skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Status quo bias is a hell of a thing. Imagine if we had firefighter insurance and the most common cause of bankruptcy was their home burning down. That's pretty much where we are with medicine and it's often justified by victim blaming (They shoudn't have eaten that! They should have exercised more!).
This really is a neat machine for consumers. I would never buy one, but I'm always really impressed at the size / build quality whenever I see one. The price tag is definitely up there for what it is hardware wise, but I think it's one of a kind build makes it justified. Just not my cup of tea :)
Python for Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA)
The fact that you can buy Windows laptops for $150 to $199 surely ought to make you realize the absurdity of that claim.

Even when Windows was at its marketing peak in the late 1990s, the largest OEMs were only paying $40-$45 for a pre-installed copy of Windows. Some were probably paying less (IBM complained to the US government when Microsoft increased its price from $9 to $27).

The low cost version of Windows XP for netbooks cost $11 to $15, and Windows 8 with Bing went for $0* on systems with 8-inch or smaller screens.

I don't know where you think you got your $120 from, but that number wouldn't have figured even in Ballmer's wildest dreams.

* It cost $10 with a $10 refund for setting Bing as the default search engine.
I mean, we still call it "the year of our Lord."

FWIW Japan uses, in parallel, the Western system, but also a system where the years are counted from the beginning of the reign of the current emperor.
Yet another terminal weather app (Go):

https://github.com/jfrazelle/weather
http://backstage.crew.co/bettercrew-how-to-automate-customer...
http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta...

Because their contest is a dumb gimmick that doesn't encompass chosen-ciphertext attacks.
Quite the opposite. For grid storage (in contrast to cars) energy density is irreverent (there is plenty of space). What matters is cost.
Sturgeon's Law.

I've never seen such a thing beyond maybe a mailing list of single-digits of people on a tightly focused topic. Picking the diamonds out of the rough is a fundamental operation.
It says that in the article.
Sure, but it's still noteworthy that this isn't due to DRM suddenly becoming better.
Child Labor Laws Are Outdated
Australia has "Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!" Usually a sporting chant, but it's sometimes used by Australian travellers to identify other Australians in a crowd (ie, yell out "Aussie Aussie Aussie" and see if anyone yells back "Oi Oi Oi!")
Science talks in London Pubs
I'm really ashamed to admit it, but I am addicted to Facebook. As much as I despise the lack of depth in the average content, I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it.

I've always explained the phenomenon of gossip rags as a surrogate for our innate need to be social. Rather than engaging in actual social scenarios (which can carry social risks), many people have fulfilled our social needs with television shows and gossip rags. Celebrities have become a surrogate community members for many people, and I suspect Facebook ups that by one by creating a platform where you can interact with friends, celebrities and strangers in an environment that mitigates most (not all) risks.

I wish I had a clever idea for a solution to this because I really think the world deserves an open social platform that not only engages people socially, but provides the social lubricant to enable people to form online/offline clubs and interact with each other in a high-bandwidth so we can use the internet to teach each other and create fun things with each other.

Maybe it's only a matter of bandwidth, transistors and time.
I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..
Free online tool for career development
For a start, buying something should grant certain rights over the thing bought.

beyond that though, even to evaluate if something is worth purchasing you need to be able to look at it and at least some of it's contents. People need to be able to talk about it. Reviewers need to be able to summarise it.

Fair use is a pre-requisite to having any kind of fair market for and social culture around books, or any media.
> IMHO creativity is about decision making - its closer to "taste" and doesn't require skill to be a unique and special talent in itself. Its a bit like the Jobs/Woz divide.

I think you're talking about something other than creativity. Architects are not bricklayers, that's the subject of the allographic/autographic distinction made by Nelson Goodman, but it really is orthogonal to creativity.

Creativity is generally understood to be about fluency, flexibility and originality of ideas. (The Wikipedia page is pretty extensive.) Skill and taste are different and certainly do each contribute to the value of works of art, but not necessarily in a creative way.

Like the work of a prolific artist in a busy studio full of assistants, cooking (for example) involves both skill and (literally) taste. Artists who work like that are actually precluded from certain types of creativity, by their own reputation and the expectations of their market, even if their work is selling well. Much like a chef. I think that's the problem with your notion of what creativity is. You are mistaking aesthetic productivity for originality and the other things that mark actual creativity.
Aren't you bringing in your preexisting biases here? While I'm sure there are plenty of "living nightmares" we can find in North Korea I'm not finding one in these photos.
No, but its much less of an issue that its made out to be. It is an argument, but not a particularly strong one.

A much better argument is that we want and need many orders of magnitude more energy to do the things than need to be done. And renewables are not energy dense enough for that.
That is only possible because Ejabberd doesn't use the AGPL license.
Nah, no way. If anything the SEC spends too much time chasing down small time crooks scamming grandpa.
This is shaping up to be a nice machine. Now if only the keyboard travel weren't so shallow...
"one company can't claim all plantes to mine while still having an advantage because they were the first to start mining"

That is physically impossible.

