skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you consider drone strikes to be indiscriminate, compare the upper bound of about 6,000[1] or so drone strike casualties over more than a decade to the 90,000[2] or so Vietnam bombing casualties, which in turn is dwarfed by the World War 2 bombing casualties[3]. Compared to the alternative of using traditional bombers or using ground forces, drone strikes represent a huge reduction in civilian casualties.

I don't understand the people who protest drone strikes. War is hell - if your country engages in any sort of violent military intervention, there will be civilian casualties. I can get behind opposing unnecessary usage of military force; I can get behind opposing attacks within the borders of a sovereign nation that we aren't at war with. Protesting the tools used to conduct war instead of the war itself makes little sense to me, particularly when that tool marks a dramatic improvement in reducing civilian casualties.

[1] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/dron...

[2] http://thevietnamwar.info/operation-rolling-thunder/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_strat...
Encourages browser vendors to expose appropriate controls to users who wish to minimize their fingerprinting surface area.

This is something everyone should be encouraging - unfortunately, browser vendors seem to be slowly removing and/or making more opaque any configurability, in the name of "simplicity". I agree it certainly is simpler to not think about web tracking or privacy at all, but perhaps these are things worth thinking about.
mmm.

I guess if they could get $1 from investors why not a $100 million. I would have loved to see what was in their pitch deck as I can’t imagine a worse industry to try and build a unicorn.
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So Tesla started with luxury cars only. Well that's all you can buy still. I feel this companies real opportunity with a 2017 launch date would be a mass produced, under 40k EV. That will be right around the time Tesla might release the model 3. This company clearly has some massive funding and talent behind them, sounds like they can afford to start on the mass produced midrange EV right from the get go and be really successful. The market is begging for a 40k EV that is not the Chevy volt... We want a 40k tesla (or FF).
Subscribing to high volume mailing lists from gmail is something I would actually advise against.

I had legitimate emails bouncing because the mailing list had put me over the maximum number of emails that a free Google account can recieve in a day. I didn't even know there was such a limit until I hit it.

I now run my own mail server and have none of these or the other problems outlined here.
The article's style got me into a ranting mood. I don't want "allusion links" that surface vapid text like "new superpowers" or "never ending stream of goodness". You are forcing me to click on them to know WTF you mean.
The easiest way to spot web bugs is to use a very old build of Safari. There are many other ways but if you have an old Safari select Window -> Activity then leave it open as you browse a few different domains.

You will see some 43 byte documents with huge long URLs full of query parameters, also one byte javascript sources. I block the ones I find in my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com

On some operating systems it may be better to use 0.0.0.0 but I am not completely clear. Alternatively block them in your firewall.

Among the reasons I dont install any other mobile apps other than those I absolutely require - not even free ones - is mobile analytics. The developer SDKs are all free as in beer but I have seen a photo of one of their data centers. Data centers are expensive; someone must be paying for all that.

You can edit the hosts file on iOS with iFile from the Cydia app store if you jailbreak, alternatively you can maintain the hosts file on your box then install it on your device with scp.

Similarly for Android but I dont know what text editors you can use to edit system files. Some Android devices enable you to install your own firmware build but I dont have a current list.

I am concerned about the impact analytics may be having on democracy. Its not really a secret ballot if the candidates all know what pages I read.
This is such an insanely nitty complaint I can't even believe it. They are limited by batter technology and are doing the best they can.

While conservation is certainly the idea of EVs, they need to have certain performance characteristics before they are widely accepted. PR stunts like this get people more interested in a great thing.

But I suppose this is the internet so we just need to slam everything and insult everyone. :\
Even though the OP hasn't responded, I'll give you a thumbs up for that find.
If Google is actually going to make a move here, I'm all for it. Homejoy was a horrible experience. Housekeepers leaving an hour early (their QA team confirmed this for me) and one stole my medication from the bathroom countertop... If they go under it's their own fault.
I see spam from gmail all the time, and for about the last year they wouldn't accept reports from SpamCop (that changed a couple of weeks ago).
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> but apparently no one at Tesla ever lived or stopped the car in a dangerous neighborhood.

* while holding down both scroll wheels for several seconds to reboot the center console for whatever reason.
you're right. Yet what do you want from an ape species who makes beheading videos and posts them on entertainment sites? There are huge chances that we may be at some bifurcation point before very possible fall into Dark Ages or into collapsing into a planetary-sized self-centered ant colony (which i think is among the main traps what most early technological civilizations in the Universe fall into (other trap being of course is an all out nuke war)).
> That doesn't resolve my concern.

