skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious if anyone has recent examples where a region's standard of living has shifted to trend downward for any reason?
I've always hated built in GPS for two reasons. First and most important - the damn maps are always viewed from directly above the car so the map is 2D and North is always at the top. There is a lot of effin' mental work to try and figure out which damn way your car is pointing and whether you need to turn left or turn right because you may be driving "down" the map and shit is reversed. On my phone or on my garmin I get a perspective view of my car and it's position on the earth. There is no confusion about which way I actually need to turn.

Secondly, the vast majority of built in GPS is on a console a good 6 to 12 inches below the windshield. Meaning I have to remove my eyes far off the road in order to look at everything. My garmin mounts to my windshield or dash. It is a quick glance and then eyes back at the road.
Can administrators see private messages sent on Slack?
Would like to see a benchmark of common algorithms or server-side functions between PyPy3, NodeJS, & Go.
This is definitely not true. If you're looking for stuff that's popular here and now, you'll do fine (especially if you're a fan of Hollywood blockbusters). But as soon as you start looking for back catalogue stuff, you're in a mess of dead torrents and broken links.

Want to find a mostly-forgotten science fiction movie from the mid-90s (in my case, Strange Days)? Two hours of hunting for a way of downloading it led me to buying it through a VoD service instead.
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Then got a refund from google.
Close, but not quite. Ie at age 30, the site gives me 53.4 more years in Germany, and 42.1 in India.
Huh? If you don't like reality TV then you aren't syfy's core demographic (or just about any channel's, really). Basically every channel has moved in that direction because people keep proving they will watch it.
I only ever log in to Facebook in private browsing mode.
It's pretty amazing how much classic software can actually run, and works pretty well. The Wolf3D clone is totally playable, and you can actually use LSDJ (one of my all-time favorite pieces of software), and it seems to be actually running the real LSDJ, too, which is pretty impressive, considering that it means that the site actually has an embedded gameboy emulator
This was very informative last year
It always was very interesting to me how so much bad stuff is on the front page and meanwhile there are some gems in their platform (like the top IMDB movies listed in the article) that you might never find out are there. Many years ago they made it much easier to discover content but then they did this massive redesign and made it impossible to find stuff. A few years ago I just pulled a list of movies via their API that listed movies ranked by their prediction of how much they think I will like it. That was super useful. Why doesn't Netflix do this? Meanwhile they suggest me movies they themselves predict I won't like.

This is interesting to me because it's so bad that I can only conclude that they must have incentives for making suggestions to me other than me watching something I like. Do they pay licensing fees per vote? Do they pay different fees per view for different movies? I would love to know the details!
Is coffee an insect repellent?
> Additionally, single car drivers is the absolute worst case - why not design for that?

One possible reason is that catering to the worst case of single car drivers is politically unsavory. In the green future, they are all supposed to go away.
The query engine isn't executing arbitrary code. The queries are written in a DSL and transpiled.
This assumes that biological evolution is the only systematic effect on population growth rate. I would argue that the fact that we have decreased infant mortality at the same time as decreased population growth is evidence that there are other systematic pressures limiting population growth.
Its pretty obvious the default should be the opposite to avoid a race condition like that.
Netflix first, then Prime, then Usenet. Usually gets me what I want. Downside is that this already means paying half a dozen companies just to watch movies.
But it's not interesting to you that the gross majority of people, even people who lean to your opinion, are constructing abstractions in order to reason about the problem?

If you consider yourself a pragmatist, you should also consider that you have under analyzed the issue at hand and that trying to generalize digital media with anecdotes of exchange for goods or services in meat space is inappropriate.

Your position sounds more rooted in laziness than pragmatism, at this rate.
Your emails are already at 'home' or a similar cloud solution with questionable privacy policies. These assistants don't actually run on your device, just their front ends are run on your device. I think you're making a distinction that doesn't really exist with common use cases.

As far as what is reported back to the home company, well, that pre-dates personal assistants. What gmail does with your email or dropbox with your files and any analysis your usage is a completely separate issue than personal assistants, aside from both of them having to do with privacy. It seems to me these assistants are just dipping into stuff 'home' has had access to for a decade plus. Instead of using that info to sell to marketers or whatever, its using that info to provide value to you by powering your assistant.
The 'book value' of items in the corner market is negligible. The real value is in having that soda available, cold and ready for you. And in marketing that fact.

So in a very real sense, stealing the soda and stealing the movie are hardly any different?
As an ethical V, I'm conflicted that one of the worst actors in the space would profit off of my purchase.. luckily there are many alternatives for me to buy. Perhaps they are counting on most people not knowing, or don't really understand their core market.
Ugh, laptop power management is a mess and is getting worse by the day it seems.

