skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not talking about another company – I’m talking about me, myself.

One of my goals is to not share any data with a company I can’t trust – so I write my own tools for all these purposes, my own apps, and self-host these things.

I already have a several GB large archive of my mail as I self-host it, why shouldn’t I be able to write software to parse it and remind me?

Why do I always have to use services of a company when I buy a device, instead of being able to hack together my own?

When you bought IBM PCs, they didn’t force you to use Windows with Notepad either – instead, people could write Linux, GNU, and Emacs for their own usage.

This is what I expect from an open system, like Android.
Rackspace missed my phone interview 3 times in a row...
It'd be nice if unstyled text wouldn't be as distracting, or rather, that the transition from fallback font to desired font wouldn't look bad.

What if the CSS could specify basic font metrics which the fallback would be shaped to fit until the actual font loaded?
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Then the new kings will be the people who build these farming robots. (Unless we get easily reproducible open-source designs for these.)
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They didn't encourage them to resign. They encouraged them to decide if they wanted to be there enough to change. It's a very different thing. In this case the employee has choice and control. It's possible for someone to put in the required work to change, it's not easy and it may well not be worth it to the employee but that's up to them.
And of course, when pregnancies occur they don't necessarily become births because of access to abortions.
I generally agree with the principles here and long drop downs are problematic.

But the author misses an important point; on most modern browsers you CAN start typing when you have a Dropdown open and it will jump you to the selection that matches what you're typing (if anything does), and I believe ALL browsers support at least jumping to the first letter.
> So ad-supported sites have to choose between greatly reduced ad revenue or a broken app. Thanks Google.

Geolocation API is pretty powerful. It's one thing for a random website to know approximate location, but to be able to track location within 10m is something else.
Telecart? Taken (on Facebook)
https://m.facebook.com/mytelecart/
Yet, still, I can’t replace the Google bar in the Recents menu: http://img.wonderhowto.com/img/03/61/63551918823389/0/quick-...
Metaculus prediction pool has it at 30% likely to be verified by end of summer : http://www.metaculus.com/questions/41/
It seems customer hostile to me. What benefit does the customer get? Now they can use only the arguable worse search of Bing?
The chart shows productivity increase. Productivity itself is never shrinking.
About 2 years ago the tenor of the publications shifted from libertarian to more and more reactionary (bordering on proto-fascist). When I skip the articles nowdays, I think that the authors have no problem with authoritarianism, as long as taxes are reduced and social welfare is gutted

Clearly you don't realize that fascists would increase taxes AND social welfare.
In short, the message is at the end of the article.

The person gives 6 weeks notice of leaving the company. Before then he works overnight on a bug, oversleeps and takes a duvet day to recover. Company fires him.
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everything was connected and uniform

I've never been entirely clear whether this referred to 'everything within the Plan9 organisation' or 'everything visible from a Plan9 machine including external independent systems'. The former is much easier to achieve. So much of the nonuniformity is because of competing administrative domains.
I'm confused by this. The researchers don't get paid for their paper, and it seems like the peer reviewers don't get paid for doing the peer review:

http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie...

So why exactly are publications locking these papers behind massively expensive paywalls when writing them and reviewing them are being done for free?
Another option is that "producing" is related to "consumption" and people's free time and resources have become saturated. If this is the case, perhaps we should reduce the number of hours worked to increase the demand side of the economy ;-)
No, not in the US. However, given a month or so with knowledge that you're leaving, I would imagine that as this person is training their replacement they are also spending their time searching for a new role that fits better. Once it's out in the open there's no "hiding" interviewing at another place.
>A debate rages about when and how to include autistic children in mainstream classes.

Oh does this ever bring up a whole bag full of unpleasant childhood memories. I get that it's difficult for those with disabilities to function in 'normal' settings - I've got a physical handicap that is obvious from time to time (but hidden otherwise). In turn I never sought out activities for which I was an incorrect fit - you know, hockey, wrestling, soccer - they weren't going to change the sport to make it easier for me to play, nor should I expect them to. We are not all equal.

If there's a way to solve the mentioned debate, I think it will still take another 40 years for us to figure it out. We can't even take care of Gifted and Talented students with any systemic, national and local support, to fulfill their potential. If we're talking "beautiful minds" going to waste then, honestly, I think we should start with this end of the spectrum.

