skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's the opposite. The large portion of the population who believes everything the authorities tell them has a mental illness that prevents them from thinking critically and for themselves.
True, but it's one thing to blow a balloon or stick a piece of duct tape, another is to use a glove for hours a day.
Could you elaborate on this? Did that really happen?
> I disagree- The value of something is "what you can get someone to pay for it." That is the only concrete, objective, and rational way to determine value.

That's perfectly fine, after all value, whatever definition we use, is just a model, nothing that exists outside of humankind. The problem with the definition you prefer, though, is the substantial subset of the economy that will not be available on a market. An economy consists of significantly more production and consumption than what gets sold on a market and therefore gets a price. Examples: Producing free software in your free time, creating music, training kids in a sports club, raising your own kids, teaching for free via youtube channels or moogs or locally etc. All these thing create, well, value, I'd say. They boost both wealth and efficiency of the economy.
I agree; I don't think there's any reason for a browser to be fingerprintable even when not in incognito mode. I'm curious if this is on the roadmap for a browser like firefox or one of the linux ones. You would think govt / infosec people might care about it too?
I'm curious if the salaries include stocks and other compensation - my stocks are a large portion of my compensation package, and I work for a major company, not a startup. It makes me wonder if this might skew more in favor of west coast, where (I think?) those compensation schemes are more common - as where I'm at, those numbers all seem really low compared to what most people I know make.
Twins share the same environment in the 1st 9 months, when their faces are formed.
What are the typical working conditions in the US tech sector? I mean vacation days, hours / week, flexible working hours, other perks and benefits?

What would be the most typical conditions? What are the conditions an American software engineer would say: "I'm not accepting to work for less than this"?
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They can fix most of this. Tor Browser has addressed some of the easier problems and makes fingerprinting more difficult. If you read the bug reports of major browsers, you'll see the maintainers will usually value compatibility and features over privacy. It would be especially nice if they'd fix the issues with fonts because that's one fingerprinting aspect that's really only solved by modifying the core browser code (unless you remove/add fonts system-wide from your machine to match Tor Browser).

Tor Browser overview: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

There's a long tail to fingerprinting that's pretty daunting. E.g., you can detect OS by looking for idiosyncrasies of the low level networking stack. One project did attempt to solve this but hasn't been touched in years: http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/
>There will never be an excess of solar or wind. Even if you continue the dramatic growth in renewables of the past decade there is utterly no chance that renewables can replace fossil fuels. The gap is too great.

1. Wind and solar energy is currently about 3% of the world's supply, and projected to grow at 6-8% per annum (source: BP Energy Outlook 2015, and others), meaning it doubles every 10 years or so... wind and solar may well become the dominant energy in our lifetimes.

2. There already is an excess of wind power, in some places at some times. Where I live (Perth, Australia) wholesale energy prices go negative several times per month, typically at night when the wind is blowing and power demand is low.

> You are living in a dreamworld if you think that the path to a sustainable future can be found through technology alone. Sustainability can only be achieved by dramatically lowering our energy consumption rate.

I disagree completely - lets see what happens say over the next ten years.
My point is that `go generate` requires more than just source, and thus isn't "simpler" in the manner claimed in the article.

I'm not judging the existence of `go generate` or it's merits relative to some other environments. Except makefiles. Makefiles are worse.
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As long as the hashing power is distributed so that no single group has more than 50%, then it doesn't matter if some people trust someone else to manage the blockchain for them. Bitcoin's benefits still exist. If everyone trusted one entity to manage the blockchain, then you'd be right, but that's not what is being suggested here.
Very in depth, nice work OP!
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A Raspberry Pi running a Postgres database can handle about 10 times the transaction rate of the Bitcoin network. (Obviously this isn't exactly apples-to-apples, but it gives a rough idea of how totally out of balance the resources consumed vs the transaction rate is.)

(10 TPS for TPC-B: http://raspberrypg.org/2013/11/raspberry-pg-server-some-benc...)
Porn websites, as it stands, are better secured than your average Bitcoin exchange. Nothing to worry about.
The problem is that major air disasters are so incredibly rare that whatever happened is by definition enormously improbable. That means the speculative landscape is fantastically broad: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1364

Occam's Razor is only useful when one hypothesis stands out above all the rest in prior plausibility. In the case of major air disasters no such single hypothesis is favoured. Almost any prior, up to but not including "zapped by aliens", is sufficiently likely to be in the running.
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Interesting.

