skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think we are more likely to enter a society that is more tolerant of people's behavior and private views than we are of one where everyone deletes data after a time."

In the personal social sphere, I can believe that. There, the primary threat is embarrassment, and that's a social construct.

But politically, economically, and anywhere where a larger-scale power relationship exists, I can't imagine that being the outcome. Sony's hack was not primarily a problem due to "people' behavior and private views". It was a component of their issue, yes, but there was also a lot of stuff that simply straight-up materially damaged their interests that would have been better if it had been purged before anyone got it. From the hoarder's point of view, the calculus changes as older material inevitably drops towards zero utility over time whereas the liabilities involved in it being stolen remain non-trivial. Right now, next to nobody is properly accounting for the liabilities, so people are storing more than they really rationally ought to.

(As I like to say, you can make anything look good by considering only the benefits, and you can make anything look bad by considering only the costs. Alas, the only path to a proper analysis is to consider both correctly.)

And from the other side, governments and litigants will want people to retain data for as long as possible precisely because it removes power from those being forced to retain the data, for good and for ill.
How can an underclassman write a good resume?
lol, wait - how is this anything like that? This might be the most hamfisted attempt at whiteknighting I've ever seen.
ah! came to post this. I don't think reality is mimic'ing fiction. MGS4 came out ~7 years ago. Blackwater already existed, and the USA had been relying on them pretty extensively in Iraq.
P.S. I don't remember if it tried its tmux-like feature (multiple virtual consoles without opening separate Windows GUI windows - if it has that feature), but will check for that.
Author here. Yeah, I totally agree about moving up market and pushing your rate ...as an independent.

However, keep in mind the primary audience is for those starting out with freelancing while maintaining a full time job... side work.

I would have spent more time getting into details and nuance, the article was already running long. That might be a write up unto itself.

You are right though, we don't want a race to the bottom in pricing for experienced people...
Point taken. Um...the one(s) where a 'fortnight' is still a thing?
not yet, you can ping me at info (at) londonhelicam dot co dot uk
Well I have helped someone, find the right CD.
The examples mentioned are all from usages of the app.

The idea for the app came from Hans Jørgen Wiberg who himself has tunnel vision.
He worked for the danish blind society, where he taught blind people to cook.
One thing he often heard was "If only I could have a pair of eyes a few minutes a day..."
He also knew of blind people who used facetime to connect to their loved ones.
But the good thing about this concept is that you just say "Thank you" and disconnect and you are done with it, you don't owe someone a favour.
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From one point of view, the history of computing has been one of trying to maintain data integrity, which in turn makes it harder and harder to permanently delete anything.

On the other hand, I can think of very few downsides to a more tolerant society, and fervently believe that it can't happen soon enough.
One of the important privacy implications this highlights is online status. Anything that shows your current status (online, offline, on phone, etc) is a privacy issue. Someone can easily track when you log into IRC, when you're marked as online / offline on various messaging platforms (Gtalk, AIM, FB Messages, etc) and use it against you.
> Latin gave me the ability to ... be able to dissect the English language and multiple other languages quite mathematically and systematically

A formal study of linguistics will do a much better job of this than a study of Latin (of course, there's no reason one can't do both).

> If we were to reintroduce Latin, I think society's language skills would improve and thereby communication would improve.

Do society's language skills need improving? I realise you haven't said this, but there is a common myth that somehow language use is deteriorating, when actually it's just changing. This, of course, is nothing new [1].

[1] http://grammar.about.com/od/readingsonlanguage/a/The-Endless...
Have you tried React? It embraces Javascript.
So you have a NodeJs server for the web interface and a Martini server for the API part? Would it not have made more sense to have chosen either NodeJs or Martini for the whole project?
As a blind person, I find the idea that my borrowing someone's eyes is viewed as a charitable thing somewhat bothersome, particularly if I'm doing it to use my time more efficiently.

Put another way, sure I can wait 6 hours or so until a sightling happens to be around so I can read a letter, but how is me paying a few bucks for someone's time to do it now any different than you paying for Uber, Lyft, etc. instead of taking a bus?

Further, while I support this initiative, I have to wonder how sustainable it will be in the long run. I used to occasionally use Solona, a CAPTCHA-solving service that relied on volunteers. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it anymore (only searched briefly) and I recall many instances where volunteers weren't available. A marketplace that exchanges micropayments for these types of services, usable on a variety of platforms and with easy notifications for assistants, is something I've personally wanted for a very long time.

