skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, human rights should be debated as to warrant their existence?

Yes. Everything can be debated. If you are unable to defend your preferred position in a debate, maybe it isn't as perfect and obvious as you thought it was.

> And many like myself now have a zero tolerance policy in debating the matter.

Great! It's a free country. You don't have to participate in any debate you don't want to. But if, rather than just bowing out of debates, you start to demand that everyone else just step in line with your position, and threaten and mob them if they don't... well. Then I'm afraid we have a problem.
Outlook formats plain text email with a square monospaced system font, making the rest of the world look retarded. The favour is reciporcal, because, as a gmail user, Outlook-sent emails often have this delightful pastel cyan rounded font, making them look like kindergarten artifacts.
I don't think the problem is the subjectiveness as much as the knee-jerk reaction.

If you're in a heated argument with someone, most any human's first reaction given the ability to "punish" their opposer will be to click the downvote button.

The mental heuristic, in our case "anything that good hackers would find interesting", just never gets run. It's effectively dead code, because the stack of "do I agree with this" if/then blocks happens a few hundred lines up.

It takes a lot of effort to override that reflex.
> As soon as you reach that cap, you’re kicked down to 2G speeds which are basically unusable for most things worth doing on the internet. When I was on T-Mobile’s 1GB plan before it announced Music Freedom, I nearly used my entire data allowance listening to Google Play Music on a one-way bus ride from New York to DC.

There's another solution to this, that the corps would also like us to forget: own your media and take it with you. Use re-sellable mediums so you can "rent" even if nobody is offering rentals on the media you want.

Honestly it almost feels entitled to complain that your ISP will let you pull multiple HD video streams for hours on end every day for free.

> The truly simple solution is to just offer unlimited data access for everything.

The problem is that nobody's network has unlimited capacity. Even if you believe their complaints of congestion are false and they're just penny-pinching on their infrastructure and adding fees to squeeze every last dime of profit, there will be some physical limit to what they can do. I'd be interested in hearing a counterpoint here -- can the networks really profitably support something absurd like every subscriber streaming video 24/7? While that may look like a strawman, the article emphasized several times about how they want "truly unlimited", so the only way to give that is to assume everybody is saturating the bandwidth their hardware is capable of, and doing it 24/7, right?
It is uncomfortable to think of the alternative. Russia has warheads.
May I add, the redesigned YouTube app on iOS is horrendous. These UI regressions have to catch up to Google eventually, right?
Not working so well with phones, only desktop machines. I'm being somewhat careful, too.

The "warrantless" information only includes the device and domain name. I can hit a button and start publishing paths too, but I'll always be stripping usernames, passwords, and query strings -- I'm already inviting getting owned enough already.

Methods would be neat, I'll check the Chrome WebNavigation documentation and see what I can do (and try to depict it pictorially to keep it understandable).

As for emails, I've been considering doubling down on this and posting Twitter messages and the emails of my personal accounts, but ethical concerns are leading me to think that's a Bad Idea.

Brett
Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines (1996) [pdf]
MAYBE. But maybe not: what if your app has a Javascript based rich client, and the back end is primarily micro-services? Does Java still shine for that kind of a stack? (OK, I would still avoid C, but that's not saying much)
You've never received data that needed to be displayed as a table?

If plain text email was the end-all, then instant messenger and SMS would have killed email a long time ago.
True. And he was roundly vindicated at the time by the dot com implosion.
New Tesla cards for deep learning
Maybe GMaps is just polarizing software that seems awesome to some people and awful to others? Unless you're a Googler and/or on the Maps team? :)

One thing that is absolutely brain-dead is that (in Chrome) I can't type in maps.google.com and tab-search for my address. I can do this with Amazon.com or Netflix, but not an actual Google property? Weird.

Another thing that is just bafflingly absent is that GMaps doesn't know where my home and work are. Not just as locations, but as concepts. (Snide part of my brain wonders if the Maps team just lives at work.)

