skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a big point is that on a Navy-analogous vessel, it's reasonable to assume most activity on the ship is being monitored, for the safety of the ship and crew. The fact that the ship knows where everyone aboard is or that they can pull up the full Starfleet record for anyone who's ever been in Starfleet is not surprising, this is the military* and records and accountability are a big deal. But there's nothing to indicate that Federation civilians are monitored to that extent, and I'd argue enough episodes are strong on fundamental individual rights, that it's hard to imagine Federation life for civilians being a surveillance state.

* Don't start that argument. Seriously.
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What city do you live in where there are always payphones around?

All the cities I've been in have had virtually all their payphones torn out long ago.
> The joke here is that CSS is inadequate to fix that problem of overflowing text.

No, the joke is that in CSS the solution isn't always obvious and often takes multiple attempts (to a non-expert like me, anyway). Sometimes things you expect to work don't and you end up in the depths of Chrome Developer Tools trying to work out why.

I don't think people dismiss CSS as being inadequate, it's just occasionally difficult and frustrating.
There's another explanation of Kalman filters here: http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-pictures...
EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than $30M
I sort of agree, but still ended up in the opposite corner. I use a keyboard which has no arrow keys and instead use <fn>-hjkl in every app with no (non-keyboard) configuration needed.

Also, combined with some other changes (the space bar is fn if depressed with another key, space bar otherwise; caps-lock is mapped to control; a couple somewhat more complicated macros), it is pretty effective at keeping others off my machine.

A programmable keyboard offers useful options.
> Google is selling you, to advertisers, quite literally.

No, that would be slavery, which is illegal.

Google is selling advertising space on various channels that you provide in exchange for Google services to advertisers.

> When you aren't paying anything for something of value, YOU are the product.

No, when you aren't paying money for something of value, you are probably paying something else of value for it; often, something that the person with which you are trading is then selling for money, making you a supplier of an input to the good or service they are selling for money.
Hate paywalls. Wish they weren't allowed here.
Ah, I bound join lines to :join since I don't use it that often. I still encourage you to try binding something to 7j (or whatever number of j's feels right). One of the best shortcuts of my life.
I desperately wish we would stop trying so hard to "help The Homeless" and start trying to make housing more affordable and neighborhoods more walkable so that ordinary people with ordinary jobs can walk to work and rent or buy housing that fits their budget. Then we don't have to have these bleeding heart bullshit displays of how fucking much people care when people mostly do not care and, instead, they just like having an excuse to massage their own ego and tell you how morally superior they are.

Stop treating poor people like pets you rescued and can now show off as proof of how compassionate you are. Just build a world that WORKS, for all people, not just the rich.

We need to build a world where people who are not "the tech elite" can afford to live in it without some kind of intervention program. Geez.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/minimum-dece...
This is pretty awesome. My initial thought was that we really don't need another Markdown editor, these are becoming like ToDo lists.

However, it looks awesome, so far it seems to work really well. Support for unicode is great.
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> subtly influence your behavior towards the most profitable results

This is the very common theory that a company will (shadily) try to offer you a worse product to make more profit. It fails to account for competing companies that would jump on that opportunity to offer their better product, and get the market share.

But what's funny here is that the suggested alternative is to not get any product at all. As in: "Poor OP, didn't realize that it wasn't really him who was enjoying that burger he was enjoying."
My recommendation for people to look into here is Sandstorm.io. It runs either on-site or in the cloud, and it already can replace a lot of what one uses cloud services for. In time, hopefully open source projects will develop "intelligent" apps that can then tap into that data and do more with it, still within the confines of your secure, private storage.
For purposes of discussion, let's say he did take the data to leak. I'm honestly curious as to the response. From everything out there, nothing he took had been used for anything beyond espionage and counter-espionage in the manner that any sane person assumed was happening. Finding a motive (unless he planned to sell it, which I haven't seen any indication of, and would wildly change the story) seems tough. Was he really just taking it to leak, being a radical transparency advocate? Why just this?
>food from ecological systems is absolutely better tasting. Ask any decent chef (myself included).

Have you done any (double blind) A/B testing to conclude this? Argument from authority (even if they are decent chefs) doesn't count.
Outschool (YC W16) is hiring a growth/marketing generalist
If it's not your job to figure out the how, why should anyone care about your opinion of the what?

Edit: which is my slightly harsh way of saying dreams are easy, but doing is what counts.
What language or even tool is the above comment not true for?
> clickbait to paywalls

What about this is clickbait? It's an accurate headline, but the article is behind a paywall. HN explicitly allows this.
If its the state aid enforcement, then the EU won't. The EU will force Ireland to collect the missing tax because they can't let the infringement succeed i.e. a fair market must be restored.

