skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different Attitudes to Time Tracker App Around the World
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Unfortunately, it is hugely over simplistic. Using it you can conclude that blackberries and raspberries are the same species and that lions and tigers are kinda-sorta the same species, since it has been possible to get Ligers to successfully mate with their parent species.

So regarding its characterisation as "a very simple scientific test" - no, it isn't.
> I think that the idea that humanity is always marching forward to better days is something implicit among people who live in peaceful affluent societies. But if you look at history, the world has always gone through cycles. No matter how much we improve socially, a regression seems almost inevitable. The Roman Empire did fall, and was followed by the Dark Ages.

The so-called Dark Ages were a period in which Roman-style governance was exported to the individual kingdoms of the former Roman Empire. Rome could only ever maintain political dominance for so long. Stability increased the might of kingdoms, these kingdoms didn't always want to live under the thumb of Rome. Rome kept it up for a good long while, but it couldn't do so forever.

The Middle Ages was when Europe became Europe. It saw the rise of a completely new type of institution, the pan-national Catholic Church, which became a third check against the power of kings. The manorial system grew out of the old Roman villa system and increased the output of farms and industry. This allowed militaries to professionalize and central government to flourish. Instead of one Rome and many vassal states, the vassal states each became their own Rome.

The intense competition between states eventually produced a theory of sovereignty that cut down on warfare tremendously.

The Middle Ages were not some dystopian hell out of which the Renaissance magically sprung up.
>One FRN can be redeemed for exactly one FRN.

Seriously? Read your comment again to understand it's absurdity.

I don't wish to sound belligerent, but You simply don't understand money at all.

You're suggesting increased government spending on infrastructure. But you somehow think the government can do that without borrowing money either from the Central Bank or the people. If this were possible, wouldn't all governments be doing this already?

If the Central Bank asks the Treasury to print more money than the amount of assets it holds, (assets = Treasury bonds), it will either be (a) no longer capable of fulfilling it's obligations or (b) effectively devaluating the currency and thereby increasing the inflation.

Also, Bank notes are not "debt". They're transferable IOUs.

I don't fall in any economic-theory-based fallacies as you're suggesting. You think government can make money out of thin air and I am telling you that it cannot.

>You probably think that war is good for the economy because it increases "spending".

Unlike you, I do not ideologically believe in some economic theory.
How Software as a Service can be your Edge?
But what about old, current, and new?

Or int?

Or class?

There is more then one project out there with klass.
> This is exactly like people deploying bitcoin miners in their products.

Yes, but I think these guys would make more money straightforwardly using other people's electricity to mine bitcoins. Using it to create some wonky "cloud supercomputer" is comparatively wasteful.
Well there are version control tools in Smalltalk land. The primary one that ships with Pharo is called, Monticello [0].

Images are also a huge advantage which the author has obviously not had time to exploit.

Knowing next to nothing about Smalltalk before the summer I checked out Pharo and wrote a small application to scrape the HN front page and display the links in a Painter window. I watched a few videos, read some tutorials, and eventually had a working Smalltalk program in a couple of days. It was actually a pleasant experience.

A typical workflow starts by writing a snippet of code in the playground that instantiates the program you want to run. You execute it and get dropped in the debugger. You slowly add the missing methods and tests, stepping through the debugger as you go, and eventually your program runs. If you ever need to take a break you can save your image -- debugging session and all -- and pick it up later. There's no need to load up your source code and try to rebuild your application state to get to the point you were at when you last left your work.

That's really powerful for interesting systems like the Moose platform [1].

Overall I think the author is too biased to his existing tools to appreciate what Smalltalk is really about.

[0] http://pharo.gemtalksystems.com/book/PharoTools/Monticello/
[1] http://moosetechnology.org/
> And wrt anon data versus specific trip data - that is anonymized when the trips are uploaded to the system. There will be no way to identify specific trips with the tool.

There is no way to 100% anonymise trips. Some will be deidentified.
I'd like to see a citation on that. I researched that issue a while back and the best I could determine is that no one has ever done a study on blending vs chewing.
Wikipedia on SkyTran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTran
There's a difference between somewhere that is undemocratic, and somewhere with a democratic government you don't agree with.

You may be right about Sweden having a poorly democratic system, but the fact that you find the tone of the society to be problematic is not evidence of that.
How do I know the article is sensationalist shit? "vice president of teardowns at ABI Research"

I am Senior Vice President of making spiteful comments at my house.
That presupposes that the highways don't constantly change to be backwards-incompatible with older cars. Unfortunately, they do.
Let's put a markov chain AI on a SETI antenna! That will be awesome!
Because it has happened before, e.g. http://www.today.com/health/breaking-vegan-author-jordan-you...