Disclosure: I'm working on such a thing, hoping to launch in 2-3 months.
The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Inflation, by J. G. Hülsmann: http://web.archive.org/web/20061102222328/http://www.mises.o...
The kind of AI you're describing is not the one anyone is worried about or that would be interesting in the first place; the issue is with AI that has access to its own soruce code (hence self-modifying and theoretically capable of getting smarter over time) and/or an AI that is smarter than humans.
IoT connects trash cans for smart pick up
Did you try/consider pandoc?
Wow, I would not have expected those low Braille literacy figures. For the UK, numbers seem to be similar. I couldn't find any for other European countries, but at least here in Germany Braille markings are very common, so I'd always thought that most blind can use them.
Geraldine Laybourne, who built/ran Nickelodeon for 15+ years, recently joined BetaWorks' board [1]. She also started Kandu, which is an iPad app that helps students learn to make games [2].

Not sure if there's a direction connection to the Nick.co.uk efforts, but definitely interesting.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/media-queen-gerry-laybourne...
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/kandu-is-an-ipad-app-that-t...
Fascinating topic, but nothing surprising about any of the findings. (Does that qualify this post as clickbait?:))

An extremely interesting question IMO would be what is the longetivity of these tactics? Are there phrases that worked extremely well for a period of time, and then stopped being effective? In other words, how long before people get tired of clickbaits?
Mostly it comes down to: division of labor is a thing.

CPS is responsible for things like foster care, finding if parents are (truly) neglectful and abusive, helping teach ignorant parents how to not kill their kids accidentally, and other related things. In most of the work they do, it is just due process - Our society has decided that when a parent goes to jail, or is ordered into an institution, or what not, and does so while caring for children and having no backup means for caring for those children, we shouldn't throw those kids out on the street and hope they survive.

In the case of neglect and abuse - it's apparent to people trained to find it (even in clear cut cases) but not as often noticable just by a quick glance: A common tactic of abusers is to hide it to the outside world, and scare the abused into lying about it - cops are trained to handle one situation, CPS investigators are trained to handle this different one. (Much like we have forensic accountants investigate financial crime and homicide detectives investigate murder).

When cops overstep and murder random people - the response is "well they have hard jobs, and they are trained to be safe", but when CPS oversteps and asks some uncomfortable questions, its "busybodies". Why does no one say "well they also get kids into homes rather than putting them on the street, and they see a lot of horrible abuse cases and are maybe a bit overcautious"?

Do you in general disagree with the notion of specialization and division of labor, or is it a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that "government" is doing it?

Why do you want to automatically shut down an agency that does a lot of good, because some bureaucrat is overstepping (or legally mandated to do so, whatever the case may be)?
I grew up in Silver Spring and was allowed to walk to nearby parks and friends' houses alone or with other friends starting around kindergarten. If I had kids and lived there now, I would definitely allow them to walk around the neighborhood.
Ubuntu DO instances have a modified apt sources.list file that points all apt requests to a DO-run repository. If you revert to the default repositories, you should be able to get updates as they are released.

Not sure if the same applies to CentOS.
I was curious about this, as I've been making use of https://www.tastingroom.com/ from time to time, but may give this a try. Signup via FB was a bit rough however, and and I ended up having to remove all its permissions.

I'll probably give it another try and pick up a few bottles to see if it's worth it though.
In a word: control. I don't know about you, but when I use Word I'm constantly fighting it. Of course, I'm rather biased as I'm a LibreOffice developer :-)
>Everything else is just learning - and being restricted to - someone else's idea of how you're supposed to operate that technology.

So programmers aren't restricted to Computer Engineer's ideas of how to operate technology?
It Texas we have this thing called summer ... There are hotter times/places, but it's enough ;)

On a more serious note, the size of the state is enough to pretty much force people to own cars/drive on a daily basis. At least that's been my experience.
Well usually the ratio is something like 1 finance|accounting|hr|legal:50 general employees at a company after a certain size. The 8 people in accounting/finance/hr for a 250 person company has a closed office mostly because of the frequently sensitive conversations and the need to file papers that need to be locked but accessed frequently?

Other departments like marketing that don't have a team office nearly as much.
I don't know if I agree. At the companies I've been in developers are treated like gods. Sure, we've been sitting in open office plans but so has the management.
Initially it was separated, but I thought the same thing so I embedded the web app in the binary and Martini now serves the whole thing.
That wasn't the point. The user is saying everywhere has multiple providers to choose from, and it is just not true.
Is there anything like http://serverbear.com/compare/vps that lets you browse OS's offered by various providers?

Also wondering how reliable Vultr's been for you guys.
Localization, localization, localization. Tighten up the security for tiny islands within the organization. Don't just do perimeter defense [1] and don't give a single computer access to thousands of other computers.

Don't route and don't monitor everyone's emails through a single server. Use end-to-end encrypted email and ephemeral messages, as Schneier says. Something like Kobeissi's new Peerio tool would've helped Sony and MPAA from having embarrassing emails leak out (not that I wasn't glad to see them leak out).

[1] - https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/01/...

