skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that war and conflict/territoriality of all kinds (including predator/prey relationships) requires more agency than adaptive radiation. Adaptive radiation takes place over thousands of generations whereas war/conflict take place over a single generation.
$12+Custom+Built+Video+Email+Marketing+System
Hi tryingToGeek,

I do a lot of open source security research. Some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities I've found were addressed by a very small change to the code. Should I discount them because they aren't significant or substantial? Of course not. Why should your contributions be any different?

In my projects, I go out of my way to thank people regardless of how much they contribute.

See https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat for example.

Some of the peoples' names are there because they led the way towards great architectural changes that improved the reliability, readability, or performance of this library. Others, for pointing out (and maybe fixing) typos that made it confusing.

In all cases, I'm grateful that anyone took the time to help make something I wrote better, and the end result is that this project should be better for the community to use.

How does that relate to your situation? Simple: Your contributions are valuable. Whether or not anyone recognizes them as valuable reflects on their value, not yours.

Just something to keep in mind.
The article is about the summer olympics.
For best performance, natural grass needs to rest at least 4 or 5 days after a real game takes place. Artificial grass is not comparable, its almost a different game.
Full report

https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/Experiments_in_Torture....
HTML/CSS: Annotated Tutorial
An oath and standards are ideals unless we do something significant to uphold them. I agree with your last point entirely.
HTML/CSS: Annotated Tutorial

Use this tutorial as a guide to learn HTML and CSS. Each unit contains an annotated lesson that can assist you in developing your Web Development skills.

Topics:

Basics
Divs
Fonts
Hexadecimal Colors
Images
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After the Snowden revelations I believe AT&T was stopped from expanding in Europe. Mexico seems to welcome them on the other hand...
Don't really care. It's not my job to convince people here. This is my form of weekly entertainment.
A lot of smart people have legitimate concerns about unnecessary GMOs.
Testing Search Box Variations
It is interesting to read some of these accounts. We have several hundred clients who sell on Amazon. I can probably say we hear horror stories on a daily basis.

If I were to summarize the stories and reach a conclusion it would be that Amazon (retail side) exists as a set of silos characterized by incompetence mixed with a solid dose of indifference and total lack of consideration for sellers.

I've seen sellers damaged to the point where they lost everything. Business, home, cars, everything. Why? Well, in the one case I can think of we heard from this seller who had been doing millions of dollars per year on Amazon for about four years. One morning he wakes up to an email from Amazon telling him that his "Selling privileges have been revoked permanently". And, in the true style of a lot of large internet companies there was no way to engage with someone at Amazon to try to solve the problem that led to the permanent suspension. In fact, apparently he was only given one opportunity to send and email. It was rejected. He was told they do not discuss the reasons for these decisions.

This person lost everything they built over four years of hard work and had to file for bankruptcy when the commitments made by the business to support a multi-million-dollar-per-year supply pipeline caught-up with what had happened. If you ask me, that says a lot about Amazon and the people who work there. They are willing to make decisions that can destroy families and don't seem to care enough to engage in a proper business-to-business discussion aimed at solving problems. Instead it's "off with their heads" and that's it. Businesses are not machines, they are people. What Amazon is doing to families with businesses is sick and disgusting.

The latest trend we've been hearing has to do with their ads platform. Apparently click fraud is rampant and Amazon is doing exactly nothing about it. And, if what I am reading is correct, it is entirely possible they aren't even equipped to deal with click fraud at all. A number of our clients are reporting click through rates that are 10x to 60x historical rates and no sales whatsoever out of thousands of clicks per day/week. Their experience isn't far different from that of the people who face suspensions: Amazon refuses to discuss what is going on. Advertising on Amazon, for some sellers, has turned into the equivalent of throwing dollars into a bonfire.

I could go on but I don't think it's necessary. My conclusion based on what I've read here and experienced through our clients is that it almost makes sense that the third party seller side of Amazon seems to be as messed-up as it is. If portions of their operation are as caustic and abusive as some of the accounts on this thread relate nothing good can come out of that. As I said before, business, ultimately, is about people. And if the people who are the business are not happy, the business isn't going to run well. That's what our clients are seeing out of the side of the Amazon monster they face every day.
Amazing what 50 bucks can buy.

