skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's leadership seems to be becoming more paranoid. Yet China has no serious external enemies other than the ones they make for themselves, the economy is stressed a bit but production is in great shape, and the standard of living has been rising for years. Why?
Yeah, there doesn't seem to be much substance in this. For example,

> The last thing I’ll say is about Tony, since he’s the focus of most of these articles. I was in maybe 10 meetings with him total in 18 months. So I would never characterize my time with him as “intimate.” However, I did sit within 15 feet of him and next to his meeting room for a year.

What? This doesn't entitle you to have a significant opinion about what's going on right now.

Seems like someone just trying to milk some tangential experiences to get attention while the media is looking this way.
The difference is where the product shows up on the PH page.

With a network, you automatically get access to the front page. Without it, you won't even show up on the site even if it's the best product in the world for the PH crowd.
In the context of a plausible hypothetical alternative, that unverified claim still has value.

People post their opinions on HN all the time, and 'verify' is a problematic concept - what tools do we have to verify something? WE're software devs, not statisticians, and and quasi-scientific, slapdash case can be made to people who lack those critical skills.

TLDR; Most devs lack the qualifications to 'verify' anything statistical... Not that that will stop them from assuming they're "smart" enough to figure it out anyway...
Blue-Green with that strategy really sounds like a great strategy, also thanks for the sysadvent link!
I'm aware of it, thanks. The current approach isn't really that flexible. For example, I've seen the NY Times and The Atlantic not working. I've considered some different potential fixes but haven't implemented them yet. Thanks!
Yeh but it also takes a substantial, sustained effort to build a community and after the initial launch the OpenHunt crew stopped.

https://www.openhunt.co/audit

Maybe no spam for all of Feb?
It is very surprising that researchers could measure changes just after three days!

One alarming detail about the article, however is the mention of "dose", which I think reflects the general Western, mainstream attitude to meditation. Mindfulness and meditation is being perceived as a tool of "relaxation", "reducing stress", dealing with anxiety, and so on. And it might be because of being "marketed" as such.

However, although meditation can in fact help you deal with stress and make you more relaxed, reducing it just to "benefits" is missing the point. After all, it is actually "you" who is dealing with stress, being more relaxed, etc.

Meditation is about paying attention to your thoughts without any
judgment, experiencing your immediate thoughts and feelings directly,
facing yourself, gently watching your unpleasant feelings, thoughts,
memories and embracing them with all their both unpleasantness and
pleasant joy. In the end, you get more and more in touch with yourself
and the reality, and become more alert, observant, thoughtful, compassionate, etc.

And that actually makes it a practice of not running away from stress, anxiety, sorrow, but in contrast, facing all that with a gentle attitude.

Finally, it is a constant and long-term practice, not something like a "pill" with "doses" to deal with whatever "symptoms".
Facts are on their side? Please could you explain that?
Who else builds networks?
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Huh? I would think the ultimate hacker would use their tools with a bit of precision. Developers who use vim, for example, count the keystrokes:

http://vimgolf.com

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
sad news :(
Temp agencies have existed for a while now.
I've found this train of thought has applications in maintaining an exercise routine as well. It was more about finding a routine that I'd actually stick to than one that was optimal for fastest/best gains, which was my original (failed) strategy.
> They said that I should sell the name because they had a trademark

Who is "they"?
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The cost comparison is flawed if it is accounting for secondary costs of coal, but not solar or wind. (Which will probably be lower than coal, although perhaps not if accounting for vast land areas needed for generation and some rather nasty materials used in solar).

Does solar and wind have capacity to replace fossil fuel demand? These also have limitation is ability to match production to demand - perhaps storage technologies will reduce this limitation.

My understanding is current technologies in scrubbers can do a quite good job of removing particulates, and probably improve further with gasification. Not as familar with heavy metals.

The question the original article raises is why, when energy production is more sensitive to environmental issues, would people invest in coal. My points are that there are developments that could in the future lead to a much cleaner coal. Science fiction can and often does become reality.
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Yahoo is officially for sale
I've been using Braintree as a processor before they got acquired by Paypal and have been a customer for about 3 years now. Customer service has been stellar, and I always can get someone on the phone (note that they are on CST though).

Post paypal acquisition I really haven't noticed any differences.
> who used to be a top tier leader of the current ruling BJP attended the ceremony.

