skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep citing that quote of Dickinson without acknowledging the context:

"You look like a fucking pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers, it will be your fault." - Mel Gibson, Director of "Passion of the Christ", shortly before Pax Dickinson's tweet

See also Justine Sacco, who mocked clueless attitudes and was assumed to be supporting them.

I stand by my example. All Pax Dickinson did was express views and mood affiliation that goes against the dominant narrative. You haven't even claimed he did anything else. Justine Sacco didn't even go against the dominant narrative, she was just misinterpreted as doing so.
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The UX of this app is quite innovative and immersive.

You are applying heuristics that are true for man websites, but don't apply here. I would say this is more like a simple video game. It would make no sense for example to have navigation control over this video. That is the point, you can't just rewind to before the accident occurred.
Because sometimes quality content in buried underneath a bad user experience.

EDIT: Not that I actually think its a bad UI. But either way its not always about the UI.
Definitely convinced me. I figured life jackets on boats are what seatbelts are to cars. It's a small thing you probably should put on.
What does the mentioned switch statement do?
Economically:

Step 1) People will be paid for their data. Information used by systems doesn't spontaneously come into existence.

Step 2) Get rid of governments. They're inefficient war-mongers. A theatre to obfuscate kleptocracy!

Step 3) See step 1. You can pay me in cryptocurrency. Thanks.
Right. There was >= 1 mistake I made during the analysis and reporting phase, but all parties agree that adopting urandom is still a good idea.
Exciting stuff indeed :)

I also wrote a while back about what me & a bunch of other people in London have in mind..

https://medium.com/nomad-house/nomad-house-london-project-58...
I know you think it doesn't, but I think you're wrong. I think this "business shouldn't happen in bars" talk is used by people to disqualify others. "Forget about fixing sexual harassment. Fix business happening in bars, first."
A number of sibling comments are pointing out that we're just increasing the level of skill necessary to do the available jobs, drawing analogies to the industrial revolution. I think a key bottleneck in this progression is the mental capacity of the workforce.

Surely there are biological limits on human mental ability, and while we can definitely bend the rules (education, nutrition, nootropics if they actually work, etc.), I doubt that we'll ever be able to make ourselves limitlessly smarter. Even if we are, there will be a serious gap between the have-whatever-makes-us-smarter and the have-nots, and it will be a self-perpetuating gap just like the current wealth gap.

So, what happens when we've used technology to convert all work to mental exertion and creativity, and most of us have run out of brain capacity/agility/juice? We're already in a position where most of the population is not capable of performing the mental tasks which the brave new software world is built with.
You're fishing for events in your life that are superficially similar to the events in the article -- drinks at a bar, some kind of unwanted touching, etc -- but are substantively quite different.

And you're trying to draw parallels with extremely vague language. Someone kissed you. Who? A child? Grandma? A bus driver? Your boss? Why? Where? Someone touched you "in a manner far better suited to a date." What does that even mean? Did she hug you? Caress your cheek? Slap your ass?

You'll have to use your own best judgment as to whether it's appropriate to name and shame.
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For sound reproduction, check out Room EQ Wizard ( http://www.roomeqwizard.com/ ) and the open source DRC ( http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/ ).

I have personally contributed to a commercial analysis system (link on my web site) as well.

For noise modification, I'm not aware of anything widely available, but you could start by experimenting with simulating different spaces by adding reverb tuned to remove the frequencies naturally reflected by the room (wild guess).
Surely having a job is not the only way to be or feel like a dignified human being? And how long will you continue to feel dignified in a job that exists for the sole purpose of making you feel dignified but could really just as well be done by machines?
I think it could be great to give an order for reading the series for someone that's learning JavaScript. I often recommend this series but everyone asks me where should they start reading.
Reminds me of the good old days programming in TCL.
I've thought about this with regard to the way law enforcement are able to speed in their vehicles to catch up to vehicles which are breaking speeding laws.

It would seem that if speeding is dangerous for civilians it would also be dangerous for law enforcement. Perhaps law enforcement are able to take additional driving safety courses which enable them to have improved skill at higher speeds. If this is the case, civilians ought to also have the ability to take such courses to improve their skill as well.

Instead, I see the limitations on speeding meant to bring down the total number of fast moving vehicles. And in the same way, the total number of drones flying over crowds will be reduced by the FAA's rules, even if law enforcement are still able to fly them over crowds.
Learn the dead man's float.
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No. If you have the time to sink figure out how to attend classes at the local state university. A few college credits that way would be immensely more valuable even if you don't complete the degree.

