skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. People who have not yet internalized that they are poor, sustaining to themselves and their children the lie that they are their parents' version of middle class.
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1) Weak curation. The signal to noise ratio is very bad.

2) Too many clicks to get to lists, which would alleviate problem 1.

This worked ok in Social Media circa 2006. Not 2016.
With a little planning, you can eat the food that tastes best freshly-cooked, then take the remainder home for left-overs.

If I'm eating solo, I'm always taking food home with me.
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Distros are dropping/have dropped python2 from default install. So incentive is that py3k is available out-of-the-box while you need to install py2 separately. As for discoverability, typing pyt<tab><tab> is probably what most people would do and that discovers python3 just fine.
I can see that.
It's the same in Japan: it is considered normal to hold people 23 days without charge.
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There's plenty of unincorporated area around Austin that motivated parents, unwilling to comply with long-standing catch-all regulations, can map out as a potential market. Then they can pack up the car, drive the kids out, set up shop, and perform their business venture without the pesky administrative oversight and potential fiscal penalties that go along with it. Granted, I don't think cows buy a lot of lemonade, but that's a different issue.
My card gives back 2% on everything so that would work out as a wash. (That said my fee would be closer to like 3-5% for paying via cc so I don't...)
Related: "it is important to note", "it is worth noting", and derivatives. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:It_should_be_noted
It simplifies and adds transparency. In many cases it can actually save a lot of money to tenants. Maybe the actually offer is not supposed to be as high as planned "secretive bid".
If they have their CCs maxed out for clothes and bar tabs, of course that's gonna be the case.
I think you miss the point - if all text is UTF-8, then most operations can be performed on bytes without worrying about any transformations whatsoever. By rubbing your nose in the difference between str and bytes, Python 3 complicates your life. On the flip side it makes the complicated case more tractable.
500% sounds like a deliberate play with numbers, if the default rates were 2% and 10% respectively, I could choose to call that a 500% difference, or more reasonably, an 8% difference.
EDIT: I stand corrected. The U.S. has not stopped building skyscrapers.
Those numbers are averages. They have a minimum of zero (credit cards don't report positive balances), but their maximum can be large.

The right, most informative conclusion about one $10k balance and 9 $0 balances is that "almost everyone in this group carries no balances, but one carries unmanageable debt", not "the average credit card debt is a manageable but significant $1000".

Statistics guarantees they are guaranteed to be high, not low. Medians and top/bottom percentiles would be more informative.
I would like to point out the figurative middle finger the BBC is giving to NK. The offensive material that they pointed to are still published on the BBC website, even though the apology stated that they'd be taken down.
It isn't pretty. Even worse: its concept car was gorgeous, so the Volt actually looking like a production car is even more disappointing.
Reddit almost stumbled upon the golden formula. They have a feature that shows a comment is "controversial" in that it's being up- and down-voted a lot. Those comments should be featured top and center.
nothing to see here, just a friday afternoon deadline article about the dihedral group
Reddit[0] attributes this largely to Chromebooks snatching up most of the K-12 education market from iPads, with Google vaulting ahead while Apple was under-prioritizing that market.

Motivations school districts might have for switching: (1) Cheaper, (2) Keyboards are nice for typing, (3), More resilient over time due to easy software updates, and (4) Easier to debug (similar to prior point; nothing is stored locally, so a 3 minute re-image fixes most software problems)

In addition, folks in that thread think that tablets are generally the worst of both worlds as compared to laptops and phones (phablets?), whereas Chromebook are everything that tablets should be.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/4k234g/chromebooks...
for the same reason someone against marijuana legalization is anti-marijuana

Thats the political stance directly opposed to support.
Cows don't naturally eat a lot of corn or soy, either, but capitalism has solved that problem.
My laptop has a touch screen and I had to disable it. If dust or any moisture gets on the screen, it goes crazy and I have to shut my computer down and clean the screen off.
Word is around. From what I see, the information on the trees has apparently been known for a decent amount of time. Per this:

http://www.escarpment.org/_files/file.php?fileid=fileQZNQsAz...

Research on this began in 1989, quite a long time ago. So there's been a lot of awareness for a while. Most of the web pages on Niagara Escarpment nature activities already mentions this old forest (one example is here: http://brucetrail.org/pages/about-us/the-niagara-escarpment).

