skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how many combustion engined cars crank at -40c without pre-heating? But indeed, there are a few places and uses where electrical cars are not the best solution. That does not mean, that in 90% of places and applications they are already a more environmental friendly alternative.
because it's very well designed. it gets casual asynchronous messaging right in a lot of ways. unlike email, threads are grouped by person rather than by subject line, which makes it a lot lower friction (subject lines are for talking about something; they're a usability drawback when you're primarily talking to someone). unlike sms, you don't have to maintain a person->id mapping yourself, it's done globally and kept constantly up to date by facebook. unlike whatsapp, it's not tied to your phone; you just need to know your username and password to access it from any browser-capable device. and finally, it supports notifications via a variety of mechanisms, and even if you don't enable any of them (i don't), most people who use facebook check it regularly anyway, so you get to see the little "you have new messages" icon each time you go to read your stream.
I thought that counted as handwriting.
You can actually view messages on the mobile web app (or you could earlier today, anyway). On my phone, clicking on messages tells me to download messenger. If I ignore that and hit all messages, it nags again, but eventually does it.

FWIW, I discovered this because Messenger would not show me a group chat that I was added to by co-workers (who I'm not friends with on FB).

Edit: just realized you were referring to the app, not the site. My mistake.
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I'm conflating free markets with perfectly competitive markets. If that's incorrect, I apologize - still learning econ. Really, I'm saying that the closer a market is to a perfectly competitive market or at least a monopolistic competitive market, the closer to a free market it is.

In my head this makes intuitive sense as clearly oligopolies and monopolies aren't free markets. If free market refers exclusively to non-centrally planned market then my understanding is very flawed.

I thought the entire point was that with heterogeneous products, there is less competition, as the goods are subtly different - enough so that sometimes they are actually in separate markets. Companies who are seeking to minimize competition typically do all they can to differentiate their product - that's marketing 101. In a monopolistic competition, there is heterogeneity, but it's curtailed by a homogeneous demand between these options - e.g. restaurants.

As for perfect information, I should clarify I'm talking only about price information on the part of the consumer. Without listed prices, its hard to make rational decisions. A combat zone doesn't have good information available on prices, which could vary greatly between locales.

If you look at markets with low profit margins, they tend to have homogeneous products with perfect information on prices - for instance, commodity markets. As the best possible outcome for consumers is for a market to have zero profits but competition to drive costs down. And I know that perfectly competitive markets are only theoretical, but I'd argue that the concept of a free market is only theoretical as well.
Giros were very common in the UK, you probably have the forms if you have paper bills for anything.

But people mostly moved to direct debit for those kinds of bills.
You may want to check out this article by Rands: http://randsinrepose.com/links/2015/05/17/semi-informal-sere... which has an email in the last paragraph to a Slack which I think matches your "mastermind" concept.
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I have never actually abused Ritalin by snorting it or taking it for fun so I have no idea but at my older age the diet issues seem to be less of an issue, when I was in high school it was quite problematic.

As far as sleep goes I find that it is about the same with or without it since I tend to self medicate with caffeine but I generally go to sleep at as semi-regular time of the night (I say this as I write this from bed). The biggest blocker for sleep for me is getting excited about stupid programming things right before bed and that tends to happen with or without stimulants.

Without Ritalin I seem to be more anxious but its hard to really evaluate that objectively.
Yes for new windows since 7 you do not have to install anything besides visual studio. All .NET framework is already in windows.
Democracy these days seems to be more and more illusory. I'm willing to bet these same MPs will help make the IP Bill become law, anyway.
I am not a mobile app junkie, and I count the number of messaging apps on my mobile: imessage, whatsapp, kik. That's already 3, ie two too many. Then I would need to add facebook, telegram, google's latest thing, skype? I mean why not a different messaging app for each contact? Why does facebook thinks I need more messaging apps?
So it's not a common thing in the US to have additional surcharges for Amex and Diners?
If the command is as short as "echo 'found'", then that one-liner is easier, but if it's a nice, lengthy command, I find the 'full' version easier to read.
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I've always said Facebook is a government agents, pedophiles, stalkers and burglars dream come true. All that information freely given away to whoever wishes to collect it. Now with the audio video aspect, Facebook can branch out into amateur porn.
What you are describing is 100% the contrary of my daily life and of what I aspire to become in the future.

No wonder that I am more than happy with a good bicycle and a yearly ticket for all public transportation in my country. Of course, I don't own a car.