Since your concern appears to be "how can I make employees the slaves of investors?", that's no bad thing.
Yeah right Sarcasm poses problem for computer algorithms in U.S. election
Exactly, yet people who have no clue about cars will say that because it has a faster 0-60 time it's a faster car. Teslas marketing department is damn good.
Handmade candies aren't popular, they're trending. Just like artisinal pickles.

Also, there's a reason why orchestras all over the country are going on strike or shutting down.
Yeah, I'm 24 and hate the narrow windows and huge side wall look. Also, Porsche's are...amazing. One of the best and longest lasting designs in the car industry. So iconic and known anywhere. It'd be hard for any company to touch the Porsche 911.
Taking Chrome DevTools outside of the browser
Solid, maintained and nice is already there. As for speed, one must define their needs. Throughput, latency, asynchronicity and GC strategy (which is per-process and concurrent in Erlang) can all affect perceptions of "speed". Then you're given a multitude of ways to interface with C code, right down to treating a C program like it's an Erlang VM node.
I have SleepIQ from sleepnumber, was $299 add on for lifetime subscription. It's interesting but fairly limited. They do have an undocumented API ( https://github.com/erichelgeson/sleepiq ). I could hookup something to poll the API and fire events (sleep/away/restless/etc) but it'd be nice if it was a push vs pull and hook it into existing SmartThings hub or something.

It'll be interesting to watch this as the little and big companies are entering this market at about the same time.
Hors la loi needs to be on the menu, too 8)
First thought those guns were automated drones flying around killing people
Hah, the Fiat 500e is the one that the Chrysler CEO explicitly said "I hope you don't buy it"[1]

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1092315_chrysler-ceo-und...
wasn't this the underlying theme of gibson's pattern-recognition book?
+1 for Fastmail. I really enjoy spam filtering based on personal bayes rather than a global database.
Great answers, one thing I have a particular problem with, however, is this:

> Humans don't harbor a particular ill-will towards ants, but if we become interested in some (orthogonal) goal like building a basement for a house, we might along the way destroy some ant colonies. When human-level intelligence arrived and went about its business, it led to the extinction of quite a few species.

I would argue that the goals of human beings are almost entirely orthogonal to the goals of ants whenever we come in contact. But this isn't a fair comparison. Human beings and their intelligence didn't emerge from the complex interactions and structures created by billions of ants. We evolved completely separately, shaped by hundreds of millions of years of different evolutionary pressures, including competition for resources (albeit at different scales). When we destroy ant hills it's because we're competing for space with a species we differentiated from hundreds of millions of years ago and now exists in a completely different ecological niche than we do.

A more fair comparison would be likening AI (and all automata + the internet) to the cerebral cortex of the mammalian (human) brain and human beings to the brainstem. Human beings are ancient, robust and necessary for all basic functionality of the organism ("humanity" as a whole). We are responsible for homeostatic regulation as well as fundamental, reactive survival instincts and processes. We make "emotional", visceral assessments of situations and react before higher-order systems are able to even assess the complexity of the problem. Further growth and development of "humanity" as an organism selected for the growth of the cerebral cortex (automata) to assess, interpret and manage more complex internal and external interactions. This allows the humanity (the organism) to be more robust and self-sufficient.

Viewed through this lens, a developmental pattern that would lead to an existential crisis for human beings seems unlikely at best and, for the most part, extremely improbable. We may not be able to individually predict how AI will develop, but we can make some educated guesses based on comparisons to emergent systems we've already seen in nature - and I think "ants vs. humans" is just poor pattern matching. :)
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How does being shaped like a cone frustum help?? Even if the bucket were a cylinder (so filling it to half height got you half the volume), that would be crazy difficult. With slanted sides, how could you possibly know how high to fill for half the volume? Did you bring a protractor? Sextant?
This made me think. I can't actually agree that it's a matter of language primitives. It's very much about the logical complexity of sharing anything. It seems to be a fundamental, recurring theme in CS, data and logic. In a single thread, in imperative language, there is a sequential list of logical steps and manipulation of data, or state. With two or more threads, you have multiple sequence of statements, but they can try to manipulate same data, it's effectively mashing two sequences together in random order! If that is what you want to do, I don't see anything you can really do to make it not rocket science. I'm sure it can be made easier by using some safer primitives for data access, but I don't see how the high level logical races can be made eliminated. As in, a language can eliminate an object being deleted when it's going to be still accessed, but it can't eliminate a student getting an F at midnight while his homework program is still being tested.
I've seen multiple deployments (not necessarily specific to PostgresSQL) engineer themselves into a corner with what people feel will be a highly available roll your own solution, complete with convincing sounding blog posts.

In every case, at some point, there were implementation/software bug related issues that ultimately caused more unplanned outages than I've ever seen a single, well run server experience.
That is Internet of Toasters, not Internet of Things.
It appears to be a beautiful and inspired piss-take that may perhaps find value
> One small question, why is the website in french?

