skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/time-to-...

Honestly though, just Googling, "Daylight savings bad" yields a wealth of result at this time of year.
Ask HN: What bots have you built for profit and how are they doing?
Google's Material motion guidelines are also great material for people looking to use web animations.

https://material.google.com/motion/material-motion.html#mate...
My solution for half a year now, after years of a bajillion themes, it's hard to go back, using a light theme with dark text works to an extent but I code mostly at night so I need a dark theme in general. Just use about 2 shades of grey and one other soft color. https://i.imgur.com/FHALH2G.png -- or search for Phoenix theme
It absolutely fixes one of the biggest planning problems I come across all the time (as someone who follows international sporting fixtures a fair bit).

If I hear "The US Formula 1 GP will be starting at 2pm local time", I have to then go through multiple steps as follows in order to ensure that I can watch it:

1. Ok, WHERE is the US F1GP being held?

2. I have to identify which timezone Austin, Texas is in

3. I have to figure out if that timezone incorporates daylight saving and whether DST is in effect or not.

4. I then have to do the convoluted maths to work out local time - HOPING that I have access to a computer which can do the conversion for me, or else convert Austin time to UTC then UTC to my time manually in my head.

You are adding locality and timezones into an already complex equation.

Or, if someone said "The US Formula 1 GP starts at 20:00 UTC", then all I need do is:

1. Add 09:30 to that start time to ensure I tune in to the broadcast and don't miss the moment Charlie Whiting flips the lights to green.

A lot of the arguments here talk about mutually suitable times, but in a lot of cases, it DOESN'T HAVE to be mutually beneficial. You will rarely find a 'mutually beneficial' time for everyone even if your are in the SAME time zone. There is always a skewing of the priorities that means one party will not care if the time is convenient - they just know they want to be there and not miss it.
DejaVu fonts are far from covering Unicode. They don't have any Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters, for a starter.
why can't the voting machine print a receipt with a unique random number for each instance? why can't every voter get an alphanumeric-ID that has nothing to do with his last/first names? This way the whole voting record can be listed publicly, searched and verified by all those who voted just like a lottery ticket to some extent. Technically there are so many ways to double-check the election correctness but none is implemented, why? just a dumb machine that my input is going to /dev/null without any way to check the return/error code?
Yeah I noticed that too. I wax assuming that it would target the word nearest the bottom that starts with the letter I start with, but I don't think that is the case. Not sure, but not def tripped me up a couple times. No excuses though, definitely need to get faster.
And I'd heard rumors of the excuse in the past wrt even cross console play (eg. Xbox vs Playstation) was semi officially security. They didn't want their network running code that didn't go through their cert process, and their mutual NDAs kept them from being able to officially cert the other system's build. That being said I'm sure their were marketing reasons too.
And a cat toy, apparently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R14LwycvaU

(There's gotta be a good tinfoil hat blog post about cats, theremins, laser pointers, and toxoplasmosis(1) - if someone hasn't already written it...)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Society_and_cult...
I remember when I could show a button with nothing but an html element. Things sure have improved since then!
Nice guide. Could also save some steps by flashing hypriot at the start
FWIW, the data out there is also a bit muddled by inconsistent use of the term "co-sleeping". Pediatricians often use the term to mean having the child in your room, but not necessarily in bed with you. They'll reserve "bedsharing" as the term for the subset of co-sleeping where the infant's in bed with the parents.

That makes it a bit difficult to interpret the existing literature since you can't always be sure exactly what is being measured.

FWIW, when I was reading it seemed like the majority of the benefit comes from having the baby in the same room as you. It's fine to have them sleep in a bassinet so you can have a bit more room to yourselves. Or just if you don't want to spend all night being kicked by a restless newborn.
This behaviour is not acceptable.
Alaska Farm Tackles Weather and Produce Shortfall by Growing Indoors, and Upward
Walking is great, but it is staggeringly expensive to live close to useful things, and similarly expensive in time costs to go from a 60mph freeway to a 4mph brisk walk. I don't disagree that cars take up a lot of space, but from my recent assessment when finding a place to live in the Bay Area, car-centric lifestyle is really a lot cheaper unless you're prepared to make enormous sacrifices in what you accept in terms of living space.

