skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, historically unions don't get organuzed unless conditions are bad to begin with.

But look, what if we just didn't use the word "union"? What if we were talking about a professional organization like the bar association that set standards of what its members can and can't do, what is and is not ethical work? That set certain expectations of providing your otherwise very expensive services for free to people who need it but can't pay?
That's why I said "oh wait" :)
I'm wondering if that many combinations would actually make it more realistic. It seems to me that non scripting people, who have to send the same message regularly, wouldn't include a lot of variation. Except perhaps the accidental punctuation as you write.
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How to watch football highlights on any device?
Why we put the Internet into your favorite podcasting app
The Field Operations and Fees page tells me far more about the officers in the program than the qualifications page. :)
Ah, yes, you have a point there.
Why? When you load the page you either have existing dom tree or not. Client side already knows if this is the case without extra session variables.
weird... i would plug in a computer and work on writing a book or a side business and it would make everyone think man this guy works his tail off... yet within 5 years i would be able to run my own business.
Yeah you can. Various sites like Unotelly offer a way. Different devices in the house can see different content on various services. It's the gold standard. I'm paying for the service so copyright holders can hardly get too mad. If they weren't being dicks they could have the $5 a month I give Unotelly too.
Are those icons stolen from Evernote? Because the layouts seem to be.
> you'll see why: federated systems can't keep up with the pace of evolution that we see in successful social systems

Federated social software failed to have long-lasting, wide-spread adoption largely because any market that is created as a result tends to be immediately competitive, democratised, and with a low barrier of entry. Companies would rather create a monopoly/walled garden and then milk that for all it's worth. They are in the business of making money after all.

Though I have high hopes in the future for distributed systems utilising blockchain tech, real-time comms are not ever going to be a good use case.

Pour one out for our fallen federated friends SIP/ENUM & XMPP.
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I have a feeling that the idea of owning things is going to become a crazy old-people's complaint. Perhaps younger generations will be happy with their remote-wipeable phone apps, viewed-then-gone movies, hired rides in someone else's car, etc. Maybe these things are becoming so numerous and cheap compared to our income and other costs (housing) that people won't care anymore.
There's also a Gyrotrain http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/louis-brennans-gyro-car/ and this much more detailed wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
Accidental punctuation and slight variations are the key IMO. You don't go too poetic, you just set up thinks like $GOODBYE = ["bye", "cu", "goodbye"], $ENDING_SMILE = [":)", ";)", ";]"] and $ENDING_PUNCTUATION = [".", "!", ""], and suddenly you have 333 = 27 slightly different messages. Append to two main parts with two variations each, and you're over 100 messages to pick from. If the recipient then sees your texts side by side, they won't notice it's automated.
Covert Communication in Mobile Applications [pdf]
The only tool that's free software and doesn't use shady crypto at the moment seems to be Signal (TextSecure) which is not a great messaging app UI-wise. Perhaps a couple more do exist as well, but I don't see a plethora of actually secure tools around. Remember, Telegram and similar crap do not actually count as secure tools.

Therefore, I disagree. There is still no tool with iMessage-quality UI that facilitates messaging and has an explicit key exchange step that a journalist can easily use, so please carry on with writing usable secure messaging/encryption tools or contributing to the existing one(s?).
>>> Movie Recommendation as a Service (MRaas)? Or curation - if it isn't out there yet it will come.

I think it's not the same, if you are talking about an online service. It's all about the physical interactions, anticipation. Getting out of home, browsing the DVDs, bringing it back home, etc. It's the same with, e.g. books. Browsing the local bookstore compared to going through the lists in Amazon (I live in a country where it's a bit tricky to get English books and miss going to bookstores in England a lot, I can totally relate to people the author is talking about). Like the author said, it's half of the pleasure.

Humans are social animals. Not everything can be done online in an equally enjoyable manner.
And in doing so, you create a larger market for anti newer-shittier-spam ads, with the potential to erase ads for anyone who cares enough.
Currently considering an Advantage but have read not-so-great things about the quality of its keys. How happy are you with the key quality?

Supposedly there's a version 2 on the way...
I'm not a piracy advocate, but this doesn't offer any advantages over torrents. You still don't have a legitimate licence to view the content, so at that stage you might as well just torrent it.
Anonymous hackers just use a mask. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
In Denmark, we do the opposite. It is common to make sure your baby sleep with their heads to different sides, so their skull won't be asymmetric or flat on one side.

I've also heard that other cultures, like the back of the skull to be flat, and keep their babies head from turning with well-placed pillows.
Socialism works pretty well in Scandinavia (understatements may be present).

Lot's of dictatorships have called themselves "socialist", maybe you are confusing the term?

