skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great game and a portrayal of reality where a small number of people get most of the wealth, a 50% number are middle class with enough to be just okay (or at 1) and with a still a very large number who can barely have a comfortable life (say $4k/month household income).
I found this video a couple links in, the speaker I think is Irene Zhang, listed for many of the commits on that repo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE3eMxYJDiE
MS is betting that their services division(s) will be the future of the company... from Azure to Office 365, XBox services, etc. It probably is the safest bet given the monumental shift in computer/online usage away from typical desktops to phones/tablets and their middling encroachments into that space.

MS is being open because it makes sense to, and it's the only way to maintain mindshare in the near future. Azure's a decent enough offering, but AWS and GCE are right there as well, each with advantages over the others. I actually like windows (mostly), but need it far less, as I can do what I like with OSX and Linux and do daily.

As a developer/user it's nice to see the changes.
I don't disagree with you, but I could apply this same logic to the 50 gazillion channels of reality TV cable was offering me that I could not possibly care less about. I don't like subsidizing them, but I was still paying for them.

I wish there was an unbundled option so I could buy just ESPN. That is literally the only thing cable companies have that I care about. Even better for me would be to just cut the cable companies out entirely and let me pay $20 a month or something directly to ESPN for WatchESPN access.
The article didn't make it clear to me what exactly they do, and neither did their homepage, but I think I got it: Segment.com for mobile apps.
The word "serious" is misspelled on the main page (says serioues).
`go build -a` rebuilds all packages (i.e. those already cached under $GOPATH/pkg/ or /vendor).

Alternatively you can just rm -rf your `$GOPATH/pkg` directory.
Isn't having millions of people watching the same thing at the same time easier than millions of people watching different things at the same time?
Great summary of his experience.

While travelling I met several people who went to meditation retreats and they seemed to all have the insight of stopping to check their phone so often, or even stop having a smartphone.

Also, because of that it's unlikely many of them read Hacker News or Medium so there is a selection biais as to who is talking about those meditation retreats.
Do you think we (Aus) will in 2016?
I wish my parents hadn't upgraded. It didn't work the first time and somehow they decided they should pay Geek Squad to do it (which "worked") but nothing has been the same since.

Microsoft is going through a phase of "replace everything, features be damned", prioritizing a fresh coat of paint over features. Applications mysteriously do not work as well as they used to, and yet they still want people to upgrade desperately. It is not an upgrade.

Example: the stupidly simple task of importing photos from an iPhone does not work with the Windows 10 Photos app, even though it did on earlier OS versions. What's worse, the new simplified UI does not do a very good job of explaining anything, it usually just sits there. If they can't foresee users having one of the most popular phones/cameras on the planet, and they break that, what else is broken?

I wanted to believe that Microsoft had changed but they're just getting better at pig lipstick. I'm sorry.
"I suspect that in the January 2016 economic climate in the Bay area, no reasonably imagined housing expansion would make more than the smallest dent in housing prices."

I agree. I wasn't talking about expansion causing prices to drop - I was talking about an economic downturn and a contraction in credit.
Could care less? Surely you mean that you couldn't care less?

If you could care less then that means you must already have some level of care.

If you couldn't care less then your current level of care could not be any lower which effectively means that you don't care.
Also, is AWS Lambda PaaS? Or something else?
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"Withdrawal of consent" isn't merely "creating things to skirt around the rules I don't like". Withdrawing consent is withdrawing from the system to which you no longer consent.

You do not get to reap the benefits of living in a society without subscribing to its rules and mores. You can work to change them from within, or you can walk. Pretending you can reap the rights of participation in society without shouldering your share of the responsibilities concomitant to those rights is spectacularly delusional.
The Arabic is what's off-putting.
> However, I can't to help to think that a 10 days Vipassana session is kind of extreme

The theory is that that's sort of the minimum you need to get the full experience, in terms of the getting the point where there are significant psychological and physiological changes. I think it could probably be 8 or 9 days instead, but realistically things don't start getting interesting until day 6 or 7 and that's after doing it for 7 - 10 hours per day.

I did it once and I'd like to do it again, but realistically it is pretty difficult to balance with other life commitments.
> (overloading functions) ... comes at a high cost in terms of ... runtime reflection in dynamic languages like Perl, Python or JavaScript

In Perl 6 function overloading is generally resolved at compile-time.

> Explicit is better than implicit or inexplicit.

Explicit what?

(jk)

> What is so important about the scalar/array dichotomy

See my earlier reply to another of your comments.