Are smartphone manufacturers really as naive as the story suggests, churning out phones at a loss in the vain hope of future profit? I know they're in trouble but they're not THAT deluded, are they?
Bitcoin XT 0.11A
r/bitcoin is being censored right now (quite ironic), so thought maybe you hackers can have a discussion about the upcoming bitcoin fork in regards to the blocksize. Some suggest that bitcoin blocks should remain at 1mb, which currently covers around 200k transactions, a limit that is close to being reached. The vast majority seem to want an increase on this capacity for pretty much obvious reasons. However, some relatively newcomer bitcoin developers argue that increasing it will affect decentralisation, and everyone should use a hubs and spoke system instead. Others argue that as the number of users increases, the number of the blockchain applications increase, the number of nodes and miners increases, thus decentralisation increases. In regards to lightning it is still vapourwear, it requires hot wallets - something which has caused many problems - the hubs are likely to be centralised - and fundamentally users should have a choice. So yeah looks like bitcoin will fork.
Both Olympics and World Cup antidemocratic means for corruption, but are justified with a phony belief in nationalism and keynesianism.

Brazil was the perfect example of how these events can hurt citizens and the economy:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33942279

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/1...
Where rump kernels are headed, 2015 edition
Neat designs; open source FTW.

Would love to go to BM, but my VW would probably dance its exhaust system off 50 miles out of town because it's "too cool" for emissions standards, right before deciding it's also time to nom-nom-nom the (nonadjustible) clutch. :'(
I don't think distance is all that big a deal. Sure, you can't just drive there if it isn't near, but for most people the Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that they're willing to take a week off to visit. No different from any other trip, eg people will come to Paris from Australia just to see the Eiffel tower and the Notre Dame. Why wouldn't they fly to some other town to see the Olympics?

And let's face it: you have to be from a wealthy country to be able to do this in any case.
Allright, makes sense.

But does it not mean that you could basically spoof any secure connection (provided you could establish a man-in-the-middle)?

Just wondering, since the VPN destination is not easily verifiable: What stops you from shipping a profile tomorrow that directs traffic towards your server for online banking sites and breaking the TLS encryption using that root certificate?
Most businessmen will say nice stuff like this to create employee buy-in.

Most capitalists in reality think the following:

If you take care of labor, they'll over time feel entitled to be taken care of, and demand more & more.

If you make customer success metrics a KPI that determines performance-based pay, well, then they'll care of the customer.
The fact that "25 times the legal limit of lead allowed to prevent reproductive damage" is being downplayed in any way is slightly disturbing.

If this notice is not addressed, you will see regulators intervening.
The nice thing about MadBlocker using the VPN is that it works for cellular connections as well.

I wonder why proxies would be wi-fi only. Do you know?
I have never in my life seen the term 'woo-peddler'. For anyone else in a similar situation, it's roughly equivalent to snake-oil salesman.
Old manuals are also great for showing prior art agains patent trolls.
> Anyways, rationality now kicking in, and until proven otherwise, I'll assume it is not the real Satoshi.

Why? So far there hasn't been any evidence pointing towards it not being Satoshi.

I mean sure, the prior probability is low, but that's it. it appears to have actually been sent by vistomail to the linux foundation. Unless you want to assume that this was an IP spoofed mail or vistomail was cracked? No evidence of that so far.
If it's there permanently, you can make it good. You can buy a ton of snow machines, you can make the slopes the way you like.

We just had the Winter Olympics in a tiny Russian resort.
*what is the avenue to pursue if you want to work on potentially building thinking/self-aware machines?
Hosting the Olympics also many side effects:
- improved infrastructure
- increased tourism
- stadiums, hotels, training grounds
- good way to get people into doing sports

just to name a few. Hosting Olympics on a small ireland would mean we give up all of these benefits. While hosting the Olympics costs a lot of money, income from tourism and media attention surely makes up for it (correct me if I'm wrong).
The equipment isn't taken away. It's just placed in storage for 10 years. The breakout time period I've heard about getting to a bomb is one year. Some have said it's as short as 3 months. Even if we accept "years" not sure that really matters. Somehow I don't think Iran's regime is very concerned about their moral position in western eyes. They have their own ideas of morality. They also have longer term goals, they don't report quarterly results ;)

My current reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

I think you're also exaggerating the ability of intelligence and inspections to really know what's going on. How long did it take North Korea to go from inspections to a bomb? Iraq? Libya? Syria? Lots of example of the limitations of intelligence gathering.

The agreement basically accepts Iran as a "nuclear threshold" state.

It is very unlikely to push Iran towards any liberal or democratic reforms. The whole framing around how western powers have meddled with Iran historically somehow justifies what's going on today is ridiculous. Two (or more) wrongs don't make a right. The Shah backed by western powers oppressed the people and the current regime backed by other powers oppresses the people (not to mention what happened to moderate Iranians at the time of the revolution). There is an incredible amount of naivety and ignorance around the discussion.

All that said, I tend to agree with Kerry/Obama in that the agreement is perhaps the best we can get right now. It's just not a very good best, kind of an admission of defeat. There is some small chance it will lead to an overall increase in stability but there's also a non-negligible chance of the opposite, less stability and more actors with nuclear weapons.
It seems to definitely be the case for designers (300+?), I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same for engineers.

