skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the best and simplest changes I ever made was to have my phone on airplane mode by default. Originally, the change was just to maximize the life of a dying battery, but even after I replaced the battery I discovered that I was happier, more focused, and less stressed when I only checked my phone 3-4 times a day. Essentially, I treat it like I treat email.

Everyone who knows me knows that I do this and I have told them that I am not going to change. For emergencies, they know the people I usually see each day and know to call one of them.

I've discovered that when people can't expect to contact you on a whim at any time, they think ahead and let you know what their plans are in advance. Both parties can then arrange their availability in advance and use their time more efficiently.

After a year of doing this it makes you realize just how absurd and artificial the expectation of continuous availability is. My attention is a resource and I am going to control how I allocate it, not others.
Quoting /u/kamatsu (from reddit): "Some context. This is a very early version released by /u/chak in time for ICFP. There are lots more features planned, so don't view this as the final product."

Comparing it to HP doesn't really make sense; it's a very early stage IDE with some yet-unreleased libraries and Xcode-like features/interaction (see Playgrounds) by a known GHC/Haskell developer.
How do you say "pick" in Argentina? I've never learned a synonym for it.
Redis is a great piece of software, and we leverage it for several uses cases outside of managing sets. For our use case, there were a couple of blockers that prevented Redis from being a viable solution:

1. It's tricky to scale out a Redis node when it gets too big. Because RDB files are just a single dump of all data, it's not easy to make a specific partitioning of the dataset. This was a very important requirement for us in order to ease scaling (redis-cluster wasn't ready yet -- we've been following that carefully).

2. When you store hundreds of GB of persistent data in Redis, the startup process can be very slow (restoring from RDB/AOF). Since it can't serve reads or writes during this time, you're unavailable (setting up a slave worsens the following problem).

3. The per-key overhead in Redis (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10004565/redis-10x-more-m...). We have many billions of sets that are often only a few elements in size -- think of slicing data by city or device type -- which means that the resulting overhead can be larger than the dataset itself.

If you think about these problems upfront, they're not too difficult to solve for a specific use case (partition data on disk, allow reads from disk on startup), but Redis has to be generic and so can't leverage the optimizations we made.
Andrew Chen: I'm joining Uber. Here's why
You should read your own wiki link, as it clearly disagrees with the absolutes you're trying to define.
Found a hole on my first try. 'Foda' in Portuguese is 'fuck', yet the app deemed it to be safe. 'Foda-se' (fuck you) wasn't there either - submitted both.
http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Mist.html

Mist {m} [ugs.]
crap [vulg.]
rubbish [esp. Br.] [nonsense]
bullshit <BS> [vulg.]
tripe [coll.]
garbage [fig.]
bull [derived from bullshit] [Am.] [vulg.]
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I'm at a fraction of a percentage for IE 8 as of yesterday in a sampling of over 100,000 sessions. If the sample is from desktop only users, that numbers moves up.

That is still a large enough number to matter for a startup where those make or break growth & retention numbers matter. It would be insane to throw out 1% of your visitors while other employees are doing cartwheels in A/B testing for 2% improvements.

The general principle I follow is drop support if a platform no longer receives security updates. The second part of that is to continue to produce a simplified version of your site that should work on all browsers. This provides big benefits for disability access, low bandwidth users (which is all of the developing markets), and edge cases.
And don't get me started on Hollywood's love for barely covered propaganda movies.
That's all about tracking when visitors exit in order to find out who has stayed longer that they're allowed to, nothing about preventing US citizens from leaving. Unless I missed the pertinent bit? In which case, could you point it out?
Is he using COGS in the right sense? I think he means CIF, cost/insurance/freight. My company produces products in Europe and Japan and we use the term 'landed CIF' to include all the costs associated with mfg, freight, and duties before it hits our US warehouse.

COGS for us is how much is sold through a distributor to an end user.
The FBI can read any email of yours older than six months without a warrant.
I can't zoom in far enough to see many of the hops :(
By the way, one magazine like that still exists.

CIA, using Ford Foundation, co-founded the Brazillian publisher "Abril", their flagship magazine is called "Veja" (it translates to "See"), it is a sort of centrist magazine (its views resemble the US democratic party, in Brazil this is right of most parties, so the hardcore brazillian left consider "Veja" extreme right-wing, but actual right-wingers consider the magazine as left).

It is interesting that although they do spouse many positions that the brazillian right wing consider left, the magazine usually is supportive of US, the few times it said something against the US is when the US pulled some obviously evil stunt (ie: something that even a stupid and ignorant person can perceive as evil).

