skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is classic game theory.

You lose as a company if you don't build in these addictive features. So everyone does it because as he made clear, attention is the currency of business currently. All of these companies, and new companies would have to agree not to build these behaviors in.

The idea of an FDA or bill of rights for technology is great in the holistic macro sense, but I think unrealistic as it is not aligned with the interests of companies.

It's the same with any externalities, be it pollution or labor exploitation - things that have clear nexus with bad outcomes but struggle to gain traction around limiting because of overwhelming business interests.
I sort of buy this. Anyone that doesn't should put forward a definition of free will that doesn't contradict itself.
I'd love to hear a reason for supporting Prop 8 that doesn't explicitly degrade homosexual relationships. I can't think of any and I would be uncomfortable working around Prop 8 supporters (esp if I was gay). What is this nuance you speak of? Why must all issues be treated the same? Some issues are more complex than others.
I'm pretty much agreeing with you. These customers are high-risk, and market forces will naturally push them to higher cost products (as low cost products make business case assumptions that block their access to it, by their own past actions).

The point I was trying to make is that, if there is a spectrum of payday lenders, the lowest cost/least bad ones might have the "two strikes and out" rule. There might exist worse lenders (as measured solely by APR and fees, not a moral judgment) that would still be in the market for that business.
Open RTOS Focuses on 32-bit IoT Arduinos with BLE
I was just clarifying that while the buyer in theory has more total buying power (so yes, I agree there), it is all on the debt side. Their buying power from a cash standpoint has, if anything, worsened, because of housing cost inflation and the extra downpayment they need to have saved up.

In this market with cheap debt, there's a large number of HENRY's (High Earner, Not Rich Yet) who can afford the mortgage payments, but are perhaps too young to have had a chance to have saved up the necessary downpayment without help from families and such.
But that doesn't require a blockchain: each party can individually sign it with their own key, and some third party can collect all the records and the signatures.
A post-mortem has been posted regarding this issue: https://coreos.com/blog/security-brief-coreos-linux-alpha-re...
Here is a penny so you can by some more ram. You can keep the change.
There's emissions but they're not always proportional to power generation like you might see with coal.

Do they have any estimates on the carbon footprint?

Nuclear is the same as the cost of extracting fuel is non-zero.
Lightning/thunder is really interesting technology and could pave the way for a new set of bitcoin/blockchain use cases.

* A Tor/i2p alternative where nodes get compensated for passing messages

* Pay per second video streaming

* Incentivized filesharing

Basically anywhere where trustless microtransactions are needed

Lots of potential
CoreOS Linux Alpha Remote SSH Issue Post-Mortem
Well, not really. I checked the source and you can see here:

https://jsfiddle.net/f17yr7qh/

For example, line 9 of the source:

~(32sin(o)/* , (W#####Xx######.P^ T % */sin(.5+y/7))\

You can see that there are more chars than just '#' inside the "globe", like '(W' and 'Xx' and '.P^'

I even changed those inside the globe and the effect is non obvious. Sometimes it stops working sometimes it works fine with other chars. No idea why.
The site does not seem to have terms and conditions, so we don't know if Tally reserves the right to change that at any time, with or without notice.
Credit cards have much greater fraud protection than debit cards. In the few times someone made a fraudulent purchase on my credit card, they instantly messaged me to confirm, then removed the charge and mailed me a new card/number.
Well you can choose to ignore what a non-technical manager says (if you don't care for him/her).

I don't know what your programming experience is, but if you've done some moderately complex projects this might sound obvious but is overlooked by a lot of people.

Source: Personal experience which lead to a lot of sleepless nights
http://gitmx.com/ev/reserva is only 5.4k
Analogies from federal budgets to household ones are specious at best
What new diseases? Antibiotic resistance is most problematic in old friends.

The good news is that we are still equipped with hygiene and an understanding of what causes infection, which goes an awful long way towards limiting the spread of it. In a historical context, both of those things are almost as new as antibiotics themselves.
More than one. There was a British AI company they bought on condition of hiring an AI ethicist.

So there's at least one other than the former Google ethicist who wrote this article.
There appears to be an app that recreates the Morski Boi! game.

http://www.148apps.com/app/541402297/

This reminds me of the Tetris story: Who exactly would own the various rights to this games?
How to avoid bugs:

1. Do not write *any* code (can't argue with that)
2. Write "good" code
3. Insert paradigm here (like TDD, etc)

Be careful with "Ruthlessly focus on the minimum viable amount of code for a given problem". In my experience it will lead to "hacks" upon hacks, until the code-base gets unmanageable.
I've tried that and it just feels incomplete. The VM competes for resources with the host machine. And then it's a bit awkward where the focus of the mouse is. When you run Linux natively you can get fancy with window/tiling managers (I really want to play with i3). Life is just better when things are simpler.
Behind the Launch of Pinterest’s Design Standards
They could have conditioned a minority Lab government, which would have been much closer to their positions than the Con manifesto ever was. Or they could have left government when it became clear that they were being played on all sides. One or two years could have been forgiven, not five. They were never likely to get a majority government on their own; even solidifying support after carrying out massive cuts on social programs would have been impossible for anyone left of Cameron. So what were they holding on for? They were used as cannon fodder for five years, and for what?

