skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's what mailinator.com is :)
Google Now is very good in San Francisco: Now predicts general-interest items such as news and weather, and also immediate-vicinity items such as metro train schedules as I walk by the metro station, and movie schedules as I walk by a theater.

The Now cards link to more information, which makes it easy to explore more. In my experience, the cards are near-100% accurate.
I use it here in Paris, France. Super useful.
Indeed. Only a matter of time before reddit and hackernews get dumped. That's be fun (esp. reddit)
You're talking about a subjective experience as if it's something that can be objectively measured. I find it the other way around. I've used Macs since the 80's, but lately I hardly touch them, in part because I think the desktop experience is so much worse than GNOME, KDE, Unity, or even XFCE.

GNOME 3 in perticular is the best arranged desktop in my opinion because the way it separates the desktop and application launcher/switcher/search into two distinct modes and makes context switching so easy with just a key press, a click, or a hot corner. Everything is always in the same place and easy to access with little cognitive overhead. Whereas using the Mac application bar is really messy, trying to follow flyout menus that go off at odd angles, etc., and that's far from the only reason I dislike the UI. GNOME follows the way my mind works. I'm either using the applications I want or switching between them, and unifying everything in these categories makes so much sense, I'm surprised everyone doesn't follow the model.

That's entirely my opinion, and I tend to be biased and think the only reason people complain about the desktop experience is because it's not whatever they're used to, but the only thing I know for sure is that there's no one way to arrange a desktop that appeals to everyone.
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It should generally be fine if you're selling immediately. What you probably don't want is to sell at the, e.g., 6 month mark, which makes you pay short-term capital gains.

But I'm not a tax professional so there may be other concerns I'm not aware of.
I don't see how our modern view of what was then a capital crime matters. When the quote was said, it was said to a group who were asking to carry out a death sentence for a capital crime. That is to say, the line of reasoning is that you should not carry out an execution for a capital crime unless you are without sin.

To insist that this quote only applies to adultery and not to other actions which different societies may or may not judge as capital crimes is about as meaningful as insisting that this literally means to not throw the first stone, but other punishments, including other means of execution, are allowed.
Well... what maturity bonds did the Fed buy? How long ago did they start buying them? The Fed's current plan is to let them expire. If I recall correctly, a big part of what the Fed bought was 2-3 year duration (but I could be mistaken). Some of that should have already expired; more should do so soon.
Didn't ignore it.

Yes, in Western (or at least American) society men do tend to pursue women more actively than vice-versa. This is probably true in most cultures though I don't have firsthand experience.

No, you do not need to be "handsome, wealthy and well endowed (i.e. perfect)" in order to avoid being "at the mercy of women."

Just try to put up a fake profile on a dating site as
an experiment and see what ends up in your mailbox over
the course of a few days.

I ran a dating site, actually. Saw lots of guys who weren't "perfect" have a great time and find success in relationships. Me included.
Also, MICROS~1 is much funnier.
Thanks for doing my googling for me. Clearly the last time I really gave it a go was more on the Squeak side than Pharo, which looks pretty great.
Also of note: US worker demographics do not substantiate the narrative that a recovery is going on. Jobs added are typically in the service industry, and a large percentage of those are part-time situations. Also the only age group that has added jobs since 2008 is the 55 and up cohort, which only further punishes the under-employed youth with significant student loan / other debt burdens and stalls the general progression into higher classes. I have my suspicions that the 55 and up group simply can't retire (no savings) or refuses to retire (standard of living).

Basically what I see are indicators the collapse will come around by way of massive defaults on student load debt. This will be combined with Federal Government idiocy promising Baby Boomers that the benefits will aways be there for them as a pandering for votes. Everybody knows full well the lower tiers of society and the working population are forced to make do with unapologetically low wages which aren't condusive to a healthy tax system, but there's no end to people voting against self-interest because they're clouded ideologically.

I'm not sure a total reset is this time or this year but probably next summer it'll be the focus of all the Presidential candidates.
I used this for my iptables settings.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Simple_stateful_firewal...
This looks like a deliberately misleading and overblown claim to me. Looking at the knowledge base articles, we see that the diagnostics tracking service is enabled only for users who already participate in the customer experience program (a very clear option when setting up Windows for the first time:

- KB3080149: "The diagnostics tracking service collects diagnostics about functional issues on Windows systems that participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP)."