10,000+ people to keep the service running?
> I worked in AWS, which I'd always understood to be culturally a bit different from the retail site.

I'm an SDE on the retail side, and the funny thing is, there seems to be a consensus among the engineers on the retail side that it's much harder to work at AWS, because of poor management. Glad to know that's not the case.

My engineering team at least is pretty chill. The business teams have the harder job, but not nearly as hard as the article suggests ("cancer? screw that!" -- sure, that's how it is). Totally agree about the lack of paternity leave, though. One of the guys on the team who has a two-month-old hardly gets any sleep at all. Perhaps all this bad PR (and all the customers saying "I won't buy Amazon anymore!") will make Amazon address this issue.
that doesn't really help the qwest ceo...
Does anyone know about TABLESAMPLE equivalents in other RDBMS, for example in MS SQL?
> At its core, CyanogenMod is a best in class example of Open Source development.

Really? Why is it that they can't even bring themselves to fix trivial bugs like [1] let alone bigger deal-breaker bugs like [2]? I find the OnePlus One borderline unusable with all the Cyanogenmod bugs it has...

[1] https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-2855

[2] https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-736
"you can never have too many fonts, too much money, or too much memory" Dan Gookin, DOS for dummies, 1991
posting as breadcrumbs. I'll need this in the next two months.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Tested Outside [video]
From what I remember of the highway code in the UK undertaking is banned. outwith slow moving traffic on motorways.

Cyclists need to understand that deliberately riding in unsafe ways to save a couple of minutes is dangerous.

Its more like going into a hells angels bar and picking a fight and being surprised you end up on hospital
Out of curiosity, how about if you were investigating potential crime, or tasked with crime prevention? In other words, crimes that you believe are being planned and may happen in the future, based on some non-individualized correlation (e.g. past shootings in a particularly problematic neighborhood). Would this change your approach?
Apart form the fact that other road users don't normally undertake
Of course it sucks for the employees! You're right that it's a meaningless life that way.

But the fallacy is that it's somehow up to the "world" to fix that - Many people have this feeling that it "should" be better, but well, it's their company eh? You are always free to figure out how to do better on your own, instead of work for somebody else. You could always save up / borrow some money and then buy some land / start a shop / figure out how to do make it on your own. Why should you not work 80 hours? Why would anyone else owe you that?
yes please teach me!
Codestarter is winding down
Right $50 means a 4" screen and 2-4 year old hardware. It might not be glamorous but it damn well ought to be able to browse the internet and run an office suite.
Yep. I've seen occasional blowout sales on older models in the $20 range.
What are your biggest type of clients? I see you used a phone as an example, is that one of the most common products that people ask the price for? Asking because I'm trying to get the mindset of the proper client.

Also, for whatever product your most common client is, what are the reasons that they use your service as opposed to comparing the prices on amazon/ebay/Google?
No one refer the thread?
http://redd.it/3ce0s8
Who's forcing anything?
I was raised keeping the Sabbath fairly strictly, but not to the level of Orthodox Judaism. There were the things I "couldn't do" on the Sabbath that I really would have liked to do, but I always kept the Sabbath faithfully as a child. It seemed like a limiting restriction, but I did it anyway. After I graduated and entered the workforce, I started to appreciate the Sabbath more--probably for the same reasons that many commenters here recognize some of the positive aspects of the idea. It's a nice break from the normal routine, a chance to rest, rejuvenate, etc.

But now I do not keep the Sabbath any more. Somewhere along the line I rejected enough of religion that I didn't feel it was necessary even though I recognize the positive aspects of it. Now I work on Sabbath sometimes. I do side programming projects on Sabbath sometimes. I rest on Sabbath sometimes. Sometimes I rest, relax, and rejuvenate all weekend. I don't feel its necessary to take good guiding principles and observe them as strictly as Sabbath keepers seem wont to do.

But maybe that's just because of my personality. Maybe there are people who need a strict Sabbath to prevent themselves from overwork and burnout. I have a pretty high level of intrinsic motivation and drive myself harder than many, but I have a good internal burnout avoidance mechanism. I'm sure there are people out there who don't have that and for whom a device like the Sabbath might be very important. At the end of the day, I think there are very few absolutes, and I find that my life is happier when I'm not worrying about the Sabbath.
I could see there’s probably a wealth of knowledge in manuals for mechanical calculators, printing, agriculture machinery, photography, steam, hydrodynamics, etc.
I don't either. Upvoted.
Those junction boxes in front of traffic are dangerous as it encourages cyclists to swerve through stopped traffic - I am sure the road designers in london hate cyclists
We’re Reddit Mods, and This Is How We Handle Hate Speech
The only name on that list that I know off the top of my head is Tanja Lange, and she has earned a lot of respect for her work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6jTFxQaUJA - Her and the author of this parody at 31C3 last year, teaching ECC.
Latest Firefox doesn't even break a sweat.
The title of the article doesn't seem to address the question it poses, but I didn't want to change it. According to the mods interviewed, it was supposed to be a different title and they changed it after the fact.
The one who makes most of the profit in this case is Google, be it Play Store revenue, or data collected. I'm actually beginning to feel bad for the Android vendors.
I found this an informative look at the history and current state of the supermarket "center store", the aisles that contain the commodity boxed and canned staple products (vs. butcher counter, bakery, etc.).
Doesn't seem to work in iOS9 (at least for me).

