skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, I'd worry about the user doing unlawful/immoral things they can be blackmailed with. Agencies have made up accusations and set up traps for politicians in the past (and worse: see FBI vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.). If they can blackmail a person with the truth, chances are that others can do it too (criminals e.g.).
It seems as though wearables like watches can already incorporate directional sensors and pretty much anything else that one might imagine.

This product isn't really an implant. A "pierceable", perhaps.

My guess is, this gadget is probably going to appeal mainly to the techno body modification crowd. In other words, a rather limited market, for now.

Medical applications are where implants will eventually shine: glucose level monitors for diabetics, for example.
So called "progressive" campuses have become mini Orwellian dystopias because of demented leftist ideology run amok.
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Also in combination with NoScript your life will be much better.
I suspect that you're all talking about the reply from Christian Rebischke, who is indeed now talking about a "hate-report" and "a reason to cry".

* https://twitter.com/Sh1bumi/status/735973258793779200

In fairness, please note that Christian Rebischke is not one of the Debian system maintainers, who wrote some of the other replies and whom you will find listed on this Debian WWW page:

* https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/systemd.html

Nor is xe a systemd developer, apparently.

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commits/master?author=shi...

Unless filing bug reports against systemd makes xem part of "the systemd crew", which, considering the headline of this page, would be a huge double standard.

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues?q=shibumi
Makes you wonder if they are really saying profiling in obfuscated terms.
Of course this comment was downvoted.

I really want to know what's the opposing view to this statement. Who's going to step forward and say why they think this is wrong?

At the very least, make an argument like "the AI needed to trick a teenager into spending half their awake time on Facebook can also be used to solve actual problems."
As you reduce geographical scope, national trends aren't as relevant or realistic.
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Hey everyone,

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Check us out! You guys can also play with an alpha version of the product.
There are three options left. The democratic party has not nominated a candidate yet.
Did ryanlol/l0l switch to a special arguing account, or is that a different user?

Seems very meta :D
The United Negro College Fund and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as prominent black civil rights groups are grandfathered in. Also its usually left NAACP and not expanded partially because of that word.
Derivatives are particularly difficult, that's for sure.

In the software world we have licenses that explicitly lay this out.

The music industry does actually have this sorted out, with ways to license music for covers (mechanical licenses) or remixing -- although the latter is definitely complicated [1] and is similar to fan fiction in that many artists/DJs get started by making remixes.

There's an entire wikipedia page on legal issues relating to fan fiction [2].

It's definitely not an obvious thing. Using your example, how do you decide if 50 Shades of Grey is a legitimate new work or a rip-off of the next part of the story Twilight was going to tell? If a similar story was released by the author(s) of Twilight would it be considered a rip-off of 50 Shades of Grey? What if it was revealed to be in the works prior to the release of 50 Shades of Grey?

[1] http://djtechtools.com/2012/03/25/legal-concerns-for-digital...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction
Humans are able to make temporary alliances to defeat a mutual threat. After the threat is over, they go back to infighting.
A laptop computer today is 96% cheaper than a 1994 model and 1,000X better
This tech eliminates the need for water for air-conditioning of buildings
I know that mentioning PHP on here is grounds for crucifixion, but the fact that Composer (https://getcomposer.org/) has a conductor as its identity has always bothered me.
by some culturally privileged Caucasian scholar

there ya go...just what the article is talking about. Sorry to have to clue you in, but nobody buys that weird leftist newspeak.
I for one miss the 3.x-4.x Holo UI.
I'm actually not judging Gigster or Upwork. I have had amazing experiences with Upwork, but that's mostly because I make it work for me. I don't know anything about Gigster so don't hold any thoughts on the company or service as a whole. But yes, this whole "equity" thing is a PR ploy, not many ways to spin it otherwise. The platform may be wonderful, but this specific move falls short of being valuable.
stats on online reading suggest that the inverted pyramid is even more essential here than for print, as everyone makes their own decision when to close a tab, and vanishingly few read the full piece most of the time.
[I am conjecturing]

1. In a recent field like machine learning, there has not been enough time for rank amateurs to assimilate the relevant language without understanding the core material, but in physics, people have had centuries for the Newtonian model and a hundred years for quantum mechanics.

2. Because machine learning is so recent, there is less difference between a rank amateur's quackery and the set of ideas "unexplored which might work". That is to say, there isn't a strong established model and supporting theories about how and why techniques work. The state of the art in machine learning is still so empirical that it hasn't even developed its own "phlogiston".