However, you are right to worry -- apparently in this case the worry is that this area gets a lot of rock climbers, and there does seem to be a significant concern about rock climbing's impact on the trees (and other fauna). Yes, some actions are being done to protect them too. This article goes into some of the detail.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2249972-loving-it-to-death...
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Note to self: snuxoll likes pushing boulders up hills by ignoring all the tooling people have invented to make this stuff easy.
Somehow I don't think that their hardware is as much an issue as their price point. As a developer you'd still be a fool (or just loaded with elbow grease) to attempt developing with a chrome book.
That completely 100% depends on your bank. I can and have completely disabled overdraft on my debit card. It will reject transactions if my account is empty. (I actually can't imagine a bank not offering to completely disable this, especially if they charge fees for the same. But I'll accept your word on it.)
I think what's more important is will police enforce those regulations? In my experience, APD is pretty tough on food distribution; even giving away meals to homeless folks is regulated pretty tightly, and in ways that are maybe counter-productive to public welfare.
> but there is also the direct experience of choosing. Whatever free will is, it has to do with this experience of bringing a cause into the universe essential ex nihilo, from within yourself.

Is this sort of what is meant with 'qualia'? I could never quite wrap my head around what that concept means, in what context, and what its value is.
mkdir some-test
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Tristan Harris, the OP of this medium post, listed a table of comparisons between what's today's engaging/addictive/time sink product characteristics vs. time well spent products he advocates on his main project site[1]. Of all the 11 points, two of them has the most profound sociological impact or inertia:

* Success Metrics: measure success by net positive contributions rather than interactions

* Business Model: use non-engagement based advertising rather than engagement advertising.

I fully applaud Tristan's vision and mission but skeptical of how quickly companies, VCs and society can adopt it.

[1]: http://timewellspent.io/
The point is that Jasper uses the backend you select.

But yes, to meet privacy goals, you'll need that backend to be local.
> there does seem to be a significant concern about rock climbing's impact on the trees (and other fauna).

Nitpick, but trees are flora, not fauna, so that parenthetical should probably be stated differently, perhas as either "(and other flora)" or "(and fauna)".
Thanks for your reply! What you're describing is very close to what Tocqueville describes in Democracy in America - that the US has achieved a balance between three parts of society: political society (the gov't), economic society (business) and civil society (social bonds that tie people together in their communities or the judiciary).

I can appreciate your self-description as "conservative" vs. "Republican", because they're very different. The Republican party has tried to so simplify their message to "lower taxes", "let the market decide", and "small government" in such a way that they're only really representing economic society. That means that they're also ignoring important checks on economic society that Tocqueville noticed were key to avoiding something like the French Revolution. (Tocqueville also speaks at length at the need for a balance between complete equality and complete inequality to avoid unrest).

Republicans have eviscerated taxes on business and created economic imbalances like lower taxes for capital gains, inability to discharge student loans in bankruptcy, bailouts to banks "too big to fail", restrictions on aspects of civil society like unions, "trickle-down economics", etc. These once added checks and balances to economic society and helped preserve civil society.

Strong civil society is what lead to a Great America of small towns, family businesses, and general prosperity for hard working people....all of which are in danger today. Wal-Mart is the antithesis of a strong American Civil Society. You simply can't have a company propped up by government welfare and anti-union legislation like Wal-Mart and a culture of successful small businesses at the same time. It's an oxymoron.

I think what conservatives are seeing is that the Republican ideal to simply remove all checks and balances on the free market has been poisoning the strong civil society they're trying to rescussitate. When you're feeling like the government is working against you, it's true. Civil society is getting eviscerated and your ideal "equality of opportunity" is getting b-slapped by the invisible hand of the rich and powerful capitalists.

Even Adam Smith made great points for the necessity to check the invisible hand in the Wealth of Nations. He describes the necessity of gov't sponsored public works projects, of checking monopolies, and of public education to avoid the "torpor of the mind" that economic society would lead us to without any checks to it.

Unfortunately few Republicans clamoring for lower taxes and free market economy know anything about the Wealth of Nations. Their one-dimensional policy opinions are creating more of a problem and hopefully more people will start calling themselves "conservatives" because they're trying to conserve equality of opportunity instead of simply parroting "Lower taxes", "Free market", and "Who is John Galt".
To me, Docker doesn't seem like a good choice of technology for a honeypot, as any kernel-level exploits could lead to potentially lead to complete system compromise or worse.
Are people in education really the target market for Apple's most expensive laptop? :)
Being stuck on a train for an hour isn't the end of the world. But taking the same train ride twice a day, 5 days a week?

I value my time highly (not because I'm some rockstar who bills $300/hr, but because I like having autonomy over my own life). Assuming I sleep 8 hrs/day, work 8 hrs/day, and spend 2 additional hrs/day doing chores like showering, cooking, random errands, working out, etc, that only leaves 6 hours of free time.

With a two hour roundtrip daily commute, that cuts my free time by 1/3 and only leaves me with 4 hours to myself. Thus I place a high premium on those 4 hours.