I drink tap water, no "white cheddar mac & cheese" but as many fresh vegetables / meet / cheese as possible (ok, and lot of pasta).
If I want to go to Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Vienna, Rome, London or Berlin there is a (more or less direct) train every two hours. Just buy a ticket over the internet, print it, and jump on the train (And while I wonder where Delaware is and why I would want to go there, I can take my laptop with me and keep on working during the whole ride to Paris).

I need a monitor arm? Just choose one in the internet shop and it's delivered tomorrow morning at my doorstep. Or I can pick it up later in the afternoon at the delivery place 10 minutes from here.

If I want to go and play table tennis with my friends, there are public parks where we can meet... Basketball? Checked. Football (you would probably call it soccer)? Even easier. Want to have a swim together? In the lake or in the river in summer or in a public pool if it's cold.

No 4K screen, no mini-fridges, no king size bed, no cold walls... but i agree a real guest bedroom would be nice!

Owning a car is for me just unpractical. And for the few times a year I would need one, I can find alternative solutions or book one through car sharing.

It gets to the point where I wonder if owning a car or not shapes your life in such different way or different choices in life makes you own a car (or not)...
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Bans have been proposed in Holland from 2025 (http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/only-electric-...) and Norway (http://electrek.co/2016/06/03/norway-gasoline-powered-car-ba...), but it's very early days -- these are only kite-flying exercises, not serious attempts at legislation.
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Such an embodiment of what it means to stand up for the truth in a time it was powerlessly rare. "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee..." RIP, ALI.
But TGIF is on Thursday.

(Seriously, Google is kind of odd.)
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There's a tarball with all the source files you need for each distribution. Trying to download them individually is ... difficult to say the least.
> In France we had some old celebrity known for their very funny yet inapropriate one man show.

Who would that be ? I immediately thought about Desproges.
Gosh, this is absolutely shocking. Anyway, who fancies a cup of tea and a war in the Middle East.
Con confirm. Worked with real time push notifications via Service Workers in Chrome myself.
Its funny how every post about FB on HN, brings out users claiming not to use FB and so now they have so much free time now, which they can use to discuss FB :D
The question is also, how dangerous would biking be, without the car related accidents? If there were proper biking zones, not bike paths, lanes, but streets reserved for biking and pedestrian purposes, how dangerous would biking still be? And that does not take into account the health differences because of the beneficial effects of biking.
>Or just continously upload the data to the internet, should be quite feasible these days with satellites everywhere.

That would probably be a bit too much for existing satellite communication systems; while most flights wouldn't need to transmit such a signal most of the time (If a plane went missing over, say, the Midwest, we'd find it!), frequent transmissions from every flight over sea, for instance would probably overload today's networks - meaning you'd need to launch new satellites to provide this service, meaning it would be outrageously expensive, meaning it wouldn't happen.

However, if we relax the requirement to, say, once every five minutes or so, at least you'll have a much better idea of where something went down than 'Probably somewhere in the southern hemisphere.'
I don't mean to diminish the accomplishments or skill of chess players, but in my opinion being a perfect information game makes chess, like go, much less interesting.

It means that, in principle, it is simply a matter of running Minimax on a sufficiently powerful computer, and the game can be solved. I do mean 'in principle': actually doing this is still well beyond the world's computational capabilities, though this doesn't stop computers playing stronger than any human.

People find an abstract beauty in the purity of the game's structure, but I find that lack of information asymmetry makes the game less rich. One does not need to attempt to induce the other player's thoughts, their strategies or the location of the pieces, one merely has to look at the board. There are no feints, one cannot pretend to be following one strategy and actually be planning something else.

Some of these features do crop up, sort of: due to the size of the game's space and the imperfection of the players, players can be surprised by a particularly brilliant move. But this is an artifact of the players not being good enough, not a feature of the game itself.

I find it strange in this light that chess (and go) have historically been seen as a sort of wargame, a respectable pastime for generals and the like. Reasoning and planning in the presence of uncertain information (the "fog of war") is one of the most important aspects of military strategy and actually common to most human endeavours. The 'uncertainty' due to the combinatorial complexity of the game doesn't really capture that sort of probabilistic scenario very effectively. For example, many games lacking perfect information do not have a solution, rather the optimal 'solution' is a mixed strategy where a player randomly selects from a set of strategies weighted by probability. This also means that the other player can't simply know "my opponent is playing perfectly, therefore they will play strategy X", making the game in some sense much harder. This, of course, tends to generalise to imperfect players and real-world games as well as just the ideal.
At any given point in any given summer, a large chunk of the country is on fire. That's the reality of having a massive landmass covered in boreal forest. The consequence of that is that we have a well funded, professional forest fire service that is among the best in the world at what they do.

