skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unquestionably legitimate

Absolutely questionable. There's a concept called "human rights" and just because the US has failed to force unaccountable government agencies into acting in a humane and moral manner doesn't mean that what they're doing is justified. Invasions of privacy on foreign people on such a granular level is abhorrent and that fact hat it's not illegal doesn't mean Snowden did anything wrong by disclosing it.
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A major release doesn't necessarily have any breaking changes. Swift 4 will contain some breaking changes for sure, but Swift 5 might not.
A headless (or decoupled) CMS is one that only manages content, as opposed to most “CMS” out there now that overreach by managing your views, templates, logic, routing, etc. That means that most current “CMS” are built specifically for websites only (more specifically, blogs), however a headless CMS only manages the data itself, and therefore is appropriate for anything from native apps, content syndications, interactive walls, or other data-driven projects. In fact a more important distinction is that it can manage content for MULTIPLE clients, for example a project where an app, widget, and website all pull the same content.

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> A mode of thought I would expect in socialist countries, not the US...

It's ironic that given all the valid concerns in your post, you also fell for the oldest piece of propaganda in the book by the very government you're concerned about and that you think that socialism has something to do with dictatorships, rather than it being just an idea that itself has nothing to do with dictatorships in itself, but was in the past implemented by dictators, same as capitalism was in Latin America and elsewhere.

Nazi ideology is much more inherently tied to strongmen and dictatorships than socialist ideology is.

You also seem to be talking about communism, rather than socialism as such and fail to see the distinction between these two, or indeed between communism and Stalinism, but that's for a longer discussion...
It's amazing, and completely depressing at the same time. 1% of the stars in 0.00000000001% of all galaxies.

Totally out there thought of the day.
I'm hoping some day my atoms are reformed into another human in the much distant future, where we are technologically advanced to get something meaningful out of all of it.
A day in the life of a startup founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
from top to bottom: username / email / password / confirm password
He could be getting other benefits he values more than $50 doing that 30 min drive. You assume it's a 'chore' but he may enjoy the drive and peace and quiet away from the family (or just some time out of the house).
speak for yourself, there are plenty of people who think full and unquestionable legalization is the best way to start addressing addiction in modern society rather than treating it like a literal war.
I've been vaguely following JPython's story, and the limit is less the Python language, and more the Python runtime environment and its reliance on C APIs written with the GIL assumption in mind. http://jyni.org doesn't appear to be ready for prime time, though there is recent progress, https://github.com/Stewori/JyNI/issues/2.

Does JVMCI bring hope for JPython + JyNI ?
Apple can't win here though.

If they allow an iOS version to be compatible with an under powered device that can barely run it they'll get criticized for slowing down older machines or even accused of deliberately crippling them down to force upgrades.

If they don't allow new iOS versions to run on older machines with lower specs, they get accused of deliberately deprecating older models to force upgrades.
I primarily use a Mac, so the command line examples will be from a Mac/Linux perspective, however the AWS CLI is identical for all platforms.

I'll also be doing all the examples from the web UI.
His book "Robots: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind" is really excellent, even if he takes quite a few gigantic logical leaps that aren't really justified, imo. It's just a great piece of futurology.
Pfft, the form itself has mandatory fields, but doesn't seem to check the veracity of any of them... just put your name, put random content in any of the fields you're uncomfortable giving information for, choose California and 90210 as the ZIP and it'll let you submit.
AFAIK the CVV is not required to perform a transaction. It's just that you take the hit in case a fraud occurs when you don't check the CVV.
The Gaia Data Release 1 Archive: http://gea.esac.esa.int/archive/

Some information about the archive: http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr1

Press conference from earlier today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAjvQ5uu7I

Gaia's first sky map (incl. downloads up to 15360×7831):
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Yes, this is what Swift 2.3 is for.
I've tried to break it multiple times but always relapse.

Possible there is some positive there as well, and it keeps drawing you in. Instead of thinking of it as an addiction, think of it as something you do, that is part positive and part empty. Identify those parts that are positive, and praise yourself for them. Then over time, identify those parts that are empty, and realize, "oh, I can eliminate this."
Oh wow! I never noticed that!
IIS was really bad (has gotten better), but I don't see most Java EE stacks being much better.

At my last job we had two teams, one had a .NET stack, and the other had a Java EE stack, it was almost like someone had set up a lab to test which one was better (both were required to deliver very similar style LOB applications, one for one department and the other for another).

