skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Affirmative action programs" differ. But in general, they're to control the racism of gatekeepers, these bureaucrats who choose who gets a decent education.

There are better solutions. For instance: free lifelong quality education to all. But naturally, elites would rather waste society's wealth on wars (international killing) and prisons (the most jailings in the world)... than silly things like knowledge and healthcare.

Affirmative action is a modest, successful effort to chip away at the self-destructive inequalities of society. Naturally, many try to attack it to claw back more unearned white privilege for themselves.
You win the nitpick of the year award :-)

Actually there is a plane and a snowflake which share this property with the animals. But the set of images seems to be small - I got quite a few repetitions with just a few retries, so you could probably just hardcode it.

Which doesn't matter much - my feeling is that this test is rather intended to put humans into the right mood than to really deter bots.
Ya, that would be cool. I couldn't get a second display to work with my 4K...well, it sort of worked but was horribly distorted.
I would be absolutely fascinated to see whether you can build a search engine in Visual Basic!

It seems you have a very pragmatic and humanistic mindset, but at the same time all the conventional wisdom of software development tells me you can't run a successful startup on VB. Good luck and I look forward to learning how it turns out! Hopefully you'll smash my preconceptions :)
I see some strength in your analogy, but two main differences:

1) Tax money spent on sending kids to college helps everyone, even the non-parents, since more educated people = better world. Affirmative action doesn't help Asians in any conceivable way. Does it even help society at large? No one arguing for it shows reliable data that it creates significant community benefit.

2) You can always have a child in the future if you choose to. You can't become non-Asian if you were born Asian.
It's cool, they'll get a basic income too. ;P
List of cities by murder rate
Zinsser* - my apologies.
Detroit and St. Lous seems to be the most dangerous city outsite Latin America and Africa. I guess cities like SF, NY, Boston and Seattle are completely different, but for us europeans this kind of numbers look nasty.
If Google Analytics provided nothing other than a counter, those simple CGI visitor count scripts we hacked up back in the 90s would have put Google out of business a long, long time ago.
How do you filter out 'valuable content' from clutter of content from Experts?
I follow the experts in their Twitter / Linkedin / Blog / Facebook, listening to 'the valuable content' they are sharing. But often, I'm getting lost in this clutter of various updates, while I hunt for that ‘valuable content' shared by them.

Take the case of an expert who is very active in twitter. The high frequency updates might as well include their personal status updates, their perspective on X and Y, their one to one conversations with their followers, and you can guess, making it too noisy for you and me?

But you can’t un-follow the expert, as you might miss that ‘vital information’ which (s)he’s going to share in one of her/his upcoming tweets or blog posts?

How do you ensure that you get the best content, but not having to filter through the clutter?
The giants currently have all the control because they own the contact to the consumer. What would be the mechanism that motivates the lazy consumer to switch away from what he knows and loves?
how is the gpu - anyone test it with anything that uses it moderately/heavily? how is it at driving external displays? (How many did you use, and what resolution)? Is scrolling, hd video, etc smooth?

I ask because out of the specs the gpu seems integrated and quite low-power (for the resolution it runs at.)
IP Getter website - Finds your IP with curl
Good for them. They are still ratting out their visitors to Google.
I agree, but as I found out by chance it is very hard to work a dynamic system prone to political change when you have to invest years into it. If your exposure is only short-term you are far less likely to get caught out by sudden changes.

The irony in all this is I ended enrolling in a science degree for which I only needed a very low mark to get into - I could have enrolled in any of my high school's subjects and it would not have mattered.
The Ozone Hole Could Become History
They are already facing monopoly charges in various country, this will definitely hasten the results of these.

I wonder what made them choose this time to reveal such a feature.
Another way to look at deployment of ships is as a statement from a nation that they are taking an interest--for better or worse--in the current events of the destination, and the size of the ship is an indication of the degree of interest. So when a country sends a frigate somewhere, it practically means nothing, a destroyer really only means "just checking in", a cruiser is "okay, don't make me come over there", and sending a carrier is pounding on the door, "keep it down in there!"

Of course, that takes some chutzpah, you wouldn't see Cameroon doing that to the US or something.

There was also no mention of submarines, but I suppose they are sort of a stealth cruiser in there role.
It was a joke, but I found it funny - he explains it with "if there were more, I wouldn't bump into the same people all the time". In other words, his world (the set of people he normally encounters) is made of at most 5000 people.
Google has no support service is becoming a silly meme. Some of their products indeed seem to be almost integrally managed by algorithms.
On the other hand, just yesterday I reported a problem with my nexus tablet through the assistance app. Two minutes later, I was extremely surprised to get a call from a Google representative.
After a couple of minutes of discussion, they are going to send me a replacement tablet right away.
If they want to put the resources behind a support department for another of their products, they are perfectly able to procure a good service.
Innovation’s Dependence on Regulation
The problem with communism was that people were locked-out of the decisions. They had no idea what's going on. The reason for that was not that the leadership imposed it. It worked out that way, because the government made a promise to the common people:

"We will take care of your needs, you just be as productive as you can. You will be happy, we will take care for you".

