skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the high plains, sure. Those areas are natural grasslands; they were grasslands before European settlers arrived and started clear-cutting forests to make room for farmland. However, east of the high plains, before the Mississippi, I'd think there'd be at least some room for new trees.
Enjoy it while it lasts! (Or am I supposed to say "Why are you reading the NYT anyway?" ;) )
This should not be privately owned. It should belong to the entire human race. Otherwise it will be more of the same fallacious drivel that landed us in our current predicament.
I don't see how this is a useful distinction, but am open to your input.

In the pre-ACA insurance marketplace, pre-existing conditions either precluded individuals from coverage or forced them to pay for more expensive plans. Self-employed individuals were in a similar position.

Without insurance, health care, ranging from the mundane to emergency room coverage, was/is exorbitantly expensive. What rhetorical clarity, then, do we gain by explaining that the ACA is not health care?
I don't know how, but I misspelled "ZFS". In ZFS every single file write is atomic. That is kind of close and supported on Linux, Mac OS X and a few Unix flavors.
Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models
yep good to see clear info about the future so soon after joining stripe!
Tried Denver, Portland, and Venice Italy...
"We couldn't find any experience. Try removing your filters"
Naw, what they're talking about with infiniband networking ends up being important for distributed GPU workloads and is pretty cool to see in a cloud offering.

Being "impressed by their roadmap" is legitimate; Microsoft is putting a lot of energy behind competing with AWS. I've been hearing good things about Azure, but have been an AWS user since ~2009. I haven't heard they're much better or cheaper than AWS, so I haven't bothered to switch.

There's certainly PR value here, I just don't think it should be dismissed outright because of that.
NSA SKIDROWE program
Best UX Design Articles of October Every Designer Should Read
Also, what is the incentive to scoop in today's media climate?

If one news outlet breaks a story - even if it's a multi-month, highly-researched think piece - every other website will quickly summarize it and provide one link back to it. The link back is at least citing the source, but the summary is likely good enough for most users, and the originating news outlet gets no ad revenue if the reader only reads the summary.

How can we shift that incentive?
They focus authoritarianism on preservation and enrichment of the ruling class, everything else has less priority.
To expand a little on my sibling (prawn's) comment, I don't think the original idea is trashed, but travelers do have more options now. I've stayed at an "AirBnHostel" as well as "AirBnVacationHomes", but most of the time, I've stayed with hosts who like to hang out and share their city/lives.

It's relatively simple to discern which type of AirBnB you're getting from the host's description, and from the cities I've rented in (granted, mostly popular/populous destinations), there's plenty of choice between the types.
.ru was an euphemism, I meant the country [Russia] not the specific .ru tld.

rutracker.org is hosted in Russia.

libgen and sci-hub are using a more complicated setup with lots of fronts (in various countries) run by people who know what they're doing. I believe the backend infrastructure is in Russia.
I agree with you -- but I want to point out another way that widespread internet access is insufficient. We need to update our laws to allow true information democratization. Right now, under dominant legal systems, information is far too easy for companies to box off and "own", even when they don't own it (extensive discussion about this earlier today on the thread about Google locking out people who resold their Pixel devices).

Yes, it's true that underground utilities and services can be produced that skirt legal responsibility for a good while, but without the legal ability to come into the sunlight and flourish, such things will always remain incomplete, spotty, and hard to come by, always denied a full resource allocation and full publicity profile.

We need to update copyright to something that's sane for the digital age, something that doesn't pretend like a RAM representation that exists for microseconds represents millions of dollars in damages. We need to update patent law to something that protects small innovators without becoming a club that can bludgeon competitors who are playing fair. We need to repeal and replace the Soviet-era CFAA and its copycats, which still govern most network access and allow tech monopolists to take your data, and thus your life (calendars, emails, photos, phone numbers...), hostage.

The true potential of a free internet remains unseen, stifled by greedy monopolists hiding behind their hypocritical rhetoric about freedom and openness while they prosecute and harass anyone that tries to ensure you can keep control of your most personal records.
The McRib is back – now there's an app to help you find it
Another thing to consider is that fiber slows down light substantially vs radio and laser comms.
There are two explanations for their seemingly biased reporting: either they had leaks from the Republican side and chose not to release them, or the only leaks they had were on the Democratic side. From the outside, it's hard to know which one is correct.

Perhaps what the world needs is multiple WikiLeaks-like organizations that don't have the same editorial slant as Wikileaks? That way leakers can leak their data in several places and it's more likely to be published. (One might even build an anonymous submission tool that makes the submitted data available to all such organizations at the same time.)