While the international laws and conventions have lapsed, they can easily be brought back, and one of the principles of settling is that you can't claim something you can't defend. The principles will need to be tweaked a bit since the way in which "defense" is used here isn't 100% applicable, but you could easily say that you have to be occupying it, for instance. There is no way to squat on the million best asteroids.

By the time that's not true, our great-grandchildren will have worked out the principles of solving that problem. It may be fun to speculate on their answers, but it's nothing more.
I love it as a backup machine when I'm traveling but still need to be able to respond to emergencies. It's light and perfect for this.
I can't think of a lot of ways in which China's government is not "authoritarian."
I wonder if and at what point competition authorities will start requiring Facebook to make these options available with accounts on other social networks. Otherwise, we end up in the same place as Internet Explorer killing Netscape on Windows - a company releasing technically inferior products that squash competition by using their strengths in other irrelevant areas.

I can use Whatsapp and Instagram without a Facebook account, and there's no reason I couldn't use this new video streaming thing in the same way.
NetSupport School Professional v12 with Keygen Download
PSA: If you intend to use it for Linux - don't buy it yet. I have the old generation. There is problem with recognition of the SPI keyboard and trackpad. There are lots of kernel org bugs open for the 8,1 and no solutions as of yesterday.
I have to agree with this. I have, in the past, infringed on copyright (I no longer do this, as I reformed and whilst I am diametrically opposed to placing undue restrictions on creative work, I also think it's not something I want to break the law over). However, on many occasions I actually purchased the work that I infringed upon, and in many of those instances I don't think I would have paid any money at all to the author of the work because I didn't realise how valuable it was to me until I had (what's the word?) consumed it.

In fact, this is sort of like pirating music, movies and TV shows - in particular music. With these items, it was increasingly the case that you didn't know you enjoyed the work or liked the artist until you had actually experienced listening to or watching their work. Most people have a very finite supply of money, and so if they decided not to infringe copyright then they would just decide not to buy the works.

This is why the record companies were so incredibly stupid in not getting behind streaming services, instead attacking people with little resources for infringing copyright, such as suing mother of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset to the tune of $1.9 million.

Apple and Netflix have essentially eaten their lunch because they have basically freed up content for a reasonable subscription fee. Apple iTunes was great even before Apple Music launched because you were finally able to purchase individual tracks instead of having to buy the entire work - and at a price that pretty much anyone could afford.

Which is why I get so annoyed with rights holders dividing the globe into geographical regions. They do deals with big companies to maximise their profits, but this is perversely leading to increased copyright infringement and the bypassing of their geoblocking efforts.

In essence, these distribution companies add almost nothing to the work produced by the original creators and artists, yet take a cut anyway and inflate the price paid by the consumer of the work. Sometimes it's even more perverse - as an example, I tried to purchase the Dragon Book on compilers from Amazon in eBook format to read on my iPad 2. This was not in any way possible to purchase, so I ended up purchasing the physical book from the U.S., had it shipped to Australia and found an unencumbered PDF with the content so I could read it on my iPad.

In the printed world, this is currently the problem Elsevier and other companies are facing. They have restricted access to important research by in effect gouging the market, and so students from overseas countries (in particular in some Eastern-European nations) who could either never gain access to the material or couldn't afford it eventually just shared it and never paid for it. Then they got organised, and suddenly publishers discovered that they had a massive problem on their hands with no way of effectively countering it because those pirating the material are outside of the jurisdiction of the U.S.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._Thoma...
Airbnb negotiations with powerful US labor union facing backlash
To be honest, the costs in many cases aren't actually that high, and nearly all the worst of the NIMBY places have prices that are going up and up: selling out and moving is going to be a financial win.
GitLab adds free hosting to Continuous Integration for development teams
Rose gold, finally.
This will do wonders to my code
Intel did a really aggressive campain with the "intel inside", just to make sure people will _look_ for what is actually inside their computing device.

So far, it seems it's working.
Bilgisayardan Wifi Şifresi Öğrenme (Windows 10)
Google OAuth API is down
Thanks to comments:

Down around 13:17 UTC - Back online at 14:20 UTC

Service have been available intermittently and throwing 500 errors.

Status page: https://status.cloud.google.com/

Other press links:
http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/google-oauth-down/
I've never used Facebook or LinkedIn and I'm someone who doesn't feel the urge to sign up. Should I be concerned?
Why Data Backups Are Even More Important in the Big Data Era
Indeed, the subway is a soulless place -- often romanticized by media and visitors to NYC. It still gets the job done though.
I found them wonderful.
ShowcaseView for Android
FraudGuard.io
Notes for “Learning to Execute” paper
Rolling Updates of Kubernetes on Top of Fleet
The beauty of decentralised systems like these is that they make central governtment less relevant. This is generally a good thing, but particularly so in place with less stable political systems.
Facebook has a large disincentive to connecting people in the real world. If you're at a watching movies, camping in the woods, or just hanging out then you're not online.