> context sensitive punctuation you have to look up in a legend?

Sigils are not context sensitive.

> The root of the sigil problem is that you quickly run out of unused ASCII punctuation characters to decorate all the concepts you feel the need to distinguish.

The distinction corresponds to major distinctions known to be wired in to human brains: single vs plural, and number vs name.

If this seems arbitrary to you perhaps you lack self awareness?

(jk)
Their video recording and streaming efforts are also world frickin class. They put commercially sponsored venues to shame in this category alone.

Source: been twice, watched live this year, downloaded all the talks in HD a few days after it ended.
You may be powerless to stop a drone from hovering over your own yard
I don't think "offline" in this context means that the problem was because the device couldn't connect to the internet. It sounds like the bug drained the battery which prevented it from functioning.
Technically, every distro that ships KDE or any other Qt Quick application that uses SSL is, though one would hope there's an exception for those. Beyond that, who knows? Someone would have to do an audit.
Pushing it into master branch as we speak... A few minutes for CI to push to production.
There is no truth to that and I'll tell you why - a bitcoin ATM in one country and a bitcoin ATM in another country are all you need.

If the combined spread is less than a money transmitter, then you save money. It is very simple. Many exchanges have around a %1 spread. Many remittance services are 10% or more. This is not rocket science and the article you linked to is from a service threatened by cypto-currencies.
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The MIT License does not use the word "patent", but there are good arguments that MIT grants at least an implied patent license, perhaps even a (limited) express patent license. "Implied patent license" is the search string if you want to read more.

Apache version 2.0, on the other hand, has an express patent license. There are very good reasons to prefer an express patent license.
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They can offer you a mentorship role (which nobody uses) and that nullifies the extra grand you'll end up paying over the cost of the normal nanodegree.
"Sealed" implies the record is reasonably inaccessible to the general public, but still easily accessible to law enforcement. When you are arrested, law enforcement, and especially prosecutors, will be very interested in what you have been convicted before previously, especially if your state has a "three strikes" law (where you can end up with life in prison for your third felony conviction, regardless of the seriousness of the felonies) or something similar.
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The stupid thing is how 18th century's laws were updated on the 20th century.
I'd love to hear more about #1. I don't know the history of the DMCA, and as a non-American I never heard about it before I saw it in action on Youtube.

What were the (subjectively worse) alternatives being talked about at the time, and what do you think the best way out of this mess from today moving forward would be?

You seem to hold a unique perspective on copyright issues I haven't hear before!
Hilarious. A residential thermostat that needs tech support. Only in the Silicon Valley echo chamber can that seem like a good idea. It reminds me of the old engineering saying: "If it's not broken it doesn't have enough features yet."
I think there is some valid discusion to be had re:
Who gave them the right and should we continue to recognize that right?

The issue of symmetries of power brings into call the granting and enforcing of rights at a very basic level. If rights are not endowed in a symmetric fashion, shouldn't we step the conversation back and talk about that instead of throwing our collective hands up and agreeing to participate in perpetuating institutionaled inequality?
This requires equating “stupid” with “all”. Once you recognize a concept of copyright, lawsuits are inevitable once you allow users to share files.

All you need at that point is one copyright holder who believes – right or wrong – that you are in sufficiently zealous about protecting their content and, poof, lawsuit. This goes treble if you have money and the actual infringer is likely to be a broke college student in another country.
“Expert Witness” who cannot do basic math
Someone contacted me on Twitter and asked if I could add a length, which I did (starting with the latest). A very smart idea from both of you!

The idea of categorizing by length is great, and I'll do it, because it's so easy (well, moving forward). However, most of these talks are conference talks, meaning that about 80-90% will be about 45-60 minutes long. So it'll probably be most useful for the outliers. But again, it's easy to do, so why not?

Thanks for your interest and suggestions!
Another way the process is biased in favor of takedowns is that the counter-notification procedure is designed to thoroughly de-anonymize any individual who files one. A valid takedown notification need only contain "reasonably sufficient" contact information. A counter-notification is explicitly required to contain name, address, and phone number.

I guess I can't fault the authors for failing to anticipate petty YouTube rivalries back in 1998, but it seems like the sole imagined use case was a respected corporation going after a pseudonymous warez jockey.
So this would be similar to where a lawn more is designed to cut grass. And a reasonable person would assume that it can also cut weeds that are growing in the lawn. But it isn't reasonable to assume that you could pick it up in the air and use it as a hedge trimmer.
What if the Chinese Room already exists, and we call it a brain? It's the most complex object we know of in the universe and it collects and processes input for decades. That's a pretty vast amount of stored information from which to produce an answer to your question.