Of course, if the problem is simply that no one is bothering to attack the RNC, then no amount of additional organizations to publish the data would help. It might, though, lend some credibility to the claim that data isn't being withheld deliberately.
>One presidential candidate

The other presidential candidate has been shown to be colluding multiple times with various media outlets, while they don't fairly report on that collusion. I think things like that erode people's trust in media.
What does the presidential election mean for our startup?
I think "Fake News" is a boogey-man rationalization for what happened.

"Half of the country voted for someone else. Not someone I liked. I am baffled. What happened? Because they read about lizard people or how Obama was born in Africa" or, the officially sanctioned response: "Because of those pesky KGB agents hiding in the bushes". That is the easiest rationalization and one which leads to least cognitive dissonance and one in which the other side is completely demonized or idioticized.

All those working men and women from PA and MI who before voted for the "right party" almost religiously for years, all of the sudden have been brainwashed by sneaky foreigners to believe in lizard people, they are all now white supremacists and like Hitler (nevermind they voted for Obama just a few years ago), and will also use gays for target practice.
Is planting a tree that difficult?
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not. Please don't.

All in the upper lip curvature, because why would a criminal smile in a mugshot.

Why would a non-criminal smile in a mugshot?
ReactOS is only 32 bits I think, I might be mistaken. NTVDM is a virtual 16 bit machine so if ReactOS was in 64 bit mode NTVDM would run 16 bit programs.
Yes and no. There was minor lag ... enough to be a slight nuisance when I was connected over wifi...

There was 0 lag when connected directly over the ethernet. It was seamless.

Though I should add that the paperspace server I was connecting to was located less than 50 miles from my laptop.
Commenting on Product Hunt
How do I get to comment and participate in discussions on product hunt?
Amazon Offers Good Deals on Refurbished Kindle Ereaders
This is actually part of I2P, there are hidden trackers that are only accessible on the network, and that use the inbuilt Torrent manager that comes with I2P.

You can find more info on how to install and run it here:
https://privacytutorials.wordpress.com/
I live in a developing country. Much of the problem in the communities I've seen is a lack of knowledge.

I'd much prefer if local people become the experts through knowledge sharing / gathering than bringing in expensive consultants to train them and tell them how to do it. The most vulnerable places often slip through the cracks.

Smart phones are dominating these communities, not the latest and greatest but they are definitely starting to come online. By the way, there are plenty of videos to understand the different solutions on offer for clean drinking water. Email and VOIP allows community leaders get expert advice without leaving their shelters.

By empowering the community to chose and implement a solution most appropriate for them they will be able to achieve much more in the future. Teach a man or woman to fish and all that jazz...
heh, it's my phone, i broke it, I'm out a chunk of money. I am fully aware of that. I'm upset that I can't pay a small increment of money to a trusted source to remedy that. I have never felt the need to have a case on a phone before (I am a mobile developer and have dozens of phones) because all my other ones have been able to survive falls of that intensity.

I'm sad that I'm out some money, and I definitely think I am at fault, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable.
Weren't the advertisers paying for the results by proxy -- clearly they saw that the results were worth the payment made. And they continued paying what they felt was a fair price for the results they saw.

So while the numbers measured may be different, the advertisers weren't naive enough to use that as the only metric to plan ads.
Elon, please focus all of your time and energy on delivering the Model 3. Nothing else should matter to Tesla right now. Solar shingles can wait. -Mom
That is also what "sed -i" does.
Coke made a selfie bottle
"These days you can fit 2 TB onto an SD card." Any online reference on which product is this?
Hi Everyone. I'm actually working on a "starter" project that only focuses on the backend. It uses Flask and PostgresQL and includes fabric deployment scripts to get the app running on Debian. Please check it out and let me know what you think

https://github.com/johnwheeler/mvp-starter
Django, really easy get started with.
Musk closes SolarCity deal
Even within the US I'd be very surprised if the cable companies don't try and somehow block it.
"We then modified the inline encryption block driver to pass this to the hardware. As with ext4 encryption, keys are managed by the Linux keyring. To see our implementation, take a look at the source code for the Pixel kernel."

It doesn't sound like they got these changes into mainline. They link here to their source: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-msm-ma...

From that file:

/* TODO(mhalcrow): Just for proof-of-concept */

WHOOPS!
4 reasons enterprise mobility has become mission-critical
Ask HN: How many of you use Facebook Messenger Bots on a frequent basis?
OK, so let me explain why your reasoning is wrong.

The problems here only occur if your app is modifying files that do not "belong" to it. For apps that store config files, databases, etc., these problems should not arise, because those files should only be touched by those apps, and (a) the app is already aware what metadata the file should have and is the one maintaining control over the files, and (b) the app can make sure that it is never using a file that it is trying to delete. If the user is messing with the app's files, then the user is just as responsible for not preventing their deletion as he/she is responsible for not corrupting their contents. You can't blame the deletion behavior for that; the responsibility for proper care rests entirely on the user, and having a different delete behavior doesn't fix the core problem.

