skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do the same thing with sports - cutting out action to cut to commercial breaks... and I don't mean during timeouts or whatever. They cut off soccer to go to commercial break during play! Soaps are the same... educational shows are the same. Commercials every 10 minutes. It's a joke how much advertising is done on TV you pay to watch content - not ads.

While the UK isn't exactly a model citizen in this respect, at least on the BBC which everyone (arguably) pays a TV license for, there is content wall to wall... because you pay for that. On channels you don't pay for, there is advertising, and I think this is totally fair. But why should people pay to (mostly) be advertised to and not to be delivered the content that they're paying for?
Oh totally agree. There are some really nasty bugs we've had to deal with because of the lack of strictly controlled data flow. Still not all that bad.
I believe that definition has a bit of an elitist attitude about it. I don't know you, so I can't say it is your definition, but I have seen it before. I believe it is a totally unfair definition for most people.

I define well-traveled as someone who has traveled a significant distance based on their circumstances in life. By your definition a large portion of the people living in the EU are well-traveled just living their normal lives. Which is a far easier thing to accomplish than someone in the US. I have driven from Orlando FL to Las Vegas NV, a distance of around 2300 miles or so, twice. How many countries does that cover for that range in the EU? I have visited many locations around both cities and in-between. I have lived in four states in different areas of the country, each with their varying cultures. I can tell you for a fact that the Southeast and Southwest US do have different cultures, even though they both sort of speak the same language. Walking through downtown Los Angeles after growing up in small town Alabama is visiting a different culture.

Just my 2 cents.
I was reading that link. Do I have to use their DNS servers, or is it just enough to point the MX record to yandex?
An immigrant will always be somewhat alien. I moved to the U.S. when I was five, and I'm pretty Americanized. But most of my family is still 10,000 miles away, and I never had much connection with my grandparents, aunts and uncles, or cousins. Indeed, I often feel anxious and self-conscious around them because of our significant differences in values and worldview. At the same time, I still don't really get some things Americans do (e.g. treating dogs like people).

Meanwhile, my wife's family came over to Oregon on the wagon trains. Almost all her grandparents, cousins, etc. live within a few hours' drive in Oregon and Washington. If you drive along the pacific coast highway, you'll pass a scenic overlook named after her family, marking where their homestead was before the government took it to build the highway. You can see the lighthouse where her ancestors were lighthouse keepers.

America is probably the most welcoming place in the world for immigrants, but that doesn't change the fact that immigrating means basically severing yourself from your roots to come live in a very different country. Many people would not make that sacrifice if they had adequate opportunities in their own homeland.
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Wouldn't that person be able to change my password with those cookies?

Also, if the browser extension has the key to decrypt the data, anyone can get that key.
You can actually simulate this at home with just a moka pot; no need for a fancy ultra-expensive espresso machine. Pour just a tiny amount of the espresso into a cup with sugar and beat it really hard with a spoon. Then pour the rest of the coffee into the same container. Voila, crema, or at least something that looks and feels like crema. I think this is a Cuban-American (maybe originally Cuban) innovation and growing up it was always referred to as "espumitas" (translated: little bubbles). The caveat is that you have to like your coffee sweetened for it to be useful. (Cubans always drink espresso sweet.)
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Human Rights Watch being an American organisation, led by a member of the US power elite (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Soros' OSF) might have something to do with it?

Nah, perish the though!
you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Looks like that's for a 300kg total weight projectile @ 20% energy efficiency. Details can be found on page 317-318.
Small correction, Socialcam was YC W12, not S12.
Our University required the police to collect and write down the names of everyone they ever spoke to... so they could prove they weren't being racially biased?
Inconvenient evidence gets mislabeled, misplaced, corrupted, deleted or, conveniently, was never recorded. See: CCTV, police dashboard and body camera footage.

Eventually, selectively and taken out of context, a pretty ugly narrative can be constructed with full access to anyone's data.
> but maybe they should focus on getting one or two people to LEO

That seems to be exactly what they're working on. The fact that they may have ambitions beyond that doesn't mean that they're not working on the immediate problems. They are not conflicting objectives.