The second update is short on details, but it's specifically targeting the UAC "Run as Administrator" dialog (which is implemented by consent.exe), presumably to collect information on unsigned applications which request admin privileges. Microsoft should provide further details here for sure, but I see nothing nefarious. One might guess that the information collected here might be the hash of the exe requesting admin privileges.

- KB3075249: "This update adds telemetry points to the User Account Control (UAC) feature to collect information on elevations that come from low integrity levels."

Compare this with the ridiculous claim in the article that this is "allowing for remote monitoring of everything that happens within the operating system."
Read the article. Aaronson is in fact arguing against a new technology based on the fundamental principles of the technology.

DWave is not a quantum computer, they aren't even a quantum annealing computer. They (probably, but not certainly) exploit a very particular effect to optimize a very particular problem. It cannot run Shor's or Grover's, and it never will be able to.
So the assumption is that stock prices increase on an infinite time scale?

Seems a bit naive...
So I just started my windows and it seems that I am 'infected' with this anti-privacy stuff. How do I get rid of it? Re-install from the installation disk and disable updates, or can I still remove the updates?
Still, you can't make matter out of thin air, can you? At some point, it's all just overeating, isn't it? How can "metabolism" differences account for more than a few percent differences. Fat people don't have nuclear reactors in their stomachs creating energy -- they're eating too much.

60% of Americans didn't get fat because their "genetics" changed.

I suppose some people may store excess food intake more readily as fat, and some may just poop it out, but the ultimate core is: you're eating TOO MUCH.

I'm 5'10 and 160#. Maximum weight for me according to height/weight charts is 175. Every now and then I creep up to 170. I simply look at the BMR charts to see what my basic rate metabolism is, eat ~4500 calories less than that a week, and I lose a pound and a half a week. The math always works exactly. I do this every three or four years if I catch my weight creeping up and get back to 160.

Fatties are gonna fat. We don't need more excuses for them, do we? They're causing us to spend billions of dollars on health care.
The typical self-described "buy and hold investor" I know is actually a "buy and hold then panic and sell" investor. Take a look at r/investing to see what I'm talking about. I'm not criticizing them per se; it's unnerving to imagine half your life savings or retirement being gone in a flash.
> As I said: It has absolutely nothing to do with the foods or how they are processed; it has everything to do with how much people eat of these foods.
> Fatty/Salty foods can promote overconsumption, but blaming the foods for a person's lack of self-control is, as I said previously, incredibly foolish.

Not everyone has the same self-control/discipline. Exploitation of this fact by food companies is becoming more visible as time goes on. One that immediately springs to mind are the slogans for products such as Pringles: "Once you pop, you can't stop!"

Certain foods cater to, nay exploit, addiction and human behavioral traits. You can't exploit weaknesses in the human psyche and then say "it's their own fault," without assuming any responsibility or blame.

That's like blaming a drug addict entirely for becoming addicted to crack and not apportioning any of the blame to the dealer... not everything is entirely the fault of the... I'm struggling for a better word than victim, but that's not really the word I mean. Most addicts are at first desensitized, then conditioned and then coerced into trying what they become addicted to long before they become addicted.

Food companies have been slated to add chemicals into their food that have been found to correlate with addiction, to keep people coming back for their product. The media desensitizes, conditions and coerces people into trying their product. Portions are decided not based on what is a scientifically proportionate amount of food, but what is most profitable or will make the "client" keep coming back for more - to feed the addiction - in exactly the same way that dealers cut their drugs with chemicals that feed addiction and keep the addict coming back for more - even though many of them want desperately to quit.
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Surprised HN doesn't have more advice on this.
I'm aware. I've gone to some extreme lengths to disable these things.

Group Policy editor, registry edits, hosts file additions and added entries to Comodo Firewall to block any suspicious Microsoft processes from making outbound connections.
Well-Sorted Version
The Scandinavian countries, various countries in Western Europe.
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What an unbelievable lack of respect and a big FU to Microsoft's own customers. At least using Windows 10 is a choice (I think - do they force it on Windows 7 machines?), but to do this to all existing customers - wow, just wow.

