skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what about the other 60%? The majority of the public make bad long term decisions in order to get a quick payoff, examples: Payday loan companies, Fast food / obesity, binge drinking, credit cards .. these are (not absolute) but examples of how people "just cant wait" for the long term payoff and take 'fix' and run.

People do these things, but I'm not sure that's enough of a reason to ban said activities. I think most people agree that banning e.g. 'being fat' or 'eating too much' would be unreasonable. Instead we allow people to make these mistakes, and then deal with the consequences.

> Having > 50% of the population addicted to drugs would be disastrous.

I completely agree with this statement, although I'm not sure I think legalising drugs would actually lead to that. If we were to legalise drugs there would need to be a system in place where people are informed about the effects and side-effects of the drug they wish to purchase. They would not get access to unlimited amounts at a low cost. While some drugs would be potentially quite problematic under this system (e.g. the very addictive and damaging ones such as methamphetamine and heroin) some probably would not. For example MDMA does not carry a large risk of being abused, and neither do psychedelics (they are not addictive, at least not in the physical sense).

Completely legalising drugs has many challenges associated with it, but also many benefits. I think decriminalisation, at least, could be a very good idea. It moves drug addiction from being a crime to be being a medical issue, where the correct response is treatment and not prison. Portugal is an example of a country where this was implemented with positive results.
Apple has assets of around $321.686 billion, whereas Samsung is worth around 1.64601505816 times more with assets of around $529.5 billion. Therefore Apple is not only worth less than Samsung, but is heavily over valued.
Not a system upgrade, but a faulty system. To which branch of the government should the court system be accountable?
> These two kinds of objects have comparable numbers of stars and are roughly the same size (though dwarf spheroidals are admittedly larger by about an order of magnitude). This discrepancy can be explained with cold WIMPs [2], but it's hard to understand how some MOND-like process would produce such incredibly different dynamics between the two kinds of galaxies.

I think the order of magnitude size difference would be important in the possible origin differences in a MOND-ian universe. If globular clusters formed in a higher-pressure environment (within a high-z galaxy or merger) they could be more compact and stay in the Newtonian regime. And if dwarf spheroidals formed in lower-pressure environments that might be the origin of larger sizes, putting them in the MOND acceleration regime. But, that's just speculation.

And to emphasize your statement that "the evidence for dark matter is much more than galaxy rotation curves these days", even MOND-ian models require some form of "dark" matter to explain cluster dynamics.
I'm not a dentist, but I get the impression that milk teeth and adult teeth are different things, not a regeneration cycle?
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The growth in efficiency has been spectacular. Every other source will be retired in the face of LED greater efficiency, solid state design, and lower cost.

The only light more efficient than an LED is an LED that is turned off. Demand-based lighting, network controlled is the next step.

Cree already sells Power-over-Ethernet powered and controlled light fixtures to do this:
http://www2.cree.com/smartcast-landing-page
Kind of reminds me of Therac25. There a shitty user interface killed people. Here it "only" affects peoples lives in a dramatic manner.

A shitty user interface ruined somebody's life. Consider that.
This is a lame criticism, because it implies that anyone who disagrees with their home country's policies should just move somewjere else, because they are dirty commie hippies.

He certainly "earned" the rights to his creature comforts, if participation in war is the measure of his dedivation the U.S.A.

I think it's more curious that rich people from all nations benefit from advanced economies, without sending their family members, or themselves in harm's way.

Which is more unfair?
Even if you believe it's a necessary evil in principle, the implementation is bad enough to want to be against this particular law. The list of agencies who could gain access is laughable and there's nothing that fills me with confidence about ISPs storing people's browsing history with proper security. Three and TalkTalk have both had massive data breaches recently, and I have precisely zero confidence that there won't be a huge data breach/leak in the next few years.
This only works in pure anarchy where behavioral negative externalities are not paid for by others and people do not care whatsoever how much other people suffer, which is defensible, but not realistic.

Also a freedom is not neutral. Legalizing all drugs signals that it's OK to consume them on a certain level, and you run the risk of endangering an entire population. Would you really don't mind if your (18yo+) kids could just buy some crack at the grocery store next door?
Furthermore, the concept of consenting adult is very fluid and dangerous. Do you really think an 18yo kid has the mind power to say no to his group of friends? Most don't.
And what happens when people deemed underage want drugs? They certainly will, and they will have to go through illegal channels to get them, so you haven't solved the problem of drug dealing at all by legalizing for "consenting adults".
But this happens because we don't live very long currently. So we prioritise using the time we have to build material resources so that when (if) we have a child we can maintain standard of living.

