skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to blacklist only the main site - Stayfocusd was a particular example, I got some google results on subreddits that I never knew existed and couldn't have been in a whitelist.

I'm rather going for the reading vs scanning distinction - even there I would want the particular subreddit main page to remain blocked to prevent the procrastinating pattern of checking an interesting place to see if there's something new interesting. Similarly, the main news.ycombinator.com should be blocked but visiting particular pages from e.g. a weekly digest email would be useful.
McLaren make about as many cars in a year as Ford makes in an hour. They are not who I'd look to as a partner with experience at mass producing cars. However they may be a good partner if Apple wants to make something targeted higher, e.g. people who might be looking at a Tesla.
Oh that's just great, another billionaire philanthropist curing all diseases. Like Gates did.

I don't know whether their passion loses momentum inside 'initiative/fund' or it was doomed to be opposite of it's cause from the start?
The main thing I've found to help when juggling multiple side
projects is to reduce the friction and the number of tools
involved.

I live in the terminal with tmux, emacs, org-mode, and git. My
projects get an index.org in their base directory which
describes the purpose and tasks involved. I've moved to (but this
isn't essential to the concept of reducing friction) literate
programming, and each source file ends up with its own org file
as well [0], like foo.org for foo.c. My index.org contains
a list of bugs, features, etc. as headlines. Each of those
headlines contain notes on reproducing the bug, identifying where
it occurred, specifying where the feature will be placed,
etc. Specific things inside it become TODOs, which can be quickly
found by (in org-mode) doing C-c / t which will highlight all
TODO tasks in the file. In foo.org I use the same approach. I
have an outline of the source file:

* Purpose
* Includes
* Declarations
* [0/3] Definitions
** TODO foo_bar: int -> int
** TODO foo_baz: char* -> int
** TODO foo_quux: void -> void

So now everything I need to know about the project is in one
place. And by virtue of it all being in the repository (and
hopefully backed up somewhere online like github or my personal
server, when I had one), I can easily move between
computers (modulo tooling, but mostly I just need emacs + git +
tup + <compiler>).

I can also put a great deal of configuration information into
this. What tools need to be installed, what are my
dependencies (for packages/crates/etc.) and why do I depend on
them. As I'm starting to play with docker and containers, I can
include all the steps needed to reproduce the environment and
configuration.

So by reducing the number of places I need to look for
information to a handful of org files, I've greatly reduced the
effort required to resume a project. I can also do everything
offline, which is great for me because an open web browser means
I'll lose the evening's productive hours.

[0] I originally did one big org file that spit out files into
src/foo.c and inc/foo.h, etc. But that became annoying so I
switched to individual files. This improved my ability to reuse
code from one project to another (these being personal projects
I'm not always spending enough time to justify producing a proper
library). And it helped with make/tup because a change to
foo.org only affects things depending on foo.c, where
index.org would affect many build rules because it produced so
many files. Fine in a small project, annoying in anything big.
Until companies can walk around with guns or threaten you with imprisonment for not paying their fees or "enjoying" their products, the two are nothing alike. Advertising doesn't use physical force.
That's not a "hard constraint on the space of possible completions". That's assuming the answer to begin with.
Flipped classroom? No thanks, I'd rather you lecture at me
Whoops. Edited to correct.
I suspect it would have been much better for them to simply partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where they're actually curing diseases. They've literally almost eradicated polio globally[1].

[1] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Polio
“Failure is good,” and 99 other lessons from top business leaders
mine's fine. (6s+)
Another Lenovo story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072424
I mentioned, majority of users don't have a choice.
The way they bake it into Operating system, and leave it enabled by default, it ends up enabled on majority of devices even if user is not using it.
Additionally these companies are going to extreme lengths by coupling these data-collection features with core OS functionality.
Along those lines, there's RAPPOR:

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub42852.html
Yup, this was pretty much our experience.
Totally agree. I've already dropped GMAIL and Google Search. Thinking about pulling the plug on FB as well.

Tired of feeling like a product.
That only works if the people you run past and forget about as soon as they're off your screen kind of don't shoot you. Good luck being a "killing machine" in that fashion against good players :P
Main thing that comes to my mind is a new file system (and associated revamps of Time Machine/Versions/etc to take advantage), which is clearly being worked on and just isn't ready yet. I might be annoyed with the lack of new stuff if I'd paid $129 for Sierra, but, as a free update it's fine and I'm more than happy for them to let the FS stuff mature until it's ready.