They could have done many things differently. Anyway, it doesn't really matter at this point.
How this guy used Watson to fake participation in conference calls
Are you talking about this? $59.99/year? https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home

And while I've got your attention, 1) are Arq backups encrypted and 2) can it back up via SSH to my own storage somewhere - like a cheap VPS with lots of disk space?
I think it fell out of favour after WW2 - returning G.I.s had their fill of poor-tasting low-quality mutton from war-ravaged and rationed Europe and wanted their steak, dammit. [1].

[1] http://www.qmfound.com/food_wwII.htm
That's the goal.
A popular science article on the researchers who discovered the way to culture the other 99% of soil bacteria:

http://www.popsci.com/ichip-new-way-find-antibiotics-and-oth...

"A team led by scientists from Northeastern University published a study describing a new class of antibiotics called teixobactin, which they found in the soil of a field in Maine. But what I found even more interesting than the teixobactin discovery—which other writers have also pointed out—was how the researchers were able to find it. They developed a device called an iChip, which allows scientists to explore the virtually untapped wilds of bacteria for potential antibiotics and other interesting unknown chemicals."
> The burden of proof is on you to show it is in fact supernatural.

I'm not claiming it is supernatural. I'm only challenging the definitive statement that it is not supernatural and asking for proof.
What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting – Glenn Beck
"Yes he’s Warren Buffet, but no one granted him the power to do that or say that. He decided that."

What a load of crap. Of course Buffet was granted that power, by those who give him enough respect to let him get away with that. "But no one granted him that respect, he earned it." Damned right he earned it, and he earned it over the course of many years, if not decades. You think he was scheduling meetings this way back in 1958 when most probably looked at him as just some hayseed from Nebraska, if they even knew who he was at all? Maybe he was, I'm too lazy to go research it, but I doubt it very much. Yes, Buffet "decided" that. But I'll state that his decision wasn't respected until he was first a world-renowned investor who is pretty much a household name.

In summary, once you're in solid financial position and the vast majority of the world answers to you, and not the other way around, here's one weird tip to make your schedule more manageable.
It's a clone of a U.S. product, Sea Hunter. Same for most of the other Soviet arcades.
Thanks Karim, at this time there's no plans to that effect.
If it helps anyone, 1.8 works with 2.7 and was an LTS release, which is supported until April 2018. You don't get the cool new features like Channels out of the box, but they're available via third parties.
Or just OpenHAB and the Eclipse Smart Home project.

It's a well-established projects attempting to establish a standard for IoT interoperation - and it's working really, really well.
If you update this to use window.location.href = url, you won't lose history :)
> When they only have to make a small payment, they effectively already have another payday loan equivalent. Before, they had to scrounge up $230 to pay off the loan, and they could get another $200 loan back out immediately. Now, they can take $230 from their paycheck, move $200 from one pocket to another, pay off $20, and have a bonus $10.

> In other words, any money they would have gotten from 'another loan' is an illusion, because that loan was sourced directly from their own wallet, with someone else taking a cut. They don't need 'another loan'.

Well, obviously exactly the same argument applies to the first loan -- it's sourced directly from their own wallet, with someone else taking a cut. But you don't see a lot of people arguing that therefore there was never a need for any lending in the first place (actually, you do; old religions have quite a bit to say about this. You don't see a lot of people making the argument today).

You're ignoring the point I was making, though. Compare: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/25/apologia-pro-vita-sua/

> I do occasional work for my hospital’s Addiction Medicine service, and a lot of our conversations go the same way.

> My attending tells a patient trying to quit that she must take a certain pill that will decrease her drug cravings. He says it is mostly covered by insurance, but that there will be a copay of about one hundred dollars a week.

> The patient freaks out. “A hundred dollars a week? There’s no way I can get that much money!”

> My attending asks the patient how much she spends on heroin.

> The patient gives a number like thirty or forty dollars a day, every day.

> My attending notes that this comes out to $210 to $280 dollars a week, and suggests that she quit heroin, take the anti-addiction pill, and make a “profit” of $110.

> At this point the patient always shoots my attending an incredibly dirty look. Like he’s cheating somehow. Just because she has $210 a week to spend on heroin doesn’t mean that after getting rid of that she’d have $210 to spend on medication. Sure, these fancy doctors think they’re so smart, what with their "mathematics" and their "subtracting numbers from other numbers", but they’re not going to fool her.