With enough grease in the palm, any politician can be made to appear.
Just so you know, at GitLab we will not hesitate to take down content that we think is illegal or has other issues. At this point I think that WhatsSpy is acceptable but we reserve the right to change our mind.
My startup is actually building something that's helps people learn to essentially meditate:

http://synaptitude.me/

Basically, it should improve control over the brain, very similar to meditation:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/neurofeedback-in-200-words/
It strains reason to argue...

So then the question is, why is "nvidia.ko"'s binary blob not a derivative of Linux? What's the logic that says one binary blob is a derivative work, and the other is not when they both are 'ELF binary with Linux metadata and Linux module entry points'.
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From my experience even that doesn't work. People will feel guilty about not paying and resent you even if you stay quiet. But they also won't pay. At least that's my experience with two members of family and one business partner.
Whenever I see a very popular business (usually a bar or restaurant) that takes "Cash Only". I think to myself "Tax Evader". Which may or may not be true

If you want to be friendly with your bartender and other people with similar businesses, pay with cash and tip with cash. I almost always do.
Who cares whether they're a technology provider? It's a benefits service, and I don't care how they achieve a better user experience. If they do that in the short term with humans, power to them. Isn't that the mantra of MVP that we all worship these days?
Command economies can make risky bets on particular technologies or strategies, and just reorganize everyone's life around this goal. It is very authoritarian, often tyrannical, but the notion that it is necessarily inefficient is just stupid.

Planning occurs in markets too. A Boeing jet takes decades to bring it to market, and the organization must make risky long term plans and bets. They may pan out, or may not. But every entrepreneur and startup at YC is doing the same sort of thing. Taking losses for years, even, because of a belief in their plan.

Sometimes, risky bets pay out. Sometimes spectacularly. And sometimes they crash and burn. The resilience of a market economy means that not everyone has to be on board for such a venture. Indeed, the market is a collection of organizations that are all either slowly or quickly in the process of failing. None of them will last forever, but they generally won't all fail at the same time. A command economy can, and often does.
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You might try:

Tiger Direct

newegg

If you want to get really serious check out:

Falcon Northwest
> Joshi is an entitled superstitious hindu fanatic

By that same standard, every Republican presidential candidate is a "Christian fanatic", but nobody uses that term for the Republicans.
This. This is a standard procedure for photographers.

Writing a blog post does not help anybody. Ask for money and you not only get money, they are more likely to not do it again.
I bet a network or a studio buys them as a content platform for their content. Include some built in users too.
I'm based in India and you make me want to hide.
TL;DR Nest is great, Tony Fadell is great, every Nest product is great, everything you've read or heard about any of the above in the last 18 months is wrong.
Can you explain what is butchered about the quote?
Adding lots of functions
JWZ used to detect the hacker news referrer and redirect all links that originated on hacker news to goatse. Now it's only slightly less graphic.
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Which is easier. Keeping your existing tight grip hanging from a suspended bar? Or grabbing on tighter after you've let go a a bit?
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Not necessarily, but when you reduce actual people to nothing more than a "problem" to be "solved" it doesn't reflect kindly on you.
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The ME is an embedded device that has its own independent CPU and operating system. Whether Secure Boot is possible is tangential to that. Secure Boot is as relevant to security here as lowering the anchor on the titanic after hitting that iceberg. Whether the measure is in place or not does not actually fix things.
They are calling him a steamed bread or something like that.
No and no.

But you have to remember, PH is another source of exposure for people's startups. They are a funded, YC company. Products on the homepage get a viral lift (via Twitter, votes, comments, etc.).

Also, it is well known that VCs and angel investors frequent PH and IIRC some have even admitted to sourcing deals on there. For someone who dreams of getting funded and moving to SV/SF, that's a very big deal.

https://pando.com/2014/05/30/sv-angel-closes-seed-deal-sourc...
The NVIDIA driver has been long subject to exactly this controversy, which is one reason why distros don't like to ship it.
I prefer George R.R. Martin

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
CDDL is not compatible with GPL. So this won't work.
The legality is still in question, then. If they can still win on appeal, it's not definitively illegal.

