skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't let your engineering degree stand in the way of finding out the facts. You claimed a 2 kW vacuum cleaner would clean in half the time, and there's plenty of data that suggests otherwise.

The claim that cleaning time is linear to motor effect is unrealistic at best. There is an optimum effect for the nozzle. A 10 kW engine wouldn't clear your floors any faster than a 1 kW one, and definitively not ten times faster. The best (household, not for garages or anything like that) vacuum cleaner commercially available on the market is likely closer to 1 kW than 2 kW.

You think only "average" people falls for marketing tricks, but this superficial knowledge of the engineering involved actually makes you an easier prey for the marketing trick that more powerful motors makes for a better product. That bigger numbers are better is one of the easiest marketing schemes ever.
Web Summit 2015: A developer's perspective
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Because I have no interest in memorizing keys, I store them on disk protected by a passphrase. I don't know if this counts as "Real secure encryption" but it's sure a lot more secure than more typical use of email.
For safety, you should keep yogurt warm as it can be out-competed by harmful things, I once tried using something like this:
http://smile.amazon.com/TAYAMA-YX-45A-Tayama-Vacuum-Pot/dp/B...

But I found it difficult to get a thermal pot down to the right temperature range to begin yogurt and switched to making only kefir. Kefir is less likely to lose to a contaminant at room temperature as it is a diverse cocktail.
> No need to turn this into another stereotyping Europe vs US issue

But it is kind of true that Americans are extremely melodramatic about this stuff. 800 sqft house is often referred as a "tiny house" in American media. In the UK (for example) this is an average house size.
That is the point: to teach problem solving skills. Programming practice buttresses mental modeling techniques and helps one imagine realistic solutions to technical problems.

There is another goal though, and it mimics writing. If only the 'elite' know how to write, then history will be written by the powerful. If everyone knows how to program, this increasingly popular communication medium will be less under the control of a biased few.
I can't help but chuckle and shake my head in amazement at the script their flacks came up with to say "we're starting to charge people an extra $30 to use more than 300GB":

Current policy: Don't say "unlimited data," say "250 GB data, but not enforced."

New policy: Don't say "300 GB data," say "we gave you 50 GB more data for free!"
Maybe that's the joke.
Exactly that.

> Doctor Web security researchers presume that at least tens of users have already fallen victim to this Trojan.

"presume" .. tens of users ..

Right, a bit more details on the infection vector would have helped to properly validate the concerns. But when you start presuming and pull numbers out of a high hat I'm almost ready to discard it.

The only thing we know now is that "something" needs to be run with admin privileges.

Just make sure your backups are OK.
Karl Schroeder's most recent novel Lockstep[1] is also somewhat related, just set within a smaller scale than most of the books mentioned so far.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910135-lockstep
Agreed, Whisper is doing this right.
That's great, nice idea.

It worked for me, android 5.0.1. Had to turn off `auto-rotate` in my phone settings. Had to move my phone around sometimes for the shadow to catch up to a new rotation point; it had trouble sometimes (3/5) catching up with the phone rotated upside down in portrait orientation.
NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws
Reposting of another comment on this thread. YF never mentioned the reasons they didn't work - just that the fact they were working cannot be linked to their health.

~%40 of the poor work and ~%28 work full time according to the below article.

> Of course, this theory makes the (incorrect) assumption that poor folks are working. Most are not, and very few of the remainder work full time.
Would you mind supporting this factual claim with evidence? Here's the most detailed examination of this I could quickly find http://www.epi.org/publication/poor-people-work-a-majority-o....
* 35.2 percent of the poor (18 - 64) are NOT ELIGIBLE to work (retired, going to school, or disabled)
* 64.8 percent of working-age poor ARE CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE to work
* 62.6 percent of eligible workers are working
* 44.3 percent of eligible workers are working full-time
* 37.4 percent of working age poor eligible for employment are not working (this includes 3.3 million unemployed poor people currently seeking a employment)
> People may stay in trailers for some time but that's it

Isn't tech approach the same? You wait for your big break and then move out.
You don't see the point in teaching kids the fundamentals of how every machine in their life works?

Media and politicians right now are abusing the fact that a large amount of the population is tech-illiterate. People can't comment on issues that affect their lives in major, invisible ways because they don't know the implication of, say for example, banning encryption (cf. uk politics currently).

This has to change and it starts with education.
As I get some pleasure out of writing scripts to build finely tuned minimal images like this, I found the article interesting. However, I think manipulating a qcow2 image directly via nbd is over-complicating it. I think it would be better to create a sparse file, mount that via a loopback device, work with that, and then convert it to a qcow2 image (or vmdk or whatever) at the end.
That's just plain wrong.
It's not so much about mimicking natural vision at it is to reduce the render target radically, rendering only the small area where you're looking at in good detail while the rest of the image can look like quake 1.

edit: specifically I was thinking about foveated rendering.
Fantastic, more competition is exactly what I need as a consumer. I really do think the self-driving car is around the corner, based on chatting with a guy on the Google team.

