skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC splitter
Amazing woman. She needs a knighthood.
Software and humans are completely different. Humans are, in a way, very fault tolerant. In software, one erroneous line of code can literally crash the car. In a human, one stray neuron will probably don't do much harm.
My assumption was that the margins drivers will have will be small due to competition. Not sure if Uber's margins are currently small or not.
If this is interesting then I recommend (ha!) the EdX Spark course[1]. One assignment shows how to build a recommender on the MovieLens dataset mentioned in this article.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-big-data-apache-spar...
The biggest reason I am not freelancing right now is I need a visa sponsorship (Tokyo), and I enjoy the company of other skilled employees and the occasional banter.
My Quibb Effect – from 0 to 500 views of executives with a single share
"Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. "

Kinda goes downhill from there.

"Life will become a game, or rather many games, but not — as it is now—a zero/sum game. An optimal sexual encounter is the paradigm of productive play. The participants potentiate each other’s pleasures, nobody keeps score, and everybody wins. The more you give, the more you get. In the ludic life, the best of sex will diffuse into the better part of daily life. Generalized play leads to the libidinization of life. Sex, in turn, can become less urgent and desperate, more playful. If we play our cards right, we can all get more out of life than we put into it; but only if we play for keeps."

Does the phrase "Sexual politics" ring a bell? Battle of the sexes? How about negotiations within interpersonal relationships?

This sounds a lot like "In the future, I will never have to do things that I do not like doing. Instead life will be just a game of relative pleasures." but maybe I missed something.

These Utopian bric-a-brac essays should really take a look at the independently wealthy in our societies. There's certainly enough of them. Guess what? They either become inconsequential dweebs or decide that there is some personal struggle worth living for. In fact, some of the cornerstones of psychiatry and philosophy are the ownership of personal meaning and the journey towards realizing that meaning. As one study said recently, there is a choice between being happy and having meaning in your life. They are not always the same. Meaningful lives involve struggle.

I'm really happy to see more folks starting to consider how technology and robotics will change our lives. It'd be good to see most of them level-up, however. If every essay is going to be troubled by entry-level problems we don't have much of a chance of actually getting anywhere in the conversation.
> Sticks and stones can break my bones, but... words can be a felony?

I guess when people live in such fear from online bullying that they have to move house because of the rape and death threats they're receiving, it's a little more than "text typed on a keyboard".

It's not your American upbringing, it's your framing of the problem.
The unconvenient truth that none of you fuckers wants to admit:

http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/24456-the-math-of-mas...
Can it properly record zsh's completion dialogs?
I recently spent two hours trying to record a 5 seconds terminal sequence [0] and all terminal recording tools I tried failed. I ended up using a screen recording tool.

[0] http://imgur.com/BxGppbA
Thanks mate! Really appreciate your words :)

We will be adding some features in the next updates, for example tomorrow the v.1.1 will be out with a quick access to comments and upvotes from the main feed and a feature that lets you follow users in order to track their activity.

For the v.1.2 (out in one or two weeks) we are planning to add night mode (as you said), 1password integrations, collapse comments and some other fixers, you, users, requested. We are here to build together the best experience.

Btw, currently to access comments, until the new update, you have to open a post, and in the NavBar (at the right side) you have a icon that opens our actions menu > comments > reply and post new comments
I agree with the general ideology. Capitalism is optimized for maximising output, not happiness.

In fact, capitalism will take happiness and convert it into economic output. This is why people in the developed world have such high rates of depression and why we make terrible decisions when it comes to our own happiness.

In the old days, to be happy, you just had to be able to satisfy your basic needs. Today, you HAVE to satisfy your needs, but you also need to satisfy your 'wants' and in some cases, your 'shoulds'.

I think with today's technology (in the developed world) we are already more than capable of satisfying all of our needs without having to work much at all.

I think the biggest evils of today's society are:

1. Marketing

2. Nepotism

3. Debt
Well, the game didn't change...
Supercell's CEO reveals the culture of the company (2013)
Looks like they have used Flash (found it in sources) and a bit of JS for age verification and other basic stuff.
There's IndexedDB. Both Mozilla and Microsoft opposed on standardizing on a specific implementation of an SQL database (sqlite v2), and rightly so. There's loads of commentary/rationale on this issue on the web, so I won't re-iterate it here.

iOS has IndexedDB since v8.0 though the implementation is poor. I don't know if they've fixed it in any 8.x release. However, you're (mostly) not using IndexedDB directly anyway but a storage library, which supports IndexedDB, WebSQL and maybe localstorage as a fallback (e.g. localForage[1] for a simple key-value DB).