And having used MIT's material extensively while going through my studies I have to say the material is not really extraordinary. It's not what gives MIT students an edge over others. That edge is due to the motivating and challenging environment. So you probably won't get MIT level anything just by going through the videos and doing the problem sets.
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It's frustrating because mt_rand is just complicated enough to require this analysis. You should look at it the same way you do an uninitialized pointer variable in C, or maybe an offset NULL pointer write: very bad, but not necessarily exploitable.
I agree its the subtle stuff that is a problem. I've sometimes said things along the lines of "Sorry Jane, what were you saying just now?" after Jane has just been talked over. I'm not sure how much it helps though, and I'm nervous in case it comes over wrong if I do it too much.

Its a minefield.
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Another thing to note about mammalian diving reflex is that the nasal cavity is especially susceptible to triggering it. Which is why it's important to hold ones nose when jumping in the water to abandon ship, regardless of how silly it may look. And at this point you don't need a life jacket, you need an immersion suit.
Scala errors will often be described in terms of Java libraries. So I would say it's not so much a matter of knowing the language Java as accepting that you will be living in the larger Java toolchain and JVM ecosystem. The underlying layer leaks up through the abstraction.

As a point of comparison, Clojure has similar behavior, but my impression [and that is just one datapoint] is that Clojure handles the leaks a bit more thoughtfully.

The other language that lives in a space similar to that of Scala is F# with Mono/.NET offering cross platform support.
> It's called Pussy Privilege.

On Reddit, maybe, but not when speaking with adults.
I would love it if, for things like my work repo, I could count "Don't break the chain of weekday commits" -- I would prefer not to be penalized for not working on the weekend. :)
I don't see how selection bias enters into it, when no matter what selection method we use, the rate of accidental detonations remains zero. I don't doubt that that will eventually change, but even a large industrial accident is hardly the end of the world.

As for US-centricity, well, that's where I live, and as cold as this no doubt will sound to a universalist, I really don't see another nation's accidental nuclear detonation as being my problem; contrary to popular belief, the mechanisms involved in commencing nuclear warfare are a little more nuanced than "oh, hey, a nuke went off somewhere on the planet? Empty the silos! Tell the subs to flush their tubes!"
Just so we're clear that your model of a person victimized by the attention being paid to sexual harassment and gender parity is Pax Dickinson.

I'm not sure your best rhetorical strategy here was "doubling down", by the way. And also: I don't think I've ever mentioned that quote before.
Can you explain how uncoordinated individuals could have helped, given that they have even less bargaining power, and many of them are "at-will" employees and can be fired for any reason, including having an opinion or being married to someone with an opinion?

The tactic does not have to be objectively good. It just has to be subjectively better than the status quo. If you can think of something that would be both, please share it.
Well probably because that's a very creative way to spread their marketing message. And because it is very well done technically as well: stitching video segments in an order that depends on user action, without any visible transition, means they put a lot of work on that.

So I don't think general UX/video guidelines apply in this case, even if they're valid for most cases for online video.

Sure, they should probably have used an adaptive bitrate video for users with poor connection, because here they can't pause and let the video prebuffer for a while. Other than that this is pretty impressive
The example given by the NYU neuroscientist seems to be betray some misunderstanding/lack of vision:

"Would you try to understand the universe by simulating every molecule? What would you have achieved? It’s going to be just as complicated as the real thing and you won’t understand it any better."

At the very least you would have achieved the ability to rewind and play the universe forward again, which is something that we most certainly can't do with our real universe. You would also have achieved the ability to experiment with and measure the universe with potentially greater precision than we can in the physical world.

Simulation is a tool to help you understand, not understanding itself. I don't think Markram ever said anything to the contrary.
That depends entirely on the calling convention - potentially you can take two words down from the first argument, but that is no guarantee, and would not suffice for the didactic goals this article attempts to accomplish.
This is a topic on Cato, Reason, and several other prominent publications of the right. Here's one: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/08/04/matt-zwolinski/pragma... and another one: http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/26/scrap-the-welfare-stat...

Disagreements on implementation are real (some on the right want this implemented only as Friedman's negative income tax, which is not a true GBI, and some on the left want a GBI in addition to the current welfare state), but there is still significant agreement, especially over the past few years.
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Man, those are some nice prices. I'm currently traveling in Europe (mostly Western) and my monthly spendings hover around $2100/month on average. (Would be a lot less if I didn't go out to eat so much!) How is life on those islands? Is there a social scene?
Of course.

