skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is, in all likelihood, diplomatic speak saying to China, "stop the blatant government sponsored cyber spying and corporate espionage and we can talk about more about space cooperation."
While this was bad by US standards, it is in no way comparable to the Stasi or the Gulags.
> Fedoras used to be cool. Now they're weird and neckbeard-y.

Fedoras are still cool... if worn with a nice suit by a well-groomed person.

Fedoras worn with undershirts and untailored clothes were never cool in the first place.
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At this one trench of a large corp where I had a minor contract, they had an office in multiple locations. The idea was, to avoid traffic jams people would work from the satellite offices until the traffic cleared. They opened these up in areas where a large number of their employees commuted from. It was pretty slick, with private sound proof rooms, open spaces for team meetups where they would work then carpool to the main offices, cubicles, lounges, super nice kitchens, etc... In fact it was a shitton nicer than the places they called their main office.

They ended up selling some of it, or downgrading because teams just stayed at the nicer satellites and some ended up getting poached by cunning recruiters and other internal teams.

Edit: The floorplan was pretty far out there and I think they were emulating some European layout. It was super dynamic, so people and teams could migrate between conference rooms, private enclosures, private shared offices, lounges, etc... as they needed or desired and remote conference to the main office. Though after some super important team that had the floor above us lost several key developers and admins to a local company , and people from the main offices were commuting to the satellite offices instead, they started selling off floors or closing off access.
If you're interested in the sound synthesis capabilities of the Apple IIGS, you should skip the emulators and go straight to the real thing if you can. It appears that most emulators don't do a good job of emulating the Ensoniq chip. Check out this demonstration of a few emulators compared to a real IIGS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10Wn0JVnXk
I've still never encountered a single person who posts to twitter except as part of their job or to promote themselves or one of their projects. Supposedly these people exist in their millions but I've no idea where they're hiding. Are they mostly schoolchildren?
I was in prison when I had just turned 18, back in the late 90's.

Inmates just made their own weights using a few layers of trash bags filled with water.

Prisons are full of very clever hacks borne by necessity.
To play devil's advocate, suppose we re-evaluated our own behavior and "stepped down" from that position. It would be great if nobody stepped in to fill that void, but they would without a doubt.
> I loved it until they started manipulating my timeline

FWIW, in the iOS app (at least) you can turn this feature off from the settings menu.
I started with #5 when I first learned programming, back in 2000. Personally, I think the usefulness part is overrated - once you learn a language, it's pretty easy to learn another, at least for the typical imperative/OO mix - the concepts usually map pretty well. I'd suggest trying multiple and see what they find more rewarding.
> If you are one of those 9 to 5 ers, don't complain when the guy working 60 hours and more gets that promotion over you.

And he shouldn't complain that the guy who works 75 hours and fucks everyone else over at the first opportunity gets a promotion over him.

And the management shouldn't complain when they discover they've created a shitty combative environment where everyone sabotages each other and points fingers of blame.

Etc.

Etc.
If you can't afford insurance, the government makes sure you get the health care you need to stay alive and healthy. So the government has a vested interest in making sure people stay healthy, because if a poor person gets sick, the government is paying for their healthcare. Not everyone brushes their teeth, not everyone can afford toothpaste. Everyone has to drink water, though, and fluoride in water causes no real health problems. It's a very quick win for public health, because otherwise the government would be paying to replace poor people's teeth.
sure twitter is allowed to be a success and i wouldnt call a 13B market cap medium sized. but in 2 years as a public company it's stock has only ended up below its ipo price, so pretty fair to say they've had trouble.

i agree twitter has introduced a form of communication that probably isnt going anywhere, but i dont really think it has a large cultural impact. aside from trump this election cycle i feel most 'famous' tweets are about as significant as here come dat boi.
Twitter, deep down, has the exact same problem as Blogger or Reddit or Livejournal or Tumblr. It's ultimately a community where people post text posts. This is notoriously hard to monetize. But it has another big problem that doesn't manifest as strongly in those platforms: the pressure of virality.

Twitter has managed to attract quite a number of VIPs, 'influencers' who draw followers to them and generate traffic and interest and engagement. These are your celebrities, your media personalities, industry and academia people who are very important in their fields -- people who either have a Wikipedia article, or a blog, or a Youtube channel. These are the people who buoy Twitter, so these are the people who were most likely to get a Verified mark. Being on Twitter allows you to feel close to them, like their posts, reblog them on your feed, so you can project to your friends that you like this person and feel an affinity to what they do. These influencers also provide a natural place for promoted content, which has so far been under-utilized.