>I'd be willing to bet that housing would allow more people per square foot to ride than a parking garage

A parking lot requires about 300sqft per car. A stacker system should cut that roughly in half, but to be generous with the fixed costs let's say 200sqft.

Every person we serve with a modest 600sqft 1-bedroom within walking distance is 2 people who can't get to the train effectively at all.

Drivers can live arbitrarily far away, at whatever cost:space:time tradeoff makes sense for them, and still take the train. If all 3 drivers decide they'd like to sell their cars and walk, the price on apartments within walking distance must rise until 2 of them back off.

Bulldozing the parking delivers an awesome lifestyle for the one guy who can afford the housing that replaces it, but at great expense to him and greater expense to the other 2 guys, who now can't get to the train effectively at all.

This is why park-n-ride is egalitarian and hip urban development is elitist. Even though you're adding housing, you're increasing the cost to be able to get to the station easily (rent > transportation costs by a long shot) and decreasing the number of people who can do it (unless you're suggesting we live in car-sized apartments).

If we want to demolish the walking-distance parking, we need to replace it with something approximately as good for as many people at approximately the same cost. Apartments are better, but they fail the other two tests. Self-driving Uber, bike racks, motorcycle/scooter spaces, all of the above, whatever.
> when your laptop gets 10+ hours of battery life

I have a 2014 13" MacBook Air which had the same claims, and yes I could get 12 hours if I didn't do anything on it.

My battery is now about 80% of its original health, and if I'm lucky will last 4-5 hours while coding (terminal + browser + music). I expect it would be a lot shorter if I'm doing photo / video / music editing. Watching videos it can just about last 3 hours.

Ok it's better than 1-2 hours when MagSafe was introduced, but it's still a long way from all-day battery life when you only need to charge overnight.
I don't know, I'm wary of sleeping next to my cat because I might crush her and not realize it, I'm a rather heavy sleeper. The cat can at least flee, meow or claw at me to wake me up, but a baby wouldn't.
It is rather disappointing that with the current state of technology we need to go through such hoops to get smooth animations.

Also, there is completely no handle on keeping the animations smooth as webpages become more complicated and do (perhaps unrelated) updates while animations are running.
"I heard Win10 store fails big time - have you heard the story of the new "Call of Duty" game cannot be played in multiplayer together with non-Win10Store users - mind you the majority uses Steam."

Man, that sounds like a breach of Magnusson-Moss, and anti-competitive at that.
It doesn't matter whether or not there are problems. The fact that people question whether there are problems is in and of itself a problem. The fact that we're having these discussions makes it clear that such a problem does exist. People need to have faith in the system for democracy to work.

Facts and figures and studies can be produced, but unfortunately that's not enough to convince people -- and that's on both sides. As much as we'd like to be, we're not perfectly rational actors, and much less so in aggregate. The existing system isn't simple or transparent enough for people to trust. That's what we need to work on.
New Distance Record Offers Preview of Everyday Quantum Encryption
I can last maybe 3 - 4 hours on my 2014 MBPr in low power mode at least when writing Scala, longer potentially if it's just Java for some reason. You may also want to try resetting your SMC and see if that helps battery life in general, I know it works for me often enough.

As for reliability, I've dropped this same laptop from about 4 feet off the ground on the corner pretty much flattening the rounded edge and it's been fine.
Very very nice article
An alternate interpretation: you can easily find cheap USB power supplies to put everywhere. While the long life per charge is great, the battery will be in a lot better shape three years down the line if it is almost always plugged into some 12W power supply regardless of where you're using your computer. Buying multiple MagSafe-equipped 65W or 85W chargers to put in every room where you use your laptop gets expensive quickly.
I built some that post amazon affiliate links to pinterest.
Those who care about these things already do it.

