skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the nay-sayers here:

“What if Columbus had been told, ‘Chris, baby, don’t go now. Wait until we’ve solved our number one priorities — war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illieracy and racial hatred—and Queen Isabella’s own personal brand of ‘interal security’‘” – W.I.E. Gates

Humans are capable of doing multiple things at once. Some people working on space travel doesn't preclude others from working to slow (can we even reverse at this point) climate change.
However, the public discourse and political narrative is decidedly in the individualistic camp, aligning more on the side of what people want to believe, rather than what is true.

This allows those with power to take advantage of the situation to a large degree.

It is there that the wishy-washy reductionist argument of 'the world is complex' ceases to be useful (not saying you're making that argument, but it often comes up). We need to push the world a little more to one side; a little more toward the balance point of this messy reality, with full recognition and respect for that complexity.
Like many people have pointed out, cabal and npm are not solving the same problem. npm appears to "work" more often because a whole class of problems in Javascript program are deferred to runtime while in Haskell all interfaces have to be compatible, link properly and compile. That's why "cabal hell" is such an imprecise term because on top of the version bound issues it's also used for any and every failure that happens when using cabal, even if it's the library in question that's to blame and not cabal. If you want to consider a similar problem, take 20 interdependent C++ libraries and try to link them into a single application using just version information and see how often that works out of the box.
I was wondering the same thing. It seems like this will be abused very quickly and could end up costing a considerable amount of money.
If you'd try to pull off stunts like ones presented on that video, you'd smash your phone into million pieces in the first 30 seconds. Twice I almost dropped my phone while playing Ingress, and that game doesn't make you run or react to events instantly.
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What? The landscape of Mars is actively hostile to human biology. Even the absolute worst case scenario of climate change on earth is infinitely better for human life than Mars.
Let me put it this way. Why do humans continue to do all sorts of obviously stupid counterproductive things, at large and small scales? We know that reproducing so many of us is stupid. We know that eating so much fat, sugar and salt is stupid. We know that overheating the atmosphere is stupid. We know that destroying biodiversity, overfishing to the point of extinction, trashing the forests we need to breathe etc etc etc are all stupid, clearly self destructive behaviors at any level from abstract ethics to species survival. But we come with a bunch of hard wired root goals (like "yum, candy" and "babies are cute" and "seek power") that can't be switched off and are incredibly hard to reason with, and their consequences are already an existential threat. And that's just with dumb, slow-moving humans.
It is worth pointing out that if the Go community settles on something like this as the solution, it negates one of the underlying arguments that the Go designers have against generics in the language. They have a set of criteria necessary for them before they are willing to put a solution in the language [1], and one of them is that they aren't willing to do C++-style template-based generics that involve compiling separate functions for every generic instance, causing the binary to grow in size.

But all the other solutions that are headed into that gap are just one level or another of convenience wrapper around exactly that. If the Go community just starts doing this at scale, then there's really no reason not to pull that up and make it official.

[1]: Whether or not you believe that they're just against them full stop and can't be budged no matter what, there's at least some claimed reasons.
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Believe it or not, there is a large group of consumers that purchase technology not just based on technical merit, but aesthetics (myself included). I'm more likely to buy something that looks/feels better designed and trade off functionality just for aesthetic reasons. Much like I'd rather buy a hardcover copy of a book instead of the paperback, if the quality is sufficiently higher.

Life's too short to use ugly crap.
They are not competitors. I don't know what Bezos said about it, but Elon Musk said:

"Every time I see Jeff, I ask him why he's not doing more in space."

"Our [SpaceX] competitors are not Paul Allen and Richard Branson, but Boeing, Lockheed, and the big aerospace companies. I'm really glad to see all the activity in entrepreneurial space and hopefully this heralds a new era of space exploration with price and quality improvements similar to other technology arenas."
Hmm... I don't know about that. Justice is wildly different than reconditioning.
Let's play a bit of semantics and say putting people on Mars helps to insure our future. As in, it provides insurance against some catastrophes that a malaria cure and even squirting flowers can't.

Still I agree that we tend to see things through our own lenses. Maybe evolution has something really amazing planned for bonobos, but we're too stubborn to die off.
|we're decelerating our technological progress and achieving new wealth by pursuing more and more trivial enterprises

Sure let's forget about all other examples of technological progress and point to the sell of a startup as a key indicator of modern day progress
When you're looking at the page on Github, type "y" and it'll change the URL to the appropriate commit so you have a reasonable expectation that what you reviewed is what you're running:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hannob/bashcheck/9ee8db0bf...

