skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the idea that the content available on our devices is shaped by the economic framework that supports it.

When the economic model is advertising and data tracking, the types of apps/services that are available are the ones that work best with advertising and data tracking. And it turns out that consumer-oriented social sharing services fit that model pretty well. So that's mostly what we have.

Those services do have value. But I think it's limited. When I walk into a cafe with a beautiful view and everyone is on their phones, or when people awkwardly scroll through Twitter at a group event instead of enjoying the world around them or interacting with strangers....I dont see people gaining value. Especially when it's children doing it. I see compulsive addictive behaviour that erodes human value for the benefit of advertising companies.
I could answer you with reasons. But in the 1980s, one would also ask - why should we enable a household to own a mainframe. But look at what we do with computers today. You could have a really smart kernel hacker/programmer running his own amazon like business. Not based out of the US and not susceptible to NSA snooping - (but his own country's intelligence agency could snoop - that's another matter altogether)
You could just get centOS.
> Who says it's magic? It is, however special

You... honestly believed that I was suggesting literal magic, rather than just using a colourful word for special?

Anyway, I'm not forgiving Australia's actions on asylum seekers by comparing to US actions. I'm stating that "constitution" law does not prevent abuses. You say that there is a relatively small number of terror suspects? There is also a relatively small number of asylum seekers in offshore detention. However, the three million domestic US prisoners generally have terrible conditions. Where is the constitution protecting them? What about the police armed with military equipment that refer to civilians as 'the enemy' and have a problem with shooting black people? The constitution isn't providing much protection there.

Where did the US constitution protect over a million dead Vietnamese from a US puppet war?

Where did the US constitution protect several hundred thousand dead Iraqis from a war of US military adventurism?

My point is not to make a laundry list of US misdeeds, but to point out that there is nothing special when it comes to human rights and a document called "the constitution", and it seems the US talks about its constitution more than everyone else combined.

Just to reiterate, constitutional law is just law that's harder to change. It can be changed. The US Bill Of Rights is explicitly a list of changes to the constitution. Governments can restrict themselves further without a constitution - the UK has plenty of human rights legislation without a document called "the constitution". Likewise you can be signatories to treaties that restrict your government without making constitutional amendments or making domestic law.

On the other points:

> will not be called a true democracy by me

'True democracies' don't prevent abuses either. Democracies have a history of all sorts of abuse - apart from modern states, we can point to slavery-era US slaughtering its way across the continent, empire-building England, all the way back to the ancient Greek democracies like Athens... who kept slaves. And if it's claimed that these states aren't 'true democracies' as a result, then that's pretty much a textbook example of the "No True Scotsman" argument. 'Democracy' is not a synonym for 'egalitarian utopia'.

> detaining innocent civilians, including children, without trial.

You are aware that there were untried detainees in Guantanamo, yes? And if they're untried, you can't just claim them guilty-by-default.

> and regretting it after a few years

Give me a break. This is simply flat-out apologism. And just like the Australian people with offshore detention, the US people with suspects in Guantanamo Bay were split amongst those people who were angry, those people who were glad (some openly), and those people who don't care.
Nice example of how much ground "AI" has to cover before it can be considered "intelligent". OTOH, lot of humans struggle with differentiating facts from opinions, so can't be too hard on these systems.
...I don't see it.

Compile time optimization is a thing you can do for your production build only. Unless Go's design implicitely inhibits certain types of optimizations, but that would seem odd given how opinionated it is. What you do in Go, and what you mean, are much clearer then in most other languages.
I couldn't find the book at the hint provided...
Could someone help me get that book.
Thanks in advance
Yup, they must be about a mile apart.
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I've tried Gillette, Harry's and DSC and ended up with Harry's being first preference, DSC a backup. Harry's (subjectively) does seem sharper and smoother, with a caveat that I shave in hot shower, with skin being soft, pores being open and all, the experience probably differs if shaving gel is applied onto a dry face.
Factual discussions with reporters isn't harassment, as you'll soon be taught by your own peers.
Given that google shows different people different results for the same query, to tell people what they want to hear, I wonder if others see the same result I do.
Someone did... back in 2009... it was Art Lebedev... as stated in the first line of the article... :P
Well, to answer your question, Amazon must have figured out that researchers will pay quadruple or even orders of magnitude more for this service, because these costs are fairly transparent to people outside of science. They know a certain large segment of their customer base is willing to shoulder much higher fees for this.
What would you have to do to fuck up BGP in 2015? Is it more or less the Autonomous-System version of ARP cache poisoning?
Not to mention I spent five frustrated minutes looking for the Charing Cross branch of the damn black line, only to realize later that it's coloured green.
I'm sorry, but if go would be product of lisp minded people it would be simple language with ability to extend the language on the fly. Reality is in go there is no way to even introduce some nice contract on top of error return and if statements without external preprocessor.
I cant seem to register. When I go to http://start9.io/register and enter in my details and click the create account button nothing happens.
26 y. since the Tiananmen Massacre. China is censoring the mention of it in SM
> Do people really think like this? All you have to do is "pay your dues" and you "deserve" it instead of voting on issues, track record & potential to make real change?