But somehow, Twitter has been saddled with the misconception that anyone can be famous with just a single tweet -- it's true that this can happen because it happened multiple times before, but when people join with the expectation that this may be the case, everyone loses. Maybe it's in analogue with Instagram, where if you post a Really Attractive selfie or take an incredible photograph, you may indeed accumulate a bunch of likes; but this aspiration doesn't translate nearly as well to quick-reply threads branching off of some influencer's post, which is the only way for an average person to attain enough eyeballs to have a shot at their post going viral.

This creates an incentive structure where no one truly wins:

- Influencers have attract a lot of traffic, but a lot of it is people trying to be clever

- Low-activity people -- the long tail of Twitter -- are either unaware of what's going on, or are caught up in the post flurry

- The leftover group is people aggressively looking for their 15 minutes of fame

This also explains the myriad articles about people who "don't get Twitter" -- they join and expect to accumulate followers naturally, despite not being notable on their own right or offering exceptional content. Sorry, you've been misled. Twitter will amplify your social reach, but it won't create one for you.
Recently I've been talking frequently with folks about my concerns re: climate change. The general feedback is along the lines of: "don't worry, the earth knows how to regulate itself, it will figure itself out, we'll be fine".
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Bash and Emacs are under the same umbrella. This software is part of GNU system and systems tend to incorporate its part to make it more maintainable.

However, more generic solution shall be used, like checking out parent process of current session to determine environment in which bash is running.
What is the danger if you connect through a VPN?
https://xkcd.com/1732/
This blog post is taken from the original NASA source without a link back: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2016/09/...

See also Reddit discussion of the visualization by the author: https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/52k3gr/earth_j...
Actually, when this story by Futuresource first came out, it was a lot of fun to debunk. As mentioned by someone else, this is also new sales, not existing devices. But that's not the best part. It excludes desktop computers, which is pretty much the primary form of computing device bought by schools.

The claim that it's "50% of personal computer sales" in schools is completely false.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/googles-chromebooks-make-up-h...
<- The word "sold" was added to this headline after I pointed out sales figures and devices in classrooms were not the same thing. I am still annoyed they didn't add in the world mobile. Apparently desktops aren't "devices" anymore?
The non sequiturs rationalizing piracy (most likely as a proxy for rationalizing their own) in the comments is amusing, to say the least.
What a dumb and misleading headline. "Weaponizes?"
> The government will spend more money, but the public will get it for free.

You know where the government gets its money, right?
Fortunately, the world has agreed to do something about this global warming business...

By entering a vague international agreement with no clear targets, or enforcement power.

If I were a fossil fuel lobbyist, I couldn't have drafted a better agreement then the Paris Accord. There's a collective target, there's every reason for the participants to defect, there's no proscribed steps that signatories must take, and there is no mechanism for censure of defectors.
Why does BBC do that?
Both the architecture and the approach to documenting it were pioneered by Bernstein's qmail, which is the first Unix program of comparable ambition to be structured in this way --- it's crazy to think that there was a time when this implementation strategy was groundbreaking, but, it was.

http://cr.yp.to/qmail/pictures.html

(Fun fact: Venema and Bernstein had a long-running feud, and Postfix exists pretty much entirely because Venema appreciated qmail's architecture but couldn't stomach working with anything Bernstein produced.)
As someone making an educational game to teach programming ( http://codemancergame.com ) I say the more the merrier! A rising tide lifts all boats.
>A group of private investigators hired by Dateline NBC located McDermott when they noticed a centralized cluster of IP addresses originating near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, all clicking onto a site dedicated to tracing his whereabouts.

Protip, use a VPN/Tor and incognito mode preferably on someone else's Wifi with a burner laptop you bought from Craigslist with cash while Googling your crimes. I've heard of murder/kidnapping suspects being found out this way as well.

... or really, just resist the urge to Google your crimes.
It's too bad they didn't state how much profit this person actually made.
Don't forget the "You're just being an alarmist, the earth has been heating and cooling for centuries!"
Orzo code? Couscous code?
I have been using Headspace and Calm.com. While the services are valuable, I have hard time justifying buying a subscription with a monthly cost for something that is basically some guided meditation mp3.

Compare buying a meditation book with a few guided meditation track for 20$, or subscribing to an app with a recurring cost of 70$/year, I don't really see the added value.

Can someone shed light on what I am missing ?
I was going to link to Elizabeth Greenwood's fascinating book, then I clicked on the link and saw this was written by her! Fascinating subject from a great writer. There's a This American Life episode about it, where she talks about this. Very interesting stuff. I can't seem to find the episode or I'd link it :-(
What is Twitter doing wrong? This is an interesting question.

Answers posted so far:

- it's polarizing... this may be true, but would simply mean a smaller market, not an existential risk.