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_free_images/0519-1009...

http://www.proav.com/images/6026aa2c94.jpg
I've killed my battery in a year by repeatedly running it down more or less completely every day

Which kinda sucks if you have glued in batteries...
At the very least, not having to bring separate laptop and phone chargers and cables is a convenience even if we had to err on the side of the bulkier of the two. Heck, there seems to be enough of a market that products like this from Twelve South exist https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/plugbug-world
How many people know that? The Washington Secretary of State's FAQs don't mention coercion or bribery as reasons to receive a provisional or replacement ballot.[1][2] King County, with over 1/4 of the state's population, only mentions voting centers as an accessibility option.[3] And does the ballot tracker[4] show if a ballot is invalidated?

Every state has provisions for absentee voting, and 3/4 allow early voting in person.

[1] https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/general-election-faqs.aspx

[2] https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/faq_vote_by_mail.aspx

[3] http://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/how-to-vote/ballot...

[4] https://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/ballottracker.aspx
like c90s?
I'm sure Vox would like if Facebook were obligated to promote approved opinions, but I'm not comfortable with any given group of people doing such sort of approval, so right now I consider an algorithmic approach natively superior.
>As he did this, the signal cut out. Bezjian realized that the bug wasn’t in the wall but in the seal, and took his hammer to the Soviets’ gift.

I wonder if it would have made more sense to leave the device unharmed and take advantage of it to plant false intelligence on the Soviets?
The --dns flag will also tunnel your DNS reqs through sshuttle, which is generally worthwhile.
Shyness: small acts of heroism
which Termin invented as well!
Except they are on the same campus as CSEC and this happened (among other things):
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/pdf/airports_redacted.pdf

I'm pretty sure that CSEC dragnet-snooping on airports, including all Canadians, doesn't magically disappear from CSIS storage.

Either way, the government is spying on its own citizens and trust is broken.
Razer (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/why-the-hell-does-thi...)

I know Logitech's software also makes network calls but I never bothered looking what it is, I just block everything. At least it doesn't ask for a login, it can save locally or in the on-board memory.
The opposite is also true - don't imagine a 1930's production line factory or bank clerk as the reality of a majority employee population working day.

Farmers, truck drivers, pilots, bakers, hospitality workers, nurses, street sweepers, security guards and a thousand other jobs are NOT bound to a 9-5 working time. Indeed, outside of government or large corporations, I struggle to find many professions that ARE bound (or have to BE bound) to these hours.
It is pretty crowded, actually. We've had satellites literally colliding with each other before. Filling it up with chunks of asteroid isn't the best use of limited room, especially when space farther away is genuinely empty and since you're coming from outside the Earth/Moon system you can put the goods anywhere you want.
maybe not the presidential election, but given how many small municipalities (<25,000) there are...a few votes can make a big difference...
Graph-Based Machine Learning – Community Detection at Scale Part 1
Use OBS instead.
De Beers Tries to Counter a Growing Threat: Man-Made Diamonds
They're highly relevant given that they're how huge numbers of people access the Internet. Would a socialist system have produced smartphones?

Also, if by "baggage" you mean "basic knowledge of 20th century history" then yes, I've got some of that. You should try it too.
I've built a handful that search for evidence of newly opened businesses and sell the resulting information to various utilities companies.

There's about a 30% rate of business failing to register themselves and depending on the utility there are various bodies that offer incentive payments from either utilities providers themselves or central market agencies.
> The point of having you sort your own trash is to make sure you're committed to the project

I hope you're joking, because that would be mind control on a level not seen since the Wall came down.
Very nice man, a good way to start the week reading this article if you like Pac-Man.
What do we do if it turns out that the system cannot be transparent enough for some people to trust?