3. As a new field, it is "easier to make progress" in machine learning. In part because the low hanging fruit has yet to be plucked. In part because people are less able to point to what has worked in the past. And in part because the pace of advance creates more tolerance toward mistakes...it's currently in a continuous delivery mode.

But I could easily be wrong.
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Yes, really "NumberCruncher". Which period on that chart do you think shows a more rapid change?
Does anyone else think the device looks extremely large for the application?
AIUI people who wore the anklet version found they quickly ceased being conscious of the vibrations per se, and just had a sense of which way was north. ISTR people learn to see via a camera connected to a pad of electrodes on their tongue. The brain is pretty good at adapting to sensory input, it doesn't have to be wired directly to your nerves or anything.
Indeed, I did not find their response to this reviewer to address the statistics criticisms satisfactory. Also, although they try to adjust for this, I'm not sure if their rate correction fully corrects for longevity.
The Little Book of Design Research Ethics, from IDEO
In the Socrates analogy, the "new activists" are playing the part of Meletus, not Socrates.
Usually wearables refer to things you can easily take off, like a watch. This thing looks pretty permanent -- though maybe it flips open like an earring to be removed and serviced?
..and mountains of political agenda from individuals who "claim" to be objective in their pursuit of the truth.
I was always more comfortable with CDMA than GSM, partly because the speakers near a GSM phone can pick up on the GSM transmission code, what code is being sent, the duration sent, and the time in between transmissions. It was literally like hearing the morse code.

I immediately correlated the electromagnetic feelings in my body to this signal. And never trusted GSM phones again.
Of course, said achievements too big to be achieved fully by a single person or group.

Far from me from not giving collaboration its due, but it is undeniable that the prime mover of many a human achievement was due to competition.

The real challenge for constant progress, I think, is to make this competition "healthy", as in "not depending on a world war or the threat of nuclear annihilation"...
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There is a difference between having something permanently giving you feedback, and being able to get some information on demand. It's easy to conceive that being quietly reminded of which direction you're travelling every time you turn a corner could change the way you see the world.

On the other hand, it does seem to be a pretty rubbish implementation. A dongle that you have to anchor to your chest with piercings, and whose idea of "really, really small" is an inch square seems significantly behind where I believed implant technology was.

I might be tempted to try this if it was a tiny, surgically implanted chip that had no other effects, but having some huge trinket dangling off my chest getting stuck in things seems like it would only be attractive to people who wanted something to act as a replacement for an interesting personality in conversation.
Not really, no... The factors that cause large scale climate changes on planets relate to how the orbit of the planet changes over time, in periodic ways. Mars and Earth, being different planets, have a different "schedule" for warming/cooling.

Earth is actually "supposed" to be heading into a cooler period, but it's clear that human influence has dramatically changed that timeline.

Here's a great overview of some of the factors involved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of 'su' and 'do.' I'm still not sure if it's properly pronounced 'pseudo' or 'sue-doo', but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name.

Edit: Changed 'sue-do' to 'sue-doo' to make it less ambiguous.
I'm not a fanboy, but you've missed the point entirely.

It's not the same thing at all. It's about being able to sense north all the time.

Not getting a compass out, or your silly solution of a bowl of water and a needle. About just knowing which direction north is. There's been (well received) articles here before about people wearing haptic belts that did the same thing.

Here's an example:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028185-800-haptic-s...
> “You include Black and other students of color in the institution and mark them with the words ‘equity, inclusion and diversity,’ ” it said, “when in fact this institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy.”

Black is written with capital b in the middle of sentence like some title, while white is not. Nice to see that one race is finally being recognized as superior over the other. New "Aryan" race. Can't see anything wrong neither with it, nor all the other very meaningful and truthful terms told by this intelligent man.
the war against any emotion other than "happy", is a real thing, but it's also something that we do subconsciously because of lack of grounding
>>Just because the facts were placed in our textbook by some culturally privileged Caucasian scholar doesn't mean that they are true.

lol. F=ma I don't care who wrote it :)
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I think the real point here is that setting expectations properly with both your company/sponsor and development team early, behave consistently, and reinforce if needed with gentle reminders.

