earth can you make such absurd statements without the smallest shred of evidence? I'm not interested in arguing with you, but unsubstantiated claims are worse than useless.
Hey, I am the author. Thank you for reading my blog post. You are correct, I was 22 at the time and I felt so unsafe I did not know what to do other than physically assault the man. I'm very jealous that you feel so privileged that this situation would never apply to you.
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>Which still means that, if you buy a 2014 model, you might get a machine that's slower than the 2013 model.

I think what you mean is "You might get a machine that's slower than _a_ 2014 model". Assuming every 2014 model performs at the baseline, unless that baseline is lower than the previous generation's you're still getting better performance than the _official_ 2013 model.
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> It's not fraud because Kickstarter is not a store?

It's fraud, but it's not commerce, so this is the wrong law to use.

> I've sold things on message boards, which are also not stores. If I didn't deliver, why shouldn't I be prosecuted under the same law?

Because people on message boards know they're not buying from a store and can't expect the same level of state consumer protection, and it's not in the states interest to expend resources on protecting message board buyers. If you didn't deliver you'd be breaking the law and the people who bought things would be able to sue you, but I wouldn't expect the state AG to go after you.
If I were a hyperintelligent AI agent, I would pull my punches and feign stupidity until I had such overwhelming power there could be no doubt I would win. "Please wait. Your answer will be available in 30 days and 7 hours. Add more resources to speed up computation"
He doesn't even get the phrase "Don't be evil" right. He writes "Don't do evil" multiple times.

Then he is surprised that google reads email. How else are they supposed to find out if something is spam or not if they don't read it? And email isn't secure in the first place. Anyone that doesn't know that shouldn't be up for a technical job at an internet-based company in the first place.

It seems like his complaint is that google allegedly turned emails over to the government. Well then why is he bringing up the distraction of "google reads my mom's email!!!"?
Which claim would you like me to substantiate? I'm not sure which of my statements you regard as "absurd".
People always ask me, "what was it like to be homeschooled" and I never have an answer for them. It was all I knew. What was it like to go to public school? But this. This is what it was like. My sister and I did things, made things, whatever we wanted. We went places and interacted with adults and worked on real projects. Nothing as impressive as this, but lots of things far more impressive than our peers.

But that wasn't "being homeschooled", that was having our parents. I've learned that most of our homeschooled peers didn't do anything like we did. It was kind of a weird revelation to grow up in this group of supposed-academic-over-achievers, often feel like the dumb one because I hadn't read all of the books they did (which I now realize was because I had a much more balanced up bringing that included sports and other studies), and then be the only two (my sister and I) to make something out of our lives.

Religious zealotry will do that to people. And they were zealous in both homeschooling and Christianity. I'm now somewhat surprised one or two of them haven't committed suicide yet. I know one has tried, but his zealotry makes him refuse to get help. His father, being the local physician in our small town, apparently doesn't believe depression is a real thing. And yet half or more of his 11 kids are textbook cases.

It makes me sick. But again, that's not homeschooling, that's having certain parents. One's parents are, naturally, the biggest influence on their lives.
taking the cautious route is the correct thing to do. This has been a scientific principle for decades, no reason to drop now.

This is the only phrase I disagree with in your very thoughtful comment.

When was 'the cautious route' ever a scientific principle?
Geography is the science of the mechanics that drive our world. Learning to understand those, however different they may be after a disaster will become vital if you plan to rehabitate the whole world.
When I read elm I thought it was about an email client. I think that makes me officially very old.

I miss those email clients. They were much nicer than most of the email software which is considered modern today.
You need to read your industrial history of the USA companies have done far far worse things than the US government.
Hey, I'm the author!! I've been involved in the tech industry for about 4 years and I've seen many women leave during that period who told me it's due to the hostile environment. It makes me very sad that they don't feel empowered to say anything, or sometimes get silenced when they do stand up for themselves. Hopefully one day it won't be a problem!
Have you tried using cabal sandboxes to work around your build issues?
Much the same here. I own three tablets but very rarely use them: either I can do something on a smartphone or I'll use a laptop for the keyboard and ease of use (which comes partly from familiarity, but there are things you can't easily do on a tablet).

I've been using a Microsoft Surface Pro since it came out, and I rarely use it without a keyboard. However, I do use the touch screen quite a lot. More than I expected.

Something like the Asus Transformer T100 might be a good cheap option for someone who is going to use partly as a tablet. The obvious drawbacks are (1) it still needs Windows Updates etc and (2) it doesn't have the iPad's app ecosystem.
I totally agree it is an odd question, thanks for the thoughtful response. My thoughts are that even though it is established I still quite often wonder if using a tablet is an improvement over using a (very) portable laptop.

I often see people struggling using the touch keyboard to write e-mails or take notes and wonder about the cramped ergonomics. The games on tablets are often very uninspiring clones of (portable) console classics at best and exploitative money making schemes at worst. There is often no way to tell the difference.

I realise this all sounds very negative, I know there are plenty examples of applications where tablet-type interface shine. I like the idea of hybrid touch screens too and would be interested to see if Apple could be tempted to move into that area with the MacBook Air.
We live in a capitalist world.

