skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfollowing the sources of drivel can also be somewhat effective.

(I was pretty stoked when I saw the "Hide all from Buzzfeed" option on Facebook.)
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> The real losers are the employees. They are investing their time and their careers without access to any information. Unlike a fund who may have a portfolio of dozens or hundreds of investments, an employee can only make one investment at a time. The cost of a mistaken investment can be unemployment and the opportunity cost of foregone opportunities.

This right here is why I've never worked full-time at a start-up with a large percentage of total compensation coming from un-tradable private stock. I won't be someone else's dart. My current employer pays out a substantial part of compensation in RSUs, which I have set to auto-sell the day they are rewarded. It's almost the same as getting cash salary, except with some market variance (that fortunately has paid off for me so far, as the stock price has increased over time).
Am I missing something? I've never heard of using water for A/C, is using freon and other refrigerants a western thing? Do refrigerants not work as well in India?
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With fingerprinting, what's the point of all this?

Browsers and Internet commections now have enough discoverable stuff via HTTP and JS to identify users uniquely enough that in 99% of cases the user's session can really get a unique id! Across publishers! Without third party cookies!!
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Are you saying that students today are involved in a similarly important, organized, and effective movement as the 60's civil right's movement?
Speaking of technical debt, I'm not sure if "nohup as a process management scheme" is a good one. Similar to "screen/tmux as a daemon manager".

(I'm not saying tmux is bad, I use it all the time. I just don't use it as a daemon manager -- If I understand correctly, they do provide a way to fix screen/tmux.)

Systemd generally tries to standardize how to declare common things about a process:

- should it be automatically restarted if it does? at what interval?
- where are its logs?
- how to tell if the process is alive or not?
- can we isolate the process? (tmp files)
- and now: should this process continue to run even if the user has logged out?

And yep, I'm an old schooler who just got tired of dealing with duct tape solutions.
My only concern there is that `wp-supercache` is a plugin, so you're still having to spin up php and work through the WordPress core just to get to the point where you can serve the files out of that cache.

It's likely better than no cache, but an external cache will be much more efficient under load.
Agreed, exercise, smoking and alcohol are likely to be hundreds of times more effective at stopping cancer than giving up your mobile phone, wifi and bluetooth devices.
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True, and even if they could add little changes to make diehard mac users happy, without compromising their vision, it would still be a bad idea. Creating different user interfaces for a functional application is just wasting resources and increasing the likelihood for bugs.
I'd argue that it doesn't give ample warning. I've seen a number of corporate networks where a MITM trusted root cert is installed on machines via an AD policy and the end users have no clue that their IT department can see things like their banking passwords. Unless you examine the cert by hand or connect a device without the cert to the network, you would have no idea this is going on.
It seems that it would be safer to block that credit card entirely and request a new number.

The OS should also be reinstalled from scratch, after backing up any pictures or documents and reformatting the disk.
When you look up hive mind in the dictionary, you will find this thread.
I'm seeing this now:

"To help personalize content, tailor and measure ads, and provide a safer experience, we use cookies. By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies. Learn more, including about available controls: Cookies Policy."

Am I signing a contract with Facebook by clicking on their website. Is that legal?
Unlikely that it's possible to be truly happy unless you know it's possible to be unhappy; aka lack of free will is often a killer.
Why not just a magnet for the C?

I don't like the new or old logo.
Yup. "Victimize" means to take advantage of someone (i.e. make an actual victim of them), it doesn't mean to make them out to be a victim when they aren't.
Afraid not - company secrets and all that.

That said, the steps above are the broad painting of exactly what we've done, and a few Google searches will help nail down the specifics.
If I'm ever going to have permanent implants, it's going to need to generate electricity from my blood.

http://news.mit.edu/2012/glucose-fuel-cell-0612

Many bonus points if the implant's power cell can mimic actual exercise.
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For hundreds of millions of years if not billions. It takes a long time for the solar wind to push that amount of gas away from a place with gravity even in the absence of a magnetic field.
People don't like them because one of their editors is a vocal supporter of Gamergate.
Yup - it's the same concept, different application. Anything that reduces the need to run code will help with the performance of your blog.
I was thinking something similar. WTF are these protestors majoring in? When I was in undergrad, I was taking 18+ credits per semester, and my ass was in the lab 50% of the time. And when it wasn't, it was in the library or cramming for the next exam, or doing the piles of homework that you were never able to finish (by design, so you learned to prioritize). Then in Junior and Senior years it was labs, career fairs, mock interviews, internships, more labs, resume writing, homework, more labs...