We wouldn't expect a 3-year-old to provide the correct answer, but we would expect a 30-year-old. This is a big hint that the brain does in fact collect and store information for later use. This would be analogous to filling in the books in the Chinese Room. If there hasn't been enough time for all the books to get filled in, we won't expect the room to give correct answers.

In addition, if someone has never heard of Lord of the Rings, we would not expect to get a correct answer either. That page of that book in the Room would be blank.

As for which concepts rest on which, we have to be careful, when discussing consciousness, not to mistake grammar for reality. There is no way in English to express the concept of an illusory "I" in the first person. That doesn't mean it is an impossible concept.
Honestly, I think HIPAA may have been a net negative to the medical industry and has probably prevented the basic sharing between medical practices and related services that it was supposed to more readily allow. The lawyers have benefited a lot, and the abstract details insurance companies have gathered, but refuse to disclose based on HIPAA grounds to their own customers about themselves and medical practitioners treating those same people is often ridiculous at best.
> Withdrawing consent is withdrawing from the system to which you no longer consent.

You haven't actually defined "withdrawing consent" there, you've just repeated the phrase "withdrawing consent".

> Pretending you can reap the rights of participation in society without shouldering your share of the responsibilities concomitant to those rights is spectacularly delusional.

Nice feigned outrage + strawman.
Interesting that the inbound terms (CLA) include an express patent license, while the outbound terms (MIT) have less clear patent language.

There is tremendous political and PR value in offering MIT outbound. Fun thought experiment: How different would reception be with Apache 2.0, Eclipse Public, or similarly "enterprisey" terms?
I agree. I am one of the Nanodegree holder from first cohort in Front End Web Dev with healthcare background and healthcare related degree. I completed Nanodegree around 6 months ago. All I can say is I am facing a big hurdle to get an entry level position.
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It's arguably a lot easier to use Twilio for something like this because there's no hardware needed and you can be up and running in about 5 minutes for a simple setup. That said, the real difference here is probably that Twilio allows you to buy a bunch of numbers cheap so you can scale SMS. Carriers sometimes filter out messages if they are sent too often by one number, so it helps to spread the load across several if you are talking to a lot of users (and services like Twilio handle rate-limiting for you).

This is really cool though, the second SMS hardware hack I've seen on here this week. Glad to see people playing more in this space (especially in theatre, my other passion).

Disclaimer: I work for Twilio
Could not get any sensible information about how this works, the dash board preview is almost meaningless marketing gunk, which told me nothing about my site.

I got the impression that it would not cope with anything beyond a simple static site.
It would be pretty rare for a 9V battery to last for 15 years of continuous operation. In my thermostat, which has features similar to yours, the battery is just for backup in case the power goes out, and the thermostat normally runs off the 24V power from the furnace circuit (it works fine if you remove the battery). It's possible that your thermostat works the same way and your battery has been dead for many years.
If you sell a device that monitors heart rates, and that device doesn't properly monitor heart rates... then you need to fix it or stop making it. I don't see why that is unfair?

If I buy a desk lamp and it doesn't work reliably then you sold me a lemon and I want my money back. It doesn't matter why I need light on my desk.
That thread doesn't show a lot of promise towards an engine neutral API.
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"However, what's not a joke is what happens when the internet goes down. So does our heat."

Predictable. Avoidable. Pitiful.
If worm trending and huge botnets are any indication, for the most part, users can't be trusted to disable updates and telemetry data.
I had a run-in with Lenovo support last year. Three-year warranty, two and a half years old, fried motherboard caused by the plastic in the power socket coming apart. Not sure how, don't care - it's wear-and-tear. On initial calls they refused to honour the warranty. I went through the complaints procedure and eventually they relented. It took six weeks but they covered all costs and completely fixed it.

In the meanwhile I'd got a macbook so I could continue working. The mac was driving me crazy. The keyboard feel, the trackpad feel, the lack of nipple mouse, the every-changing UI that never does quite what I want it to.

When the Lenovo came back I tried it out, fell in love again, and moved back to it. At some point the SSD will die and I'll get another one. There's nothing close to a Thinkpad. To me, they feel like they built as tools in a way that other devices lack.
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> By participating, Reddit helps you develop a feel for what will work on the Internet, which obviously benefits your content ideation. By accruing Karma, you’re really evidencing the fact that you understand the site and can find your way around. In doing so, you’ll develop that all important sixth sense for “what works on the Internet”.