As for the rest, I only pointed out the difference between this request and an iCloud request, which you asked about (rhetorically, I know). This iPhone request plausibly places an undue burden on Apple that the iCloud requests do not, so it's different (including from a legal standpoint). If they eventually lose and the Supreme Court says "No it's not an undue burden, now go hack the phone!" then fine, the highest court in the land will have declared your analogy sound. Right now, that's very much in dispute.
But they aren't asking Apple to install it on all phones. The example above is only appropriate if they were asked to put it on everyone's phones.
What's stupid about differentiating between errors and success?
Could you not in theory start up a corporation as a foreigner and then spread your "free speech"¹ around all as you like?

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Very nice, and as they say quite exceptional. But pointing controls should really come as part of the default configuration (if not necessarily the minimal one): they're more important than the keyboard split, let alone clicky key actions.
> the most durable key caps around

I see that they have a PBT doubleshot option now, but I have a WASD v1 with custom printed ABS keycaps that are almost completely blank now. Just pointing out that it definitely depends which of their keycap products you get.

> Exotic features like a split keyboard, matrix layout, and strange thumb controls are just annoying and non-standard.

To each their own. A split keyboard with thumb clusters has been the most comfortable typing situation for me (in addition to a negative tilt which doesn't get a ton of discussion - if the front of the keyboard is level with your wrists and tilts down away from you, your hands are left in a much more natural resting position)
Actually, Textbroker is not just for U.S. citizens. If you go to their site, they take freelancers in multiple countries. You cannot live just anywhere, but they do serve more than just the U.S.
I think the NZ Herald is worse than stuff. A meaningful percentage of their content is now Reddit stories.
It is not about the word, it is about whether it is descriptive. For example, you cannot protect "soap" as a trademark for soap, but you can protect "soap" as a trademark for everything else.
I realize I'm losing money by paying with cash, because I'm paying the markup for credit card swipes (assuming a retailer that charges the same for credit cards and cash). Even if I can only get back 2% (there are several no-free credit cards that give 2% back on all purchases), that's more than with the cash where I'm paying higher prices and not able to get any of that back with cashback.

Depending on agreement, card type, and other factors, the swipe fee is sometimes higher than 2%, so I don't always get all the difference back.
No TLS and their stubborn refusal to even acknowledge HTTP2 makes this of very limited usefulness.
I agree with you, great idea but too expensive. I was hoping for something really inexpensive that a student (or hobbyist) could pop in a Raspberry Pi, and a laptop, take the Pi out for experimenting, etc.

I am travelling with a small $190 HP Stream (running Linux) and for this low price I have a full on computer. I am working on my new Haskell book right now and I don't miss my more powerful Linux laptop or MacBook that I left at home. The Raspberry Pi is a powerful enough device to get work done on, and a $100 laptop case for it would be a great product.
Perhaps they enjoy their privacy. This has happened before (_why, Mark Pilgrim) and is tantamount to a witch hunt.
> If anything, I think the opposite of your statement is true. The further away from the standard you get in your exotic preference, the easier it is to compartmentalize that layout, the easier it will be to switch as needed.

This has been my experience as well - even with very muscle-memory intensive things like vim.
What if your car breaks?
Bao zi = buns, like pork buns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baozi

Basically, he's got a nickname that resembles "little piggy". (By intent, not literal translation.)
If you control the populace's view of the outside world then you can turn foreigners into anything you want them to be: monsters, war mongers, greedy capitalists intent on collapsing your economy and taking away the dream of prosperity, etc.

China has too many single men who will never know marriage and who present a huge threat to their society. It is better to point the tip of that spear in a different direction through tightly controlled propaganda. War, cold or hot, is on the horizon.
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My brother in law lived there for years and claims that the general sense is that if the leadership can't maintain at least 5-10% GDP growth forever they will lose favor. People there are very unsatisfied with the government but they're also afraid of revolution. Paranoia seems a good description of the government's mentality.
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Technically you are right, but I think most beginners benefit from more guidance than that. It's like telling someone that all there is to golf is to hit the ball into the cup.
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I don't think China has any intention of attacking and occupying India. I'm sure they are more than capable if they wanted to but there is just no incentive.
Civ 1 still felt deeper to me then rev. It was ok, but I would have preferred a mobile version of Civ 1 instead.
Fair. I was channeling the South Park cable company guys when I wrote it. I'm gonna leave it as is, though, because to be honest the sentiment behind it is important to me. It really cheeses me off to see employees in a toxic (for this kind of work) culture playing the victim for what amounts to getting caught.
It's funny to me because I feel the same way about this as I do about mandatory "smart guns".