No idea why it would need to be secret, though? It could just be low publicity, rather than secrecy?
Thanks for the compliment!
Your argument doesn't match my observations of the current job marketplace in developed countries and is in conflict with most predictions of future.
I meant square feet, sorry. I wanted to hightlight that the 'normal' or 'acceptable' size of private space varies hugely between regions. You can call that stereotyping, but we can also just call them cultural differences.
In a discussion about what kind of time consuming and physically demanding things the poor ought to be doing with their copious free time, it's hardly fair to consider those who are ineligible to work because of disability, etc. And if the point is to cast the poor as a bunch of lazy layabouts, it doesn't make much sense either to include those who are currently poor, unemployed, AND seeking employment.
Technocracy seems to be as much of a myth as meritocracy. How do you decide who is actually an expert in their field? And they are still completely undemocratic.
Yes, but right now they make more than that, which is why they're so opposed to the idea.
> While our results are disheartening, we also discuss several ways that participant experiences and responses indicate how PGP could be improved.

Have you approached the developers of both Mailvelope and Gmail to discuss these improvements? How did they respond? Also, have you participated in usability discussion with the OpenPGP developer community at large? Any insights?

I ask because it seems like everyone who isn't very active in the OpenPGP developer community thinks that usability is a high priority. But, in my experience, when you start to bring up the topic of user-friendliness in the mailing lists, you get resistance or apathy. It seems like this is a problem of culture and incentives. How can those issues be addressed?
In another city a place this cheap would be less than $400 / month. Meaning someone could choose this lifestyle simply in a different city working for minimum wage and meet the requirements for housing costs of less than 1/3 income.
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Another not so mysterious company that I once used to love is focusing exclusively on an electric vehicle: http://www.saabcars.com/
Hrm. I write a lot of HTML/CSS. I have 0 experience maintaining TeX code. I find the TeX code easier to read and prefer the end result. I'd learn TeX to translate if I ever needed to maintain the equivalent HTML.

I don't actually think you can get a consistent result in HTML/CSS across all browsers without a lot of effort. For me, the HTML version is missing characters and styling.

I think those wanting to see the formulae would be happy enough to wait a second for it to render than be at the whim of browser warts and the loss of information.
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> I think programming is just one of many skills that one can master, not a must-have skill.

For a fifteen year old kid these days, if you graduate from college not knowing how to program then pretty much you are going to have a shitty life. You already need to know how to code to get pretty much any decent job -- not just for web developers, but also for marketers, designers, data analysts, biologists, filmmakers, finance, advertising, manufacturing, transportation, etc. You don't have to be a professional developer for your entire career, but if you don't know how to code then even if you want to go into marketing or whatever, pretty much the best job you'll be able to get is just harvesting leads for minimum wage and then entering the data into Excel.

Don't want to learn to code? Doesn't fucking matter, that's what society is willing to pay for.
I think we should start with an EXTREMELY simple app that does not attempt to do any fancy e-mail client integration, but is aimed at making it possible for non-nerds to send one-off secure mails and files in a way that is at least SLIGHTLY fun.

Keybase, GPGTools, and all of these things have different features and menus and all kinds of stuff which makes them EXTREMELY intimidating.

My mom is a teacher of computers, she is an expert at Excel and basic Windows things and Twitter and mail and she's even somewhat into Bitcoin, but crypto makes her instantly freeze into "oh my god what is happening I am terrified and confused" mode.

Today she needed to send some encrypted JPGs to verify her identity for some Bitcoin wallet thing. The support asked her to please encrypt her stuff with our public key.

When she opened that public key it came up in Notepad++ as a huge intimidating block of random characters. That was probably enough to put her in a bad mood. After that she wasn't very receptive and I guarantee that every single guide or tutorial or program would be WAY too nerdy, boring, and complicated for her to follow step one.

Anyway I just did it for her on my Mac and I explained my thoughts as I did it and she said "see I understand the concepts but it's just too much stuff to know about to actually do it myself."

I said "yeah, that's what Snowden keeps saying, these things are just too difficult for normal people. Even Glenn Greenwald, that journalist you know, apparently he sucks at computers and it took him months to even install the crypto app."

So I wish I could have said "just go to crypto.express" (random made up available memorable domain) and follow the easy steps and you can encrypt your zip file pretty easily with just drag and drop and it's totally made for newbies but still Snowden-level secure.