People jump into new lifestyle trends as if it were their new religion, failing to balance their diet reasonably.
If it's based on OSM road geometry data (and or linked to it), the I think the OSM licence (the ODbL) kicks in and the derived database would have to be also under the ODbL.
> or even by phone in your case.

Displaying a list of events and a telephone number isn't something that requires a modern browser.
cool, in that case I'll definetly try it.
Yeah, I seriously doubt most English tokers are putting up with 4% and 2% THC like the article is trying to claim.
We should indeed recognize that we are all prone to the effect, but here you have replaced one sweeping generalization with another.
The most reasonable expectation would be for incremental improvement. There are already a wide range of self-driving small cargo carriers in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, and large archives. Currently product distribution is dominated by men driving trucks and using hand carts, but for high density locales and basic stocking tasks these jobs are being targeted for automation using existing technologies.
Thank you mohameddev!
Previous episodes in this series on Commodore's history:

http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/the-68000-wars-part-1-lorraine...

http://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part-2-jack-is-...

http://www.filfre.net/2015/04/the-68000-wars-part-3-we-made-...
Wouldn't people consume lesser quantities of high % strains in order to get more high, spend less money and keep a low tolerance?

That's like comparing beers with whiskey. Of course if you drink a 12-pack of whiskey, you would get pretty sick.
Note that QQ itself was popular because facebook messenger and msn before were blocked, and so was twitter. Chinese payment systems were themselves blocking foreign competition. The digital economy is basically a walled garden where only local companies can thrive with very few exceptions.
What exactly do you mean by "American democracy"? What do you mean by "democracy" to begin with? On what basis do you compare "American democracy" to "Swedish democracy"?
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Actually, it's other way around. Your comment is misleading and your intentions have not-so-slightly seedy side. Are you really attacking a concept of charity organization in a capitalistic world?

Calculation methodology is available on the linked page:

"For currency conversion we use Purchasing Power Parity Dollars (PPP$) in order to take into account the difference in cost of living between countries; PPP$ are also less susceptible to short term fluctuations."
I made a modern virtual pet, for iOS and Apple Watch. Apple Watch seems like the perfect modern form factor for one of these.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/raise-emoji/id1045353760
Yes, the UK government is paying Microsoft a ton of cash for XP support, so this is possible.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/185891/majority-maintain-need-thi...

> A majority of Americans, 60%, say a third major political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic parties "do such a poor job" of representing the American people. (September 25, 2015)

In a FPTP system you cannot really deduce what people wanted from the voting results, as the system very strongly encourages tactical voting. (and in this instance also because of Duverger's law)
This is what I was getting at in my rambling comment here... Is it really worth the time investment when an 'augmented' text file is enough?
Swatting is far worse than merely expensive and embarrassing. The swatters know how easily US cops shoot when faced with a potentially dangerous situation. Many swatting calls mention guns, bombs, etc. I'm pretty sure at least some swatters hope their victim gets shot.
I'm talking about why anyone not Apple should care. It's not like I care if my VM runs on a Dell or HP server.
Remember Joe Biden talking about Turkey shipping weapons into Syria that ended up in the hands of Jihadis?[1]

They actually have been caught red-handed[2], and allegedly it's still ongoing[3].

I do not believe all accusations are merely propaganda by the West, Russia, the Kurds or his internal political enemies. Sure, that does happen, and I would eg take the accusations of Bilal Erdoğan's involvement in the smuggling of ISIS oil with a grain of salt. But supplying the enemy of your enemies with weapons and politicians trying to make deals with the devil? That's old news.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/05/politics/isis-biden-erdoga...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_National_Intelligence_Org...

[3] http://www.todayszaman.com/_raid-on-koza-i-pek-media-group-c...
Just I am tired of writing this every time such garbage pops up. But thank you for doing that for me.
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Selling products and services all over the world doesn't add value unless you have a business model that allows you to profit from those transactions.
It did that to me.

It took me an hour of messing with seeings and Powershell to get everything back to how I had it before the update.
Don't you mean: But NOT for some altruistic ...
This is a good point and it's a shame you got downvoted for it.

(I up voted it, but it's still grey.)
How is it different for you this time, going through this a second time?
"there for good reason"
As someone with blood sugar issues, if the labs could whip up amazing cakes that didn't threaten my health then I'd be ecstatic.
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They stand to make a very large amount of money from having everyone using Microsoft apps and services and with all their usage data and email/contacts contents being sent back to the mothership.

I think that's why they did it, and why they've done similarly laccidental' things over the last couple of months.