If accepting American or Russian help would have helped save Canadian homes and businesses, we would have. The South Africans are here for diplomatic reasons more than anything, and they arrived long after the critical period when we were trying to protect property and lives.

This isn't the California wildfires. It's not threatening populated areas anymore. It's burning in a vast expanse of unpopulated subarctic forest. It's fine. The damage is done; now we wait for it to burn out while keeping an eye out for the next one.
> I don't care if notifications are delayed or even lost

But I hope you can imagine why a chat team does care if a technology doesn't allow them to send timely and reliable notifications.

It is often better to have no feature than a bad feature. I've never used the mobile web messenger, but if it is unreliable, only works in a few browsers, it makes sense to remove the product.
Shadow government is shadowy. Lawmakers with nannies are toothless... Lawmakers with overlords are nothing.
I have always been honest with what I'm being compensated. In six years I've nearly doubled my salary.
Yes, it's very easy to operate within personal moral boundaries when you fundamentally believe existing government laws support immoral stances. (e.g. drug dealers selling people marijuana for pain relief or people refusing to transact with slave owners)
People follow the path of least resistance and that path will not be Messenger, but something else, like Google hangouts.
If you are using VCS then you need to save your bump each time, producing this infinite "Bump version" commits. They look not very nice in VCS log
Yeah, first they threw out xmpp, so I couldn't use my preffered messaging app, then they kill messaging in the web view, forcing me to give up messaging or move to their messaging app, with intrusive permissions. This after they've soundly established that they don't respect users, with how they mangled addressbooks with an earlier version of the fb app.

At least, since they're closing access from alternative sources, they're slowly succeeding in driving me off facebook. At least if I now have to move to an app, I'll pick one that supports end-to-end encryption (which facebook+xmpp+otr did fine, btw, until they killed it).

I wonder how quickly things will turn in the coming decades, as the incumbent network silos continue to screw users on the altar of data mining and ad revenue, and anyone can start a competing product for free (up to ~thousands of users at least, and at that point, maybe you can find a monetization strategy or get investment to keep going until your product becomes another "big thing").

As far as I can gather, XMPP is pretty much a dead end at this point, Google Wave is open, but also dead as a spec. So what'll presumably happen, is that eventually someone will find a new, sane, extensible and open protocol, and it will take over. We now know some things that other protocols were missing: easy serialization, sane hypermedia, sane extensions, sane push, sane presence, sane async and sync modes (mail and im w/server side archiving) end to end encryption, and some form of trust or other way to mitigate spam. I'm guessing it'll be json based with perhaps swappable transport. Probably should be encapsulated in message-level authenticated encryption. And it'll probably be another five years before we see it realized.
free time which now you are spending discussing about FB.
Alpemix very well for me. Small,fast,cheap.
Well, I did not intent to vote that post, but now I upvoted it just to undo your mistake.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832828
And I couldn't be happier. I discovered Messenger as "FB chat without all the distractions" (and much snappier); and seeing that it gets prioritized (instead of being an alternative way) is, for me, a good thing.
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Probably worth mentioning in the title that this is part of the IPFS project, not just another library.
At a guess, it was probably "duo-ble" originally, but the pronunciation eroded from "due-wobble" to "dubbel" over time.
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Granted, it's been a while since I used hangouts, but surely that'll not be the path of least resistance. It's still a crap, web only interface? And google just launced Allo to kill video chats in hangouts, so I guess there's nothing left to save?

It'd be a good time for Duck Duck Go to revive it's XMPP server, and give it some polish, IMNHO.
As a very recent libpnet contributor, packet filters are on my personal wishlist. That said, I don't use them in my current project that uses libpnet, so they're definitely in the backlog, although they shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

As for reading and writing pcap files, I just use the pcap crate and use a common buffer. It's a little clumsy but it does work.
Reminds me of zenefits vs ADP
I loved my electric bike, especially when I went from heavy, slow SLA batteries to an expensive LiFePo pack.

Then I got a car and got lazy and tired of the dangers of trying to travel across town next to people texting on their smartphones in two ton SUVs
Out of the three sections that TFA is broken down into, two of them deal exclusively with how (and why) to improve your negotiation skills, and the third one is roughly 50 percent dedicated to the topic. If dedicating 83 percent of your essay to how and why to overcome "nonassertiveness and a dearth of social skills" isn't enough, exactly how much would be enough?

I personally found his advice extremely actionable, and I'm keenly aware that I struggle more with being assertive in negotiations than probably everyone I've ever worked with.

I'm very sorry if this comes off as insulting, but I have only ever known two developers who really needed much more basic advice than what Patrick is offering here, and I believe that both of them are mentally ill. (One has Asperger's Syndrome, and the other, I strongly suspect, has severe clinical depression which is going undiagnosed and untreated.)