If we divide payday lendees into two classes, the ones who get stuck in a cycle of rolling over their loans are behaving like the heroin users. They won't be helped by the higher-cost lower-APR loan because they will not "take $230 from their paycheck, move $200 from one pocket to another, pay off $20, and have a bonus $10", and don't understand that process. They will take $20 from their paycheck, pay off $20, spend the rest of their paycheck on analogical heroin, and wind up with $0, which is less than $10.

The ones who don't get stuck in a cycle of rolling over their loans won't do that, but they weren't doing it anyway. You haven't benefited them; you've made their operating costs significantly higher. No one benefited from your change to the system.
Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer at Athom.

We at Athom, a smart home startup based in the Netherlands, are releasing the Homey very soon. It features an open app platform based on NodeJS, has support for Z-Wave, 868MHz, 433MHz, Zigbee, IR, WiFi and Bluetooth, not to mention it has some pretty decent voice recognition as well. It isn't strictly speaking open source as the core of our software is proprietary, but we're trying to contribute back to the community on every piece of open source software we do use. We've opened pull requests on various NodeJS projects, we have someone actively working on Linux kernel development (primarily drivers), and every protocol we add support for is open sourced on our GitHub account. We maintain the node-nfc npm module, and are contributors to a handful of other projects. We're about the closest you can come right now to a functioning smart home hub incorporating lots of open source elements, while still having the advantages of corporate backing.

Feel free to browse around on our website (http://athom.com/) or on our GitHub: https://github.com/athombv
How the West (and the Rest) Got Rich
Main reason I have Chrome on my boxes. I am not installing whatever zombie build of Flash still exists in the repos.
That's like OP saying:

"The NSA is not spying on anybody"

"Prove it"

"Burden of proof error, those claiming the NSA is spying on somebody must prove it. Not spying is the null hypothesis and backed by mountains of evidence"

The problem is that I wasn't making a claim either way. I only requested proof of a definitive statement made by OP.
The rewards system is the wrong incentive here in my eye.

It corrupts everyone and everything down to each penny, on every transaction. Everyone along the line where the money flows is incentivised to get you a) hooked on credit cards and b) on paying by credit cards. The issuer, the merchant, the card institute, the processors in between and even the buyer get's a cut from the exorbitant high fees.
> Our understanding of the universe is always changing. But eschewing accepted science without a compelling alternative because it could be wrong is a path to nowhere but President Trump.

Well. To be fair, it's a path also to President Hillary. Or President Cruz. Or President Sanders. It seems our politics is rife with science-ignorance and science-ignoring. I don't think it's particularly constructive to call out Trump as being different.
>> My point is that I don't think "what we are" is changed by the tools we use

No way. Just look at language, a tool we use for communication. It changes us radically. Listen to the RadioLab episode on on : http://www.radiolab.org/story/91725-words/.

Another example is writing. Before widespread writing and printing, many people used the 'Mind Palace' to remember things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci), hijacking the place-cells in the hippocampus to vastly increase memory. With writing, that all evaporated, much to chagrin of the old monks that taught and used the technique. But then look at us now as a species.

Another example is money. The tool that is currency and a method of exchange has changed some people a lot. Greed is not a good thing. Most religions have bans on usury and intreset because of the warping effects it has on society. I may or may not agree with those bans, I mean, hey, I live better than any king from 200 years ago. Still, we are feeling those effects today in our politics after Citizens United. Money, the good tool that it is, does change people.

I'm sure others can think of many more examples. But your tools change you just as much as you use tools to change the world.
the goal is for google to tell you what reality is ?
> That problem is not caused by lenders.

That's what I'm saying. Making the lenders change won't address it.
No, it's just anecdotal from my experience online.

I do feel that I have felt a very heavy nationalistic response from americans in the past, e.g. during the time of that browser ballot, for example. This always struck a nerve with me.. that americans would find it more probable that the nasty foreign europeans would try to get more money out of the americans, than the to more obvious fact that these companies were committing obvious anti-competition crimes.
My blog's CSS is 100k. Take out the three embedded base64 webfonts, and it's 6k.
Super Hot India Records Its Highest Temperature Ever
Yes, but just one row at a time (it doesn't wrap). And with flexbox it's just 2 lines of CSS code anyway (unprefixed).
I guess everyone is entitled to their preferences, as long as they don't try to force them into anothers.

The problem with the "code a lot, then refactor" approach is that it takes a lot of different skills to actually pull off. Some of the pitfalls I have seen are:

1. You need an unusual amount of perseverance, or the feedback of very knowledgeable, outspoken and candid coworkers to actually perform an acceptable refactor, instead of the usual brushing of dirt under a thin (leaky) abstraction. Some of my best work I have done while challenged by colleagues that did not allow me to get away with the "good enough" version I initially wanted to settle with.