Yes. Source: Click around the Facebook comments of any substantially large digital publication. Tonnes of people don't even vote. Of those that do, most vote for the parties they're already loyal to. Of the few that are in the middle, most decide according to whatever is fashionable. It's a vanishingly small few that bother to evaluate issues, track records, etc.
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Oh... so it's a scale set by you... :(
I get voting on party - what scares me is voting on someone because they "paid their dues" - which is especially mind boggling when you look at people's approval ratings of those same candidates in their previous jobs (typically congress - which is hanging out at around 16%).
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Real life Gyro Gearloose!!!

In the next video he talks about how a Klein bottle is made, and how, contrary to a bottle, it has no edge.

I'm not sure I understand why a bottle "has to" have an edge? Surely it's possible to make a bottle with no edge? For example, if one takes a sphere and progressively turns it into a bowl (by punching into it), and then makes the bowl deeper, it still has just one surface and no edge, no?
He is awesome.
That is the point: we do not care, we just reproduce. We have been doing that (reproducing over the real carrying capacity, which is what the local environment can sustain) forever.

You can argue that we'll get soon better at distributing food, but that is just wishful thinking. And, human nature being what it is, improving food distribution will just lead us to a bigger population increase, keeping us above carrying capacity.

There is no period of human history when humanity has managed to sustainable restrain its growth. We go wherever technology can bring us, but always a little bit farther. It is simply not how life works: life overproduces to guarantee delivery.

For that scenario that you are proposing to become reality we need to reign on very strong instincts acquired during millions of years of evolution. I am not saying that it can not be done, just that we are not there, that we are not getting anywhere near, and that I think the chances of bringing about that utopia are really slim. Mad Max is way more probable.
Imagine a machine that gives you whatever you want that can reasonably be produced. Imagine a world with infinite resources. Economics exists due to scarcity. If there is no scarcity, then everyone can have whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want. Robots will extract the raw resources, build it, and deliver it to you wherever you want them to. There will be no sales. There will be no excess. Just what is needed whenever it is needed.
> Somewhere, however, that has been extrapolated to the idea that Go is a good language for writing web apps. I don't believe that's the case.

I have always had this feeling and thought why isn't more people speaking up about that.

For me it's a good improvement from C++ (and maybe C as well), somehow well-suited for systems programming.

I never understood how people can claim it to be natural "upgrade" from Python or Ruby. I have a feeling the opposite is actually the case. This of course is all in the web-development context, not in general one.
(COTS = Common off the shelf)
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With the Northern Line being split, though, it isn't clear that I can take a single train from High Barnet to Charing Cross, or from Edgware to Bank.
Wow. Beautiful math. Such insight. Thank you for sharing.

var PI2 = Math.PI * 2.0;

That should be Math.TAU, right?
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I think "She has paid her dues" is meant to be justifying the claim that she's fit to be a candidate, not that she should win. Last time around there were suggestions that Clinton didn't have the political experience necessary to make a good president, and that's a harder argument to make now.

(I do think it's a pretty fatuous article, not that that's a huge surprise from the Huffington Post. But it's probably not far off the mark -- the factors it lists really are likely to make as much difference to whether anyone votes for Clinton as any details of her policies or past achievements.)
I don't agree that a clean Windows installation is a process for experts and can therefore withstand being overly technical. If anything it should be the complete opposite - a clean install should be so incredibly smooth that the most basic of users can do it.

I'm also not convinced that ordinary people will never do a clean Windows install - unless of course it's so damn hard that they can't.

You also don't have me convinced that five weeks out from release that the very first step of the installation process should not be finalised - it should be. If anything this first point of user contact should almost be the first thing finalised when an operating system like Windows is developed. This is the point that my blog posts make - Microsoft just doesn't understand what matters, which in my opinion, is the user experience from step one. What the heck is being testing in a gigantic public beta test if not the users first point of contact with the OS?
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I don't think this has ever been presented as the cutting edge of AI.
Except when the type system restricts you to homogeneous data-structures in inherently heterogeneous world. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, could tell us a lot about it.