Another thing is that to make GMaps work with my Mac, I have to have a Chrome Extension to stop the map from freaking out. And then simple things like double-clicking to zoom in seems to have a non-predictable behavior where sometimes it zooms in and sometimes it tries to put a marker on the map.

Not everything in Gmaps is horrible. There are many nice features. But they've allowed the critical path through the software to become obscured and eroded.
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the Visa System
Uh oh -- this might be a game changer for well-funded suicide bombers.
I'm sure that you don't have a problem if confirmations are unstyled. But I'm also sure that a lot of users differ in that regard and would expect at least some styling on that non-marketing, but still system-generated emails. Examples include things like confirmations, notifications (that you've opted in to), or just richer and more complex conversations. I mean: to end users, the email experience is part of the brand, and if the brand emits terribad emails, or unstyled emails, it erodes confidence.

I'll grant that there's a lot of yucky and annoying html in some marketing emails. But there is still a use-case for html-styled emails, and just having plain text with "click here to see images of the food you're getting next week" is pretty darn 1994.
Movement-Based Behaviors and Leukocyte Telomere Length Among US Adults (study)
> Yes. Everything can be debated.

Fundamental moral axioms cannot really be debated (in the sense of rational argument based on logic and evidence); they can only be accepted or rejected.

Furthermore, if you can't agree on them, nothing that rests on them (that is, any question of should rather than is) can be debated either.
What format is the census data?
Our biggest telescopes cannot resolve planets at the distances even of the nearest stars, so no direct confirmation is yet available.

This Slate article has some fantastic images of exoplanets, though it's from 2012: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astrono...

A list of directly imaged exoplanets here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...

50 years of progress.
Thanks for your question! The 'Getting Started' guide can be found in the Github repo README at https://github.com/sodocan/sodocan.js.
We will update our site to make that link more prominent.
In other words, exercise helps mitigate markers for adverse effects of exercise.
It sounds like you dont really know what the purpose of scrum is.

Unfortunately, every response to "we tried process/technique X and it failed" in this space is ultimately "you didn't understand it" or "you did it wrong".

So no true scrum would have...

No true Agile shop would have...

And where does that get us? It appears that the success rate of people understanding and implementing these things is very close to 0%. Maybe the problem is with the processes/techniques after all.
I massively rate them. Had the Quad PCI for a few years now and it changed my productions overnight. What's good is you get all of the plugins installed and you can click demo to try any of them out immediately. Some emulations are exact (for example EMT250 reverb, Pultec EQ), some are close and have the correct tone but aren't the same as the originals (SSL channel strip for example), some are quite far away but are useful in their own right (mostly the tape plugins like the Ampex and Studer).

This is my full set:

Eventide H910 Harmonizer

AMS RMX16 (reverb)

Oxford Inflator

Oxford EQ

Ampex ATR-102

Lexicon 224

Studer A800

Precision Enhancer Hz

Precision Enhancer KHz

Precision Maximizer

Precision Multiband Compressor

Precision Limiter

EMT140 reverb

EMT250 reverb

Moog Filter

SPL Transient Designer

Roland RE-201 Space Delay

Roland Dimension D

Teletronix LA-2A Compressor

1176LN limiter

1176SE limiter

Pultec EQ

Cambridge EQ

DreamVerb

RealVerbPro

A good friend of mine has a lot of the real gear listed above, and even has a Series B SSL desk, so that guided me to the purchases, but also allowed me to do direct comparisons. I like the way they essentially re-build the machine's components in code (so they'll measure the input and outputs of all of the real components at various energy levels and then emulate them and 'plug' them together as code modules, pretty impressive.

Some plugins really take a lot of juice though, especially some of the newer ones where they're being more ambitious (Eventide, Studer, Ampex, AMX). I am considering getting an Octo to go alongside the Quad. That should last me a few years.

Offloading the plugin processing is very very handy as well, I rarely get the audio glitches because of a lack of CPU like I used to before.