I don't really think people in general relate to the paranoid wish to encrypt all your mail. They probably think more in terms of specific secrets that they care about protecting. So you could get them started on use cases like sending passport photos, passwords, codes, credit card numbers, or dick pics or whatever it may be.

Once they have some tiny bit of successful experience with using private/public keys that one time, and it wasn't super impossible like they thought, they might be more open to learning more sophisticated ways of using crypto, such as automatically encrypting and signing mail.
I would guess that the lingering of food and curse words is maintained by memory formation caused by sense association.
Hyperlinks are not a problem. Government is a problem. The EA and it's legislators are a problem.
The problem is two-fold: Comcasts lobbyists will make sure this never happens and even if I'd did, our members of Congress are CLEARLY not tech savvy enough to understand what any of this means.
Why Amazon remains focused on long term growth
Some change this week:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Taiwan&tbm=nws

(I don't pretend to understand how meaningful it is, but it was the first such meeting)
On the contrary, TeX markup is mostly concerned with presentation and not semantics. For example, in TeX we don't know if f(x + 1) means function application or multiplication by f. MathML however, allows for a complete semantic description of an equation, as well as a presentational description. However, people are generally too lazy to use semantic MathML.
$1,800 a year is not in the least bit similar to a basic income. I suspect it barely covers the extra costs in heating alone that living in Alaska entails.
Could this compile to Google's NativeClient? And how much faster would it be then?
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Growing up in communist Russia, 400sq. feet apartment would be the luxury option for 2 or 3 families with multiple children each. No joke, my parents lived with their siblings and parents (and sometimes grandparents) in the same apartment even after everyone had children of their own. Somehow we still managed to occasionally have 20 more people over for birthday celebrations and cook all the accompanying excessive amounts of food :)
This isn't so bad. The Netherlands is the most dense population of any country outside Taiwan and families dwelling in small spaces continues to this day. There is a 12-member family spanning 3 generations all living in the same small house next door to me. Our tiny 60 square meter home is considered normal for our area. By American standards, SF seems like tight living, perhaps. But by world standards, space is not the priority that you find elsewhere in the States.
Or KEF, or Quad, etc.

Also, it's too bad they chose to display stock photography instead of, you know, pictures of actual damn speakers.
Yes. And many African and Middle East countries are inventions to various degrees of the colonial powers. See Nigeria, Transjordania ...
I make yogurt by heating the milk to 190F, holding it there for a minute or two, then taking it off the heat. The 190F helps break down the proteins (casein if I remember correctly) to help the yogurt setup. If your milk hasn't been pasteurized, this also pasteurizes.

I let the milk cool naturally to 115F, then I mix a tablespoonful of the warm milk with two tablespoons of my starter yogurt (for a gallon of milk). I continue to mix a tablespoon of milk into the starter until the starter is pourable. It then gets added to the pot of milk and stirred. If I'm making skyr, the rennet goes in at this stage.

The pot is usually at 112F-114F and get wrapped in towels and thrown into a warm oven, I usually heat the oven to it's lowest setting (200F) while the milk is warming, then turn the oven off while the milk is cooling. The milk sits in the oven overnight. The 105F-115F range is the "ideal" temperature for the bacteria.

In the morning, the curds get sliced, strained, and jarred.

Once you get used to it, making yogurt once a week takes an active 30 minutes of my time.
I had a colleague in nyc, who moved with his homemaker wife and 2 children, from Utah where they owned their own home, to nyc to live in a studio. I thought it was a very brave choice.
The individual traders' guesses are influenced by the market and by their prior knowledge on how similar stocks of similar companies performed. So the final average does depend on the values of other stocks in some ineffable fashion. Whether or not that's the "correct" price of the stock might be largely a question of whether or not you accept trader intuition as axiomatic or not.
The problem is not Direct democracy or laissez-faire. The problem is that EU laws are made by lobbyist.
The point isn't to cast them as anything. It's to use data to solve problems.

Some people live comfortably and healthily on less than minimum wage - some don't. Some very wealthy people live unhealthily and save less than the poor.

And it is fair to consider all people who may be unhealthy because they would suffer as well. Does my friend on disability for autism and Asperger's not deserve consideration?

Your tone and argument goes far beyond the scope of what has been said. The fact is that even among non-working poor health is still an issue - meaning that the reason for the lack of health is unlikely to be the necessity of work.
What do you think of this?

https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4
Some browsers already support growing the TypedArray, so it's a poor excuse...
10Gb would last me less than a week of browsing.
"The combination of forces that produced the default curriculum was so random"

This seems true and sad. What would be a first principles approach to "What should every kid learn" if we were to start from scratch you think?
> Incorporation papers filed with the California secretary of state's office links Faraday to a Chinese media company operated by Jia Yueting, an entrepreneur who founded Leshi Internet Information & Technology.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3307660/Myste...
You can do it in Scala too (cf. https://github.com/milessabin/shapeless/wiki/Feature-overvie...).
The US is over 10 times larger than the UK. Guess what, tons of land leads to different expectations. I don't understand why Europeans seem to like acting condescending about this stuff?
Interesting this about San Francisco, you don't have to live there.
I submerge my soon-to-be-yoghurt jars in 42°C hot water in a pot, then put that next to the radiator during the winter months, or in the sun during the summer months. Check up on the temperature maybe once or twice over the course of 6-8, then put in the fridge overnight.

