skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in our case customers can request the bananas how they want, and the pickers will get exactly what they want. We've had people request and get "an avocado that will be ripe on Wednesday".
There are masterpieces in this genre too. Take for example Dostoyevsky. Each of his character is a direct representative of a certain philosophy - you easily find certain characters in all of his novels: the "nihilist/atheist" the "religious mystic" the "russian orthodox" etc...
I'm totally not accepting his agenda (in short: that God is mandatory to ethics), but if I start to read him, I can't put the book down until the last page...
When I was in high school, I meditated for the first time for two days and my grades spiked, for I made much less stupid mistakes. After that, the effect of meditation must be maintained regularly. If I didn't meditate for say three days in the last month, the grade bonus vanished quickly.

What I am trying to say is that to someone who has never meditated before, three day meditation may well have a significant impact. However if they do not do it long term, those effects may be temporary.
Yes, incorrect "slang". Not from the 60's, it's actually very 21st century. Benzos almost universally refers to Benzodiazepines (Xanax, Klonopin, etc...). Doctors even say Benzos, it's a legitimate abbreviation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine
"Oh, this is when science didn't need to have a purpose." - Mystery Science Theater 3000
Why would Eat24/Yelp insist on having support center operations be in SF itself? Wouldn't it make sense to do this job in Omaha or Reno?

She was in a shitty position, and should have looked for other options (not dumping on her, just saying what I would have done). Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, she lost her job due to this.

Are there lots of companies in SF that do their lowest paid support ops in house in city?

Hopefully she lands on her feet in a better job (maybe a writing job?)
Can you drink tap water in {{city}} ?
> They do sort of cover this in game, with the indentured servant class of colonist, as well as the convicts - which fits for the early stages of North American colonization, particularly the British angle that Colonization is mostly playing to.

For the British, sure. But the Spanish practiced human slavery pretty much from the jump. The Taino of Hispaniola, the various Mesoamerican tribes--this was a thing, and eliding it is, in my view, at best unethical. I fully understand why it would be done from a commercial standpoint, and I am not unsympathetic to the problems that involves. But sympathy for a game developer must be placed on the scales against empathy for the people that the game erases from its presentation of history.

> I'm not sure how you would introduce slavery into Colonization without making it a cliche.

Neither am I, as it happens. Religion and Revolution treats both African and native slaves similar to petty criminal units, which is unsatisfying too--but at least it acknowledges that they exist.

Don't get me wrong--Colonization is in my top ten games of all time. I've bought the game at least five times, for myself and other people, and Civ4Col was a day-one purchase for me (which was a mistake, at least until TAC and RoR came out). I wouldn't give them money if I thought this was an insurmountable ethical problem. But it is problematic (turns out that it's possible to really like a work and still feel this way!), and I think it's also important to acknowledge that and figure out how to be better.

And there's a core ethical question here: if something so fundamental to the problem cannot be fairly addressed because of the perception of market realities, is it better to make something that casts the marginalized people of history in not just a bad light but one that attests that they don't exist at all, than to not make it? Reasonable people can argue both sides of that dilemma; I'm honestly not sure where I stand. But it is always and emphatically worth thinking about how one treats people worse off than you.
Skype windows version (Linux version does not have video calls).
How to measure your CPU time: clock_gettime
Incredibly, in many places, yes. Not only that; some cities allow them to do so in uniform.
I read all of it. Whyever not? Slogging through a mere 70-page rambling monologue written in tiny print never hurt anybody ;)

Straight after the speech:

"It wasn't real, was it?" said Mr Thompson.

I had to laugh at that. Those were pretty much my thoughts exactly, too...
If Feinstein is weighing in on any issue with any technical depth, look carefully at what she's proposing and what she's opposing. More often than not, she's wrong, and her true motivation is likely to pander to a knee-jerk emotional reaction, without careful regard to the technical implications.
Such a delightful book
you're a better person than me. i just couldn't stomach it after page 20.
In other words... Art.
My Grandfather had this book. He also had the most beautiful day-to-day penmanship of anyone I've ever met. He attributed it to this book :-)
I should have been more specific: The iPhone 5C does require signed system software, and the system software enforces safeguards on key access. In contrast, on the iPhone 6, it may not be the case that an "evil update" of system software could be sufficient to subvert the ways keys that are already stored in the hardware secure enclave are protected, and you would have to try to probe the hardware.
i stand corrected.
I recently built a kitchen and made the huge mistake if buying appliances from Sears. I am in awe of how badly this company performed.

First delivery attempt, they called the night before to give me a window. Delivery driver called me to make sure I will be home and that he would be there in 30 minutes. They never showed up. After calling I learned the products were not in stock.