So yeah, I recommend them highly.
It also kills off the 2008 Macbook. Apple ditched 2008 Macbooks within 4 years support-wise and left them stuck on 10.7. This was due to the 2012 release of 10.8 as 64-bit only and the cheap GPU in the 2008 Macbook only having 32-bit drivers. This is one of the reasons my girlfriend is now on a Windows machine. Paying a premium for a laptop and having it not able to run the operating system released just 4 years later was kind of absurd. The flaky motherboard played a role, too.
GMail/Google, why are you tying Google Fi to my GMail account? I got it for my wife, who now has to have my GMail account setup on her phone for the service to work.

You say you don't have family plans yet, but it sounds like you will. Do you really expect me to be okay with having my GMail account setup on my children's phones?
Scrum works fine when it's just programmers. Scrum and Agile become shackles when management gets involved and sees it as a status-checkup for their top-down view. The latter scenario seems to be 90% of situations, unfortunately.
Try Firefox OS on your Android device with a quick APK install
Well, I'm in the Bay Area and grew up in LA, so the drift is very prounounced. People at my old workplace who came from farther afield (e.g. Canada or the East Coast) tended to take a lot more initiative in socializing at work.
It's not 'artificially' inflated because of low supply. If its low supply, then the price should be high because it means its hard to train for.

Technical people arnt really elite workers either. There many many developers.
Your response sort of demonstrates the point I made above about most people not being attracted to most people.

In a career of 30 years, you found yourself working closely with a total of one woman who you were attracted to and who you thought might be "willing to become interested" in you. This co-worker was your equal, and you dealt with your feelings in what seems like a mature manner that caused no professional harm to you or her.

Where's the problem that needs solving?
If we're just displaying tables rather than interacting with them, that problem is solved.

+----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+
| Col1 | Col2 | Col3 |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+
| Value 1 | Value 2 | 123 |
| Separate | cols | with a tab or 4 spaces |
| This is a row with only one cell | | |
+----------------------------------+---------+------------------------+
*disclaimer: I used to work for HERE. I don't anymore. These opinions are my own.

They covered much more of the world than google maps. I always didn't understand why Japan didn't make the cut, I didn't have any insight into that.

fyi, HERE also has better indoor map coverage last time I checked, if you care for that sort of thing.
Looks nice!

Does it got any kind of integration with stuff you've uploaded through the regular Backblaze app? (e.g. moving stuff over to B2 once it has been uploaded as a regular BB backup).
It depends on your Mac. The 2008 Macbook was abandoned within 4 years by Apple OS-wise and couldn't run Mac OS X released in 2012.
Two points here. I don't have a Facebook account (probably never will), so I suspect the Facebook hits were mostly from Salon.

On the browsing Twitter stuff, I'm kind of fortunate. Since this hit here and on Boing Boing, I've been following along (and have been pleasantly surprised at how nice the internet is). But, I'm in academia, and this very tangentially counts as "work."

But yes, I also agree, people are doing this, and they'll continue to do so at work. As for how that fits with your model of a productive workplace, YMMV.
> And the other day, I had to spend the whole day troubleshooting rendering differences between Outlook and GMail.

We just build the template in Mailchimp and export it out as HTML nowadays. Never had an issue with that workflow.
The analogy apparently switched from "A" and "B" the grades/marks in school (hence "A for effort", where A is better than B), to something like the "A team" vs "B team", where the A-team is the elite performers and the B is not as good. Also "C-level" was not brought up until you, but it usually means executives. :)

Although, I see there is at least one person out there who has a concept of a "B-level manager" http://smallbusiness.chron.com/blevel-manager-35848.html so I am less sure about my reading of my grandparent comment.
Yep. Just added drag-and-drop to the player window; drag a local .xm file onto it to load it. Only tested in Chrome.
I think you're a minority. Be careful to remember most humans are not clever people with higher degrees, who (probably in your case) work in tech and pay close attention to these details.

