skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that's an unfair comparison for two reasons: (1) People were already comfortable with the idea of paying for cabs, cable, games, books/electronics in the old world. Whereas the current norm is _not_ to pay for social media services.

Of course; this is because cabs, cable, games, books/electronics all provide value. Most social media services don't, at least not enough value for people to pull out their credit cards.

> (2) A transportation service, game, streaming video service, e-retailer can deliver value to their first customer. A social network is only valuable if others are using it. If Spark / Twitter 2.0 launches tomorrow, even if they can provide a bunch of product improvements over Twitter 1.0, the first users have no reason to pay b/c they're joining an empty / worthless conversation, so at launch it's almost necessary to allow people to join for free. And this creates the norms described in (1).

I disagree, I think the norms described in (1) exist because Twitter/Spark provide very little value to their users.

You're describing a first-to-market advantage, but that's not really relevant. If that were a signifiant deciding factor, Twitter could simply institute a subscription fee and be profitable by tomorrow. But they can't: if they did that, they'd lose all their users overnight.
The trick to have a good time in Boston for me has been to live close to the office. It's 40 minutes per day instead of 40 minutes per week but it's still a far cry from what I hear some of my friends are doing in SV. And the housing here is such that it's entirely within the realm of reasonable to find housing that close.
You have to be a Chinese citizen to sell on Alibaba. They make you type in your Chinese identification number (whatever it's called) when you sign up.
I finished the expanse series in about a week- it's a fantastic sci-fi, but it's really not for people who go in expecting action. Most of the series is space politics, as well as an annoying tendency to just vaguely hint at alien stuff, flip flopping between space magic and dumb ol' block.

That being said, I really liked it, and I would recommend it. Also, if they're not your thing, the first book is the only one with zombies.
The problem with this would be shipping times. I'm assuming this set up would be to list items on Amazon that you can purchase for cheap on Aliexpress? If so, Amazon buyers might not be happy with long ship times from China.
I found an alternate link to Hadrian's Wall that includes a kindle version (thus a preview sample) etc: https://www.amazon.com/Hadrians-Penguin-History-Brian-Dobson...

[edit: although I see it has a lot of illustrations so kindle format maybe non-ideal.]
Both of mine (1996 and 2007) were under an hour, and that was gated on me reading each of the docs and validating the figures on the HUD-1, which I demanded they present to me the afternoon before and I scheduled both closings to start at 4 PM.

On both HUD-1s, I found "innocent mistakes" that would have been against my interests by a few hundred dollars. I started to believe that those weren't so innocent after all, but rather calculated to get people to just sign over an extra few hundred dollars to get things over with. Starting that argument at 10 AM by email was a way more effective use of my time than raising it (or caving) during the closing. "If you don't have this sorted, we'll have to reschedule the closing" is effective motivation for the real estate agents and mortgage broker, whose commissions are on the line.
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45 minutes a week commute? Are you primarily working from home?

Thats less than 10 minutes a day, which seems extraordinarily low, even for South Western VA traffic which is signicantly better than traffic in NoVA.
Too much so, for me, but it came with a nice soundtrack/playlist.
If the Chinese company can easily clone a product and still deliver something bellow their competitor's product price I'd say the R&D costs for the original company were overblown.

The Japanese company should have recouped their additional costs between the product launch and the Chinese company's product launch. If that interval was too short for them to do so it means that, as I said before, their "costs to create the product in the first place" were too high to begin with. For society's greater good we should put no premium on "I was here first/I did it first!", but only on "I build this product using less resources, hence it has the lowest price!".
I am sick to death of patent trolls, frivolous copyright lawsuits, RIAA/MPAA bullying, the broken and ridiculous patent system, bullcrap like the DMCA, and how obviously bought our lawmakers are in terms of extending and broadening copyright laws. It really makes it impossible for me to have any sympathy for "victims" of copyright violations or patent infringement. They can go pound sand.
> You don't want to complect

Some people want full control of the pipeline. I'm one of them so this doesn't bother me personally.

However I kind of agree with you as it's PITA sometimes that quantopian does not allow importing external or personal libraries so everything that is not included at the libraries they allow to import must be copy/pasted to each algorithm. I hope/think this will improve at some point though..

ps. https://www.quantopian.com/posts/black-litterman
I spent time on some of it. I'm only 35 so perhaps a bit young; or maybe I didn't spend enough time in arcades.

