skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I wish to capture everything I can recall about an event, I do what I call a "brain-dump". Turn on a webcam, and spew.

I'd call it trace-like, except for having to manage attention and coverage. A memory fragment pops up, and you describe its attributes. Along with extra characterizations like "low confidence" and "feels synthetic". Grab a next fragment and repeat. But with multiple fragments at hand, which one to do first? You may not be able to find the deferred ones again. And for each topic/period, there's diminishing returns, so at what point to you move to the next topic. And for recent events, or memorable longer ones like travel vacations, there are a lot of fragments to wade through. You don't remember a conversation, you remember flashes of visuals and sounds and variously fuzzy "something vaguely like X was said". So locally its trance-like focus, but globally its interview management and triage.

Anyway, point is, my experience is the fragments are small and scattered and disorganized. And you can feel them rotting as you handle them. You basically get one pass or few at each fragment. Then they're smoothed over trash.

Yesterday's commute? Um, "touched a cold door handle". "Might have been vertical". "That's what I've got". Pausing on the handle might or might not clarify the vertical. And you can probe with "was it a push? was it a pull?". Might get "maybe held the door open for someone? but that feels a bit synthetic". The cold handle starts out with the feel of a crisp, unhandled fragment. Recognizably different then the probes and the maybes. But that difference decays with handling. Revisit it a couple of times, and there's less and less you can say. It all feels suspect. "Whatever I said earlier, because now I have absolutely no idea what's real".

Eyewitness testimony seems largely farce. And most memories with temporal order or a storyline seem likely to be synthetic.
"Would suggest also adding whether the phone supports a removable battery/extended battery."

* Carrier Support (GSM vs CDMA)
* "Modes" (Frequencies, bands,whatever you want to call it)
* Sim card size (Normal 3FF, Nano 4FF)
* Removable Battery
* Wireless charging (I must have Qi)
* Fingerprint

Comparison vs other phones (I'd love to compare these vs my Note 3. Yes... 3.) would be nice, but probably a bit beyond the scope of this.

Otherwise, awesome tool.
Trump isn't calling them out for their hypocrisy - Trump is denying Global Warming stems from human causes - a position that all none crank scientists are now in agreement on. You are welcome to defend his positions/politics but let's not pretend they are something other than what they are.
Chinese coal-powered generating plants produce pollution that causes huge health problems, and also put CO2 into the atmosphere. Also, China cares about global climate change because it has a big desert on its Western side that is spreading.

And finally, China is making a ton of money exporting renewable energy technology. So China is acting very much in its self-interest.
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> I was following orders, or I would lose my employment and have to go hungry, not pay my mortgage, not feed my kids. End up in a divorce. Ruin my entire life. You are right, it's hardly an excuse.

Indeed. What you allege is called cowardice, and it is most definitely not an excuse.

Then again, bullies do not prey on those who stand up to them. Those who attempt to rationalise their pusillanimity attract them like flies though.

Please do yourself and everyone else a favour, stop blaming other people for your own weaknesses, and start to act in a way that can be an example and an inspiration to your kids. If nothing else, you owe it to them.
I find that this fails if your job involves putting out fires and responding to unpredictable client needs. I used to make a very concrete schedule at the start of a week and by midweek most of it was out the window. I do usually keep small must-do-this-week list, and the key for me in planning is estimating the duration of each task so that I can take advantage of what time I do get, and choose the right task for the time I have.
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Thanks for these comments, will make for interesting investigations.
You are making excuses, Sir.
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White is indispensable.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/...
+1000 to Instant Pot, it's amazing.
Ever since the 2000 crisis labour has been abundant. So we can't even use the labour capacity we have (not enough jobs for everybody). But that is one perspective. It very much depends on viewpoint even here. On one hand Obama and the government are lying : there certainly aren't enough jobs to go around, and so many people are desperate for work. They do tend to "have work", so the government is not technically lying, but they have part-time jobs that they would very much like to replace with a full time job.

A simplification that has been valid for pretty much the entire 20th century has been that a given labourer has a given productivity. So I assume that if we have 2 young people for every 1 old person or child, for example, that the economy would work to make that actually happen. This is not guaranteed, of course, but historically this worked.

As for the productivity measure you mention, that's not what I've seen in the data. Productivity measurements rose for most of the 20th century, then flattened across the world starting around 1985 or so. There has been little to no productivity rise in the US since 2000, and most of the world is worse off, with the notable exception of China and some smaller parts of Asia.

Lack of inflation rises are masked more than a little bit by government fudging. By the inflation measures of the 1980s we've consistently seen 3-4% inflation in Europe (except in the south). The measure currently used in the US is called "PCE deflator". You should look up why it's called that.
So the compounds released from burning coal and the compounds found inside natural fog – an aqueous medium made of, you guessed it, water – work together to make droplets of sulphuric acid, the same stuff that makes 'acid rain'.

