skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"whereas a CSA is limited to what's currently being harvested at a particular farm"

That turned out to be an big advantage of the CSA for me.
It is very satisfactory to be in natures rhythm, be engaged in the growing of things I eat and therefore in the growing of myself. I learned a lot of new products and recipes I even did not know exists.
That's your interface to the data. Now imagine an NSA-like interface to the data. What is in there that you might not want future employers, dates, or others to know about the corners of your (and everyone's) life? Then imagine if your least preferred political candidate gets elected several times in a row and has access to all that data about potential "undesirables". Think of the journalists, the political volunteers, the victims of stalking or abuse, the LGBTQ, the women who had an abortion after being pressured into sex, and think of that information in the hands of a corrupt regime, or hacked by a hostile foreign power (or radical religious hacker group).
Saying that genetically modified agricultural product are useless is objectively a lie. Saying they are potentially harmful is a weasel accusation. The last bit is just an straight insult. Did you have a point to the rant that you forgot to work in? You served some pretty thin soup here.
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> A capital gains tax a good idea? No -- that would decrease market liquidity and make the problem even worse.

Depends on the level. At the moment, the big problem is that nearly all of NZ's capital goes into housing - the significant tax advantages (no tax on your profits and LAQCs/LTCs) are one factor in this - inflating the price of living, and starving our businesses of capital to grow and actually be productive with.

I'd ask you why it's a good idea for an economy that profit from running a company is taxed along wit the incomes of all your workers, but not the profit from trading houses - especially as a lot of our property investors are rolling by on the minimal amount of capital necessary - their debt is liquid more than their capital.
In case of another large DDoS attack on DYN or other DNS infrastructure.
Most of the combatants are doing it for the money. Plenty of articles on dads planting roadside bombs for a payoff. I don't believe these folks care where the payoff comes from. So we could easily just pay it but we will never do so because it makes too much sense.
what about

Matrix, Avatar, Inception
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>And here I disagree, quite strongly. If I'm using "undocumented and warning-spitting methods" then I know what I have done is a hack and those methods could disappear or change at any time and I should proceed at my own peril.

We're in complete agreement, actually. I'm just saying that I generally don't expect things like that to change on a point release, not that it can't, won't, or shouldn't. You're definitely juggling chainsaws if you're in a situation like that.
Came here to point out the same concerns, basically. I'll add this:

5. Its seems like there is no user-specific secret in addition to the master password. If two users happen to use the same master password (which is definitely a possibility, especially with weak or easily memorizable passwords) they will basically have all the same passwords for every site!

6. Rotating your passwords regularly, at least for your highly sensitive accounts, is very important. With this approach, you can't change any one of your passwords without changing the whole lot (i.e. changing your master password) which simply isn't practical.

7. They serve the whole thing over the web, which, as has been pointed out many times over the web[1], is a bad idea.

Overall, its seems like they are looking for a overly simplistic solution for a complicated problem.

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That's the one. The exact quote:

> Only twenty per cent of the Inc. 500, the five hundred fastest-growing private companies, raised outside funding.
Hi James

Having read most of the login/signup/sign-in documentation from end to end over the past few months (paired with several different implementations), I have most of it sorted for myself.

Early on, what was missing was what the difference between Firebase, Google Identity Toolkit, Google Identity Platform and the various Google+ Identity APIs. I walked in knowing what I wanted: "I have users with email addresses, some of those email addresses are gmail.com, how do I allow them to login to my app with a single click on the Google button? Similarly, my signup only required a validated email address, surely a single click on the Google button is enough to allow that." What I was met with was a choice between what appears to be 5+ different methods of implementation, some of which are enabled by default on my exiting Google Cloud Console others require me to enable new things (Google+) and others still require me to create a new account (Firebase). Some enable me to easily allow me to easily create a user experience that all of my users will be familiar with if they've ever used Google login on a web/mobile application, others require me to implement major portions of the front end of that experience myself (a mobile friendly pop-up for the oauth dance and subsequent token handoff).

I ended up using Google Sign-In for Websites[1], which offered the best trade offs. It's easy to implement on the front end but allows self-management of users on the back end.

I've used Firebase and enjoyed the experience. My own confusion early on had little to do with Firebase or what it offers and more to do with the painfully obvious truth that Google is not of one mind (as any organization of it's size would struggle to be) when it comes to how outside entities should consume it's identity services.

1. https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/
Yes. But honestly most jobs i think are interesting too would get boring pretty fast and are badly paid in comparison.