Capitalism and socialism works exceptionally well hand-in-hand.
I don't know...
In his presentation Brad Frost makes fun of websites that look like different iteration of the same design. With the Atomic Design approach he delivers... websites that are completely in line with current aesthetic trends.
Definitely a cute hack if you don't have the pv tool around, but if you do: better to use pv than have an strace hackery dependency, imho.

Still, a very good way to get started with understanding what strace is doing ..
That's because the fundamental differentiation has already happened there: "going to the cinema" vs "watching at home" has been a choice for 30+ years now. Who had to die because of that, died already. Despite Hollywood's lamentation, it's unlikely that cinema numbers will ever get significantly worse than they are at the moment, unless someone (Oculus?) manages to somehow replicate the big-screen experience at home in full -- and even then, groups of teenagers will probably still choose to escape their parents' abode every now and then.
Which is strictly worse than not creating that market at all. It's just resources going to waste over the pointless zero-sum games, and that's exactly another reason where "satisfying user needs" doesn't cut it as a justification.
Then you should definitely try bittorrent. Not only can you play those files (or transcode those files to play) on literally anything, but fans themselves do subs in roughly all the languages. If any of those services you mentioned above would allow user submitted subtitles, it would remove a large reason to torrent instead of buy.
19th century art depicting life in the year 2000
strace is a very good first tool to use. It's extremely quick and easy to run, and gives a wonderful view of how the process interacts with the system or other processes. You also notice quickly if you can't find your answer with strace, if what you are interested in is not done with a syscall.

In the source code you are looking at layers over layers of abstraction, variables being passed around and mangled and substituted into strings, maybe get into a dependency tree of various libraries.

Not to say that you are wrong, the source the ultimate most powerful tool and absolutely you should learn to use it. But I disagree with what tool to use first, if you have zero knowledge about the process.
Mathematica is quite a different beast. It will be a while until julia has a native CAS and even then it will likely not be a CAS (Computer algebra system).
+1 for Arch. It proved to be very stable.

I don't use Linux but the family devices that do run Antergos (with Cinnamon). Setting up a new box is trivial and updates can be managed via GUI for non tech savvy people.
The free market at work. Lets see what else can come along and disrupt things, because it pays attention to what customers hate...
This article is very much on point when it comes to the language debate, you're just taking an oddly hedged position on it.

Chomsky and his ilk have made very strong, very specific claims about language in the past. They have claimed that certain combinations of linguistic parameters are impossible, and that certain features are shared by all languages. They have actively denied the wide variety of linguistic behavior until the evidence piles up enough that they change the topic.

Followers of this brand of linguistics have resisted empirical tests of these claims, and some of them have academically attacked those who disagree. And yet these claims have been chipped away anyway until all that's left is a really vague claim that most humans can communicate using recursion.

Your second paragraph seems at odds with your first. If these parameters exist to be set, that's knowledge. Knowing that word order is a thing that can vary is knowledge. Chomsky says we are born with this knowledge. Some who disagree with him say we aren't born with it, and that we have to learn it from experience.

In the part where you hedge and say "they may not...", you're surprisingly agreeing with this article more than Chomsky. Chomsky would say "Humans absolutely have linguistic knowledge they are born with. Anyone who disagrees is a behaviorist charlatan."

Chomsky's linguistics was indeed a way better model of learning than behaviorism, but that was 60 years ago and we need a better model now.
The market is not people, nor was it ever about people. It is about money and capital, and capital is not governed by moral principles.
Pinpoint (opensource APM) v1.5.0 is released
> On a more serious note, though, I think this is just another problem to be solved. Long-term, I am an absolute optimist: everything will get better, everywhere. Short-term, I admit there are some speed bumps :)

Yeah, that's why I keep my pessimist locked up in a cage underground, and only let it out to get some air every now and then. :). I still want to believe we'll get the United Federation of Planets :).
The Soap Opera Effect and how to make it go away
Why the proxy?

This is the direct link: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/only-3-northern-white-rhinos...

EDIT: actually I found the proxy more interesting than the story itself.
This comment is an example of corrosive cynicism and I'm sorry to see it (currently) at the top of the thread.
To some extent true, but the thing is that you couldn't say it out loud in public without being labelled a conspiracy theorist by the masses.

The masses are pretty important in discussions about what kind of society we ultimately want.
I've never seen a proper study assessing sexual function, only hearsay, are you aware of a proper study on that? Whereas I have seen studies suggesting that it helps prevent infections and even transmission of AIDS. For example:

Source: http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

"There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%. Three randomized controlled trials have shown that male circumcision provided by well trained health professionals in properly equipped settings is safe. WHO/UNAIDS recommendations emphasize that male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence.