[2] - https://peerio.com/
This is aimed at being exactly the opposite of DIY. If you're into DIY and it works for you, that's great! You should do what works for you. Many people don't want to spend time with a DIY approach and would rather go for a "done for you" solution.
That's true. To that extent C, C++, Java work took. The Threads + thread safe queues is a common paradigm I've used. The problem comes with using other libraries, sharing code with others in a large code base. But errors and concurrency bugs still happen.

But just like type systems, they are there not just to make code faster but add some guaranteed safety. The guaranteed is important. In case of concurrency, errors and state, the isolated heap also adds that guarantee. That is important.
I don't see the problem. When I put on my headphones it's like I'm sitting in a private office.
"You won't believe what the data about Buzzfeed clickbait reveals!"
I don't understand what you mean by blame the country, this is pretty much a discussion about morals and is therefore subjective.

I believe that individuals separate from their ancestors? Saying its their fault for being born in a different country seems quite uncharitable, similar to blaming people for being born into poverty or a particular race.

These potential immigrants want to be productive members of a new society, they can't even get a chance to immigrate if they aren't able to work, they're willing to leave behind their culture and families and take on fairly exploitative contracts just for the chance of giving themselves and their families a better life.

I believe it is immoral to make this difficult

Do you feel differently?
He won me at:
> ... nor would I expect anybody to switch if they're happy with their current language of choice. For the uninitiated, however, these are the reasons why I love Clojure:

Nice to see a humble post about the language they like without bashing any other language.
Hmm. Guess I should have looked it up before posting. Serves me right for not being more bi-curious.
I live near Baynesville Electronics[1] and somehow they've managed to stay in business for a really long time selling stuff that RadioShack couldn't seem to competently sell. (The 50 years part of their sign has been up there at least 10 years).

They do a surprising amount of business from local engineering firms, AV/network/cable installers, and little IT shops because where else are you going to get a 25 pair Amphenol connector, a quad op-amp, some colored heatshrink tubing, obscure batteries, and a 1% 27.1kohm resistor at 9am on a Saturday? They are expensive compared to online retailers (for small parts), but they carry Arduino and RPi and the cool-kids stuff too at only a small markup.

As a kid, the closest electronics shop to me was RadioShack (Radio Shack then) (and it was my favorite place to go). It was right next to where I got my hair cut and in the same shopping center as the grocery store, so I got to go at least every other week. Back then, they had two (maybe three) aisles of electronic components, copper clad PCBs for etching, ferric chloride by the gallon, both 40xx and 74xx series logic in DIP packages; all sorts of stuff. I haven't been in an RS for a long time, but last time I was there I couldn't even find a barrel connector and they used to have a dozen different sizes. Even in the early 90s I guess RS was an expensive store - a five pack of resisters was $0.50 or a dollar - but ordering on the Internet wasn't an option and mail-order was difficult if you didn't have a business account.

I miss what they used to be, but the state of the hobby has changed - most things center around a microcontroller now (RS never carried any in my recollection, though they did have some EPROMS ... maybe they had an 8051?) and I can do things with a half dozen discrete components and an Arduino in a few hours that would have required twenty or thirty TTL logic chips, wirewrap sockets, and a whole weekend not so very long ago.

I wish there existed something like a fusion between the traditional hobbyist electronics store and a modern hackerspace. Some place where I could go to rent time on a 3D printer, CNC machine or reflow oven and also buy the missing parts I need and get advice on whatever I'm working on.

I think the market still exists for walk-in hobby electronics stores, though I grant it's not an easy market to survive in. I don't have the answers, maybe the folks who own Baynesville do.

[1]http://www.baynesvilleelectronics.com/index2.ivnu
I don't know whether I agree with your general sentiment or not. But maybe we should consider whether your response to this article is itself an illustration of the very phenomenon that leads us to perceive the world as more dangerous as it is. The usual account of why we live in such irrational fear is that nobody wants to hear about things going well, and everyone being safe and happy on the news. Anyone who watches the news, therefore, sees a distilled tale of conflict and woe.

But this article is may well be doing the same thing. What have we learned from this article? Two kids, walking down the street, were stopped by police, and a social services investigation was triggered. We get virtually no information about the broader context: does this sport of thing happen often, or was this an anomaly? What will be the outcome of the investigation be?

In short, just as the strife you see on the news can make a person think the world is more dangerous than it is, the isolated examples of our culture running off the rails can have the same distorting effect.
There are also various auditory vision substitution systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution#Auditory_v...). The vOICe creators claim that blind individuals can achieve the equivalent 20/250 vision with a week of training (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/07/voice-soundsc...).
That was exactly my goal. I was thinking how easy it is for people to download the backups that a couple torrent sites provide, but hardly anybody does so because the backups are hard to use. I also hope that, in addition to encouraging people to download torrent archives, that I may also help encourage more torrent sites to provide archive downloads of their torrent database.
This seems to be an arbitrary collection of typedefs and consts. I mean look at the definition of 'moondist'. This is a single value and is measured from where? I mean the distance from earth to moon is somewhat static but what about the distance from Venus to the moon.
"If it's possible to keep the super intelligent AI in a virtual environment, but it can't detect that it's virtual."

