skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to hate getting new glasses when I was a kid. But now that I'm an adult with my own income and health insurance, I just go get the exact same frame with the exact same lenses from the same manufacturer, but with an updated prescription every two or three years. Once I found something I liked it was much easier to keep wearing the glasses.
Only speaking as myself here - I think the FCC needs to be restructured.

I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying it needs to be eliminated but I think its been a political and censorship tool for too long. I think its role could be simplified safely and that "governance" of the internet in the US could be handed over to an organization like ARIN/ISOC/IETF. I do not think government elected officials should have any say over how the internet or consumer communication infrastructure is run.
If you had a 90s read, you clicked the wrong link.
I had LASIK i 2013. This was right after I got new job.
I took the most expensive option because I didnt want to risk my eye because of few pennies.

Outcome: I could see perfectly day after. I had halo during nights but this gradually faded away to something insignificant.

I cant speak for all people, and I cant comment on how this will end up in 5 or 10 years but I am really happy I did this.

I used to wear contact lenses that went dry after half a day. If I spent the day out I had to bring with me couple of pair of lenses + 1 more for safety. Why so many? Some lenses no matter how I try to fit on my eye just glided down and fell. I used to spend 5-10 minutes every morning just to get them to fit. It was such an daily obstacle.

Aircon blowing from the car? Lens dry.

Now I dont even think about the LASIK surgery or lenses. I just moved on with life
Well, in that case, we're at an impasse. I'm a consequentialist and care about the outcome more than the principles. I might agree with you in a world where American companies upholding "American values" exerts pressure on the Chinese government, but it doesn't.
> a very simplistic serialization format with a minimal number of built-in structures.

It's already here: protobufs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers
Good luck coming up with an inherently non-flawed system. Whatever you come up with will have exactly the same problems.
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Hierarchy of needs – business and product lessons learned from watching my toddler
I'm the kind of guy who used to print out articles from the web to read and now I can't concentrate while reading a physical book. I think the constant visual reminder of how much I have left to read bothers me for some reason.
Is anybody seriously proposing heavy Government spending on any specific problem right now, other than a wall against Mexico?

Some engineering problems have yielded to heavy spending. The Polaris submarine program. The Apollo program. RCA's color TV effort. AIDS treatment. Extreme ultraviolet photolithography. The H-bomb. Sometimes this works. With a narrow goal, a general idea of how to get there, and heavy funding, impressive results are possible.
I understood some of these words!
I have -7.5 and -8 on my L/R eyes and I've considered LASIK multiple times growing up (got my glasses when I was ~3 yrs).

But recently (After getting a job), I've grown less and less attached to the procedure and don't intend to have it in the foreseeable future. (complications and side effects make me feel that what I have right now it is not too bad).
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If I could relive the 80-s, that might be something I would work on.
Social accounts are fine for consumer products but many people justifiably don't want to use them for business products. Keeping them separate is a key part of business hygiene.

For me, it's not about the privacy issues. It's that accounts tied to my personal social networks are much harder to transfer/remove/control.
For the conspiracy minded, there will always be doubts.
You can have as server tags in many native setups if the publisher supports it.
Can you tell me your definition? I could be wrong.

There's a little more to it than just nationalism in a predominantly white country, though. Nationalism generally means support of national identity above all else. This article promotes white identity above national identity, but the outlet for that feeling is to make the nation into a white nation, so that supporting white culture and supporting the nation are one and the same. Note that the article never talks about American culture. It talks about white culture and white identity politics.
I've been wearing glasses for my horrible vision since early grade school and now well into my 30s. I don't know why anyone would wear them if there is an option not to. They constantly smudge, fog, awful in any weather situation, etc. I carry a microfiber cloth with me at all times just to be able to clean them. What a nightmare. It's fine if you wear non-refractive glasses as a fashion accessory because those can just be taken off when inconvenient. When you can't drive or barely walk without them, it's another story.
The $1 minimum is above the particular tier. Along with the marking for the $8 and $15 tiers.

And when you enter in the amount you want to pay, they tell you exactly what you will (or will not) get.
Its not. Its probably more accurately described as "science which has political implications" rather than "politicized science."
What kind of recovery symptoms did you experience?
There is no libertarian Avalon from which we have been expelled.