Worse, the more you connect in the real world the less interesting passive browsing becomes. Sure, you can still use FB to IM, but that's far less profitable for them.

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So, let's make an obvious analogy to the %1 and the 99% in our current capitalist world... it's working out fairly, yeah?
Now, if they only could bump the MBP to skylake as well...
I'd reckon that part of this is related to how "easy" it is to get a drug approved for certain-death cancers. The barrier for a drug's approval is lower if the alternative is a certainty of painful death. This is sort of changing as we now seem to have plenty of those kinds of therapies, and the new goal is much more precise targeting of cancers (immunooncology is one example).
That's because it's more expensive for a Windows OEM to pre-install and ship Linux than it is to install Windows.

You have extra hardware qualification and software testing costs, extra accounting, distribution and advertising costs, and massively higher support costs.

Not only does it cost more to pre-install Linux, you lose all the payments for distributing third-part software (ie installing crapware) in Windows, which in some cases means you can install Windows at a profit. (If a user signs up for the pre-installed anti-virus, the PC manufacturer can make more than the cost of Windows.)
Until you talk to a teenager. "Facebook is for old people..."
There's some conjecture involved but I would be very surprised if Google actually sold AdWords for their own browser.
Gathering Requirements
Surreal and intriguing. There is a palpable sense of fear and unease on people's faces, not a smile to be seen. A gloomy insight into a whole other world. And questions assumptions about human behavior.

Its frightening to think how easy it is to suppress a whole population for years and decades on end. The romantic image of courage, revolution and human freedom comes to naught here. Status quo, acceptance and survival seems to be the more natural human state.

There is the natural reluctance to put one's head above. And for good reason, anyone foolish or brave enough to put their head above in this all knowing state will be put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of. How does change happen here?

Organizing anything in this state of pervasive surveillance is nearly impossible and should be a wake up call for those sleepwalking into one.

The only way we know from history is implosion of the prevailing power center or outside support motivated more by massive self interests than human freedom or kindness, compromising the road ahead.

Surveillance, secret courts and dubious processes are meekly accepted but change can become very difficult once these infrastructures are put in place, operational and at the complete discretion of whoever happens to be in power. A warning for all of us.
Everybody Freeze! The extropians want your body
I don't think it's a big problem, as earth mass is already increasing my quite a few tons per day, from comets burning up in the atmosphere. If the asteroids are refined and processed in space, which makes more sense than trying to land them, it should be a non-problem.
daily reminder that your constitution was written by conquerors and your current state is actively engaged in keeping you nationally impotent.
Shared history, culture, norms?
Being unable to stand looking at your computer for extended periods of time will probably do wonders for combating code bloat.
I'm wondering if, at some point, they'll ditch the headphone jack for a second USB-C port. But that would require having USB-C headphones, which Apple might not be willing to make.
Well, I guess we can wait a little longer for the retina MacBook Air :)
Actually it would just mean only supporting wireless bluetooth headphones from now on...
What abstraction? Comparisons are ubiquitous, easy to read, and a one-liner as well. If the range were to change it could affect performance. I've never seen anything written like the original loop, it's not like it's a Python idiom or anything. I'd say it's the wrong way to do things.
It seems like the ultimate lightweight on-the-go machine.
This is almost surely not content hosted on Google.com, but content hosted on sites which Google redirects to.

If Google serves a single malicious site as a linked result (or in a redirect) it will flag Google.com as hosting malicious content.

This has been the case for years now, also for other Google properties, like Youtube and DoubleClick.
I also don't get it. Why don't more tech people run companies? Are we too busy amusing ourselves by making fun of things we don't understand?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/03/28/iphone-se-preorder...
Are Bluetooth headphones practical, though? Does Apple even make any of their own?
We seem to have come full circle since <blink>
>USB-C headphones, which Apple might not be willing to make.

And I, as part of a seemingly and disappointingly small subset of users, will refuse to ever buy.
The effect of [coffee] bean origin and temperature on grinding roasted coffee
Funny how I expected (and was willing to absorb) down votes on my WTO-nag. Instead it was up voted!
It is starting to look like the MacBook Air may not get processor/PCIe Flash refresh, and if that's the case, I'm going to be very upset - that laptop is perfect in almost every conceivable way for me. I am very much not interested in the MacBook, despite wanting to like it. The weird keyboard, smaller screen, Mobile/slower Processor, 2 hours less battery life, Just a single port; other than being lighter, zero value and they are charging an extra $300 for it. Note - The Retina screen, despite a lot of A/B testing by me, is not anything I really care about.

