jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree, actions (what and to which degree needs to be done) will differ if you plan for 1.5 °C or 3 °C.
The Anbox support is a big plus. Do you find it is actually fast enough for daily use of any android apps? I have one I use all the time on a tablet, but have not had luck getting a performant solution on my laptop.
Please define "fine", a majority of websites and services either outright block Tor or severely limit the traffic.
Presumably companies like Square and Clover are selling their own POS hardware and probably are less than happy that every iPad and iPhone running latest OS with NFC is now a competitor to their hardware. Stripe does not make hardware (as far as I’m aware) so this initial partnership makes sense.
They had 2800 employees?! Why? Their product is a home bike with a screen. Plus some developers and their TV crews, I don't see how you can get to such a number
I think you should talk to a therapist. They will help you work through issues like burnout, self-perception, self-acceptance, self-sabotage. Life is not easy and getting through a PHD program is not easy. Rewards do no scale linearly with aptitude or work effort. Our dreams usually do not reflect reality and it's easy to chase a fantasy and catch it to find nothing there. This will be a lifelong learning process.
Neither of these are correct, they're libertarian talking points. You can't really distangle the competing goals of different classes, but if you were to take democracy seriously, it is to do whatever the majority wants. Some problems with that when it conflicts with certain fundamental values, but the US mostly doesn't follow majority rule anyway as is documented in many studies.
I've been working on this problem a while ago, but Virgil II didn't get much traction outside of a couple academic projects. It's here though:

http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/virgil/
The "City" of San Francisco (though it does contain a big chunk of the tech industry and houses many of it's employees) is not the whole "Silicon Valley".

Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Y-Combinator, Stanford, Yahoo, etc are all located in the South Bay and (may or may not be, the article doesn't specify) affected by the fires.
Missed a couple big ones from companies they mentioned. Yelp paid professional reviewers to seed cities they wanted to establish themselves in. To my knowledge they were honest reviews, but people were still put off by it.

And the Airbnb spam debacle was left out as well. (http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...)

For the record, I use both services frequently, but those are notable omissions.

Really curious how much PayPal dumped into buying eBay items. Doesn't seem like something you could do for long, so I imagine it had to be highly targeted.
I am struggling with the answer to this - clearly privacy is facing a fundamental rewrite. Regulation of this all-seeing-oracle is all but impossible - the sheer numbers of people and requests make policing it impossible (and that's when it was a secret. I would love to know how Snowden affected a spike in requests to NSA from every Branch of government)

Anyway it's all of nothing as far as I can see - some as yet unspecified technical assurance of anonymity, or free for-all - a world where access to traffic analysis is open, anyone can see everyone else's traffic. And spying on your lover is a bit obvious when her service tells her ten minutes after you grep the logs.

I just cannot envisage any of the three actually working - but I am sure that given a few more rounds of Moores law, it won't simply be state actors in the game.
I'd hope the first thing to come to mind is how to build the technology. Once it's built, we can start worrying about how to protect it .. why protect something that doesn't exist?
Seed deals decline while total $ spent stays still? Good news IMO. Means VCs are putting more of their weight into co's they do fund. #win
That's completely true, but having your app pirated by a ton of people (and engaging the pirates!) can really help drive actual sales, mostly due to exposure.
Whenever I read about something like this my first reaction is to wonder if it was caused by a software bug.
Okay, Android phones are definitely more expensive than phones that aren't available.

I never said, implied or referenced any sort of idea that Western countries dominate in terms of population. Thanks for clearing this up, though.
Piracy isn't theft in the sense of a depriving any one person of goods they would otherwise use.

Piracy is theft in the sense that it deprives a producer of the income or potential income that they would otherwise make from someone buying a good.

Piracy is like breaking into a warehouse full of unsold toys slated to be destroyed. It's against the law but it's hard to see it impacting a particular person negatively (not that it won't if no one buys toys the following Christmas).

It's conflict between those who believe digital or intellectual property opens up a whole different domain of "property" and those who believe the old rules should apply without change.

I would suggest those arguing for intellectual property not try to equate digital piracy with something like breaking into your neighbor's house and stealing their jewelry. It's a poor analogy. The argument that producers need and deserve to be paid probably carries more weight.
There are some interesting points, but the wrong conclusion.

