skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Uber did is reduce the overhead of being the middleman. Which is what lets these services expand to smaller markets.

The people who get screwed are the previous middlemen, not the worker bees. If anything, the job of middleman will be a race to the bottom where the next Uber find a way to do it a little cheaper (or take a little less profit to hit a larger scale).
It would just be considered a mating ritual, with some reference to the fact that numerical artifacts in uncommunicative life aren't uncommon (sunflower spirals and Fibonacci).

Then we'd start studying its anatomy for its prime calculator.
Here's an option. There are companies in China which sell standard enclosures for USB plug-in devices. They'll even throw in a color of your choice and a sticker. You'd have to redesign your board to fit their case, but that may be a lot easier than dealing with encapsulation.[1]

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-pcs-szomk-white-small-usb-...
Cheat Engine is an extremely capable tool too, has lots of reverse engineering features, including a debugger and pointer searching tools, a blue-pill style hypervizor to modify memory undetectably and a very powerful assembly level patcher. Oh, and it's all open source. Seriously nice stuff.
There is a good reason why it's not more common.

As always, the problem is getting permission to build on that land, then permission to build a tiny house, and finally permission to live there.

I don't know about Santa Clara county, but in most places you can't build without a Building Permit, and you can't live there without a Certificate of Occupancy.

So the main problem is not building a cheap house, it is getting land to live on. In this context the tiny house movement solves nothing.

I love the idea of Tiny Houses, but to me they are tackling the wrong problem. And I worry about people who build a tiny house in good faith, then find they can't legally live in it.
You may want to consider something like this, even though maybe it would take too much time, it would look awesome.

http://runawaybrainz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/audio-crystal-cm...
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/303/
That gets into the entire H.264 licensing issue. It's a trade-off between open source and wanting to support H.264 HTML5 video. (instead of just webm) :-/
Oddly... The most tested code bases I have worked in had similar problems. They had tested and designed themselves into a solution that did not lend itself to changes. To the point that making a change required reasoning about several micro services and integration test packages.

Again, there are no panaceas.
You can see these tiny houses in SOMA in SF, too - on division st or 7th st. I've seen them replace tents and I admire whoever is providing them / helping the homeless put these together.
I just wish Firefox for Android played nice with other apps. I mean, I like that it has AdBlock, but no, Firefox, I don't want to open that YouTube link in Firefox.
Of course they are. If they exist. There is always the possibility we are the first intelligent life in this galaxy. Someone has to be first.
FYI, this is part of PacktPub's free daily book giveaway -- every day at midnight UTC (e.g. 4PM PDT) -- or a little after -- the book at the free-learning link changes to a new title, which can be downloaded in a variety of formats or read online. They sometimes have thematic weeks, e.g. Android, Data Science, etc. (Note: you'll need to set up an account at PacktPub.com to be able to download the free book).
If they used JavaScript, the language's excellent floating point arithmetic would likely make them crash all the time and we will be safe.
krebsonsecurity.com doesn't use Brian Krebs' public key, it uses Google's public key (and before that, Akamai).
This is exactly the reason why I actually quite strongly discourage teaching programming by starting with IDEs. Far too often I see beginners fall into what I call "programming tunnel vision" where they repeatedly make very tiny and often random changes to a piece of code in an attempt to get it to compile or produce the right result, seeming to completely abandon any thoughts about the overall goal. A lower latency feedback only encourages this behaviour more. The same phenomenon also happens if you give them a debugger --- they spend plenty of time just stepping through the code without any good sense of the bigger picture. Maybe it feels productive, but it's not. Their attention is too preoccupied with the feedback that they do not think deeply enough about their solution, and as a result, overall code quality often also suffers.

Instead, I believe in thinking carefully about the problem. Close your eyes and visualise the program and its data and control flow in your mind, then write the code. Use a whiteboard or even pencil and paper to collect your thoughts and get a good mental model of what you're trying to accomplish. Block out all other distractions and focus on the problem.

Many others I've talked to are in disbelief when I tell them I can spend an hour writing several hundred lines of code that compiles and works flawlessly the first time, but this is what careful thought will allow. Even with a very fast feedback loop you may spend several times longer fiddling with the code until you get something that seems to work, but actually doesn't in all cases precisely because you did not ever think about those cases while you were fiddling with it and had your attention focused on getting that next dose of feedback.
Yeah, that is basically the entire advertising industry. Precisely what "brand exposure" is.
Different restrictions between passenger and freight aircraft. The freight rules are looser.
OK, the token security outweighs the usability.
I was going to, but something else got in the way and I ended up not running the query again.