The only reason i even thought about that is to have more joy in programking after work.

I fixed it by quitting my job and going digital nomad.
It might be my non-nativeness but a meal replacement doesn't sound like a food replacement to me. At least, not if you don't want to.

The whole concept is experimental and everyone knows that. Doesn't mean they should be allowed to sell a product known to make people ill, but if you replace 100% of your food you shouldn't be surprised if it turns out they forgot an ingredient or put a little too much in for your specific lifestyle.
I don't know if you can assume it's a negotiation tactic. My friend is a manager for Amazon and he wasn't able to give people raises like he wanted to. I don't remember if he couldn't give them a raise or couldn't give them as much as he wanted to, but either way, it's definitely a thing in some places.
I was referring to the capital intensive nature of the business. My fairly lucrative programming career is what keeps my farm operating. Being able to leave programming to farm is a long way off for me yet.

If you have family willing to hand down the business or already independently wealthy, then maybe leaving programming to farm is more realistic.
Although true, by the very nature of how it works, nothing prevents someone else to sell the goods for you, thus cutting your income.

This is the very reason most successful companies doing free software, do it by selling consulting, support contracts, training or hardware.

Anyone whose software cannot fit those models usually ends up looking for another source of income.
What's your opinion on free trials in general? Are they bad? Or is it bad in this case because it's associated to the US election?
In a tablet way more powerful than the weak evidence that this drive shows
Sadly, I doubt there's any subterfuge going on. The simplest reason is the must common reason today, the Pentagon has been captured by the defense contractors. Today, the damning word is "concurrency."

The F-35 can't fight. No matter what the Pentagon says, it simply is not combat operational today. It can't fire its gun. It can't track objects. And it's a dog in the air. Good thing that we put all our eggs in that basket, and the convinced all our allies to join us in this hand basket.

The USS Ford is $13 billion dollars, and has problems with it's electromagnetic catapults, it's dual-band radar (so bad, that the radar has been dropped on follow-on ships), and is way over budget, and full of preventable errors.

The Littoral Combat Ships are jokes. Made of aluminum with a modular bay that the Navy has recently dropped after deciding that this flagship feature was in the end impractical. The ships are underarmed, and in the official description of the Navy, "not survivable." Oh did I forget to mention that the LCS came out of a competition where the Navy decided to buy both competing designs, and both designs suck?

Then there's the Osprey that has notorious accident record, and then in deployment in actual combat it was discovered that it actually can't defend itself. (Shoot it from the front or the sides, because the only gun it might be carrying is in the back.)

Finally, the weirdest of all is the announced conversion of the UCLASS unmanned combat vehicle into a tanker.[1] Yes tankers, are important, but its at the expense of a next genertion combat platform in order support legacy Super Hornets, and the craptastic F-35. Maybe, just maybe, this is a ruse. But who knows?

[1] https://news.usni.org/2016/02/01/pentagon-to-navy-convert-uc...
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore, might have been on that list. It's more marketing than startup focused.
Well the next best thing for me would be teaching programming. still couldnt forget the awesome feeling when I made a calculator in a cs101 course :D
If the vote is traded, it is a net 0 swing for any party involved. This tool was created with the explicit intent of gaining Hillary votes in battleground states because Trump is such a real threat to this country (and others).

Personally, I do not like Hillary as a presidential candidate and oppose many of her views and stances. However, I would much prefer her in office than Trump. I would love to see a true 3 (or more) party system in the future, but at this point in time you need to be realistic and direct your efforts where it make sense.
Well said. If sectors like teaching, journalism were as rewarding as software. We could evolve a bit faster.
> I'm mostly happy with programming, but I often think I'd like to try working in a coffee shop, especially a Starbucks.

This line is beautiful. :)
Interesting. I actually had the opposite experience. I majored in Economics and worked in commercial banking for a number of years, then moved to Chicago and took a job at a proprietary trading firm, mostly trading Grain contracts intra-exchange. It was incredibly fun, extremely lucrative, but also pretty stressful. That being said, it was great trading from 9:30 am to 1:15 PM, then calling it a day, heading to a ball game, taking in sun. Then of course, 2009 came along, I and a bunch of my peers were laid off by 2010, some of us (including myself) were actually profitable on the year. The firm as a whole really took it on the chin, and a few years later I found out they closed shop. Probably some errant trades in Treasuries or Eurodollars.