The .NET team consistently delivered a lot more value faster, and the Java deliverables always had reliability problems which they attributed to the JBoss setup. To be fair, the Java side was hampered by an "old-school" architect who refused to use the right tools for the job (even on the Java side, there are pretty decent frameworks and IDEs).
I am Canadian and I cannot sign this due to the address form being confined to US addresses.

Just putting this out there for any future endeavors of this kind.
I don't see why you'd feel cheated.
More at TypeKit: http://blog.typekit.com/2016/09/14/variable-fonts-a-new-kind...
A huge amount (the majority, I believe) of health care costs in the U.S. are spent treating chronic illnesses. Chronic illnesses are like hunger--you know you have it, and you know you will need regular treatment for it. Buying medicine in advance is how chronic illnesses are treated.

Medical emergencies are a popular counter-argument to the idea of greater market clarity in health care, but the reality is that most people encounter the medical system in non-emergency situations. They have the opportunity to shop around for these--but often don't, because they don't have the information or incentive to do so.

As for emergencies or unexpected costs--that is what insurance is properly for.
I'll let other people ride those first.
> Or is it your complete physical movements made with your phone

You can turn off location tracking on your phone, can't you?
If you are so sure that this sort of surveillance is effective due to the non happening if a rare event, then I have a tiger repelling rock to sell you. It is garunteed to stop tiger attacks.
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Well, it appears, airlines are getting the range from smaller aircraft (A350, 787) so don't need this double decker and the secondary reason is first gen airliners have lots of kinks which get worked out in later revisions, but this being a low volume model, any excess will dampen the market for new ones. Basically, AB misread the market and the A380 turned out to be a dud.
The iPhone 7 truly contains a desktop class CPU this time around
And there are more galaxies in the known universe then there are stars in our galaxy.
Interesting that you miss checked exceptions. Is one of the most criticized feature of the language, see Does Java need Checked Exceptions? [0]. Also in this discussion between Anders Hejlsberg and Bruce Eckel they are discussing why C# did not adopt them: The Trouble with Checked Exceptions [1]. Also Java theory and practice: The exceptions debate [2] discusses the more on the topic.

[0] http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/CheckedExceptions/

[1] http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html

[2] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp05254/
As a college student in Pittsburgh I'd love to try this, anyone know a sure shot way to call one of the self driving ones vs. a standard uber?
What a nut! That's certainly a kind of explainer on why it was better when the nation was run by the people's elected representatives rather than unaccountable unhinged spooks.
Your logic's completely wrong. The gun + food arguments don't work at all.

A lot of drugs are patented, which means they aren't operating in a free-market. I can, however, choose any gun or any food.

And how can you know what disease you're going to get before it happens? Should I stock up on all possible diseases just in case?
> The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are ready to launch the "Pardon Snowden" campaign... pardonsnowden.org.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37341804
I am glad you touched on gadgets. I feel like the central culprit right now is our smart phones. Digital media so easily accessible than any other time before because of the smart phone. We also get more distracted because of the constant notifications. My dad came back from work and there was no email to ask him for status updates after work. I also see my gym workouts taking longer than usual because I am constantly checking emails and replying to them because somebody's hair is on fire.
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> Doesn't feel like there's ultimately any way out of this line of reasoning. What would it take to prove to you that you are indeed not in a simulation of some kind? as the only methods of providing proof are also parts of the simulation.

Simulations are just as real. Why wouldn't they be? What makes "natural laws enforced by reality" really any more "real" than "natural laws enforced by a simulation"?
tl;dr

The plane is too big (600 seats) and airlines are concerned that it is/would be too hard to fill all the seats.

I was hoping for some interesting manufacturing quirks or something :/
These digital signatures are the equivalent of chain letters, send this to 100 people and your wish will come true.

If we as a people want to make change, we should use the net to organize people to make change in the real world not the digital world. Make time, get in the streets, protest, actually pick up the phone and call your politicians, write to them, write to the government. Overwhelm them so much that they are forced to say yes.

Presidents and politicians wish to be loved, they are like Emperors, they want to appease the people. If they people make plenty of noise, they cave.
My ex graduation from OSU in computer science and had a hard time getting a job. She went to a community college and took a class in .net and then applied for jobs at the state. When I graduated I got a job at a consulting company.

you might look into this?
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Yes and yes, respectively. They openly correlate your physical presence in retail shops with your web browsing, so as to count web-to-physical conversions for that shop's advertising.

The latter two (piercing the Incognito veil) are technically straightforward, but I doubt they do it. Google is pretty tightly bound by a certain set of ethics. By their lights, that creepy McDonalds experience is totally OK, but ignoring explicit privacy settings is not legit.