I don't know which action you are specifically referring to but I know Google have broken any number of accounting rules though e.g. in the UK they claim to carry out no sales activities, all happening in Ireland, despite of course collecting millions of GBP and employing hundreds of UK sales staff...
The list of things declared impossible is as long as it is laughable. I hope I'm around long enough to see this article added to the list.

There are things that are certainly impossible according to the law of physics as we know it, such as FTL travel or time travel.

There is nothing according to the laws of physics that prevent us, say, from colonizing Mars.
People make that joke about Seattle quite a lot during certain seasons.

Seattle has a few months of near-uninterrupted sunshine and a few months of near-uninterrupted drizzle, but the intervening months interpolate by changing the weight of their random switches between the two.
Side note: It's against FAA regulations to check bags containing lithium ion batteries. Sometimes they remind you at check-in and sometimes they don't. In theory, you could get into trouble for doing it.

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/hazmat_safety/more_inf...
Who is "Rebecca"? I agree with 90% of her statements, and she appears in this conversation to have further ambitions of continuing with the ideas and convincing some powerful people, especially Paul Krugman, of their validity.

Did she ever succeed? Did she write her thoughts in a more digestible format and make those writings public? Does she have further commentary on her thesis on the capitalist or non-capitalist tendencies of modern software companies, or on other topics?

Mostly I'd just love to read more of her writing, if it exists.

Edit: I believe she is Rebecca Frankel, according to http://danluu.com/programming-blogs/#rebecca-frankel. Still interested in any pointers to more of her writing if it exists.
As a univerity senior, thank you for this. Oracle was already low on my list of companies to apply to for a full-time job, and this put the nail in that coffin.
(Blog author here) Every three years, SF asks volunteers to walk around the city and physically tally up people they see living on the street using clipboards. Agencies like ECS have no way to communicate progress, numbers, or success/failures with one another, and the city has no visibility into the actual movement of people between services. I'm not suggesting a few good apps would help at all. In fact, the opposite. I'm saying that we spend too much time creating net new things, like apps, and not enough time partnering with the people that are actually working on the solution. The new department of homelessness is taking on "data consolidation and collaboration" as one of their big initiatives, yet they aren't working with tech companies that are experts in that area.

My point: no one is talking to one another and using our shared skills to actually affect change.
This. It's far from a clear cut case. The Commission is highly political, under pressure from various advocacy groups, and we can't take it for granted that their opinion on law is correct; the judiciary should decide that.
>The seed control stuff is really just Monsanto being incredibly shitty at PR. See NPR[1]; also, in the past 10, 20 years or so, there's only been one lawsuit between Monsanto and farmers[2] (news flash: it was the farmers that sued Monsanto).

That's plainly incorrect.

Since the mid‑1990s, Monsanto indicates that it has filed suit against 145 individual U.S. farmers for patent infringement and/or breach of contract in connection with its genetically engineered seed but has proceeded through trial against only eleven farmers, all of which it won. The Center for Food Safety has listed 90 lawsuits through 2004 by Monsanto against farmers for claims of seed patent violations. (Wikipedia)

>Another fun fact: organic doesn't mean evolution-based. Mutagenesis and specially-grown cultivars have become an increasingly popular way to produce foods that get the organic label; it's only really transgenesis (gene splicing) that you can't say is organic.

I already addressed that though. Natural mutagenesis is still evolution (heck, it's one of the very engines of evolution), and I'm all for slow methods to produce foods (even if they cross species) over gene splicing, especially with the current (BS) level of knowledge that the gene splicers have over the possible consequences of what they are doing and the lack of scientific rigor when big business are involved.

>but organic is generally just a stupid concept.

Don't disagree much with that. Also noted that I don't particularly care for food with the label "organic" (which is an industry on its own, when it comes to certification, higher prices, etc.). Plain ole food-stuff is enough.
From TFA: "Lessig told me I had to write an account that fit in five pages in order to hope to be heard, to which I reacted with some despair. I can’t! There is more than five pages worth of complexity to this problem! If I try to reduce beyond a certain point I burn the sauce. You are watching me struggle in public with this problem."
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I have. I've designed and participated in blind A/B tests for coffee, wheat, fish, chicken, eggs, mushrooms, peaches, squash, watermelon, and others I'm forgetting. Not for a research paper, but for sourcing decisions at a restaurant and on farms testing different cultivation methods.
We have to register as a company with a tax ID. We plan to open it up as a flat subscription model based on the amount of requests required. There will be a free "developer" plan that allows unlimited use with request limits.
The lazy approach is probably way cheaper. Unless the social media shit storm is too big in which case they can correct after the fact.