They did the exact same thing on the second delivery attempt.

Third delivery attempt they deliver a damaged fridge.

Fourth attempt, they opened the truck and they did not strap down the fridge. Parts everywhere.

Fifth, they got it right. Normally I would have cancelled the order but the experience became a curiosity. How badly could a company mess up? Turns out, a lot.
Maybe, and in this case it was _two_ security officers vs one patient so they can't even claim they were at a numerical disadvantage.
I think you're really jumping the gun here. No one said that this single failing business discredits the philosophies behind the running of the business.

As in everything there can be implementation failure (as you have so currectly pointed out).

There's also the other failure case of a mismatch between principles and the existing context. Maybe these principles work just fine in other contexts and other fields, but they're a poor match up to this one and can't be used without a lot of tweaking (e.g. Agile techniques applied to the manufacture of airplanes; it can be done but you can't just say 'we will do standups and sprints and everything will fall into place').
"La guerre, un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent mais ne se massacrent pas."
Paul Valéry - 1871-1945

Loosely translated to:
"War is a massacre of people that don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but do not kill each other."
It's ironic this isn't used more often to judge Objectivism's merits, though it's a bit disingenuous since it's prudent for most businesses to avoid having any polarizing opinions. E.g. Roark Capital, the owner of Cinnabon and Arby's that's named after Rand protagonist Howard Roark, doesn't seem to officially advocate the philosophy. BB&T under John Allison is the only one I can find that's indisputably both successful and guided by Objectivism -- $24B market cap, $188B assets, senior management required to read Ayn Rand, they donate to promote Objectivism in colleges, etc.
Benzos = Benzodiazepine [1]
Bennies = Benzedrine [2]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Benzedrine
We could more easily say that Marxism has been discredited based on the fact that nearly every Marxist economy has failed while plenty of free market economies have succeeded.

We could say it, but in fact, it has been claimed that no Marxist state has ever correctly implemented Marxism. "No true Scotsman" is a handy fallacy.

Non-falsifiability is a feature of every mature ideology.
Would they? And even if so -- what does it matter? How many incredibly strong rapidly varying magnetic fields do you come across in your daily life?
I think she's trying to do more than that. She's standing up to the people telling her to move back to India and calling her various slurs and demeaning terms. The article left that out because it's clickbait inciting rage.
i have nothing against drug use for creativity. heck the beatles must have taken speed for their "all night" recording sessions. but they didn't take their 12 hour recordings, put it on an album and call it art. they gave us the finished product. i only wish ayn rand and her publisher and editor extended her fans the same courtesy. not a huge deal; i'm just making a point that doesn't seem obvious to most people. that woman was high as fuck.
Don't fret, it wasn't written for you anyway.
Why would they be stating the number? How can they know if they intimidated or prevented attacks by mere existence? Statistically, mere police patrol presence reduces crime, which is not directly related to detective work.

But, TSA is kind of parallel to surveillance, my question was about whether we could possible judge the success of that, and other intelligence in the most secretive of government operations.
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[...] In a scene in Woody Allen’s film Bananas, US paramilitaries are flying to the troubled, Latin American backwater San Marcos, where insurgents are attempting to overthrow the military junta. One paramilitary asks out-loud, “[are we] for or against the government?” “The CIA is not taking any chances,” responds another officer, “some of us are for it and some of us are gonna to be against it [...]

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
Google says Oprah's net worth is $3G, and Shaq's is $350M. If neither is "wealthy", then I guess the word is reserved for Bill Gates (but not that "white man signing Shaq's check", in all likelihood.)

If he weren't a comedian, I'd say Chris Rock is so full of shit it's not even funny, but I guess they're two separate things (meaning that in this instance he's objectively full of shit, but that has nothing to do with him being subjectively not funny to me; there are other comedians who're just as full of shit, but I still find them funny.)
Analysis of General Motors South Africa (GMSA)
This one question will totally change the way you think about your goals
Skrill (Moneybookers) ?
Ha, sorry, didn't mean to make it sound like I was talking about anything in particular! I just made up that example on the spot. A "Renderable" thing fits into a common pattern where you see typeclasses used in this way.

(Are you talking about this library?
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/renderable-0.1.0.0/docs/...

I don't actually see a Renderable class there anyway.)
> You're either fully behind him or your completely against him. Any time you see a highly polarized issue, I'd recommend asking yourself why there's no middle ground.

Easy enough. Some people take principled stands on issues, even when it's not always politically convenient. If you disagree with them, you are wrong, even if you are well-meaning. Even their political enemies can be seen giving them respect - Scalia and Ginsburg were good friends!