I get, and respect, the desire to move everything to USB-C, and I'm willing to take the hit with dongles to help move things forward - but couldn't we do that on the MacBook Air?

I know, everyone will say, "MacBook Pro" - but, once again, I don't care about the Retina, and the MacBook air is a monster of a system, awesome processing power - I'm running 31 Apps right now on my MBair, including two Virtual Machines (one of them Windows), full office suite, Aperture - and it's not even spinning up the fans.

The MacBook released today is a less useful system for me in almost every way than the MacBook Air released three years ago.
Start small. You can start pomodoro technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique.

Love your boredom!
8GB RAM? When I was buying my Yoga 2 Pro with 8GB RAM I already hesitated, it is a bare minimum these days. Browsers alone can eat it all with ease. Today I wouldn't buy a new laptop without more RAM or at least upgrade options.
Hey, I kinda like it!
Hi, just saw your reply. I'm glad it helped. Other books I recommend are "The Wisdom of the Enneagram," (very good advice, though based on a different test) "8 Keys to Self Leadership" (fun exercises for INTJs, mainly Ni, Te, Ti, Se, and Fi, but also Fe and Si if you really want to round out your personality--btw Nardi himself is an INTJ) and "The New Diary" by Rainer (a good way to coax out helpful extraverted thinking in an INTJ).

Online references I like include the Socionics wiki and the Personality Junkie website.

http://personalityjunkie.com/the-intj/

Hope that's helpful.
The inside story of how Evernote went from Valley darling to deep trouble (2015)
What makes you think a “tech person” would be less likely to offer products in a range of colours? ”Tech people” also have æsthetic sensibilities, surely?
When the Berlin wall fell - the economic collapse of Eastern Europe was total for a decade. Leave vacuum at the top - and ordinary North Koreans will be even worse. Look at the paradise that is Iraq.

The only semi-successful country that avoided total pain was East Germany - and it was because of the unification.
From the abstract: "We anticipate these results will influence the production of coffee industrially, as well as contribute to how we store and use coffee daily."

The coffee samples were "placed into either liquid nitrogen, a tub of dry ice, the freezer and on the counter top."

Conclusion: "Grinding colder coffee beans produces a more uniform particle distribution, with a decreased particle size."
StackOverflow Terms of Service update
I find that my friends who don't use Facebook become a little bit detached from my social scene. It's sad but true.

It's a bit like those friends that stubbornly refused to get a mobile phone in the nineties - I just didn't keep in touch with them as much as my friends that had mobiles. Their argument was that they didn't want to be reachable all the time. Fair enough, but the trade off for them is that they're less reachable socially.

Eventually, of course, they got a phone. And eventually I'm sure everyone will be on Facebook too. There's nothing dystopian about sharing news, plans and photos.
The chance that it would come with WWDC would actually be a pretty good sign towards significant evolution rather than just internals update: the 13" MBP was added to the lineout at WWDC 2009 (Apple's first sub-15" "pro" laptop since the 12" G4), the rMBP range was unveiled at WWDC 2012 and the new Mac Pro at WWDC 2013.
> I've seen other attempts at invention through AI or algorithm - as dmritard says, the key to useful invention isn't generation, its filtering the noise.

That's exactly my thought on it after reading a couple.

Consider the case of chemistry: One could write an application that goes through known chemical compounds[1] and then generates a combination of all of them, and for each combination, adds a ".. for use as a food additive", ".. for treatment of <medical condition>" ".. for general purpose cleaner" ".. for use in a battery" etc.

Without doubt, within that crazy-huge list, there would be some absolutely correct claims, just as one of the infinite monkeys did in fact write Shakespeare: but which one?

This site really isn't any different.

[1] For example, harvest everything on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chemistry-related_lis...
There is some type of coating that doesn't allow anything to stick to it. That is a start. I think is called enduroshield. It is not a permanent solution because it wears down but it would help.
The field of view is... Not discussed.
For this search, there is exactly one ad. It's from Google and goes to the official site.
If only they offered Blue Gold...
Macbook 12-inch refresh with Skylake processors
I found this statement interesting.

>The new guts are getting you better performance but also better battery life with what Apple says is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback.

Movie playback used to be considered the de facto test of the most rigorous power use a computer would go through. Spinning DVDs and hard drives have been replaced with SSD, hardware accelerated decoding of video has replaced maxing out your CPU.

On the other hand, web browsing used to be considered a light use of power. Pull some network content into memory, parse some basic html, etc. Now with javascript EVERYWHERE and the rising complexity of web pages, web browsing has become one of the most taxing things you can do as far as power use is concerned. In fact, on my MacBook Pro now that OS X tells you which processes are using the most power, web browsers like Safari and Chrome are the only thing I ever see show up in "Apps using significant energy"