The conclusions and lead-in should have been that as with the desktop market, on the web do not trust the platform providers.
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Just the pleasures of a powerful type system, inference, pattern matching, higher order functions... The usual good stuff, but on the JVM. I was paid to learn and program in it for a good five months earlier this year (everything ended up getting ported to python later...) and yes, it basically boils down to "coming from Java, Scala is awesome". If you have to build on top of the JVM and the Java ecosystem of libraries, it is a fine choice.
I have this problem right now and it's pissing me off. I'm starting to wonder if I can do anything against them. The guy doesn't even have the same name as me. He hasn't had this number for years yet I still get calls.
It's mind boggling that some people still refer to 9-11 as a terrorist attack. Even the rocks know it by now, 9-11 was conceived, planned and executed by US administration as an excuse to steal Iraqy oil. It's happening all over again with Iran, only this time the excuse is that Iran has nucs and we need to save the world from those evil people. How ironic. People have morals these days you see, we can't just go invade other nations when we run out of money, we need an excuse first! Terrorist retaliation, nuc disarming, or something else catchy like that. Because that's what we are, other nations raise taxes to close their deficit, we just invade the weaker instead. As for all the anti terrorism measures that have been introduced since 9-11, it's all a huge bill for the tax payers and a great inconvenience, which according to many security specialists, are completely redundant. Now with the body scanners and the invasive body search we don't even respect human rights or the US Constitution. The lobby of the manufacturing corporations who promote these and the interests of the corrupt officials who are getting their cut is stronger than legislation. Well, let that go ahead and we are opening the door to less privacy rights; more changes will soon follow. Let that go ahead, and we might as well stop calling ourselves a free country.
Here's the article: http://www.slate.com/id/2152255/

Fun stuff. Made me smile.
Those lawyers are a huge source of donations for one of the political parties.

They also engage in conspicuous consumption. Do you really want to reduce demand for BMWs?
the second paragraph references Wageningen University. A little googling + translate from dutch:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

so the researcher would be, Dr. AAM van Lammeren - andre.vanlammeren <at> wur.nl
> The part about hating WalMart is a recurring "joke signature" that I have just begun to add to all of my posts.

Tribal signaling
Agreed, a horizontal bar chart would be far more clear in this case.
no need to :-)
http://world.openfoodfacts.org/data
Yev from Backblaze here -> Not a bad idea, though that might take a lot of work on our end. In the mean time, we're going to be releasing some raw data in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for that!
Bookmarked. Thanks, I'm sure I've used your archive in the past to grab the odd missing episode. If you get chance and haven't already seen it, Andy's “satirist for hire” stand-up show is superb.
But again, the age-old response to this flow is that it creates an untrue version history. This is great if cleanliness is your exclusive priority, but if you find that you need to actually try to jump into the mind of the person who made the commit (especially if it's someone you've never met and with whose habits you aren't familiar), it's impossible to actually follow along and recreate what really happened.

The rebase strategy and merge strategy both have their places - neither is fit for "whenever we do a pull request" for all people everywhere.
Is it possible to run a more free OS on it? I don't really want all that Google crap.
I do that where I work because we have an internal git that is wide open, but packages from the outside world need to get whitelisted.

More controversially: With a few (<10) lines of code in your setup file, you can make an install-able module out of jupyter notebooks.
They tried to stop the certification of an election winner using violence and intimidation. That's an insurrection.

Your claims here are like saying that the civil war wasn't an insurrection because the confederacy didn't want to overthrow the US government, they just wanted to form a different government.
.fandom maybe?
I absolutely hate this. It's funny, as a joke, but the fact that someone has produced, marketed and made this drives me insane.

The waste it produces for no reason is in my opinion unconscionable - I spent more time than I admit checking through the site to see if it's a parody with no real available product, and then double checked the comments here hoping to validate that the whole thing wasn't real.
This is such a cool paper!

One of the neat ideas it communicates is that the longer we wait, the less of the universe we can access:

Delay - Galaxies lost
1 million years ~ 0.02%
10 million years ~ 0.2%
100 million years ~ 2%
1 billion years ~ 20%
10 billion years ~ 80%
150 billion years ~ 99.9999997%

Or this,

"For example, dropping matter into black holes via their accretion disks
converts 5.7% of its rest mass into light, which far exceeds the efficiency of the
thermonuclear reactions which power stars, and might be a much more efficient way
to gain access to the mass-energy stars contain (though it clearly comes with its own
engineering obstacles)."

"A related question is not how much matter (or energy) could be reached, but what is
the greatest amount a civilisation could secure in one gravitationally bound location,
so that it could be used for some unified long-lasting project during the time of
isolation"

Maybe we can pinpoint where advanced alien civilizations would be based on an understanding of their energy needs.

Spoiler alert on Hubble Extreme Deep Field photo: "This image
thus spans the edge of our affectable universe, with most of the places it shows being
forever beyond our reach. "

I find all of this incredibly beautiful.
>Private companies now own most of the highways we use for speech, much less widespread speech.