I think his analysis is spot on, you're just the outlier ;)
Not feed it? With nukes, you never know.
As someone who just made the switch in the opposite direction (I've been using Mail for multiple emails accounts for a few years) I'd strongly suggest sticking with Gmail's iOS app. My email experience on mobile has been much more enjoyable, Mail was glitchy and difficult to use/organize for me.
If you pay for an N GB/month data plan, and your ISP provides you with N GB/month that you can use any way you want with no throttling or blocking based on origin or content type, then they have satisfied net neutrality.

If the ISP wants to offer additional free services on top of that, I don't see how that can be a net neutrality issue. If it harms competition, then it might be an antitrust issue, so deal with it there. No need to try to shoehorn it into net neutrality.
Thanks, and oh dear. Somebody was kind enough to email me about this. I've needed to install El Capitan on that box for a while, this seems as good an excuse as any to tear it down and reinstall.
Doesn't look like you'll be 3D printing eye glasses (out of glass, polycarbonate sure) for a few years yet. But the fact that they got a tool flow which can keep the glass molten and warm enough that it continues to adhere layer to layer without a huge amount of droop is pretty awesome.

Could make for some very interesting glass artware.
The best project manager I ever worked with just wrote everyone's names on the board, asked what they were working on today, writing it on the board next to their name. You can imagine how the next day went; "So Andrew, how did X go yesterday, any blockers? Is it done? What are the issues, can we break this down further?"

It's all you need.
Home/Work are supported, you can easily set them if it doesn't learn on it's own: https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273402?hl=en

Also I'm not sure but it would seem you have some kind of plugin that might be interfering as GMaps is very smooth on Mac Chrome and Safari.

And you might be single-clicking on the maps which brings up a gray marker to show you more detail of the nearest address to where you clicked. It's easier to just use the scroll wheel to zoom in/out.

And you can just put the address in the search bar and the first result on the results page should be the address detail plus links for directions.
I've noticed and been frustrated by that at two different banks. I always assumed it was because banks were hostile to technology and saw their online banking operations as a cost center, a box to be ticked by the cheapest third-world outsourcing firm, without regard for UX. That + 60-year-old mainframes is not a recipe for good software.

I recently switched to a university credit union. It's generally less internet-friendly (no mobile app, let alone photo check deposit). But unlike M&I, Harris (when it bought M&I), or Citi, my credit union shows every transaction through account creation, with running balances, on a single lightweight HTML page.

Any source on Mint and the banks colluding to not show running balances? I don't doubt you, but I'd love to be able to tell people about it.

I'll never go back to a big bank for checking, but I'm still lining their pockets for credit card interchange fees. CapitalOne's 1.5% back is pretty hard to beat.
Can you please stop generalizing mediocre Indian students gaming the system? What evidence do you have to prove your fact? Let me tell you my story just to get some facts straight:

I did my undergrad in Mechanical Engineering from a small city in India. By 3rd year of Engineering, I realized I wasn't cut out to be a good Mechanical Engineer, as I wasn't enjoying CAD/CAM as much as I enjoyed writing C code. I decided it is in my best interests that I turn to programming as a profession, so I worked hard to get selected in campus placements to TCS (Yes, the same shit job which you said is beneath you). I took the job because none of the top tier companies would even look at my resume and this is best shot to work my way up. I spent close to 3 years of my time at TCS learning the basics of Programming, Web Development. Later based on my experience at TCS, I applied to top schools in US and got admitted into a top tier CS school. I took a massive education loan of 50k$ to pursue my MS in CS. Upon completion, after 13 attempts, I landed in a good start up and have ever since been working up the chain building products. I don't think I am an 10X Engineer, but I am regarded as one of the better Engineers in my company. It took a lot of motivation and courage to take such massive loans and pursue my higher education. I know of several people who have done something very similar to what I have done. So, please don't make these biased statements that just disparage the efforts of 1000's of students who come to US in hopes of a better tomorrow.
Ha ha Tonka state park in southern Missouri is an example of rich man building his own castle.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Ha_Tonka_State_Park
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What are you talking about?