So the people did. The government gave bread to the masses and the masses didn't care about much else. The ones who cared about more were deemed to be dangerous to the communist society and were killed.

How is the promise made by basic income proponents different that the communist promise?
Which is why I prefer Ractive.js to React.
I suspect OKC can make much more accurate predictions than this site, as they have vastly more data (some users answer thousands of questions, most users who are active for more than a few months have answered a couple hundred), vastly more users to compare, and they are pretty savvy about statistical analysis (reading their old blog posts is quite educational on the subject).

But, even given all that data...I find about half of my 99% matches (of which I've talked to maybe a half dozen and gone on a date with maybe four) aren't particularly compatible or interesting, to me. There seem to be other factors at play that just aren't measurable. And, heck, maybe being just like someone else isn't what makes an ideal friend/lover/partner.
Mozilla tried to launch a site to help educate people while tracking engagement?

This seems like a much bigger issue than the NSA copying entire datastreams from American internet hubs.
What if it's automation and not people being productive?
Have you looked at Nim, perhaps? I haven't used it, but at first glance it certainly seems more Pythonic than Rust.
What I'm afraid of is that setting a basic income will increase food and housing prices, because "people can now afford it". And then we're back to square one...
"...weren't built ahead of time." Where's the line for this? Surely I'd be permitted to reuse libraries (that I've written; that I got from github; whatever) and perhaps the "project" is a smattering of glue. Am I disqualified because 99% was written "ahead of time"?
> On the whole, however, I agree with the initial point about how the peripheral economies built around servicing human truck drivers on their routes will take a hit. I'm thinking of all the towns on the way to Watertown from Minneapolis that would probably evaporate if they didn't have the trucks running the daily on the 212.

Are they going to stop the trucks? Are self driving trucks going to be able to carry more load? Are we going to change highway rules to allow more than 80k pounds total weight for a single tractor/trailer? Are the trucks going to be electric or have vastly improved MPG?

No. So there will still be the same amount of truck traffic as well as the same amount of fuel being sold in nearly the same locations. Perhaps restaurants will take a hit, but fuel and servicing will still be utilized for quite some time.
>> If you simply put a bunch of talented developers in a room, chances are you're not going to end up with a successful business.

Quite, yet this seems to be how many first-time startups operate.
There's bias against Asians everywhere. The difference is remarkably pronounced between asian men and asian women. Hollywood, for example: Asian women? Minority. Asian men? nonexistent.
The Go Blog has an article about slice internals. [0]

After reading that, it is a bit easier to see why this happens. Everything is a value in Go, whether it's an int, a struct type or a reference type like a pointer/map/slice. [1]

Since everything is a value, this is not really "aliasing"

// b "aliases" a
b := a

It only appears to be by coincidence: The entire slice data structure gets copied, and one part of that is a pointer to the underlying array, which does not get copied. This is why updating the underlying array (via `a`) reflects in `b`.

Since `append()` either modifies the underlying original array, or allocates a new one if the underlying array is not long enough (classic dynamic array behaviour) [2], the use of this function will only impact `b` if a new array is not allocated.

To be fair, the article mentions all of this, but sort of in passing and at the end. ("They're slices which are a value type that have a pointer within them.") I feel that this is sort of the key point.

0. http://blog.golang.org/go-slices-usage-and-internals

1. https://blog.golang.org/go-maps-in-action

2. http://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#append
Polish firm disclosed PoC code for security issues in Google App Engin
But those are very rare occurrences. It's like asking "how will tablet screens survive a 4 foot drop on asphalt?"

They won't, but it happens so infrequently that it's not an issue.
I think you are onto something ;-).
Explicitness has benefits.

Honestly, please just leave me alone and stop twisting my words. We can't even agree that there are trade offs involved here. There's no point in continuing.
well it was my assumption that the only people you wanted to talk to were on google/facebook. if you have people on other networks that support federation to talk to - fair enough. if you don't have people on those networks, you'll have to convince people to move. or harder again, you'll have to get them on to your server.

bluescat(probable google employee) says webRTC is the way things are going, so no further development on xmpp. so i think that's the explanation for no s2s tls.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/hangouts/T2t1...
Cameras around the truck and hundreds of hours of Euro Truck Simulator ('cause what else are they gonna do) :-)
Couldn't help but notice,

F' as u8

is equivalent to

b'F'

, and

['F' as u8, 'R' as u8, 'E' as u8, 'E' as u8]

is equivalent to

*b"FREE"

which definitely is a lot more concise :). These are called byte string literals.