I proposed a theoretical way to abuse a hypothetical RNG prediction (if any were possible). Whether or not it's exploitable is, frankly, far above my understanding or pay grade. Whether it's exploitable today, versus whether it will be exploitable 10 years from now are even harder to say. If any advancements are made that cause the existing wp_rand() to become more fragile, it will probably be people far more intelligent than I am that will think of it.

(Disclaimer: Considering I don't and probably never will get paid for any of the bugs/patches I submit to open source projects, that pay grade is effectively $0.)

I'm only interested in seeing it fixed rather than proving that it can be pwned. Getting a CVE and then posting to FD were just steps I took because it appeared that I was being ignored. I now know that it wasn't intentional.
It is equivalent to:

if (x == 1 || x == 2 || x == 3 || x == 4)
printf("What the fuck?");
> I would certainly rather work and have my dignity...

I've never felt any pride in busy work, I've always found it to be insulting. I would have thought everybody felt the same way, but I guess I would have been wrong.
Flying a drone over a crowd seems like peanuts compared to some of the other things police are allowed to do, like shooting toward buildings/cars/innocent bystanders, or engaging in high speed chases in populated areas. I imagine it will be argued that they have higher quality and better maintained equipment and properly trained operators and therefore should be allowed to fly their drones anywhere, but in my cynical mind I imagine that will go about as well as the use of flashbangs has.
Agreed. The company I work for pays on the order of $4k/mth for this particular provider and it's inexcusable when this downtime happens and we hear nothing other than "Our DC Node went down". Why did it go down? What are you doing to prevent this from happening again?

Le sigh.
> It is laudable to provide people with the dignity of a job

It's more dignifying to give someone a living wage, freeing their time so they can pursue useful work, than it is to waste their time by assigning them a dirt-shoveling make-work job that, in the end, grinds everything around them to a halt.
Worth knowing that this also describes some of the mechanics of a relatively common C vulnerability, and a tactic used by some content protection schemes.
Getting the gpg-key via http and not verifying it is batshit crazy anyway. I'm perfectly fine with anchoring trust in Debian's keyring -- after all, you implicitly trust that key with root access to all servers running apt.

Sadly, Debian's support for trusted (by the user, and which Debian can vouch for the key, if not the software) third party repositories is still somewhat sketchy -- it'd be nice if there was a "apt-get-me-a-key-for-this-url-only-if-signed-by-the-debian-keyring <apt-url>"-command. That would of course imply that Debian becomes a bit of a CA for apt-repositories -- which it already is in the case of deb.haskell.org. See also:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7...

[ed: changing link to use https!]
Right, because on the soviet side of iron curtain they weren't extensively training for an attack at all
Also, soviets were never heavily investing into first strike capability, both nuclear and conventional
So much sarcasm.
Please don't revision history
Relatively easy, i.e. compared to viruses.
I'd argue from the stance that globalization has played a role in every major revolution, from agriculture to the silk road to colonization to industrialization to the computer age. They were all enabled by global trade, driving demand for foreign goods, prompting responses that produced innovations that swept whomever was at the forefront of the world in decades.

The size of the world changes - and gets broader - but the mechanism at play, that the concentrated powers of the world fuel each others innovations and those innovations catapult advancement but also introduce huge power vacuums between those nations adopting the new and those nations outside the sphere of influence - something I would not say was missing in the computer revolution, since the adoption of computer technology happened first and is still only pervasive in first world nations. The third world is still late to the party and comes in with fractured infrastructure and access, where systemic access and ubiquity enabled the Internet and a lot of the current revolutions in the first place.

In previous instances, the cost savings made the nations that had them superpowers in their times. The cotton gin is a huge part of why America went from an English vassal to a world power - between the innovations and the raw resources of the Americas, it could propagate empire.

But those profits just made men rich. The cotton, tobacco, industrial, automotive, oil, etc barons were the kings of their times through the innovations and automations of their industries. That has never really changed, those ruling over the industries being modernized always reap unfathomable wealth and power from the enterprise. Their wealth made their country rich, but the laborers still had to find something else to do every time, and up until now we have always had some unskilled menial and physical thing to have most people do. In actuality, we ran into that wall probably seventy years ago in the aftermath of World War 2 - as the US at least rapidly adopted women and minorities into the whole workforce the huge surge of productive labor combined with the green revolution, the reforms of the late industrial giving workers reasonable hours, unions, and power over their lives, plus the fledgling technological revolution that had already produced a lot of wonders (consumer refrigeration, microwaves, clothes washers and dryers, etc) had already crippled the low skill labor market and we collectively adapted by organically injecting superfluous bureaucracy in almost every business and part of life to make up for the work shortage.