- they demolished the dev ecosystem. I totally agree with this, and think it was dumb. They thought they were Facebook. But I don't think this fully explains why their core product isn't a big success.

- they don't have a strong enough business model. This is a bit of a tautology - we wouldn't be discussing it otherwise - but not having a strong business model does not explain why the core product doesn't _feel right_.

And that's the thing, you look at Facebook or Instagram and everyone "gets it". They may not _like_ it, but they understand what it's about.

But Twitter doesn't feel like that. It doesn't feel intuitive. It feels like a mess, like a lot of different use cases rolled into one big disorganised poorly designed app.

I read a bit about Twitter's history and my theory is that the problem stems right back to the beginning, when there was an argument amongst the founders about whether Twitter was for "micro-blogging" or for "news" (for some definition of what is newsworthy).

Both these seem like good ideas. We're all interested in our friends' opinions on various things, and what they're up to right now, and add to that the opinions and activities of people we choose to follow because we respect them and find what they say interesting, that sounds like a compelling product.

Likewise, keeping track of all the news on a variety of topics from many sources, hearing the news unfiltered from the actors involved, that is another very compelling product. Put me in direct contact with Elon Musk about what's happening at SpaceX, let me tweet Sam Altman to ask him something about YC. Cool.

It's interesting to consider that clearly selecting one of these use cases would solve many of Twitter's biggest problems. If you're following your friends and some famous people's microblogs, why not enforce real-world ID? If you're after the latest news, do you really need to be able to spam or message everyone? Both situations allow for a reduction in trolling and the negative behaviours that have made Twitter (as one unforgiving observer put it) "the cesspool of the internet".

Problem is Twitter doesn't set out to do either of these things, because it can't decide what it wants to be. So it has compromised and floundered with no clear vision. How can the employees work effectively if they don't know which way to row?

The solution for Twitter _would_ have been to split into multiple services/views/subsystems, or abandon the least interesting one to a sibling startup or a competitor. As Sam A puts it so brilliantly: "focus + intensity". Still time. Not much time.
and why do you want to fight it?
I think it's fairly valuable for lowkey discourse, learning, awareness and inspiration.

Especially cool to be able to follow anyone (friends, role models, favorite authors) and see what's on their mind and what interests them.
At utility scale I expect it is a very simple design problem in fact. It's harder to design them for confined spaces or for crashworthiness but for a fixed installation with no geometric constraints it would be a piece of cake. Anyway Panasonic already has this expertise since they deal in utility projects elsewhere (and in America according to the other comment).
The author has been programming professionally for about a decade.
A) No.
B) VPN
I've never seen en passant used outside of chess before. It makes sense though, so long as he didn't capture you afterward.
I do believe he is in fact claiming what you call "a pedestrian claim about the disparity between our sense impressions and reality dressed up in very provacative, but ultimately content-free, dressing".

How I read it, but using your words, was that he is saying that the "transform function" you mention could throw out a large amount of data about the "real world" as being unimportant, so the only things we notice are those things that evolution has deemed important enough to allow through the "transform function". Hence, our perception of reality does not match reality.

As far as gaining anything from it, I think it is an interesting thought exercise and if it could be proven that'd be cool(and his math about observation actually seems quite interesting) but I don't think any of it is likely to change human behavior in any significant way.
As someone who has worked with EpiPens for seven years now, administering them to patients weekly, if not more, it's very hard for me to find any claim of "improving the product" to be more than lip service. Certainly I don't consider the drug beyond active ingredient, but in the delivery mechanism (where they've also claimed "significant improvements and refinements", very little has changed. The shape of the container is a bit different, the 'window' to see the drug (to look for cloudiness or discoloration) is a little bigger (mind you, such a window is more akin to "empty space in product coloring and branding").

Certainly, I know some things might happen "behind the scenes". Maybe they found a more durable spring for the needle (not that was ever a problem), or such. But yes, I struggle to see it as anything more than patent extension.

Which is why, after our relatively small county, which THROWS OUT $100,000 of EpiPens a year in the Medic One system (which we are mandated to carry by state law) is moving to train EMTs to draw up epi from $2.80 vials, themselves.
You should if you're an ambitious self-interested sociopath. Personally, I'm not, and I don't think my country should be, but hey, agree to disagree.
You are responding to a strawman. I said nothing about the trend, much less dismissed it. I addressed the reasoning I've seen people use exclusively to push for it.
If the popular sentiment here is to be believed, both China and Russia are just misunderstood "good guys" being stepped on by American imperialism.
I recently closed my LinkedIn account, and it's worked surprisingly well so far to reduce the volume of LinkedIn e-mail.
They would only be able to seize assets you might have left in the US. Extradition is only for criminal cases.