Although if I was a private space-launch company, I don't know if I would really be working on man-rated spacecraft at all. It seems like too much risk. You can blow up a lot of unmanned payloads and nobody (other than your insurance carrier) will bat an eye; blow up a couple of astronauts and you're probably out of business. I'd want to stay in the cargo delivery business as long as possible, and leave the man-rated stuff to deep-pocketed governments, so that I could continue developing new propulsion systems without the necessary conservatism that a man-rated system requires.
Golden State Warriors Android app constantly listens to nearby audio, fan says
Mmm, I'd agree but the parent is specifically talking about surveillance, not about all human rights, and it's true - the US likes to condemn cyber-espionage and surveillance while simultaneously spying on the entirety of the planet and attacking/infiltrating the planet as it sees fit.
Your brain is poorly formatted.
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The example of birth records highlights the issue with such "unforseen" threats - anything and everything can become such a threat. In the past it was birth records, or census records. In the future it may be liquer store sales data or air quality metrics. We can't just stop improving things with data because of a vague fear that it may one day be used against us. Especially that data abuse is mostly a small symptom among numerous, more serious issues (e.g. by the time birth records were used for exercising racism, the problems with that government were most likely pretty visible, and even if they didn't have that data, they'd find another way to do what they wanted to do).
A problem with the H1-B visa program is the abuse of firms such as Disney in FL, Southern California Edison, and Abbott Pharmaceuticals that have used H1-B workers to replace Americans at lower cost. In fact, even the Clinton Foundation has hired (or attempted to hire) H1-B instead of Americans.

The H1-B is supposed to be used only in the case that an American can't be found to do the job. Americans can do IT. Other firms hire H1-B workers to save money using foreigners in place of Americans. Thus the hostility towards H1-B. I think it is highly unlikely that there are even 30,000 jobs per year where American where there is no American to do the job. Some obscure areas of science, for example. In many cases the Americans could be trained to do the specific job.

My great grandparents came over and started a company but I don't recall knowing that they got any preferential treatment coning to this country.
Not that it's a real deterrent... but if you have a requirement for UBI... it's not UBI. Attacks at the universal component of BI must be stopped else it is nothing more than a variant of today's arbitrary and maligned welfare.

>What is to stop the government from changing the laws

The citizens. The hope is citizens can be more active in community efforts(like protesting government actions) when their continual employment(and employment usually hinders midday government protesting) is no longer a necessity for continued life.
Um. If you turn 'acceptable ads' on, this is the stated and expected purpose of the application, and it explains this during installation.

They're experimenting with a new and better way to power the exact feature I installed the software for.

No trust is being violated here.
It may be faster to use something like Dasher instead of an on-screen keyboard: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.htm...
> once they see how it feels to have the shoe on the other foot, it might change the way certain people feel about ubiquitous surveillance.

I like the general idea, but it's more like kicking a hornets' nest. These people won't have an empathetic enlightenment about surveillance on everyone, but rather will double-down on laws to protect themselves (marketed as protecting the public). Such a system must be built on technology which can withstand attacks by the 'legal' system.
that was a joke...
Can someone describe what a "ME Region" is?
I think this quote takes it sense when you consider it from a deeper perspective. "This is the place your *{great}-grandpa came from"
Reiterating a point from my comment (and others here): you can be right legally, but you may have to risk jail to prove yourself right.

In practice, this means that you may assert your right to the police officer, who stridently disagrees based on his misunderstanding of the law. You will then be put into handcuffs and taken into custody (at best) and be jailed. Your arrest mugshots will be posted to the public Internet, handily available for any employer doing a background check on you. You will get someone to come to the jail and post bail on your behalf. You will spend money on a lawyer to defend you. Your charges may be summarily dismissed, but you may not find that out until the day of your court appearance (so you had to hire a lawyer anyway).

You will have proven your point.

It's far easier to ask "Am I free to go?" in an encounter like the one described. Even better: ask a civilian for directions.
Angular front-end, C# "middleware" to Java services layer. I was actually guessing when I tossed off 500k. I went and looked and it's actually closer to 250. Still pretty big though.
YC is really unique. I expect the MOOC will include a nurturing and/or funding path beyond the courses.
In many countries, tipping is seen as an insult and is something that should be avoided. In a global context (which the Internet largely is) it isn't the best metaphor. Entire countries wouldn't understand it.
Which Clinton? The one convicted of passing laws in "a systematic and deliberate attempt to reduce black political opportunity" for voting? Or the other total unrelated one? :)

You act like 1965 was 1865. You may not be old enough to remember the Voting Rights Act in '65, but the majority of Congress is.

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Anyway, my point wasn't "Democrats are racist"; it was that "only Democrats favor egalitarian voting" isn't a trend, as the parent believes.

If that particular example is outside your idea of the hypothetical trend, take one of the more recent examples. Any time period of substance finds both parties on either side of this issue.
It's actually really easy to believe that an elite athlete could be successful at following a highly scheduled, monitored training program with coaches and meal plans and parental support while struggling with the executive function necessary to e.g. successfully complete college classes. Are you familiar with ADHD? Heres some stories of athletes who have it: http://m.additudemag.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.additudemag.c...
I think you're missing the point, because none of those examples have any national context. Both of them are bad within the U.S., but to say that the first is bad within the context of Saudi Arabia until last year? Well, that's just a moral opinion about another country's laws. It's not a new phenomenon.
My wonder is, is it an effective way to help free them, when one doesn't take the psychological ties causing the problem into consideration in the first place.
Not exactly what you asked, but you might want to see StaticGen[1], a big list of resources for static site generation.