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/localForage/
It's quite easy to ignore even very clear evidence when it goes against one's politics. And that kind of result is massively politicised for obvious reasons (e.g. there are clear differences on standardized test scores - but some argue this reflects biases in the tests themselves).
It goes beyond posts. In case you are not aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

It happens a lot. "X for fun and profit" and "Y, and so should you" are other examples.
You know people can joke without believing in the stuff the joke is about, right? If someone thinks that the jokes people tell are their believes ... that tells bad stuff about them, not about the jokers.
You should've led with the American Revolution, which was more of an insurrection than a true revolution. It's usually the poster child for a "good" revolution, though.

But all of the ones you cited support my argument: the process of revolution is brutally destructive and rapidly promotes psychopaths into positions of murderous authority.

Reform is often possible without them, which is why (fortunately) true revolution is relatively rare.
I know it uses far too much energy to melt this snow in the middle of winter but they really could try to figure out some way to filter the rubbish out before they pile the snow up. Maybe a snow blower thing and a mesh to catch the non snow bits.

Plus it's just a bit lazy to just leave the pile there during May/June/July. Bulldoze it flat and sprinkle charcoal (or something black) on it to absorb more heat from the sun.

(Disclaimer: I've never lived somewhere with a serious snow problem)
Society is not fragile. Perhaps to minorities societies are fragile in relation to their rights. But societies are robust. Just don't get caught on the wrong side of the fence.
You're really making a lot of wild guesses here ("paid reasonably well", "toys", "car").
The OP might read this kind of answer as somewhat patronizing.
"You need flash player"

sigh
Very interesting service. Does the personalization only work with Google or other traffic sources as well?
Living in fear is soul destroying. It colours everything you do, everything you think. Every knock at the door provokes a horrible fear reaction. You can't think straight. You plan your life around your fear to an extent that, if it was alcohol or drugs, you'd be recognised as a serious addict and people would try to get you medical intervention.

Living in fear destroys lives. And for what? So some idiot sack of shit can feel like a big man for scaring people? Why exactly should that be permitted?
Marketing exists because of the need to work, to generate demand for work itself. If we didn't need to work, then we could potentially abolish marketing. If we did that many industries would simply wither away and die. More and more work would be wiped off the table. A more natural state of being would form with things people actually wanted without being coerced. Debt would slowly disappear. And hopefully a society more at equilibrium with itself and the environment would form.
You are 100% right that the reality is somewhere in between extremes.

However you've fallen into the trap I described - you seem to believe that our cities (I assume you live in the US or EU) need or should be preserved in their current state, and/or that they would be a requisite to such a change.

My gut feel is UBI / end-of-work / etc - involve a tacit understanding that we'd reverse the trend of the past century, and decentralise. I think, but have not thought deeply on the subject, that many of the problems people immediately respond with when first exposed to this (or indeed UBI) are irrelevant in a less urban, less concrete, less centralised society.
Hey, I would like to offer myself as a remote contractor, but I don't feel like giving my personal details to recruiterbox.com. Please send an email to service@mr.gy if you are in need of software engineering expertise.
While I think it would be difficult to abolish forced labor right now, I do believe he makes some very good points. It would be a start if we could get some consensus that forced labor is something we should try to get rid off, if it was possible, because it is used to control people and it makes people stupid due to lack of time for gaining knowledge/thinking/discussing. And i think this article is great for that purpose.

>As [Adam] Smith observed: The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations… has no occasion to exert his understanding… He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

If we agree that abolishing forced labor should be our goal, we can start working towards making that possible. I see automation and basic income playing a big role in this for example.
cjdns dev here, the network has been opened a while ago. There are some public peers floating around.

There's nightfall[0] to find/announce public peers, but I consider it very beta (quickly hacked together on a bus trip).

[0]: https://github.com/kpcyrd/nightfall
It seems to be a meme without a lot of evidence attached. However, the one paper I did find appears to refute it:

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801.long

I think that some ideas gain traction because they fit well into people's narrative, even when the evidence is not yet strong enough for real trust in them.
Non-technical users are not reading github pages.
Given the fact that half of the miles done if with a human drivers I would say this is not ready for complete autonomy yet, at all.
Some answers here: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7093/do-men-show...

Intuitively it made much sense for me when I was in high school and trying to figure out the world.

People perceive high, even extreme intelligence as some beneficial trait, but I don't think that's how we should look at things. Evolution does not care about men as much as it does about women. Man can be far from being best fit for raising children and still forward his genes to next generation. Women need to be much more optimized, stable. Too high or too low intelligence is a neurological flaw in men that makes them worse parents from evolutionary perspective but they can get away with it. Women can't.