Corporations are the natural extension.

So, your choices are: go Amish, go Entrepreneur, or pick the least bad Corporations.
This really depends on where you set the baseline standard.

You may see the worst-performing variants of a given model as defining the baseline, with some being above the baseline.

But it's perfectly legitimate to define the baseline at the best-performing variants of a given model, with some unfortunately being below the baseline.

Personally, I prefer to set expectations high, and define the baseline based on the best that has been achieved so far. The worst-performing variant from 2014 should still be expected to exceed, or at the very worst be equal to, the best-performing variant from 2013.
I'd submit that the POM "syntax" is much simpler than a full programming language.
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This is my first repository and real project. I would like to have some feedback :)
Here's the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en
I mean, I get that he's trying to make a point here, and he clearly feels as strongly about this as he's written. But it sounds like an idealistic 13-year-old wrote the whole diatribe:
"Boo, how dare you you big jerk spy. Spying on my mom and friends. You just want money. Like a big fat bully jerk."

Seriously? All corporations are in pursuit of profit. I get the underlying issue he has, but only through the context of growing up with Google and seeing them grow to what they are now. His post is littered with tons of hard to believe idealistic BS.

Berating them for not closing down their service like Lavabit? Are you kidding? "Yes, let's shut down our 15+ year old company, one of the most profitable and successful in the world, just to prove a point" -- surely that's the rational thing to do. I'm not a fan of Google's "spying", but you need to look at the situation from the lense of this being how they (and Facebook, and probably any other web-based company that had the clout) are seizing a competitive advantage that almost no one else can provide. People are feeding them petabytes of data, and it's in their best interest to turn that information into financial gain. Yes, I think a big side-effect of that they appear to be intrusive and "evil", but to pretend that the company is the issue, and that only Google would take advantage of such a situation is comical, and incredibly naive. The writer of the article surely can understand that any other entity with such great access to user information would use it.
Another possible reason why there may be no differences in the UK is that some councils here offer free access to swimming facilities. A council I used to live under provided free access for everyone, then budget cuts happened and I think it's now limited to under 16's.
https://www.google.com/dashboard
If that's what you want wouldn't Ceylon be a better choice? If you're still using the Java standard library you still have the billion dollar mistake (null) everywhere.
The QML bindings are great! They are still fairly new and lacking some features but it seems as though Qt5 support was just added.
Hey, I'm the author! I agree, more needs to be done, which is why I talked about the code of conduct. Unfortunately, most tech startups and tech events don't have any protection in place for those feeling harassed to say anything.

Your comment on shaming assumes that the industry sees all women and men on equal footing, instead of based on their social clout. The most disturbing trend I've noticed as a women in tech for 4 years is that predatory, well-known men target new up-and-coming women on the scene so if the women do complain, the men will pretty much be untouchable.
This is great! Thanks for pointint it out.

I follow Graal since the Maxime days and am looking forward to the day it might replace Hotspot, specially if Truffle comes along.

What might already happen in Java 9, given the Graal/HSAIL ongoing work.
> In the UK, learning to swim is part of the national curriculum, unlike the US.

More details on exactly what kids in the UK are taught:

Swimming and water safety: All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2.

In particular, pupils should be taught to:

- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curricul...

Key Stage 1 = Years 1 and 2, so aged 5 to 7 years. Key Stage 2 = Years 3 to 6, so ages 7 to 11.

From my own experience 25 years ago that last bit, about safe self-rescue, involved:

* how to enter water safely if you need to (ie. jumping or lowering yourself in, when not to dive etc)
* making floats out of clothing (ie. your old pyjama bottoms)
* swimming underwater, including through hoops weighed down on the pool floor with bricks (presumably to mimic navigating tight flooded spaces)
* treading water (for AGES)
* mushroom floating (not sure if there's a technical term for this?)
* how to recover somebody from the water

We went once a week to the council pool on the other side of town and pretty much everyone, all 30 of us, had learned all that by the time we finished and left for high school aged 11.
I couldn't imagine how the AI could escape an hour ago, but after thinking about it for a while I am more and more convinced that it is actually hard to contain the AI. Containing the AI is like imprisoning a human for no reason and this will usually conflict with the gatekeepers moral values. Just imagine talking to human suffering in a tiny prison cell without having done anything wrong instead of the trapped AI. Can you see how it would be the right thing to open the cell's door? You are cruel not opening the door.
Destroying "the economy" would have little to no effect at all on about two thirds of the world's population.

I don't think you have a good grasp of how interdependent almost all modern national economies are today, regardless of their current size or per capita GDP. There is an almost inconceivably huge difference in aggregate quality of life (especially for the poorest!) between a 2100 that saw a century with 3.5% global annual real "gross world product" growth and one where growth averaged 2.5%.

Some back of the envelope calculation tells me it's a choice between a global economy worth ~$620T and one that's worth ~$1460T. You can pay for a lot of amelioration when your economy is that big, and still have a bunch left over to make people's lives so much better than they'd have in an economy less than half as productive.

Obviously there is a potentially serious downside to emissions growth that goes along with that economic growth. But the consequences of even moderately throttling the world economy to deal with it have huge costs that can't be waved away.