The median Wal-Mart data scientist H1B salary in 2015 was $140,000 [1]. There are lot of Indian H1B immigrants who are educated and highly skilled - are you sure you just don't have a passive racial bias?

[1] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=WAL-MART+ASSOCIATES+INC&job...
And stay away from courtrooms where some lawyers pronounce "voir dire" (that jury selection thing) as "voar dyer" instead of "vwah deer". And far too many people pronounce "et cetera" as "eck cetera".
Apple are using precision optics to select the parts with the right machining tolerances to fit together to minimise interface issues. Those parts are machined to very tight tolerances in comparison to a car.

I feel like you're trivialising the complexities of a phone production line.
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It's amazing to me the lengths organizations will go to avoid the one thing that actually works: hiring a small team of really good developers, paying them a lot of money and giving them hard ship date.
A clear dose response was observed.

Moderate physical activity

Vigorous physical activity

Walking or cycling for transportation

Strength (resistance type exercise)

Doing any one of these good - doing all four great.

What this suggests to me is that even though I run twice a week and do pretty heavy weightlifting 3 days a week. I would still gain additional benefit from adding lower intensity exercise into the mix.
I've lived in the Detroit area for a few years and that's basically how I say it, except without the "WHAT" suffix.
New York attorney general declares daily fantasy sports gambling
> If you don't pay for the product, you are the product

I'm starting to think that this statement is becoming really generalized. Anonymized data has the power to help society.

I.e. anonymized cancer patient data to help doctors see larger societal trends without jeopardizing client privacy.

I trust larry page and the Google team, and presume Google is handling my data responsibly.
I read "adhere to the sprint commitment" as being an undesirable aspect of Scrum that the author was complaining about, not something that Scrum is lacking.

It's certainly one of the bad parts of Scrum as commonly interpreted; c.f. http://www.peterkretzman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Aski....

(That's why newer docs tend to substitute "commitment" with "forecast", to clarify the Manifesto author's intent).
Yes, the only people benefiting from these complicated rules are the lawyers. Here is Aman Kapoor, Founder of Immigration Voice @ CIS Ombudsman Conference pointing this out colorfully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7bat3S3EI
My favorite surname detail is that in Iceland you surname is derived from your father. So Björk Guðmundsdóttir is the daugher (dóttir) of Guðmund. Her brother would have the last name Guðmundson. I'm not sure if any of the other nordic countries do the same. Russia put the patronymic in the middle name. Anyway is interesting in that it carries genealogy info without having a long established family name.
Coalition of Startups and Labor Call for Rethinking of Worker Policies
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A nuclear powered jetpack? Wait, sorry, what? Has there been some incredible development regarding either nuclear reactors or propulsion engines that I've missed out on?
Good idea that's been raised elsewhere. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or motivation to develop storage and retrieval for this.

Instead, I'm going to open up access to, and document, the websockets interface. If you'd like to build something that collects and does cool things with this data, you're welcome to it.

I'll run it until the bill passes (in whatever form) or is killed off in committee or the lords.
It's easier if you see it as logical operations, rather than language. A iff B has the same meaning as A == B, but with the added twist that !B negates the answer in the example (knaves always lie). So let's take A = Pluto is a dwarf planet; B = you're a knight, then "are you a knight if and only if Pluto is a dwarf planet" has the formula (B && (A == B)) || !(!B && (A == B)), which after a bit of simplifying you can see is the same as A == True || !(A == False), or A == True.

Very often logic formulas, when translated in English, sound absolutely bonkers, not least because the words if, and, or have pretty loose meanings in ordinary language.
Yes, but photos of extreme athletes is literally perfect for Instagram. They also advertise quite a bit which is how I see their posts on their. Twitter isn't a great venue for sharing epic photos, it's much better for current events.
Posted earlier within the hour with its original title. Lots of comments here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539100
Then they should go out of business?
Amazon explains its secret weapon in the cloud wars