Male circumcision provides only partial protection, and therefore should be only one element of a comprehensive HIV prevention package which includes: the provision of HIV testing and counseling services; treatment for sexually transmitted infections; the promotion of safer sex practices; the provision of male and female condoms and promotion of their correct and consistent use."
I want a WP, browser and desktop based version of Signal. I use it on my phone and it's good enough, but I need an integrated experience with my computer.

I really don't think people should write new tool, but contribute to existing ones, otherwise we'll end up with a fragmented space that no one uses.
There are tangible reasons why vinyl has never completely died off:

People romanticise over vinyl because it's tactile and the medium adds a warmth to the sound which is generally quite pleasing.

VHS and DVD isn't tactile and the lower video quality between that and HD isn't pleasing.
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Ethiopia's planned railway network
Thanks mfkp!

Yeah I know what you mean, I have an open issue to fix touch screen handling. I didn't have a touch screen handy but I'm hoping to fix it soon.

I wanted to play around with realistic UIs but I agree that sometimes digital interfaces like a slider are much more intuitive.
Would be interesting to play around with. Imagine having a "Twitch plays Fallout 4", but with someone playing the game properly but Twitch gets to control the inventory, armour, weapons, map etc... all via the pipboy api.
Why Every Day Is a Struggle for Mom of S Child with Down Syndrome?
If work was so great, the rich would keep it for themselves.
I tried hunting down the source of it - seems like this book called "Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000" is the source material for all these posts and has scans of the original postcards released at the Paris World Fair. Here is the book link http://www.amazon.com/Futuredays-Nineteenth-Century-Vision-Y...
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The point about many people's knowledge of the surveillance is not a good one. It's a different situation when the details are known. The battle ground in the war of ideas shifts from "that doesn't really exist" to "here's why it's nessicary."

Again, these evil corporations can only exist when they serve a need. If normal people actually cared about an open internet, they could (usually)* switch service providers to one that is more amenable to open standards.

* One example where people can't switch is in the US, Comcast bribes the government to enforce its monopoly.
Just for the record, my test was a bit off and wasn't hitting the non-existent code at all.
I was expecting some more insights however this is what basically a person with no previous experience with the topic in the Bitcoin context would write.

Anyway I also did it in the past as well, but nowadays there are too many players already and the exchange fees don't leave much room.
I tried to do n-point arbitrage on a single service (e.g. US$-BTC-RUB-US$). The reason to stick to a single service was that moving money between services could not be automated at the time, and, as the article states, a huge spread is required due to withdrawal and banking fees.

While trying this, I got the impression that some people must already be doing this at large scale, possibly the operators of the service themselves. All types of n-point arbitrage I tried had zero return.
"Who had to die because of that, died already."

- one of those casualties would be the p0rn theater. Back then you could go to a theater and watch chicks swallow John Holmes' member in all its widescreen glory.

Then when VHS came out, it was championed by the p0rn industry and away went most of those kinda cool, albeit seedy, p0rn theaters.
Ok! Didn't know about this. One other VPN I tried (a year or so ago), was real slow and Netflix was unwatchable. They do have a free trial, so will give this a go.
I will give it a try, looks like a good alternative to Launchy.
The online readme contains some broken images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage
It's a Unity app, so `apktool` works well to get out all the assets. Nothing is obfuscated. There's also sample pipboy data file there too (for the demo mode).
Nice idea, but .. Just thought I'd better report: Doesn't work for me at all on OSX, Safari 9.0.1 .. on Firefox 42.0, it works, but the GUI renders improperly and the controls don't respond to mouse events, but it plays sound when I hit the QWERTY keyboard .. Chrome 46.0.2490.86, it renders the GUI properly, plays sound, but doesn't really react to mouse events on the knobs as smoothly as I would expect of a synthesizer - very jerky. Also, presets don't seem to work.
And they have an accompanying chrome extension which loads a Star Wars wallpaper when you open a new tab! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awaken-the-force-w...
My point is, I think the area is too immature at the moment and needs a lot more innovation before we call for standardization.

Security in particular is an area that often requires breaking away from compatibility (not just in the technical sense, but in the social and network sense as well) to actually work. I worry that we would lose great ideas if we call for standardization too early and stick to the way we do things today, which sucks.