For files that don't belong to the app, the situation is entirely different. First, apps should not be deleting files that don't belong to them without user consent. And if the user is consenting, the user is responsible for ensuring this does not cause problems. Second, those that modify files they do not own are responsible for all aspects of this, including preserving metadata. This is of course difficult and quite a burden, but at this point, it is considered a bug in the application if it does not do this correctly. Again, the app is the one mucking with files that it does not own, so the app and the user together are responsible for maintaining consistency, not the OS.
If it was some other company than OpenAI, I would agree. But just the fact that Microsoft is partnering with OpenAI is noteworthy to many here.

OpenAI is a non-profit, and I don't know how lucrative the deal is for Microsoft or how much business OpenAI has, but I don't mind Microsoft getting some good press for the move either.
Yes.
Not sure why people reject things about their favorite company without checking facts, just like religion. Even the account for which Tim Cook became the privacy crusader, they had already given his iCloud data.

Also, here:
http://www.apple.com/in/privacy/government-information-reque...
> The other presidential candidate has been shown to be colluding multiple times with various media outlets

That appears to be true, too - I agree!

So we've identified two causes of eroding media trust. I'd be curious if any research has been done on what erodes trust more: authority criticizing it, muckraking journalism (no pejorative implied there - muckraking is a good thing to expose corruption!), or other things yet.

The huge amount of fake news in people's social media has certainly had some kind of impact on people's trust of news sources in general, too. I am most interested in how to combat that; simply doing good work won't necessarily bring a media outlet the attention it needs to stay in business these days. Incentives in journalism are currently pretty out of whack.
Yeah, the key to What.cd was the obscure stuff, and the various releases for each, well, release.

It's stuff that just isn't available on iTunes, spotify, basically anywhere. And, unless the music industry actually starts cooperating, never will be.
Their motivations are irrelevant. Proving politicians are hypocrites is easier than finding metaphors in the bible. Their releases have undeniably been assimilated by one candidate using WL's credibility and flavor of scandal. WL went along with it.

"Troves" don't have signatures. Omissions and context matter. See the ICIJ approach.
http://centennial.rucares.org/index.php?page=Dietary_Therapy...

Starvation is the way they used to treat the disease in the early part of the twentieth century.

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

Allen was not the first person to recommend treatment of diabetes by diet; as Ramachandran and Viswanathan (1998) point out, dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus was used in ancient Egypt as long ago as 3,500 B.C., and was being used in India about 2,500 years ago. These authors note that in the eighteenth century, John Rollo had observed that glycosuria in diabetics could be reduced if sufferers of diabetes mellitus reduced the quantity of their food consumed. However, Allen became famous in his own day for his recommendations, and Allen and his co-workers published their work on the diabetic diet in 1919, in a work entitled "Total Dietary Regulation in the Treatment of Diabetes". Today, however, diabetologists would take quite different views on this subject to those promoted by Allen. Indeed, Joslin, in 1922, suggested different diet recommendations to those of Allen, suggesting a reduction of fat rather than carbohydrate, with the overall goal of reduction in calorie intake (Hockaday, 1981). Allen has been named as one of the two leading diabetologists, along with Elliott P. Joslin, in the period 1910 to 1920.

Apparently it was used way before that period as well.
Isn't Windows' hosts file located in a system folder? Not that I change it so often anymore, but when I did more web development, it was not uncommon for me to add a line there...
Wikileaks may be following a Russian agenda (due to shared goals; enemy of my enemy is my friend), but what do you mean by "blatant fabrications"? Wikileaks hyperbolized the marketing about some of the emails, but never once fabricated anything that I'm aware of.
Exactly. Anyone starting a community like this should be planning for plausible deniability from the beginning. You can build a metadata community that is seamlessly interoperable with a tracker without actually containing any links to the tracker. Think something like trakt.tv, but make the IDs on the metadata site match the IDs on the torrent site and otherwise completely firewall the two. Different owners, different infrastructure, etc. I don't see how a community that simply collects data and ratings can be shut down.
So... slashdot?
This is not new, and I've spoken about this here before. Facebook used fraudulent methods to artificially inflate their view counts, and pedelled those fake and grossly exagerrated #s for "eyeballs" to the unsuspecting advertizers.