This article is, by and large, a plea for help and paints an extensively rosy and joyous picture of employing a person with the mentioned handicap. After half of my lifetime + change working in hourly or professional jobs, I did not particularly share the same optimism. Good help is hard to find, and that's before even considering "making little accommodations" for potentially disruptive conditions. I'm just not quite so optimistic, but would love to see society figure a lot of this stratified talent capitalization out sooner rather than later.
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Correction: "thinks they talk the English"
> Teaching blind compliance with any (unauthenticated) request based on "security"

This feels especially strange on the phone, when someone (who later turns out to be legitimate) opens up the conversation by insisting that I prove who I am, _when they're the one that called me!_
You're mischaracterizing the payment. It isn't for existing, it's for maintaining standby launch capabilities. Being able to launch a military satellite on demand is valuable for national security purposes. So taxpayers are getting something for that money.
(Whether we should be spending so much on the military in the first place is a separate issue.)
I'm rooting for Bing simply because Google search has no real competitors in the west. I'm sure Bing's accuracy and bot coverage/speed will improve with time, while Google might be kind of at the peak. Hopefully in the future search is more of a commodity so businesses aren't at the mercy of a single company's algorithms.
200 years ago? First version of Telegram Messenger was released only two years ago...
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At one time, I thought Medium carried articles of importance and repute. I no longer think that about most of them.

Medium is just a place where anyone can throw anything up there and have a potential of get linked to.
The Rackers that I have contact with are generally terrible. Once in a while I get someone who really knows their stuff, but most of the time it takes me 3-4 'tries' to get an answer to my questions.

>> Culture, not just code

Rackspace appears to employ a lot of non-technical people that have been placed in technical roles. They don't understand the why's. Maybe their goals are to be able to train anyone and they don't want people being creative etc. I know a handful of people that work there that I would have never suspected they would work at Rackspace doing web or server support.

>> Flexible for multiple roles

This bugs me. Mediocre employees shuffling around from position to position. I would suspect the amount of people that can perform 'very good' at a number of jobs inside Rackspace is pretty low. Or any other company, for that matter.

>> Trained

Most of the Rackers at the first and second support tiers are not much more than script-readers it seems.
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Stars use different fuel than reactors. To fuse simple hydrogen, four nuclei have to collide at once. This is so unlikely that it requires a very large mass of fuel to sustain a reaction: at least the size of the Earth, according to one article I saw.

It's entirely possible to burn deuterium in small reactors but there's only about 1/2500 as much deuterium as hydrogen.

(Perhaps some unthinkably advanced civilization could figure out how to get energy from hydrogen fusion in a small reactor, but you did specify "our current understanding of physics.")
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Who invented the cash machine? I did – and all I earned was £10
+1 for having a cleaner. I pay her above the recognised living wage for the city though, so I don't feel bad about myself
"Anyone that has gone through research and academia knows that you often need to browse many papers to even find the ones worth reading."

Exactly. And without the monthly subscription plan (something I wasn't even aware of until this comment thread), the going rate seems to be around $30 per paper--rent-seeking to the point of highway robbery. One thing that these publishing companies could have done long ago was allow some sort of "free preview" of the full text or "full refund within 10 min" option to help deal with this problem. I have no idea how this would be done technically to prevent "pirating" but, as it is, the pay-per-paper system is completely disconnected from the way researchers browse papers.
There is zero reason for an ad to be using the Geolocation API. IP-based geolocation is more than enough.
getUserMedia was killed off for insecure origins quite a while ago in Chrome.
Good article (although I thought it was going to have something to do with the grsecurity thing), but it doesn't mention the other side of the problem:

"To them, we’re Chicken Little crossed with the IRS crossed with their least favorite elementary-school teacher: always yelling about the sky falling, demanding unquestioning obedience to a laundry list of arcane, seemingly arbitrary rules (password complexity requirements, anyone?) that seem of little consequence, and condescendingly remonstrating anyone who steps out of line."

That is often true.

It might help if security knew what the hell we did. The last three "Java is broken forever!!!" issues, when the problem was with applets, nearly killed me. Or possibly if they knew their job. The last employer's security policy was defined by the latest vendor tool they bought, never mind that it couldn't possibly find any issues in the applications we were writing.

Of course there was the code review I did where I pointed out that it had a giant, monstrous hole in it. The other dev nodded and said, "yeah, that's a good point". But the app had to be in production now, so nothing happened. To escalate, I would have had to go to security, which would be like complaining about a hangnail to an axe murderer. So, nope.
> The U.S. Justice Department, which has pushed for the rule change since 2013, has described it as a minor modification needed to modernize the criminal code for the digital age, and has said it would not permit searches or seizures that are not already legal.

So... "Don't worry about this seemingly bad change, because it will have no effect!"?

