skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is forced to manufacture addictive products, advertise them in misleading ways, pay celebrities and filmmakers to use them conspicuously, or buy prominent product placement everywhere a person trying to quit has to go, either.

You are introducing irrelevant other ideas to distract from the core of the OP's argument, which while a bit excessive IMO, warrants an honest discussion, not hyperbolic overreaction.
I recently switched from LuaKit to Qutebrowser and haven't looked back:

https://qutebrowser.org/

The project is actively developed (author recently did some crowdfunding to work on the project full time: [1]), and work is underway to support QtWebEngine as a backend (Blink/Chromium-based rendering engine).

[1]: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/qutebrowser-a-keyboard-fo...
Google vacation planner
The stand up should be capped to about 15 minutes, so there almost shouldn't be enough time for anyone to realize its boring.

However, you could try planking instead of standing, choose a cheesy theme song to let everyone know its time to start (think "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito).

Maybe play hacky sack while your standing up and choose the order of who goes next by passing it around the group.

Take a stand up walk, or hold it in a different place around the office so you get to see teams you wouldn't ordinarily interact with.

The best way to make it work is probably to try and get the team to inject some of their own interests and personalities into it.

Find out what they think is fun and get creative with trying to theme it.
Couldn't adding more assumptions also make it easier to falsify? Like if the assumptions obviously lead to inconsistencies or if the added assumption is required for the hypotheses and happens to be easier to test in isolation, then one could throwout the hypothesis while only checking a single assumption.
tracking is essential for everything :)
Yeah, disambiguation is a huge problem in search as well. I remember that when I joined (2009), I kept saying we need better disambiguation algorithms, because I was working on UI stuff and getting nonsensical results when I hooked up other teams' backends to the search result page. A bunch of teams were formed and I think the problem was largely solved by 2012 or so - there're some clever tricks you can pull when you have the amount of data and computing power that Google does.
Here's the problem though. They aren't being treated as such. They get the same treatment as pigeons.

http://imgur.com/Jp16eNN

And yes, i'm not gonna sweet-talk anyone into "seeing the light". But i'm not looking for headpats either. I'm just tired of this shit where people pretend this is an unsolvable problem.

Anyhow, you have a good head. Please use it better than i do.
When did this suposeddly happen?

I bought two TP-Link extenders about 3-6 months ago. Whenever I visited the addresses in the documentation shipped with the extenders my browser window received dozens of pop unders and redirect loops.

I only found out what the internal web address was by going directly to the website and downloading some firmware software which they supply for debugging.

I got these extenders from Amazon so don't really believe what the article says about timeframes.
Wow, this seems cool.

Has there been any research into OpenBTS, Osmocom, OpenLTE ?

This is really an opportunity for Facebook to show that they are serious with their efforts to bring Internet to developing regions.

Especially with the delayed adoption of Cellular tech generations on the cellphone side, I think an open source Stack is the only way to go.

If the networks are built using decommissioned tech from somewhere else, it will be brittle and won't be cost effective in the long run, especially considering energy consumption.

The only missing part now is a baseband implementation with GSM/UMTS/(LTE) support.
Conferences and journals are a filter. If your paper can't pass a few rounds of anonymized review (for a conference) then it probably isn't worth the readers time.

As an example, arXiv is has a lot of great papers but it also has a lot of bad ones. I'm unlikely to go there to find a paper unless someone referred me to a specific one.
Not proof that this happens every time, but some evidence from the 1980s: http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html
we will track your reaction to tracking, citizen!
Boom. The pepperoni library is browser download only.
Meanings drift over time. We can probably credit the terms 'REST API', 'HTTP API', and 'JSON API' for popularizing the usage of the term for 'web service', especially since that term went out of fashion in the mid-2000s.
> In 5 to 10 years we may get to the point where graphics are no longer indistinguishable from reality as we know it

I feel like I've been hearing this statement for decades now. The human brain is remarkably good at pattern separation, and given enough time and exposure to a stimulus it will work out what is real and what isn't. Until we have a simulated reality that is as information rich as reality we'll always be able to tell the two apart
Why I Had a Magnet Implanted in My Finger
Dump the boxes and pick up a cable card. Comcast rebates you $2.50 for having a cable card on your account[0].

[0]: https://www.xfinity.com/equipmentpolicy
It's not a link to any article. It's a link to a more-or-less random website with catchy domain, which throws a subscription request for some event in my face before I made heads or tails of it.
Never mind it not being a Kálmán filter; it's cool anyway.

What is the cloud of small dots?