(This assumes Github hasn't been rooted and you don't have a MITM with access to a trusted CA but … almost everyone is screwed at that point)
Outsourced teams anywhere generally don't get much ownership of the product. What results is a bare minimum meet-the-specs effort, which is understandable but generally results in a crappy product.

This is a reflection of the social and communication issues in typical outsourcing setups, not a reflection of the talent of the outsourced team.
It will be interesting to see if Intel & Microsoft can compete with Chromebooks on price if they try: how much of the pricing is due to technical cost (weight of x86 & Windows) and how much of it is business overhead (licensing fees & IP profits)?
Don't forget that Hong Kong is also a major financial hub, with the 6th(?) largest stock market in the world, and when the HK-Shanghai Stock Connect goes live in the coming weeks it'll be the second largest exchange in the world. Many western banks also do business in Hong Kong.

The worst thing that would happen to Hong Kong is for the financial sector to leave - HK currently enjoys an average income 5X higher than mainland China, and higher than many western cities even.
Apple takes down another indie dev
Congratulations Josh! I'm excited by the prospect of a dedicated VC fund specifically for Stripe ecosystem companies. That sets a fantastic tone for future products built on Stripe's APIs.
He is so laser focused on the logistics that he likely wants to leave practicalities of the biology problem to someone else.

The only way we're going to start colonizing Mars is that someone focuses on making rocket cheaper.

We can wait, but we had waited for several decades after the Apollo landing. Since then, in some way, technology had stagnated.
Not necessarily fixing those who are caught, but pour encourager les autres. There are no morals here, since we are all just machines, and we're just trying to get the machines to do what we want.
It's still currently not showing up 16 hours later. I'm starting to wonder whether they're working on an updated version using one of the improved patches.
Every time that this argument is made, I can't help but wonder if the mere existence of a sustainable off-world colony would cause humans on Earth to give even less of a damn about maintaining a habitable planet. A sort of moral hazard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard) on an interplanetary scale. Which is to ask, could colonizing other worlds actually accelerate the destruction of human civilization, rather than ensure it?

As an alternative to possibly engendering environmental apathy, imagine a scenario akin to the Cold War, except that one of the superpowers has a million citizens on Mars, and the other doesn't. Does MAD still apply, or does the interplanetary superpower suddenly becoming all the more willing to watch the world burn?
Does this mean companies using Stripe for payments or only companies built on Stripe data.

Seems like a way for GC to get revenue data on startups that are doing well.
You're not really following me.

If it's no more contemplative than a human, it's probably no more intelligent than a human. If it's no more intelligent than a human then it's not going to take over the world and fill it with paperclips.

Something capable of conquering the world or otherwise totally remaking reality in its image would by definition be something of vastly superior intelligence to ours. I find it hard to believe that this being wouldn't also be superior at self-reflection, since the two seem at least related.

If intelligence and self-awareness are unrelated phenomena, we have bigger problems. You could put that on a list of possible very depressing answers to the Fermi paradox: "the universe is full of non-sentient super-intelligences that are busy converting their planets' masses into rubber dog poop."
> where you've got a nerf blaster that fires nerf darts.

I'm surprised your college let you guys get away with this. Mine included nerf guns in the campus 'zero tolerance' weapons policy.
That doesn't solve the problem. The problem is that the problems Cabal faces are real, which is to say, faced by every language that allows you to use packages from external entities, and the solution almost every other package manager uses is to sweep the problems under the rug and hope for the best. Haskell the language can't do that very well (because it is already careful under the hood), and Haskell the community won't do that.

I'm actually intrigued to see what comes out of this. When the Haskell community turns its mind to something like this, something quite interesting tends to come out.
Hopefully he didn't start till 6pm though :)
No. Android doesn't even support 64-bit yet.
Not all asteroids would destroy life on Earth, and there are many ways we can protect ourselves against such events, even without leaving our planet. Having orbit deflectors, for once, is a good solution if we can detect a large object early enough. Plus, I'd wage the Human Race is far more resilient that we think. I'm much more concerned about self-annihilation with nuclear weapons in the short run than any remote asteroid destroying us all.
Reminds me (in a way) of Chrome Racer. (http://www.chrome.com/racer). Could this be using WebRTC for the fast device-device communication?
For some I guess. If your house were on fire, would you risk your life to stay and save the kids, or just jump out the window, go hide in the garage or chill at the neighbors? There's a moral dimension to the issue that can't be dodged.
Maybe Musk is convinced by the doomsday argument[0] (or unconvinced by the rebuttals), and sees this as a way to skew the probabilities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
I guess my assumption is that increased intelligence should bring with it increased self-awareness.