Now, if you are in this situation yourself, it is absolutely worth your time to seek treatment, or at least research and practice using coping mechanisms that apply to the issues that you struggle with most. Seriously, just memorizing a few new sets of behaviors and then "executing the program" in appropriate situations can profoundly improve your quality of life, in ways that go far beyond getting a fatter paycheck.

If you want to discuss any of this with me further, feel free to contact me at afishionado@gmail.com.
This is awful. I refuse to have the Facebook app on my phone, and obviously refuse to have messenger too. The last thing I want is more of my xommunications and data owned by that company. Fortunately I can do perfectly well without reading my messages on the web browser. I hope this decision marks an inflexion point for the company
Maybe. Risk I see is that they are essentially financing long term leases with rental income that can dissapear in a month.
Thank you for bringing up this point - I've often thought about it before, but I didn't immediately think of the connection here. Just another reason why these kinds of changes are a bad idea. It might not be that often that you're without your device (battery died, stolen, forgotten), but when that happens not having a great fallback is really annoying. This goes for all kinds of apps and services, not just fb messaging.
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That's not true. You still can access the conversations from a browser on Android.

- press the chat icon

- wait for Google Play to open

- switch back to your browser

- press the "X" on the "Your conversations are moved to Messanger" dialog

- select the person you want to chat with

- wait for Google Play to open again

- switch back to your browser

Proof that it works: http://i.imgur.com/29BoF8V.png
you can disable webGL from your browser's settings.
The other way to solve this is to set your birthday to an incorrect date; that way you don't have to feel bad about not saying thanks.
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You comment is excellent. Thank you! It made me realize that I've actually been regarding games like Sudoku and Reversi like this for decades already. Having written programs to play both I find the games "solved".

What games do you find interesting to either just think of or to play?
Most sources put it around 2.5x more dangerous than driving, and I'd wager most of those deaths come from inexperienced riders who don't know the traffic laws as applied to bicyclists.

Unsure about deaths, but it turns out that more experienced cyclists are actually more likely to be injured, even taking into account that experienced cyclists generally ride more.

I can't find the paper now, but [1] shows a similar finding:

accidents were associated with.... cycling experience (curvilinear association)

[1] https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=1356866
I am more familiar with the "futures and promises" approach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises
I used the pattern suggested, but came up with no useful results after 3 tries:

* "channels in go" (no result)

* "mutex"(no result)

* "generator in python" (returned a page describing the Python programming language)
"some of us who are now highly educated but who's parents were not [...] results in better standards of living for us than for our parents. So, locally, the trend, seems for us to be moving in the right direction."

Say what?

In the 1950s, you graduated from high school (or even dropped out) and then went to work in the steel mill or car factory. (there were no robots and we didn't trade with China) You could support a family on that one income: house, car, wife, kids, etc.

Lately, you get your BA and then work 3 different part-time jobs. If you get the MA, and find somebody else who does, then the two of you can both work jobs and get a place of your own. Your student loans will be huge. Forget about kids.
And God forbid you use different 'people' profiles on your computer - all of a sudden you're getting 5 push notifications instead of 1
> 6kmh on just engine.

FWIW that makes it not a bicycle according to EN15194. EN15194 recommends a bicycle classification for vehicles which

* only ever provide assistance

* below 25km/h (with progressive cutoff)

* with maximum continuous rated power of 250W

Anything beyond that is classified as a moped.

Though EN15194 is a recommandation, member states are free to follow it or not.
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I hear that electric assist is quite popular in cyclocross these days too....
People don't hinge on words (although their lives may); they hang on them. The idiom is "case in point", meaning "here is an example in furtherance of my argument."

Yes, that may seem like nitpicking, but whether it's fair and logical or not, people will at least partially base their assessment of your message (or argument, or what have you) on the language you use to convey it.
There is an easier way. Before you click on chat, from chrome preferences choose"request desktop site"

Click chat icon. Profit
I applied yesterday when my app broke and was approved today. So less than 24 hours.
That is fine with me. I do not actually expect to ever meet him, anyway. Just saying it would probably be interesting.
Brilliant. So much for being able to use Facebook on a non-Android device.
This is why I always dowload mingw runtime of rust on windows.
and even after his retirement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OlmPyjsNU
Imagine if Tony had a HN account and was actualy reading these cmments. How would he feel?
If fb can't support basic browser based text chat they have a major lack of talent. If it's costing them much to support they have serious financial problems.

I don't think that either is true so I guess they just want to sniff around my phone. Sorry fb, not today.