As a user of both platforms (which I'm sure is true for a very large portion of their macOS users), the iOS integration stuff of the last several releases is very valuable and has been toward the top of my wishlist.
BeamBA is Coming (with talks about Erlang, Elixir and Efene)
Which is unfortunate, because the overall question of how much savings people have is really interesting!
Yes, and it didn't even occur to me until you mentioned it. The return in terms of knowledge and perspective would be realized quicker and at less cost. The discoveries likely just as alien but perhaps more useful to our plight.
“We’re in a revolution with respect to cancer treatment”

Reading this quote from the original article make me nauseous. We're in a revolution with respect to cancer RESEARCH. PEOPLE are the ones being treated. You can't only focus on a math equation. You also need to focus both on palliative care and explainable research. The article seemed to save that acknowledgement for the last two sentences.

My father has been an oncology physician/researcher for 35 years. He regularly has to tell to some of his non-physician researchers that their work needs to be explainable to both his patients and those who will continue funding the research, yet they consistently show up with black box neural networks saying "we found it!"... found what exactly? He has to be able to convince his master-of-the-universe patients that he knows more than WebMD or their favorite holistic blog, see: Steve Jobs. It's incredibly more common than one would hope, see: anti-vax.

Just to clarify, there is nothing wrong with ML research into cancer. However, research isn't treatment. Oncology is depressing. Fewer and fewer doctors are interested in specializing in it. The overall suicide rate of physicians is double the general population, and that's not even oncology-specific. There's a revolution with respect to cancer treatment, and it's a pretty scary downward spiral.

Announcements such as these can end up taking money AWAY from cancer treatment. The government sees this stuff and jumps on the bandwagon. "Why fund humans when computers can do it?" Government research grants pay my father's salary along with all of his physician-researchers and students. Without that funding, people just get to read about the upcoming research while they wait to die.
Ah, my mistake. I misread it as "many more people..."
Yeah, I don't know if it's mentioned in the docs. I had written my own version before I found it.
For every group of Americans making $40k, there's a bunch making $30k. So there's no reason why some family making $40k can't save $5k every year.

What's more, there's an entire group of people in this country that give up 10% of their income to their church. They're called Mormons. If they can get along, then so can everybody else, saving 10% of income per year.

The reason they don't is because they choose to.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion
initiative to ‘cure all diseases’

The title contains a typo:

s/initiative/investment/

From the article:

Today’s announcement follows the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s
investment in Andela, a startup that trains and outsources work
to developers in Africa.
That's literally the reason I even heard of or installed WhatsApp a few years ago. I was spending time doing work with my church in el Salvador and a bunch of the locals there used WhatsApp because it avoided the insane SMS fees the telco charged. I installed it just to chat with them internationally.

Now almost all my friends are on it and it's great. I love the cross-platform ease of use, E2E encryption, and easy web interface. I'm just scared of how Facebook will ruin it.
The hangouts chrome extension is even handier while keeping your browser minimized.
Yes. Not finite. Unbounded. Finite == bounded == pool.
That's a strange reaction. Hasn't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation been one of the most successful philanthropic organizations of all time? I thought they've saved millions of lives fighting malaria alone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
> Do you think Wendy's is going to pass the savings along to consumers?

I picked up a watermelon from my local farmer's market this weekend. It was about the size of a bowling ball and was $6. I went to Kroger and found watermelons 3x the size, shipped from across the planet, for $5. "Normal" operations are quickly becoming luxuries. Seriously, there's no reason for me to ever buy from a local farmer except to make myself feel wealthy.

Likewise...

It's going to be more like a survival mechanism or a "staying relevant" rather than a "hey suddenly I can sell you a burger for $0.82."
> Foxconn, as it is currently constituted, isn't going to be making Apple cars.

Apple EV is a few years away. Foxconn is certainly not standing still in this few years. A lot of things can happen, including Foxconn pivoting to manufacturing high-end EVs. [0][1] You just never know!

[0]: http://gas2.org/2014/09/04/foxconn-building-814-million-batt...

[1]: http://www.allchinatech.com/tencent-and-foxconns-smart-ev-co...
I think no one really knows "the solution". Solutions for social issues are ever changing. I think the knee jerk fear of change over what are minute issues is the disheartening part.

This would be trivial to implement, but the ramifications could be great and save a ton of down the road health care costs. Preventive care and all that comes with it.

The US has 3-4M births per year. But ranks in the 70's for infant mortality. It's is not a stretch to think the 300-400M spent for this, is a small percentage of the medical costs that are saved... and if it doesn't, its not the big waste it appears, and the naysayers seem to imply....

That was my point.