Remind me again why we can't have nuclear power?
Thoroughly enjoyed the tutorial, but why would one want to make a custom system call? What superpowers does this give you? Thanks in advance for your answers.
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How much does it cost to go pro on (Panda)? I couldn't find out without kind of "going through".
How many people has ISIS killed in the US?

You know, at first you were talking about defending the US. Now, you want to do what? Save lives in the rest of the world?

Well, ISIS is still going to have to get far in the back of the line in terms of world-wide deaths and displacements, both from war, disease, poverty, and malnutrition.

But you know what ISIS has that the rest don't have? The media as its PR team. Just like every other word out of the media's mouth during the election was "Trump", so every other word out of its mouth is "ISIS". It's no wonder some now think that ISIS must be the most important problem in the world. But it's far from even being in the running.
Actually for certain classes of iOS 'apps' you can do exactly this - to enable third party iOS keyboard access you need to go into Settings and enable an extended privilege set (which includes internet access)
> this is equivalent to saying 3-momentum is not conserved in inelastic collisions in real life.

No, it's not. In real life, energy is conserved, so the energy that is lost from kinetic energy in inelastic collisions needs to go somewhere. And whatever receives that energy will also have momentum (even if it doesn't in the center of mass frame, it will in other frames), so it has to be included in the accounting of momentum conservation as well as energy conservation. A relativistic theory that conserves energy as well as 3-momentum (i.e., standard relativity theory) will still conserve both energy and 3-momentum when you change frames, even in inelastic collisions. (In the simplest case, the lost kinetic energy goes into increasing the rest mass of the two billiard balls, by increasing their temperature.)

What you hypothesized was something different: a hypothetical relativistic theory (which obviously does not match our actual world) in which energy is not conserved but 3-momentum is. In such a hypothetical theory, inelastic collisions could take place without the lost kinetic energy going anywhere: it simply disappears. I am simply explaining why such a relativistic theory is not possible: if energy is not conserved, 3-momentum cannot be conserved either (except in one particular frame, the center of mass frame, but that violates the principle of relativity so it is not allowed in a relativistic theory).
Would you mind pointing me to the actual study that you are referring to?
vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 facebook.com www.facebook.com m.facebook.com twitter.com m.twitter.com www.twitter.com

I found that really helps.
That's pretty funny considering that Twitter verified Muslim Brotherhood's offical account... which is a terrorist organization.

http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2016/11/twitter-verifies-m...
Not sure how I should respond to this. On one hand yes that's true. But on the other hand to what extent do the Board of Directors of any of the companies that it invests in respond to the stock holder? The stock holders in that sense are divorced from the running of the company and can't be held to account, because they can't influence the company at all. Their stock managers might be to some extent be liable. Again it's about the amount of power that you have in what the company does that determines your culpability in my opinion.
Most web component websites suffer badly on Firefox, due to polyfills. I m still hopeful.
> But many code monkeys don't have that privilege.

Well you can get a code monkey job somewhere else. That is one option.
I agree, but I think a federated platform would look more like email. Very little advertising, mostly given away for free.

With a federated platform, that's possible because no single company is shouldering the entire cost. And users would migrate to the cheapest provider since they wouldn't be tied to any particular provider.
Ethics issues are rampant at Chinese universities. Beyond that, even in the United States people like George W. Bush get "gentleman C's" instead of failing classes. If that happens in the USA, you better believe that privileged children of Chinese political insiders are not going to be allowed to fail out of an engineering program. If they get a degree at a university not in China, I would certainly be very impressed.
I think that even using more than one bit per RGB channel isn't hard. For example, 0 -64-128-192-255 for each RGB would increase the speed for 15 times. The 1-2kbps would become 30kbps, a modem from few years ago.

When using the real webcam (and not just passing files around), just one frame for calibration and no auto-white balance should be enough.
Nice to see this do so well over here. I posted this to /r/Racket earlier and as I said over there:

> This has screencasts or at least slides for most lectures. I have just started going through it myself and plan to "audit" all the lectures and do the homework assignments. Anyone have an interest in this and would like a virtual study buddy?

It's also worth pointing out that this excellent RacketCon talk [1] made me go seek out more about Excel Flash Fill [2] and in seeking to understand how that works I stumbled upon this course.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOyIKCszNeI&list=PLXr4KViVC0...

