skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2204 / 90,000,000 (total e-waste) = 0.002%

Also, the gold was not just from iPhones. Macs and iPads are included in that number. What a weird non-story. It would be interesting to know the cost of the recycling program to know if the materials recovered paid for the program.
Does anyone think that may backfire? Wow, talk about dumber than a box of burnt hair.

We're Saudi Arabia, we rule you American's. Piss us off, and we'll, crush you like "a fly."

Oh boy. Can't wait to see Trumps twit on this one. :-)

Iran is not perfect, LOTs of major issues there, but think they would be the one for sure we should be betting on.
GP post is right, but left out a detail. I have used this trick multiple times and it usually impressed people:

Scenario is wine with cork fully inside bottle. Take a long slender knife, stab through the center of the cork as far as possible. Twist and and pull, with very little pull and lots of twist. Cork comes out. The key here is that the pressure of twisting prevents most of the slippage that would happen if you just pulled the knife out.

Enjoy impressing friends/family.
Sweet quote. Your site?
Great idea, and a good start on implementation.
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>I completely disagree

Don't worry, as with anything there's a certain subset of people who actually know the underlying principles behind a subject, and for some reason feel threatened when those principles are abstracted away, as if their knowledge is now wasted. But that's the natural progression of things. Sorry.

It's funny it happens in a community of programmers though, where half of the tools that are used everyday are blackboxes that few really understand. Like the computer itself.
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Logically it can be expressed as operating on the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} - I think that's the point: one can perceive it differently, either as a set operation or as a loop/iteration.
What we can expect next is Microsoft asking people to show up at their licensed resellers to protest!*

*while looking to buy some more of their stuff.
> However, divorce rates have dropped in recent years and are lower than 20 years ago

So have marriage rates - perhaps those who DO get married these days, really mean it.
I wonder if the passenger and freight rail lines the interstates helped kill were safer still and building the highways might have increased fatalities by switching from rail to driving despite being safer than the older US highways.
My impression has been that the A10 was developed as a jet propelled successor to the A1 Skyraider. It saw a similar long service life fullfilling similar close air support missions.

As with the A10 currently, the A1's use in combat was often different from the "last war" role for which it was designed and built: range, robustness, and ordinance capacity for sinking battleships translated to long loiter. It's long service life was probably also a function of development as a naval weapon system due to institutional culture and the practical advantage of carrier landing ruggedness.
It's a bit nerve-wracking reading people who use their fingers for a living doing stuff that risks permanently injuring those fingers!
It could be that, but it could also be because we're marrying so much less [1] which changes the landscape (who marries for what reasons). I'd say that 1000 marriages 20 years ago aren't all that comparable to a 1000 marriages now.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/11/marriag... I know the article is a bit old, the trend is still visible though.
#ifdefing a leaky abstraction that can be either UTF-8 or UTF-16 would be pretty horrible to work with.

For a more workable approach read this article, especially the section "How to do text on Windows".

http://utf8everywhere.org/
Well, except that Tesla didn't invent anything like the radio (the patent grant was considerably later, only in the US, and specifically to freeze out Marconi... who also didn't invent the thing). Marconi's apparatus was essentially an improvement to Oliver Lodge's demonstration machine for the BAAS memorial tribute to Hertz, largely done by the British Post Office telegraphy engineers, with eventual help from the inventions of Lodge (a tuning apparatus) and J. C. Bose. One could say that radio was accidentally invented by several people several times over the preceding century, notably by David Hughes, who at least tried to have the phenomenon investigated. It was dismissed at the time as mere magnetic induction, something Tesla assumed was the case as well, and so believed his cockamamie scheme for wireless remote power was radio. Being able to convince interested nationalist laymen that a foreigner didn't do it is not the same thing as actually inventing something yourself. (Several of Tesla's other "inventions" were created by other people before he was even born. The neon light, f'rinstance, is just a Geissler tube.)

Look: many, many props to the guy for the induction motor and polyphase AC, right, but he was rather in love with himself. He was an ingenious tinkerer with a subtle mind, but there are some very good reasons to believe that he didn't really understand half of what he was trying to do, especially at high frequencies. There's a reason why radio doesn't look like Wardenclyffe now, and never did. Oh, and no financial motivations? That's a wee myth grown out of his sale of patents to Westinghouse, without which arrangement AC would have failed (because the onerous royalties due Tesla would have made it too expensive compared to Edison's DC). He had no trouble begging for money while looking for further fame and fortune.
Looking at the patch, it doesn't appear to tackle the sleep state coordination issues that mjg59 was talking about. Which doesn't mean that the impact of this patch on power savings isn't still nice to have. I figure it'll take them a while longer to get sleep states working as intended.
Why is this gender apartheid regime our ally exactly? They finance the breeding ideology of terror worldwide and now flood the world with cheap oil aimed at destroying the American high tech green energy industry.
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If any of those assets are in the US, isnt that exactly what the proper use of emminent domain is for? That being said, Im guessing they are speaking about US assets in SA.