I found it heavy handed. Just dumping tons of references all over the place. Felt like he printed out a list of games and stuff and just made sure to check each one off.
Probably a better title would be "It's okay to be an employee, too."
Not to mention the love interest relationship, which is basically, "Love interest doesn't trust protagonist until the story reaches a climax and all of a sudden she's protag's girlfriend despite not having any new reason to be that."
Having different engine is good, even "non-obvious" ones

If you look at the sources of TypeScript you can see it supports: Node.js, Windows Script Host and ChakraHost (see [1])

I made a little experiment to support another engine: the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) which not only support ActionScript 3.0 but also JavaScript (see [2])

Personally it's not that I don't like Node.js, but I do like the idea to take the JS sources of some command-line tool and bundle them in one independent executable to then distribute it as a deb package or Mac OS X pkg etc. without having to first install node.js/npm

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/src/comp...

[2]: https://discuss.as3lang.org/t/the-case-when-you-dont-want-no...
If they're shipping crates over to the US and sitting on the inventory then they're not doing arbitrage. That's vanilla reselling. They're even providing a service by offering considerably quicker shipping times.

Arbitrage makes money purely off of information disparities between the parties. The guy who is better plugged into the market is able to mark up items in the middle of a transaction without having to take on any risk or provide any service.
The three items you list -- anti-intellectualism and love of physical action; xenophobia and fear of subversion; national or tribal supremacism -- remind me of the Scotch-Irish, especially the lowland Scotch-Irish who've traded in their dulcimers, moonshine, and family feuds for NASCAR, OxyContin, and Christian Dominionism.

How does one convince a society, especially a very xenophobic society, to abandon characteristics that make it unusually vulnerable to fascism?
I am no way qualified to interpret or make any sense those. 23andme has been in existence for over a decade, sure these papers might be great but have they led to anything tangible that a ordinary person like me can benefit from ? I am genuinely curious, i really want to know.

I've been a subscriber for over 7 yrs and have gotten all the upgrades they offered over the years. I am yet to get a single useful peice of data out of it. All my extended family has it too and none of them have gotten anything out of it other than of entertainment value. If they have made significant breakthroughs why I am as a consumer not seeing any benefits in over a decade.
I want to disagree with you, but I paid for app.net and then didn't use it... so I guess I can't.
Freedom of Speech is relative.
Not at all, but the submission's title is literally "Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival" and this discussion started with the question what's wrong about the Dell XPS13 that makes it worse than the Macbook Air, so I think it's fair that to point out that the design characteristic in question is found in both devices.

In any case, what does being a fan have to do with appreciating good design? I'm no fan of Apple either, but I appreciate their product design nonetheless. I'm not sure why your reaction was that sharp.
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Honestly you should not be running a password manager that directly ties into your browser. Period. It's an unnecessary attack surface on a high-value target.

Running as a separate application outside the browser is 95% as easy thanks to auto-type.
With "stay home" plan, the only thing "decisive and ovewhelming" is going to be the enemy's strike., when it's too late.

Today politics are global, requiring constant control and supervision. From East Chinese Sea, to the Baltic Sea, each side is constantly probing the boundaries. Once a weakness in the global enforcement is spotted, another Crimea or Burma or North Korea or Syria flares up.

Global military policy fights fires at the source, when still small, not waiting for the fire to become an inferno, letting itself in into backyard without knocking.
"Excel follows the IEEE 754 specification on how to store and calculate floating-point numbers"

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf disagrees with that (the author knows a bit about IEEE 754, having been "the primary architect behind the standard" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan))
Thanks I guess, but my comment was not a cry for help or a solicitation of advise--it was simply an example to put forward against the article's (presumed) central premise:

> To say that you’re exhausted is to telegraph that you’re important, in demand, and successful. It’s akin to the humblebrag of ruefully describing yourself as “so busy”

I don't think exhaustion telegraphs any such thing. It's not something people are proud of and want to sustain. Instead, it's unfortunate normalcy for workers in 2016. People would gladly give up their exhaustion if they could.
Local storage is extremely cheap. Except for mobile devices where it's kept artificially expensive as a way to price discriminate.

However, I would not want to build a company around bypassing local storage because when (if?) local storage becomes cheaper on mobile devices, there will be absolutely no benefit of using their product.

Then, as the photos and videos keep getting bigger and bigger due to higher resolution and quality, the bigger problem will be uploading those files to the "cloud" in the first place, not not having enough local storage. Because, compared to local storage, network connectivity for mobile devices will take longer to become mature.
I tried LastPass, but didn't trust them, so I found https://www.passwordstore.org/ some year ago. I can't emphasize enough how good it is, mainly because it is so dead simple and transparent in how it works, and also because it has great bash integration, and uses git which makes it easy to sync between your machines. There is also a firefox plugin that integrates with it, but I don't really see that you need it: it is so easy to use at a prompt.
Aren't these mostly for domestic (or at least local) deliveries? I suspect they are currently delivering in only 1-2 8-hr shifts.
The amount of publicity associated with this battery pack plant is a bit much. Tesla's battery factory is about the same size as LG's battery factory in Michigan.[1] That's the source of the Chevy Volt battery packs. (LG is adding a fourth production line for an undisclosed customer.) That's just one of LG's plants. They make the batteries for the Chevy Bolt in South Korea.