As an aside, I'm struck by how often theorists of both left and right unconsciously recapitulate the Garden of Eden narrative when attempting to articulate their basic premises. I'm starting to think there's a correlation between clinging to such unsupportable premises and hostility to the notion that humans are just particularly successful animals whose basic behavioral patterns are widely observable in the animal kingdom.
Most of these firms use private contractors to do the dirty work. Unless contractors can bypass legal oversight, they'll be constrained as well.
Even less prominent is the "free" tier. You'll get one book for it.
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Old != mature

And mature or immature, I do not want anyone meddling anywhere at all. If you can do it to somebody then be ready to be on receiving end because you are not on any moral high ground. I could not see how Russia could've gotten hold of voting systems. This is also why I do not like closed source code being used for purposes like these. Is the code even audited? If "Russia" was able to successfully meddle, that only shows how poor USA is at securing its own infrastructure. Please defer from producing another Iraq WMD evidences at any case.
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That sort of happens when first wearing glasses, too. I think it's like an unsharp mask filter applied by the brain to compensate for blurriness, which it has to unlearn over time.
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We're doing OK on the first three, but depending on the market, 'clear' and 'beneficial to society' are highly contentious.

My point is that most of history's economic miracles were built either on the backs of theft, coerced labour, or government largess. There was no golden age when businessmen could be businessmen, and enterprise was free.
I had custom LASIK done about 7 years ago where they cut the "flap" with a laser. After a month my vision stabilized but it was still not good enough, so they did a second "touch up" operation. I've had great vision ever since.

I even had an injury to my eye where a tree branch came full force into my eye, and there was no damage to the "flap".

I have had very little if any glare or halos symptoms.

Given this, in hindsight I would probably go with PRK because it seems to give the eye more structural integrity and possible more post-operation options?

In speaking to an opthamologist recently, she mentioned that lense implants are her preferred choice.
On devices with full-disk encryption (such as iPhones made in the past few years), a "factory reset" is equivalent to scrambling the entire disk. This is because it securely erases the keys that were used for all the data on the disk, and without the keys, all that data is effectively random garbage.
my night vision has degraded somewhat: halos around lights can make depth-perception while driving slightly difficult

This is why the (British, at least) military isn't keen on it...
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As others have pointed out, economics always was "political economy". Largely because it is about the whole of society, so it's actionable results tend to be in the realm of public policy.

BUT: it seems there was a change around about the time of Keynes. Until then, economists talked mostly the general kind of systems that would produce prosperity.

Even Marx talked like that -- he might have believed in rational planning, but he wrote about how the capitalist system as whole (mis)functioned, and how the proletariat would "inevitably" seize control. He did not detail already existing "levers" that be used by governors to steer the economy.
I had surgery with my first salary more or less when I was 21.
It took a year or two for the halo effects to disappear.

My night vision feels like it's like "4x" worse than it it was but it is really hard to tell. Seeing in the dark is difficult in the first place and I don't have any hard data.
I have great vision, but sometimes wear polarized sunglasses when driving especially at night to cut down on glare. You might want to try the same thing.
Hey, cool project! Any chance you could give a quick rundown of how this compares to Qubes? Like, the tradeoffs, etc.
This authors arguments were stronger before he brought up Sony. A new degree is significant investment and actually needing one is a good reason to consider another course of action. But Sony's code is crap, their policies were crap and they are assembled by people that couldn't give a crap. Liked many large companies they employed who could be retained not people that probably wanted to be there. It didn't matter that they had degrees, they did too many things fundamentally wrong. They had convoluted change control process that prevented quick fixes to script injection attacks a quick read of a Wikipedia page would have explained this and probably did, but bureaucracy probably demand tickets, a risk assessment and a business justification.

Any coder can succeed or fail with or without a degree, and largely shops don't actually care about your degree. HR might make it hard to hire someone without a degree, but the hiring managers generally gets enough say to interview people who show promise (github profiles, personal recommendation or years of experience). Then upper management wants to treat all coders as interchangeable cogs in an assembly line. Or at least that is how the 3 or 4 Sony size companies I worked for behaved.

All of that adds up to the author confusing credentials for competence. I have met coders with PHDs who could keep a programming job because of their incompetence and High school grads earning 6 figures because they produced results. I have seen more expected opposite as well of course. I see no correlation in skill and certification. That whole thing undermines this whole article.

Perhaps not all lawyers should code, but maybe some lawyers could have skipped school entirely and could pick up coding on the weekend. Instead this author advocates for institutionalizing incompetence and that is exactly how Sony got hacked.