Basically, not only do I not trust the government but I don't trust that the information won't fall into even worse hands than theirs.
Oracle America, Inc. v. Canonical Ltd. (2020).
> When you double the size of a plane it it becomes 4-times heavier

So there is a creature after all, even if mechanical, to which the BMI applies!
Every time I read one of these stories on social media where a bunch of people are looking for someone, I think of this:

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dancing_man

What if Mr. Douglas doesn't want to be found? Collectively, we get all up in arms about the iPhone backdoor debacle because of its obvious violations of one's personal private space, but we'll simultaneously engage in internet mob tactics to find this guy.

> I contacted the Human Resources at Pagar.me, the company i have worked with him, i'll try to get his house phonenumber.

Wow.
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It is always good to double check things on the off chance that you are wrong. Many of the critics of Canonical's decision cannot claim to have done that.
When using this please have consideration for those with screens that have poor viewing angles. These are difficult enough to read with high contrast backgrounds on IPS LCDs.
He stopped posting Twitter on or around the same date too: https://twitter.com/ericdouglas_
Many people think it is, but apparently no one with authority to go to court over it has done so.
Can you extend the post a bit more with information about cache size, eviction policy, purging assets?
What about just changing what the Daily Mail is serving up? An image referring to the Daily Mail stealing content for example.
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A squatter selling a domain name is "news"?
So, honest question, what kind of workloads and tasks would a box built from this motherboard be good for? Video or audio editing? CAD? 3d Rendering? Programming? Assuming the hardware is up to the task, cool, now what about the software?

In my years working IT, it seems to me that by and large, the professional software for tasks you'd throw an expensive workstation at (CAD, 3d rendering, etc) has by and large migrated to being targeted for x86 Windows boxen, because that's what their clients have. For some tasks (audio/video production) some software still targets macs, but that's about it from what I've seen.

I'm tempted to try to pick up a couple of these to see if I can turn them into something useful, but the rare power user or hobbyist doesn't seem like enough demand to sustain development of a product like this, as cool as it might be. Is there some niche somewhere that I am not aware of where something like this would be useful? Enough for someone to buy enough of these to sustain further development and production?
There's only a "free rider problem" if you view the internet as a tool to generate income, as opposed to a tool you can use to offer something to the world. If all ads were gone tomorrow I wouldn't see a single website I regularly use drop off the internet. I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the quality of web content on average would skyrocket if you couldn't make a dime off of ads.
The "well regulated militia" is still the same.

Crypto is just another weapon in the arsenal.
In my opinion, this is a great move towards making mobile banking more usable. Compared to carrying around a hard token or having a 20 random character password, biometrics offer good user experience without compromising the security too much. There are plenty intelligent ways of performing liveliness detection, the most obvious being a challenge-response scenario.

That being said, no individual biometric is good enough to provide a good and consistent experience on it's own. Every one has situations and environments it fails in (noisy room, dark environment, etc.). That's why I believe only a combination of different modalities (facial, voice, etc.), can provide a robust and consistent solution.

For full disclosure - I'm the CTO of AimBrain and we're hiring: https://aimbrain.com/joinus
IANAL, but this sounds like a great idea even if you don't plan to pursue payment: It's more likely to get a change from the scuzzy people in charge of the scuzzy business than polite letters to article-writers.

And if you do feel pissed, it nicely anchors things: "My client promptly sent a notification of infringement and an invoice, which they refused to pay for X months."
Try https://www.twago.com/, https://www.freelancer.com/ are big marketplaces. There are more niche players as well, e.g. you can set a bounty on github issues.
I suppose I would tend to agree with you that a fully planned economy will be destined to fail, just like a fully unplanned economy would, but no economic system is ever pure. Certain Asian Tiger economies, like South Korea and Japan, had large scale economic plans to begin manufacturing electronics for export. This was an intentional, top-down strategy. A successful one, at that.

Other types of economic planning that we see have included nuclear energy, damns, highways, railways, satellites, and so on.

The US only began funding space exploration after they realized that the USSR was ahead. The US was able to be more resilient over time, and still incorporate a lot of the top-down innovations.