This is why they bother with dark patterns like making it inconvenient - but not impossible - to turn off Google Play's access to location data. They could just ignore you, but they won't. I'd bet they do collect and keep the information for some time [eg for anti-abuse], but deliberately don't use it. (And consequently feel very proud of how ethical they're being, compared with others in their industry, and how terribly unfair it is when people complain about them but not the sleazier ad networks.)

As I see it, the "advertising creepiness" problem has two factors. One is black-hats explicitly extracting information you're not sharing (eg Evercookie, canvas fingerprinting and friends). The other is grey-hats like Google, Facebook and MS, whose access to that data is perfectly legitimate in that you gave them permission (what, you didn't click through the three small buttons within 30 days to withold your WhatsApp contacts from Facebook? Too bad!), but whose market dominance and dark patterns make giving them that data less and less of a free choice. Conflating the two is easy but unhelpful.
Well, you will run their software, and they can sell you ads in your car where you have nothing to do but wait.
How much do I need to know about Linux before taking this course?
What is the point of making it a major release then except for marketing?
>> "Mass transit is pretty awesome too. Even if it takes longer, you can plug in your headphones and zone, netflix and chill, or best of all, take a nap."

Depends where you live. For me mass transit at rush hour is incredibly stressful.
>>The problem with the "can't negotiate" argument is that insurers have every incentive to negotiate on behalf of the patients they cover. And they have scale—United Healthcare covers more lives than the NHS.

No, they don't. With ACA, insurance companies must spend 85% of their revenue on medical. This means that their profit margin is effectively capped and the only way for the industry to increase profits is to increase the amount they pay out to providers, pharma, etc. so, no, the insurance company does not have every incentive to negotiate. In fact, sadly, most of the time it's the opposite.
I really wish Swift releases were not pinned to Apple releases. Swift 3 introduced several regressions and instead of prioritizing some serious regressions, they focused on swift evolution proposals. For example, one accepted proposal renamed the common array _flatten_ method to _joined_ because it aligned one use case. Granted this is low hanging fruit, but a whole bunch of low hanging fruit takes time away from serious bugs and enhancements.

If Swift really wants to become successful, they need to work on bigger picture things like fixing breaking regressions, planning full reflection, built-in async instead of bikeshedding about array methods. I understand they want a non-breaking API from 3.0, but everyone isn't always going to be happy; and changing small functions for the vocal minority is not the correct path forward.

A list of 3.0 regressions: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2603?jql=labels%20%3D%203.0...
Flatten rename proposal: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
Barely breaking 6 figures is an entry level engineers salary in the bay area. Also in the world that I live in single income families are the exception rather than the rule.
I thought it was pretty much impossible :) But since I started using [ShellCheck](https://www.shellcheck.net) together with [Sublime Edit](https://www.sublimetext.com/) I find shell programming "not too bad".
> how little auditing goes on

Companies see Risk Desks, QA, etc. as 'cost centers', and try to keep these budgets down.

Risk adjusted, they are massive profit centers. In addition to the actual $$ they save in fines, and stock price losses, the damage to the brand is often in the billions. But it is hard to measure the impact of events that do not occur.
That's interesting. I've never heard of that.
Funny. Mine never gets turned on automatically and never did.
Whatever apps require it would alert me that I need it.

As of late I have had my GPS permanently on. I like going back to my location history and seeing where I was at a certain date and time. I dont know why. LOL
Actually, it's the opposite, and there's more than the lazy "Government planning fails yet another time."

I'm not sure whether you know much about the commercial airlines industry, but recent deregulation has sparked a huge increase in the # of low-cost airlines, resulting in a spreading out of passenger load across airlines. Therefore, there aren't as many passengers to carry per airline as before, and A380s and B747s are no longer needed. In fact, all U.S. airlines (Delta, United, American, and smaller ones) either sold or parked all of their jumbos.

Downside: Because of the # of increase, air traffic has worsened (e.g. delays at airports) and pollution has increased very rapidly.
"a niceish $40,000 car,"

ish.

High on the list of signs that you've bought far too much into lifestyle inflation is thinking that a car costing 70% of the US median household income is only "nice-ish."
I agree - I think the way Musk has been so bullish in public about autonomous driving is dangerous. I think Tesla needs more sensors, in particular LIDAR, and better software too, and I'm not sure Autopilot is an apt name for a level 2 system like the one on Tesla or the new Volvos.

However, I think that difference between 90% and 99.99999% is crucial, and that boils down to the quality of the software and hardware, and the amount of testing. I find it irresponsible to beta test a product on users when there is a very real chance of something going wrong and people dying or getting injured.
Hah, Burritos are probably the perfect test for this. Small, heavy enough, an even weight distribution, and, are time sensitive - nobody wants a cold burrito. It'll be interesting to see where this tech goes in say 10 years.