Not saying it is ok to do it. Just that business will always pick the cheapest option they can get away with - that is, that does not affect the bottom line.
Hopefully technology (robotics + machine learning) will improve this a lot in the future. Rather than needing to keep dairy cows in a shed they could graze, and some robotic contraption could roam the field milking them, etc.

It's also worth mentioning that these are probably the better food operations out there (most wouldn't allow cameras).

Agriculture is ugly, and always will be.
> “The Social Graph” and its associated apps should be like the internet, distributed and not confined to one company’s servers.

It is like this though. Any one of us can re-create our social graph in a heartbeat on any of these services at any point in time by importing our contacts and letting the network present us with our associations at the moment in time we want it to.

I've done this with linkedin, having zero presence there until the moment I wanted to network in a new area.

I've done this with snapchat

Telegram

anything I want at that point in time

there is no need for continued presence on any one of them since you can come and go as you please with new profiles and reconnecting to existing associates.
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I think you misunderstand me by a large margin.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use AIs. We should, however, think about how we use them.

To build on your example, what are the dangers of having a personal secretary on the payroll of anyone but you?

What I am expecting from this is a super devious filter bubble - because that's how you make money. Google's old slogan "Don't be evil" is long gone. "For a greater good" might be more on point.
How many times did you get rejected at each stage by investors
It looks like Dash downloads documentation from various sources and displays it offline. I wonder if one of the documentation sources has a license that doesn't permit this use, and then they filed a DMCA notice.
This is spot on. I'm okay with having my home automation system tap a weather API to collect data. But I don't need an Internet service to know the thermostat settings in my house.

I've designed my home automation system on the concept that the only route to the Internet is my computer (and therefore, my home automation software). My computer is a secure, well-managed intermediary that can store my data, and decide when and how to receive and send data to the Internet.

The idea of dozens of Internet-connected devices in the home is :terrifying: in comparison, especially considering that badly-secured IoT devices are now powering some of the biggest botnets out there.

My light switch, however, cannot talk to the Internet. It has local-only communication protocols that are simple. It knows how to be told to turn the lights on or off or dim or a handful of other settings, but it's literally incapable of doing anything else... and why would I want anything different? Why should my light switch have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and software updates and a miniature flavor of Linux... It's a switch!
Well, in other languages or tools you get a helpful error message, or you can add a break point or log output to a file.

In CSS, not so much. Edit, reload, review, repeat. I know it's not a fair comparison, but it's true.
You're thinking about xcape: https://github.com/alols/xcape.

FYI, Karabiner is incompatible with MacOS Sierra. There's a project (Karabiner-Elements) to replace its (and Seil's) functionality, but I don't believe it has feature parity yet: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements
You don't necessarily need a walled garden to solve that problem - package managers on Linux distribution do the same.
It needs the appropriate user experience for non-technical users.
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The only path out of Windows patch hell is Linux and Mac OS. If you're not already migrating every app you have to the web you're either a masochist or delusionally thinking Microsoft is still focused on delivering a decent desktop experience.

For the latter group I have news for you: Microsoft is going "all in" with their "services" strategy. Operating systems and fat client software don't exactly fit neatly into the "service" model.

The future of Microsoft is as a competitor in a commodity cloud services market. The thinking is that they can provide value in the form of commercial web applications like Office 365. In other words, they think they can do a better job than Google and Zoho at serving enterprises things like email and spreadsheets.

You know what? They just might be able to do a better job. Especially if they actually put in some effort into supporting non-Microsoft platforms (e.g. web browsers other than IE on platforms other than Windows). They also have to a long way to go in terms of federation so businesses can work with each other without compromising security.

In the end though, I think it is pretty clear that Windows isn't going to be Microsoft's focus anymore. I expect they will allow the platform to slowly erode away, collecting as much revenue from it as possible while converting their business to services.
>Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please?

A better question would be, why?
HN also added the "web" link button which automatically searches google for you.
Would like to know how and when Gobble has seen the traction.
Concerning external links, I'm surprised that big news sites don't seem to have stable links whereas tech sites like /. do. Go to Wikipedia, and follow a few referenced links to major news organization websites. You'll find many dead links. Given that they use complex, professional CMS solutions, I don't understand why they would break links. It's not like they cannot serve ads for old articles. Wired's old articles seem to be there but barely so with sometimes broken img links.

> If I get email related to my site, I often post it to the site.