The highway is the one thing they do not own. They own exits on the highway. But no one is stopping anyone from sending emails. Or setting up their own website and messaging service. It is easier and cheaper today to to connect with others and express yourself without the need for private companies than it has ever been in the history of mankind.
Agree. What a clickbait. I thought BBC is better than this.
I dunno, if someone is calling for their political enemies to be shot, I don’t think they deserve a warning. That is so clearly beyond the acceptable pale that one shouldn’t need a warning that such behavior is unacceptable. To pretend otherwise is to infantilise streamers and pretend that they’re utterly incapable of telling right from wrong.
They will either not look up, or quickly answer and go back to the book if so. It’s okay if that happens.
That's correct. However, SAR is used to detect vessels on the surface all the time. It's actually been used to discover vessels that are illegally fishing. https://globalfishingwatch.org/impacts/illegal-fishing-north...
I was never going to bother because I don't have any conspiracy theories about this

If the SEC says there's strange social media activity, I'll take it at face value. They're the SEC and these are dead companies, not really unexpected they'd be halted at some point

I'm just pointing out that there are less discoverable places that are pumping stocks right now
"The left" has been storming Portland, Seattle and many other places instead, for most of 2020, based on the notion that America is filled with white supremacists and the police are systemically racist. Or put another way, because they theorise that white police are involved in an enormous, coast-to-coast conspiracy against black people.

Whether you agree with that belief or not (there was one forlorn WSJ article at the start of all that showing that the data doesn't support it), it is objectively a conspiracy theory in the sense that it posits a conspiracy. And it has led to people repeatedly storming and smashing up not only federal buildings but many others.
Parkland is a limited physical resource.
What about olvid? Quite recent, references are strong: https://olvid.io/team/en/
All those buggy whip and carriage companies with deep horse expertise, with feed bag hooks built right into the carriage and self-clearing manure scrapers mounted in place above the carriage wheels, producing millions of carriages a year worldwide, and Henry Ford somehow thinks he knows better than them. And now they are even bolting on gas engines to some of the carriages. People think those companies are going to just take this lying down?

I just don't understand.
Nobody will give a damn about the privacy changes. You've got to convince them based on other features like stickers, video playback and other "exciting" things.
When did BLM protestors force their way into a capital building with the express goal of overturning the results of an election?
Is that what your workplace is like?

1. Product managers should manage products, not teams. Certainly they should not "own their team". Managing their product means deciding what gets built and why. Generally, there is a balance to strike between needs of the company (e.g. make money, support overall company strategy), needs of users (e.g. want to listen to self-made playlists) and technical considerations (how difficult is it to build, can we implement something similar with less effort). Not sure what you mean by "no communication responsibilities", but striking a good balance typically requires talking to a lot of people inside and outside the team.

2. It sounds to me like you're trying to rid team members of as much responsibility as possible. Of course everyone has their strengths, but I don't see why a "frontend dev" cannot help out with backend code or any of the other work necessary to get the product out the door. Which should be the mission of the team.

3. Even if some people don't have the same level of technical understanding as you do, there are still lots of ways they can contribute. For instance, they can sit in meetings with stakeholders so you don't have to. If something is wrong with a user story, don't assume bad intent. Discuss the pros and cons of an approach and suggest alternatives.

"The greatest admission is the implicit acknowledgement that product managers cannot work efficiently with teams organized by discipline. In any other industry that is the bread and butter of management: Coordinate and plan with other departments. Here we just eliminate this."

The whole point of a product team is to bring people from different disciplines together to deliver a better product in less time. This is possible because of more direct communication and less organizational friction. "Departments" organized by discipline are generally plagued by bureaucracy and delays in communication. On the other hand, having a product team sit together in one room enables a completely different level and pace of collaboration. If something is wrong with your DB story, you just mention it, people in the room become aware and find a solution potentially within minutes.

"And what's the outcome? A coherent product? Far from it. You get a bunch of features glued together by a UI no one really owned."

This is exactly what product teams prevent. The whole team owns the product. They talk about what should be done and by whom.
That's not true it also goes down when the price crashes.

Basically: Coinbase, we're going down.

ps: I find that very .. cynical that when there are such opportunistic moves poor retail gets locked away. Alas.
What's the reasoning for the distinction? How is spectrum over the air a public good but spectrum over wires not?
I agree with your point, however I wanted to mention that Facebook posts are typically done "in private" either accessible only to Facebook friends, or members of the FB private groups.
> They developed all these APIs that allow app makers to spy on their users

What are you talking about?

They didn’t develop any such APIs, and have been progressively closing up anything that can be exploited that was left over from Mac OS.

Also, they aren’t blaming anyone for using anything they have built.

They are just asking users to consent to apps using it.