And... I'm now craving a burrito. Damn!
All were declared equal, but the General Secretary was declared more equal.

However, that's not the real problem. A society cannot work without some economic and social inequality.

Taking large numbers of people in the early morning hours from their homes, imprisoning and starving and shooting them in the back of the head and burying them in a ditch, that is a problem, and the system that did this survived until 1980's, and now Russia is increasingly nostalgic about it.
https://shop.aclu.org/product/ACLU-Edward-Snowden-Limited-Ed...

> Front features artist Shepard Fairey's iconic portrait of Edward Snowden

> Back includes ACLU logo and pardonsnowden.org URL
Couldn't find anything for Bain's Law, do you have a reference I could follow?
The whole point of making things fast is to remove all the if statements. People complain that their current if-heavy algorithm can't run on GPUs therefor GPUs suck. Of course then the algorithms need to be reworked to have less branches.
You're conflating reading email for the purposes of providing an online email service with reading email for the purposes of building a profile of a user to help target advertising.

These are very different. In the former case, if I delete an email, its metadata is gone too (indexing, antivirus, etc.). In the latter case the email provider is literally building a dossier of my personality, preferences, and contacts that persists regardless of how much email I delete (or even if I delete my whole account).

To put it another way, Apple reads my email in the trivial sense - so the email itself can be stored, displayed, and searched. Google reads my email in the intimate sense - so it can learn more about me and augment my ad profile. These are not at all the same thing, and confusing the two is dangerous because it lets privacy invasion off the hook as just "providing a service".
I meant instant ramen. I put ramen in a different category as that takes much less time than cooking from raw ingredients.
Power law distribution of attention leads to preferential selection.
I recommend Matthew Yglesias' "American democracy is doomed" [0] if you want to explore this thesis without the abysmal writing standards of CNN online.

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doome...
Agree and extend with the suggestion to try healthy fast food. Take advantage of products like fresh instant salad in a bag, or frozen stir fry vegetables in a bag.

I'll have my wok cleaned and put away for next time before the frozen pizza chefs have their oven preheated. Or I'll be half done eating my lunch salad before the frozen burrito comes out of the microwave.

I'm not sure that "open bag, dump salad on plate" even counts as cooking, but that's like 1/3 of my meals and the "cooking" process takes about 10 seconds.
I tried this and found my version doesn't have the "Your contributions" section, but it has "Show contribution reminders," described as

"Be reminded when you haven't contributed recently [...]"

hahaha! as if I'm under some agreement to regularly contribute...
On security, I'd like to point out that GCS now supports Customer Supplied Encryption Keys [0]. If you lose your key, we can't help you. Nobody can just unwrap your encrypted data.

On cost, I'm using Nearline myself ($.01/GB/month so about $10/TB/month) as an offsite backup of my home NAS setup. Paying for actual bytes stored instead of bytes of capacity gets you at least 20% (raid overhead) but honestly closer to 50% or more depending on how full you are. The poster above had about 3 TiB apparently which works out to $30/month. That's pretty good for an unthrottled replicated storage system offsite.

(And like you, I'm considering making my media directly read-only available via App Engine or something, because once you're talking about 1+ TiB of photos all photo hosting sites fall over).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/encryption
What is wrong with the argument that says it's OK because they require your permission to collect anything?
This article is making me very happy that uBlock can block remote fonts. The default font they use (some variation of Neue) is completely unreadable here.
What would you say is the point of having the power to pardon if doing something illegal is never justifiable, or if our justice system is infallible?

If our laws are ever unjust, or our justice system ever fallible, the argument "it was illegal" cannot be used to justify whether something was moral. US law is a terrible basis for morality and that's a super weak argument.

Treason is the systemic and illegal invasion of the rights hundreds of millions of Americans, corrupt government officials quashing all means of accountability, lying under oath to congress, intentionally misleading congress and the American people, and refusing to enforce any sort of due process of law when it's been discovered that people were doing highly illegal things.
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Yet other countries seem to make it work quite well and keep it a-political. No party decides these things.
Not bad, but I've also taken up watching Youtube for hours every night.

The key is to not overwhelm yourself and to do something towards your goal. For example, don't try to set up the entire blog in one night, instead do a micro-portion, "oh, I better start downloading the webserver before I watch youtube." Or even, "oh, I better plug my server in and turn it on."

The key is to do something every night, and cut it into pieces small enough that it's doable. If you find yourself putting it off, that means you need to cut it into an even smaller portion.