No need to blame multiculturalism, no need to start micromanaging the biggest economy ( thats why costs seem large ), etc etc. Just simple cost/benefit that too often is sidelined by knee-jerk "'MERICA!" thinking.
Facts here: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html

As I initially suspected when I heard this story, this is more that they use a funky driver, and Linux doesn't support it out of the box. (Believe it or not, neither does Windows!) The Surface Pro 4 also uses NVMe, and things like Acronis had to release software updates to add support for working with it.
Which efforts of the Gates Foundation do you think are particularly 'doomed to be the opposite of it's cause'?
Kiruna: A Swedish Town Being Completely Relocated
Show HN: Python program to clean up handwritten notes
Lyft and Uber boast they'll wipe out hundreds of thousands of jobs in a decade
Non-existent... at least in my experience with my Google Apps account.
Bahamas is latest tax haven hit by mass data leak
I noticed that the alpha default is 128, but usually the scale is 0-1. Is the scale then 0 - 256 for this option?
They didn't say. Business is licensing an algorithm we designed to enterprise customers for use in their software products.

Dǒng is my surname by the way.
Sounds like a good idea.

The new github projects feature looks like something that would work well for this purpose, as you can mix it with milestones as well as a kanban board (Trello). GitLab also has this feature and is open-source.
meta reply: curious why people are downvoting this? Seems on topic and insightful to me. What am I missing?
I read and loved Fight Club, loved the movie, and love Mr Robot. Sam Esmail (Mr Robot creator) even says in interviews that Fight Club is his favorite movie, and certain threads, characters, etc are an homage to that. I mean, he even plays the same song ("Where is my Mind") during part of the "reveal" in Mr Robot. However, as other viewers have mentioned it wasn't really MEANT to be that big of a reveal. In fact, the /r/MrRobot subreddit had that theory nailed very early on in Season 1, and I would argue that knowing that reveal was coming didn't detract from any enjoyment.

Anyway, I totally get why you feel that way about the Fight Club similarities, and at first I felt that way too. But if that is the main reason you stopped watching, I urge you to give it another shot! I think there is so much more to the show than that story thread.

Edit: Also, just curious, how far did you make it before you decided to stop watching?
I've got a key bound to run commands against my clipboard. Super convenient for this kind of thing.
>> First world problems? Maybe, but I don't like to be sold in exchange for free-of-charge services.

Switched from Chrome to Firefox as well. I switched to Microsoft cloud products ( Office, 'SkyDrive' or whatever it's called now ) to get away from Google, or at least from having so many eggs in the Google basket.

I don't like being sold either. It makes me feel like a slave.
Osso – a modern standard for event-oriented data
I didn't make any mention of what country did what.
It seems OP was referencing a cliché trope as opposed to cliché character.
Show HN: Gyro Racer – Simple yet addicting gyroscope racing game
Seems like there are lots of undesirable externalities to misuse of these products, so, I'm all for banning them.
How do you solve a problem like DropBox? (aka securing corporate Dropbox)
(Incidentally, this is why threatening lawsuits is always counterproductive. Sue them or don't, later, but if you're exclaiming about how you'll see them in court they're almost certain to trump up some charges on you to stack the deck.)
It's really not that hard to get a company set up in the US. It takes less than a day to do it with someone like INCServ with your standard Delaware Corp.

That said, it's definitely far more friendly setting up in places like Australia, Canada, etc. Also a lot less onerous in terms of requiring lawyers, accountants, tax people to stay in compliance. It costs a lot more to just exist in the US.
This was the first post I ever read by Patrick. It and Joel Spolsky's blog should be regarded as compulsory reading for all CS grads. Definitely set me on the right path.

I think a good follow up of "don't call yourself a programmer" is "Don't look for a job". The moment you start looking for a job, you're pretty much that "Java programmer" again. Somehow, the people I meet who can't find a job are those who are looking, while those who speak about their employment in literally any other way than "looking for a job" never seem to have a problem. I don't know exactly which way the causation link works (maybe people who are good at getting jobs are privileged enough to not have to think about it in that way), but I'm pretty sure that the word 'job' and mental model associated with it is not optimal.
What is wrong with bcrypt with cost 13. It makes 8194 cycles on CPU...
I add compiler errors in bits that i suspect are half done before I leave a project for any period of time. On return its fairly obvious what I need to fix.
If it's good enough for Stu Maschwitz, it's good enough for me.

https://twitter.com/5tu/status/778670689930752000
And Bill just walked onto the stage :)
> bounded == pool

Pool implies pre-allocated.
It really should've been that simple. Then take from allo incognito conversations, stickers, and smart replies, and you just have a nice hangouts update.
Along the same thought, John's Hopkins tested automatic facets with infrared sensors and standard facets with hand levers for hazardous bacteria. After the study they removed all the automatic facets because the standard facets where much cleaner and saver.[0]

[0]: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/latest_ha...
What would you rather they do with all that money?
That's super clever too. Man, my notebook game is getting so much better today.
voice dictations were local. The data you stored in calendar did not go to cloud, and even if it did, nobody correlated your calendar with your web searches or your location. Various pieces of data existed in their own Silos, without needlessly going to cloud.