Some people take populist stands on issues, appeal to one group by attacking another - the Establishment Candidates in Washington, the 1%, immigrants, whoever. If you disagree with them, you are stupid or a bad person. "Neutral ground" is enemy territory.
And another thing: most of us will be medicore, and it's probably better to be ok with it :)

maybe being happy, not successful is all it takes
April Fool's RFCs are a bit of a tradition[0]. I'm a fan of the proposal for IPoAC[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_C...

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
Toad for MySql (it's db data compare is unrivalled)...but it doesn't work on WINE.
Congratulations, a great example of MVP. Thanks for sharing learnings. very helpful.
It's a tricky thing, and I fully admit that I have a limited understanding of the specific effects of x-rays on semiconductor devices. My understanding though is that you get higher resolution with higher-energy x-rays, and that as you increase the energy, you're more and more likely to damage the semiconductor (e.g. by inducing bit flips).

Here's some material from a flash memory manufacturer with more details: https://www.spansion.com/Support/Application%20Notes/X-ray_i...
Why would the locals be suffering if those roads stay permit only? Resident-only parking permits is a very common system and seems to work well (living in Cambridge, MA that has such a system).
Are you sure we shouldn't just rewrite everything in the language du jour every week?
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The author makes some really good points.

It's kind of hard to think of what value Uber could really bring to the car industry in the scenario he outlines. Google and others are far ahead on autonomous driving tech. A ride hailing app itself isn't very hard to build.

One path where they might succeed is if the design and functionality needed for an autonomous fleet car is radically different from that of a car today. Existing manufacturers would likely be slow to adapt. If Uber started manufacturing cars themselves, and did it in a way that tapped into these new desires, then perhaps they could create by the best rider experience and capture a premium while competitors whithered. Still that seems like a long shot.
No where that mentions Broccoli. Broccoli isn't that new. I think it deserves a mention.

Broccoli is a build tool and not a task runner. You can use Grunt or Gulp to drive it. Heck, you can use make if you want.

First time users often found there's a steep learning curve to get started. But the effort is well worth it because of its architecture and philosophy. The problem with Grunt and Gulp has always been trying to combine incompatible plugins together. This never happens with Broccoli plugins.
clarification: i read the whole book (and fountainhead), both of which i enjoyed; i stopped reading galt's monologue 20 pages in. it's like when your friend starts rambling while he's high; i love u man but bro i'm going to sleep. see u later
Sid Meier shares his vision for Civilization's future
I think it did sort of come to pass.

http://www.norsam.com/rosetta.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-Rosetta

http://rosettaproject.org/disk/technology/

But it just wasn't very popular? Hard to tell.
That's not true, Skype 4.3.0.37 does have video calls.
That sounds like you're treating this as a game. Fact of the matter is, if we leave the EU, a whole bunch of minorities lose a whole bunch of human rights protections. When this happens, the ability to lead a life of any sort decreases and suicide rates increase.

The UK being "kinda-sorta part of the EU" is not a wonderful thing, but being out of it entirely would be far worse for real people. Fight for more integration with the EU if that's your thing.

I'll note that Scotland would likely become independent and join the EU a few years after a British EU exit, but there's plenty of English, Welsh and Northern Irish people who'd get stuck.
Managing proxies, puppets and suzerains is an important part of a global empire. It's just a shame that America is so bad at it, whereas it worked brilliantly for TE Lawrence and the British Empire.

The worst instance of this was probably Ahmed Chalabi, who convinced the "Project for a New American Century" group that he was a viable leader of Iraq in exile, thereby starting this whole mess at a cost of a trillion dollars and a million lives. We'll probably never know if he was an Iranian intelligence agent or not; if he was he might be the most effective saboteur in history.

There's also the question of how much ISIS are Saudi proxy forces ...
World would be a safer place if US military found more contained way to get rid of their current military gear so they can purchase new toys.
I've also heard "bennies" used to refer to diphenhydramine (Benadryl — hence the term). This is used off-label as a sleeping pill in low dosage (causes dependence), as a sex enhancer in medium doses, and as a recreational deliriant in high doses. It's not particularly good for you.

Figured it was worth leaving this here in case some SV person tries to find amphetamines on the street by looking for "bennies" and gets the wrong stuff.
They didn't download XCode from the Apple store because of slow download speeds, something that Apple has tried to improve.

http://www.cso.com.au/article/585378/apple-ween-chinese-ios-...
There were no names on those tombstones yet. That said I specifically went and took pictures of some "in-use" tombstones as well. Those were more interesting, some display a perspective of family history you don't normally see -- a perspective that focuses on the dead.

Keep in mind that tombstones are publically displayed. It's not like I broke into a mausoleum or something.
Okay so this is mostly a push for Nix Package Manager.