Perhaps Go becomes the language for Ubuntu Phone apps ?
I agree that's how people should feel about it, and if they did that it would solve two major issues we have in the society right now (hopefully):

1) "sex scandals" - it seems politicians or others in power can't go to prison for stealing a lot of money or even murdering someone. But if they are involved in a sex scandal - well god may have mercy on their souls! Their careers are basically over then. It's also why intelligence agencies can have tremendous power over politicians, judges and so on, if they can "discredit them" through their porn or sex habits. That should stop happening. It should be a non-issue for everyone.

2) the more people are "okay" with porn or sexuality in general, the less likely it will be for some politicians one day to manage to pass a bill that criminalizes either porn in general, or specific kinds of porn or sexuality (like say gay porn).
Very good tool. I will take a look. (I have used my script for years, it's worth switching to a better thing.)
I'm afraid it's not about you specifically as an employer. It's about everyone and the judgement they might make depending upon.
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Say what you will about the article or his theory, but I thought this passage was really well written and concisely summed up an important observation:

“‘That’s right’ is a feeling you get so that you can move on,” Burton told me.
It’s a kind of subconscious laziness.
Just as it’s harder to go for a run than to plop onto the sofa,
it’s harder to reexamine one’s assumptions than it is to embrace certainty.
At one end of the spectrum of skeptics are scientists, who by disposition or training resist the easy path;
at the other end are conspiracy theorists, who’ll leap effortlessly into the sweet bosom of certainty.
Probably not.

Considering that airline crashes are exceedingly rare on a per flight or per distance basis, what, exactly, are the usual circumstances of airline crashes?
What?.
A map key type should be parameterized type.
Ergo, it is about generics.
I use browser zoom at 125%. Works great.

The default is small, but I almost never remember this issue because my browser remembers the zoom setting.
Thanks, I hope it helped.
Thanks for that, rakoo.

Do you know any XMPP client that supports threading? I am using Pidgin (for irc, facebook, yahoo), skype and viber. None of them has the feature.
Based on the sources I used, they would probably not includes those extras (unless they self-reported them at glassdoor.com I guess).
It is nice a cost of living discussion that looks at total discretionary earnings rather than useless metrics like percentage of income spent on rent+food.
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That Galois story is obviously a fairy tale.
Probably the story is written by his father who is the real one behind.
Math history is full of those urban legends because its better like this. A hero of his time.
What would "Extra Discretionary" look like for SF?
> I cannot count the amount of times I've read about scientists in the past getting ridiculed for some "crackpot" theory only to be vindicated later.

I can, and it is a much, much smaller number than either:

1) a theory was widely accepted because "it just made sense" and turned out to be false (bloodletting, Aristotle's physics, caloric, aether, bad air causing disease...)

or

2) a theory being ridiculed and it turning out to be nonsense (n-rays, Cartesian vortices, cold fusion...)

Take-home: the initial plausibility of any theory will vary widely between people (plausibility is subjective, probability is objective). But as evidence accumulates the beliefs of all good Bayesians will converge.

Ergo: initial plausibility isn't the least bit interesting. Validation by systematic observation, controlled experiment, and/or Bayesian inference is. So bringing up initial plausibility--in either direction--is not so interesting, except in the case (as in this one) where a nearly infinite number of theories have almost identical initial plausibility, because we know with as much certainty as we know anything that air travel is incredibly safe, so failures are necessarily due to bizarre low-probability anomalies.

Under those circumstances, anyone who promotes their particular theory as vastly more plausible than any of the equally implausible alternatives is necessarily nuts: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1364
Well that may be true, but Elon has done coding and hence his words are worth considering.
You can buy buckets of generic bricks but they're hard to find in toy and department stores. I'm in Australia and gave up trying to find generic stuff in stock here and ordered in Duplo from Amazon for my two year old.

He has airport and train sets (gifts from family), plus bulk bricks, which means he can get a mixture of general building experiences, plus specific things to combine with them. Works well.
As someone nearly irrationally annoyed by the collective inefficiency of all the Javascript being run in the world, I kind of wish the computational "free lunch" ends sooner than later so the frontend world has to move towards the zero-cost abstractions and techniques being adopted server side. Too bad these hardware engineers are really good at their jobs!
It was a classic case of the marketing department taking over the farm.
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I think averaged adjustments for cost of living are senseless as this is quite individual.

Let's take me as an example: I manage to live modestly but well on around 1000 CHF (1050 USD) in Zurich while making around 6400 CHF (6700 USD) in net-salary. I am a junior software engineer hacking on Python in a SMB.