[1] http://www.staticgen.com
Yes, it will be free.
You should probably implement a merge comments thing for situations like these.
I've had good luck with the original AdBlock for Safari (no relation at all to the AdBlock Plus that sells ads) :

https://getadblock.com
It's a shame that ME can't be removed or disabled on modern Intel CPU's. Same goes for AMD and maybe companies that implement something like ME in ARM. OpenSPARC is quite dead, sadly enough.

Highly recommended read about x86 security: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf

The author of this paper is also the developer of Qubes OS. They recently added another requirement to laptops who are 'Qubes certified': they must run Coreboot. It's not Libreboot yet, but that is a huge leap forward for x86 security. Hopefully this will trigger vendors to make their hardware Coreboot compatibile. It won't do anything about Intel ME, but it is a step in the right direction.

I ordered a Thinkpad x200 to flash it with Libreboot last week, just to have at least one device without any malware (in RMS sense)
Middle class incomes had their fastest growth on record last year
I recently am finding it really hard to find non low-fat yogurt. Not fun.
MOOC = Massive Open Online Course

If I had to look it up, I'm sure others are in the same boat.
ddg is my primary search engine, it takes time but you get use to it. If what you are looking for is mostly on HN, SO or wikipedia it works quite well.
Good point! What you say looks logical. In my opinion though, the fact that they find first telling them how they're right as a prerequisite to be told how they're wrong hedonic, is irrational :).

(So tell me, have I mastered it now? ;) )
I've used react personally and like it rather well. I think it's much better than Angular, but I still don't think that Angular represents the 9th circle of hell, as seems to be implied above.
That's not evidence of suppressing news about the occupation. Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
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Absolutely.

I think this is one of those "devil's in the details" things. In order to understand the significance of the US's TUEs we need context, and that context is what other countries are allowing, how commonly it occurs, and exactly what the process of getting a TUE is (e.g. is it rubber stamped, or a legit medical need).

For example, if we found out that the US has 50% more TUEs per athlete competing than the next highest country, that's a legitimate story. But if it turns out that the US has similar numbers to other countries (again, normalised per athlete numbers), then it is a non-story for the most part (except the hack itself).

Time will tell.
I've seen a lot of people use AssistiveTouch as a replacement for the home button too. It's definitely because they want to reduce wear on the home button and is also an easily copied habit from one person to another.

I'm also guessing that the amount of dust in certain geographies may play a bigger part in the home buttons not working well after sometime, since there is a gap for dust to get in in all the iPhone models (AFAIK) till the iPhone 6s series. The iPhone 7 series is the first one to eliminate the press button and replace it with a haptic one, which helps in water resistance and also eliminates dust getting in at that point.
> Great thing for community is that Yandex now commited to Postgres, meaning it will get more testing and bug-fixes faster.

That remains to be seen. There's a fair amount of huge postgres users that don't even bother to report bugs they find...
Endless traffic jams.

Fix that and we will buy cars again (nah, not really, not anymore).

May be self driving cars where we can enjoy time instead of merely suffering it would be an option.
Sometimes, a game cannot be won. Negotiation cannot be done if the other party is not willing.
I doubt that those professors get pair directly from the University; probably alumni donations fund a lot of that.
where ME is stored I think.
Breaking the net neutrality deadlock
LEO is -29.8 MJ/kg - -62.6 MJ/kg = 32.8 MJ/kg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed#Tangential_veloc...) so one tonne is 32.8 GJ. At US$0.04/kWh (a common benchmark wholesale price for electrical energy in the US, usually stated as US$40/MWh) that works out to US$364, which is thirty-six thousand pennies.

What are you launching, a sparrow?

Also, doing it over only 200 km will require at least 16.7 gees. That's not survivable for people. (Or probably sparrows either.)

Calculations in units(1) format in case I got something wrong (should the delta-specific-energy really be 32.8 MJ/kg rather than, say, 24 to 30?):

(-29.8 - -62.6) MJ/kg * 1 tonne * US$ 0.04 / kWh
(-29.8 - -62.6) MJ/kg / 200 km / gravity
And this isn't even a Republican/Democrat or conservative/liberal thing. I know plenty of what Republicans would call "big government liberals" who would agree that many cultures (largely western European in this case) are too far in that direction.
Douglas R. Hofstadter has written multiple books on the subject. He most directly addresses it in "Surfaces and Essences" co-written by Emmanuel Sander.

