skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One trick that worked for me (pack+ a day smoker for 5+ years) was not exactly calling it "quitting". I had tried quitting a bunch of times, but every time I had a lapse in will power and had a cigarette, the justification to start again basically went "oh well, guess I failed quitting, time to go out and buy a pack."

When I changed my mindset to more of a "I just don't really smoke anymore." it was ok to have one every once in a while when I was out with friends and not feel like I failed. Now I'm basically down to only one cigarette a year or two when I'm with old friends, and I usually feel bad enough in the morning after it that I don't really have any desire to smoke again for a long time.
Flag as much as you pervertedly enjoy it - I really don't care, and this here is not kindergarten! CSS and JS don't have to be in any dictionary as they are abbreviations! I'm not rude - you just fail to comprehend what I'm trying to say. If your issue is that you associate yourself with one of those, then I apologize, but I can't be rude as I don't expect idiots to hang in here as this is not Reddit.
At least it's not Rails anymore /s
arxiv is not open. At least not as open as it should be in my opinion. But I fully agree on the chicken-or-egg problem. The main problem is bootsrapping such web service.

I don't think that "anoiting" a forum/web service would be a good strategy. We need to keep open the possibility of a new and better system to take over.

My feeling is that two fundamental requirements must be satisfied. 1. Anybody should be able to submit a paper. 2. Anybody must have an opportunity to become a recognized expert in a field. By anybody I mean that academic or career credentials must not come into play.

Obviously this begs for a rating system on the articles and on the "experts" too. Obviously recognized "experts" should have a bigger weight in the rating than random members. This makes it different from reddit and hacker news. But the idea is similar. Members should also be able to filter papers by rating and be notified only when a paper reaches a desired ranking. This is another difference from hacker news and reddit.

I would be very interested in participating in a project of this kind.
It's basically applied actor-network theory from sociology and the delegation of control to objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory
I personally prefer the UI design on pexels over unsplash
Kind of related, I did something similar (as in purpose) for slack [1]. It can be used to set yourself away or... well, it can respond a canned message as you. It also disables the annoying auto-away after 30min. You can even close slack and let it send you system notifications for incoming mentions. Heck, you could even run it on a server and pretend to be you whilst you sip mojitos on a beach.

[1]: https://github.com/eskerda/slack-keep-presence
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You and I know that in absolute terms people are better off now than they were 30 years ago. But, that's simply not how regular people view the world. Their evaluations are relative. They will always be relative.
> overall it seems to be mostly trying to call attention to these things.

Thanks for pointing this out. For me, items like the Camden bench immediately stood out as having that coercive element, so I assumed the article had an axe to grind against them by focusing on their negative effects.

It seems that these kinds of coercive design elements are not equally transparent to everyone. In that light, the article would definitely enlightening to the unaware.
//As a comparison, India, which teaches Hindi and English in school, both of which much simpler scripts than Han, has achieved an average of 74% literacy rate in the most recent census.//
The reason for lower literacy rates in India may not anything to do with how complex their scripts are. Elites just passed on their Sanskrit scriptures orally among themselves to exclude others from learning them. Their laws also denied education to the working class. In modern times, many children just can't go to school for many reasons. There are no schools accessible or affordable, they may need to fetch firewood, water, may need to take care of cattle, family members, and so on. (My mom curse their parents to this day, because they stopped her school in her 4th grade, to take care of her baby sister). In south India, there are free meal schemes for school children to alleviate these problems to some extent.
I can't answer the supply chain stuff specifically but if you pick up a book on Queuing Theory and skim the results and theorems for simple queues and queueing networks, you'll make these conclusions yourself.

I'd recommend one but it's been ages since I was an undergrad and I no longer remember specifics.
- If latency isn't an issue you could store your things on Backblaze [1] which is by far the cheapest storage I've found.

- For my high-storage requirements I rent a dedicated Hetzner server with 2x3TB disks for around 30 euro/month [2]

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

[2] https://robot.your-server.de/order/market/country/DE
This is because we speak Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan, using Traditional, rather than Simplified characters, whereas people in Hong Kong speak Cantonese using Traditional characters. It's a different language entirely.

Similar to how you can use Chinese characters (traditional or simplified, whatever) to write Vietnamese and Korean and Japanese, as used to happen many years ago.
Is there a panic button that I can press now to 100% opt out of this ?

Google is effectively transforming itself from an ad company to a big/huge brother, the real big brother that now knows everything I do. Facebook is no better either.
Here's an option you might not have considered, but might be applicable, depending on the read/write speeds you need from those hundreds of gigabytes of data. Amazon has cloud drive, which costs something like 50 bucks a year, and has unlimited storage.