At least 13 of the hijackers were from SA. The wahhabi sect of Islam is the most violent and intolerable. We need to put SA in their place, which really angers me when I realized just how cozy the Bushes and other oil oligarchs are to them, and cover for them constantly.

Once again, overthrowing and installing regimes has backfired in the long game.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483934
Public extortion on a nation state level. Welcome to 2016 - we haven't learned a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

There were reasonable explanations offered.
Two factor auth is available for many sites, the only unique part (to the user, I'm not certain of the actual OTP generation process) is the prompting on devices with a area map shown.
Nice. Always looking for discovering new podcast.

Having the duration of the podcast would be handy.
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Overthrow? I think their gender apartheid regime should just be sanctioned the same way as South Africa was in the 80s.
So the only ally of the US in the middle east left is Israel? That would be world war 3, for sure.
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Why do the US need an ally in the middle east? Allies should share values.
I don't know much about Swift, so please excuse my ignorance. Are these modules .so files, written in C++, linked by the system CXX (gcc5), and therefore unusable by Swift which was linked with Clang itself, or what's the technical explanation?
Nice idea, minor feedback: it would be nice if the page didn't scroll up when you select categories/filters (using mobile Chrome).
thanks for the feedback, what aspects of the UX need improvement right now? Mobile?
Because they sell oil in US dollars.
It's a tad bit more complicated than that in real world.
Spoof Papers and the Ethics of Academic Publishing
I don't see any randomness in the implementation. It seems to be taking users in the sequence that the github users API provides.
I'm not arguing factory vs small-farm; the system processes imposed by factory methods can maintain consistency of production even given lower-skilled, lower-waged, less personally invested, employees.

Generally though family farms are more personally invested in the quality of their produce (and treatment and health of their animals) especially if it is being sold direct locally rather than into some anonymous wholesale system.

For example, when selling locally, we'd hand-pick the best produce whereas the bulk production would be loaded into 30 tonne bulk trailers and sent off to some factory for additional processing. In the U.K. there has been a resurgence of farm-outlets and farmers markets to help local producers reach local customers directly.

People tend to remember details of locally produced products due to its local association and so a bad experience is more likely to cause a direct negative impact on sales the producer understands.

A related benefit of local farmer-direct outlets I overlooked is that there is often much less wastage (more variation in the size and shape of the produce, which reflects what nature provides).

Most bulk wholesale product has to meet minimum and maximum sizes so large percentages of produce (10%+) can be discarded and dumped [1] especially in poor growing years, or because it is the wrong shape [2]. Thankfully there's been recent public, media, and political pressure on the wholesale buyers to reduce this but it is still a significant problem.

Another benefit (for producers) is direct local supply is less susceptible to large wholesale buyers arbitrarily forcing the farm-gate price lower in order to maintain the wholesale pipeline profit margin without regard for the needs of the farmer.

If other industries were as efficient and productive as farms have been over the last 50 years we'd be in a very different world. For example, in the 1970s we had 8 full-time workers and over harvest we'd have another 15 or so (mostly women or students). In 2016 we have 1 full-time and 1 'apprentice' (who is paid about 1/3 of the national minimum wage!) all year round.

So now we're less connected to the local economy and community due to the price pressure.

In the 1970s we were banking enough profit in the good years to carry us through the poor years and still maintain investment in equipment and buildings. Now its a constant battle of attrition to maintain the status-quo.

It never ceases to amaze me that people are willing to pay out ridiculous sums for luxuries like 'smart' phones, TVs, vacations, etc., and yet begrudge paying a reasonable price for a life-supporting essential - especially when it is freshly harvested (as opposed to processed) food.

[1] "Food waste reduction could help feed world's starving" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28092034

[2] "Wonky fruit and veg" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8587496.stm
I think Finkel raises many good points, but there is one paragraph that alienated me, which is apparently Finkel's vision:

Afterward, you rate your dates. And so does the app’s artificial intelligence, which can recognize signs of compatibility (or incompatibility) that you might have missed. At the end of the night, the app tells you which prospects are worth a second look. Over time, the AI might even learn (via follow-up experiments) which combination of signals predicts the happiest relationships, or the most enduring.

Excuse me? I need an algorithm now to figure out who I like and whose relationship I want to deepen? I need an algorithm to detect my love?? Sometimes I feel like this mechanistic mindset is exactly what is wrong with dating today. What happened to good old feelings?
Microsoft Office and Google Docs are examples of applications that require internet access and report information about the user to the software provider. That provider in turn can share that information with advertisers. That is a trade-off that not everybody is willing to make.