I have seen many project managers start to crumble under pressure (as we all do) and decide to say yes to stop management or the client being upset; unfortunately this is a self defeating stance not only for the additional time/cost involved that has the schedules slip, but often because decisions made under emotional duress are simply not good. To make the deadline the features/benefits are generally compromised instead of useful and nobody ends up happy.
You're off by several centuries if that was ever true. College had been an important element of social status signaling for much longer than since the 1940s, though the particular status level that college in general or particular institutions are associated with had sorry drifted over time. If there was ever a time that people went to college exclusively it off a pure desire to "learn about meaningful questions" on any day of subjects, it was in the very distant past. But there probably never was such a time at all.
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Look at the scales on that chart. It starts at millions of years before present, then drops to thousands of years before present, and then our last 200 years is basically a vertical line at the very end of the graph.
Yeah but that's more because of lobbying and politics than logical, economic approaches to problems. It's not like when I go to the doctor everyone's incentives are aligned. The insurance company is still actively working against me, just now it's really complicated how they do it due to regulation so only they can play the game and I just have to take their decision until it's worth getting lawyers involved.
I was considering something like this. I guess I'm worried that saying I can't handle the workload will make me less likely to be looked at for new projects. Have you, or anyone else reading this thread, had success with a conversation like this and have any pointers?
Please, save us from the cyborgs. I can think of 999999 things deserving more attention than this.

But wait! I want divining rods implanted in my forearms! I can see the benefits already.
My point was the direct contradiction in statements there. Choosing the choices that a platform makes as the standard setter is arbitrary in a fashion, as why should those standards be the standard? There is no real reason why that makes it better.
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Looking to build this for myself as I'm struggling to keep up with all the manual work.

I'm thinking of a system that adds new contacts when I have conversations with them on my email and then immediately auto tags and tracks that conversation in a lightweight CRM of some sort.

I'm assuming it's useful for sales and business development but wondering if anyone else is interested?
So you don't touch any growing company until they plateau? Doesn't that defeat the whole point of buying stock?
Surprising message from the AEI--don't worry about income inequality, because consumer electronics are cheap!
Give Verizon another reason to raise my rates... GREAT!
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“Elevated buses” that travel above cars to alleviate traffic and air pollution
Maybe they've learned enough about science, history, literature, and the modern world to the point that they realize they can make a difference. I'm not sure how you measure impact, but it feels like they're succeeding.
Reading TechCrunch to understand technology is like watching CNBC to better manage your investments. It doesn't work.

Windows NT is a microkernel that pretends to be Windows 95 and now pretends to be Linux.

Underlying both MacOS and iOS is a microkernel that pretends to be POSIX, MacOS, or IOS.

Getting the microkernel down to a nice clean base is the right thing to do for desktop, servers, and whatever else comes down the pipe.

Meanwhile, all the posers think that a "phone is a phone" and a "laptop is a laptop", "wires are ritually unclean", etc. and miss the point that the basic idea of computer science is that a computer is a computer, as proven practically by video game emulation.

The one thing you can be sure of is that Microsoft will zig and Microsoft will zag and if you invest your time in energy in Shiny7 from Microsoft you might find it is taken away because Microsoft thought Shiny6 (from some other vendor) was cooler or is chasing Shiny8.
Yes. I will let others play with such technology. I feel too connected already. I don't really want to wire myself up more.

Maybe I'm old fashion. I will be interested in what others say about their experiences with such devices.
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Customers, who vote with their pocketbook.
Isn't that overkill? EFF Privacy Badger states that it's a one-extension solution rather than having ghostery, adblock + others: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger (2nd FAQ)

I've never tried Privacy Badger myself, what's your reasoning for having both? Is it not quite as all-encompassing as it claims?
JSON is the example, not the prescription; JSON is just a widely used format for arbitrarily nested data. You can use Javascript objects (or Python dictionaries) if you want. Again, this example applies for the scenario if Ansible playbooks were only configurations. If it were only configurations, then fine, let's go with readable YAML.

If Ansible were playbooks with only configurations, then even XML would be okay, because in the sum of all pros and cons, this would be a tiny factor. The pickiness of quotes and trailing commas is really whatever here.

But instead Ansible playbooks use a "readable" YAML-ish language. The price is not right.
Is it unexpected or wrong that Google act in its own interest?
Their about section looks... well, they just look like some real interesting people, I tell you hwhat...
13 years ago Movable Type and Blogger owned the space. MT was for folks who wanted to install software on their own server, Blogger for those who wanted a hosted option.