Whether or not a country will assist at all in enforcing a civil judgment from a foreign jurisdiction is a matter to be explicitly spelled out in treaty agreements.

Your best bet for avoiding a civil judgment is probably to just be too difficult for a process server to find to serve you with the complaint and summons, or failing that, to make a special appearance to assert lack of jurisdiction before making your answer.

IANAL. While I'm not particularly inclined to offer helpful advice to those who would try to skip out on valid debts, I am even less inclined to allow the typical institutional lender or debt collector to go about their business as usual and win by default.
yea, but you can't also use it for installing a particular version of MongoDB or Postgres.
The "smile" factor is one of many, many, many examples of sexism that women put up with every day.
I'll be sure to buy a copy -- I'd just rather wait for the final version.
Only if keepalive is disabled; in which case regular SSH will work the same way.
My son has done many Minecraft programming courses. He even did a Minecraft programming summer camp. If it wasn't with Minecraft, he wouldn't have done it. I think bringing Minecraft in to the schools to teach development is the right move. I wish all schools would embrace that. It would get the kids excited to learn... unlike... well... everything else besides gym, lunch, and recess.

From programming aspect, Minecraft makes perfect sense. From a math/geometry perspective, I'd have to see it to believe it. But one thing is for sure... the kids will line up to take that class.
I see little indication that that doctor has any experience getting a medical device through the FDA and manufacturing. Couple that with the flexible funding goal and that looks pretty damned scammy.
I studied how people perceive each other over twitter, specifically how inferred gender changes our perceptions of personality. I tried to design the the study to make it's results inferable to any micropublishing platform, like this one, for example.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to run the study with enough participants to get significant results, I'm afraid. Academic politics and favouritism got in the way :(
Apologies for the oversight! Cannot find a way to edit the title. Pointers welcome
the mods knew what they were doing. difference between someone who builds a road and someone who drives a truck full of drugs on that road.
Montana, and I bet a number of other states, used to use the SSN as part of your driver license number.
Apple Maps had completely missed a reworking of a major intersection in Kalamazoo, MI, which was fairly confusing. On the other hand, Google Maps drains my battery like mad unless I force it to quit, so I don't even open it anymore.
Subtract one thing from your list.

"Why do you need caffeine gum? If you want caffeine have coffee, tea, Red Bull, 5 hour energy, Monster, expresso beans, or one of the million other ways to get caffeine."

"Why do you need Red Bull? If you want caffeine have coffee, tea, 5 hour energy, Monster, expresso beans, or one of the million other ways to get caffeine."

"Why do you need tea? If you want caffeine have coffee, 5 hour energy, Monster, expresso beans, or one of the million other ways to get caffeine."

"Why do you need coffee? If you want caffeine have 5 hour energy, Monster, expresso beans, or one of the million other ways to get caffeine."

So on and so forth. Why do you need one more way to get caffeine in your system? Why not?
Not sure I'm going to get behind a committee whose membership includes a terrorist sympathizer (Peter King.)
That hypothetical situation is so far divorced from reality that it's impossible to say anything useful about it. Right now, the US spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined. A world in which those tables were turned would look very little like ours.
I don't think I'd have the job or career I have today if not for a fascination with tinkering with Doom mods back in high school. My daughter is obsessed with Minecraft and if Microsoft can "weaponize" that into something other than her watching incredibly annoying YouTube videos I'd be freaking thrilled.
What's scary to me is that the crime doesn't fit the punishment. We're going to take a genius away from civilization where he could use his potential in constructive ways, and lock him up for something that, realistically, isn't as bad as when bankers launder many millions of dollars, or when identity thieves steal. So we will probably give this guy a life sentence for being smarter than 90% of the American workforce and almost uncovering secrets that shouldn't be being kept anyway. Why can't we throw the book at corrupt politicians and businessmen this hard?
That was very interesting, and I only have one major question after reading it. The article states that it's believed the comet's spin is essentially flinging away chunks, but I'm not clear on the cause of the spinning. The article makes it sound like that starts to occur as it approaches the Sun, so is it a result of a jet of sublimating ice what started this spin, or was it intrinsic from the comet's early formation?

If it's the latter, why is it only starting to fragment now?
Fun article. The idea of faking your death has probably occurred to a lot of people in military service.

It sure did in my case--it only took two days of basic training to make clear that signing up for the US Air Force was the worst mistake of a heretofore untroubled life. It's gratifying to see my proposed method (an untimely hiking accident) so highly praised.

Just out of curiosity for anybody who has gone through this exercise what method(s) did you consider? Extra points for originality.
I don't get why the board OKed having a part-time CEO. It just seems like a bizarre thing to do. Was there really no credible candidate who was willing to run Twitter full time?