Why is that a problem?
That's a big call. Care to support it?
Presumably also if they can drive up stress of patients more of them will die more quickly and they will have to pay less.
You make it mean something. You can help others, find your passion, support your family, or create your own family. Life does not have to be meaningless, it's all up to you :-)
I’ve found that using geerlingguy’s Ansible roles for MySQL, Nginx, and PHP, most random PHP applications can be deployed with default configuration. I’ve had them in production with Matomo for the past year or so and had no problems so far.

A lot of the challenges faced with a ‘from scratch’ install will revolve around which PHP version and extensions to install and how to get Nginx to talk to FPM. Neither of which are trivial for someone wanting to test/evaluate without much prior knowledge.
That's the name I couldn't quite recover from my memory when I asked, exactly!
Not 100% about the newest versions of Postgres. But certainly in older versions CTEs created query planner boundaries.

So the planner would optimise each CTE separately, but wouldn’t optimise the entire query with all CTEs together, which of course can result in some slightly nonsensical query plans.

To my knowledge this is considered a limitation rather than a feature as it can cause performance issues with some queries.

EDIT:
Some quick Googling suggests the CTEs are no longer optimisation fences, and their handling can be tweaked on a CTE by CTE basic in Postgres 12 onwards [1]

[1] https://www.depesz.com/2019/02/19/waiting-for-postgresql-12-...
I remember asking a similar question to my Prolog lecturer back in 2008 during my masters. He was visibly taken aback from it, I think he didn't expect it. It went something along the lines of "I've never heard of this language, does anyone even use it, what's the motivation for wasting a term on it" (yes, it was one of my more douchebaggy moments...). He had to go do market research and come up with an answer in the next lecture, hahah.

Yet, once it all clicked, I loved it, and it opened up a new way of thinking for me, which was different from both imperative and, dare I say, functional paradigms.

I also learned that, while fairly specialised, it has very real industrial applications (e.g. there's a super important critical infrastructure component in Microsoft built entirely on prolog if I remember correctly). Though, admittedly, I think most prolog finds uses as 'pluggable components to larger non-prolog projects' these days.

Also, another interesting direction in Prolog is its fuzzy / probabilistic derivatives. Very cool stuff.
It's not a problem that can be solved by my "wealth and power" (both of which are in rather meager supply).

It's an issue of mentality. A society is what it is because its members share a set of assumptions, ideas, mentalities. The one-percenters get even more one-percent-y every year because we all hold certain "truths" to be "self-evident".

For starters, we need less individualism. I'm not saying less individual freedom, mind you.
An example of how this can play out:

Australia enacts a law on cigarette labeling,
requiring warnings on the package.

Tobacco companies sues Australia under a
Hong Kong - Australia trade agreement, to
get them to revert the labeling law.

(this isn't hypothetical, it's already happening)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_cigarette_packaging#Tobac...

I'm definitely a big champion of capitalism, but these investor-state dispute settlements seems really wrongheaded.

Also, I cannot understand why these negotiations are secret?
All in favor of trade-deals as long as they remove/reduce tariffs and tolls, but they should be conducted in the open.
> Most art objects are the products of a single person's imagination.

This is an unfortunate cliché that is not nearly as widely accepted as one might think. It may be true that computers have a much clearer path to hand-holding in order to produce a finished product, but the tools, materials, and education one gets in the real world make it exceedingly difficult to find art that can be seen as the product of just one person's imagination, and even more rare that it is art people then appreciate.

I admit that the whole topic is very difficult, but there are platitudes floating around which do no favors to our understanding of it. Disclaimer: I draw for a living and program (mostly) for fun.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150325/17151130431/corpo...

This is a slightly better discussion of the problem in the recently leaked draft.

edit:

I guess they aren't bothering to even pretend this is would be anything other than a show trial:

"...the tribunals would be staffed by private sector lawyers unaccountable
to any electorate, system of precedent or substantive appeal. Many of those
involved rotate between acting as “judges” and as advocates for the investors
launching cases against governments. Such dual roles would be deemed
unethical in most legal systems."

Regulatory capture is a helluva drug.
Interesting point. There are a multitude of issues with our current system of governing a society.

If the government were properly incentivized to bring transparency to our legislative process, why would this be stored in a private repo?

Even if it were, every revision to every line would be stored and traced back to an individual author.

In this case, the contents of TPP will be made public 4 years after executing the agreement. At that time, anyone would be able to scrutinize who wrote what when. This could be the proper incentive to House/Senate members to work in favor of their constituents. Politics is a career today - they don't want to screw that gravy train up.
In my area, there are wireless access points mounted on some telephone poles which provide WiFi hotspots for anyone with credentials from a major local ISP.

Apart from that, my understanding is that Comcast routers broadcast your network and also broadcast this comcast hotspot network, and they are metered (and presumably capped) independently. So with this hack you would use only your equipment, you're just taking advantage of both networks that are being broadcast by your router.