Over the years I've had my share of complex queries with subqueries and aggregates, both for class and for my own projects, but never have I encountered 70MB exploding into multiple gigabytes (I don't even know what its final size would have been). I guess I could have used EXPLAIN and dug into it, but never having had this before I figured it was SQLite not being made for it.
The Promise of GitHub
I don't know much about vlogging, but I assume that the controversy would increase views/shares/revenue, and as a result, you'd want to keep the controversial segments in.
Our conventional weapons and economic influence are the leverage and deterrents. It's pretty unlikely that we would ever again nuke a non-nuclear entity. The non nuclear entities know this, so nukes don't really provide any leverage over them. It's our drones, ships, etc. that do, at least on the military side.

For the few entities with nuclear weapons, it's MAD. We would only play the card once, since it would be the final round of the game with that entity.
PS:
You might want to revise this verbiage in the README markdown file:

Installing xsv is a bit hokey right now. Ideally, I could release binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows. Currently, I'm only able to release binaries for Linux because I don't know how to cross compile Rust programs.
Sound logic, but I didn't think to myself "gee everyone else is wrong". I just noticed SQLite did something I've never seen another database do and figured it's not made for this.
The way in which this Uber stuff is about wealth inequality is that there is no "Uber for getting on your feet after serving time for a felony" or an "Uber for teaching high school kids how to get on a path to a good job" but there are three "Uber for cupcakes"'s.

There's nothing wrong with Uber for cupcakes[1], and people can argue that we should start there because it's just easier to make money off of rich people. But what's the plan for Uberizing the stuff poor people need? Is there one? I don't accept that it's just too hard. Margins are margins.

[1] I have no idea whether there is an Uber for cupcakes
This is a really good point. There has been a lot of research into this area lately, as well as animal intelligence in general.

My point is still that life less intelligent than us has nothing to communicate to us that we would care to respond to.
> Not to mention the sad state of UI toolkits right now. This isn't about GTK vs. Qt or anything... but you can't pick up your favourite language (Python, JS, whatever) and easily write cross-platform apps that work well on Linux.

This frustrates me to no end.

- Qt is almost impossible to fully bind. The vague hacks we had all got tossed out the windows with the move from Qt4 to Qt5. I've given up putting my own effort in here.

- GTK had some good progress with gobject introspection, but it's like talking to a brick wall trying to get issues fixed. Not to mention that it doesn't work as well as other toolkits on other platforms, and I dislike their new "look".

- wxWidgets is very hard to bind well.

- Motif never "feels" right

- IUP is sort of a dark horse, but I've never managed to build a nicely working application in it, and the build process is a nightmare (though it has improved).

Not to mention that each toolkit ends up trying to push their own weird languages and ui designer IDEs.

At the moment I'm crossing my fingers that libui https://github.com/andlabs/libui/ won't mess up. But for now it's quite incomplete.
>We don't just let people put up houses on random pieces of land they don't own and live there.

The current lack of any serious action or even any real interest in solving the now generation old homeless problem makes shanty towns eventually inevitable. I know it will be embarrassing to have them scattered outside the richest cities in the country but for some unfathomable reason that is the economic path we chose.

I suggest Mt San Bruno will make a fine favela for what is already the world's richest 3rd world city in all but name.
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After aliens or AI see how we treat each other they will probably just sterilize the entire planet with a gamma ray to not expose themselves to such apeness.
> IMHO, those are "features" which no one really cares about. Stop messing around with fancy CSS and JS, spend the time developing a simple site that almost naturally works in IE too.

I agree that targeting of Edge browsers is ridiculous since it's keep current, on the other hand for IE and if the site is non-commercial/personal (commercial sites should really try to be compatible on as many browsers as they can) I don't really blame them if they're wanting to use modern web standards. Microsoft has abandoned feature updates to IE, and sadly only made Edge available to W10 users.

Flexbox in CSS is one example. It was made to simplify the creation of page layouts and content flow and includes various features that were sought-after for a long-time that require hacky or more complex solutions otherwise. The majority of its bugs, or just plain missing features are found in IE10-11 (and absent completely in earlier versions). Either creators design the site to entirely compensate for IE and loose that flexibility (pun not intended), find some Javascript polyfill that actually works/fixes such bugs, or just present some message to users for unsupported browsers (not that it needs to necessarily block the page though). It's just one of several useful features that make things far easier but lacks full/partial/any support in IE.
> Then we'd start studying its anatomy for its prime calculator.

Well, that explains all the stories about people being anally probed during alien abductions.
I second this recommendation, although it is worth pointing out that they are not that bright even on full. Fine for going to bed but maybe not the only thing you want on a cloudy day. The sunset mode is really nice too, and I really really wish there was a way to hold at the pink color when it is nearly off. If you could get strips of that color to circle the room that would be excellent.