Enabled ad blocking - went to mashable.com got ads as per https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqnf2mebzi74151/photo%20aug%2015%2... turned on mega list, refreshed, same thing.
agreed. interesting read, yet far from complete, and certainly questionable.

a couple that jumped out to me as questionable:

the "discounting" section reminds me of the stanford marshmallow experiment (itself questionable iirc). i'm not convinced a marshmallow is worth an additional 5 minutes of delayed gratification, and i'm even less convinced an additional 0.07ml of juice (or a whole 0.002oz) is worth waiting at all.

the "Relative and Absolute Utility" section, and particularly the quoted section of Glimcher's example, fail to acknowledge a fundamental component of human motivation: context.

for example, strand someone on a remote, uninhabited, desert island (with no way to escape, etc.), and offer her a choice of $1,000,000 worth of goods or $1,000 worth of goods. her choice at this point is uninteresting because currency is arguably worthless in the absence of trade; she assigns value based on what these goods can do for her rather than what they would fetch at auction back home.

for example, let's say the $1,000,000 worth of goods is a lifetime supply of jello, and the $1,000 is a safe ride home on a fishing vessel. the safe ride home is arguably the better choice despite its lower monetary value. this is why i believe it's silly to blindly apply the transitive property of inequality (in terms of monetary value) as a predictor of human motivation while ignoring context.
No, but feel free to tell me what my opinions are.
> Which is a long way of saying
> that ... I am no math dummy ...

Actually, what it makes clear is that you never encountered any real pure math. You only ever encountered what gets done in school under the heading math. Not the same thing. In fact, very far from the same thing.

> I don't feel I understand the
> point being made. ... If the
> desire is to explain something
> to people ... then it probably
> isn't succeeding.

Here's the bit that contains the main point:

The whole point of pure maths is that
there are problems to solve, and you're
working to solve them. On the way you
might generate all sorts of stuff that
has no real relevance to the real world
at all.

The interesting thing is that stuff from
pure maths ends up being useful anyway,
even when they were studied just because
they were interesting at the time.

The rest is examples, structure, and motivations to try to help support that point.

Does that help? If not, then ask something more detailed.

> Because I sure as hell have no
> fantasy that anyone cares whether
> or not I get it.

Given that I wrote it and posted it here, why should I not care whether you get it or not. The whole reason for writing it is to help people "get it."
It should also be on the first page if you Google "message queue internet of things".
I was extremely surprised to see LG's profit margin being as low as 1.2c per device. That would be a poor profit margin for a chocolate bar, let alone a smartphone. That is obviously not sustainable.
For reference here is a description of the fork being discussed.

- Mike Hearn [1]
- Redit [2]

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[1]: https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h42cz/bitcoin_is_forked/
The stated reason for replacing rice protein with soy in their 2.0 formula was texture/mouthfeel, but I bet it has something to do with this as well.

Why does rice tend to have such high heavy metal content? Is it simply coincidence w/ where rice tends to be grown?
If the cert is not trusted for server auth and doesn't have the CA flag set, it can't be used this way. Certs are also used to authenticate to VPNs, and can be trusted only for that purpose.
Those interested in an in-depth reflection on Sabbath practices might find this book interesting:

"The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time" by Judith Shulevitz

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sabbath-World-Glimpses-Different/d...

It's one of the more thoughtful books about where/how religious practice meets human needs that I've come across in a while, and getting a lot out of it doesn't depend on being a believer of any kind.
> As mobile networks kill off phone subsidies, users might now begin to appreciate just how much their new smartphone really costs.

The article doesn't really speak about Apple, but Apple has a much bigger problem than Android. How many people are going to pay 800$ for a hand phone + cost of data plan ?

This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP but they need to up their game when it comes to the qualities of apps. I also strongly believe that if WP sdk was supported on Mac and Linux it would have been a bigger hit. But that's my opinion.
He said capitalism rewards sociopaths, not that capitalists are sociopaths. Simply competing without empathy for other people has been shown be rewarding in many cases. Look at the "robber barons" of an earlier era or "vulture capitalists" who break up companies to sell off the pieces at the expense of the workers who are left jobless.