Edit: The dereference is necessary because b"FREE" on its own has the type &[u8; 4].
Yeah true. Though one way it could play out is that the existing behemoths transition from a centralized company structure to a decentralized algorithmic structure to save costs.

If the "boring" functions of big tech companies can be automated, at some point it makes sense to just spin that out into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) aka smart contract/s on a platform like Ethereum. The company still receives the tiny transaction fee from that running contract, but they don't need any employees/infrastructure/costs so overall revenue wouldn't be affected from the change.

Consumer-facing nothing will have changed. Same apps, same beautiful interfaces. But 99% of the backend business operations will be performed by distributed, decentralized algorithms running on a blockchain.

Particularly as the sharing economy unicorns scale (Uber, Airbnb etc) they are essentially becoming the single interface and algorithm to entire industries. Uber will become the single monopolized UI to the entirety of all transport (people/food/parcels) with some other minor competitors.

But Uber can very easily be decentralized. And actually the bigger they get, the easier it will be to decentralize them as a third party (because the trained workforce and behaviour is established, and will gravitate on economics... lower prices, higher wages). And so hopefully the costs, competition, monopoly legal issues and scaling pressures (at 1B+ users) will encourage Uber itself to decentralize and run their entire operations transparently on a blockchain.

Maybe in some other capacity Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon will follow suit. Though personally I'm looking forward to a world where sharing 24/7 video and audio feeds to the cloud for processing is seen as normal. Collecting all human input/output data is the first step in my opinion toward building a super AI around humanity. Google and Facebook's centralized nature is capturing the most data at the moment, so they're best positioned.

/2c
Thanks. I did try Dart and our team spent a full month giving it our best for our client.

It was a dream to use compared to JS. One show-stopper though: browser support. At the time, IE11 was just released and Dart had issues with IE11. Also, the Dart supported browser window is only the latest 2 versions of a given browser.

This totally killed our Dart prospects, as our target users in our business are generally non-tech savvy and we need to support older browsers like IE8/IE9.
I don't understand this mentality. Costs are always tax-deductible, it's not as if this is some added perk. Same with donations, "ooh, donations are tax-deductible!" Yeah, so is an advertising campaign, you're not doing me a favor here.
If it's encapsulated it doesn't matter :)
See also: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:

https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard
In Chrome, there's a cool React dev tools extension that shows you the React components.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-to...
There's a React Dev Tools plugin for Chrome that will show a tree of components instead of the DOM.
Such melodrama.

As we speak police vans are en route to round up visitors to that Mozilla page, in co-ordination with Google's security division...
I used to watch the ones by Keralis a lot on youtube. I think it had more to do with his energy and personality than Minecraft itself, but I watched tons of them.
Hey! Ex-Racker (NetSec) here. The truth is on the wire, get captures and check where the packets are dropped.

Do you have the F5 in front of the webservers or on a different interface in one-arm mode? Second case you're going through the firewall, so I guess that's your scenario.
Well to be honest after many attempts to try it out I started to get a bit frustrated and annoyed.

From the errors returned I'm pretty sure it's a PHP backend. Considering the expertise of the average PHP developer I don't think I need to say more (this might sound mean but it's not).
I'm a grownup and I didn't get over it. Granted, I don't play (or watch) near as frequently as these kids do, but I still play.
Microsoft backtracks on free Windows 10 update for pirates
Except that Yosemite was released almost a year ago and Win10 is about to be released this year. A buggy OS is different than a Beta OS.
Seriously, when will Bill Gates' team adapt this to drink the water from microwaved ...
What makes you like Mithril more? I've been looking at it for a while, and it seems very nice and lightweight.

All I really want is an easy way to get performant DOM manipulations. With React I have to build the whole view around the component system, which isn't so flexible. Am I right in thinking that Mithril allows you to put the view together any way you want, as long as the end result is an object it can diff into the DOM?
Have you tried using react without JSX? I find it much nicer. Putting

var R = React.createElement

at the top of each file will make it more ergonomic.
Villagers Protest Against Dilmili Steel Plant
People regularly import American trucks into Europe. It costs ~$2000 to ship an F150 from New York to Hamburg - more if you want it in a container. Apparently it's cheaper than buying them locally...
It would be wonderful if browsers acted more like game engines. Collect user input and at the beginning of every rendering "frame", allow JavaScript to process the input and modify a virtual DOM. Then, render the virtual DOM. It would be so much easier to reason about web applications this way.
Fuck that drug addict piece of shit.. who gives a fuck.
Thanks for the reference. The language tutorial seems readable, indeed.

But it requires more time than 1 hour to study. Maybe I fill find time some day to read it.