I had a hobby of buying "Veja" and "Carta Capital" (It translates to "Capital Letter"), the CC magazine is clearly leftist, usually supporting the obviously marxist and communist parties, also CC magazine is very critical of US, it is not uncommon to see Veja and CC make reports on the same thing, with completely different conclusions, or see Veja and CC taking stealth jabs at each other (example: insulting someone that has a position the other has, without naming the other directly).
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This feels structurally similar to Searle's "Chinese room" argument.
I have noticed Google not being too useful in some queries this week... I'm wondering if they are trying new updates or something like that...
Come on. The scientists are not seeing the lion's share of the money from sky-high drug prices (and besides that, you can see some plainly opportunistic moves like recategorizing drugs to raise the fees that don't have anything whatsoever to do with new research).
Ruby's not required. The article doesn't mention Ruby but it mentions libsass (why Ruby is no longer required):

"This is great because Sass tends to be more favorable by front-end developers. It also compiles faster thanks to Libsass."

https://github.com/sass/libsass
First all don't call me an idiot. Machine learning isn't nearly ready enough to comparable to a person reading your email. Third, the NSA need a FISA warrant to get citizen's emails. Snowden's leaks prove that.

Some propaganda ministry trying to honeypot the Taliban, Iran, and Argentina is totally unrelated.

>if they're running on a left wing platform, may have already been targeted for disruption via JTRIG or an equivalent US group.

There is absolutely no indication that anything of sort goes on. There are no shortage of left wingers making all sorts of noise in the UK and US.

The NSA and GCHQ aren't allowed to blackmail politicians. If they wanted to break bad, even if you destroyed them today, they could reform in like 20 minutes by just storming Google's headquarters.

If you don't think that the government will follow the law and the will of the people, why do you want to make a law preventing them have any capability. Either they follow the law or not.
It looks like the "well the USSR isn't _real_ communism!" card is still trying to be played today. And it is just as ridiculous.
Others have pointed out that it is in fact syntactically valid HTML. It's also worth mentioning that this is syntactic sugar, and you can get the same behavior with:

<input type="text" bindon-ng-model="model.name">

Similarly, property bindings surrounded by brackets "[myprop]" and event bindings surrounded by parens "(myevent)" are equivalent to the following:

<input type="text" bind-myprop="model.foo" on-myevent="bar()">

All of angular2's template syntax can be replaced by more normal-looking tag properties with "reserved" prefixes that tell Angular what to do with them.[0] The less verbose symbols are probably easier for the eye to parse than the long forms once you're used to them, and either form can be easily analyzed and highlighted by an IDE.

[0]http://victorsavkin.com/post/119943127151/angular-2-template...
Anything more than sitting in an anonymous room watching uh, water dry. It's easist to see by doing a rundown of the Bill of Rights and pondering the actual troubles you'd face if you asserted them.

Badnarik's constitutional law videos illustrate the process in the context of government affiliates (eg driving/RMV) better than I ever could. Although you have to interpret what he is saying with the goal of finding out how we got to this point, rather than falling into thinking you just need to assert your rights "harder" to regain freedom.

The same thing happens with the "private" sector - complexity grows and its effects on the individual remain unregulated because it does not conform to the simplitic base case of "the government" doing something, even when it has formed a de facto government.

For example, a person can't exist without paying large rents, which necessitates they go contract for a "job". This then controls what they can do even when not working. Historically this inconsistency was resolved by private behavior staying private, but we're in a time of upset because pervasive communication has changed that.

Government applies a hazy justification of "commerce" to regulate absolutely everything. And the constructive behavior of this third "commercial" realm certainly impacts fundamental individual rights. But rather than longstanding "constitutional" rights being applied to the commercial realm, even more complexity is generated as half-baked adaptations are created to address the singular issues of the day. Back to my example of employment, someone can't be fired for being gay but someone else can be fired for wearing a red sweater on Sunday.

Everyone dreams of being free of this yoke (eg "FU money") and finds ways to push back in areas that really matter to them. But don't confuse carving out a niche for yourself with addressing the fundamental problem. Not everyone can be a winner, and the trend is for freedom to be further eroded as the world becomes flatter and winners and losers are more pronounced (eg the destruction of cottage industry).