There exists today a large group of people who will disregard anything the government or "mainstream media" says as false, regardless of who says it or what the statement is. What do we do about those people?
Nouveau has no reclocking, so it's practically useless as is. If you want a working open driver - use AMD.
Unsplash is a great resource.

It's important to point out that "free" and "royalty-free" aren't the same thing. Unsplash images are actually in the public domain, whereas "royalty-free" is a license type where an image can be used multiple times for one payment.
I did read the article, thank you.

What I meant is that I find it unlikely that in such a group there would even be a strong moral reaction to any issue in the first place. I don't know about the extropian mailing list, but take LessWrong members, for instance. They are quite shameless about the topics they choose. And they're not much given to non-cognitive criticism either (e.g. calling someone an ass). So calling on "Crocker's rules" would be just redundant.

What is the point of ignoring something that doesn't happen?

Edit: On the other hand, it relies on the assumption that there's a trade-off between civility and informativeness which just might not be there.
I have 2.5 major distinctions made in my syntax highlighting, and it's common to almost all languages for me:

Comments are a shade that's near the background: I can read them if I focus on them, but otherwise they're not present when I'm reading code

Strings are a colourful colour, because the next visual distinction I want is between what's an operation or name, and what's data or literal. Numbers don't get this treatment because they're sufficiently obvious on their own.

The base text colour has a small distinction between keywords (darker) and everything else (lighter).

Sometimes I'll pull in another colour if I'm in something like Python for things like decorators, to create a distinction between code and meta-code.

This takes care of 95% of the visual distinguishing that's useful, and the rest is noise that adds cognitive load to track. As a bonus, because it's common to all languages in which I work, switching is easy because almost every language breaks down nicely between these categories.
I mean, you can't prove a negative. We cannot prove there is no voter fraud happening anywhere. We can only show that there is no evidence for it, and further, that it is reasonable to conclude that lack of evidence suggests a trend (that is, we can show that we're also actually looking for evidence).
I think this could be a good impetus to get rid of that. Right now the concept of 9-5 is often adopted by pure inertia even when there is no reason to do so. The day we'll have to all translate the current '9-5' to a different number, it will be a serious chance to reevaluate if that's appropriate.

For instance my place has a requirement on being there around 9:30 in the morning even though we should be part of the "Ivory Tower" club you mention since we actually work day in day out with people on different time zones.

Same with public services opening at 9h an ending at 18h, forcing everyone else to open holes in their schedule to get there.
Design review of Hillary and Trump's websites
Could non-citizens decide the November election?
+1 for official theme music
I didn't need a restatement, it is simple enough to understand. Your opinion is a lot of words to say "I think you're wrong" in the form of a bare assertion with nothing supporting it. Why would you expect anyone to care about reasons you could not be bothered to express?
How to Land the Space Shuttle from Space – Stack Overflow’s Remote Meetup Talk
If anyone is getting blocked, you can read it here: https://gordol.github.io/date_time_manipulation.html
It sure is odd how these evil tools of the Man are never identified and flushed out by the noble, gentle, peaceful protesters before they start committing arson and shooting cops. Nobody noticed that these agents provocateurs were carrying guns? Nobody went up to them while they were getting ready to burn millions of dollars of equipment -- something which requires a lot more effort than just tossing a match -- and said "hey, don't do that, we're all about peace"? The pipeline protesters knew damn well they had bad apples, and they did nothing about it.
That's precisely my point.

When Apple removed the headphone port from the iPhone it added lightning headphones and an adapter into the box. It also announced the AirPods.

But with these MBPs? Nothing. No new USB-C keyboard or mouse. No adapters included in the box. No USB-C iPhone.

I don't think anybody in its right mind would think the dongle situation is remotely good or that the vast majority of people would not need any dongle.

I also don't buy the idea that Apple is "advancing the industry" given the only thing it has done is removing USB-A ports.