I have a counter-proposal then: Let's not make the change, as that will also have no effect, and everyone will be happy.
In a world of centralized media, the incentives led outlets to promote viewpoints supported by the elite and omit viewpoints that would offend them. Their access to viewers, leads and advertising dollars required the party line product we all recognize.

In a world of decentralized media, you can't get readers to keep coming back if you're just another mainstream news source. Instead, you have to choose a niche viewpoint and convince readers that your outlet is the only place they can get information about it. This results in a competition between niche news outlets to present as extreme a viewpoint as their readers will tolerate, or create new viewpoints that can attract an audience.

The world is being radicalized by capital. Dividing us is profitable.
I like the insight into the Credit Default Swap market, interest rates and debt balances

that's been very useful to me
it is uncontested this is the 1st published
program for the Analytical Engine.

Babbage constructed the AE to execute programs, so he would certainly have written some. Bernoulli numbers are old hand have been calculated since antiquity. I imagine that B. propose this program to L.

the strict gender expectations of the time,

The gender expectations today are that men ought to genuflect to women, whence your posts here.

She envisioned the engine computing music,
poetry and pictures, which implies creativity
& thought , proto-A.I in idea.

It's worth pointing out that the idea to have automata make music, and more generally for automata to be creative, predates Lovelace, Music making automata were a staple of the renaissance. For example the mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, when visiting the "Kunstkammer" of Rudolf II in 1598, was amazed at an automaton representing a drummer who could "beat his drum with greater self-assurance than a live one" [1]. Incidentally, Kepler corresponded with Wilhelm Schickard on the latter's "arithmeticum organum", the first ever proper mechanical calulator (could do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Automating creativity was very much an idea with much currency in the renaissance. Indeed some of the key advances in mechanical automata, which later evolved into computers, where driven by the desire to automate creativity [2]. The "conceptual leap" that some people lazily ascribe to Lovelace, wasn't hers!

Using numbers to represent syntax (what you lazily attribute to Lovelace too) is much older and can be found for example in Leibniz's 1666 "Dissertatio de arte combinatoria", where one finds a detailed exposition of a method to associate numbers with linguistic notions. I have no idea if Leibniz was the first to do this. Leibniz also built some early calculators/computers, and is thus a cornerstone of the tradition that lead to the emergence of computers. This tradition was known in Babbage's time, and most likely to Babbage.

In the light of all this, I remain convinced that Lovelace helped Babbage to write up and popularise his ideas.

[1] W. Zhao, Rendering the Illusion of Life: Art, Science and Politics in Automata from the Central European Princely Collections.

[2] D. Summers Stay, Machinamenta: The thousand year quest to build a creative machine.
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Vastly more costly than pumped water, high upkeep costs.

Does have relatively high efficiency though.

PS: "Cost comparisons with pumped hydro are difficult, he said, because there are so few projects and not many data points." Is pure BS, here is someones coursework on the subject: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph240/galvan-lopez2/
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So I just have to paste my private keybase key into an unknown web app for this to work? Sounds like a great idea.
What is new about this, is that it is none of the three things that your quote listed as possibilities. The new thing is a remote storage that has a smartly synchronized local "cache".
> "If 'palette' was used id read it as misspelling."

Thank goodness we finally have an authority on the subject to tell us what to believe.
Being a competent manager. Sort of like Tim Cook. He managed Chrome well, and then Chrome and Android, and now Google as a whole.

Visionaries are quite rare and unfortunately sometimes their visions aren't actually that great. See: VicG and Google+. Vic was a visionary who had unconditional support from the top, but in the end it wasn't enough to have a big impact.
Which raises the question of why we the taxpayers should be funding this research if it's not easily available for the public good.
Wouldn't Let's Encrypt offset any significant benefit of this change? Is it somehow difficult or counterproductive for these sites to add a certificate?
Very minor point: the withdrawal method (can't believe I'm actually talking about this on HN...) is actually pretty okay, and about as effective (comparing both perfect use, and imperfect use) as condoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_me...
With a caveat: If you're a teenage boy with poor self control and an even poorer sense of how your own body works, it's probably not for you. If you're a woman who doesn't completely trust her partner and his ability to do this correctly, it's probably not for you. And, obviously, it doesn't prevent STDs in the same way that a condom would (although it likely decreases HIV transmission).

That's the big reason that, if it is mentioned at all in an educational context, it's to tell people not to do it, and play up the dangers. Scare the kids (who are at higher risk of the method failing) into no using it. Obviously, there are much better methods of birth control, but the withdrawal method gets a lot more flak than it deserves, IMO
What do you mean by features?

Do you mean Google apps like gmail, play store and youtube because I think it should totally be up to the Google to distribute those apps on platforms.