If it doesn't, then... well... like I said elsewhere in the thread... put that on your list of potential depressing answers to the Fermi paradox.
If we end up with a runaway greenhouse effect, it's possible that Earth could become Venus-like, with surface temperatures of hundreds of degrees. This would probably be less hospitable than Mars.
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I'm not sure what you are asking, but I directly observe that, when presented with the choice between doing something hard that pays off a lot, or doing something easy that pays off little or not at all, that there are a bunch of people in the first camp and a bunch in the second camp.

This doesn't strictly break down by SES, either, although there are certainly trends.

You can come up with all sorts of reasons for the second camp's behavior, and many of those reasons are likely true for some subset of that camp. But at some point you have to recognize people's agency in their own behavior, or else they are just children in your eyes.
The phone is not a one handed phone, and it is not something that can be put in a back pocket. We live in the era of iPad communication devices. Embrace.
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To stick with your analogy, maybe we're at the Scott of the Antarctic stage of things?

It's time to go have a poke around and see what we can find, there's a fair chance people might die along the way, but someone has to take that first step.
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S.493 - Wireless Telephone Protection Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/senate-bill/493

Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly using,
producing, trafficking in, having control or custody of, or
possessing hardware or software knowing that it has been
configured to insert or modify telecommunication identifying
information associated with or contained in a
telecommunications instrument so that such instrument may be
used to obtain telecommunications service without authorization.

You could probably argue that modifying the IMEI ("telecommunication identifying information") would not actually allow you "to obtain telecommunications service without authorization"-- you still need to reconfigure the SIM card.

Of course, stealing PINs without also stealing the ATM cards is prima facie a crime, even though the PIN alone doesn't allow you to obtain funds.
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To all the naysayers and party poopers in this thread, I would like to bring to your attention the following excerpt:

Calling multi-planetary life an insurance policy “for life as we know it,” the 40-year-old physicist/entrepreneur/inventor warned that catastrophic natural or man-made disasters -- such as the planetoid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs eons ago or nuclear holocaust or climate change -- could someday wipe out humankind.

Space exploration “is the next natural step” in the 3.8-billion year evolution of life on earth, he said.

Musk suggested that .25% of the nation's gross domestic product would be an “appropriate” expenditure by the United States on space exploration, which he said is roughly the percentage an individual spends on life insurance. Space exploration spending, he said, should be "much less than we spend on health care, but maybe more than we spend on lipstick." (http://press.org/news-multimedia/news/space-exploration-crit...)

Now, before you start complaining about climate change, gamma rays and comparing him to a disillusioned clown, answer the question: is it reasonable for us to spend more money on space exploration than lipstick?

EDIT: Talk about people missing the point. Keep on hating, just let Musk and people like him do their thing. Luckily, online comments have very little influence on the world.
> At this point, it’s not really possible to revolutionize the smartphone

I see this sentiment batted around quite a bit these days. Just because nobody has revolutionized the smartphone in the past few years doesn't mean it's not possible.
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its better to habitat earth like planets.
There were a few nearly identical incidents. Another involved someone working alone after hours dropping the last block of plutonium/uranium onto a stack during criticality testing after realizing that it was going to go critical, and removing it by hand.

Its pretty amazing that the test procedure for determining the critical mass was essentially "stack these blocks of plutonium/uranium (by hand) until the neutron detector starts going off, and then take one away"
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What makes you think if any nation or human has the capability to colonize Mars, it wouldn't get downright messy here on Earth ... or on Mars for that matter? If you say that cooperation on climate change is impossible, how will we be able to cooperate on colonizing another planet? Even if the entity that has the capability is relatively small and focused, I'm sure there would be others making it equally difficult.
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When the going gets tough, firms call in consultants. When Bain or McKinsey arrive, they tell you to make a change. Is your firm centralized? Decentralize it! Is your firm decentralized? Centralize it. Donahoe's "master fix" and subsequent exit should give pause to industry thinking of hiring consultants to run their companies in the long-run; for as the saying goes: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I find an interesting intersection with his Tesla efforts (and perhaps more grand, the battery plant in Nevada)that can potentially provide mechanical autonoma on said colony without the need for fossil fuels and their high initial investment costs. Is he picking his earth bound investments in a manner that could carry forward into space?
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"keeping any significant Martian population alive would be a considerable expense"

Getting a population to Mars would be a considerable expense. Keeping them there would have to be free, or the whole thing isn't ready to go yet. Free, that is, in the sense that the whole population is capable of being self-sustaining. If they aren't then the whole "backup human race" idea fails, if Earth dies and then they inevitably die too.