On that note, my laptop had developed this issue that it will no longer see the charger if i leave it plugged in across a sleep cycle.

Only way i have found to temporarily remedy this is to unplug the charger at the wall, wait, and eventually it will momentarily think it has been plugged in before going back to an unplugged state.
Well the IDE, Lazarus, is cross platform so it looks like you would just need to put the ultibo source some where Lazarus knows about. Free Pascal/Lazarus are infamous for the ease of cross compiling (or they would be if any one paid attention to them).
What's the general etiquette regarding "bumping" Debian bugs?
It does not apply to any patent suit. A petition for DJ against a demand letter, for instance, would not be included. A PGR at the PTO, even when appealed to courts is not included. An interference proceeding at court against Apple is not included.
Also that seems like a reasonable failure condition.
I've owned a lot of "quantified self" style gadgets over the past decade and all they've really done is make me realise that numbers along aren't enough to get me to change my lifestyle. The data is interesting, but it isn't information because it lacks context, and as such it doesn't do anything for you. Seeing a pretty graph that tells you that you've gained some weight might sound helpful and motivating but (for me) it was actually just a little depressing.
> 3. Facebook sues you and takes all your reacts and reducers

Perhaps I highlighted that part because the original OP talked about Facebook suing you first. Dude.
Node-RED 0.15 released
Yeah, but it's only dangerous because those people choose to stand there waiting instead of using their legs. It's their choice to be lazy and those create a danger for everyone else. We need to stop rewarding people who can't do anything for themselves.
Yes, this needs to be made clear: Fanboy Annoyance won't protect you from Social Media Fingerprinting, it just prevents the proof of concept on that one site from working properly.

Disabling 3rd-party cookies in your browser is what protects people against Social Media Fingerprinting.

I always advise to disable 3rd-party cookies -- unfortunately this is not enabled by default in browsers. Even without this Social Media Fingerprinting issue, anyone looking at cookie payload (which also include local and session storage) on common top sites will be horrified at the result of not blocking 3rd-party cookies.

I found it's quite rare to find a site broken because 3rd-party cookies are blocked.
I think you have this backwards. Netflix's original programming is trying to emulate the best of TV programming of the last decade or two.
After Alice v. CLS, what patents about React could be enforced?

edit: After Alice there has been a software patent massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...
I'm a first gen korean-american woman (I guess after 30 its weird to call yourself a girl). I've definitely seen this situation too, it was a little depressing.

So I've been bouncing around startups,and even started contracting under my own c-corp to make connections and money. The respect difference has been unreal. I've had to toughen up significantly, you have to really learn to read bs and move on without emotion.

That's another option you can take, I'm personally enjoying it right now.
You can only do as much as TS allows you to, unless you route through babel in a second pass. TS is a tool that controls to which extend you can use language features that are drafted. They do pick drafts here and there, but others they omitt, object spread for instance which is very common for Redux.

As i said, try to transpile this in TS: http://redux.js.org/docs/basics/ExampleTodoList.html

This is why they made Flow.
Its only in testing right now, but Firefox Nightly has "Containers" so you can exactly have different "buckets" for different types of browsing - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944
I'd like AIs to have settings so they start engaging me, rather me always having to engage them. e.g ask me what my tasks are today, or other types of interactions initiated by them at a propitious time.
Using uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger defaults, it only showed me as logged into Hacker News.
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> the clerk will just let me take the stick of gum because he knows I'm good for it later.

So you're still going to pay for it. That's not the same as the story here, where they paid for it, got a refund, then got it for "free". They aren't intending to go to the content creators and hand them $5 for it later.
yeah it's hard to do now, I agree, but it's not like hypersonic weapons are readily available, so I'm gonna wager lasers would get viable defenses in time.
In a large part thanks to this guy, who invented a process for extracting nitrogen from the atmosphere - an invention that now feeds half the Earth's human population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

Cheers, Fritz
"The studios clearly prefer we use them" :
what do you mean ?
There are 100s of ways to fingerprint the browser and more exactly. I think is better to set it for the few that comply.
It is coming [0]. No word since May though. I imagine they're re-jiggling the UI for Android Auto.

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/05/18/waze-come...
Very much so, yes. Unfortunately, in a real conflict, you can't just "refloat" your sunk ships and rewrite the game so that the good guys win.
You will notice that most new projects all use MIT. Apache 2 hasn't been used for anything new in the last year+.
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Straight Talk About Christopher Columbus
Great advice. I use Chrome for Google, twitter, and Facebook, and another browser for everything else. This isn't quite as good as your approach, but gives me some web platforms isolation.
> Outputting to stdout gives the control and power to the user - if they want it in a file which they want to name, they can do that; if they want to pass the output as input to another application - they can do that too.