In any case, I'd already moved on. I started dabbling in web development in 2008, but by 2010 the Chicago startup scene was taking hold. I got involved, taught myself how to code mostly in Ruby. I had learned QBasic and VBA when I was a kid, and plenty of Matlab at the trading firm, so you could say I had some knowledge, but nothing career worthy at the time. I did the Michael Hartl tutorial for Rails. Started working on an overly ambitious startup idea that went no where. At some point I stopped applying for trading jobs. It occurred to me that I've never been so passionate about anything in my life. I could spend 24 hours straight trying to solve a problem like it was some kind of puzzle that needed to be solved. I redid my resume and quickly went from getting 1-2 hits on my resume a week for trading, to 6-7 hits a day for programming. Ruby on Rails had taken off and demand was soaring. I took a bunch of contract jobs, making $40 an hour. I still remember reporting that I worked on something for 4 hours even though it really took me 12 hours or more. I faked it until I made it. And it worked. Now, I know some 6-7 different languages quite well, and I'm respected by all of my peers.

The thrill of solving a problem still hasn't gotten old for me. Maybe some of the juvenile bro-ish culture has, but the challenges are getting more and more exciting by the day. I'm experimenting with home automation and AWS lambda on my free time, dabbling in hardware.

Now, 6+ years later I have the title of Senior Software Engineer. I've been a lead, I've mentored other developers. I work from home, have the flexibility to live and travel anywhere I please. I couldn't ask for a better career. I've made it a point to learn as much about all the little things that graduate students like to lord over us non CS wielding engineers' heads. I can hold my own and I'm proud of the choices and dumb luck that got me here. To me it is an incredibly rewarding and creative endeavor and I'm still as curious to learn as I was when I started some 6-7 years ago.
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Does this not work for you? You can delete by any time range, for any service.
Ive been thinking about getting the Xiaomi robot hoover.. its got SLAM and is pretty cheap. Anyone tried?
Yeah and it sounds a bit condescending. Still, in previous discussions, it's true and s/he might have prevented a similar discussion here (or maybe I haven't scrolled to it yet). That's why I decided not to downvote.
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Judith Miller and the NYT’s (and news media more generally) credulous Iraq War boosterism were much more damning. Most of the folks involved, either on the media side or the government side, suffered absolutely no consequence to their reputations.
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I have mixed feelings about Homebrew. Don't get me wrong, it's great, good job everyone involved. It makes my OSX laptop a viable development option for me. Without Homewbrew I wouldn't use it.

Alas that's also the problem. It makes OSX so familiar that this one OSX machine has now crept into my collection of Linux boxes and won't leave (thank you iOS development). I guess if your only complaint is that the software is too good...that's a pretty great thing :)

Sometimes I wonder how valuable Apple thinks Homebrew is for them. Any info on how much they contribute to the project?
This would definitely be cool, but I'd be worried about using this because of mobile devices. It can't be good for battery life to be processing video through JavaScript. I know ios and many android devices have hardware assisted h.264 decoding that's very efficient to make video playback work well with great battery life.
This potential scenario is valid, but it doesn't change my mind.
> smart but artless

This is why it's so important for me to work on something people use.

At a previous job I'd sometimes hit a wall. I would log into one of the production API hosts and tail -f the access logs, where I'd see many different people and applications using a piece of software that I'd help write. I'd grab an IP address and geolocate it and see where the person was from.

The humanization of work can be extremely powerful. It reminds you that you're providing value to the world, that you've created something useful even if it sometimes feels so pointless.
Yep, going to be a police officer. But I would get a lot less money and very bad work schedule / vacation policies. So I stay with developing awesome software.
Rail guns have a significant issue (which doesn't appear to have been overcome yet[1], unless they're just playing misdirection) that's fairly fundamental: the gun wastes a lot of energy on tearing itself apart. The rails would much prefer to crash into each other spectacularly than to send the projectile anywhere, and you have metal turning to plasma everywhere there is contact.

It seems fairly feasible to fix the energy usage by just throwing more energy at it (and the Zumwalt demonstrates that capacity is relatively portable), but the wear on these things is going to be a massive cost even if they reduce the problem 10x from where it is now.

[1]: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21174/navy...
I guess to more simply articulate it, there are levels of creativity. Being tasked with making something function correctly or making a UI look like a psd is more of a technical problem and involves way less creativity than creating something more open-ended like an original work of art. It's like designing a board game vs. being handed the designs and building it.
Normal for recruiters to ask for last 4 of your social / dob on first call?
> Be careful, sarcasm, facts, or the inconvenient truth can cause downvotes.