Hah. That's not how Reddit works, although that's a better sentiment than the "post linkbait" that I was expecting.
One can also think of the hippocampus simply as a working memory - short term content addressable memory. If the rat happens to be working on a spatial task, like in a maze, you get place/grid cells. If it happens to be working on a timing task, time cells. The content is simply task dependent.
So tell me what would constitute "withdrawing consent" that doesn't mean "itistoday2 gets to participate in modern society without having to play by its rules", because AFAICT, those are the choices: play the game everyone else agrees to play and reap the benefits, or play your own game and forfeit them.

EDIT: verbiage.
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Anyone interested in fixing mental health or actually all health needs to get a copy of "Black Box Thinking" by Matthew Syed. Any application will fail until the nature of information sharing has changed.
I had a Nest and sold it to my brother after Google bought them and it was clear they were never going to release the rumored remote sensors. I got an ecobee instead.

The ecobee is much smarter, mostly because of the remote sensors. My house is far more comfortable. It's also nice that ecobee has an API and IFTTT support. It has no issues running normally when the internet goes down. (My internet was down completely the other night and there was -25F windchill. It followed schedule just fine.)

I'm guessing ecobee coming from Canada they know the value of a functional thermostat...
They may be cult-ish, but they don't seem nearly as bad as Scientology. If anything, they're a little more like Catholicism. They preach against homosexuality and deny evolution, but they aren't violent at all, or have beliefs that anyone would consider crazier than what fundamentalist Christians or Muslims believe.

They may not be the paragons of virtue they claim to be, but they definitely have done nothing to deserve mass torture and murder. Real cults like Scientology and Aum Shinrikyo have killed their own members, and non-members. Falun Gong hasn't.
I have a mercury thermostat in the basement set to 12C directly across the thermostat leads. I live in a cold place, if the heat goes off things get damaged. You can't beat simplicity.
I brought up cold fusion as a great example. There are some very interesting research out there that are fighting against this very bias you are demonstrating right now. Is there wishful thinking? Sure, but perhaps not among some of the serious efforts going on.

"for anything health-related, desperation reigns" <-- That sounds like a clever, truthful statement, but it's nothing more than a blanket statement that also demonstrates this bias I spoke of. Are there desperate people? Yes, quite a number of them. Is what Tim Ferris doing a result from desperation? I doubt it. Are there people who will unthinkingly fund this because of Tim Ferris's fame? Sure. Are there people who are open-minded though skeptical and curious about what Tim Ferris is doing? Sure. So what's the problem here?
Why? USB adds tons of complexity/overhead relative to what HID devices actually need -- especially hardwired devices.
Here's a quote from Bruce Lee, “It’s not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
I was already employed as a FED, but it feels like they keep introducing these "enticements" and don't really care about the other cohorts.
They're converting stuff to Windows Runtime. There's a lot of it. It will take a while....
Your predictions about technology are probably wrong
I'm sorry that our landing page couldn't be better at explaining it. I hope to fix this in the next few iterations.

On the tech, we're a reverse caching proxy service that builds value-add functionalities on the proxy layer.

For example, we can provision LetsEncrypt SSL certs for domains and put it on our edges automatically. All you have to do is to point your domain to our CDN `A` record.

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On the dashboard, we're trying to help dev-teams, CEOs, etc, to understand the performance of the site.

For example,

- Are there pages that used to be fast, but now regressed to be performing 5x slower?

- Are there pages that used to be functional (200 status code), but now return 500?

Think of it as Google Analytics but for website administration. But I agree that we can be better on the actual info being delivered. But this is our first public launch and it is from here on that I hope to hear from actual users what they want to see in the dashboard.
One could emigrate to or create a micronation or microstate. Sealand is a fairly well known micronation. The Conch Republic [0] is another, and is an example of (on multiple occasions) withdrawing consent from being ruled by the outside government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic
This paper says nothing about where the source of the timing signals come from, unfortunately.
> However I think that I am expecting too much from my team when it comes to engineering and they may not like me because of that.

This will only be an issue in the way you relate to them when they fail. Failure must be treated as a learning experience.
Right. And just to be explicit, we're using the fact that (x+1)(x-1) = x² -1. So to add in that step, it would be:

18 x 16 = (17+1)(17-1) = 10(17²-1)