Behold everyone - this is the "new" Microsoft, worse than it ever was.
Actually, I think it's fair to point out that the sophistication of the financial markets, vis-a-vis fiat currency, drastically outstrips the capabilities of regulators and financial decision makers to comprehend and/or manage with any believable outcome.
> Regardless of your ideological background, you cannot possibly assert the U.S economy is healthy.

Sure you can (note, I wouldn't, but that's a different issue); standards for "health" of an economy are deeply ideological.
Interesting analogy, what about this:

Your friends pay you money to permanently dispose of the evidence of their marital affair

You just leave the evidence at your house instead

You leave your doors and windows open

Now its still not your fault that people came in and rummaged through your stuff; but surely its you who are to blame for never disposing of the evidence as you promised (and accepted payment for)?

Its an interesting component to what is otherwise extremely simple.

If i paid a document shredding company to shred my documents and months later that company gets broken into and all my documents are released...

Surely i blame the shredding company as much, if not more, than i blame the thieves.

I don't really have a position or idea on what this all makes ashley madison guilty of from a criminal or civil law perspective - but i certainly feel that there are punishable actions taken by ashley madison in this whole mess
> As I said: It has absolutely nothing to do with the foods or how they are processed; it has everything to do with how much people eat of these foods.

Why and how have people changed to have less self-control in the past 30-40 years?

The most obvious answer is the proliferation of food that is extremely calorically dense and designed to promote fast and heavy consumption.

Or you could wave your hands and say "People these days are just irresponsible!"
You can choose between telemetry levels in Win10 though.
It really was good journalism, by all acceptable definitions of that term. Just because a number of engineers report never being treated that way, that doesn't negate the hundreds of data points that the Times used in the piece, which were all approved by Amazon ahead of time.
Mine is CT... does that entail a lower risk?
Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts
The post that I replied to contains sufficient rhetorical talking points that are typically used in this kind of discussion. Do you have a refutation of them?

You can state the facts as impartially as you like; people will not hear them because it contradicts the "recovery is here and the economy is strong" narrative.
blaming the foods for a person's lack of self-control is, as I said previously, incredibly foolish.

c.f. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...

burden ultimately rests on the consumer

Rests on the overworked, underpaid, isolated in food deserts, raising kids in the same environment, consumers. The average human isn't researching nutrition science, they just want to be happy. They eat what tastes good, have no time to exercise—they drive 3 hours a day—and then they go back to eating what tastes good.

Humans aren't brain-rational actors, they are gut-rational actors, and the gut is extremely short sighted and happy to offload trillions in future medical expenses onto future members of society (not to mention the national security risk of having 80% of your population rolling around in Jazzy Scooters and individually running up over a million dollars in weight-related medical bills in their lifetime).
I work with TopTal and this is no throwaway account. I see very little reason to publicly slam a company one failed to get into and no reason to call it 'stupid'. Most companies do whiteboard questions during interviews, and Codility challenges are equivalent to that.
It's not in the vocabulary of users (who don't know what "metasyntactic" means anyway), but it's still prominent in the vocabulary of developers.
Well considering that accounts can be easily faked, someone might have put your E-mail on the list. Do you then deserve "everything you get"?

Also, please don't use phrases like "nobody..." and "most people are". There is no possible way you could know what "most people are" doing so by itself that statement is a made-up statistic. Either link to (preferably a couple) articles to back up such a statement, or just say "I am". Similarly, what is "the majority of the polls"? You could at least point out a few examples of these polls so that we can tell for ourselves how accurate the statement is likely to be.

What I hope "happens more often" is that discussions will veer away from this kind of unsubstantiated I-already-know-who-I'm-voting-for commentary.
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Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106882

Nothing new in this link.
>> “Obesity has traditionally been seen as the result of an imbalance between the amount of food we eat and how much we exercise, but this view ignores the contribution of genetics to each individual’s metabolism,” says senior author Manolis Kellis, a professor of computer science and a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and of the Broad Institute.

The article is pretty clear in stating that this new research is novel because it might depose the firmly held belief that diet and exercise is the sole cause/determinant of one's obesity.
Are you really blaming financial instability on "unsophisticated investors"? Not on automated, high speed traders able to liquidate stocks and topple markets in seconds? Not on reckless, fear-mongering media outlets competing for the most sensationalist headline? Not on government action/inaction affecting trillions in assets?
Another thanks. Probably the most value I've gotten out of 23andme to date
Yeah, speaking the truth tends to get you downvoted. People are silly and emotional. But it's nice to see another independent thinker here. I've noticed you before.