It might change after many generations of society that takes care of children of deranged or disinterested mothers. Having extra copy of X chromosome sure does help with stability but there are many examples in biology where simple obvious mechanism are overruled by special contraptions forced by evolution to result in the opposite of what simple logic would dictate.
I think the author is too constrained to promote Matlab, so the better (production-ready) alternatives are left out.

Furthermore, I do not understand why this is called an "insider look", when it is about someone reading a blog from 2012 and basically giving a recap.

Finally, I think it is time to move past this trope of "Netflix wasted 1 million dollars on a solution they did not even use". Probably the entire top 20 of the Netflix competition had a good enough score to build upon -- no need to focus only on the solution from the (rather lucky) winners. We are six years after this competition and the community is still talking about it. Now how is that for marketing?

There is no mention of Factorization Machines ( http://www.libfm.org/ ). A technique spawned with this competition which revolutionized recommendation engines and is definitely in use at Netflix now. Instead they keep harping on 'Collaborative Filtering' when that is a very basic technique (obviously supported by Matlab).

I miss a mention of power tools (Vowpal Wabbit has fast production-ready scalable matrix factorization which can fit on a 1 million dataset on a laptop: https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/tree/master/de... ) and of customers actually running Matlab based recommendation engines on scale.
The divided opinions on this gallery are revealing. I can see why someone would find these works excruciatingly boring, in that they are all essentially photographs with no variety in artist's intent or 'method of art' for lack of a better term. But looking at them less abstractly, there is a rich variety of scenes depicted which are skilfully created enough to merit closer observation. I think the parent discovered a really useful litmus test for how someone approaches art.
Public adjusters boca raton
Your vehicle will accelerate less (fewer Gs) if your brakes are on.
Is Google taking advantage of these techniques as well? (What one person clicked might be interesting for others with a similar clicking behavior as well).
Intellie Notes – A Note taking app for OS X
BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed
Your argument is impeccable. Well put.
No. Rapid acceleration from being rear-ended causes whiplash. Having brakes on reduces the initial acceleration.
That's a practical question.

There are upwards of 2 billion people who don't have sanitation and sewage professionals looking after their waste. I'm not suggesting we'd all want to live in our own filth, any more than I'm suggesting everyone without access to plumbers lives in their own filth.

Wander out into the country (or even some slightly advanced sub-urban areas) and admire the low-maintenance standalone septic systems, humanure outhouses, etc.

If you don't have to work - would you really feel the need to live within ten metres of several other families, in a concrete box, limited sight of or access to open space, etc? Is the location you currently choose to live predicated upon your requirement to work, and a pragmatic decision on the best location to that end - a trade-off between comfort and commute?
Would you be content letting them throw people in jail for nothing more than text typed on a keyboard?

a) This can be extremely deadly. Enough hate speech can lead to real violence. Europe knows this from horrible experience. A modern example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...

b) Don't pretend that America doesn't have free speech restrictions in the legal system. The most egregious example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws , but there are also plenty of national security related ones. Try sending some death threats to the President and see what happens.

c) We really need to distinguish between saying things to people which a third party doesn't want discussed (the freedom of hearing case) and saying things to someone which that person doesn't want to hear. I don't think you can invoke Mill to give you unlimited freedom to send death and rape threats to strangers on the internet.
I think so. I've heard (and repeated) it many times, and I don't recall ever hearing it disputed. I'd be surprised and embarrassed if it was untrue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc... says it's controversial near the top. But the citation is a single paper which disagrees, and the rest of the article seems to support the hypothesis.

edit: removed "unpublished"
Thank you for writing jonesforth!
Vaporizer kaufen – Aber welchen?
Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
thanks for the report. Location extraction algorithm is not perfect. Will try to make it better over time.
If they know nothing then they should be scared/skeptical.
Our public library had an Acorn Electron for anyone to use : I have spent many free afternoons there until my parents doubled up my savings ( at age 12 ) and I bought my own.

Around the same time I entered high school and they had a full classroom full of networked BBC Micros!

*whoami

As gadders mentioned : she should be knighted.
Turret a Responsive Front-End Framework for Accessible Websites
Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India
The dramatisation "Micro Men" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men covers some of the early history here, including the super-rapid creation of the BBC Micro and a cameo by Sophie Wilson.