Who the hell has time to go out there protesting every little thing that bothers them? Don't they have classwork to do?
There are plenty of other start-ups similar to Theranos that have gone bust and also caused harm to their employees. Hell, it's the way of most start-ups.

What distinction are you trying to draw here? That Theranos was particularly egregious, more so than just most start-ups simply failing to gain traction and closing for reasons of unprofitability?
Interesting approach. If this was part of a series and perhaps in a different material + color-mapped (think Shapeways full color sandstone for instance), I could see someone very passionate about algorithms wanting to buy/own/print them.
Good tip. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make a Jira ticket now...
Yes, industrial chillers use water. Water is much more efficient at evaporative cooling than just air so you can cool more refrigerant in a much smaller space.

Most skyscrapers will keep the chiller on the roof or in the basement. And that is enough to cool the entire building. The domestic air cooled condenser in most homes and small offices just don't scale.
> So in order to protect my digital privacy, I should register myself at some alliance's website. It just doesn't make sense.

Of course it doesn't make sense, but if you have millions from a billion dollar pool to spent on lobbyist and all kinds of dirtbags that are in power, all of sudden rules that have sound people scratch their head, are norm.

> Either this whole internet advertising thing turns out to be a bubble after all

It is a bubble, indeed! The truth is that not enough people (businesses) have tried to find out on their own, so you have always fresh blood coming in!

I still get approached few times a month by a friend who own small business. The conversation goes something like this: "Wow Facebook has billion people in their database, and I can narrow them to age and interest. Oh I see 25 million people are my target audience wow if I get 1% of them purchasing my product, I will be filthy rich! And I'm talking about worst case scenario!" Then I go on into long explanation how people don't go to facebook to buy products but to watch silly cat movies their friends upload, I'm never being listened to. Until said friend drop in $150 as a test and get 80 clicks that got him one purchase for $20 worth of product. That's it. So this friend never advertise with Facebook again. But don't worry! There is probably half a billion others waiting to open the floods of business and riches for themselves by unlocking the doors to facebook advertising treasury chest.

Agencies and "those that know what they are doing" are not much better. They will tell you they help you advertise with good ROI, but in reality its the same as every advertising agency promising you first page of google. uhm, no. They all won't fit on the first page. Eventually once you burn $1k or few thousands with agency you realize there is a way to make some money but you would have to have budget in millions to break through with your product. So while Facebook is awesome for Coke and Pepsi to drop million buck before superbawl to fight for your mouth, the average person will usually lose money.
Years back I wore the Northpaw anklet for a few weeks. I found that it was certainly possible to determine north with it, but never got from feeling vibrations to some "sense of which was is north". In fact, I found that it sometimes took a bit of turning around to get a feel of the direction.

I did not find it a very helpful tool for navigation. In my experience I orient myself by landmarks and constantly knowing exactly which way is north was not that useful, even when walking in nature. I did not try it in a completely unknown place though. Perhaps the most interesting part was how it corrected the intuitive picture of how my home city is oriented - the anklet clearly showed that streets that I always associated with straight north-south and east-west lines were curved and not so perfectly aligned.
I have always been a fan of wget, but upon searching around for some of the differences I came across this:

https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html

Which is a pretty good summary of the similarities and differences, and it makes me want to try curl a bit more than I have in the past, especially the support for scp and cifs.
Larger systems can use cooling towers which leverage evaporative cooling. Also, arid climates can use swamp coolers to cool a space. They work on the same principal. When water evaporates, it pulls energy from the surrounding medium, causing the temperature to drop.
I have a comparison of these tools going here:
http://www.xkyle.com/a-comparison-of-image-to-ascii-conversi...

I can add this to the list, but it looks like it does not take advantage of the half-block trick to double the effective vertical resolution. (like other tools like img2xterm)
The scientific method is thus far the best way we've demonstrated to finding out the truth.
It's like people who think after many years of programming that "char" is actually pronounced "care". Nope. In real life people just read things. "char" the stick in the fire all day long.
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The same principal as http://whatcolourisit.scn9a.org/ what colour is it?
Some do adjust speed. The point being, neither is a fully automated auto-pilot - the human behind the wheel is always responsible for stopping the vehicle or steering away from obstacles in an emergency.
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Might be handy if it's cloudy, but otherwise it's easier to look at shadows in daytime and the moon and stars at night.
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This article has a nice diagram and some explanation:

http://www.buildings.com/article-details/articleid/5757/titl...