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I think it's absurd that 1 hr+ commuting times are pretty normal (I live in NYC, and even 2-3 hour commutes are pretty common), and I think we should be striving to reduce this wasted time by increasing density in cities, making transportation more efficient, and increasing workplace flexibility (eg. embracing remote work).
I haven't seen any suggestion that Chromebooks are somehow directly subsidized by Google - are Samsung, Toshiba, etc. getting some kind of kickbacks for making and selling the hardware? ChromeOS itself is free to license for vendors [1]
But most have fairly low-end CPUs, not much RAM, and small SSDs, so I don't think they compete with Apple for features, per se.

1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Sales_and_marketing
Do you know if they run on 6502s and other Western chips of the time? Were they cloned, or imported? Or were there Soviet ISA's?

I remember reading years ago about how Russian computer scientists in the cold war were more honed in algorithm design, because they basically had to squeeze as much as they could out of their processors to compete with faster Western hardware.
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Another popular alternative is Arq, which will back up to pretty much anything.

[0]: https://www.arqbackup.com/
Youtube really needs to find a proper solution to this problem. But at least they acknowledge it and and are taking steps to improve.

http://youtubecreator.blogspot.co.at/2016/04/improving-conte...
The problem there is that Google will likely release an updated Chromebook Pixel soon, also.

With coreboot enabling installation of Linux on the Pixel for developers (And stock ChromeOS for regular users, of course), there is no reason to prefer MBP over the Pixel.
reddit comments are a source now?
Thank you so much for writing this post. I know it must have taken quite a bit of time to put together. I don't think all the reasons about the choices we've made were necessarily accurate, but the post is so valuable on it's own it's not worth nitpicking.

I'm sorry that things have been getting harder for you. I'll share this information when we have our summer meet-up face to face to discuss the next years work.

I can't know for sure without studying (maybe you'd be interesting in doing a study with us?) but I'd think if we can get the additional scaling factors into libmutter (the compositor layer for GNOME) that you'd have more precise control over the sizing that would work for you.
My answer was directed to the comment you made about performance for Python and yet the lib you provide has binding for Nodejs which is not a very fast runtime.
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It does accomplish a few things.

1. Makes it easier for them to control access by legitimate customers. Yes, this is pretty always consumer hostile BS, but it's a use case.

2. If someone does come up with an app to download shows or whatever, they have the legal argument of "you broke DRM to do this".
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Google created an entire company that is essentially a 'Troll Army' for Obama during his second term and now Hillary.

Sanders has a 'troll army' built in to his campaign, because he has such a large percentage of tech-savvy youth, they flood most political discussions online, regardless if it's factual.

This is called politics. Every politician does this. I'm not sure why we are singling out Trump.
You're thinking of the mean.
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Whats wrong with Pixel? 16GB RAM, i7 CPU... I was seriously considering it as my primary dev machine.
I moved to using Tweetbot for both iOS and OS X and haven't looked back.
In my opinion this is still the best option for CSS, especially in combination with React.

http://tachyons.io/

Most importantly it contains a ratio-based scale: http://tachyons.io/docs/layout/spacing/
Why? I've developed 100% on a cloud VM for years. All I need locally is a browser. Obviously wouldn't work for some things, but as a full stack developer: no problem.
good theory is the best tool
DRM does nothing to stop piracy.
How is BEM the Hungarian notation of CSS?
Currently, if you didn't know about a circumstance, people forgive you and generally understand. But, if you took the time to find out this information personally, this would have meaning, showing that you cared enough to spend the time to check. When you send flowers, the act can often have much more meaning. However, if everyone has apps that remind them of such things, you would no longer appear thoughtful, there is no longer as much meaning. We are already seeing this to a certain extent with social media.

This is the point. Is it worth the small gain in time, for the loss of some aspects of meaningful human connection/interaction?
> Most python2 code doesn't.

Citation needed. I can't say I ever had practical issues with not being able to handle unicode on Python if I needed. No matter which library. Please give practical examples of where you cannot deal with unicode on Python 2.
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1) Yes. The format and encryption specifics are even documented: https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt

2) Yes. Although if you're after cheap space, Hetzner's storage boxes are the cheapest $/GB I've seen (https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-prod...), with Backblaze B2 close behind.
Kanban board with GoJS
Drawing with cairo-gl/glitz/etc was never really faster than drawing on the CPU. I think it's more likely that we'd use the image surface (backed by pixman) and texture uploads.

If we are hitting a path where we expose the immediate mode style drawing (a'la cairo) then we've probably already lost the performance race.
As a developer you'd still be a fool (or just loaded with elbow grease) to attempt developing with a chrome book

The Chromebook Pixel running Fedora is a lovely development platform.
Okay, I think you're projecting in a lot of your assessment of Trump, but that's just my dumb opinion.

I hear Trump's words and his "Big City boss" approach to governing doesn't appeal to me, and I don't believe is going to be productive. I take it you think he will tack to the populist center, but I have no clue what he'd do on a whole range of issues based just on what he has said. It's like "Hope America Change Again" should be his slogan.