I usually make 1.5kg of yoghurt that way, and it keeps for about one to two weeks — but it never survives that long (2-person household), so I make yoghurt around every three days. We use it for breakfast cereals, yoghurt with jam (home made jam for added benefit :-) and ayran. It's fantastic!
>`^{content}` for superscripts I have to use the longer and more painful `<sup>content</sup>`

This is superficial, and one could trivially write a markdown style pre-processor if you wanted the former syntax (and I would be highly surprised if someone hasn't already done that).

>I should always have a Unicode table on hand to copy/paste from for special characters that I can't write using my EN_US keyboard

One way or another, you need such a table. For TeX the table consists of ASCII symbol names. (Note also that unicode characters do indeed have an ASCII representation using character entity syntax, although it's ugly.)[0]

>HTML short...TeX long...The two domains just have different requirements.

What justification do you have for this claim? HTML was designed by TBL for researchers to share papers, and there is plenty of long-form content written in HTML.

TeX is great. HTML is great. They'll probably both be around for a long time. There are trade-offs between them, but not the ones you've identified. (In particular, TeX's great strength is similar to PDF in that it's output is totally stable. Browsers by contrast are notoriously dynamic and won't, in general, produce the same output.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_HTML
Hyperbole. Programming is a fraction of the jobs in this economy, and it's not even the largest employer when it comes to STEM. People in medicine, finance, or small business don't need to code.
Thanks for the feedback, @brainzelip. I will take a look into the upside down scenario in portrait.
Thank you, dalke, for sharing your thoughts
Nissan IDS Concept: Japan's Affordable Rival to the Tesla Model S?
Hardy later described his collaboration with Ramanujan as "the one romantic incident in my life".

OMG, that is ridiculously romantic, and the linked bio of Hardy is amazing. Please tell me there is a book or play or movie about Hardy, maybe along the lines of the one Tom Stoppard wrote about Hardy's contemporary A E Housman.
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> Our tiny 60 square meter home

is over 50% larger than the one in the article?

It's the difference between a studio and a nice one bedroom, or maybe even cramped 2 bedroom.
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> which is supposed to be available only to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the country.

I think that a group one million possibly armed users with access to a secret shared database and private IM client shouldn't be reduced by by the adverb "only".
It's a good default assumption that any database that more than 10k people have access to is compromised or trivially compromisable.
IMO a big part of the issue is the consumer. Consumers know very little about internet other than "buy the one with the biggest number". So internet is advertised like flow rate (L per minute) and restricted like water (Cubic M).

I think they should goto a connection + volume model. $10 a month just to be connected, maybe 500MB free download or whatever. And then you pay per GB, variable rates based on time of day. $1 per GB at 7pm, $0.01 at 3am. Like how industrial electricity rates work (if i understand correctly).

Pricing models will screw consumers over until the pricing model matches the economics of the situation. If I were a startup this is the issue I'd fix; Pricing models that do not match the economics.
Lots of great points, I really appreciate you taking the time to write this.
What kind of things do you do that push you over a terabyte? I don't get anywhere near that. I'm just curious, and not in any way saying there is anything wrong with that.
Odd, the rims on the electric version look just like Tesla's turbine rims.

I never owned a Saab myself but I get the impression they are solid, lovable cars.
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That he survived WWII in an intellectual sense is unfortunate. His buildings, like Albert Speer's, are a concrete rendering of the idea of 20th century dictatorship. Thankfully there was already resistance to his ideas -- even his friend Salvador Dali loathed his architecture. But it took a long time before intellectuals such as Jane Jacobs developed a complete framework that explained why modernist buildings are so damaging (beyond prudence and horse sense).

His aesthetic offers a great lesson, and the lesson can be applied to any field: large-scale changes, applied top-down, incur a risk of inflicting deep social damage. This is why user feedback is so important. This is why going with your gut or channeling a theoretical framework must be strongly tempered by empiricism.
Re-reading what I wrote, it's pretty clear I didn't recommend being rude until after they've declined to pay.

It seems obvious not to be rude right off the bat in such a situation, so there didn't seem to be a point mentioning it. I think most people understand not to be rude to potential customers.

> See? ...

There's no need to be condescending about it.