skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to respectfully disagree, assuming this speaker was instead referring to larger things about changing the culture of death. But then I actually skimmed the video, and she really is just saying that we shouldn't bury because our bodies house natural toxins. It's pretty silly. I would say that the organizers recognize her getting the stage was a mistake... :)
This is cool. Giffy also has this ability I think.
WTF?

I didn't complain at all, not even one bit. I sat down on the bench and later layed down on the bench and just waited quietly and said "ok" when he told me he needed more time. Never complained, never said anything nasty, never said anything at all unless spoken to, actually. I didn't yell at anyone or get upset or annoyed, or rude, or use a harsh tone, or anything of the sort. Never said anything but "its alright" when people said "Sorry for the wait."

So I come across as a terrible person for basically showing up and waiting quietly on a bench? What should I have done that would be pleasing to you? Not picked up my order?

Employee had to deal with crappy mismanagement, I wasn't angry at him, and I even helped him out by giving him my pen so he didn't have to go find one for the next people.

Crappy policies and crappy mismanagement causes bad customer service experience. It seems obvious the problems. Site to store orders should be in their own area for quick access and not be comingled with other stock as to not get buried. They should have more than one employee operating site to store so that if one employee is in the middle of something another can take over. Those two things would fix 99% of customer service issues with site to store. I don't think that the employees did anything wrong, they were set up for failure. I worked at a job in high school that set its employees up for failure, so I know how frustrating it can be. There was quite a few grown adults who took great pleasure in screaming at 16 year olds for things outside of their control at that job. I never do that.

I don't even mind waiting at all usually, but there is a reasonable wait time and there are wait times nobody can predict (higher than usual crowd) and theres unreasonable wait times that are avoidable.

I also never said he was young, you made that part up. He wasn't young at all.
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Its interesting how many of these companies do business with the US government, yet continue to dodge taxes. (Any) Government in theory could choose a vendor using any arbitrary criteria, for e.g. manufacturing the product in the US, not funneling profits outside the country and many others. Unfortunately, its all about - Privatize the gains, subsidize the losses - these days.
Google originally justified their blocking of search term data in HTTP referrer fields as being due to the security implications of HTTPS vs HTTP. The fact that they now use <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> proves it was just an excuse to obscure that data, since they have it at their disposal to transmit that information securely to the destination site.
> The less friction you have, the more money you will collect.

We have started to use BountySource https://salt.bountysource.com/checkout/amount?team=platformi.... They accept PayPal, Bitcoin and etc.

> offer no SLA for non-paying users, offer guaranteed turnaround to paying customers (don't be overly aggressive - a couple of business days is fine).

The problem here is that I love very much to help people not matter where do they live and that they don't pay me. I don't have aim to earn millions from PlatformIO. I was not embedded developer before, I'm Web-developer in the past. PlatformIO is solution for the problems with which I ran into a few years ago ( http://www.ikravets.com/computer-life/programming/2014/06/17... ). I just like this idea with PlatformIO and I live with it 24hours per day (very often I wake up in the middle of the night and think how to improve further things).

The most users of PlatformIO are not electronics engineers. Embedded and IoT are the hobby for that people. They also have great ideas how to improve Embedded World, automate some home process or just make first blink program without C/C++ skills. I'm teacher in soul and I'll apply maximum efforts to help each PlatformIO's user to make first steps with embedded programming.

------

Please do not think that I'm crazy. Of course, I have PlatformIO Team and each of us have family and the necessities of life. We are not going to work for free whole life on the PlatformIO. I'm trying to enter into cooperation with the famous vendors and companies. My request is related to "help us with supporting PlatformIO in FREE model for ALL", but not to "give us the money because we will not add support for you hardware/software".

Users buy hardware from the vendors and use PlatformIO. That is great! We are ready to help hardware vendors save time on the software development.

Regards, Ivan Kravets

- CTO, Founder, Ph.D, Researcher and System Architect at PlatformIO.Org
The FBI or any other government agency has always been able to demand companies do exactly this.

It was the height of naivety to think otherwise; it's not like we lack historical examples of what happens when a small number of companies make themselves the linchpin of trust/security:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Prior to this event, I had no idea that this generation of programmers seriously thought they could centralize so much information and control into their own hands, and somehow keep it out of the government's hands when they eventually came knocking.

Even if Apple wins this argument, they'll have to keep winning every argument, every network intrusion, every espionage attempt, forever. This particular argument is pointless; the high-value-single-point-of-failure security model is fundamentally flawed.
That Linux flaw may be fixed, but what about your containers?
https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

And so far car manufacturers have done a piss poor job.

Hell, they are even insisting on using dbus for IPC as they replace QNX with Linux.
The talk wasn't 'banned'.