Risc OS was roughly contemporary with Windows 3.0 and Apple's system 7, offering a cheaper and seemingly faster system (although rather idiosyncratic in its use of the mouse menubutton and drag-and-drop instead of save dialogs). It booted from ROM in something like a second.
You can be socialist and selfish and still be in favour of a Cadastre, since you personally are unlikely to own the land. Lazy, selfish people should support knowing who owns all the land, because that tells you who to tax efficiently via a Land Value Tax. Unless they are lazy, selfish people who already know who own the land, because it's them that owns it. Which brings us back to powerful elites, which you think don't exist for some reason. Your ex-socialist state must have been an extreme outlier both then and now if it doesn't have them.
It really should go without saying, but rape and death threats are crimes. Nobody is saying they aren't.

New Zealand's new law isn't about criminalizing such (already illegal) threats. It's about making non-threats crimes. Under this law, half of the comments in this thread could be interpreted as illegal. Hell, I can't think of a comedian that couldn't be charged under this law. That's what I'm up-in-arms about.
Wow. WOW. What a fucking terrible law, written for the Internet by people who have never actually used the Internet.
IP - and especially IPv4 - is a challenging protocol for decentralized networking. The protocol is really more suitable for a local network within a single routing and administration realm. That does not reflect today's internet.

Applications tend to assume that IP addresses are globally unique. ISPs depend a lot on each other to handle routing properly. Occasionally we see a route leak when someone screws up. Sometimes it even happens deliberately. And it's entirely possible that malicious routes are announced on a regular basis to conduct clandestine MITM attacks. Technical solutions for automatically determining which ASNs should be allowed to announce an IP prefix remain problematic. And BCP 38 - while it helps to deal with DoS attacks and certain security issues - also breaks some very useful approaches to deploying high performance/scale applications.

The internet is currently far more centralized than most people like to admit. The reality is that both DNS and IP are handled by delegation from a central authority. For instance, proof of IP address ownership remains outside the scope of the protocols. Network connectivity still remains based on trust relationships. That is fundamentally incompatible with a decentralized and ad-hoc approach to networked applications.

There are many network operators who have been shown untrustworthy. The design of the internet hasn't quite caught up yet.
One of the takeaways I got from this was that instead of the usual "Follow your dreams no matter what" it should be "Follow your dreams, but be smart about". I think many who take the first advice tend to just hammer their heads at whatever obstacle is blocking whatever seems like the direct to their dreams - and as a result often get smacked over the head with such a dose of cold hard reality that they end up having to abandon their dreams instead. Some of Noah's decisions, e.g. waiting with RISD until he could get a scholarship so he wouldn't bankrupt his family, are great examples of how to do this the right way. Achieving your dreams takes tenacity, sure, but it also takes patience and pragmatism. Learning to fly takes more than just the guts to throw yourself off a cliff.
at least it doesn't redirect to monash.edu.at ;)
> saying things to someone which that person doesn't want to hear.

You know you can put fingers in your ears, right?
There are some reasons for science spacecraft to be in high orbits but most of what you see is decommissioned comsats in graveyard orbits, which are supersynchronous. This is because such orbits have the least chance of decaying or of colliding with other satellites and creating a debris problem.
Is there a better term for SJWs?
Why can't that be covered under normal harassment laws? Why do we need an entire new law, with very broad and vague definitions, to cover something that's clearly already covered by already existing laws.
The trouble with this sort of attitude is, ok, you've saved a million more people from dying a few years early. But for what?

You're against people behaving 'selfishly' and improving the quality of their own life, you just want to increase the quantity of everyone else's life.

What's so wrong with people living their own lives? When did the world suddenly become about extending everyone's lifespan? Why is quantity so much better than a personal definition of quality? If people get the most enjoyment out of watching TV or drinking, why are you allowed to judge them inferior?
Snow's author is also the user "zrm" here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8231026
You're right - that was pedantry.
Google's algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women
> I can't immediately think of any real-world use cases

The problem with SSL is that it needs certificates. You need a domain name and a certificate if you want to run anything over SSL in a resonable manner.

If address == identity then those requirements vanish because learning about the address already provides you all the information you need to establish a secure connection.

It democratizes authenticated connections.
> But all of the ones you cited support my argument: the process of revolution is brutally destructive and rapidly promotes psychopaths into positions of murderous authority.

I don't think they do. Both the English and French revolutions led to better societies for the average citizen in spite of the bloodshed and chaos that was present initially.

I would go so far as to say it was necessary. What group of powerful elites will relinquish total control willingly?
So what you are saying is that people have sex later, thereby there is less sex having, which is exactly what the abstinence teachers want.

Then you say higher rates of negative outcome, without mentioning whether you consider rate of sex having to be a negative outcome.

(I don't disagree with the assessment, it follows the exact logic I posited. I'm not sure why you're taking my comment as being in support of abstinence - it clearly isn't)