Please note that we already agree here.

> What use case have you where stdout/stdin/stderr isn't enough on an operating system family where the core paradigm of usage is that everything is a binary stream of data?

My argument isn't that I have a use case where it 'isn't enough.' My argument is that many people come to a cli utility expecting that <foo /path/to/myfile> simply works.
Due to the backfire effect[1], no amount of citation convinces the disbelievers. Those who want to believe find the articles by themselves. Those who don't experience backfire effect.

But, here you go, let's try showing you a survey and a study amongst the top Google hits for "women have to work harder for the same recognition" and see what you think:

https://news.virginia.edu/content/surveys-british-and-americ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/02/24/superio...

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[1] http://bigthink.com/think-tank/the-backfire-effect-why-facts...
No one can disagree with that statement. But from the article, this seems to be a typical "ban status quo, promise something better" bill where 90% of the proposal is mysteriously only concerned with the "ban status quo" part:

"Opponents of the measure point out that the proposed law does not include any funding for additional housing or shelters, and the city’s existing shelters have long waiting lists for beds."
I stand corrected. I thought it said GNU GPL.
I don't see it as humblebragging (any of us could create a Cook contact / ReCode readers likely know Walt Mossberg's relationship to Apple) but, worse, a faulty premise.

Odds are, if you have them in your contact database, you already know them; you're not going to want Siri to give you their Wikipedia bio.

Siri has myriad faults, and thankfully someone of Mossberg's stature might push Apple to address them, but this is not one of them.
A decade after the release of “Strangelove,” the Soviet Union began work on the Perimeter system—-a network of sensors and computers that could allow junior military officials to launch missiles without oversight from the Soviet leadership. Perhaps nobody at the Kremlin had seen the film. Completed in 1985, the system was known as the Dead Hand. Once it was activated, Perimeter would order the launch of long-range missiles at the United States if it detected nuclear detonations on Soviet soil and Soviet leaders couldn’t be reached. Like the Doomsday Machine in “Strangelove,” Perimeter was kept secret from the United States; its existence was not revealed until years after the Cold War ended.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in...
Apple and Facebook have "strong" patent retaliation clauses while Microsoft has a "weak" patent retaliation clause.

More on strong vs weak retaliation clauses here: http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj9.htm

Can't believe Microsoft is the good guy here.
> plus a little web service that presents youtube videos without commercials

Why not just use an adblocker like uBlock Origin?

If you don't want to see ads, I assume you use an adblocker anyway, so you might as well use one that doesn't suck.
Expect this to become a common offering. The big vendors are all working on this (Cray, IBM, Dell's HPC group,etc.).

Furthermore, the hardware manufacturers are increasingly moving towards hardware that should effectively resolve this. Nvidia is of course leading in the space, but Intel and AMD are certainly trying to close the gap with new offerings, and I suspect ARM is as well (although I don't know any ARM folks well).

For some weird reason, Nvidia is not selling TitanX for use in AWS or other cloud offerings, so HPC resources might be the best place to get massive collections of hardware with high speed interconnects.

I'm an HPC software guy, and so I view all this with a skeptical eye. I don't think software stacks are sufficiently advanced to enable true HPC-scale parallelism. Most of the work is being done on small clusters, and until a truly performant MPI stack (or perhaps a different message passing paradigm) comes along, building a big (10K+ nodes) computer for deep learning seems premature.
They'll go somewhere.
Program flash is usually ROM and that is where you are executing the SW. You mostly keep variables in RAM, although you can do a couple of neat tricks with copying and fiddling with code in RAM.

Even more, while you usually can self-program the ROM memory, you can only erase it in blocks that are pretty big relative to the whole memory of the device. If you have a simple system that runs in a flat address space with no MPU and virtual memory, it gets pretty complicated for a running update.

Of course, that's from my experience with microcontrollers. SOrry if I went off-topic, but I just thought the discussion interesting. Embedded Linux computers I bet are more complex than that and probably execute code in RAM. These babies are connected to the internet so they probably have a far beefier SOC running Linux not some lightweight RTOS. It is a kettle, you need a lot of juice for that baby!
That's funny as my wife and I have probably streamed hundreds of items with our Chromecast from various sources including the Play Store and have never had the slightest issue. We do have quality issues with Netflix sometimes, but its pretty rare and seems to be related to choppy wifi connections due to interference (since moving to 5ghz wifi we haven't had issues - which may be coincidental). Online services have issues sometimes. I think we need to accept life will have the occasional inconvenience. I bought a $35,000+ car that had engine trouble one year in and had to arrange with the warranty people at the dealer about replacing the engine. A $3 movie not playing isn't remotely comparable with that, but we accept that cars need work sometimes, so why the double-standard for IT systems? You just gotta accept that life is not perfect and not to over-react or toss out the baby with the bathwater.