The flip side of lights that disrupt melatonin is that they can be good for you when you first wake up if natural light is not that strong in the morning where you are (or you aren't exposed to much of it when you first wake up).
It has nothing to do with me wanting people to work, but with people wanting to work.

Believe it or not, some people want to work. Many are raised on the principle of you need to work to eat, and will continue to raise their kids in this fashion for the unforeseeable future. Call it what you want, it is just the way some people live their life and find worth. We have to stop and ask ourselves why on earth would we want to even automate all work? It always goes down some utilitarian route, and I am saddened to see that this is the only ethical framework that has room in modern, capitalistic society.

> A job automated is a person that doesn't need to work.

False. A job automated is a person that a company doesn't need a worker for. There is a difference, in that now that person doesn't get paid. Company makes more money. This will be the situation until we reach the fabled "automation utopia" where all the essentials are taken care of such as food, shelter, water, travel, medicine, law, governance, and humans are left to frolic around to and fro. Until then, there will be hundreds of years of human suffering. Let's stop this endless pursuit to automate which is driven largely by profit, and focus our attention on solving human suffering. We have better things to be doing with our time than to figure out how to replace everyone's job.
Why should an AI care to spend time near a black hole, in order to 'have more flops for no effort'? That's the same as slowing down the AI's substrate, or putting it into suspend mode. If the non-AIs can survive for centuries, why can't the AIs? In other words, why does the AI care about the "still" in "still take centuries"?

If the AIs have interstellar war, they won't be bogged down in slowtime around a black hole. The ones in fasttime have more chances to control the computronium, and a faster response time to take advantage of whatever those compute cycles are being use for.
I use Firefox on my phone. I am more comfortable with it for privacy reasons. It's a pretty nice browser outside of that.

However I'm using a pretty beefy phone whereas when I used my Moto G it wasn't quite the best browser in terms of resources however a lot has changed since then. (Like Chrome no longer having tabs integrated into the task manager. That feature was great for devices with not too much RAM and horribly buggy firmware that would unload apps prematurely. It's also very convenient to use. Maybe could have used a little bit more refinement.)

Also it's the only browser that supports my dusty old PCs. So I tend to use it on those as well.

Thanks Firefox devs.
Ah yes, sorry!
I use Firefox with uBlock as well and it works. Very rarely do I have problems.
Please make sure you understand log replication and go through fire drills for the list of things that can go wrong with bi-directional replication. The last thing you'll want to do is deploy this into production and wing operations as you go.
> online participation

More like a cheap way for journalists AKA "contributors" to source their articles AKA "blogposts".
One thing I've considered too as I begin to work with more and more developers on larger projects is the good ole 'Bus Factor [0]. In short, it's determining whether or not your project can be sustained should the major contributor or 'main brain' behind the project get hit by a bus. The entire objective is to reduce the number of places the project can fail, simply by having one member pass unexpectedly. Should you steer clear of avoiding a single point of failure? Absolutely. Is it always avoidable? Absolutely not.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Why companies make their products worse
Twitter has never asked for my phone number, including for the account I created just this week. I'm in the US. Perhaps it's different elsewhere?
Many people in this thread lamenting overworking in their youth. Maybe I've been lucky but at 22 I'm very happy with my decent 9-5 type employments. I've never felt the ambition necessary to sacrifice my free time for work—I'm satisfied with what I have.
How to convert videos to enjoy on iPhone SE
Did the same with Twitter. I still have my Facebook account though I do not use it, since it is restricted to my closest friendS.
The problem may be government-caused, but that doesn't mean that all government intervention is bad, as you're implying.

The rationale is closer to this: the government caused this problem, and the government can (and should) fix it.
If you're rooted you can download AdAway from F-Droid. It uses the hosts file so it blocks ads in more than just the browser. Occasionally, an ad gets through but overall I've found it to be very effective.
If you put the name of a housecat on a loan application, and someone buys a boat in the cat's name, it's kind of hard to blame the cat.
The nodes don't need to be up 100% of the time. Thanks to replication slots, the WAL on the other nodes will be kept until the node connects again and catches up. So it really depends on how much disk space you have on the other nodes.

Regarding the PK conflicts - I'm not sure I understand the question, but it's possible to use global sequences (which is one of the parts that did not make it into core yet). Otherwise it'll generate conflicts, and you'll have to resolve them somehow (e.g. it's possible to implement a custom conflict handler).

See http://bdr-project.org/docs/stable/conflicts.html
Related info:

Compared to people with the lowest psychological scores, those with highest scores were:

86 percent more likely to have a stroke or TIA for high depressive symptoms.

59 percent more likely to have a stroke or TIA for the highest chronic stress scores.