If would be nice if during presentation the explained at least one feature which is absent in other languages and makes it possible to build models more compact yet more widely applicable than other languages allow. Just one language feature, but understandable for programmers.

Because the hocus-pocuses with selecting something from internet and printing on screen doesn't help to understand.

Or even better: demostrate some impressive real world application (other than Mathematica itself)
Even then, one operator could control ten trucks simultaneously. Lots of jobs lost.
Yes 10.10 was released at least a year too early - it really should not be out of beta. I get daily "pizza wheels of death" with 10.10.3 on my Mac Pro. On the same machine I have yet to have Windows 8.1 crash. The hardware is fantastic, the software far less so.
This depends on what gets automated first. For example, if we put the legislature on eBay so they could be bought by corporate buyers directly, through a simple e-commerce interface, lobbyists' jobs would be obsolete. On their way out, they would surely create a generous mincome program.
Game of Thrones – Disney style
Haven't Delphi auto-driven three cars across the US?
Why don't they simply analyze the log files on their own, without sharing that data with other companies?

For example, running some log files offline through AWstats is not that hard, and the AWstats output is quite good for most purposes.
We can test this theory. Go to nearest movie theater with a camera and a clipboard, and start taking pictures and recording people who goes in to watch a movie. Also, stop people and ask what movie they are going to watch, with a noticeable "hmmm" and "really? You are that kind of person?". If anyone ask why you are doing this, say you will be selling this information to highest bidder, as there is always someone interested to exploit it.
Ah, thank you. ncmpcpp looks great (and I imagine I can connect it to an mpd instance running on a separate computer), but it's really important for me to not have a window in my alt+tab list.

I'll try XMMS, I have tried it before but it never "clicked". I'll give it another shot, thanks!
Thanks for your response. sounds interesting.
Red Apricot (Hong Xing) have been working well for almost a year.

It's a Chrome extension. Based on sockets proxy.

Occasionally, it got blocked, but they would recover it in the next day.
I don't know if the claim is correct or not, but you have not demonstrated that it is false.

The occupations you describe (nurses, teachers, office workers) can be expected to correlate with population density in a way that just doesn't seem to be necessary for truck drivers, or at least for many of them. Given that population is very non uniformly distributed amongst the states, it is very plausible to have a high proportion of long distance truck drivers living in low population states, so this claim could be true.
Maybe... Still my Yoga 2 Pro feels and looks better than any Mac laptop I have own or seen. Touch screen is definetely a must-have to me. It is specially useful if you are developing for touch devices.
Discrimination is a bad thing that should be rooted out and stopped. The most insidious is of course the very PC "positive or affirmative discrimiation" - where a group of people decide discrimination is now ok, just because. It ends up with parody situations, like here in the UK, there is the joke about a lady making an absolute fortune, companies being desperate to hire her, because she is disabled, ethnic, lesbian, has diverse politics - and so in one hire, the company can tick every positive discrimination category.

Back to the real world though - what a shitty thing to do to someone - to care so little about them as an individual, but to only give them a place because they meet this week's PC hiring criteria. For shame all of those who promote or continue with positive discrimination.
The Basic Income ship has already sailed, and it's not coming back any time soon. The main reason for this is the fact that automation is here to stay. Every day new systems are being automated, first replacing low-skilled, low-wage jobs. People in these job don't really have much power, knowledge, will nor money to push the BIG agenda. Often times, they are not even aware that such thing is being proposed. People in better paying jobs are also being slowly replaced, but they rarely see this as threat to their jobs, but more like productivity improvement.

When some tradesmen, or engineer loses a job because of automation, they first try to work on their skills to stay relevant in the field. They usually won't blame automation for being unemployed, but instead they blame their age, lack of specific new skills, outsourcing or the economy. Without a well paying job, they quickly drop from the affluent middle class to a poor low class. In the mean time, their peers don't see what the real reason for this is, and they happily continue working, hoping that it's not going to happen in their case. They have no incentives to support BIG as they already believe that a lot of taxes go to support the lower classes, and put unfair strain on them.

This shift from middle to low class, is already happening. To keep themselves safe, the high middle class, and the 1%'s will support militarization of police, and push even more entertainment options to the masses. People will rarely revolt, as it's easy to imagine that if you're a father and see your kids starving, you will either work even harder trying to support your family, or you'll drink, do drugs and abuse the kids because you may feel that you failed, and you will try to hide this feeling not only from them but from yourself.
The FAQ has some funny nuggets...

"Psychology is a science" - Anyone following Retractation Watch may beg to differ...

"8^8 is blocked outside of countries where English is both the official language and the most common vernacular." - Could take it from France, no VPN involved...
For me, the only thing holding them back is not being able to switch between discrete and integrated graphics on Windows.