Because, otherwise you can get Google-free Android. Just look at Amazon FireOS or CyanogenMod.

Or, in fact just go ahead a grab a copy of the source and make it how you want it to be.
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Awesome concept, this would be helpful!!
I've always thought Rules of War was either an illusion or an oxymoron. A war with rules would be a sporting event, wouldn't it?

Every war has it's atrocities. War itself is an atrocity.
I thought it was ill-advised when Tony Aly decided to embed ads into the Delicious users' activity feeds. http://david.dlma.com/blog/monetizing-rss-and-atom-feeds But this amount of downtime with no transparency takes the site to a new low.
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"The world is being radicalized by capital. Dividing us is profitable."

Maybe, but let's never forget centralized media is much, much worse. Many seem to forget this unfortunately. Choice is always a good thing.
Who gets paid more: a tenure track professor doing research or an Associate Dean for Research?

This is the same phenomenon.
LOL yes it is, was supposed to go to another article.
Their latest update was a survey saying that the reversibility trials were proving less successful in their baboon studies after great success in previous studies. They sent out a survey asking for comments on the importance of reversibility about a month ago.

From the email:

> A key goal for the first Vasalgel studies, in addition to demonstrating the contraceptive's safety and effectiveness, was to establish its reversibility. Vasalgel was reversible after a year in rabbits, but as we've reported, reversibility has so far been elusive in large-animal studies.

> We suspect we simply haven't found a suitable large-animal model; for example the baboon vas deferens is smaller and more fragile than that of the human. We're cautiously optimistic that everything will be much easier in human trials, because the human vas is larger and sturdier. And we're hard at work trying some other things too. But in the meantime, the first clinical trial will be designed to include just men who aren't counting on reversibility, while we sort out those issues.

> Thousands of people would like to be in the first trial, but there are only a few spots. And the researcher will have to pick local men who are the best candidates and want vasectomy anyway. So we're trying to keep everybody's focus on the ultimate prize: getting Vasalgel to market, with availability to ALL. If trials go well, then the sky's the limit: we'll seek approvals to bring Vasalgel to market, starting in the U.S., E.U., and Canada... and expanding from there.
hate speech as absurd and Orwellian

Agree. Now, if your speech actually motivates someone else to do somehing criminal, you should share some responsiblity for that.
You need incredible amounts of mass to store the amount of power a turbine outputs using the small change in height available with a turbine.

This system doesn't need to fit that mass into a small structure and has a much longer working height.
There's an old paper by Salter on the possibility of doing this through hydraulic pressure, having the turbine drive a pump, the weight being a piston within the turbine tower, and the output of the system being a hydraulic generator. This was back before modern developments in inverters meant that turbines had to have either a gearbox or a hydraulic torque conversion system like a car's automatic gearbox.

http://www.artemisip.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1984-Sal... (SH Salter, M Rea, proceedings of European Wind Energy conference 1984)
Yeah, this Haxe blog has that. It is nice.
> OR invest in their own company more, quality is down over the past 5 years

Sure, and that would be a great use of their money, but that's not the kind of "reinvestment" Icahn is clamoring for.
I think you raise some good points, but I don't really know what it's like working with autistic individuals. People working hourly jobs present a wide variety of staffing problems. They don't show up for their shifts on a whim because they had something better to do, or they had an emergency or are sick and don't call in or find someone to cover. People lose their tempers at difficult customers, they stand around talking or playing on their phones instead of working the line, they step out on unauthorized breaks, etc. etc.

I'm sure autistic individuals will have some of these problems, and some unique ones, but I suspect they are free of some others. If someone is living in a controlled environment they are less likely to have scheduling difficulties or a busy social life that interferes with work, for example. Some will be completely unfazed by any sort of conflict or confrontation and will go on doing their best regardless. On the whole, I bet a lot of them are actually exemplary employees that simply require a different but no more onerous set of accommodations than a "normal" employee.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/business/amazons-shrinking...

I think a couple years ago they got tired of their stock tanking every time they reported a lower profit than previous quarters.
Looks similar to Mailvelope.
>In South Africa free speech is also progressively being stifled through new laws, whos purpose is said to punish racism and hate speech, but is actually being used to support the governing party in silencing dissidents and critics.

Stifling free speech, in any case, is always just like putting a band-aid on an infected boil which only serves to make the problem fester even more.

>Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

-Dr. King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
In the type of transition outlined by the author, the idea is that those issues become moot. You'll stay on the job (getting paid) until you've got a new one and your replacement is trained. Then you'll start your new job (also getting paid). No time going without income, or at least not a significant amount of time, means you don't need unemployment benefits or severance.
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