This all ignores the ongoing trend that every job is being automated. Those who program can better adapt to this ever growing wave of automation. He works with legalzoom so he should know how tech can streamline the operation of even lawyers. What this article implies is that things won't get anymore streamlined. What happens when IBM points Watson at all the law books in the world and it produce advice better than 99% of lawyers? I know you need to cross a high bar to actually go to trial but isn't a large chunk of lawyer's money made on advice made well before that point? Wouldn't it be good to be ready for this or whatever tech comes to disrupt law.
I like my glasses. I too have worn them since early grade school. The feeling of something on my face just feels familiar and right nowadays.

Definitely has downsides. Smudging and fogging is so frustrating, but I've gotten used to it.
For those of us playing the home version, would you expand you thoughts as to why you disagree?
Why do you think social organization is unnatural? There are (iirc) 17 eusocial species, most of which are insects but two or three of which are mammals, depending on how you define eusociality.
One would assume that if a company wants to track the employee's spent time, they already found a way of doing this. GitLab is only providing a different, and perhaps easier, way of doing it.
I am not a lawyer, and I don't intend this to be legal advice. That said, having done a somewhat more than cursory amount of study when it comes to intellectual property issues, I'm 100% confident that this would be unlawful in the United States, and 95% confident that it would be unlawful in whatever country you're residing in right now, if it's not the US.

And frankly, I think a more than cursory study is overkill.
You do realize there is a lot more to computing than "web" and "mobile", I hope?
Those are all intentional choices and benefits of Python

1. This gives you flexibility to structure your app in a way that makes sense for what you're doing. In addition, I've found Django's approach to modular apps to be far more manageable and approachable than Ruby's "all the controllers go in the controllers folder" approach.

2. Explicit imports is a Python thing and a huge benefit. I've looked at plenty of Rails code bases where I had no idea where different functions and variables were coming from. In Python/Django, you can always see the explicit definition at the top of the file.

3. The "crippled down" templating language is very intentional as well. Django is preventing you from writing your application in the templating logic (something I've seen too much of in Rails) All your template should be doing is specifying how the data is to be rendered in HTML/whatever.

Really Python/Django could be said to be Ruby/Rails flipped on it's head.

Ruby itself isn't very opinionated (there are usually several ways to do something), while Rails is.

Python itself is pretty opinionated (there should be one right way to do things), while Django isn't.

In general it's a matter of opinion and perspective but I personal find Python and Django to be much easier to work with than Ruby and Rails.
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Yea I guess I could do that. Play around with it and see how it feels and then I can wipe it over again if I want to.
I'd say gurises, since Guri comes from `kid` in uruguay
Mark Zuckerberg is the most powerful person on Earth. But is he responsible?
How to Get Regular Press Mentions on Your Own Without PR Firms
Just looked up the source, apparently it was during the 80s and was Mikhail Gorbachev, and I scrambled a bit of the details, and the author of the text too does not cite a source but refers to it as a popular story. I wonder if Google can dredge up something to substantiate it.

"In the 1980s, the last premier of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, traveled to Great Britain and met British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. According to a popular story, when Gorbachev was touring with Thatcher, he was surprised to see how well off the British seemed to be. He asked Thatcher who made sure that the British people got fed. "No one," she told him. "The price system does that." The British people got fed far better than the subjects of the Soviet Union, who languished under a planner economy."
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The next line in the article:

> iOS devices have strong security mechanisms that give us a challenge, but if anyone can address this challenge and provide a solution to law enforcement, it is Cellebrite," he said, referring to Apple's operating system.

This makes it sounds like Cellebrite actually cannot currently crack the latest phones running iOS 10, but the CEO is merely expressing his belief that they'll figure out how to do it. See how he's not saying "we can do it", but instead he's saying "if anyone can do it, it's going to be us".
Yes the encrypted message is safe to be sent to the whole world, but there is no single public folder for "the whole world". That would be too many files.

I think USENET and nntp came really close to fulfilling most of "single public folder for the whole world", but unfortunately has fallen out of popular use (and it needs to be popular enough to increase the anonymity) because it wasn't walled-garden enough to make money from.
Paper ballots and their associated processes to secure, verify and count are simple and robust. Something like 90% of the population is capable of verifying the process. It is therefore easy to set up a process whereby people of differing political affiliations work together to conduct the voting process (and recounts if necessary).

Electronic voting and their associated processes are complex and verifiable by only a small portion of the population (those who are both smart enough and technically skilled enough to dive into the code). Even then very few people have the skills to determine if hacking or other forms of tampering take place.