Don't pay much attention to the political circus though, the false choice between "Demopublicans". That's all smoke and mirrors to make you think you have a say in how you're "governed" (i.e. coerced).

> The current mess of the US economy is due to the choices of many politicians, in congress and the presidency, from both parties.

It's much deeper than that. The dollar was detached from the gold standard in 1971, and that was the beginning of "the real end". Before that, the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 set the scene for all the economic trouble to come, and so on. Check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk

> This is why we need the government out of the economy, and let it work.

You're on the right track, but take it further. We need the government out of existence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE .. it is based on extortion, after all.

What maintains governments is the belief in political authority: http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/Contents.pdf

> Hell if it weren't for government the bad banks would have failed in 2008-- and we would have had a real recovery afterwards.

That's certainly true.
this sounds like me
Honestly, the BDI hasn't really changed that much as compared to the 2007 heydays : http://investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm . There was some increase in the 'green shoots' days, but it's been bumping along since then. If anything, I think that means the world economy hasn't really ramped since then. Still, I'd love another opinion by someone that recognizes the value of watching the BDI.
Because it's the system that's pulled several billion people out of abject poverty in the last 30 years? I believe the system that was tried before that was called socialism, and didn't work as well as capitalism.
My completely uninformed made up argument: medicine, medical care and sanitation have improved a lot. ;-)
I have actually noticed that as well. Almost all of my metamours have been in the tech sector.
That's okay, they can just use their p2p technology and route their spying through other people's computers.
Not everyone is like you. I don't have a Stack Overflow account. My Github account is sparse. I have never understood the lure of creating content for free for other companies.

I'd like to think I'm not that uncommon for a geek. I love coding. (I have been coding since the 80s, and professionally since the late 90s. You will find my name in a handful of credits files, and a number of mailing list and usenet posts.)

But I won't start using centralized services just because you or some recruiter decides it's the new cool place to be. Sorry.
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You can, and I'm sure most would. There may come a time, however, when a future Windows update rewrites or works around the hosts file for telemetry. Doing it at the router or external firewall avoids that possibility.
> Adobe has no intention of ever announcing an EOL for Flash

That's irrelevant, Adobe is known for keeping dead products afloat. The Flash platform is gracefully becoming another Director or Cold Fusion which are still being sold.
> Under acceleration, a rear-engine car has an almost absurd traction advantage over any other engine packaging configuration. For example, under acceleration, the 911 has a 74% rear bias, where the Cayman has a 67% bias.

Under acceleration, a rear engine car has an almost absurb traction disadvantage on the front wheels, too. There go your steering and braking.

Suspension design should be the main determinant of traction, not weight distribution. Hence other brands' insistence on neutral 50/50 front/rear ratios.
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Many do, but many don't. For those that don't, suddenly having the dominant desktop OS turn on them is going to be a big deal.
No reason why they can't be against both groups, and are just killing two birds with one stone.
I almost entirely agree with you, just wanted to add a bit more colour to your comments on Canada and Saudi Arabia.

Canada is clearly in recession but I don't think we can call it a "serious" recession yet. So far more of a mild contraction (but pretty terrible if you focus in on energy). I do think the rest of the economy is lagging behind energy and bad times are ahead overall, especially with so much of Canadian growth/prosperity tied to the housing boom. I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but seriously: when the prime minister promises a home renovation tax credit during his reelection campaign - and explicitly states he's doing to help boost the value of Canadians' homes - you've gotta know people are captured by the real estate boom narrative.

On Saudi, they can afford low oil prices for a while and can just borrow if they need to. Super low debt around 3% of GDP, low cost basis as you say, and they've done this before and come back from it (100% debt-to-GDP in the 90s o the back of low oil prices). I've seen interesting speculation that Saudi is willing to hurt a bit from cheap oil because it'll hurt an increasingly-economically-integrated Iran more.
From the title, I hoped this would be an analysis of cyclists' power or something related to the fancy torque meters they love to use.
> So lets say someone like Apple contracts to buy 10 million iPhone 6 baseboards, in Rmb at an exchange rate of $100 per board, and now when it comes time to actually take delivery and buy the boards they cost Apple the equivalent of $150 each.

That sounds like it's the wrong way round.