As for crude and misleading clasdification - there is no shortage for them, especially in realms of psychology (hypohondric, sangvinic - all that nonsense) or economics and finance. The results of application of flawed economic/financial models based on flawed categories could be seen everywhere.
For meteorology, please, ask anyone who lives in monsoon area - there is worse than coin-flipping accuracy when it comes to hill regions.)
On a similar but orthogonal angle...

Can the millions of phones be used to coordinate and build any sort of 'Cloud servers'? When SETI@Home used our desktops' idle screen saver time for its calculations, can these multi-core pocket computers be used for something?
Some will need a screenshot of the query at some point:

http://i.imgur.com/SEq4GW9.png
the guy has some interesting points (hard to say valid ones since we are all just guessing how future will shape up), but constant mentioning of minimal guaranteed income as cure-it-all-for-our-bright-future is a bit too much to swallow (mentality of quite a few nations i know is, hand out anything, and you remove the only motivation for them do do anything positive or even neutral to society)

The last line of article says it all - Tom Streithorst has been a union member... - in my own personal experience, unions are plague, nothing to be proud of, but that's another topic altogether. This makes it automatically a left-wing-orientated article, which is OK by principle, but not in sync with my inner beliefs and all experiences in my whole life so far (and I've seen the world a bit here & there)
Just because mobile is more prevalent does not make it more valuable, in fact, quite the opposite: the fact that it reaches more classes dilutes the spending power of the average user. What we have ended up with is a segment with extreme competition AND low app prices (the average PC app sells for at least 10x more than a mobile app).

But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Although we have tried to app-ify everything, I still prefer doing 99 percent of tasks on a device with a real keyboard and enough horsepower to prevent lag (in spite of rapid improvements, I still find the lag on my mobile device (1 year old now - HTC One M8) to be frustrating).
Yes splitting the Northern line like that is not at all helpful; there was a plan a few years back to smooth the flow by making all Edgeware trains go via Bank and High Barnet via Charing Cross (or vice-versa, I forget), but it seems to have withered on the vine.
You haven't driven much on country roads with two lanes and no median, have you? Following a container truck going at 20kmph with "Do Not Pass" sign for 50 Kms, how many people would honor that?
I think the only time greater geographic accuracy is handy is when you decide to take a shortcut by walking between stations - EG Charing Cross to Embankment.
The cost is a rather embarrassing £20k.
The biggest cost is the circuit boards about 7 or 8k now I think.
The simple hardware such as the aluminium, nuts and bolts etc was a few thousand.
Cables and connectors were thousands. I've had to get 300m of ribbon cable so far and its not going to be enough ! There's about a thousand connections.
The proper electronic components transistors/resistors/LEDs not as dominant as you might expect.
There seemed to be just an endless amount of stuff that was needed.
A friend of mine, Peter Saxton, did his own redesign of the underground a few years ago - http://www.londonlayout.co.uk/. His one is more like the official one than this redesign, in that it keeps more of the purely-topological feel (only horizontal/vertical/45° lines, etc), while still improving on the official one in various ways.

Interactive svg at http://www.londonlayout.co.uk/online.htm , pdf at http://www.londonlayout.co.uk/img/tube.pdf
Because we have the wrong social structure. Humanity is sufficiently advanced that our problems are basically solved problems. But our methods of organization keep us from applying the solutions, except under heavy constraints.

For example, we could have access to every book and video ever published. The history of human thought. And creators could be compensated. But our systems do not allow this.

Underneath it all is violence; attempt to act as if it weren’t the case. Openly share books and movies you’ve experienced. An armed bureaucrat will come after you.
The dangers of having a machine give you the "right answer". This isn't that different from that other "right answer" in Google about dinosaurs:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/05/26/why-is-google-givin...

All this teaches us is to take Google's first answer with a huge grain of salt, if not almost immediately discard it in favor of further research, even when there's a "simple" question like "how tall is something" (remember Google got Stephen Colbert's height wrong as well: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/google-stephen-colb...).
Relevant: http://imgur.com/gallery/fkkn3
Even if they were selling perfect blades, is this company really worth $615M?
While it's kinda funny, I think it's made pretty clear that text is a summary generated from the first search result that is clearly linked below, only a moron would consider this an endorsement of Hillary by Google.
Unions are why we have the forty hour/five day work week.

Guaranteed income is probably the only sane way to move forward. Your description of "mentality of nations" make very little sense, and doesn't actually mesh with the many studies on what happens when you invest in people.
Interesting how you know so much shell but still uselessly use cat.
I think you're dead right about the Citymapper comment. I like this map as well, especially because it includes some overground railway lines that I would otherwise never think of using. But nowadays I'd just put my destination into Citymapper and it can show me the most useful routes from those, as well as bus lines & plain old walking.