These personal assistants are combining data from all sources (your contacts, location, search history, calendar, across devices) , correlating and storing it in one place to build a personality profile. This has huge privacy implications.
BMW co-owns a company called SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers.
solve government tampering with more tampering while continuing to blame "captialism". Glorious.
What he said isn't even entirely wrong... both adware and shitty ISPs do this, mostly as a vector for malware. Google has admitted as such, and migrating their ad platform to https and teaching Chrome and Firefox to refuse mixed content was part of not allowing their service to be abused for this.

Just because Google sells something we don't like doesn't mean they're evil, but it means they have a responsibility to limit the attack surface outside attackers use. There is no way to eliminate all attack surface while still allowing third party admins or closed source code (technically, its impossible period, but w/e).
It's going to be really interesting to see what Henckel does with Dial soap, which has been defined by its antibacterial ingredient for years. (I actually use Dial Basics in the shower because it's the closest thing I can find to cheap, plain soap with no moisturizers or antibiotics, but that's not a product they promote much outside of dollar stores.)
> "Modesty is not a career-enhancing character trait"

It's hard to overcome though. In a previous role, I was the main UI dev on a rewrite of a top 10 ecommerce site's checkout process and also had a lead role in designing the checkout API that handles $billions in revenue a year. But it was really hard to get myself to add any of that to my resume or linkedin profile. Like I was worried about someone somehow calling me on it, even though it's completely true.

Of course, now that I've written that, I feel like it may have more to do with impostor syndrome than modesty.
Did you know that the vaccine for polio has existed for decades.
Nevada is over-rated due to nexus and residency laws.

You have to really know what you're doing and be willing to actually live there. If you're CA based, the FTB will find you. They're 10x more ruthless than the IRS.
IT guy working for Clinton asked for advice on Reddit for how to cover up emails
I upgraded to macOS Sierra on two machines yesterday. Both times, the setup program asked if I wanted Siri enabled or not.
They've changed the behaviour of the camera on the lockscreen previously. It's just an adaptation.
In 2014 Bloomberg had 19k employees and 9.3B turn-over. There must be something going on there[1].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/companies/bloomberg/
YouTube enlists volunteers to moderate its site via “YouTube Heroes”
Largely by funding the effort.

http://www.polioeradication.org/Portals/0/Document/Financing...

Which I don't mean as a criticism, it's just that they aren't really driving the effort, they are participating by providing a lot of resources.
Is easy to talk about property rights after destroy native population and give the lands to a minority when all the rest have only option to sell their work force. The problem with property is its historical construction was not legitim.
Stuff like the LiveScribe is close, but not quite, what I want. I think at the moment one of the most likely candidates is actually something with AR. Plus, it would just be really stupendously cool to have a blank notebook that is "full" of AR writing.

Talk about invisible ink.
That's dated, in that companies now outsource profit centers. Apple outsourced manufacturing to Foxconn.
Well, I can find many orders of magnitude more videos of any country showing racism behaviors on their television. If you think that is a disapproval of my claim, then we are in a draw. There is no ending in this direction of discussion.

As for my credibility, I am not sure how my credibility is damaged anyway.
I don't think that's the HN effect: Prisma is pretty popular and has been prominently featured on news sites over the past few months. I've run into this message a few times (it's a really cool app)
As opposed to how Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and Baidu text search are not collecting personal data?
According to him. The only context is one tweet from one side of the story.
> Core inflation (which ignores health, energy, food prices) may be low, but real inflation over the past 10 years has been very high - I'd say probably close to 50% total.

And you'd be wrong.

Inflation as measured by the CPI-U-RS (not the "core" version, which excludes food and energy -- not "food, health, and energy" as you stated), looking at end of year indexes to get annual inflation over the Dec. 2005- Dec. 2015 period had a high of 4% per year in 2007 and a low of 0.06% in 2008, an average of 1.87% per year, and a total of 20.28% increase in price index over the 10 year period -- the average of that period is just over half the average annual rate of inflation (3.36%) of the Dec. 1977 to Dec. 2015 period, so its hardly been "very high" in the last 10 years.

And the last two years have been, while not as low as 2008, still not far from 0, with 0.76% in 2014 and 0.72% in 2015.

(Source: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpiursai1977-2015.xlsx + math.)
Hillary Clinton's IT Guy Made This Common Mistake