[2]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/flashfi...
I don't think so. As I said enjoy your privilege. Many people if not most don't have that.
As far as I am concerned the PBL is a tool to facilitate net neutrality violations, not by ISPs, but by e. mail service providers.*

Another effort by anti-spam people to encourage network neutrality violations is the SUBMISSION port, port 587 as opposed to port 25, for the authenticated submission of mail by MUAs. As far as I can tell, the only possible utility of this split is to make it more politically feasible for ISPs to block port 25 out, i.e. to facilitate network neutrality violations. As such I do not view the SUBMISSION port RFC well.

(*Some people argue that PBL networks have no business sending mail because they have dynamic IPs. This is false; there are PBL-listed networks which assign static IPs, and it is at any rate a moot point. No specification requires that MTAs for domain outgoing mail and MXs (that is, MTAs for incoming mail) be one and the same, and there is only a technical need for the latter to have fixed IPs.)

See also my site https://violations.devever.net/w/Violation_Type:Rejects_Vali...
Where have you read about the very early memories, like <1 year? There is a thing that puzzles me most of my life. When I was a teenager we had a family discussion about early memories. I have described several ones I've always assumed to be my earliest, but I've never knew what age they are related to. In one of them my cradle was involved and I was told by my mom that I was removed out of cradle at the age of 3 months.
Yes, it's harder to make something more private than it is to make it more transparent. Absolutely. You can go nuts trying to make your life as private as humanly possible, and then all it takes is one exception to the rules, like surveillance in the name of national security, followed by an unfortunate misuse of that data or an unfortunate hack, and now your eggshell defense of privacy has failed, and you have no cultural or legal infrastructure protecting your now very transparent life.

Ask anyone famous how hard it is to maintain a private life. It's much easier to go in the direction of transparency than backwards towards more privacy.

If you want to be more private, that means that no matter the level of encryption, you can never post your brutally honest thoughts in facebook or twitter or HN ever again. You can never let people know where you're visiting. What you're eating. What you're wearing. Who you're dating. You have to clam up. Because whether or not you've encrypted everything, you still leave fingerprints, not only in the IP addresses but in piecing together all the information you're sharing in order to home in on the identity of the poster.

It takes an enormous amount of effort to obfuscate your writing style and all your proper nouns, and it's not just effort. I think it costs you a piece of your humanity.

To answer your question about watching the abuser, if all information is broadcast (like literally broadcast openly on 802.11ac, for example), then in all likelihood, the people closest to the sources of these broadcasts are going to be the folks who can make the best use of the data. Too far away, and you won't even be able to pick up the signal. If someone further away can see value for reviewing it, then it's going to make sense to incentivize someone closer to archive and host it.

Putin and Erdogan get away with what they do because of asymmetric information. If their misbehaviour is similarly broadcast, then it levels the playing field.

And it changes journalism from being about leaking information and more about better analysis of information, its veracity, its implications, etc, as information would go from being valuable to being a commodity.

Right now, the wealthiest do appear to be writing the tax code.

And no, I do not think you should override the wishes of the people the data is about (within reason). That's central to my point. It turns knowledge into responsibility instead of power.
> There is also no evidence, I think, that ability to think critically in one field transfers to different a field.

Can someone tell people to stop asking puzzlers in interviews then? I don't think the two are comparable at all.
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I'd like to see apple do what they do best, push a new bit of tech nobody else would get away with.

There are now external GPU chassis you can get. What would it take to have an external set of CPUs or massive block of RAM? Make the macbook a reasonably powered thing you can carry about but have a tower you can plug into that extends your processing ability massively.

Or something more radical, make a neat system for moving storage around. Make the vast majority of the hardware entirely interchangeable, so you can move to a new desk, go home, go wherever and just plug in your 10 gram chip. M2 drives are pretty tiny, that seems like a tech that's arrived. Allow me to use a lightweight, low power device while travelling then go and plug myself into a monster of a machine at home.
Well, that makes it a lot better then. Nice to know this issue was considered in some form.
The article (you didn't read it, did you?) is about the Russian information war. Putin is an authoritarian, so he hates free speech, and in particular he wants to make his government look much better than it is, and also do everything he can to undermine democracies around the world. And so for that purpose he has launched a massive campaign of disinformation, complete with an army of trolls. And I say, yes, we need an organized response.
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Talk about proving his point... or is this sarcasm?
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I'd like to point out Peercoin, which has been running since 2012. It's a hybrid POS/POW currency.

http://www.coindesk.com/how-peercoin-got-a-boost-from-bitcoi...
When I was a manufacturing engineer, I used to have a short list of long term projects, a fair list of medium term projects, and a long list of tasks. A rolling todo list was the only way to stay on top of things.