It is enjoyable reading and very thorough. Pending revolutionary new insights I might even regard it as conclusive.
Move fast and don't break things. Running a startup on Elm
Stop and identify statutes apply to detentions (they are not merely overlapping), but AFAIK the only one requiring identity documents considered by the federal courts was struck down as unconstitutional.
He's a self-promoter.
Having the long term goal forces them to make the decisions and the technology work for that long term goal while achieving the short term goals.

Compare this to Virgin Galactic. They are working on a system that is great for tourist rides, and other suborbital missions. But unless we're talking something really small, they aren't inserting anything into LEO.

Getting into LEO is a critical step for getting past GEO orbit out into the solar system.

But if you just focus on LEO you end up with Virgin Galactic- they will beat Blue Origin on costs all day long. Thus in the tourist ride business their superior economics will let them win that business.

But if you want to go to mars you need heavy lift like SpaceX and Blue Origin are building.
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Experience report after writing 26 000 lines of Elm.
>The system is so underfunded

The system is not underfunded, its main problem is the aging population. Or maybe even the system, in Spain, as in most countries in Europe, pensions are paid by the current generation, so the moment that the ratio of pensioners to workers becomes unsustainable the system will collapse.

>and corrupt

There is some corruption going on in Spain, that's undeniable, but I wouldn't say that the pension system is corrupt. What are your bases for that statement?
I don't know. I saw a pretty compelling documentary about the space capabilities of monkeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Chimps
Would certainly make for some interesting failure scenarios to consider. Such as, what happens if the engines fail to start? Presuming they are intended to start after the vehicle is some distance down the rail.

Edit: oops, misread your comment.. sorry for the non-sequitur.
Not really, this way you find the price people are willing to pay for your product
Connecting brains to computers in order to type ??? Or Elon's Musk "neural lace" that enables interface between AI and brains ??? Such sad, shallow visions for such powerful technologies.

Maybe instead , we'll start really asking what is the good life(for both society and the person), we'll probably get answers like(from various philoshophers and religions): life full of love, compassion, empathy, peace, trancendence, meaning, service, self-actualiztion, health, etc.

And better understanding, control and training of the brain(maybe by using fmri neurofeedback) may be a great tool in achieving all of those qualities in a safe, effective and efficient manner, and of course fully based on personal choice.

How can this expand what it means to be human ? how could it shape society ?

And instead, we're talking about typing with the brain.

And we see this kind of thinking everywhere. for example , the world is filled with tons of "social" technologies, but we can't even get video chat with eye-contact, at people's homes ?
MIRI is entirely Blue Team - they work to create theoretical [0] safeguards on AI agents yet to be developed. I've long envisioned a counterpart Red Team that does nothing but build AIs that attempt to subvert these safety features, since the rest of the world of non Friendly AI [1] research is only unco-ordinated para-red behavior.

[0] In the sense of "valid under these known precepts", not "speculative".

[1] Non "Friendly AI", not "non-Friendly" AI.
People often act according to heuristics rather than truly rational analysis. These heuristics are rational on their own, just misapplied at times.
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This is a valid point and a real challenge of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. It is largely trying to help those who suffer from locked-in syndrome, where they really do not have any reliable motor control at all, including eye movement. If you do have the ability to reliably execute any kind of motor control, such as eye movement or muscle twitch, that can be exploited for more effective, durable interface control than current state of the art of BCI.
x64 is copy righted only AMD, Intel, and VIA have the rights. There are also some patent protections.

x86 is also copyrighted, but it's expired. Most the parents have expired and it's starting to become more common to 486 and 386's in very cheap embedded controllers.
Since people don't seem to get the reference: "Mercury astronauts are passengers, not pilots" was a prejudice against the budding manned space program, spread by among others Chuck Yeager. It seemed to hurt their ego that even a monkey could do it (…after months of training, which included electroshock therapy).
> Therefore, everybody should have to do the same.

Why, though? Depending on how the idea of debt relief shakes out, this might be one of those "sometimes life is unfair" moments that you just have to accept and move on as part of living in a society. The alternative is a massive contraction in buying power, which could certainly directly impact your livelihood. Is the spite worth that?
If I could downvote you I would.
Michael was one of our group partners during S16, and I cannot think of a person better suited for this position than him. He consistently demonstrated the ability to cut through all of the nonsense founders tried to use to defend their actions (ourselves included) and delivered fantastic insights into our businesses to which we were blinded.

For me, the group partners were the primary value delivered by YC during the program, and I look forward to that value being continued under Michael's leadership. Congratulations!
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McCain Wants to “Expose” Twitter for Refusing to Sell Your Twitter Data to CIA
Not sure how this works against something like 99 designs which can get you a custom logo for $300-1200 bucks.

https://99designs.com/pricing