(Full disclosure: My company is hiring; feel free to reach out to me at iwang{at}fastmail.net. Also, my experiences working in Switzerland can be found here: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" http://goo.gl/EIX4UX)
I only use my machines to log on to services, can't bring myself to trust anyone else's machine.

Unless that VPS you run Owncloud on is hosted on hardware you have under your own control, it is not on your own machine. The acronym VPS ('virtual private server') is a bit of a misnomer as it is not as private as it may seem since anyone with access to the supervisor will have access to your virtual-not-so-private-server.
But you don't want your specific flavor out in the open right?

mc32 - most browsed categories on youporn last year
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gay midget
hairy
whales
scat
tentacles

You can freak out now!
First that would require adapting the deep learning libraries (e.g. theano, torch and Caffe) to use it efficiently. Those libraries have optimal CUDA kernels for efficient GEMM, spatial pooling and FFT convolution operations that would need to be rewritten to leverage the capacity of a Xeon Phi chip.
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I hate to be the naysayer, but NOBODY SHOULD USE THIS.

If you don't have a lot of money, open a Vanguard account and forget about it. If you don't have the $1000 to set up a Vanguard account, put your money in an FDIC-insured bank account. Seriously, if you don't have $1000 to invest you are MUCH better minimizing effort and risk than trying to make an extra 5% on your money (that's less than $50 per year).

Also, nobody should "invest" in any app that makes you pay to hide the ads.
There's an ongoing criminal case in Sweden where a website streamed their porn movies for "free". However, in the fine print it said that in order to watch this you need to pay X. So basically the company could bill you just for watching.

This wouldn't be any problem since people are anonymous. The twist is that the company behind it actually had a deal with some of the phone network operators where they sent the phone number as a header for mobile devices.

The result was that hundreds of people got invoices and were told that their personal details would be exposed if they didn't pay.
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The is no C code in the compilers anymore.
The sites themselves wouldn't likely leak these data, rather it could be compromised.

From the article:
"All that's needed are two nominal data breaches and an enterprising teenager that wants to create havoc."
Opportunities are indeed out of your control, but preparation isn't. And keeping an eye open for opportunities is also within your control. Everyone who got "lucky" worked their ass off. Bill Gates, Notch, ...
Very true. Different individuals have their own spending amount. I tried to use a reasonable average when adjusting the salaries but if you are far away from average, then your own calculations will be different.
> Better ways to plug programs together are needed

Yes! Maybe a language with direct support for software architecture, such as defining + (re-)using your own connectors.
That's just evil.

Fortunately most people switch over to a non-carrier network via 802.11 when they're at home with their mobile devices.
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There is a lot of selection bias in the type of people that post on those sites. The salaries are almost always deflated. Software engineers making $200k+ aren't posting on indeed.com.
A mental illness does not have to result in major negative side effects to be considered an illness. People can live very normal looking lives, while also having delusional thoughts.
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Since your opinions on some language features are controversial in a sense (like `==`) - it could be nice if you could elaborate a bit on why you made them in that time span?
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> One was sure the plane had been hit by lightning and then floated in the South China Sea, transmitting to the satellite on battery power. When I kicked him out, he came back under aliases. I wound up banning anyone who used the word “lightning.”

That's some seriously messed up moderation. Who is this guy and what forum is he talking about?
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You'll probably find some transferable ideas and methods for your work in "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis" and the follow up "Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis".
And what if your reaction is that there's something wrong?

I can't tell what it is, but my eyes say that that's neither a real clockwise nor a real counterclockwise rotation.
Is that itemizing the CA taxes or just taking the standard deduction? The rule of thumb in CA is if you make more than $100,000, your state taxes are larger than the standard deduction.
Heh, I watched this live during AGDQ, it was absolutely amazing.
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- Fees are hidden, nothing is "free"
- The time from when you pay until you own the shares is hidden
The time from when you "sell" until you have the money again is hidden
- They "aim" to replicate the S&P500 but then they can differ. How much and how often.
- All risk and volatility is hidden
- Security of computer systems. They seem to be brilliant math guys with little computer security experience at all. Bitcoin syndrome.
"If Occam's Razor was true, then all magic tricks should imply that those who perform them are actually magicians."