They did this in a Star Trek TNG episode ("Ship in a Bottle"). Data accidentally endows a holodeck character with super-intelligence. The way the crew eventually defeated him was to trick him into thinking he had left the holodeck and was able to live normally in the outside world; but it was really just another virtual environment.
> If you truly need a quick turnaround, pcbexpress can get you a slightly higher quality board tomorrow for less than $200.

Well what if someone in the U.S. bought this thing and offered a board tomorrow, but rather than $200 it was only $30? Would the speed/price make up for the quality?
Mysterious 4.4.1.20150109 Eclipse update is Git security release SR1a
2/3rds of our devs working on juju hadn't written a line of Go before they were hired. Getting up to speed on Go is very far (like a week to get productive). Many of them have very Python heavy backgrounds. Just dive in, it's easy.
I think it's interesting that one of his major examples of useless, forgettable knowledge is essentially arithmetic with bases other than 10, which is back in style for grades as early as elementary school and often advanced on this very site as an important skill for children to learn (for some reason—I don't really get why).
I agree. Ego is definitely a part of climbing otherwise climbers wouldn't have a reason to push themselves. But Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson climbed that mostly for themselves. I'm sure they enjoy the media coverage. Who wouldn't? I'm sure their sponsors love it even more. But that type of ego is much different than calling 5.10 climbers noobs and that aid climbing is more dangerous than trad climbing/sport climbing/top roping (I'm not arguing that it isn't, but there's no point putting down other forms of climbing). That's what I was getting at.

I suppose I'm just annoyed by the amount of judgment that exists in climbing. We all have our own motivations and aspirations when it comes to climbing. Some climbers just feel like they need to prove something to someone else.
I respectfully disagree. I had Latin in school for 7 years and while I didn't learn as much as I should have, I know enough to discuss about. Latin, as all other languages, wasn't designed, it grew organically. As such, it has many annoying inconsistencies and I don't feel that they add much to the language.

Why do you feel Latin might be part of the key to artificial intelligence?
Particularly if they can observe your physical whereabouts or your Internet traffic to correlate it against the presence indication.

There is a privacy-preserving presence protocol from the creators of OTR:

http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2014/cacr2014-10.pdf

The main limitations are that it adds a delay to presence updates, it requires users to store their own buddy lists (basically in the same way as and for the same reasons as they store their own private cryptographic keys), and it doesn't help if one of your contacts is using their access to your presence information to attack you.
Three.js r70 is released
The tools around Braille are expensive. Braille computer displays and typewriters are all in the thousands of dollars. Books are in the hundreds of dollars, and hard to obtain.

Screen readers, the computer replacement for Braille, are also stupidly expensive (one I looked up was $900 for the home edition).
That's an interesting idea, and I'm sure people familiar with emacs would find it very useful. BitCannon has a pretty simple API (at least I think) so feel free to tinker around and make alternative clients for it!
> I assume you also complain about the availability of microwave meals?

DO is well know, judging by the fact that I know of it and I don't know a lot about VPS business. The fact that you and many of their customers want easy to configure VPS doesn't preclude them from offering a more configurable option for other users where you are able to install whatever kernel you want. Use more imagination and less microwaves.
I don't know the answer to your question but it should be a required exercise for every web developer to use their website with a screen reader and a blindfold. It would change the way they/we build websites.

I would submit an issue to HN to fix their accessibility – there is no excuse (for HN) not to.

Edit: Sentence subject-ambiguity clarification.
It seems it would be very hard to place an arbitrary restriction like that (2x human intelligence vs 100x human intelligence) on something that is learning. I think the idea here is that the AI would begin to learn on its own and become smarter at a frightening pace, not that we would set out to create something that had exactly 2x human intelligence.

How do you quantify human intelligence like that anyway? We are very similar to proposed AI/machine learning techniques in that we form predictive models from observation, but how can that really be measured?
Having lost a similar amount of weight (63kg), I want to give you a round of applause. That's just amazing work.
I can't stand open plan offices, I can just about cope with a shared office as long as phone calls are very rare/none existent.

My current office http://imgur.com/a/KmHEO is about perfect, Apart from the computer I spent essentially nothing on it, the desk was off freecycle, the chair inherited from previous tenant etc.

It's warm and quiet and beyond that I'm not fussed about architectural masterpieces.
Stoned or just very stupid kids. They shouldn't remember this in a few years