In the discussed example, the water cooled system uses ~1/2 the energy of the air cooled system.
Given that users learn the OS conventions anyway, it's more economical to design building on the platform.
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The prevailing idea seemed to be that if you wanted conversion of Word documents, let's say to screenshots, to match properly in all cases, the only way was a dedicated (or virtual) machine running Windows+Word and some VBS to automate the conversion.

I don't know if this is still the best way. LibreOffice has came a long way for sure, but still doesn't reproduce Word's layout perfectly (which is still the expectation).
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The moment your boss essentialy said, 'Hey, I wasn't there to determine to fate of the rest of your career at this company,' you should have walked right out the door. Who cares if he apologizes? If a manager doesn't watch out for their employees, they're not a good manager.
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> I use tmux a lot. I just don't understand why I would want to script tmux.

That's why I held off on decoupling it. I was surprised by us having at least 10 or so people using tmuxp's API purely as a scripting library.

> I always thought it was supposed to be used interactively.

Scripting doesn't preclude interactive use. Teamocil, tmuxinator, tmuxp are all scripting under the hood. However, a yaml file only loads a session up, an API with fresh access to the latest details of a session, window, pane makes scripting radically more easier than doing it through shell.
I disagree. I almost always know where north is. Just pay a little attention to shadows.
uMatrix blocks all analytics by default.

I'm running uBlock + uMatrix. Very clean browsing experience. Also quite bare-bones before adding site specific rules, which probably won't suit everyone :)
Don't people know most of the time to what direction is north? you just look at the sun imagine it's trajectory and you have enough information for 90% of the use cases. Or stars...
So why did they terminate my recurring paypal subscription? I got an email saying "Hey, we don't need your money anymore!" and after that their service went downhill fast.
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Seems like a great opportunity for virtualization...
In regards to historical progressivist movements, I agree with you. I was referring only to the current progressive dispensation. Perhaps I'm not using the correct term for it... whatever you want to call the dominant American university ideology of today.

I do think it's appropriate to think of this ideology primarily in racial terms. Virtually any issue supported by the left today is, in its essence, about stripping white people of power, identity, and autonomy, and giving that power to other groups.

Diversity, equality, multiculturalism, globalism, "one-world"-ism, pro-mass-immigration, all of these terms mean "not white". It's perfectly easy to see that, because all "white" cultures are treated differently in this paradigm, as "oppressor", "colonialist" nations/peoples, "majority/minority", "privileged", etc. These terms don't apply to other groups.

The amorphousness and formlessness of this ideology and its lack of coherent theoretical basis (as opposed to something more rigidly principled like Marxism, libertarianism, etc) is what provides cover for its true aim, which is political power for its adherents.
When I saw the video and the team photos all I could think of is, "Turtley werth it" http://www.cc.com/video-clips/4ei34y/kroll-show-rich-dicks--...
Let me just be the first to say that I'm not stuffing anything in my body that was created by someone who's identity isn't firmly nailed down. I'm not against anonymity by any means, but infrastructure needs to be 99.999% trustworthy and transparent.

> Liviu was the COO of Videre est Credere, featured in the WIRED as 'Carlos', due to security restrictions at the time the article was published.
>what the end user is satisfied with as instant (maybe <1min).

There's a number of thresholds you can hit:

5 minutes: this is taking a while, better grab a coffee

1 minute: this is taking a while, I can let my thoughts drift a bit

10 seconds: it will be done soon, I'll just stare at the screen till it's done

1 second: it's not slow, but sluggish and interrupting my flow

200 milliseconds: that result came instantly when I pressed the button

50 milliseconds: the results update instantly when I use this slider

Hitting another of these milestones transforms the user experience and allows the dataset to be experienced in a new way, allowing more spontaneous exploration of the data
To me, it seems more like a product that's "testing the waters". I agree it's not actually that impressive, or even an implant, but it's softly treading on politically/ethically dangerous grounds. Most of the "upgrades" we've seen so far are for people who have had accidents/damage. This is the first "optional" off-the-shelf product that I know of.

> I see no implementation details

I am excited that we're moving this direction in our society, but I strongly think this is where we need open-source hardware and software. I really don't like the idea of giving control of my physical self to a company, even for something as silly as telling me where north is.
That's essentially my point. It's learned rather than instinctual. You were taught to do that.
Power has privileges. I'm not surprised by her ability to get away with this.