There are applications like Etherpad, WebODF (supplied with packages like ownCloud) that make it possible to work from the browser but on a server that you can choose. Even desktop applications can be used in this way via LibreOffice Online or open365.io.
All I'm going to say is that the A-10 fanboys win the argument at the unclassified level, but it might be a different story when the discussion moves behind closed doors.
Well, the UX was way better thta actual one.
Ah thank you.
Ignorance and lazyness stops people from using linux. The thing about linux is that it's the best free system we have. It does not matter how good it works or that there is no photoshop. It's important that you don't want to live with your operating-system-parents anymore. No eula clicking. No legal reminders. No forced out of your hands actions. You can change, improve and break the shitty system like you want to. That's much more valuable than anything these ultimately pathetic and full on consumerist corporate systems could ever offer.
You can require them to give you information. Previously promising that you wouldn't give the information doesn't help.

Also, their TOS said they'd give data to the government of legally required, so no contract was broken.
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But you are not going to see the same profile again and probably you don't know them. So it's random for you. :)
SA was never overthrown, I don't see what you mean
Or simply, one tonne. In fact I'd guess that the engineers, thinking in SI units, told the PR people that 'we recovered a tonne', rounding to that figure for them because it sounds neat. Then the PR people converted to pounds for older readers, which comes out as the very precise sounding 2,204. So the figure is probably rounded but then presented as being much more precise than it is.
The page scrolls up because it reloads.
That's good enough. You don't need to understand each filter in Photoshop to achieve your desired result.
yeah but what I am asking is why not more sites use either of two-step verification or two-factor authentication.

as I can not see any reason not to implement a system for it because it would probably only help the company to get more customer.
Dumb YouTube question: is it possible to subscribe to a playlist do I get a push notification when new videos are added to it? I don't particularly want to subscribe to the entire high traffic Google Developers channel.
Could you elaborate, with some examples? I am aware of the risks involved in using US cloud services, as every data on the cloud is exposed to hostile access to some point. Basically, keep your mission critical files of the internet.

I just would like to have some sources / explanations to your statement.
Here's the recent 60 Minutes piece on the White House's potential declassification of the "28 pages" [1] of the 9/11 Commission Report [2].

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/28-pages

[ Warning : Auto play video ]

It also comes at a time when the White House and intelligence officials
are reviewing whether to declassify one of the country's most sensitive
documents -- known as the "28 pages." They have to do with 9/11 and the
possible existence of a Saudi support network for the hijackers while
they were in the U.S.

For 13 years, the 28 pages have been locked away in a secret vault. Only
a small group of people have ever seen them. Tonight, you will hear from
some of the people who have read them and believe, along with the families
of 9/11 victims that they should be declassified.

[1] 28 Pages

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-911-classified-report...

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[2] 9/11 Commission Report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report
>I had to move to 1.5x speed to even be able to follow along and not drift off constantly...

I'm an avid audio-book listener, and I use both 1.5-2.0x and 0.8-0.9x, depending on my mood. The slower speeds definitely allow you to "think" more about the content, rather than concentrating solely on the narrative.
I was bullish on using dating apps as I went on a good date within a week of signing up to one, amazing since I'm on the lower end of the 1-10 attractiveness scale. Realistically, I'd put myself as 2. However, since then, it's been miss after miss. And it suuuuucks. Nothings more demoralizing than going weeks without a hit, or having women 'accept' to communicate with you, only to give uninteresting, insipid responses.
> overthrowing and installing regimes has backfired in
> the long game

Those freakin' Japanese with their moderately priced cars and those damn Germans with their data protection laws and fine industrial engineering, eh?
me and my best friend share my apple id and password for use with the app store. we definitely don't get each other's iMessages. she uses her own apple id and password when logging in to that.
I second this. English is my second language and if I listen to an audiobook or watch an informational video in normal speed, I might as well not do it at all... because my brain starts thinking of something else if it is too slow (i.e. normal speed) and I lose track of it.
This author only considers the active kind of VR. Where the user participates by looking around or controlling some aspect of the environment or story.

Why can't I just sit back and watch events unfold before me? Why does everyone assume I want to look around or interact with the story?
Step 1: design iPhones to be not repairable.

Step 2: determine it costs too much to repair "broken" iPhones (see step 1).

Step 3: Burn the whole lot down for precious metals.

What an enormous win for the environment and recycling! There are plenty of companies that will already do step 3, but pretty much nobody other than Apple has the opportunity to do something about the vastly more important step 2.
I dont disagree, but I was mostly referring to the installing of the house of Saud by the British in the first place. How apt you mention another place the Rhodesian Anglo Saxon dominance group did the same thing!