All other reasons are secondary.
I think it's not stupidity (nor the Dunning Kruger Effect) that leads mankind astray; it's groupthink, in any shape or form. When you blind yourself to whether you and your allies do more harm than good, in service of some abstract ideal or philosophy, you fail.
1971 on the national level. On the cantonal level, it was between 1959 and 1972 that women voting was introduced in most cantons. Only the two Appenzells hold out until 1989 and 1990.

But you have to remember that in Switzerland, the people had to vote in this. Only 12 years earlier in 1959, 2/3 of the voters voted against it. In 1971, 2/3 of the voters voted for it. A big turnaround in a short time.

Do you really think that most countries would have given women voting power when they did it if they'd asked the voting people (that is men at the time)?
Ssh-keygen on Raspberry Pi lacks sufficient entropy
It's certainly hard, but apparently not impossible. Here's a story about how a particularly prolific swatter eventually got caught: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatte...

While following the trail was hard, another big obstacle was simply to get more law enforcement agencies interested in stopping this guy. It also makes clear that an international approach is necessary.
sufficient for here -- and from me to you

it was a case in point
Interesting website that skips all our pretence of "discussion" and goes straight to "argument" :)

The actual discussion is fairly thin, but has a good point in that business requirements are usually expressed in terms of state changes to records or physical objects.
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Isn't it generally considered bad practice to put certificates and profiles in version control? Especially since you're putting your password in the fastlane files here.. does anybody have a different approach for this? because the general setup is really nice
Hey, Andrew! It'd be great if you can add more features to it? Something like, different activities as the emoji grows, giving it a name when it is born, difference in gender, dating with other emojis, etc. I grew my emoji till 32 years old and I noticed there was nothing new in it.
AI seems to be at odds with the great filter. One would expect it to expand out into the universe and be visible.
Some people are psychopaths, and when they realize they can do this with impunity, they go mad with power.

I don't think there's any way anyone with a functioning conscience would do this. As far as I'm concerned, swatters belong in a psychiatric institution.
> [...]I cannot book any events on line[...]

So basically they complain that they cannot use their work computer for personal stuff ?

Anyway the problem can be easily (?) solved by using a VM or a dedicated machine, but I guess the MOD IT might not be as agile as one would like ;-)
See also http://mattg.co.uk/words/noaa_sdr/ from earlier this year
I think all these frameworks are basically different ways of handling the separation of concerns between the specification and the code to test it: cucumber, concordion, robot etc.

The essential difficulty I think is in presenting the documentation in a form that is readable / writeable by the wider audience of non-developers.
> Posted 2 hours ago

> 6 upvotes

> no comments

Great meta point in there about the microsoft ecosystem.
And what makes you assume that they will fail to profit off of their user base?
Having done TCP Anycast for more than 8 years in production now, with extensive testing, and third-party monitoring, there has never been an issue with it.

When a route flap happens that causes an AS path selection change, the user almost universally routes back to the exact same node they would have routed to prior to the flap.

The theoretical "IT person in texas doing per packet load balancing on a Sprint T1 to Atlanta and an ATT T1 to Denver" doesn't actually exist.
True, though i think the making scheme of rar was more helpful. Also, rar compressed various file formats (video and audio specifically) better.
> Recording seems to continue

It has no on-board storage. Where exactly do you think it's recording to, if it's not transmitting?
direct link to github:
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

This is who I want to be when I grow up.
What study is that?

In any case, success is (mostly) not rolling a dice. Good planning, strategy, skill, and past experience make a huge difference.

I doubt 10% chance of success is the best you can do.
[Ask HN] How do you stay focussed and organised to make sure you're productive?
As founders, programmers, marketers or as a sales person, we constantly need to make sure that we get things done quickly and efficiently.

This can be extremely hard unless we're pretty organised. I thought it would be awesome to capture the techniques, methodologies and tools we use to plan and work on a survey.

It would be great if you guys could shoot out your thoughts and answers by following this link ( https://paperio.typeform.com/to/SkJrVN ).

I'll share the results once I have enough answers so we can all learn from each other.
It's a standard gimmick with NAT users accessing their own external IP address. Someone was in a hurry to make easy money and didn't read http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/NAT-HOWTO.html

Notice how they haven't informed any software developers about that “huge flaw”? That's because there is no flaw and no one to blame except themselves.
I immediately thought of this: http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/05/22/cisco-ceo-predicts-...
Still can't get udemy to remove my pirated courses they're selling
You're right - on a recent article, Facebook said it was explicitly trying to position their Messenger app as a meta-platform.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-virtual-realit...

"Messenger is trying to eat your smartphone

Zuckerberg's "big regret" also helps explain Facebook's current strategy with Messenger. It spun out its messaging service into a standalone app in April 2015, and David Marcus, formerly of PayPal, is heading up these efforts. He's determined to make it into a platform in its own right.