The neat thing is someone created a FUSE file system called acd_cli that allows you to use the cloud drive as if it were a normal hard drive. The speeds aren't too shabby either; I easily get 150MB/s up and down on my dedicated server, and response times are snappy. Additionally, you can create a unionfs mount so that writes are instant, and you sync new files on a regular schedule.

Of course, that might not be applicable to your use case, but I use mine for many things. I have a plex server running using that with over 13TB of videos, and it works flawlessly. It allows me to run a full plex server with unlimited storage for 20 bucks a month.
I highly recommend Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/
You could go with hetzner. They recently had a special for a 64GB with 2x4TB hard drives for $54, and do a bunch of VMs on it.
Thanks. S3 would work fine for me (from a tech perspective), but the question is, would it offer ~500 GB storage for under $10/mo?
Very light on facts. (Cherry-)picks a few companies which embrace telework that are successful. Lists four collaboration apps. Fails to make a compelling case that companies who don't embrace remote working are wrong,

Also author's affiliation is unclear. Retweets everything from PukkaTeam (a product mentioned in article) -- which says © isev -- which author works for. A disclaimer in the body or footer of the article would have been welcome!
i wish i could live in as simple a universe as this person. maybe our anger stems from boiling down the "other" to "crazy" and "stupid" and "ignorant" rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt and making an honest attempt to understand them.
Cool, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4176 has our attention but it doesn't have a milestone yet. Feel free to leave a comment there with your use case and how you think it should look.
that appears to be totally proprietary
Basic income gives people a real choice - a choice to not work. Not everyone wants to earn their keep (or wants to earn their keep in a way that translates easily to cash, for example artists or ministers).

If someone wants more than the basic, though, more than just eating and shelter, they can always go get a job, doing those things that may not be pleasant, but are financially valuable (like picking up the garbage). And since people can choose to not do them in a meaningful way (not just choosing between work and starvation), the jobs will have to start paying real value.
Is that because you are using a "Google Apps" account? Apps has always lagged behind the "free" accounts in terms of functionality. Google Now works almost flawlessly for me with a Gmail account - appointment reminders, flight information, weather information, suggested places nearby, restaurant information, sports updates etc are generally always accurate.
Most of the homeless I've seen sleep on heating grates not on benches. Am I in the wrong city?
TP-Link forgets to renew domain used to configure router settings
kimsufi = OVH , just FYI.
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Interesting use of the language here: Google does not allow you to turn settings off, it merely allows you to PAUSE them. Say what you want about the end result, but the way they weasel around with words here makes me feel uncomfortable.
it is no different with about any derogatory word, the majority persist because the target group uses the word as well if not more because they have impunity in their use of it.
> Look at what Mark Zuckerberg consumes, not what he earns!

I disagree; what one person hoards isn't available for others to consume. Both wealth and consumption are worth examining.
They should talk to the Democrats, who are facing the same issues here.
Alrighty. I'll stick to what I know best. Thanks for the reality check.
> WMD were never a credible excuse for war in the first place
I couldn't agree more. Neither the UK nor US were under an existential threat. Even if they had reason to believe that there was a direct threat to an ally i.e. Israel, that is no reason to wage pre-emptive war.

> Finally, there was no bluff going on - that's revisionist history
That's simply not true. The Iraqi government were deliberately dicking the IAEA inspectors around trying to maintain the fiction that they still had chemical weapons. They wanted the outside world to believe that they were a threat but gambled that there was no political will to do anything about it. They were right on the former and, until 9/11, right on the latter.

What I find shocking is the gullibility of the intelligence services and the politicians. What I consider heinous is that they were willing to wage pre-emptive war regardless of the motive.
That's definitely true - so basically, the buyer is more averse to buying especially considering they are essentially investing in the dark, going off of public news or hearsay? For some of the most-fundraised private companies e.g. Uber, Airbnb, Stripe etc. I figure many would be satisfied with the last private round valuation or a small discount, and the loss/market inefficiency here (5-10%) would still allow most deals to work. However, as a seller, your pitch, especially for less-well-known companies, would be much more difficult.
I love the meaning of this article. Living a simpler life is a happy life! Great job.
Interesting anecdote. Can you maybe provide details about this "raised production 11%"? How was this measured? I'm baffled to see that they would revoke the policy if it was so successful and removed useless positions.
As a fellow Georgia Tech grad, I wholeheartedly concur. The course on Political Philosophy was not only one of the most challenging classes, but also the most useful in daily life. It really changed how I think about the world--so much so that I decided to to double major in international affairs/modern languages. It's a pity that the social sciences/liberal arts aren't as respected at engineering schools. Those courses were equally enriching (if not more so) to my life as combinatorics, differential equations, and quantum mechanics.
Ugh, what a nasty little, finger-pointing, stone-casting society you seem to desire. Is there anything that you'd blame on society/industry/government, or is it always 100% the individual's fault?
Wonderful! You are so inspirational!
If you don't get a lot of responses here, I'd search reddit r/diy. Motor home/trailer renovations show up periodically. In the comments they'll share why they setup things in a particular way or what they might change.
Do these lookups ever hit public nameservers? Seems to me you're using the router's built-in DNS and it self-reports its own IP address.