IMO it would have been wiser to keep 1 or 2 "legacy" USB-A ports.
I have to agree. It could be argued that websites like Vox harm our democracy more than Facebook.
The 1970s was a period where Britain was pretty poor. I'm not surprised if that equipment isn't very good.

2000s equipment, for example, should be just fine, and should last many decades.
How about we start with ending daylight saving time and see how that goes, hmmm?
> I'm not comfortable with any given group of people doing such sort of approval, so right now I consider an algorithmic approach natively superior.

That is a point the article makes, though. The algorithmic approach is effectively equivalent to particular group of people doing the approval (or rejection). What group that is manifests itself via the way the algorithms are coded and the data that are fed into it.

Edit: This is similar to the conclusion people are coming to regarding algorithms for court sentencing[0] and other areas where algorithms are becoming increasingly used. It's dangerous to conclude that an algorithm is better just by virtue of it being code. That code (and/or its training data) may be reinforcing existing stereotypes and biases.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/26/wisconsin-sentencing-alg...
It invites others to stop being conservative in what they send to you.
Slightly off-topic, but that is a very nice quote by Vonnegut. I have been on a Vonnegut mood lately, and noticed that he was pretty keen on community and its role in a person's life.

I especially like this one as well:

"Humanist try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in afterlife. Andsince the creator of the universe is unknowable to us so far, we serve as best as we can the highest abstraction ofwhich we have some understanding, which is our community."

His views on community have been slowly changing the way I interact with people.
I am not the author, but it looks like they added exactly this info 5 hours ago, possibly due to your comment (8 hours ago). Cheers
Prior to railroads, local time was determined by making it Noon when the sun was directly overhead. Time zones became necessary when railways spread in order to be able to catch your train. Airplanes use Zulu Time because they can fly fast enough to make it a confusing mess to do anything else. This is the same problem the railways had, but the next order of magnitude up.

We already have and use Zulu Time for airplanes. There is no compelling argument here for making that universal. Local time zones still make sense in terms of setting schedules for local services, jobs, etc. The fact that I can talk to people all over the world isn't a compelling reason to move to a singular Earth Time.
I don't know what you mean by cross-frame data. The program is using ffmpeg's -ss, -t, and vcodec copy functionality, and I'm not sure how it handles these issues. I know that if you cut between keyframes (which is very likely to happen), then the data before the next keyframe will be lost, so it is not an exact cutting mechanism.
it'd be pretty helpful then to have an updated Mac Pro
DKIM and SPF are intended only to authenticate the originating saver, not the actual user account from the originating saver. To my knowledge, there is no reliable mechanism (beyond PGP and the web of trust) for authenticating that a certain sender actually sent an email message.
I'm not bothered about the privacy so much as the bloat (or rather - I trust that those more vigilant than me will warn me if the privacy issues are more than theoretical - lazy I know).

The bloat is endemic to hardware companies. Is there some law of nature that says if you primarily build peripherals then you write terrible software?
I guess I'm aiming this content at people who are already comfortable with Raspbian and the Pi. Until recently it was probably the go-to option because building Docker was a pain, but with curl |sh giving you Docker in a couple of minutes I guess it's more of a moot point
The argument here though, is convenience rather than timezones.

To reference the premise in the article: What if Uncle Steve in Melbourne is a baker or a night security guard? Then 4:25am would absolutely be a fine time to call him.

All these machinations to find a mutually convenient time. Heck, I have trouble finding a mutually convenient time to arrange a sit down chat with my wife, and we both live (and work) in the same house in the same time zone. Meetings almost always means at least one party has to compromise their existing schedule and suffer some level of inconvenience.
Second Industrial Revolution
That time when Vox blamed Facebook for the US being inundated with credulous idiots. Here's a counter-proposal, instead of whinging about Social Media why don't we make Manufacturing Consent required reading?

Edit: oooh hit a nerve there.