David Marcus FacebookEric Piermont/Getty ImagesDavid Marcus, Facebook's VP of Messaging Products.

Also speaking at Web Summit, Marcus laid out a roadmap for the future of mobile that puts Messenger front-and-centre.

Marcus wants companies to use message threads, rather than standalone threads, to communicate with their customers. Why download an app you'll only use once or twice when you can have a conversation with the company right there in Messenger, he reasons. "People don't want apps for every single business that you interact with," he said. They "want the ones on your homescreen and that's it."

"When you have the chance to build a great communication within a conversation app ... just have a message within a nicely designed bubble ... [that's a] much nicer experience than an app." It's a "new generation of apps inside of threads."

M, Facebook's new virtual assistant that operates straight out of Messenger, is part of this. It is powered by Facebook's AI tech, and is supplemented with human assistance when necessary. (It's only available to a small group of users right now.) The more it can do for you, the less you need to use other apps.

The result is, of course, that Google and Apple lose out. Their grip on your phone weakens, as you eschew their app store in favour of Messenger threads. If Facebook gets its way, it won't own your mobile operating system — but it will control everything else."

I haven't tried it, but WeChat seems to be ahead of Facebook and WhatsApp at the moment. However, FB does have a strong network effect. Interesting battle to watch.
This is pure gold. I now need to check if the coffee-machine at work is hackable.
hopefully without all the profanity and calling scripts about your wife, "smack-my-bitch-up.sh"
"They either checked" (...) "or they did check"

That's an interesting approach to the covering of the real possibilities. No further comment.
Thanks for sharing the talk
nah, i'll take it all as is. i'd bet money that you're more offended than his wife is.
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or you could move to neovim, open a terminal in neovim and launch console emacs inside it just for org-mode :)
Original (not-so-poorly written) source: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-...

Also linked to on the github page.
It doesn't have to store the video to process it?
this could be technically true, if you shutdown the streaming totally, resuming it cleanly normally require a reboot, which is slow for customers, which is why the reason the encoding is kept running all the time. Been there done that.
Had a good laugh :). Some things I'll maybe incorporate in my own day-to-day...
luckily people from the land of the easily offended are so quick to condemn profanity and purge the world from it, otherwise I might grow up with some character.
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It has to be possible to turn these things off, and the users should insist on their right to do that.

When we're there, I've seen today in some traffic I collected some regularly occurring telemetry from Firefox. I don't remember agreeing to that.
I just love the idea.I may finally put my Pi for some good use.
I am hoping enough people have looked at it to trust this with my network.
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As far as I can tell the certs/profiles aren't in version control, but their paths are, and it's pretty concerning that the cert password is right there in plaintext in a file committed to the repo.

There are Jenkins plugins available that will manage your certs and profiles for you via the web admin UI, makes it pretty to use and keeps all signing-related information out of source control. Not to mention it also manages copying these certs and keys to individual worker machines, which is super nice when you have more than one build boxen.
So, on one hand Microsoft is starting to become a good open source player, and then on the other it continues to abuse its users.

Nope, I still won't use your products.
Polar bears and grizzlies are probably a better example. They produce fertile offspring but no one thinks of them as the same species.
Distributed, log-based systems... old tech... can do that on fault-tolerant hardware in near real-time with no waste from mining. Necessary crypto accelerators already exist for those, too. Some systems in banking on mainframes or NonStop have been doing transaction processing with decades of uptime despite HW faults and hacker threats.

Compared to blockchains, variations on old approach seem better from the tech efficiency to field results.
It's amazing to make games in no time with BuildBox
They're some of the most prominent people in their field, and they are setting a major direction for Facebook ai research. So this is the Facebook road map. Also, because everyone is focused on ML, the move bank to people trying to solve AI is a big deal. Other major researchers are saying similar things
The author never makes the connection (for me) in how this is good news for the technology "sector". Three over-generalized and shaky premises applies to the entire industry? Ridiculous.

There are probably multiple I-told-you-so's waiting in the wings from those who have raised large amounts of investment dollars with potentially hard-to-fathom implied valuations. The causes will be many, and lessons-learned will be summarily written. The label associated with the mythological creature is noise, not signal.

In the end, failure is a good thing in the tech sector. To quote Bill Gates, "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
If you have the time but not the money, let me buy you one!

It might take a while to ship from China and your local customs might not like it though.
> the Dark Ages were "dark".

In Europe perhaps, but there's a whole world out there.
A case study of HN-friendly clickbait based on an obviously fake story. Automatically performing a roll back of staging DB to latest backup by matching words "sorry" or "help" in an email from a DBA? Yeah, right.
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