This is how Netgear works. routerlogin.com gets resolved locally to the IP of my router. It would be foolish to have it resolved by something on the internet as router setup often involves doing things when the internet isn't working.

That said, its foolish to not have those domains in your back-pocket, but I imagine budget router OEMs are run like shitshows in general and that's probably the least of your problems. Often they just rebadge a reference router made by $no_name_company, no better than an alibaba reseller. I've always considered these cheapo routers to be a sort of bargain with the devil, sure they're cheap and less hassle than setting up pfsense, but you know you're getting a substandard product with no real support and probably more than a couple significant security risks.
ZX Spectrum +3 user here
Well, it's not just that there was data, it's that the opt-out sliders were re-enabled.
War is coming, but military power is also more asymmetric than ever. The US fared relatively poorly in the skirmish-like proxy wars of the last 50 years, but that's a different type of warfare than another world war would be. The goals aren't to win and hold territory, the goals are to create a stable environment. All the opponent has to do is create chaos with guerrilla warfare and the US loses.

When you're talking about a total war scenario, the US is effectively unbeatable for a lot of reasons. Ignoring the amount we spend (much of which is wasted on graft and ineffective procurement), we hold the distinct advantage of geography. We're fully capable of building a war machine all by ourselves -- we have the raw materials, the industry, and most important of all: a several-thousand mile long buffer zone between the US and any potential enemy looking to disrupt production.

China is the only real rising threat, and even then, they have two or three decades of catching up to do. And ultimately, I'm not convinced there are any resources that China and the US both covet so much as to go to war with each other: both are large, geographically diverse countries with a wide range of natural resources. The Chinese also have very little to gain by a shooting war: they will naturally eclipse the US in a global economy in the next 100 years anyway, so why bother fighting a dangerous enemy on the battlefield when you have better economic weapons?
well they have to pay the comute costs, if you ignore everything else
Matt Harrigan mentions that the average company in their accelerator has raised over $500K before being accepted with exceptions being for formidable founders (their words).

From GCT's website:

Q: FREE rent and ZERO equity fee? Sounds too good to be true; is it?

A: Nope. Believe it. We only ask two things: One, to be a great community member and to take on at least one intern from our internship program. In the past, 85% of our interns have been offered ongoing, paid work with their companies. They are great. Two, to commit to staying in the building after your year in GCT provided doing so is not deleterious to your business. We’ve built a highly configurable, 40,000 square foot coworking space to fit your company’s needs as they grow and our rates are competitive with the market. Our intention in making this request is to maintain the most valuable asset you’ll acquire during your time at GCT – the camaraderie and support of your peers.
Not only homeless people would like to sleep in benches. Sometimes you just want to rest a bit, and a bench in a park is a good location.
To use another technical analogy...I teach data analysis using SQLite...the purpose of the course is for students (most of who have never actually programmed) to be introduced to SQL, but more fundamentally, the concepts of databases and data joins. Ignoring the profound differences in database architecture...SQLite follows most of the SQL standard [0]...but I think there are enough syntax differences between it and Postgres that the gulf might be roughly comparable to at least the disparity in vendor prefixes on the browser side. As for SQLite vs. MySQL...well, I used to teach lessons that allowed the use of either SQLite and MySQL, and gave that up after a year.

In addition to being SQLite focused, I tell students to just use one open-source, cross-platform client: http://sqlitebrowser.org/

Sure, you could make the argument that I'm woefully preparing my students for jobs in which PG/MySQL/MSSQL is by far the standard...whether you're talking about web applications or dealing with legacy data files. But job viability is not in my scope...I argue that I'm teaching students the fundamentals of data and logical joins...that I use SQLite is merely an implementation detail.

That's how I feel about the CS 142 class...if students come out of that class being able to understand even an intermediate level of all those concepts...when they get out into the "real world", learning how to write for cross-browser compatibility will be well within what they can learn on the job. Just like it's trivial to learn the other variants of SQL once you've grokked SQL itself.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/lang.html
From yesterday: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/07/05/bot-bot/
Yup. I'm honestly sick of it. Everyone I talk to seems to think "the country has gone to shit" or another world war is just around the corner.

Maybe I just don't see how bad things are from my little bubble, but the people I hear it from seem to be doing fine.

My guess is it's caused by consuming too much media, watching CNN or Fox News for too long seems to put fear into people.
I can't comment about the IE situation but the page looks nearly identical in Chrome for me.