There are large EV battery plants in operation or under construction all over the place. US, UK, Germany, Korea, China... VW is planning a plant bigger than Tesla's full sized expansion.

Nissan has the largest lithium-ion battery plant in North America right now.[2] They're building a bigger one in the UK.

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101606_ford-wants-to-de...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBboW2Sw3Co
You need to consider the exploit paths though. Remote or local. With or without user interaction.
As someone who lives in California and practices lane filtering daily, I think you'd be surprised how much of a non-issue all three of your points are.

Addressing #1, the problem with cutting in line is that people now behind you will have to wait longer for their turn. This is very rare when a m/c filters. It's much more like moving around the line than cutting in line. Most drivers here in CA are very well aware of this when lane filtering occurs. Additionally, m/c's will generally not go to the front and occupy the lane, but rather ride between the lanes... essentially opening up an additional lane.

#2 is very much like #3, motorcycles are generally gone before drivers put their cell phones away at a newly green light. The 2 lanes are designed for the size of cars, motorcycles can safely ride between these lanes.

#3 may be a regional thing to your area, but most definitely not true in Ca.

There are certainly some drivers who get angry at motorcycles for "cutting in line", but I've personally experience many, many more drivers making extra room to let riders pass.
I think this is what happens your service does not have a responsible disclosure and reward policy. Every fairly important service should have a security page and you should think of what you should be rewarding for each scenario in advance. Because it will happen and you better give people good reason to stay ethical.
They have plenty of publications, most of which are "we found genes assoicated with <X>".

Unfortunately, association studies don't tell you much beyond "there is a correlation between X and Y" which typically needs to be followed up with a lot more research. It's not even clear that association studies really pay their way- they cost a lot and produce associations, but the link to disease treatment is often very poor.

it's really a shame nobody has truly shown a very convincing way to convert genotyping/genomics and medical records into better treatment.
Pizza has sizes(Large, medium, small), Items(Pepperoni, mushroom, etc), extras (extra sauce, no sauce ), 1/2 items.
I feel that "Inside Out" is more of a rites of passage story, where the falling of those childhood 'infrastructures' is due to change, especially disruptive ones (just the denial of "sadness" felt a little too simplistic).

But I think with depression, there is less 'logic'; it's much harder for you to follow what the hell is going on. Kinda like a big mess of yarn that's so knotted up you really wanna grab a pair of scissors and cut them up, and throw them in the fire for good measure. It's destructive, and that's why depression is awfully dangerous. Now you might think that the process itself will lead to that blank slate - I gave a pile of cards metaphor earlier - enabling a chance to build better and even turn the experience to some sort of character enrichment. But it's not that glamorous; not everyone can hold on for that long. I do count myself extremely lucky.

But one thing the film definitely got right was the concept of support. Riley eventually got through by allowing herself to break down and tell her parents everything, acknowledging the bits that she consciously feels to be weak, pathetic et cetra, like sadness. And that's really important for someone who's depressed; you will not be able to help yourself. Contrary to your belief, you need outside support to help you battle those demons and tell you that A is A and not a+b+c-d. It might be difficult to find good support, and initially I didn't either, but I knew my mom to be fundamentally caring about me and by approaching her, we slowly went down the road to detangle the mess. I'm not gonna kid, it was rocky as we didn't have a very good relationship, but we got there eventually. And learnt a bit more about humanity.
Concrete camouflage paint for prototypes. Very savvy. I wonder if our heavy industry (GM, Ford, Boeing, Lockheed, General Dynamics, etc) benefit from NRO intelligence of what's going on in European and Asian industrial sites.
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Byte-code manipulation?! No - never. I'm not sure where that comes from. I've had to write my custom ObjectMappers for JSON and some glue mappers for JDBI - but they were pretty lightweight. In fact, I've some examples in github of a custom key-value server written using Dropwizard with examples of those...
The article states straight up that Win32 is used in way too many applications for Microsoft to ditch it wholesale in the foreseeable future.