But only after consent from your the sender, right?
In the same magnitude as CSS? None.
Hmm, the example you posted doesn't actually look very complicated at all! And I agree, Lua is a very nice language, I've used it for other projects.
Putting grammar on the same level as this is wrong. Poor grammar and spelling doesn't frequently change the entire results of a paper. Math errors though can easily be the difference between significance and insignificance, changing the entire set of conclusions that can be drawn from the paper.
Sebald was a true genius. His writing is a journey down fascinating veins of human history and culture, and the uncanny experiences we have of these in the present. He had a profound sensitivity and empathy for what it is to be a human being. You will get something new from his books with each read, and always the same marveling at our world, the tragedy we make in it, and what an imagination could have captured this.

Highlights of the scant recordings we have of him are:

- Reading from Austerlitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMCGjWLlhY

- An interview with Michael Silverblatt shortly before his death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFcTWIg-Pg
Wanted to say that thanks for the talk on Startup Conference.

I still have the mental picture of the table with the wine bottles.
On what timeframe did you accumulate those bottles? Wiggles of false hope?

(Sorry I don't have a better question )
because an animal is a self-contained unit which manages disease and feed conversion that scales fairly predictably, while cultured meat has a pretty high entry barrier in terms of feedstock, sanitation etc
I think "bullying" is a reductive term for what's actually happening. I think the point trying to be conveyed is that there is a certain decline in the author's personal status when they get holes punched in their publications.
Probably not to solve it, but maybe to improve on it.

Could you write an app that would make homeless outreach volunteers 2x-10x more efficient?

How about one that would crowd-source data collection to support political initiatives?

Or find a way to funnel food wasted by restaurants and supermarkets into the bellies of hungry people?

Maybe it's not just making an app, but turning the focus of SV's culture of "disruption" upon social problems. How could you "disrupt" the social, political, financial, or logistical patterns and problems that cause and perpetuate homelessness?
There are a million ways it could be implemented, I didn't mean to suggest that's the only one.

For a more Mac-like method, make it a special Finder mode where instead of showing the directory contents, installer DMGs display a big icon of the app with an Install button under it.

If you really want to get at the files directly, right clicking in the DMG could give a "Show disk image contents" item similar to how app packages are handled. Right clicking on the big application icon would include an "Open" item to circumvent installation and execute from the disk image.
Yep, agreed. I'm very excited about the optional type checking in Python, and can't wait for it to improve so I can use it in all my projects.
Right, I TOTALLY said TOS. (Damn faulty memory!)
So, (honest question, as I have been accepted) other than the certification, what do those who take part gain?
That's neat!
I've been using https://phantomjscloud.com/ to render and then use that
Before replying, you could at least have made an effort to understand what I meant with the distinction between simple and easy.

If you do not care what I say, why even reply?
On the one hand, when I read the open sourcing announcement, I found it enticing, too.

On the other hand, we have had this kind of thing for decades in the form of SQL. There, it is considered best practice to restrict the API by requiring callers to exclusively use stored procedures. Reasons are that they make it easier for the engine to optimize query evaluation, for the DBA to optimize the storage format to the queries to be run, for the security guys to enforce security, etc.

You can make the front-end API more flexible, but that doesn't remove the need to do that kind of back-end stuff.

Yes, I still like it, but I'm not sure it really simplifies stuff as much as it seems at first sight; to get performance you still have to tune the backed to the kind of queries that are run.
I thought this article described a Linus rant in which he exploded at others for not following his fifteen year-old instructions regarding a macro?
I don't know the specifics of when the Blue Origin capsule's rockets fire, but for the Soyuz capsule it's 70cm above the ground. The time between the rockets firing and impact with the ground is far too fast to see in real time.

The dust cloud that gets kicked up is kicked up by the rockets firing, not the capsule slamming into the ground (which is the point the commentators were trying to make).
It became off topic by turning into a flamewar.

If you don't want this to happen, I suggest taking more care to edit flamebait out of your comments. Leading with "Don't be so melodramatic," "That's so unbelievably false it makes me sad that you," "You stop", etc. guarantees poor results and therefore off-topic snippage.
> But there's nothing to indicate that Federation civilians are monitored to that extent

The clearest example of extensive off-starship monitoring (within the Federation) that I can think of in TNG is a civilian (though, to be fair, a civilian in a role analogous to a "defense contractor"), Dr. Leah Brahms.

> I'd argue enough episodes are strong on fundamental individual rights, that it's hard to imagine Federation life for civilians being a surveillance state.

Actually, I'd say that its quite plausible that the Federation is a "benevolent surveillance state", that is, one with pervasive monitoring but a very low incidence of "serious" abuse (that is, the kind that substantially limits practical liberty -- casual intrusions on privacy may be more common.)

While the Federation seems keen on "fundamental individual rights", it doesn't seem to exactly mirror, say, some modern views on what those rights are -- and not just in terms of privacy.