Edit: Oh, they are samples from the hypothesis space, I suppose.
What's transform, op, transform? Transform to another basis, then do an operation which is easier to conceptualize, then transform back?
Top players: https://telecominfraproject.com/members/
While I've always thought that essay made good points, it's somewhat dangerous to overinterpret the thoughts of a Stalinist on groups without structure. Her solution is (obviously) to just have hierarchical structure, but this leaves you with the same problems as structureless, there's now just a channel by which people who play the game well can pretend to be accountable. Stalin himself proves that hierarchical groups aren't more accountable, even if they nominally have mechanisms to be so.
S3's durability numbers are for a single region (since they were quoting that number before they supported cross-region replication) -- so you'd get much better durability if you mirror your objects across regions. Which, apparently, is what Dropbox does.

Though if you require such high durability, you're better off with multiple providers in multiple countries, since at 11 9's, it probably becomes more likely that a provider will go out of business or a civil disturbance will make your data become unavailable than the chance of them losing it.
I completely agree, and it's my main concern. The outline that you present is completely acceptable, and even great, for a lifestyle business, it really isn't acceptable for a VC funded startup though.

I honestly wish more founders had the guts to admit when they haven't succeeded, even when they've made a bit of money. I've seen so many founders go out on funding rounds pitching scale in their market that the employees know isn't possible (and often they know too).

We all learn from failure, but a lot of people in this industry sort of half-succeed and don't have the guts to admit their idea didn't work. They plug along on the fumes of a bloated funding scene that is all to prepared to throw good money after "meh" money.

I don't really have an answer either, but this all makes the founders who have high burn rates actually look smart, IMO, because at least they're failing faster than everyone else.
> He (and many others) predicted things like Netflix and the information super highway but they got the delivery mechanism dead wrong - people were convinced it was going to be over cable TV networks.

Oh yes, I remember how around 1994 people were predicting the rise of "interactive TV" that would take over the world in 1997. The descriptions of what "interactive TV" would do were very similar to the web.
Compilation of honest reviews about the products
>They're now in the same business Webvan had 15 years ago, but their costs are low enough that it works.

People frequently mistake Amazon's business. They're not a store or a delivery service, Amazon is a logistics company.

What they do at the frontend is important, but their value as a business is everything in between... warehouses, picking systems, delivery logistics, AWS... doing as much of that stack themselves as possible and doing it very efficiently is their core.

Just try to buy AAA batteries to convince yourself that being a store isn't Amazon's core competence. (the review system, the recommendation engine, the product organization, it's all mediocre at best)
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By Occam's razor, though, most likely things went down (as it were) pretty much the way her mother said they did.

(You can default to the belief that she's just out for quick buck, and/or too emotionally fragile to make heads or tails of what actually happened, if you want to; but -- again, knowing the TSA, and their widely documented proclivity for callous and indefensible stunts like these -- I don't find either of those scenarios especially likely).
> erases the file first and
>> appends without erasing

This isn't the issue.
It's true there aren't many good answers. It's human nature to think the answer is just around the corner.
At least read Future Shock, IIRC it's a pretty fast read and very focused/concise compared to his followups. The later books (Third Wave and Powershift) were more about taking the fundamentals from Future Shock and extrapolating how they might affect the world.
> Birchbox. Soylent. Maybe Uber. You can think of others.

Go ahead, I'm listening. And what is this Birchbox which is a great success
again?

> Amazon succeeded because they figured out how to do online retail really well.

Actually, Amazon succeeded because they had everything you could want in
their stock, especially the rare things (books?) that literally nobody else
had (and you would pay for such a thing a special premium on top of its normal
price, but the alternative was to not have the thing, so it was a win-win).
I find it hard to believe Sally is so advanced if she writes code that others have difficultly reading.

It shouldn't take a year to find someone who writes unmaintainable soup.
Maybe this is off topic, but how do you pronounce Kubernetes. Is the last 'es' silent?
God forfend she be proud, or even unashamed, of the body she's made for herself at considerable effort and expense.
Linux is well supported by Lazarus and FreePascal!
Too bad there's nothing about handling recursion of the portal rendering.
watch out for big bob and his sandwich
free? Does nobody ever learn?
Sure, sometimes you have to make tradeoffs for what you have time to invest in.

But this isn't really about supporting the world's Lynx users specifically. There's a reason I put a whole class of non-mainstream UAs in there (and in particular Siri, given how likely it is that entirely non-visual UAs are to become more mainstream at some point, perhaps soon, on top of the awareness that intermediary UAs like GoogleBot are of course ubiquitous and clearly important). And which UAs you try to support has a chicken and egg effect on which UAs get employed as intermediaries in accessing your site/app... and therefore which UAs you think you see using it. Usage follows accessibility perhaps even more surely than accomodation follows demand.

If that weren't enough, the decision to do the things that would mean that your site is usable in Lynx is not just a feature -- it's also a technical decision. And like other technical decisions (database, language, library, application architecture, idioms and patterns you use, and data serialization/interchange format... which is actually part of what this decision actually is), it matters to how well your product performs and how tractable it is to develop and maintain, as well as how widely it can be consumed.