More than twice as likely to have a stroke or TIA for the highest hostility scores.

http://newsroom.heart.org/news/high-stress-hostility-depress...
You might be better served by seeing a doctor who can help you with your hypochondria, or otherwise seek some means to manage your anxiety. Some means of recognizing thoughts you're having which are excessively rooted in fallacy, obsessive thoughts and the like, not to mention learning how to redirect your attention and calm yourself is a good idea.

After all, the result of that will be that you're under less stress, and less likely to have some kind of cardiovascular event.
> This does not mean the goverment needs to redistribute wealth, regulate business or manage the economy.

Regulating business, managing the economy, and redistributing wealth are not strictly necessary roles for the government.

However, having a government that a good job of doing those roles increases economic efficiency and social well being.

We don't HAVE to have public education, but public education dramaticly increases the productive output of a society.

We don't HAVE to have the government regulating business, but having government imposed standards that are well thought out increases consumer trust, decreases economic risk, decreases economic friction, and increases economic efficiency.

We don't HAVE to have the government distributing a basic income, but I think gradually replacing the minimum wage with a basic income will increase economic efficiency (lower labor costs) without the corresponding deflationary drop in demand. There is obviously a limit to how much we as a society can afford to provide as a UBI. I don't claim know what that limit is (I suspect it is currently well below the poverty line), but we can find it using gradual increases to UBI and decreases to the minimum wage.

We want out government to fulfill these roles because it makes our society safer, fairer and more efficient. We could probably get by with 5-8% tax rates, but the society we would live in would be much poorer.

> My ideal society would have said funds made by voluntary donations. This is a far-off ideal, but it is achievable - unless you think humans cannot form a society without coercion.

Sure, one day that would be great. One day we will have free energy, benevolent AIs, and instantaneous transportation anywhere in the galaxy (i.e. no scarcity). Until then, we will have to depend on coercion like ever other society in human history has.
The trick is to accept that we're animals, and that meta-cognition is only a part of the game we're playing. We have to figure out ways to deal with the less expressive and more primitive parts of ourselves that don't respond as well to that "internal voice". Sometimes you just have to count primes and take deep breaths, even if it feels silly.
If anything, the whole Sponsored Tiles push (https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504 https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...) and attempts to justify ads in the browser as "user-enhancing" made me very wary of Firefox. Moreso than Chromium.
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That's really disapointing... Chrome apps were really the first of their kind... An app, you effectively run everywhere... Windows, mac, linux/chromeos and they work everywhere. nw.js and electron are node-based ecosystems, and don't run on chromeos or android (looking towards chromeos/android merge).

It's really a shame to see the first effective write once run everywhere platform die like this.
When I first started trying to post and vote, I had the same experience: why is this web site trying to prevent me from using it? Ohh. They're trying to gamify answering programming questions. Ain't nobody got time for that.

But then a year or so later I logged in and somehow I had cleared all of the caps without having really done anything. I guess some comments or voted on some things and some stuff got voted up. Regardless all of the sudden I could just do whatever I wanted.

Doesn't seem like the incentives are set up right, at least anecdotally in this case. The reward I received was not connected to any sort of earnest attempts at helping the site out. Those were rebuffed. And now I guess I can contribute, but I spent a good while thinking of Stack Overflow as a read-only site that I'm not really in the habit of thinking that way.
Ah, systemd.
It's going to be very interesting to see how this type of technology plays out in relation to art asset creation in both the game and film industries.

A common technique concept artists use for matte painting is to take existing images and blend them in to their creation, so this would almost be an evolution of that methodology.
Christopher Columbus didn't discover "an entire new world", he was just one of the first Europeans to land on a continent that had already been there, with plenty of people, for thousands of years.
There's a train of thought that says the reason we don't see aliens from other worlds is that they have all gone towards artificial inner worlds rather than outer space. They in essence have fallen into a game never to come out rather than explore space.

Seems that that explanation might have some merit given this article. We might be heading in that direction.
> if grep and curl stopped working

Did you ever run Windows?
It's quite common across the "third world," sorry can't think up a better term right now. But I've encountered very aggressive touts from India to Bahia, Brazil.
My two brothers and I grew up with our parents in rented 2-bedroom in-laws, and we stayed in San Francisco the whole time. In two of the places, technically, one bedroom was not a real “bedroom” because they did not have windows, but we lived with it. With substantial family assistance.

The market is exponentially worse now, of course, but I still see families with children renting and having to move, but managing to stay in the city.
Right, maybe it's location based but from my account I see Prime (2 days) for the linked product, and Prime (5 days) for the zero
A lot of spam doesn't expect a response and only cares about link impressions.
HK only exists because the British needed a way to poison I mean sell the Raj opium crop to the Chinese. Maybe the Chinese have very long memories.