Many of the talks from TED never make it online. They only post one a day, and have a huge back-log of great talks to post.

Nick's original talk just didn't make the cut. I genuinely believe that was an editorial decision, not a political one. To that point, he gave an improved version of the talk a few years later which TED gladly posted online here: http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocra...
How to find out which FOREX pair and time frame is best to trade?(easy way)
These are the mutually exclusive concerns. And the lives are outweighing the jobs. Always.
I wrote something similar a while ago as an experiment. It's a bit amateur-ish but I had fun doing it.
https://github.com/sleibrock/Unit.py
Absolutely, I worked for a small department at a University and we had to use the management policy to get emails
I don't think anyone is proposing that we outlaw work, so I fail to see the point of your final sentence. Meaningful labor will never go away as long as people are free to choose what they want to do. Personally I just don't think it makes sense as a society to continue expecting everyone to work to survive. We don't need everyone to work all of the time. What if everyone worked 6 months out of the year? We'd all be fine, and likely much, much happier.

I also think it's unlikely that people would spend all of their time playing video games. Sure, in today's overworked society all anyone wants to do when they get a free moment is zone out. But if people weren't so overworked, they'd likely seek out meaningful things of their own free will. No need for us to worry about them, humans have a natural inclination to seek interesting stimulation. Many people will get stuck on boring things, but many people will choose to get more out of life and as someone who would be in the latter category I want to live in a society where that is possible.
I think this is the first time I've ever really understood what the hell flatMap is for. So, thanks!
I would love this. With no disrespect to people volunteering their efforts, I was underwhelmed by the Librivox books I sampled. I'm extremely glad the project exists, though.
Your argument is no different than the arguments that claim crypto backdoors can be kept secure. The problem is the existence of the backdoor, not the processes or politics that ostensibly will prevent its abuse.

Apple could ship encrypted backdoored binaries under an NSL gag order tomorrow, might not even know it themselves, and we'd never notice because we can't even introspect the device. In a few years, the federal government could extend CALEA to cover Apple, and there'd be little we could do because we can't override Apple's control over the software.

The security model is flawed; it requires Apple to fight and win every argument, every battle, every espionage attempt, in our favor, forever. The longer we propagate this security myth that putting absolute trust in the hands of the few is a viable security model, the worse things will be when it fails.

In the meantime, complying with this legal request doesn't meaningfully move the risk needle. The risk already existed. All it does is force Apple to admit that they hold a backdoor -- something they obviously are loathe to do, as noted by the US Attorney when she was forced to submit an additional court filing responding to Apple's public, calculated attempt to define the public debate before even responding to the court.
I know better than to debate the merits of public spending with Americans, who for some reason see reducing funding as the only way to improve their government...

But why should Google benefit from tax evasion at the expense of most smaller businesses, who pay the normal rate of tax?

If Google paid their share, that's $2.4 bn less everyone else would have to pay to maintain the same level of service.

Or you could use the money to fund an American CERN, for example. (Because no private company funds such long term research.)
That was a fantastic post, thank you for sharing. Ironically, while affirming the view I held above, it also makes me think I should -- maybe -- give them another chance now that I'm well along in graduate school as opposed to a struggling undergrad.
I pay $5/month for my shared hosting for 100GB disk space and unlimited bandwidth but it doesn't support HTTPS...
Stephen Wolfram does that.
Agreed, there is no functional base with C# aside from LINQ. So if you want to do functional in C# you would have to chose a library, and that's why I went so far building the rest of the functional infrastructure around it. It'd be insane to use multiple Option implementations. My first attempt at bringing common monad support in C# [1] suffered from the problems you state.

But that still doesn't change the crux of the blog post, it's disingenuous comparing the Option monad to a null coalescing operator.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/csharp-monad
I use one of these as an input device with my smartphone in a stereo viewer. I like it better than the Google Cardboard bumper or even a full gamepad.
Good luck trying to argue to a judge that the law is forbidden from being idiotic. ;)
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South Africa already had a nearly completed device by the time the rest of the world found out and, as a result, was gently nudged to "not do that". Israel is a nuclear state, as far as I know (not publicly acknowledged, yes, but probably the worst kept military secret in the world), and enjoys tremendous support from the west.

So, yes, again if you have nuclear capabilities you get the kid gloves treatment. If not, you can expect to be kicked around. Not exactly the sort of incentive structure you want to set up if eliminating nuclear states is your goal.
Color me unimpressed. For one, they seem to be conflating ketogenic and Paleo diets here. And while there is overlap between the two, they are not the same thing. Furthermore, there has been recent researching suggesting that there is no one "ideal" diet for all people. So if we can't even determine the ideal human diet using studies on humans, then how much stock should I put into studies done on mice? Sure, mice and humans are similar, but not as similar as, say, one human and another, no?