If you're having to make cold hard decisions about ROI for features, chances are decent that you're better off for thinking about whether it works in Lynx and why, even if not one single user visits with that specific UA.
The visualizations transforming biology
www.Examine.com does a great job analyzing nutrition/supplements studies.
> Sounds like you may be distracted by the body mod/sexy part

I was expecting a piece about transhumanism, or cybernetics, or something like that. The title references the "augmented body" and the first paragraph mentions body modifications. I didn't expect that to just mean breast implants (the article says those are the most obvious, but I didn't see where it mentioned any others at all).

If the title had pitched this as a profile of someone who does some 3D printing but doesn't fit the typical geek archetype, I think it would have been a better (and more honest) title. As it was written, it seemed empty and entirely too focused on her appearance, so by the time it got to the actual interview I had lost interest.
Sorry man.

You're right.

Kidding :).
Personally I would stop going to a store that installed them, as I find them highly unpleasant and the concept anti-social.
Can't get the hello world to run... something is amiss in the instructions. I get to here, using windows:

C:\Users\kkss\hellonode>docker build -t gcr.io/<HIDDEN>/hello-node:v1 .

An error occurred trying to connect: Post http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.23/build?buildargs=...
usetmems=&cpushares=0&dockerfile=Dockerfile&labels=%7B%7D&memory=0&memswap=0&rm=1&shmsize=0&t=gcr.io%2F<HIDDEN>%2Fhello-node%3Av1&ulimits=null: open
//./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified.
What I don't understand what's simpler and clearer in "REST API" term over
"REST service". The latter even reads shorter.

I do understand, however, that meanings drift. Mostly because undereducated
and clueless people, unfortunately.
> Sure. That doesn't apply to tobacco or sugar. We're using it in exactly the way the sellers intended.

Moderate tobacco use, in some forms, moderately increases cancer risk. Moderate sugar consumption doesn't overtly increase the risk of heart disease or obesity.

Overuse of most tobacco products dramatically increases your cancer risk, just as overuse of sugar dramatically increases its associated risks.

My point stands that nobody is forcing you to start smoking tobacco or eating large volumes of sugar. Why do you want to push all of the responsibility away from someone who willingly undertakes an optional activity with known risks?

It's not like every widely-available tobacco product hasn't had 50% or more of its packaging plastered with "warning, cancer!" labels for the last 30-odd years.

Should tobacco companies be held responsible for objectively-false advertising and marketing? Yeah, if memory serves they got beat up pretty well for that by the government many years ago. When was the last time you saw an ad for cigarettes on TV? It's been quite a long time since I have. That problem has already been taken care of.

With sugars you might be able to make an argument about a lack of in-your-face warnings - but why should those be required? Moderate consumption is fine. Excessive consumption is where the problem starts kicking in. Various government entities are already kicking up a stink about sugar-heavy products, so I wouldn't be surprised if we got such warning labels in the future anyway.
Navigating the perils of phpMyAdmin security
I like it, it's even compatible with my little GearVR. Of course, if I had $700+ to spend on peripherals, I probably wouldn't be using the budget headset in the first place.
I forgot about David Kelly. However I was referring more to this idea

> It was presumably clear to those in MI6 that Blair had already decided to go to war, so what would have been in it for them to try and persuade him otherwise? Probably an early retirement at best.

Which was replied to with a comment about ending up in an early grave. David Kelly, even if you believe he was killed by the government, was not killed because he tried to convince the Prime Minister not to go to war. His untimely demise came from pressure related to him leaking confidential information to the press. In my opinion those are two different things and I intended to address the former not the latter.

Also, to be clear. I think David Kelly was right and what he went through was incredibly fucked up.
So, every truck in the country needs modification so that owners of an expensive car can enjoy a luxury? This doesn't even come close to solving the problem. The same thing would have happened if a birch tree were laying across a bridge at five feet above the ground.
Thanks for posting! I'm a big fan of Mike Acton and the data oriented paradigm. Abstraction and encapsulation (which is what OOP is to me) often hinders deeper understanding of the problem, or at least hinders efficient implementation. Instead it creates conceptual and maintenance boundaries (which might be what's needed).
> I think larger companies don't like remote work because in such a setup a lot of middle management has nothing to do.

Nailed it. My Manager told this jokingly but most are not foolish to talk this in public.
Court decision raises issues about sharing passwords
Fewer assumptions = special cases and exceptions stand out more and are harder to integrate without altering the theory beyond recognition. More assumptions = more moving parts.

Because the idea is that the theory will be tweaked anyway. Nothing's gonna be perfect on the first try.
Cognitive Dissonance. F Google.
A best practice for moving to any off-grid lifestyle is to start paring down now and also start reducing your energy dependence. Back in the day when I was reading such articles, your typical North American house had a clock on the microwave, a clock on the VCR, etc and they all draw small amounts of power continuously. It adds up. You need to go on an electricity diet and break certain bad habits.