It's always a good feeling when I discover a new way of reaching somewhere when in the past I'd have just gone on the tube.
My own experience (sameple size of one) tells me that the greatest advantage to a classic double edged razor is in learning the technique. You WILL cut your face when you first start with it, but if you persist, you learn the right amount of pressure, the right stroke length for your face, the right angle, how to clean it, etc. The handle on my double edged razor broke, and I couldn't be bothered to replace it (lifetime warranty though). For about 6 months now I've been using cheap double blade dispoasble razors (and only replacing them about once a month) and I'm having a hard time convincing myself to go back. I used to swear by the badger hair brush, nice shaving cream and Merkur blades, but now I just use the hot water in the shower and a cheap plastic razor (that is rarely super sharp because it's usually weeks old) and my shave is just as close. I reckon I could dry shave if required, but the burn would be unbearable.
He stated it is for educational purposes? I mean, you will not be looking at all frames at once? I mean, it would be definitely convenient to have easy access to all of them without manipulating the frames, but it seems as unnecessary requirement.
I did do a lot of simulation of the logic. I built models of the hardware in software (C++).
But I didn't do any analog simulation, which was a mistake. I was aware of SPICE and had a look around but the tools I found seemed expensive. It was only after I'd started that someone pointed me at some free versions, LTSPICE in particular.
Not what I'd call transparent, but still useful tech.
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Cliff Stoll in case people were wondering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll

I have his original book my shelf, it was fascinating when it came out.

His Klein Bottle company is here:

http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Javascript doesn't have a TAU constant in it's Math object (yet). He could have added it with Math.TAU = Math.PI * 2; though.
To be fair to the armed bureaucrats, in that scenario no creator is being compensated. But yes, our problems are now mostly man-made.
Yeah, Bell Labs never been a Lisp shop, but they developed their own philosophy and make it walk with the Plan 9 project.
I didn't mean pornography's moral/immoral line, I meant the "what is pornography" line. The obscenity line.

I just picked it because it's a famous example of lines that are very difficult to legalistically define, but most people can recognize, at least culturally similar people.
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If you make this bowl, it will have two surfaces, with no way to get from one side to the other.
Voting on party scares me - especially in a system where there are only two.
My search result is quite different.

http://i.imgur.com/uDN14bw.png
These are OSI stations, despite the distance between them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card#Out_of_Station_Int...
I believe the difference is that in this case, RS is being used as an erasure code (which means, you either have the data or you don't; the drive has either failed or it hasn't). Failures are (approximately) uncorrelated (assuming different parts are stored on different hosts), so for this use case, RS approaches optimal in terms of storage used (some metadata needs to be stored, which is overhead).
other benchmark : https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Alawys amazed by the fascination the London tube map has with designers. No other map has the same effect - go London!
> For all intent and purposes, that food is not available to the rest of the world.

That's the point - its by intention and purpose. If we had the purpose as a society to feed people, we would have done it already many times over.

But the intention is just not there..
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I think that is why kattuviriyan added the screenshot: I get the same as you, it's probably a country-based feature (or what DuckDuckGo calls bubbling).
I guess you can see it not as "You have a supercomputer in your pocket" but more like "You have - our - supercomputer in your pocket".
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True! That was just an easy experiment anyone can use to verify for themself that violence holds the system together.
A common theme is that only languages that had generics retrofitted into them have awkward implementations (because your design space is now constrained), while those that were designed to have them ab initio typically work fine.

I don't really want to belabor the point of Go and generics; it's one of the many simplicity vs. expressiveness design choices that language designers have to make. But the claim that parametric polymorphism in a statically typed language is (presumably inherently) an awkward mess is a peculiar one, given that there are so many successful examples.
>applications were disassembled and analysed with a Basic script:

argh noooo. Whole analysis is failed :( It doesnt matter that 50% of binary is movs if said binary executes them only once, or not at all (some obscure function). It would be more valuable to test those, or any other program, in modified QEMU TCG or MESS/PCem.
The Daily Mail uses a set of code phrases to indicate to its readers when underage girls can be viewed as something to have sex with.

Here are a few links.

http://www.themediablog.co.uk/the-media-blog/2013/01/daily-m...

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/all-grown-up-sexing-up-the-in...

http://www.newstatesman.com/martin-robbins/2012/06/sex-child...
instamojo is not PayPal alternative. It is business payment collection platform. and It won't support all business. and you can't collect payments from International customers.
Sorry - that also scares me. What is even worse (in my opinion) is people voting on candidates based on last names (which seems to be the trend lately) - especially when that's seen or used as a positive aspect.