You can't be the Pinball Wizard when the job requires you to be the pinball.
Maybe cut profits? Give each employee an extra hundred bucks per month. It's good for the worker, good for the poor folks who still keep the low prices and the wealthy folks are still making a profit, granted a smaller one. We needn't be so concerned about a handful of rich folks. They'll continue to make more than is necessary, even for a luxurious lifestyle. Replace those ridiculous mega yachts with regular yachts.

Alternatively, we keep it as is and more and more people's labor goes to zero (eg. driverless cars). One way or another, the wealth needs to flow to the people or there will be unrest. With unrest, people may elect someone with radical changes in mind and then you really won't like your situation (eg. a fascist government like Russia where the top guy simply takes your stuff on behalf of the people - but the people never actually see a dime of it). A little course correction here to balance things out will go a long way to keeping the social fabric together.
Skimming your blog, I see you live in the desert. Well, many Californians do not live in the desert, we live in urban areas where there is a higher population density, and for health and sanitary reasons, we have modern plumbing.

Maintaining standards of public health and sanitation is a priority. Ever hear of cholera? Would you like someone with a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea urinating near your living space?

And for those of us who are pre-menopausal and not on the pill, well, peeing on a tree is just about unthinkable (not to mention gross) for 3-4 days of every month.
Hi there, developer here. Can you please elaborate? Actually I would very much appreciate a really open smart phone with the same customization capabilities that the PC platform provides. However I believe (maybe wrongly?) most customers do not need to have a rooted phone, so I am really interested in the type of application?

I hope that we get an open phone soon (I want to `pkg install $foo`), but unfortunately most endeavors seemed to have failed (Ubuntu Phone, etc.) I always wonder why that's the case.
Great site! I also want to know if a screen is OLED or not, given the battery savings.
https://sivers.org/how2hire

This covers most of it. I would focus on giving some small pieces of work to see how collaboration works.
Facebook's a problem, but aren't there plenty of other things online and on your phone that are just as distracting?

For example, I waste at least 2 hours a day on the weekend on HN. I learn a little bit, but not as much as if I had been actively trying to learn a new technology or topic. Also on HN, I get frustrated with others' responses, so it affects me mentally as well. If anything is engineered to be addictive for those in tech, it's HN.

Also, news. I can read news sites for hours. Constantly going back to the same headlines, waiting for something new.

And games. I have a handful of games I'll waste time on.

And deal websites. I want to save money.

The only way to stop all of it? Stop using my phone and computer.
I think the commenter is complaining about the massive ecological defeating that is happening in countries that Walmart depends on for production over just complaining that production is not in America
Well I have been fired for standing up. So honestly you don't know what you are talking about. I have no cowardice. I took a few people down with me, managers above me. But at the end of the day the problem is systemic, taking down a few higer ups still did not change the situation. Because the rules were wrong and the people responsible for them kept their job.
I am not too concerned about Twitter keeping content b/c in the wall/river model of showing posts the past is irrelevant, even to the point that if a user wants to save a post for future reference/accountability a screenshot is far more effective than say scrolling down forever and find it (if it wasn't deleted). In other words: Twitter is more like a news channel not a blog.

Wanna fix Twitter? Fix trolls. It is far too obvious for the real users to spot when trolls are pushing a trend or flamming. Why can't Twitter setup some AI to mitigate troll activity? Same thing with big bucks pushing dubious campaigns a la Trump.

Two features that will make it better user experience: bookmark a tweet and add subjects/tags to tweets or accounts so users can have multiple streams well classified by subjects. Having a shampoo of content in chrono order forces scroll down to the point where one left last time.

However, all these fixes would make Twitter less profitable. So, nevermind.
You don't really see scientists coming out and saying that particular storms or natural disasters are a direct consequence of climate change. There's really no way to definitively identify a causal relationship (or lack thereof) between particular events and climate change trends. What you can say is that, overall, consequences of climate change (rising sea levels, increased atmospheric water vapor, changes in relative temperature differences between land and sea, etc.) will likely lead to more intensive storms based on empirical observation and models. That gets dumbed down to "climate change caused storm X." Skeptics hear that, and say "that's a bit silly! Storms happen every year. How can you say this one wouldn't have happened otherwise?" And that's a damned difficult question to answer easily.

In the United States in particular, climate change skepticism isn't about evidence or science. It's tied up with political ideology, personal identity, social identification, and a host of other very non-scientific factors. For instance, that some of the proposed solutions for fighting climate change wound up aligning pretty close with other liberal policy ideas (carbon taxes and cap and trade, for instance, were easy to malign as "increasing taxes"), which helped prime the pump for denying climate change altogether by seeming suspicious to other groups. Getting around these issues, especially now that denial/skepticism has become deeply entrenched along party lines, is one hell of a difficult problem to figure out.