I'll forgive "the founders" for not seeing that complexity creates contradictions (especially as they preceeded the explosion of logic and computation that makes this fact painfully apparent), but their ideas should not be considered sacrosanct. Of course this same conclusion can be used to support taking even more rights, and in this climate any constitutional amendment certainly would be doing so. So my argument is to enlighten thoughts and change culture rather than any revising of the constitution.
How does that make you the bad guy? Half of the open-source movement seems to be making free clones of popular software.
Chinese tech companies reportedly hiring 'cheerleaders' to motivate programmers
It's cool that they compare it to mice brains and fractions of human brains, but how similar are they really? Do they operate at the same speed? I'd guess biological neurons trigger slower. Are they as connected? It's nice that it's a hexagonal mapping of a toroids surface, but neurons are connected in true 3d, how much more connected is that?
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That box doesn't seem to permit adding cultural referents / context. If we added all normal words that can have another meaning, it'd flag almost everything.
Thanks!

Off-topic: I like bitbucket better, so it is nice to see some projects going over there.
If jobs involving coding did not pay as much money as they do, you would see no interest in promoting diversity in coding. There are no 'diversity in construction', or 'girls who pour concrete', or 'hispanic ladies who sell used cars' initiatives yet these jobs are almost exclusively done by men. People see the money and their social justice switches start flipping. Surely it is because white and asian men are taking all the good jobs for themselves! It's funny how no one cares about social justice when there's no money involved. The other ridiculous assertion is that one just 'learns to code' in 10 weeks and then they are ready for that high paying coding job. If justice warriors are unhappy about the demographics of software professionals then they are wrongly trying to treat the symptoms. The demographics match the group of people who go through four year CS programs, so maybe that money would be better spent for CS scholarships. I don't say minority CS scholarships because now they are talking about excluding Asian people and it is still non-PC to label Asian people as part of the majority however correct as it is in the academic and professional world.
There is evidence. I told you how to find it.

you can slander me all you want, but it doesn't make my words less relevant.

Edit:tried to create another account with my full name, but replying is prevented. At least dang knows who I am now. I trust that guy.
Yes, it is a considerable frustration. At the beginning, the Angular team said something along the lines of "we are working on a Angular 2, after we figure out how it should work then we will consider migration and come up with a plan". For some reason this was widely interpreted as "there will be no migration plan".
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These guys raised $650k for their keyboard last month:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01...

I think a lot of these guys try to build a following before they launch.
Could be, but I think those choices are too unfocused in intent to be the work of the government. Hard to say exactly what their focus is, if they even still do those kinds of operations.

If I were the CIA, I'd start by looking at mainstream American Muslim groups safely inside the fold, then move on to groups closer to the fringe but still not radical, as these would be the perfect kind of organization to create, both for the ability to keep tabs on muslims and also for crafting the millieu of the muslim subculture within the US. I guess the point here would be to create a moderate muslim front domestically in order to prevent ISIS sympathizers from gaining traction. I'm not sure if this is actually a good idea or not.

After I'd found some of those aforementioned groups, I'd check out their preferences for pornography, video games, and illegal drugs-- the most reliable way to do this is to be in person. These options are a good place to start looking for an outside nudge, given that they're still taboo, especially among muslims.

After thinking it through, this seems a bit far fetched. I'm not sure that the CIA would be wasting so much time on dubious culture creation/shaping without it being proven as extremely effective in the right context.
Dart?
We tried a variety of PostgreSQL-based approaches, including this one. Unfortunately, the way you do set insertions using arrays is to do a O(n) membership check, which means your set will take O(n^2) to construct -- very inefficient.
why only females?
You can use LibSass which is written in C++, to avoid the Ruby dependencies. https://github.com/sass/libsass
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The difference between raising early-stage capital in the US vs. Europe
If anyone can read this and /not/ believe that the security state is very much active in a covert way on social media, reddit, and even specialized forums like this...

I realize that to suggest that, say, some proportion of the reddit mods are on the payroll of a .gov alphabet agency sounds like tinfoil hat territory, but it would have been dramatically crazier in the 50's to suggest that the CIA was funding socialist literary magazines, art galleries, and the like.
I wasn't suggesting there are no grassroots actions, but I was questioning whether there are (many) coherent grassroots "movements."

At the very least they seem quite rare.
How corporate data brokers sell your life, and why you should be concerned
"Oh thank heaven". This is so hilariously unfortunate.
The funny part is that I really don't notice "bite" in this way if it's surrounded by English words. The tumblr blog listed downthread does nothing for me for example.

But if the surrounding words exist in French too, my brain invariably gets tricked into switching to French.
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Not completely sure why you think they didn't realize that. As a counter-point, Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
The breakout time for a government to go from no spying to spying on all the people is not very long. That goes double for countries where Google and Facebook operate.

Just look at how the NSA gets its information right now. Most of it is just delivered by companies who keep the information themselves.

You want to find a list of gays in America. Grindr has a database for you, Google too.
So it's not "when did the CIA become a rogue actor", but rather "which stuff did the CIA fund", right?