I recently learned that some of the first concentration camps, far before the world wars, were setup by the Brits in SA and they put the Dutch in them...

I digress though. What I was trying to say is that this pattern of overthrowing a place and installing a dictatorship friendly to our interests has repeatedly backfired eventually, so perhaps we should think of different strategies.
Lobbying is bribery whether it's the lobbyists giving the money or congressional candidates asking for it. The fact that this practice is so apparent in our system is a shame and contradictory to the system itself.
yeah Reddit is become quite a mess. Wish they could reduce it back to what it was in the very early days
I would not have thought that youtube-dl worked on random websites. Thanks, the HTML5 player was buffering like crazy for me.
@TheLogothete I agree. "It's complicated" doesn't really counter any of the arguments substantially though.
Probably very little directly, but getting rid of the cause of all the corruption then an immense impact.
How do you think the house of Saud got its start in the first place?
Also Korea and Italy, Greece didn't work out so well initially but they are sorta fine now :P
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> Im guessing they are speaking about US assets in SA

You didn't read the article carefully enough then:

> > Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750
> > billion in treasury securities and other assets in
> > the United States before they could be in danger of
> > being frozen by American courts

While I've no love lost for the Saudis, this doesn't seem an unreasonable position. If the US passed a law that might make me liable for virtually unlimited damages, you can be sure I'd be looking at moving my assets elsewhere.
Maybe you could use a more declarative language? Or build a domain-specific language yourself?
WW3 with whom?
So Israel and the US don't share values now?
> Step 3: Burn the whole lot down for precious metals.

It seems they have a deft touch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc
Because the JVM is available on big iron for vertical scaling and has robust well developed tooling for horizontal scaling. There isn't really an alternative at the big data end of the power law distribution as what constitutes big data continues to move to the right.
There is technical effort involved, which means time, which means money.

There are a lot of sites that don't even use TLS, which is a lot simpler & cheaper to implement than a secure 2FA solution.
That's about $40 million to save you a Google search.
Irish political corruption is a different kind of corruption. I don't think it is due to the size of the electorate, but more a reflection of history. Whatever the cause it is not due to the need for the representatives to raise truckloads of cash to buy advertising to get elected.
>Your personal theory is also a very convenient tactic used by some online

I'm sure it is. Are you implying that's me? That's rich.

Meanwhile, guys like the feminist gamer podcast dweeb are using it as a platform to creep women. Isolated incident, I'm sure.

I find it hard to reconcile that the tech world has such a problem with gender parity and harassment-- my industry certianly doesn't-- and at the same time appears overwhelmed with male feminists that are oh-so-concerned about the issue? How do you explain that? Judging by the comment sections on places like HN, the tech industry should be the absolute best place on earth for women to feel safe; but it isn't.

The "M'lady" and "Nice guy" memes exist for a reason. There are predatory creeps out there. You might even know a few, but apparently are looking at the wrong people.
You didn't overthrow anything that would be stable. Their cult doesn't allow civility. You overplay what you Americans have your hand in as Germany and Japan did well. Other nations are striving to do better as well thanks to the US. You can't help people who won't help themselves.
Thanks New York Times.

All of a sudden Trump's foreign policy is clear and reasonable compared to the current administration's.
> As one judge wrote, a lobbyist is “induced to use his influence for the money he is to obtain; when, as a patriot and a citizen, he should only act for the good of his country.”

I wish that was still true.
The infantry grunt knuckledragger side of me (large prefrontal cortex) sometimes ignores such obviously real risks because they seem so minimal compared to past experience. (Which is dangerous in itself. This kind of thinking got more of my buddies killed in motorcycle accidents stateside than did in combat) Point is, you are right to be concerned about safety, but I would argue this particular method is pretty safe if done right. I mean, step 1 is stab the cork, thats not hard to do. I guess the knife could slip and come out quickly, but thats what the lateral pressure of the twist is there to prevent.
Has anyone else tuned in to Chris Gethard? His podcast "Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People" is great. It's like an evolution of "This American Life". Unedited, one hour discussions with random people, and Chris is a really good interviewer of random people. My favorite is his interview with " Ron Paul's baby" [1]. If you can get to the part where he starts talking about a carnival baby (15 or 30 mins in), it is hilarious from there forward.

[1] http://www.earwolf.com/episode/ron-pauls-baby/
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Curious, is anyone using ScyllaDB in production? Would love to get rid of Cassandra in our stack.
Its worse in Europe and no one is talking about because "hurr de hurr socialism" while wages are stagnating.
Not to sound overly critical ;), but the word "novel" doesn't appear in the paper and the word "new" only appears in tehnical contexts like "quickly experimenting with new models".
Not because you must, but because you can
Sadly, most are only even paying attention because of the 100kg gorilla in the room…