I don't see any alignment issues at all actually; the text is supposed to sit just to the left of the center of the page.
Any tests done on integrated graphics such as those in normal laptops?
Special Letter from Warren Buffet (2014) [pdf]
Well, frankly speaking, everybody does quit eventually. It's inevitable.
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> How is this on Hacker News?

It's not very different from dossiers that (intelligence, financial, political) analysts write about different scenarios all the time. While the text does contain more emotional imagery and blog-style tag lines, you'll basically find the same content in many organizations' databases.

Personally I think there is at least some merit to the reasoning behind this specific scenario: the population of the West is beginning to reject the globalisation effects that have brought global peace but left many disadvantaged, while religious and ideological radicalism is sharply on the rise world-wide. As the intellectual level of discourse is declining, the influence of populist ideas is becoming ever greater. From a bird's eye perspective, it seems humanity overall is in the process of rejecting peace, science, and secularism in favor of short-sighted economic considerations and dubious promises.
I use Kimsufi for a load of small side projects. AFAIK they are decommissioned OVH servers. You lose RAID as well as some other features like fail-over IPs.
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I think the grandparent was referring to things like startup speed and memory consumption when they said "lighter", not rendering performance.
And as the essay mentions - "But human psychology doesn't work in absolute terms. It works in relative ones." - this is how psychology works.

As much as all the "logical" and "rational thinking" folks in the world want to ignore and dismiss emotions and politics in decisions and actions, the truly rational thinking and logical decisions and actions understand, accept, and take into account emotions and politics.
How much of this is just "mobile apps suck?"

That is, it is such a pain to build mobile apps that it is much easier to make a mobile chat client and put the smarts on the back end than it is to develop other kinds of user interfaces? (For instance, why did Facebook buy What's App?)
As a nationalist, I can certify that the author gets their understanding of our motivations completely wrong. Indeed, every time Trump or Le Pen are dismissed as "crazies", our resolve only gets stronger.

The abject refusal of the Left to even so much as attempt to understand this incipient uprising is shocking.
Ferris Bueller would be proud.
HotSpot does offer that. It's basic functionality that all incremental or concurrent garbage collectors offer. You can adjust the max pause time with -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis.
the disgusting part is that, that activities logging is all on by default, and when you delete them you have to pick one activity a time(there is no reset all logs to zero option), google you're indeed evil.
James Allworth wrote something similar that made the case better:

https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/brexit-trump-and-the-ultim...
Oh, you are right. That is actually a particle filter. I'm sorry, I studied both on the same day and misremembered which one I had implemented.
I typed in „tplinkextender.net“ a while ago to configure my router (as suggested in the manual) and it opened some malware site. Seems to be fixed now.

Quite common problem as it seems: http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?7518-tplinkextender....
Thanks, yes, I actually found them via OVH only, but SO much cheaper than OVH!! The configs offered are much inferior, but okay for my requirements.
Okay, I get the article is a bit polarizing. I've been wanting to work remotely for about a year now. Remote jobs are hard to get. Here's what I think about remote workplaces though:

- Remote work is hard. It's tough to get right. However, remote work is worth it. It's worth putting in the extra effort to try and get it right for your work place and your job. You get to spend more time with your kids, your SO, and you can travel.

- Face time is still important. Remote work makes face time a pleasant treat that you look forward to.

- Remote work makes financial sense.

- Good remote workers have to be excellent communicators.

It's not for everyone, but it's important that most organizations at least try and make it a reality for those that want it. Everyone will be the better for it.
What is the data source/age of the data? The new BigQuery datasets?
After killing a President, starting a new war and killing thousands in a decade, the report says, Umm it was all wrong. Earlier Blair had said sorry

I wonder whether West could give same options to the likes of Osama, Qaddafi, Aiman AlZaharvi or this luxury only available for non-Muslims only?
> On the other hand, compaction is itself an extremely expensive operation as it means moving the blocks of memory (allocations) around in the heap.

That's why you don't do it often.

> Do you know of any real-world examples where the lack of compaction is impacting usage of Go ?

The biggest problem with all nongenerational GCs, including Go's, is lack of bump allocation in the nursery. You really want a two-space copying collector (or a single-space one) so that allocation in the nursery can be reduced to 3 or 4 machine instructions. By allowing fragmentation in the nursery, Go pays a heavy cost in allocation performance relative to HotSpot.
How voice apps can make meetings suck less
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "pancake-shaped disk" is not only redundant (because all disks are pancake-shaped) but backwards (since actually it's pancakes that are disk-shaped - pancakes are a special case of disks, which are really cylinders).

Sorry, this is more fun for me than marveling at the photo. It is pretty cool though.