It happens. I don't like it, and I don't respect people who think the rules do not apply to them.
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Something I haven't yet understood is why is it not possible to pass air underground to cool it and cycle it back into the building, giving air conditioning with the day to day cost of running fans?
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Thanks for the answer.

We think that we will have to move toward this kind of architecture at some point. But the time we have at this stage is very valuable, and we don't know is it's a good idea to move there now.
Say what you will about WordPress - its codebase, security, speed, architecture, DB schema, whatever. Haters are going to hate.

It's a pretty amazing accomplishment what Automattic has done by staying so popular and relevant for so long.

Looking at it from a non-hardcore programmer's perspective:

* Quick to learn backend

* Easy to use plugins for non-devs

* Painfully maintaining backwards compatibility overtime

* It just works. Built to run from basically a potato of a server. E.g.: HTTP/transport check [1]

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I agree for the most part, but this is technically an implant. It uses a barbell piercing to embed itself into you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_(piercing)
Medical Physicist here. The position isn't "non-ionizing radiation can't cause cancer". It's "There is no known mechanism by which non-ionizing radiation can cause cancer." Maybe we'll discover a mechanism one day to explain this. But we seem to understand the processes by which cell mutations, and subsequently cancer, and produced.

We should certainly research this area further. But the probability of this study having failed to control for some other variable is higher than the probability of an as of yet unknown process allowing microwaves to produce changes in the chemical bonds holding together DNA.
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Non-participating is outside of the scope of competition.

Do note there is also a "Meta" competition which each of those subjects you mentioned are all vying for market share amongst each other. For example - Twilight fan subculture is dwindling, online gaming subculture is growing. Given a finite, albeit considerably large, number of resources, each subject, at the "Meta" level, competes with each other for the [wo]manhours of eyes spent and invested on it.

To get to the bigger point: Within each of those "arenas" you posited, there are few winners and many losers. Money actually is a minor concern even in our society today. Money is a means to an end.

A "fictional" fiat currency does not hold inherent value but the purchasing power that comes with it!

And actually, amongst professional poker and golf players, the top players have shown time and time again to have already removed themselves from the prize money and are in it for the victory, despite the "Purse" being what every casual observer sees. Wearing the Green Jacket of the Masters means significantly more to many of the seasoned players than the money.

In your "abundance-utopia-with-competition" the status is everything, and to be quite honest, it has already been everything. Save for the barest of bones, rags-to-riches stories of people going from dead broke to being successful, many people at the top of their fields would have been fine, monetarily speaking, if they didn't have this success.

But the key phrase here is "monetarily speaking." -

- More importantly to many people than the money, the mating opportunities do not come to losers. We are closer to chimps than bonobos. That inherently is not a utopia. You're missing this.
The problem with this reasoning is that Tipper Gore is not right wing.
Actually I was thinking of Super Mario Advance 4, which is the port of Super Mario Bros. 3, thus the mistake on my part.
I cancelled all cards and did what i could for the finance company. putting a freeze or security on her investment account required her to have to go to a bank(or other official notary accepted by the firm) and verify her identity and then mail a letter to the company to authorize transfer. so all the accounts were cancelled/cards reordered but freezing her account would be a huge impediment as she makes transfers every few weeks to live. the cards/ect from initial breach i am not particularly worried about. but to your second point:

> The OS should also be reinstalled from scratch, after backing up any pictures or documents and reformatting the disk.

I removed both ram cahces and replaced them as well as the harddrive with another entirely reset windows 10 install i had laying around.

HOWEVER, she is reasonably tech savvy for 80 uses computer everyday, ect, but she was having trouble adapting and begged me to put win7 back on. I simply swapped hard drives back, so there has been 0 diagnostics run on the current drive except a single full system scan done by the microsoft virus program, although, again, she said they installed it (it does look like real MS) but maybe they just added an exception. I figured I would do damage control, and let her use current OS for now(told her not to do online shopping haha) while I try to assess full risk.
The article goes into that. Their academic standing is slipping. They've even protested to have academic standards loosened so they can continue protesting.
Interesting. Is it commonly agreed that Twilio is better at all these things? (It appears you worked at Twilio for a couple of years).

I've used Plivo, and it does have reasonable conferencing features, and I didn't note any issues with reliability. I only used it for US calls, but they seem to have an extensive list of other countries supported.

I've not used the others on the list, but they all have fairly impressive big name client lists. That's fairly hard to do if there's a leader in the space that's outclassing you on all fronts.
You just look for all proofs of a certain length. This is equivalent to checking if a Turing machine halts within a bounded number of steps. This is a NP problem.