You obviously don't understand Occams Razor.
This theory would have had way more impact without quoting any names or making any direct accusations. It would also have had the benefit to spare his reputation.
I would greatly appreciate a link to anywhere that explains how to demonstrate "spooky action at a distance" in my garage or at a makerspace. Provided the materials aren't too expensive, I'd love to do a lab experiment showing it, especially if it can be done with common parts.
Yeah, most elaborate "somersaults" guidance in CVs (or Lebenslaufen) are usually BS

Go with the basics and it should be ok. Especially in more modern companies (IT, etc)
OP here. Good point, it is definitely using standard deduction.
Yeah, all we'd have to do is convince every manufacturer of operating systems and/or browsers to agree on a common set of fonts, work out licensing/font rendering technology issues etc., then convince all web developers across the world (or at least a sizable portion) to redevelop their websites to work with this list, then enforce the font restriction, and then convince users that this is somehow a good idea because invariably a bunch of the websites they use are going to break. We also need to do it within a few years, otherwise it's too late, and our main argument is going to be 'but maybe websites can use fonts as part of a fingerprint to track what websites we are visiting'.
Perhaps they were on holiday?
Yeah, it has support. But how good is the support?

I recently had to investigate cross compiling some go software on 64bit Arm v8 and 64bit Power8 little endian.

GCC works on these platforms and gccgo works on these platforms, but Go is not just Go it seems, theres all the other little tools involved in a modern Go program.

Try and compile something like Docker, Fleet, Etcd, Consul, or any other complex Go program somewhere that gcc & gccgo work fine, and you will find some rather large holes in the notion that GCC has 'built in support'.
No one should abandon critical thinking.
The way you're defining "value" makes for a pretty meaningless "victory", unless you believe Dutch Tulips were a true benefit to mankind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Collecting and mining hands you play\see is fine but its the buying and selling of other people's datasets that is bad form / banned. In the small circles of nose-bleed games, it is resembles collusion when a team shares data to undermine a single target across a set of games.
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isn't this what throwaway Linux VMs where invented for?

Elsewhere in this thread someone mentions a conspiracy of service provider and porn [alleged] criminal. So I guess Fapuntu-64 won't work for that, but for all else, it seems a good solution, so long as your desktop is not your telephone.
Well that story with lightning sounds more likely.
Screw performance numbers, how about basic compatibility testing?
keywords: "seems improbable"
Just because something SEEMS improbable doesn't actually mean it IS improbable.
Try at least occasionally watching it together with your girlfriend. I'm sure you can find some movies/scenes that you both like. I made very positive experiences with that.

Otherwise I absolutely agree with your comment. I don't give a sh*t whether you, my co-workers, my boss or my wife watch porn.

I'd be rather more astonished to find out that some guy never watched it. It used to be complicated, but since the late nineties it's all 'just a click away' and free.
The real lesson learned here is that people stopped talking about what made this guy famous, and in an attempt to kick the fires and get the flames going again, he's doing whatever it takes to bring the story back into the public eye so that we will once again call on him for his expertise.
> If P is true, its negation is false.

Where's your proof?
> The salaries are almost always deflated.

Really? Last I looked self-reported numbers tend to be _inflated_ compared to govt collected figures (from tax returns and payroll reports). My intuitive understanding of this is that people being underpaid tend to not want to brag about it, even anonymously.
Maybe take the middle road? Grab a copy now if you can't wait and buy it later when it comes out on DVD/Blueray. Fortunately it's being aired here in the UK on Channel 4 tomorrow so I haven't got this dilemma.
It's widely reported. For example http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
You couldn't be more wrong about this.

- You need to convince only one browser. People that care about privacy will use that browser.

- You don't need licensing, they still use the OS fonts. They just limit the fonts available.

- You don't need to convince web developers because they already use these fonts and only these fonts. Who's using Papyrus?

- 1997 websites are going to break. Again, new websites use only a set of system fonts or fancy web fonts.
Interesting. Most american companies I interviewed with, were asking me very personal questions, such as race and sexual orientation.
well, based on the ADP site, that's about a $3k difference in annual state tax vs. standard deduction for CA, so I don't think that changes things too much, but good to know for someone like me who's already here in san jose.
> The result was that hundreds of people got invoices and were told that their personal details would be exposed if they didn't pay.

Sounds like fraud and extortion to me. Were criminal charges filed?
Because the behaviour of the JS VM and the CLR VM is very different?
Very interesting, but it still seems like browsers would be able to prevent that: simply restrict the font list to a generic set when in incognito mode. Similarly for any other fingerprint thing. Of course, in the most general case this might be hard (or impossible) to prevent fully, but a browser developer should be able to at least get close to minimizing it... I would think?
Luckily, the collective letter regarding making sure society benefits from AI/ML rather than losing out was signed by bunches and bunches of actual trained experts with extensive academic and industrial experience.

So there's that.