While there are compelling features about Nix, it nonetheless feels overwrought. Between the long hash names for package directories and the whole "functional packages" which requires a whole new scripting language, I tend to want something a bit simpler. For example, I tend to like Gobolinux approach better.
Glibc 2.23 released
This was a great post when I read it last. I really wish the author would repost the pictures or post them to a service that they eventually don't disappear from.
When I was a kid I HATED being short-sighted, and I got into reading about the Bates method and other "natural vision improvement" techniques. I tried all the exercises, read all the books.
I just eventually realised that these people are full of crap. At best they're deluded, at worst they are genuinely evil.

Why don't these people submit their techniques to a proper trial? Take a cohort of myopic people, have their prescriptions verified by an optometrist, then re-measure their vision at monthly intervals while you teach them your exercises. Why wouldn't you do this? If you could prove it you'd be made for life, you could travel the world teaching your technique. You'd be the person who cured myopia!

Yet, like most 'alternative medicine' advocates, they always find a way to dodge any kind of rigorous test.

No downside? Well maybe not, apart from the wasted time.
I believe others should read the parent comment's previous statement before reading the parent comment itself:

>It [Her texts about "pale devils"] alienates far more fragile white guys than the groups she's looking to employ. An unfortunate sacrifice, but necessary none the less.

Ridiculing people who are put off by words like "pale demons" as "fragile", reveals a critical lack of empathy.

For me, it transforms phrases like "unfortunate sacrifice" and the above comment into crocodile tears. A pretense at humanity and, functionally, no different from the white supremacists who defend police brutality against blacks as an "unfortunate but necessary tragedy."

Insidious, really.
Don't use integer timestamps as object keys. What if there's more than one action in any given second?

I'd much prefer an array with objects as element, each object storing its own timestamp.
xmms! /dev/dsp for life!
It's a good question. Short answer: bootstrapping.

I happened to be over at the Long Now foundation on Thursday when this fellow stopped by for a chat; the Long Now wants to evaluate this storage technique for their language archive, the Rosetta Disk.

The Long Now's solution is to have information at multiple scales:

http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/

Note that there is human-readable text around the rim that gets rapidly smaller. That's a clue that you need to keep zooming in. A prototype container is part magnifying glass, and I think the plan is to have instructions at modest resolutions on how to build a 100x microscope, and then more instructions at that scale on how to build what you need to get to the next scale.

Presumably for this nanoscale disc you would apply the principle repeatedly. Each scale contains instructions for getting to the next scale. For the finest scales you'd need a lot of social and technological infrastructure. But there's another Long Now project to get people to think about what that requires:

http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-...
This is imperial. I especially like the notion that Ministry only answers to reporters with mainland press pass. The China is the center of the civilized world again, the world where the US is a barbarian outskirt.

Will the foreign websites published in Mandarin be banned to view from mainland China?
Can anyone tell me if latest Adobe CC (2015) Cloud'n'stuff™ works on WINE? Namely how Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator, AME, and Photoshop behave in contrast to Windows? If they work at all.
Same with me. Sears has very competitive prices on appliances and mattresses. The free delivery is nice too.
Stupid MBA, stats and excel driven management is capable of destroying everything.

Sears literally shuttered the catalog operation right before ecommerce was a thing. They literally had a 100 year lead on the market previously and had moderate success with selling stuff on pre-Internet online networks like Prodigy.
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Needs 2014 in the title. Oga has been around for a while now and seems to be pretty stable.
Well, ruling a country is a demanding job. Electing officials to actually rule the country is a pretty important part of the job. We'll have democratically elected idiots (or, worse, dangerous faux-idiots with an agenda) as long as people will see voting as a somehow daunting pastime, instead of a work that requires consideration, preparation, and (gasp) qualification.
Writing Tools in Go for Ops Engineers #go16party
Kinda sadly, a brand new HTML parser that doesn't even follow the HTML spec (which nowadays defines how to parse any character stream, therefore including all non-conforming documents). :(
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Followup: Looks like Herbalife changed BBB link, which now goes to front page. Searching on "Herbalife" on that front page now goes to a list of 205 businesses, which are not "BBB Accredited".
How to launch your startup on BetaList – 8 lessons from my startup
The ability for a company to force you to take a lower price is new to me. Besides Uber, has anyone heard of this happening elsewhere?
Not sure what you mean...
Same here, useless 90% of the time.
$20 dollar to visit a doctor, $11 a day for public transport, $120 bill for gas and electricity... is this the rule in SF?

Then of course you hear of people in SF earning $150k-$200k and it sounds like wow! But how much of that goes away by just living there?

While I understand the motivation of the letter, I'd say it's a broken welfare system that is the problem, rather than a greedy CEO.