Also, is there anything like a "free market" in the US? It appears that some government agency or another is financing things, or feeding info to entities in just about every single market. This has been going on since WW2, at least. So when do I get to scoff at any mention of a "free market"?
GNU software? It's hard to imagine big coroporations pushed that.
No, it says that if you're anxious about math, trying to teach it hurts the child's comprehension.
This article is fantastic. Thanks so much for the share! Will definitely be studying this and thinking about this when meeting with our users.
How does this differ from the AWS Storage Gateway appliance? https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/
See "no-fly list" for removal of permission.
> do you just write off the money and time spent on the startup as a dream forgotten?

This isn't my first rodeo, but I usually just write off failed start-ups in general as dreams forgotten (and boy do I have a lot of forgotten dreams). I obviously gained a lot of technical knowledge: how USB works, packet formats, some hardware engineering, driver programming, etc. But unless I ever get a job writing low-level code for hardware devices, I doubt I'll ever use that knowledge again.

Who knows, maybe for another hardware start-up?
Congrats to Andrew Chen! Heard him on the Product Hunt podcast and have learned a lot from his newsletter and Tweets.
Link to original study.

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.full
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Update: I've downloaded the GeoLite data from April 2015, replacing the old March 2014 data! You should now be seeing more accurate results. :)
Researchers want to make sure computers never lose your data
"with a little bit of mathematics too" how wonderfully understated.
>This isn't really a technology problem. It is a philosophical one.

Yep. My cell phone is for my convenience not anyone else's (except my spouse). They're not paying my bill. For all intents and purposes people should think of my cell phone as a land line, assume it is plugged in charging next to my bed. Also, if I'm eating a meal, entertaining/have guests, not in the mood, I will not answer your call or immediately reply to your text messages.

Now, if you're my spouse, I expect more timely responses if you are aware of an attempt to communicate (text message, missed call, incoming call) but try to understand that they may be busy or unable to get back to me right away.

> but those you live with, specifically a partner, is different. And feeling insulted when they don't respond within 30 minutes at most generally, is pretty natural.

I agree. That's my biggest irritation. If I get done with work and try to get a hold of my wife but can't. If I get home and she and the children are not there my blood boils. We have come to an agreement. If she leaves the house or will be away from her phone for a period (in the pool), especially around when I get done with work, that she will send me a text message letting me know. This helps greatly.
You would think with all the posts about East Germany on here lately people would recognise this.

Edit: playing devil's advocate, you could almost argue that the surveillance system in the UK is at least a lot better than that of Airstrip One/the GDR - while the level of surveillance is perhaps about the same, the Thought Police/Stasi used it to feed their obsession with picking up harmless political dissenters, while at the very least GHCQ seems to (thankfully) be focussed on (somewhat) more genuine existential threats.
That is interesting -- using Coq to prove crash safety and consistency. It is a bit in the spirit of how Kyle (Aphyr)'s Knossos tool checks databases in his "Call Me Maybe" series.

There should definitely be an equivalent thing for data corruption. There sure have databases and systems that made lofty marketing claims only to then silently corrupt user data (really, one of the most terrible things that could happen -- as it will corrupt your backups and might not be noticed for a while).

Also due to proliferation of VMs/containers. The model checker would have to include abnormal behaviors in both the host and the VM instance. Say pull the power on the host or VM.

Looking at products that store data I have both designed my own, so I know exactly how and when data checkpoints are happening or evaluated a few DBs. Or I like CouchDB for an off-the-shelf example. It has an append-only and crash-only design. Stopping can be done by kill -9 the process or backing can happen anytime, take EBS snapshots anytime. You'll pay for it perhaps in raw write performance but it has worked great for me.
The NSA lied to the congressional oversight committee repeatedly and reliably. After each lie, there was another leak which showed them to be liars.

They tried to hide by redefining the meaning of all sorts of simple terms ("collection" comes to mind) and narrow political answers like "not under this program".

There hasn't been any actual overview by either party... the actions of the NSA are aggressively hidden from them, and they prosecute whistleblowers.
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Anxiety about writing or public speaking is. Not quite the soft sciences, but maybe close. (I think "outright dismissal" of the soft sciences is more likely than "anxiety" and maybe that's the point you were making.)
Yeah!

(You probably know about this but others may not.) I like Elm's architecture, which has typed update functions that can be nested. This makes the full stack of the component composable and is something like a cursor: https://gist.github.com/evancz/2b2ba366cae1887fe621
iirc there was a Powerpoint slide in one of Snowden's leaks that basically explicitly discussed manipulation of such fora. I post this in hopes someone who recalls better links to it.
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