As a technologist there's too much incentive for a bad actor to tamper with electronic voting and it is too difficult to check if tampering has occurred.
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> If we want an actual functional economy we should model nature as closely as possible because we know it actually works. And it works without any management

To the people and institutions who currently hold power, that's not a feature, that's a bug.
Democrats were right when they said the losers of this election would refuse to accept the results.
Exploits are just ways to leverage those flaws. We have systems with no flaws for some older tech. Eventually we will fix this one too.
Not for an iPhone, no. For something else, yes, I'd probably be willing to pay a little extra.
I'm so glad people are talking about this!

Here's a question for you:

If LASIK involved a 1/10,000 chance of losing ten thousand dollars, would you do it? How about hundred thousand? One million? I would probably stop here - would wan't to be in one million debt.

So what's functioning eyesight worth to you? Because to me it's more than $1m, more than billion, more than all the money in the world. I wouldn't risk it even if there was one failed case to millions.

Anyway, this is my setup:

1. Contacts for sports/social activities

2. Lightweight glasses for work (like Snowden in his iconic photo). Don't like to wear this in social setting. I would feel nerdy.

3. Fashionable round glasses with that spotted texture. Can't get used to the plastic glasses, so I don't wear them a whole lot, but no problem wearing them in social setting.
> The presence of feeling is rather obvious when you feel things like pain. Can't exactly make that up.

At the risk of repeating myself --- do I feel it?

I cannot remember pain. I can remember being in pain, I can remember second-order things about the pain, like where it is or what kind it is. I can remember that it makes me unable to concentrate, and even a mild headache will make me useless even though I'm not physically debilitated. I can remember that cutting myself feels different to toothache, which feels different from that ghastly time when I had shingles (second-stage chickenpox. The most pain I had ever been in my entire life. And I had a mild case).

I know it was nasty, and I'm certainly going to avoid it, but when I'm not actually in pain, I cannot summon up even a shadow of a sensation of what the pain itself was actually like. Which is weird, because I can remember other sensations. But not pain.

So it's not obvious that I feel pain. Maybe it doesn't exist at all, and all it is is an illusion formed by my brain's negative reinforcement signal ('this is bad. Stop doing this'). That would at least explain why it doesn't show up in my memory.
I received two C.H.I.P last week, wanted to take that as an opportunity to learn as well as teach my girlfriend about this kind of stuff. I was looking for an easy project to start with, but couldn't find anything.
People don't favor gun control because they're eternal optimists about the government's benevolence, that is a ridiculous straw man. Generally people favor gun control because -- to use the same language -- they are not eternal optimists about the benevolence of their fellow citizens who sometimes murder large groups of innocents.
You could join the Pdf files, but honestly, one file of different books containing several hundred pages each sounds impractical.
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> There are multiple sources that cite the 6% to 10% figure. If you have a good reason to call this article BS, please explain.

> You make some other remarks about all non-salary income being unreported, and people complaining about the common man because they have unreported income to hide that are too outrageous to bother refuting.

I am sorry if this does not gels with your modern sensibilities but growing up in indian small town you see sh*t. and one thing clear as day is Income taxes are a joke for most mom & pop shops outside of major metropolis. in fact thats reflected in IT revenue collections regional breakdown (its heavily skewed to metros). Almost the entirety of non metro economy runs on cash & its very common for small business to maintain 2 sets of books. so if you think somebody has an opportunity to avoid paying taxes without repercussions and they are just going to do that for 10% of their revenues then I do have a nice bridge to sell you.

> Most people who did have unreported income have already converted it into new notes or bullion. The economy is not going cashless anytime soon.

this is just too much. How did you come by this information? stop spreading this kind of BS. the entirety of replacement notes arent even printed as yet as their goal was new year release. and there is not enough bullion in indian market to cover the amount of cash conversion not even at already skyrocketing price.

Also, economy does not has to go cashless just that the money needs to be traceable. plus if to take away venues to park this money like real estate then you have heavily disincentivised its accumulation. & looking at his temperament I think its amply clear that Modi is serious about fighting black money. hence the popular support despite the pain. its only the armchair economists that are suddenly worried about hardships of common man in line.
I also love Riot. It makes custom tags. It's easy to author and debug w/o so many additional tools. Serverside or client-side rendering. Was a snap to plug Riot in to replace jQuery "components" in a mostly PHP driven app.
>I'm a bit baffled as to what you're trying to achieve here...

Funnily enough, so am I. So I can't really help you with that.
Was curious what would happen if you set the firmware to only boot from the startup disk and it crashed ...

Seems like MacOS does the reasonable thing and prompts for the firmware password if you use a different disk.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204455
I wanted to really use and love jq but I always struggle with the syntax and debugging is a huge pain. I feel that better documentation of complex examples and chaining would get me over the line.