I'm not specifically a follower of the Paleo fad, but by and large I've become convinced that a low carb, moderate protein, high fat diet is the way to go. And, yes, there is at least some scientific evidence to support it. I don't have the citations all in front of me, but here's somewhere to start looking:

http://www.dietdoctor.com/science
Except that you can't write a law that says "no bullshit". You have to actually specify what is bullshit and what isn't.

The alternative is arbitrary power, and that doesn't have a good history.
If Google saved 2.4B then Apple must have saved 5 - 7 Billion. Where's that story, Bloomberg?
Link to the original chip designer's free book:

http://www.designinganalogchips.com/
Huh, OS X's Preview.app can load .stl files. I was able to torrent the bust, double-click it, and view it straight away. That was a surprise.
I sense sarcasm, but Geologically speaking you are correct.

Bamboo is a grass and grows fantastically quick. Ancient trees, not so fast. Also, flowers.
I agree it's a lousy study, but:

> 5) the study was NOT CONTROLLED FOR EQUAL CALORIES between "paleo" and control! Mice were allowed to eat as much as they wanted.

One of the things that paleo advocates constantly wang on about is how satiating it is. Thus it makes sense to try to test that, which means you let mice eat what they like. (Although I accept this study was a poor way of testing it.)
Initial traction is about more than just a tidy number like $1M+ ARR. Your growth rate also needs to surpass a certain hurdle rate. At a minimum, this may be six percent a month (2x annual growth), but ideally it's more like ten to fifteen percent a month (3-5x annual growth). You also have to acquiring the majority of your customers through a zero-cost marketing channel or else it's too expensive to scale.

However, if you can get to $1M+ ARR fast enough and cheap enough, you probably have an interesting opportunity to scale.
Tell HN: Facebook's export tool is inaccessible once an account is suspended
See title. Recently suspended for a violation of the ridiculous and unsafe Real Name policy, Facebook will not allow me to access the data export tool to export my friends list or images.

The images I have a backup of; my last data export is from when they introduced the export feature, 12+ months ago.

I'm happy with discontinuing use of the site - but why have a data export feature if exiled users can't access the data to which they are entitled?
That would certainly be excellent and well received. thanks.
Very cool. I have a DK2; how did you use the image/output of the Structure Scanner to create a virtual world to walk around?

EDIT: I see you used Unity. I'm not a game programmer (I use the Oculus for video work); care to expound briefly? This could be huge for my line of work. Thanks for any time you can spend on my question.
The site has been updated. We have added copyright notice for the used vendors and logos http://platformio.org
I feel the same way. Maybe we can be the change in the world we want to see. There's also OCaml which seems to have more libraries, a single compiler (yay). The downside is OCaml has a ton of features whereas I find SML to be small enough to hold in my head.
Sounds like they call customer support and order a software modification for the entire system...
Current browser support: http://caniuse.com/#feat=referrer-policy
I don't think these investigations depend on corruption or crime, or at least those factors are necessary but not sufficient.

When the government investigates an individual or organization that has long been known to be corrupt, I always think 'why them and why now?' For example, recently they took down a local politician known for corruption for decades; why now? There are other similarly corrupt local politicians; why not them?

Why is the FBI taking down FIFA and not the Catholic Church, which operated a global child rapist protection racket, or Wall Street firms, whose financial fraud harmed billions of people and nearly took down the world economy? FIFA's crimes seem to have relatively minor consequences.

My working hypothesis is that the corrupt lose key political protection and then their enemies pounce. But I don't really know.
I googled "American "football" is a game played by carrying a ball in one's hands, or throwing it by hand. Why on earth would someone come up with such stupid name as "football" for this kind of game?" and this was the first result: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-American-football-called-footba...
Food prep without hats or hairnets? yum.
Almaden had a research project called BlueMail which was pretty good. Naturally, it wasn't encouraged outside of Almaden.
Buy used. If you have a healthy budget, give it to a shop for an overhaul/rebuild, new upholstery, paint, etc. That'll still cost less than new, and no computer b.s.
They were releasing him from the ER and he was already medically cleared.
I don't follow. I agree 100% that lives outweigh jobs and am 100% for self driving vehicles. But you can have concern for the unemployed drivers without thinking that we need to put them back on the roads killing people. That concern could manifest itself in the desire to see public training programs for out of work drivers so they can find new jobs, or all manner of things that don't conflict with a desire to see fewer people killed by trucks. I know I'm certainly concerned about how these unemployed people will survive, despite also wanting self-driving vehicles to get to market quickly to reduce fatalities.
nahh... not really. just being above average and having a bit of a high profile is enough
Thanks! It's just the beginning of some very cool things we have planned like captions and effects. It also opens the door for integrations with CMS's and publishers to start using our gif player[1] and driving traffic back to their sites.