Blogger was bought by Google a few months before WP appeared.
It is chart.js http://www.chartjs.org/docs/
>imagine the ability to plug into some perfect VR world that looks and feels just like reality. Why would anyone want to "compete" in that scenario?

At the moment the most played video game seems to be League of Legends where player compete to accumulate gold through killing other players amongst other things. So the human instincts come out, just in the virtual world.

Maybe the future is humans merrilly killing in VR while peaceful robots look after them in the real world, a bit like a variation on The Matrix.
Such components - I use Developer Express components - greatly accelerate development time and offer extra functionality out of the box. None of my clients care one white about open source, they just want their products developed quickly.
Based on my specific case, yes but I would tend to say in general it might not. It'll probably depend on which companies you pick and choose to join.

Think my buddy doing sales did way better than me.
In a similar vein, don't even think of questioning GMOs. You even just hint that you wanna see more studies on their safety you will be torn limb from limb, even if you admit to trusting them and eating them yourself.
We are technically still in an ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
They have worked since before the release of Windows 10. I don't really understand why people have such a hard time with this, especially here of all places.
This is hands-free.
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Is this considered "Martian warming" I'll get my coat
fair criticism
Or an ear piercing, something integrated into an existing "mod".
Ever work in a really large oraganization and try to demand something from some far-flung other division? Not so easy.

She shouldn't have set up her own server. And the NSA should have been more sensitive to how important mobile email is to a modern diplomat.
Alright, I can see the appeal for hikers and long walkers, urban explorers, and a whole subset of hobbyists that I didn't appreciate before. Thanks for the interesting read, and the context.
North-American campuses. And maybe in some places of Northern Europe as well. This is not a worldwide thing.
technically you only waste address space which should be plenty enough at least for a while.
He's suggesting that for a lot of people getting involved in open source it is a means to an end. Whether that is getting a job in a new field, increasing exposure or experience, etc...
Usually that end is something monetary or status related.
What he is then saying is that some parts of the population are more privileged than others when it comes to the free time and resources needed to achieve that. It's not necessarily just that they have the resources now, but that they may have had them in the past too (upbringing, access to education, encouragement, etc).

So the discussion of privilege shouldn't necessarily be seen as a negative force trying to tear down white men, but should inform our decision making when we take other people's hardships into account.
As a white male myself I understand that I have had better opportunities than a large part of the population. I'd rather take that into account and try to improve the fairness in society, than to look away from it.
What to actually do about it is another matter... But acknowledging that it's a problem is the first step.
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Tuple is a mathematical term predating computers, and the "-tuple" suffix is older again, so pronunciation shouldn't be as ambiguous as the other, newly invented terms.

(It's historically rhymed with couple)

On the other hand, a lot of Latin-originating words have had their pronunciations changed in US English, the canonical example being data (from UK English "da-ta" to US English "day-ta", which has now begun to become standard everywhere due to the tech industry) so I guess other words could go the same way.
You people, some SV quacks could come up with a device that sends you a tweet when you need to take a shit and you'd still be telling me how it's making the world a better place.
It's funny, I had quite a different experience, and I'm very thankful for it. I can find very few regrets for taking my educational duties in college for granted and instead exploring the depravities of a teenage mind. A hell of a time and I'm richer for it.
A few free safety and performance tips when dealing with wordpress:

- Whitelist IPs for access to your wp_admin and wp_login.

- If you have the skills to automate WordPress updates yourself, remove all write access (except for the uploads folder) from the user WordPress is running as (i.e. www-data). It's all just unzip and untar over the structure of the directory anyways.

- If you remove write access, you might as well block the "cron" as well.

- Limit the WordPress DB user to the usual crud operations; don't let it create or alter tables.

- If you feel like getting really into it, whitelist explicit URLs. Maintaining it isn't really too hard, and it reduces your attack surface significantly.

- Set up even a simple nginx cache in front of WordPress - even a 1-5 minute cache will let your site run on crappy hardware and handle HN or Reddit with a minimum of sweat.
But it doesn't do that, it just alerts you when you face north.... the rest of the time, you'll have no idea if your east, south or west... I would assume you'd have an always-present general force towards the North to make sure you always know your orientation; this is not like that; it just alerts you whenever you happen to face North.
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Nope, that effect is currently making Earth colder, but is being overwhelmed by greenhouse effects resulting in net higher temperatures.
serious question, doesn't having such a big hosts file affects performance somehow?