Is there a way to figure out a comment's ratio of upvotes to downvotes? Sometimes I see my comment's score oscillating...
I think what will make chart.io obsolete more that this announcement is their (chart.io's) reluctance to put any sort of pricing plans or free tier capabilities (or even if they actually have a free tier) anywhere on their site. I get that this is the enterprise-y thing to do, but it would be a massive turn off for the sort of audience who would be evaluating it against DataStudio or PowerBI etc.
Polymail looks nice and modern, but it looks like any other client for a multitude of apps. 100% preferred over something old looking though.
Worry about contributing positively to the site.

Karma will take care of itself.

And really, it's not worth much.
the problem I had is that I interpenetrated this as OP considering things that are merely annoying as just as important (or more important) than things that are really quite dangerous.

That could, of course, be an incorrect interpretation of what was being said; I certainly agree that the immediate emotional response tends to more negatively weight things that are annoying and slowing me down more than things that are actually dangerous, which is part of why I think it's so important to say something about this sort of thing, and to make sure you change that weight.

Guns get a lot of press and a lot of emotion; really, a lot of emotion that I think would be better focused against cars. If there's not a gun in your house, you are dramatically more likely to be killed in an auto accident than by a gun. (or, if you want to put it another way, as an American, if you remove suicides, you are a lot more likely to be killed by a car than by a gun.)
No.

This is, frankly, a really annoying aspect of many commenting systems. It's among the reasons I prefer range-based voting (say 1-5 scale) rather than up/down. On the back end it's possible to do some aggregate modeling that works out, for large numbers, somewhat equivalently, but this handles thin data poorly.
Just like with any lit review.
I read the leaked emails referred to in these articles, and I don't see much that is troubling about NYT's behavior.

This is just how journalism works: the reporter has to request/negotiate access to the source. The PR folks will obviously try to spin everything positively to the reporter; that's their job. Afterward, the reporter writes up a story as objectively as possible. When some part of the story happens to be flattering, the PR people will obviously high-five themselves. When some part of the story is negative, the PR people will be disappointed and try to get the reporter to see their side.

See this article [1] from Mark Leibovich for an NYT reporter's account of one of the issues addressed in your links.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/magazine/anatomy-of-a-medi...
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I had fun in those days.

The computers were a packaged experience of hardware and software, designed to work together.

Hence why people have found memories of their 8 or 16 bit systems, while most might not even remember how their MS-DOS systems looked like or what OEM brand it was.
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What do those have to do with the nytimes? (Maybe explain what you think is going on here, and why it's bad? It looks like they are suggesting questions to CNN to ask Trump in an interview?)
Let's not forget LinkedIn
This is what I expected the author to have done. A bit of a disappointing article.
> What's the point of having it if you have to make the whole apartment inert before letting it loose.

I actually find that beneficial. Takes me a couple of minutes and ensure that I clean up more often.

> Worse still it never seemed to learn and would often finish its job leaving huge parts of the floor untouched.

That is on purpose. Different than other robots, Roombas don't learn a floor-plan, but follow some simple, "insect-like" rules. (Travel along if you find a wall, turn around if you hit something, etc.)

It uses the length of stretches that it can drive in a straight line, to get an estimate of the room size, which it will use to adjust the runtime of it's cleaning program.

This behaviour ensures that Roomba adapts well to different rooms. It doesn't clean the entire floor in one go, but over some runs it will eventually reach everything.
Marketing needs to be in sync, isn't it?
In 2013 I built an app essentially for myself to solve the recurring problem of sales tax declaration in Germany. I have to do this quarterly or monthly and filling out all the official forms was painful and time consuming. So I came up with

http://kassomat.net

An SPA with a simple yet accurate approach where you just enter 4 key numbers and are done in under a minute.

Due to my recent lack of time I was not able so far to adjust the App to the latest official API's, but that's doable. Open to offers.
America has never had so much TV, and even Hollywood is overwhelmed
The government thinks it's really neat too. ;)
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We have, at this point, strong evidence [1,2] against the straight-forward version of pilot wave theory. Thus pilot wave theory is forced to add more and more epicycles. This, IMO, is part of the reason why it's not becoming more mainstream today.

[1] http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115...

[2] http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115...
This may sound weird, but have you tried asking for more money instead of less?

When I started out here in Australia I asked for very little, comparatively, and got an equivalent amount of work. It wasn't until I asked for more than I thought I was worth that people actually started hiring me.