Also, there's no point in sitting back and just waiting for something to happen. It doesn't work to discourage all the specific people who want to invest in the tech from doing so because "someone" will get to it eventually.... "someone" won't if all the interested parties have been counseled to wait for "someone" else to do it.
The Columbine Trenchcoat Mafia tribute at the end was just adorable. I'm sure black and middle eastern people will just have a blast playing this game at the Walmart in Ferguson.
IMHO, it has nothing to do with importance or impact of the work one does. It has to do with the supply and demand: Even if we assume the irrational that e.g. a cleaner's work is 100x more important than Zuckerberg's work, the fact that for every Zuckerberg we can find much more than 100 cleaners means that a Zuckerberg is much more important than a cleaner, not that cleaning is more important or less important that Zuckerberg's work. In fact, personally, the impact from absence of cleaning would be much bigger than the impact from absence of Facebook. But if I take the importance of cleaning and multiply it by the scarcity of cleaners I get a smaller product than multiplying the importance of Facebooks with the scarcity of Zuckerbergs.
> decelerating our technological progress

Deceleration from what velocity? That of the 1800s? the 1900s? It seems obvious to me this isn't the case.
I agree with you in general, but you are not winning any loyalties to your idea with this attitude. Shaming a person and accusing of snobbery is a bad way to drive your point across.

When I debate the social good aspect of entrepreneurship and tech entrepreneurs priorities, I try to appeal to the rationality of the self-interested agents. We, as a humanity, have two unambigous pathes in future. Either everything is really good or everything is equally bad. We are heading to near-utopia or to full-blown dystopia.

Tech entrepreneurs and investors hold the power to change the world faster than anyone else. More wealth inequality --> closer to the dystopia. It rational for anyone with power to influence the world and possible future to contribute to the decrease of wealth inequality.

I guess such approach to discussion would be more beneficial to your cause.
For an example of a pulled Mozilla project, see Skywriter/Bespin:
https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/skywriter/
This lecture is given by Manuel Blum, a Turing Award winner and professor at CMU. The lecture presents a simple algorithm for generating passwords, say from domain names, that is claimed to be cryptographically secure. There is a paper on arxiv that supports this claim [1]. The abstract of this paper states: "Thus, our human computable password schemes can maintain strong security guarantees even after an adversary has observed the user login to many different accounts (e.g., 100)."

Despite coming from a world famous cryptographer, the scheme seems quite problematic to me, so I don't recommend using it. I believe that recommending it in the lecture and the paper are a disservice that will mislead people into using a risky method for generating passwords.

[1] Human Computable Passwords, Jeremiah Blocki, Manuel Blum, Anupam Datta, http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0024
Few different companies announced 64-bit models this month. All of them includes A53 cores. Also Nexus 9 (two Denver cores) will be released soon, but it's a tablet.
Any chance of Apple covering the bending issue free of charge? I'd actually expect them to if you took it into an Apple Store.
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"All it needs is an environment conductive to launching rockets and currently that is the United States."

So we just launch a rocket to Mars ... wipe our hands and be done with it? Considering the efforts just to build/launch the ISS, I can't imagine rocket launching capability is high on the list of worries re:colonizing Mars.
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You know, I was with you until the end.

That guy preserving music or that guy curing malaria or that guy trying to get humans onto another planet? They may be in some sense wrong, but if they all succeed we will have great music playing among the non-malarial population on Mars in a century. I don't see what's not to like.
Note that they're going to be competing a little more in the future. It was announced a couple of weeks ago that Blue Origin will be supplying engines to ULA (the joint venture of LockMart and Boeing that operates the Atlas V and Delta IV rockets).
I feel like you didn't get his comment.

He means that the reality of what is important for the future of the human race is subjective based on the biases of the person making the statement.

To draw a parallel, the most important legislature to next get pushed through Government is different for every lobbyist, because having different goals implicitly makes the meaning of important relative.
>As an alternative to possibly engendering environmental apathy, imagine a scenario akin to the Cold War, except that one of the superpowers has a million citizens on Mars, and the other doesn't. Does MAD still apply, or does the interplanetary superpower suddenly becoming all the more willing to watch the world burn?

Or do you just get a third superpower less invested in the fate of home planet?
I wish they'd ban "non-simulated killing" in the streets and Walmarts and prisons of America.
Define 'future'. A million years? What when the Sun has swallowed the Earth and Mars? I don't think biological humans will colonize space, not even the Moon, digital humans will. The Singularity is coming, hopefully within our lifespan.
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