He's boorish when it comes to women and sexuality. His foreign policy statements continue to be a hot mess; he's either feigning ignorance or is actually ignorant on world issues when he shoots from the hip. Demonizing Mexico/Mexicans and China for show, stoking up hate for votes. The "Rafael Cruz may have been part of the JFK assassination" antics was a completely crazy stunt and unnecessary given where the campaigns stood in Indiana. Alluding to his adequate dick size in a presidential debate. And on and on, Trump isn't funny or refreshing to me ...

Domestic policy-wise, yes, there might be some bright spots (like his tax plan). Anywhere he is cagey or ambiguous on his policy statements or has done an about-face, he is a complete enigma (was for late-term abortion and now is for punishing mothers for getting abortions should abortion become illegal.)

BTW, I don't blame you for projecting, a lot of people love the guy and want to see him succeed!
Well I'm actually a millennial and your example was far more dark than mine. I got lucky in that I'm a developer, so finding a job wasn't so bad. But people who graduate college with a "useless" degree aren't so useless. Everyone has to start from somewhere and I think people lack the humility and confidence to deal with tough situations like a shitty commute, shitty pay, or having to live at home for a while. Honestly, none of these solutions are as bad as running away from it and leaving your parents to deal with your problems.
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No, // is flooring division on floats too. It returns a float, but that float is rounded down to a whole number.
I gather that you're implying the primary purpose of Chromebooks is tracking users to deliver ads?

Are users tracked any more on a Chromebook than a) a MacBook Air running Chrome b) a MacBook Air running Safari?
Nope. However, I used to be addicted to /leaders when it was in the header (and made efforts to post and comment here every day) but points mean absolutely zero to me unless they place me in a ranking compared to someone else's so I don't care much now.
That's hard to believe (I believe it, but it struck me as incredible at first). I don't know anyone with a Chromebook, and it's such a different way of computing that it's hard to believe it's taken off so much in such a short time.

I think it is reflective of a new generation whose first computing experience was with phones and tablets. The idea that nothing of importance lives on the device is a huge paradigm shift, and I don't know that old folks are comfortable making the shift yet (I'm not entirely there, and, despite being middle aged, I like to think I'm way out front on the technology curve). The mention of Chromebooks in schools lends some credence to this notion.

Anyway, I think it's great. A Chromebook is so much more empowering than an iPad or tablet (which is what I think this is actually mostly replacing for folks, rather than high end laptops). A keyboard opens up the door to really building and creating, USB ports allow expansion, and Chrome OS is hackable in ways tablets are not.
Soon we'll hear about how Austin is offering tax incentives to soda companies to make up for the lack of lemonade stands.

As someone who lives in Austin, many people here are absolutely delusional about Austin's attractiveness and future. Austin's once-interesting college/hippie culture is rapidly dying and being replaced by a suburban megalopolis culture (San Austonio, here we come). Historically low cost of living is going up (in no small part due to Californification of Austin politics (and I used to live in CA, so I know what this looks like)). Austin's already crumbling infrastructure cannot handle more people. Commutes are already atrocious and are getting worse.

Everything that made Austin attractive to tech workers is going away. Unless the Austin government gets out of the way, Austin's budding tech industry will die.
I think you answered your own question:

> ChromeOS itself is free to license for vendors

If it's free, it's for a reason.
It's unclear from this and the slides what the UX for the engineers is? The repo contains a bless-client that'll fetch a newly minted cert, but the slides talk about integration with SSO - is there another piece that invokes bless and drops the cert on disk?

https://github.com/Netflix/bless/blob/master/bless_client/bl...
> there is nothing someone could know about you, the sun, and the rest of the universe that would let them predict with certainty whether you'll go for a walk or not.

Nothing someone could know about me? If someone knew everything there is to know about me, I sure hope they would be able to predict everything I will do. Free will doesn't mean freedom from my own nature.

The only way to be perfectly unpredictable is to act at random and without reason. If you act for a reason, then in principle, that reason could be known by someone else, and they could predict your actions. I think that's acceptable: I don't feel that in order for my choices to be free, my nature and my reasons must be unknowable to anyone but myself.

> But if that were possible and everything always went the same, then perhaps we could rule out free will

According to your definition, yes. Not according to mine. So I guess we made the OP's point ;)
Yes, of course. The poster is sharing information that shaped their opinion. The location is irrelevant.

In such an informal setting, the quality and worth of the source are up to the consumer; particularly when it is such a simple investigation. Do you trust or distrust the source? That belief guides your consumption of the poster's opinion.
Mostly paid off != paid off. After a few years you get raises, you get better jobs, you save money by living at home. Etc. My story may be anecdotal but my point still stands. People in the article are irresponsible.
Read '8k' and thought we were talking about resolution, not kilobytes. Cool, but not as absurd as I was hoping for.