Problem is that we did that, became a "service" economy, and are now faced with the obsolescence of busy office work. I can just remember CGPGrey talking about it in Humans Need Not Apply, in how the prime target for automation is not the McDonalds burger flipper but every middle income office worker who can be replaced by software. After bureaucracy, where do we inject the overflow labor of humanity? Or do we finally admit we don't need everyone laboring?
On that note, I highly recommend The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter. He picks up where The Time Machine leaves off and takes the story into some amazing directions.
An article about writing good code without any code examples.
"Sure, we could do it better and faster with machines, but it is better for society to provide employment to those who would otherwise be unemployed."

And you believed that? It comes down to money -- there are plenty of people in India willing to work for essentially nothing, and so labor is cheaper than equipment.

There's nothing altruistic here... businesses in the US or anywhere else would be happy to replace machines with people if people were willing to work for pennies.
You have a curious definition of "leftist."

This essay more or less boils down to "technology is awesome, except for the part where it makes the proles restless, someone really ought to figure out some way to fix that." Which is pretty bog-standard 21st century Davos-über-alles capitalist thinking.
If all of the things have been found in the EULA why it is called spying?
Yes biology is complicated. But we are starting to understand it reasonably well,and more importantly ,we're starting to design it even without understanding. For example, there's a company that produces microbes that create certain materials(genomatica), and uses evolution(with the goal being yield per bacteria) to evolve much more efficient strains - even without deeply understanding how the cell work.And i believe they're leading the industry in yield.

Another such example is screening massive number of chemicals to see what works and turning that to medicine.

So it's not hard to imagine a group with ill-intent, that uses some of the almost infinite variety of tools biology researchers have, and being successful in creating a serious biological threat.
By the compliment, and or celebrity name drop, I would think.
The right also tends to like freedom of choice, reduced bureaucracy, efficient markets and price discovery, all of which BI does much better than current welfare systems.
> Two of the biggest risks I see emerging from the software revolution - AI and synthetic biology

Also nanotech, mind uploading, embryo selection...
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Computers and robots have not yet even existed for an entire lifetime. It is as shortsighted as saying the world must be flat because that is what I know to say we can never create a technological singularity.
I'd imagine GP's point is something along the lines of https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ that if all of the currently-moving machines were suddenly bent on destroying humanity, most humans would not be in much danger because they don't really have that capability on the necessary scale.
The main role of the UK's intelligence services is to help secure overseas contracts for british businesses, which means exactly what it sounds like it means.
Physically the hardware can't handle it or are you just advocating that it shouldn't?
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I think you're getting subthreads confused. Nobody in this subthread has said anything about naming this individual.
Hmm. This is an interesting topic to think about.

Why aren't the tools for analyzing White Boxes as good as those we have for Black Boxes? I would say it's due to the differences in boundaries.

For example, Black Box tools have it simple. Capture anything that crosses in the direction of Black to White. Capturing what goes from White to Black is much harder, though, since there are less visible boundaries on what can be accessed. For example - if I write a black box which utilizes a environment variable, you have to be tracking what memory a program accesses to see this from outside the program.

White boxes, on the other hand, have very few boundaries, and those which exist are fuzzy at best. Sure, there are technically functions and modules and scopes, but these boundaries are soft; frequently and easily pierced. Global variables, shared memory, inlined functions, tail call optimization, continuation passing... all of these make it incredibly difficult to reason about and trace program flow, because the program flow depends so heavily on the global context.

Functionally pure programming paradigms might be our best bet in the long run: when a "function" produces deterministic output for given input, we suddenly create a network of predictable black boxes within our white box, giving us the edges we need in order to implement our tracing and automated reasoning tools.
Not to defend the SOB, but it's never black or white. It will be just "he says, she says" and nothing concrete could be proven. Here's another story that's closer to Silicon Valley:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-unde...
I argue it's NOT laudable. What should happen instead is the road should be fixed more efficiently.

It's not fair for those commuting on the roads to have to wait longer. It's not fair to those paying to have the roads fixed to pay more.

If you want to do charity, then do charity. If you want to fix roads, then fix roads.
Well, HN is kind of self-selecting in that respect. I imagine that a more "mature", less SV type of nomad house won't be advertising themselves too much, lest the nomad bloggers come pouring in. (Who, by the way, I have nothing against, but it's not my kind of community either.)
Are we destined to become last in everything but killing well?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/0204/Drones-...
I knew I would hear these objections... and I still stand by my assertion in general.