What they can do is tweak around the edges to make Steam perform poorly and theoretically make the Windows app store more appealing, but that got a little bit tinfoil hat for me. I won't say it's unheard of, but they've already been under investigation once for these kinds of shenanigans and it doesn't look like we're going to have a friendly administration come in to pull their feet out of the fire this time.
The issue is that the representation in parliament is not proportional to the people. Proportional Repesentation solves this, at the cost of making politics more complex and mushy than just choosing between A and B. As a kid the spectacle of US elections (FPTP-ish) always fascinated me. Now I'm thankful for having a voting system that doesn't have a two-party system as only stable equilibrium.
Long story short: use their names and feed their egos. Ignore all the stuff about sincerity and real connection, since the author does.
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Interesting that the gene "discovery" is really just making an association. The gene itself was discovered a long time ago (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC556810/), and associated with other negative outcomes.

Like many that are involved in diseases, the gene appears to be activated in response to DNA damage.
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I still don't agree. Love triangles are very common. Tsunderes are very common. Sempais are less common.

"In terms of pop culture however, senpai is a word that has taken on a life of its own. Now it seems that everyone and their uncle on both sides of the Pacific are throwing the word around like it's nothing at all. Anyone who is slightly older than you might or might not have a crush on is now being referred to as senpai. Will it become yet another buzz word that invades popular culture in the west? It's certainly possible." [0]

Anyway. Calling it the "BAKA protocol" would have fit more in more than one way.

[0] http://myanimelist.net/featured/645/Senpai_and_Kouhai_Relati...
I didn't explain that well--initially Twitter was on RoR and sharded MySQL, which wasn't scalable. Obviously they have done a lot of scaling work and can handle their load now.

If I were implementing Twitter today, I'd probably do Elixir and Cassandra. I don't generally leap to go NoSQL but Twitter's structure is particularly suited to Cassandra. Elixir gives the ease of development I associate with Ruby with the scalable, decentralizable BEAM. I'd also consider going with Erlang straight up--it may not be as pretty as Elixir, but there's a lot to be said for maturity in a language.

But I'm saying this because I have the benefit of newer technologies and having seen Twitter's mistakes. From a technical perspective, I think Twitter is pretty well done.
Take a look at the permissions required by the official "Mi Fit" app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiaomi.hm....) vs the indie "Tools & Mi Band" app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.zdenekhorak...).

The official app has more features admittedly, but nothing that justifies the level of permissions it asks for. At most it should need access to the camera/photos to allow you to set a profile photo, and full network access to create/sync your account data to the "cloud".

Nothing that the official app does justifies the following permissions it asks for:

Device & app history

retrieve running apps
read sensitive log data

Identity

find accounts on the device

Location

approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)

SMS

receive text messages (SMS)

Phone

directly call phone numbers

Photos/Media/Files

access USB storage filesystem

Wi-Fi connection information

view Wi-Fi connections

Other

view network connections
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
read Google service configuration
draw over other apps
control flashlight
reorder running apps
modify system settings
It's probably a combination of several factors but I would imagine the biggest factor is that women have more non-work demands (social pressures and gender roles making motherhood frequently more demanding than fatherhood, women being expected to carry a larger portion of housework, etc.) than men, and so an equivalent amount of time off is less satisfactory since less of the "free time" is actually free time.

I suspect that another part of it too is that in many jobs women may feel judged more harshly and so less able to actually take advantage of the flexibility that's there since there's already a struggle to be noticed and acknowledged.
"logical", "facts", "rational"

All words that are very easy to say, as they are about one or two syllables, and often used by raving morons.
> I use KeeFox (Firefox)

Integrating with the browser is probably a bad idea, it shortens the exploit path from a webpage to your password store.

Using a standalone application and using the clipboard would require a malicious website to break out of the browser and then break into the password store process, which could in principle run under a different user and interact with the clipboard through some broker process.
Huh, I'm a little surprised that the try/catch de-optimization is still a thing. I watched a v8 optimizing compiler talk maybe ~4 years ago when this was discussed.

Wasn't the workaround to do nothing in the try/catch body aside from calling a named function defined outside the function scope where the try/catch was defined?
It's not for someone looking at it. It's for everyone whose eye you don't want to catch. And consider that Ford or Boeing could easily ask NRO to downlink images of opportunity whenever untasked Keyhole assets overfly known industrial sites. Timesharing isn't just for computers and condos.
The problem is that perf tips have a strong tendency to become "cargo cult knowledge" that keep getting passed around even though no one knows the original reason for their existence, or that they have long since stopped applying. This has been a problem in the C world for ages, and now it looks like it's coming to JavaScript as well. Even if Google were to fix this issue tomorrow, we'd probably still see programmers in 2025 writing convoluted code to avoid try/catch because "it's bad for performance, I heard that somewhere".

If Microsoft had released Chakra around the same time, it never would've been an issue, because people would've known "Oh, this is just Google's bug", gotten on their case to fix it, and it would've been gone a long time ago.