2. You need to command an amount of social capital that is not normally granted to mere programmers in order to let the higher-ups that: "Yes, it seems to be working, but no, it is not production ready yet. Do I need to remind you, again, that you agreed to create a throw-away prototype from the very beginning?" In my experience, experimental code - no matter how rough - gets promoted to officialdom status the very minute it's pushed into your source control system.

3. Even if you can navigate #1 and #2 successfully, you still need a lot of forethought in order to design a robust API that will allow your coworkers to interact with your module without being disrupted by your ongoing refactoring.

3.1 As a corollary to the previous one, the effort to communicate the robust API from #3 grows super-lineraly to the size of your team. Not only the probability of someone being left out of the loop grows with N, but also the probability of some idiot^H^H^H^H^H misguided person deciding to ignore all warnings and rely on some implementation detail to accomplish some short term milestone.

4. Finally, you need to actually catch the bugs in order to justify all of the above. This is not an actual skill that need to have in order to do that, but it means that any problem that you might have gets amplified by any defect or omission you may have in your testing strategy.
Exactly. Besides, mostly paid off != paid off. I went to a UC so by the time you graduated loans were about $20k-$50k depending on how much you take out. Live at home, work hard, chip away at your loans, they'll be mostly gone after 5 years.
> Python2 supports unicode. Chávez and Çelik are covered.

Most python2 code doesn't. It has a nice property of exploding spectacularly when the string you are writing out to console or file contains Chávez or Çelik.
Swedish authorities in crisis talks over telecom 'sabotage'
Takes forever to get to the point. The tl;dr is that Beck felt like his fellow conservatives were asking for affirmative action.

It was fairly reasonable as an article until that point. It's totally ludicrous to say that affirmative action for something unchangeable, like family background or ethnicity, is the same as affirmative action for political views.
You seem to live in the bubble where everything in the world is written using the latest technology at your disposal.

The sad reality is, there are are many companies that depend on flash for their corporate software. We all hear horror stories where IE6 has to be supported.

While I whole heartedly agree flash is something I would avoid like the plague it is not the reality for many companies. Think about it, at one point we all though flash was the cool new thing, but now almost everyone we know hates it. But if you force thousands of companies to replace their software just becuase another company does not want to support an ancient technology, it should ring alarm bells for us all. It would cost billions of dollars in upgrades if we consider all the companies that would be effected.

Google has to be put on the spotlight when they make changes such as these that would effect many people they have to give a good reason other-than, "oh its old, has many security bugs."

Google has to stop forcing everyone to conform to what they think is a best practice. They need to go through the proper channels, they need to get people like the etf, w3c and take these actions in a democratic way.

Google is slowly moving away from what made many of us love them, "Don't be evil" google was our hero in a time we had to put up with companies like Microsoft. It makes me incredibly mad to see a company I loved turn in to the companies they replaced.
Thank you, I will!
what's so bad about sitting on a train for an hour? its some nice personal time to do whatever you want or just space out and relax.
> At this moment, why would government give any tax breaks to gay couples if most of them (even in the states, where they are allowed) do not raise children (which, I believe, is the reason for those tax breaks in the first place)?

The tax breaks for raising children (e.g., deductions for dependents, child tax credit, etc.) aren't tied to marriage, they are tied to having legally-dependent children.

Insofar as there are tax breaks for marriage rather than having children, there's a long discussion possible about what the public policy rationale for them is, but the best explanation is probably incentive to the social stability of a stabilizing relationship and the reduced risk of dependency on public support programs that comes from a mutually supportive relationship (which, even if it fails, still often comes with legal support obligations.)

These are just as valid with childless, including same-sex, marriage as with any other marriage.
Wouldn't you (or any other reader here) prefer a system/world/setup where merchants wouldn't charge an extra 2-3% and not have those rewards?

I have been thinking a lot lately on how the credit card rewards/payback and fee split works - I dislike it.
The challenge is that there is no one set of "values" that we can agree on as a people.
Pure doesn't have any SASS/LESS support, from what I can see.
My story is anecdotal but it's true. Who says you have to repay a loan on the standard terms? I also said mostly gone. If standard is 10 years than after 5 years half is gone. Pair that w/ an accelerated payoff and you're looking at loans that are "mostly" paid off. IMO a lot more responsible than the stories in the article.
488M? Is that all?
Your best bet is to continue your online searches, as they are pointing you in the right direction.
So we should tell our kids to work hard and good a good degree so they can get a good job so they can sit in an empty apartment eating organic rice and beans?
Super interesting stuff.
Not surprised ... Apple hasn't put out a laptop with up-to-date specs for years. I'm a lifelong Mac user and I'm unhappy with their current specs.
It's from a domestic big three automaker. That's the equivalent of HP or IBM coming out with a smartphone.