I think you're playing up an edge case and frankly that seems disingenuous to me. It seems like every pro-pirate person has some shaggy dog story that "validates" their pirating. I also take issue with how 'easy' it is to pirate. Sure, if its for a current hot item and everyone is seeding it, but once the fanboys go away the seeders are mostly gone and now you're waiting hours (or even days!) to pirate something. Worse, you may expect a lawsuit from the copyright holders as torrents expose your real IP address unless you're using an offshore VPN or VPS which also adds a another layer of inconvenience and monthly billing.

Currently, we have two FireTV boxes and two Chromecasts for our two TV's and they're borderline magical. We have so much content on tap that "just works" that the argument of "its better to pirate" is pretty unconvincing to people without a political agenda. I also want to be part of a system that pays investors and producers of said content for moral and practical reasons. We don't need a Sega Dreamcast-like situation where the pirates kill platforms, hurt competition, and create disincentives to innovate, distribute, and create.
>It sucks that Netflix is pushing their own content as a solution.

What choice do you have when you don't own the infrastructure or content?

Let's face it, the barrier to entry to creating streaming app is low. Granted, Netflix is awesome in this department (they have to be), but I don't see how the future isn't in creating and distributing the content you own yourself.
> The most critical metric is the ratio of current workers to retirees

America has been quite successful with immigrants getting jobs. But in Europe some countries have for a while got a kind of immigration situation where unemployment among the migrants stays so high that they are actually worsening the ratio of workers to total population.
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I have dealt with many applications that use SQL Server Express in production. Those limitations aren't even brushed against with small CRUD style apps. When you are only really serving two or three users and running maybe 100's of tps it's perfectly fine. Postgres is a wonderful database but I can't coach over the phone the average person off the street who is not a sysadmin to get it setup properly, but for SQL Server more than any other DB I certainly could.
Nice, downvoted for what? facts?

This is a fact, I work with this thing for about 5 years (this is my karma) and there is not a single day where this doesn't cause a problem or makes somebody to lose 3-5 hours of work.

We have about 3000 people and this is overkill for our needs.

You know what the reason? Because people say that it is awesome, then a naive engineer decide to use it basically due to this propaganda in a LOCAL but central piece of our pipeline (something that SQLite would fit perfectly!) and then everything after becomes a problem.

Now we're stuck with it to day and nobody can change without a lot of work and trouble. I'm basically one of the people responsible in a strike team to fix SQL server issues in production.
> I do all my coding on a chromebook.
> crouton to run the ubuntu terminal underneath it all.

Ditto. I can alt-tab and share clipboard between the ChromeOS environment where everything Just Works and the Crouton environment where I do my coding. Quite nice, especially considering that a Chromebook costs anywhere from 20-60% as much as an Apple laptop. I'm on a Pixel 2 (non-LS version), which replaced an MBA. Despite being one of the most expensive Chromebooks ever, it was still several hundred dollars cheaper than what it replaced - with a higher-resolution screen and better battery life.

With some of the newer Chromebooks that are out there, some slightly better and significantly cheaper than what I have now (the Acer Chromebook 14 for Work is a particular standout), a Mac starts to seem like the idiot's choice even for developers.
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This only works of you have third party cookies turned on. I'm not sure about Opera, but I'm pretty sure Firefox has them off by default.
Hum. This is the first house I've ever owned, and this is the 3rd or 4th thing I've been told wasn't "normal" about it. The previous owner also ran a construction company, and I'm pretty sure he did a lot of work on this house himself, so it wouldn't surprise me if this is another instance of that.

For the most part, though, everything works well enough. So I'm happy overall.
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They however are less cost effective and thus less dangerous.
> it demonstrates an extremely important point: the "Internet of Things" will never become mainstream so long as every appliance is a walled garden.

I would say the point is "it is absolutely moronic to put a computer in a tea kettle."

I mean, seriously. What benefit can you possibly get from doing that? "Oh, I can turn the kettle on from anywhere."

Wonderful. For that benefit I would maybe pay $1. It's not like it's going to actually make the tea and bring it to me.

But how much would I pay for the assurance of absolutely perfect, air-gapped security from having hackers burn my house down by boiling my kettle dry, PLUS absolutely perfect assurance that I won't spend a second updating firmware or WiFi configurations or antivirus software on my kettle, PLUS absolutely perfect assurance that nobody is building a dataset about my life based on my kettle usage, PLUS absolutely perfect assurance that my kettle won't stop working because some service shut down or because some programmer mishandled memory...

What, you say? Those features are impossible if a kettle is connected to the internet?

People keep using this word "Smart". I don't think it means what they think it means.