Have a look at how many French-speaking countries there are in Africa.
I either have headphones in or volume muted, on all computers at all times. If I'm about to unplug headphones I quick mute first. No problems with unwanted audio.
Sigh. What's wrong with using lock-free data structures?

Go study java.util.concurrent. It's one of the absolute best libraries ever written by some of the smartest programmers I have ever seen.

The primary question is "Do I really need to wait or do I just need to be consistent?" 90% of the time the answer is that consistent is good enough.

Lock-free data structures are not a panacea. They don't always do as well as locks in the face of contention. However, if you have that much contention, congratulations, you have an actual spot you really need to optimize.

By default, though, lock-free data structures protect you from so much fail it's ridiculous. I don't dread concurrent programming if I have a good lock-free data structure library.

That having been said, if you really have to wait (normally for hardware access), then you MUST do certain things. Your "lock" MUST be as small as possible--if it isn't "lock with timeout", "single small action that always goes to completion even if error occurs", "unlock"--YOU HAVE FAILED. START OVER. Also, note the "timeout" portion of the lock. "Timeout" MUST be handled and IS NOT NECESSARILY AN ERROR.

Now, these don't get all the situations. People who need "transactions" have hard problems. People who have high contention have hard problems.

However, I can count the number of times I genuinely needed to deal with contention or transactions on one hand and still have two fingers left over.

Whereas, I have lost count of the number of times that I cleared out all manner of bugs simply by switching to a lock-free data structure.
He is a maintainer, reading email is his actual work.
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Just last night it occurred to me to write browser add-ons that would scramble those query parameters, also send bogus user-agent headers but only for the web bugs.

That is, the add-on would discover one-pixel transparent gifs, take note of what query parameters they used, then every time it found that same gif in the future it would issue a GET with randomly selected parameters drawn from the instances of that same gif it had seen in the past.

For extra crispy electronic warfare, that same add-on could issue GET requests at randomly selected intervals. If those intervals were reasonably far apart (say one hour apart for any one gif) then it would not obviously be an attack on the analytics server.

What it would do is to make it completely useless to correlate your visits to different domains.
SMTP is the only mainstream mail protocol that leaves the end user in control. That must bug companies like Google something fierce.

I still run Outlook 2010 with Paul Graham's SpamBayes plugin. It's far from perfect -- a whitelist would sure be nice, and how hard can it be to automatically refrain from marking anything as spam if I've emailed that sender before? -- but the fact that I can train it myself and adjust its classification parameters covers a multitude of sins.

I've resisted a lot of peer pressure to use server-side email over the years, both commercial and FOSS. I fully expect to be using SpamBayes in 10 years, probably with a wheezing, clunking copy of Outlook in a VM.
Those cassette adapters for a 1/8" audio jack have awful sound quality, break frequently, and are usually around $20, not $5. You would be better off upgrading the stereo, unless you just want to play tapes or listen to the radio.
Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
I can see where it would be in Google's interest for people to throw up their hands and decide running their own is just not worth it.
"Sorry, Maps isn't hiring, but there's an opening in Mail."
Absolutely true. When a co-worker saw the picture I posted on hipchat of Charon, he said "so what, looks just like our moon."

Thankfully he was chewed out by another science fan in the channel, but a sad number of people care less about this achievement than about the latest sports team win.
May be I'm missing something. This doesn't strike me odd at all. I mean, one could say the United States chose to legalize gay marriage, or chose to forge a deal with another concious entity Iran. This is similar to a person making a change in their own body or making peace with an adversary, respectively. One could liken the democratic process and the political system as concious thinking, perhaps.

How is this any different? If you relax the definition of "concious", then why isn't the United States concious?
A UC Santa Cruz student wrote her dissertation on the culture of elementary particle physicists by infiltrating the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

She reported that the scientists at SLAC "wear t-shirts and blue jeans".

I don't recall or name or the title but someone at http://anthro.ucsc.edu/ should be able to tell you; if you actually want to read it you should be able to get it through interlibrary loan at your local library.

Rather more seriously, in UCSC's Anthropology of Religion I read a book by an anthropologist who read a UFO cult leader's proud announcement of the specific date upon which aliens would visit the earth to bring peace - save us from nuclear war, etc.

Knowing that a vital peer-reviewed publication was at hand, the anthropologist joined the cult.

I don't recall that book's title or author either but I will post it in an edit or reply if I can dig it up.
If it’s years it’s just human labor, obviously.

It’s their way of implying that this mission will provide enough data to lead to interesting discoveries for years to come. Data on its own is useless, someone actually has to look at it and interpret it and pick out what’s interesting and what’s not and all that.