1. https://gifs.com/docs/player
It's actually incredibly rare in consumer products. Especially since an 8-bit micro controller can cost much much less in bulk today.

Edit: and 8-bit micros come much cheaper than Digikey when you buy consumer product volumes directly.
Monad transformers in C# [1] (but yes, only works with the monads in the library)

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/master/LanguageE...
Did it take much effort to adapt the method to writing left-handed? I'm always leery of "writing methods", since so many fall down when attempted with the left hand. (I'm not sure any method would work for me. I was taught to write by right-handed teachers, so I'm an 'over-hand' lefty. I gave up cursive writing in the 5th grade and have 'fast-printed' ever since.)
The Hydra-Light a Salt Water Lantern and Charger
That would be nice! It would certainly help grow the language even if only for the learning experience. A good install story can only help.

Getting the MLton compiler to install on OS X was pretty straight forward but I've never been able to get Basis to load properly.

I also recently burned an afternoon trying to install MLKit on OS X. This one seemed promising for its good docs, smltojs, and good FFI so I was bummed I couldn't get it work.

SMLNJ installs pretty easily but holy cow do you have to murder your PATH.

Eventually I settled for MoscowML which is a VM rather than native code but it has provided me the best ML on OS X experience so far. I also enjoy having the REPL.

Yours truly,

ML compiler/VM collector
I honestly can't think of a reason not to except for very specific cases. It's trivially easy to send the header, and the only thing you are promising is that you will continue providing your site over TLS.
Your statement was "Every non-nuclear state that has attempted to gain nuclear capabilities has declared that they are doing so to protect against aggression by the US/the west (pick one)."

South Africa declared that their nuclear weapons program was to defend themselves from Soviet-backed regional threats. The USSR is neither the US nor the west, making the above statement incorrect.

Pakistan declared that their nuclear weapons program was a response to India's own program. India is neither the US nor the west, which would make it another counter-example.
My project is not yet making any profit, does it count?
I use referrer block for Chrome. I have only twice had anything break from it, and it was a simple fix to whitelist that website. Disqus and coursera both break without referrer.

I don't know why everyone doesn't block referrer. It seems like such a massive breach of privacy to leak that information on every link you click.
Not really. The previous submission links to the original post, this one is to an article.
No, you're not an exception.

I personally discovered that writing things down helps me think about them. I take copious notes for meetings and phone calls.

I've tried typing instead, but there's something about dragging a pen across the page that makes my brain work. Some others have the opposite experience.

"Why the hell you doing that," is what everyone asks. I didn't always, I just found it helped.

Eventually, I found I hated my handwriting so much I went to the trouble of doing some drills to improve it.
Thank goodness for this. The destruction of culturally significant artifacts of such age and importance is incredibly sad to me. At least photography existed before ISIS got here. 3D models are even better.

Makes you wonder what else has been destroyed throughout history. Crazy, sad stuff.
I think Twitter is great, but I don't know how they can monetise it. Also it's for the digital literate.

My older, barely literate relatives taught themselves how to use Facebook no problem, but can't get their head around Twitter. When they start it looks empty because they don't know whom to follow, then when someone adds some followers for them it looks like a wall of noise because all the people they are following are constantly talking.
Let's not also forget http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-u...
I design and manufacture an electronic cigarette device that uses a 555 to PWM a MOSFET for variable power output. Super simple and robust but will be switching to MCUs soon for more features.
I remember reading on the Tor project blog that the malware was based on a reverse engineered security patch. The browser bundle was afterward changed to aggressively prompt the user to update when a new version is out in order to prevent a similar scenario.
Hm, that just make me realize something: we prohibit people from taking (or offering) jobs with wages below a minimum ... but we allow them to also live in places (and be offered such rentals) so expensive that that they're in poverty, under a more reasonable "discretionary income" metric.

Doesn't seem consistent.
300 years ago, humans couldn't even imagine the way the planet (economy, rules etc) would work in 2015.

Except the (potentially) sweeping changes due to automation & other technologies aren't expected to happen in 300 years -- more like 5-20 years. Do you see a difference here?

This revolution is coming, it's part of evolution, stop fighting it, embrace it and learn how to live in new reality,

Do you really think your own livelihood -- and that of people close to you -- is that immune from the potential negative consequences of the "revolution"?

because you can't stop it.

Not entirely. But we can moderate and regulate it if we wish (and we pay close attention). That's the key issue, here -- not simply "either fight it or embrace it."
In Safari (the OS X version), you can also do this with JS Blocker:

http://jsblocker.toggleable.com/