"How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views" - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell exposed this with detailed analysis and evidence. Watch it here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q

I contracted with their Ad team for a few months, and can't say more for NDA reasons, hence I am pointing you to publicly available media / expose.
That's actually a myth, since the GPS satellites all experience a similar relativistic time skew.

http://www.alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm

"The presence of Special and General Relativity effects has no bearing on the accuracy of GPS operation. In summary, it wouldn’t matter whether clocks aboard GPS satellites ran faster or slower than Earth’s clocks or even changed their speed each day. Just so long as the satellites’ clocks remained synchronised with each other and the time-difference relative Earth’s clocks didn’t become too large, GPS receivers would continue to calculate their correct position."
This leads me to consider that although ISPs previously weren't forced to collect users' browsing history, they had the legal right to. The only difference the bill does is to share the power corporations had with the government.
Seems like Microsoft is trying to do to Google in AI what Google did to Apple in Mobile, using OpenAI as a vehicle.

i.e. if you aren't the leading innovator, the next best thing to do is to make the technology free and widespread.
i think would be very cool if there was an app that would do the reverse and enable the have-nots to have what the haves have, even for a short period of time:

- private heli trip to a private island villa,

- 300' yachts, aventadors, 488s, 911s all free to use,

- private shopping sessions (fully paid for) at hermes, chanel,

- meet-and-greets w/ robuchon, redzepi etc,

- take a whimsical trip to some middle of nowhere farm to work for a day..

at a totally affordable price for the typical middle class in a middling country.

it's not real obviously, it's all a show, rich people don't live like this every day, just substantially more likely to experience something like this than the not-so-rich.

obviously, it's not going to happen, but it is a hope.
That is a much, much, much harder problem to solve. You essentially have to fix politics before you can fix water. Information access gives people the ability to fix their politics. Then they can fix their water themselves.
Spider chart or spiderweb chart
Which telecom provider?
Why Facebook and Google are embroiled in controversy right now…
Such a bloody engineers thing to say.

I just bought this house and put the fridge in the only position it can go. If I can harness quantum pugs and whatnot, its worth asking.

Well, before I muddied the water.
Diamond Dressers Tools Manufacturers – Jain Precision Tools
> But Wikileaks fits too snugly into both russian agenda

Agree it does. And if I had to pick a country not to like (or rather I'd say a government) Russia would be it. My family has tangibly been hurt by them. And I'd like to blame them, but the whole "it is the Russians" excuse is a bit too much. This seems to be like a classical PR technique of deflection. And it was pushed too far by Hillary's campaign and the rest of the mass media. When they overemphasize something, it is probably a lie and I know to look the other way.

As for hacking the email server, I would say Russian did it, but probably any state actor which were moderately advanced probably got into it. If they knew the Secretary of State of the most powerful country in the world had a private server and didn't try to hack into it, whoever was doing "hacking" should have been fired probably.

> has ages of ethical and regulatory history?

Unfortunately how mass media has behaved, I put their ethical and trustworthiness below Wikileaks at this point.

> you need to balance your sources with al jazeera, bbc etc.

Yap I do that. I found in general, media is a bit more trustworthy if they don't have an inherent conflict of interest. For example Al Jazeera is not to be trusted with any news from ME or especially close to Qatar for example.

Who do you listen to? Is BBC a pretty good source?
Just in case you weren't already aware there was a Kickstarter some years back to release free recordings of classical music. https://musopen.org/
> So you'd recommend we pursue measures known to kill tens of thousands of people just because there's a vanishingly small chance of harm sometime in the distant future?

Disallowing vaping is not the same thing as recommending cigarettes.

If you asked me to make a recommendation, it would be to make smoking illegal immediately. It's ridiculous that it's allowed at all, when it kills so many people for no good reason other than "it's not illegal, so get over it". It's so dangerous that it kills thousands of people that don't even do it!

I just don't want to see the horse bolt like it did with smoking. If it's safe, then it's safe. But nobody knows yet so don't insinuate that has been proven.

Like I said, if the threshold for safety is that things must be safer than cigarettes, then that's a very low bar indeed.

> You're mainly just demonstrating the problems with democracy.

It's a problem with democracy that I want a new drug delivery system to be proven safe before being allowed/recommended?

I find you rude.
"Gross margin is ~20% excluding ZEV"... where are you getting your data? Have you checked their latest Q3 earnings report?

Here's a quote from their Q3 shareholder letter: "Q3 GAAP Total automotive gross margin was 29.4%, while non-GAAP Automotive gross margin was 25.0% excluding SBC and $139 million of ZEV credit revenue."

source: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/212351657...
John Stapp – fastest man on Earth
I can vouch, personally, that at least one recording has been permanently lost outside of digital versions preserved "illegally".
South Korea Blocks Google from Expanding Local Maps
Unless some debris from that gets pushed into higher orbits, then collides with something else and the process repeats.
From the article:

Professor Forrester abandoned digital computing in 1956, in part because he believed that the major innovations in the field had been made. “I might not have envisioned how much smaller and faster they’d be, but the fundamental logic hasn’t changed.”

Take that, Silicon Valley!