Obviously in this forum everyone jumps to the technical explanation (slow data transmissions!) but that is exactly not it.
>Still, the strangest thing I've considered is: suppose that the US, or some other group we are a part of, like the galaxy, is conscious.and we get good evidence that it's true. Then disturbing it's function, or destroying it could kill that consciousness. It would be like killing God.

Obviously the most fun thing to think about. It's worth noting that "consciousness" is on a sliding scale from dim awareness to focused lucidity. Is my dog conscious? Probably not, but there's something there. How about a gorilla? The lines start to blur. Is it outlandish to ascribe to a large, distributed group, a fish-level of awareness?
All of the parts are unclear. I'm confused because the objectivity of a law depends on the facts in court cases being in dispute?

When I use the word subjective, it means that an individual personally gets to decide the truth of something. You can't make something illegal just by changing your mind, but you can make it immoral. We probably have different understandings of subjectivity and objectivity.
What would be the equivalent design for people with normal color vision?
Are we agreed then that telling a web site your username is ";update users set passwd = ''--" counts as fraud?
> Real & complex analysis and algebra,

I've mentioned books I've spent at least
some significant time with.

There are lots more books on my shelves
that look good, have good recommendations,
etc. but I haven't paid much attention to.

My interest in algebra is a bit meager --
I'm not seriously interested in number
theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic
topology, etc.

For real analysis, the books I mentioned
seem to me to provide really good sources.
Of course there is much more to analysis,
e.g., functional analysis. And there's
a lot to stochastic processes. And much
more to math.
Can't wait until self driving cars become the norm; I don't need a drive way, a garage and the suburb I can live in can have smaller roads with the space for cars given over to walking paths and bicycles. Maybe in 2050.
Free as in beer, at least. I see no problem with that. Good on Pixar for doing some good. Just because they fall short of some sort of arbitrary ideal, it doesn't mean they're bad people or that this licensing method is a useless gesture.
Unlikely, the perils of trying to make a vehicle for the cheapest price possible can easily kill your company.
Someone at the University of Utah produces and maintains a great piece of image processing software which unfortunately has a pretty complicated CLI UI. It can do this sort of thing and much more with a few commands. It's called Teem, and the SourceForge link is down but it's normally found at teem.sourceforge.net and under the jurisdiction of https://www.sci.utah.edu. If anyone wants a tutorial to it I can link to some given permission from the author.

It's used by at least one artist to do basically this, with Titanic: http://salavon.com/work/TopGrossingFilmAllTime/
does the linux foundation have offices?
https://chrome.google.com/_/scs/cws-static/_/js/k=cws.main.e...
A while back a useful trick was checking the styling of links to pages you were sure the user has visited before. If they weren't styled as visited, the user is incognito.
In general, thanks for the feedback, I appreciate. But to respond to your points:

1) Perhaps you were watching it at low resolution? It's at a bigger font than Xcode's standard.

2&4) It wasn't necessarily meant to be a self-contained video. AudioKit has an extensive website with documentation at http://audiokit.io/ and specifically for playgrounds at http://audiokit.io/playgrounds/

3) I'm sorry, that is my Ohio mumble. :)

Thanks again!
It's basically a gokart with two Hayabusa engines strapped to it. It's road legal and it's for sale!
This is basically a blanket decriminalization of all computer intrusions, since virtually all hacking boils down to access to a computer in an "unexpected" way.

Again, that simply isn't how the law works. I see you all around this threat repeatedly trying to reason about half a criminal charge: the actus reus used to gain access to computer system. It makes no sense to think of this particular crime that way; you need the other half of the charge, mens rea, the knowing intent to do something with a computer that you aren't authorized to do.
100% virtual. We have labs and a couple of the projects we support have offices, but no office like you're thinking.
But does this not apply to the startup as well as the incumbent. There is nothing to suggest that it will cost a startup less than Netflix to negotiate all these contracts.
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Why does it matter whether he'd be angry at the hotel? We're talking about the person who exploits the hotel's lax security to steal from him.

Impose civil liability on people with terrible security. Fine. That's an orthogonal issue, though. There's no reason you can't do both things, and most reasonable people can imagine a variety of things people might do with computers that they'd expect and want to be criminalized.
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>simply incapable of that

The car computer actually prevents you from doing too many launches to avoid damaging the car.

I'm sure you've seen this, but it's amazing nonetheless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o
>But those general trends seem to ebb and flow

I'm quite sure that from the perspective of a cell in my liver, my whole life seem to be ebb and flow. Assuming that the cell would be able to observe and comprehend processes much broader and longer than itself.

It's the same in case of possible consciousness of a large group - as parts of it we will face many difficulties just to notice and understand such phenomenon.

Especially taking into account that it won't be exactly the same type of consciousness as human one.