Passive solar approaches to keeping things a bearable temperature will drastically reduce your energy dependence.

You need toilet facilities. If you are healthy and have clean habits, you do not necessarily need to shower every single day. Carry hand sanitizer and use it liberally. If your hands are kept clean, everything you touch will stay cleaner.

A super short haircut can also help you stay adequately clean and decent-looking when reliable bathing facilities are hard to come by.

You can live without a mini fridge. It isn't an absolute necessity. It does require some lifestyle modifications. Only buy milk or other fresh items when you are about to use them. Get hot meals at eateries or cook with mostly shelf stable goods. You can also use a seed pot for preserving food without electricity. It isn't as good as a fridge, but it may be an option that works well for you to have some options while freeing up electrical load.

If it gets fairly cool at night, assuming you aren't in bear country, some things can be stored outside overnight to keep them cool. I have become quite fond of sodas cooled this way instead of being served over ice.

My experience: Cardboard, paper, cloth items and upholstery generate heat, much like a compost heap does. Limit those items and keeping your place cool in summer is much less challenging. You can reduce that amount of cardboard in your space by removing cardboard boxes from food (crackers, snacks, etc) and trashing them the minute you get groceries home.
They are probably the "particles", a bunch of different guesses made by the filter process.
Worldpay, Etsy’s payments processor, admits to service outage
That's the problem. You can't sell programming tools any more. Everyone expects them to be free. Walter Bright, the designer of D and one of the first good C++, is on here, and has mentioned that before.

So programming tools come from some source that has an agenda. Oracle. Microsoft. Google. Even Mozilla.
The obvious question is "what about licensing"?

The modules will need to pass EMC Compliance testing and be issued Compliance Certificates (expensive!).

A suitable Cell frequency plan will need to be created, approved by the local government, and then (expensive!) Radio Licenses issued.

Licensing as a Carrier and approval to connect with the local Telcom provider will need to be arranged, along with the (expensive!) registration fees.

Then when you have it running you'll suddenly run into interference problems from all the unlicensed boxes already installed by well meaning NGO's and private organisations. Not to mention clashes with networks in neighboring countries.

Bottom line: It's not as simple as just mounting radio box on a post and switching it on.

Open Source phone towers are not a new concept. Has been already done in a number of third world and island states. But without government licensing and approval to back you up, a bunch of soldiers will arrive and simply rip out your gear.

The above questions/comments are based on actual field experience in third world countries...
This high-profile publication is interesting because it combines an evolutionary perspective with new approaches to analyzing electronic health records.
One of the most clueless things Google does is use general search queries to suggest articles in Google News.

Just because I search for something, say a business, on the web doesn't in any way mean that I'm interested in seeing future news stories about that business.
For a financial institution, why is the blockchain better than existing distributed systems like paxos or gossip protocols?
That font is one of the hardest fonts to read I've ever seen used seriously on a website.
top of the head, duckduckgo , buffer
Since when do unmet online petitions count as news? Anyone who puts stock in this should remember well how easy it is to bot.
I'll donate when it all gets setup. I really like Pascal. Jeff Duntemann is writing new intro books and releasing then under a Creative Commons license iirc. It's a great language and a killer environment.
I'm not suggesting she not be proud or for her to be ashamed about her body. I'm just saying that it's not interesting to learn about. There are literally 3.52 billion women who should be proud of their bodies, but I don't feel obligated to listen to any one of them be proud.

also I'm pretty sure you meant to say "unashamed, or even proud".
Very good advice, I love every since part of it and added it to our leadership documentation https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership/
Doesn't work on 64 bit, but I seem to recall something about the first 2 bytes of a PE header. :)
We already have affordable college: community college.

Many people don't realize that everyone still won't be able to go to college. When we open it up to everyone, there will now be a supply/demand issue and the college will now be filtering even more on grades/merit, a la what they do in most parts of Asia.

So, when there seems to be no diversity because less affluent/poor students still can't get into school, will we have to force the issue by pushing more students into schools that haven't actually earned it?

The reason education in America is so expensive is because of the government-backed loans. Universities know that the students are buying everything on credit and don't really care that it will take them decades to pay it back (if they ever actually pay it back).

We need to completely get rid of this superfluous system, not prop it up even more and fleece the tax payers in the process.

The expensive education problem mimics the expensive health care problem. When you remove the insurance and banking systems that are profiting from it, both become affordable.
Eh, 'service' is an extremely overloaded term, so constructions like 'HTTP service' and 'JSON service' are ambiguous and awkward. I actually rather prefer the term 'API' used as a metonym [1] to describe the running instantiation of the 'actual' API, because the meaning is disambiguated by context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy