skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scenario you describe simply doesn't pass the smell test. I own a business (retail) that employs 10 and retail is, to a certain degree, "unskilled". My experience has been that it is very, very difficult to find dependable, trustworthy employees who work diligently and productively.

Consequently, employers simply do not have the "luxury" to set up a system that treats employees as disposable. It's not profitable at all to do what you indicated is being done, as the cost of finding, hiring, and training new employees is considerable. That's why, so often, you see businesses doing the opposite of what you describe by holding on to poor performers far longer than they should - dealing with worker incompetence is sometimes preferable to starting over hoping for a different outcome.
I do understand that point of view. And did consider it, but the way I use the different services is segmented by what I use them for which works for me. box is the backup of just my Calibre library, amazon photos, google drive is just documents, spreadsheets, etc.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but you seem to contradict yourself:

The inactivity and the feeling of exclusion is soul-killing
The simple idea of idleness and staying at home to paint or draw seems to drive people crazy.

If you're happy sitting at home and drawing, and you can pay your bills and survive in that manner, more power to you, but it seems you're not happy doing that.

From what you write, it seems that you want someone to just give you a job, without you really having to going put in the effort to work for it. You say you're also training to be an army reservist, which implies that you're at least physically fit, and you know how to code, so you're at least mentally capable, so I'm guessing the disability is related to something like depression.

Now, I have no intention to knock depression, but it is on you to figure out how you can live that will satisfy you and provide your needs, whether it is working a corporate job, working in a field or being an artist.

But the way you describe yourself, I think the majority of people would classify you as being lazy, and I would say they are right to do so.
This exactly.
Also, coincidentally, Russia Today has had all of it's UK based bank accounts closed: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37677020
Yes, indeed - it is very weird! Because mathics still mentions ply in change.rst, but not used in code anymore:

https://github.com/mathics/Mathics/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
There might be some kind of homoeostasis for anxiety. If you're not facing serious threats, anxiety gets amplified, and if you're facing serious threats it gets reduced, so it doesn't vary too much. It would be similar to how some say there is a happiness set-point.
Great question. I wasn't trying to list all of the benefits of a decentralized web, just some reasons why people are more ready for the shift. There are many other benefits. Some that come to mind:

* lack of government or corporate control, making it difficult to censor

* increased security by distributing data warehouses so hackers can't steal all your data in one place

* cheaper infrastructure needs for startups and businesses by spreading the load out across the network

Some more aspirational benefits that have been discussed before are creating a self-healing and self-archiving network since distributed systems require some level of redundancy.

There are many other benefits, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Text-only cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0AfAyP...
Loyd was a bit of a hacker (</understatement>) and was working with SJG to write a cyberpunk GURPS module. As a part of operation sun devil the secret service raided a bunch of hackers, including Loyd. When they found the material related to the game and asked about it he mentioned that he was writing a game for this company down the road. The agents headed over, basically broke in, and seized a ton of gear including an Amiga that was running a BBS and also held a bunch of printing files and markup for the game. The story was later changed to them thinking that the BBS might have had a backdoor to a hacker board, but this was complete BS and the collection of what was seized showed that the agents on the scene had no idea what they were doing.
This article didn't resonate with me for various reasons. Probably because I don't really believe in the extrovert / introvert dichotomy.

It's not a hangover in the classic sense for me. I don't believe I'm a genuine introvert because I much prefer socializing to being a loner but it has to be with the right group of people. I go on phases where I spend a lot of effort trying to connect with others (e.g. clubs, bars, meetups, parties etc) and then it abruptly stops usually due to what I perceive is a low ROI.

At least 95% of the new people I met the past X months will 'disappear', I will get melancholy over this, become even more withdrawn, and then X months afterwards when I feel up for it I will start going out again (rinse / wash / repeat).
What is the best python tool to plot a million points in the same figure?

I'd love to see a quick comparison post like this for millions of points.

Would it be easier to plot with JavaScript? I have the two options.
I mean, $40,000 of student debt sounds like a great way to motivate someone to find work, but I don't think it's an ideal way to solve his problems.
I work for a Fortune 50. I can't just download anything. When some third party curates a store of containers and guarantees their safety then maybe. Until then docker, rkt and the rest are a distant dream.
Depression really is more akin to a symptom than a disease. There aren't even clearly defined biomarkers that are associated with this cluster of symptoms we call depression.
> [...] the XPro2 / XT2 has the exact same sensor as a a6300 and a6500

Definitely not. Fuji X-Pro and X-T2 use the Fuji X-Trans III, while Sony a6300/a6500 uses a conventional Bayer array sensor.
> * Cars - it's a lot harder to save when you're basically forced to spend $250-$600 a month for basic transportation. You might point out that there are alternatives, and there are, but in the US it means paying a TON for rent in order to live in one of the few nice neighbourhoods in the country.

As a soon-to-be resident of the NYC metro area, I was shocked to discover that the monthly costs of those alternatives effectively added up to a car payment.
Ya know growing up my father would vent at CNN calling it the "Clinton News Network" .. perhaps he wasn't far from the truth.
I did read the article, and yes, his points are largely due to technological and environmental constraints. He presents a combination of current and past VR tech (with a healthy dose of strawman mixed in) and uses that to make the claim that VR will never work. It's not going to live up to the current hype, but you can say that about almost everything.

Nausea from VR is not some sort of intrinsic property, it's due to a number of physical factors, many of which can be solved technically by better hardware or by the design of VR experiences. It's not going to be easy, but it's not an intractable problem.

The difference between the VR we have now and the VR we had in the past is that now there is momentum towards moving the technology forward. You have multiple companies competing to develop hardware. You have many developers working on VR experiences and learning what does and does not work. You actually have people buying these things and using that software.
I'm not Sony Engineering so IDFK

GDDR5 trades latency for thoughtput

XboxONE DDR3: 68GB/s CAS 7

PS4: GDDR5: 127GB/s CAS 15

The reason GDDR is normally used in GPU's is the workloads are more predictive, you are doing the same calculation thousands of times, just iterating across a buffer. This is why SIMD/Cache prefetching shine in GPU's. It makes memory latency not as important.
> mental 'disorders'

The DSM has certainly done its share of damage, I have to say. I think we'd agree on that. I'm not even sure it's done more good than harm.

You keep coming back to this being a problem with our social structure, and honestly I do suspect it's probably the biggest factor. This is why I support Basic Income (with a non-ludicrous rollout, and plenty of balancing along the way).
is that really true? I guess I never really paid close enough attention to the details, but you can certainly represent code as python data objects.
> If you're not facing serious threats, anxiety gets amplified

By whom? And does this entity know whether or not you already have your share of anxiety?
The author has been writing for TechCrunch for a considerable amount of time.
All I really want is a good replacement for my NEX-5.
That should be a 2016 replacement for the a5100.

Compact and mirrorless APS-C is the main selling point really.

It does seem that Sony is targeting a whole another segment with the a6300 and a6500.
>Unfortunately prices went up, on houses etc and nowadays you got Tech involved in anything you do. You have to have a smartphone, and your wife wants the smartphone with the bitten apple no matter if it will cost half a months salary. Your kids want an Ipad or some sort of tablet. Your household needs a TV with netflix, amazon and whatever so you don't get bored. Add all those small things around and the era where everyone is obsessed with "BRANDS", yes let me buy a GANT sweater cause it going to make me so cool, while I could have bought a sweater much much cheaper of the same quality.

I don't understand, what do you mean by this? Does anyone force you to buy a bitten off apple brand phone? You can get excellent smartphones that last for 3 years for less than 200$. Does anyone force you to buy a gant sweater? Quality clothes are dirt cheap nowadays. Your kids "want" an ipad? Buy them a cheaper tablet, or better yet, don't buy them a tablet at all. But a raspberry pi and a couple of snes controllers and download some old games. Problem solved.

You complain that nowadays people are obsessed with brands, and that is definitely so, a legitimate observation, but if you are aware of that, what's forcing you yourself to buy into it?
This is a risky strategy. Tesla has been missing deadlines and has ambitious timelines with the new FIFA factory, add to that a SolarCity integration and Musk running a little rocket company called SpaceX, and I could see investors punishing Telstar is this isn't absolutely magical and fully baked. Until the Model 3 is delivered, everything else is a distraction.
I came here looking for it and had to search for "assage" past 24 hours to find it. Something is up. There are things on the front page that are older with less votes.
The fact that you can not go to the original page from the AMP page bothers me so much. I go as far as avoid AMP pages altogether just because of that reason.
Back in the Windows XP days, there was a way of halting forced updates by killing a certain process. I had it as a simple batch file on my desktop. Every time it would come up with "your PC gets restarted in 15 minutes", I'd just double click on it and carry on undisturbed.
Future Internet News: Adaptive Video Streaming Over Information-Centric Networks
Well, many Wolbachia infect the gonads of their hosts...
The Linux Kernel Hidden Inside Windows 10
1) overall integration between desktop apps

1b) desktop apps availability/quality

2) drivers and support

3) With mac, I open my laptop and I can use it like a toaster, without thinking how to fix this or that issue after a software update

bonus) iphone/appletv/ipad smooth integration

PS (especially for downvoters): I've used linux since 1999, I have a sysadmin background, I used to build my desktop/servers from scratch or by using gentoo (that is almost the same), I wrote kernel modules. So I'm not afraid to tinker with a linux system down to the kernel details. Again I switched to macOS because I was tired of all those little issues that made my daily work a crappy experience (eg: why my Bluetooth device doesn't work today?)
Redutio ad bombarolum:

Somebody detonates a bomb or throws a plane into a nuclear power plant => possible irreparable ecological disaster.

Somebody detonates a bomb or throws a plane into a solar plant => a few broken glasses to clean up.

You choose.

More seriously, nuclear power is the future of clean energy. But (future) nuclear fusion, not (current) nuclear fission.
How to Design a City for Women
The development of behavioural science (i.e. not modelling people as rational beings, but exploiting human psychological biases, see R. Cialdini, D. Ariely, D. Kahneman) is a new phenomenon.

Also is the shift from mass broadcasting to targeted messaging. The degree of information available to exploit you, your weaknesses and biases is a new phenomenon.

The erosion of social loyalties and ties, which can be linked to one century of neoliberal policies, is also a change (although it happened in the past: see the Corruption and decline of Rome: http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-williams/corruption-and-...)
You can reschedule the reboot if it hits during your working hours beyond that period (second part of the article under the link shows the UI).
Have you ever been to prison? I think you may have a romantic view. For example:

> “Plaintiff is being tortured on a daily basis in Attica Correctional Facility Special Housing Unit,” he wrote. “Plaintiff is subjected to having to listen to loud banging all day and night” and to “screaming and yelling” and to “feces being thrown in plaintiff’s cell” by “mentally disturbed prisoners” who were housed near him.

From http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/20/derrick-hamilto....

Or (from an article about how prisons are putting two people in a solitary confinement cell):

> The two started arguing immediately. Each had to prove that he would not be messed with, because if something happened — if one attacked the other — there was no escape. The only way to alert a guard was to bang on the door and hope the sound could be heard above the din.

From https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/03/24/the-deadly-con...
"I hope I am not being too hard on Google." -- no, the author is being very, very nice. Google has a strong business interest in users never going to other sites. Between AMP & voice search, the future is going to be very rough for businesses that rely on free search traffic.

In practical business terms I would strongly suggest website owners build ultra-light versions of their sites. If you have international aspirations your site should work on Opera Mini. If you have a big audience it is very reasonable and worth it to have desktop/tablet, smartphone, and ultra-lite versions of your site.

Reposting part of a comment I made a month back on AMP:

#1 There is a big problem with mobile sites. I'm using a recent iPhone and many popular news sites, without ad blockers, are as close to unusable as the worst websites I've ever been to, dating back to using Internet Explorer in 1999. Auto playing inline video ads that slide in to view, just insane. These things clearly kill time on site and reader retention. I have theories about why publishers are ignoring this, but who knows.

#2 Google is using AMP to co-opt publisher's traffic. This means users are scrolling to another story from another publisher or easily bouncing back to the Google results when they land on your content. (See the X in the story link on the animated gif example.)
There goes your time on site and long term user retention. If #1 was a problem for you already, you probably don't notice.

#3 AMP & Instant articles are going to put a stranglehold on third party ad networks and represent a very real anti-trust issue.
There are a bunch of other privacy implications too, which have been discussed in length. Publishers should be thinking really hard about their future.
Chromebooks are interesting but the key concern with Linux + mobile hardware is "is it well tested?". The initial chromebooks had virtually no local storage. Has that changed? Another concern with Chrome is DRM. Also, there are so many potential driver hassles... wireless, touch, suspend, weird trackpads, brightness controls, power management efficacy in general, etc. Although an issue with mobile hardware review is that many issues appear only over time, and so are missed in reviews... is there a decent resource for Linux-oriented reviews of this class of hardware? I can't find one. Anyone want to start one? Random idea: We could take anonymized (eg. via proxy legal association) affiliate commissions on resulting sales so that editorial independence is maintained.
In programming and academia you only see the most gifted of society, and even many of those seem to struggle. I can barely imagine what it would be like to be in the less gifted half of the population. I wonder if such men have any chance to build a life respected, or even just work enough to found a family. They seem to have fewer options each year, to find satisfying roles in life.

They seem to receive even less understanding or sympathy.
Yet mobile networks flourished in heavily regulated Europe, largely due to enforced standardization, years before they became ubiquitous in the USA.

I worked in the Mobile industry in the late 90s. I remember being on a bus in Madrid airport taking us to our plane. Some young Spaniards were talking loudly on their mobiles while the two American tourists sitting near me gaped at them. One turned to the other and said 'Those things are everywhere. They use them all the time.' It was probably just a brief period of time, but I found it striking.
You mean the way the parent('s quote) needlessly broke down an application into single-process containers, and finally breezes by "actually, you can" in order to spruik LXC instead, because 'multi-process'? Or the way the parent complains about not having init, but then says you can use something like runit?

I don't particularly like Docker and led my company's exodus from it, but the parent is being very slanted in their wording.
> How will it effect?

My guess is that the increase number of immigrants in Western Europe will cause a reduction in social benefits
I'd be surprised if the police or military couldn't dig out a jammer from somewhere if they wanted to - or just turn off the local cell towers for a while. Wouldn't be the first time.
Significant deforestation in Brazilian Amazon goes undetected
We're going to need a bigger power plant
There are two crucial differences between the wars of the past decade and a half and WWII/Vietnam, though:

1. The number of veterans is very small

2. Veterans are overwhelmingly from the richer half of the population

About 0.5% of the cohort currently between the ages of 20 and 40 had any military service (compare to 12% of the WWII cohort and 6% of the Vietnam cohort), and only about half of that population saw service in Iraq or Afghanistan (e.g. I was active duty for almost all of the Iraq war and never went to theater, nor did almost anybody in my battalion).

Furthermore (and this has been troubling the Pentagon for a while), the enlistment/commissioning standards the military has make it very difficult for poor Americans to serve. The poorest 20% of Americans are the least likely to serve, followed by the next-poorest. In fact it's nearly a perfect correlation except that the richest 20% are slightly less likely to serve than the second quintile. This yields a recruit and officer candidate pool that is both richer and whiter than the nation as a whole. (On the other hand, richer whiter servicemembers have abysmal retention rates, so that the standing force is browner and poorer than the nation as a whole because most of the middle class white people leave after one tour).
New 'Living Laboratory' Initiatives to Increase Sustainability Funding
It happened to many Americans living in Europe, with the new reporting requirements they are just not worth having as a customer...
It's political, so it's probably being flagged and demoted for that reason.

It's probably triggering the flamewar detector, and getting demoted for that reason.

There's probably no need for active censorship by the mods to explain the observed results.
The shortest distance between two lines being a great circle, I'd look towards Ukraine for the likely explanation; given that HMG referred The Guardian to the Treasury, RBS probably was made aware that there are sanctions either on RT or people or organizations connected to it. Keep an eye on the Consolidated List of Targets (UK's OFAC List, essentially) for additions over the next week or so -- that's likely to be the source of the rationale.

(Addition: Also, if Assange is using the embassy's network access, then I would be dubious of any claims that it's been "cut off," as the UK FO isn't going to willfully violate Vienna Convention strictures over Wikileaks, at least not without a stiffly worded demarche and a whole lot of legal cover.)
Does that even matter? Democracy does not make you inmune to the rest of the world. Democracy is not only an idea and if you want to claim its robustness you have to make sure it is able to cope, in practice, with internal and external opposition, just like all other forms of government. I'm just pointing out that in many cases it has not.
Bad news: Seaborn's documentation appears to be gone. The author and/or Stanford appears to have removed public access.

http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/generated/seab...
it's funny software developers weren't mentioned.
Yes, it's down, and the games are served at the same direction so, no games by now...
It's an interesting idea, thanks for sharing. I haven't heard if there is a plugin is available for such job, although it would be cool to have it!
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How Britain's most secret court imprisoned a grandmother
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Same thing happened with another submission on the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724507
If you are looking for 'computer science topic' knowledge, I don't think you should search a site 1) geared heavily towards math and 2) seeks to challenge participants (unlike cryptopals, which provides a guide) in the first place.
"It makes me want to cry remembering that day," says Margarita. "It was like a horror movie - but it was the best thing we could have done."

Just reading the article almost brought me to tears, too.
Someone runs coal and gas plants for several decades => Possible irreparable ecolo- Whoops, too late.
If by "open source" he means open core, I sincerely hope it's dead.
I think the problem with your statement is that the Information Revolution came with a philosophy that automation would end the need for 9-5 Industrial Revolution ideas of work.

It hasn't, and we're still working 40 hours a week, but now it's to support the consumption machine that WWII created. Do we really need new original Netflix programming? Do we need whatever crazy-ass pumpkin and coffee flavored beverage a hard working soul at Starbucks or Tim Horton's has cooked up for the fall season? Do we need bigger, cheaper televisions? Faster computers? A new diet craze? A new exercise regime that will be better than the last? Where does this end?

Not to be overly dramatic on a Monday morning, but where are we going with our hustle and drive? When you stop and meditate on that, you realize that to feed, house and clothe us requires 10% of the energy we burn every day, but not if we expect a hedonistic lifestyle where you eat something new, fresh and delicious everyday. I'm not free of that expectation either, so that's not a judgement, just an observation.
Was that really necessary? As far as I remember, XP let you choose to not install updates automatically.