(Also, empirically, fragmentation in other domains, even relatively late in the game, like social networks did not prevent from one clear winner to emerge. I don't see fragmentation as a big issue long term. Perhaps it's even good to some degree for security.)
How would you educate people to fact check and question? I'd love a good mechanism for this.
Because it does all voice recognition in-place by a highly specific chip.
If you send out all voice data to a server, you're tapping into both CPU and radio, which is quite equivalent as when you speak on, say, Facetime audio or a VoIP app. I dare you to speak for more than a few hours with WhatsApp.
I don't think it's nearly as grim as you make it out to be... it's just as easy to deploy a personal not-profit driven application/bulletin-board or whatever on Amazon, Linode, DigitalOcean, Azure and many others as it has EVER been to start a project and deploy it online.

People are choosing to use Facebook, Twitter and other sites... that doesn't stop anyone from doing other things. That said, I think some government actions from spying to DMCA takedown shams and the like are pretty bad.

More people today have enough knowledge to put up a web application than did in 1996... I've been working developing web applications since that year. I also remember a lot of the nay-sayers back then... guess what, it's still better today for the most part. I really miss BBSing, that said I'd rather have today's tools and connectivity.

There's efforts to open up communications via WebRTC based application networks, and I think that may well be the future for some classes of applications. When you shut one thing down, other ideas present themselves.
Yes!

My p2p protocol is a throwaway and the goal is to use GNUNet long term. The apps built on top have no idea about the protocol.
As long as anyone has greed and/or desire, your idealistic scenario cannot work.
I find the subject fascinating (and, FWIW, extremely personally relevant). But I didn't find this article at all satisfying; too much is anecdote, the Guardian is too far from neutral (and I say that as a reader and fan of a lot of their work), and parts of it ring false in terms of my own experience (contrast e.g. e.g. Wandering Son (Hōrō Musuko), which felt very true-to-life for me - though I guess it's possible things have changed in the years since I was a schoolchild). To satisfy intellectual curiosity requires a level of intellectual honesty that I don't think is here.
How to Connect the Android Mobile Device to JMETER?
Evolution of Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript
> It’s fascinating how various cultures modify their children’s bodies…also a bit unsettling, since it infringes on a person’s bodily integrity before they’re even properly a person.

But when that person becomes a proper person and wants to make a decision to modify his/her own body, the opportunity may have been lost.
pf itself, doesn't. depending on your CPU you can go far and above 1Gbps even with the tiniest of packets.
Found another link with a few more of these illustrations http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year...
Kudos for all the team for such a great idea!
https://npmcdn.com/ seems similar
There is a similar themed set of illustrations which are targeted towards Fashion trends in the future http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/fashions-of-the-fu...
"It's the only reason I still have a DVD player, unfortunately."

Don't blu-ray players play DVDs?
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Nothing digital about a slider. The Juno, the SH-101, loads of classic synths had sliders.
> would come to the conclusion that whichever regime was most amenable to the American way of doing things would also be the best steward of the public interest

I doubt public interest meant the populace of the governments they were dabbling in. They're looking first after the CIA's interests, next after the US government, next after US citizens, and maybe finally everyone else.

Honestly, the "real, discernible" difference to me is that I'm american and they're not. I can deal with having a rational conversation about the benefits and drawbacks of playing international politics like a zero sum game, but masking jingoism with the guise of absolute morality leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't think they need to "operate" in India or anywhere else in the world. They just need to allow people to sign up for their service irrespective of where they're from and access content, just like, you know, how the rest of the internet works.

My guess is that they're being held back more by Hollywood's licensing conditions rather than individual countries' laws.
I think that's conflating "stress" with "challenge". One makes you and grow, while the other is just an incentive not to die.

There are challenging things which are not stressful, and stressful things which are not challenging. (Especially if they hinge on something beyond your control.)
Why is Silicon Valley helping the tech-savvy jihadists?
So can we point a deep learning network at a digitised library, teach it the Dewey decimal system then get it to classify web content?
In addition, as far as I can see, all of its arguments seem to implicitly target some sort of weird strawman version of Chomskian theories. Anyone with more than a passing knowledge of linguistics would know that no syntacticist expects grammatical universals, if they exist, to be something as simplistic as "words are always ordered like this" or "there are adverbs", or even that there exist positive statements that can be made about all human languages at all (trivially false: put two individuals with a severe speech development disorder in a room and let them establish some basic form of communication; call it a language).

Theorems like EPP and much of 80s control theory (the interplay between recursive structure and what determiner phrases, e.g. pronouns like "he" or demonstratives like "that", refer to), while occasionally being painfully overstretched, do seem to exhibit far better than chance predictive power and had their physics-like moments of conspicuous gaps in predicted taxonomies being neatly filled later. (Check "empty categories" or the rules mentioned under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRO_%28linguistics%29.)

I'm fairly disappointed comparing this to the usual quality of Aeon's articles.
Yeah, that the patriachy keeps women from being properly socially inept is basically what the author is implying.