If you were assured to live even 100 years you could spend the first 50 creating a high standard of living and the next 50 raising children within that standard.
What I think they fail to see is their short-sightedness (for short-term gain) is exactly the kind of mindset that appears to have caused the country to be on the cusp of an extremely turbulent time in history.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2008/02/11/breaking-the-drug-ta...

MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy:
How Different is it from Other Psychotherapy? (PDF)
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v23n1/v23n1_p10-14.pdf

http://www.maps.org/news/media/6230-the-veteran-psychedelics...
New Mirai botnet strain discovered
Or MiHsC/quantised inertia: http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.de/2016/11/critique-of-ve...
Lots of people have some issues with their eyesight or have problems reading low-contrast text, not just elderly programmers.
Fast Face-Swap Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Was not buying from street dealers, and yes I would.
Influencing Emotions with Website Color
Remco – lightweight configuration management tool
Good point. I tested the demos and found the output (compiled down to ES5 and minified) is around 2-3KB for the minimal demos, and 9KB for the complex SVG clock demo.

The equivalent JSX output for that clock demo is about 1KB. So yes, I would guess that apps with many components would end up bigger (in total JS bundle size) than equivalent React apps.

Possible counterarguments:

- Bundling and gzipping several Svelte components together might compress well – a lot of their size comes from repetitive substrings like `.parentNode.removeChild` and `.setAttribute` etc.

- Once downloaded, the Svelte approach would probably be faster than React (at both rendering and updating) and would use less memory (no virtual DOM, no diffing, just fast granular updates).

- The self-contained nature of Svelte components makes it easier to treat them as atomic downloads and use them as needed. For example, you could get to a working UI extremely fast, and then download more components for below-the-fold or other pages in the background. This could work well with HTTP/2.
I'm poised to accept $100M. It's a meaningless concept.
Raspberry Pi 3 Gets LTE Add-On Chip
Does this mean Qubes OS 4.0 will be delayed, as the team's efforts focus on supporting version 3.2 for enterprise? I assume this also means significant UI improvements will be delayed even further, because companies don't like user interfaces changing up on them every 2 years. Although I think they would also benefit from an improved and easier to use interface, which would ultimately decrease training time and costs.

It would be nice if we could get an updated roadmap soon, perhaps after the Qubes OS team already gets some enterprise customers and things are more stable. The other one is already almost 2 years old (and behind).

https://github.com/rootkovska/qubes-roadmap
Chakrabarti's turnaround is a result of her peerage (which in turn was a thankyou for her support in her impartial review into anti-semitism in the Labour party^).

She'll obviously tow the Corbyn line, and it's most likely that this line was set by the PLP. There's been talk about Andy Burnham (who's running for Mayor of Manchester) having raised concerns, but ultimately bowed out after being told about safeguards being put in - he never actually checked the safeguards and was apparently somewhat surprised when he found that they didn't actually exist.

^Before anyone says otherwise bear in mind Corbyn refused to nominate people to the Lords based on his opposition to the Lords, and she's the only nominated peer he's put forward, immediately after the review concluded but before the internal election.
Thanks for the comment. That was exactly what I was thinking. Would you like to have a farm though?
Yeah no, the online banking site for e.g. chase.com isn't going to get non-linear or "sharp" growth. Nor is their internal project time reporting system.
No, it's not a placeholder. There are the exact formulas that match what's observed.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/7-independent-pieces-o...

No other approaches (MOND included) are near, still.

MOND can at the moment match just one of the 7 different kinds of observations listed above. That's why the physicists aren't impressed.

And all the observations are not going away, even if MOND manages once to produce enough formulas to cover them or to be a better basis to explain the observation, see my other comment.

Where did you get this "no theory" claim?
Yep cheap journalism designed to go after emotions. This is the same cheap journalism the media used during the election as well. In fact this is the mainstream media's stock and trade now. Bloomberg didn't used to be like this.

Not that I'm not seriously concerned about the subject because I am. I'm just commenting on the journalism or lack thereof here.
Because that's a simplification of what certain drugs do to the mind.

A consenting adult might be able to make the rational decision to do or not to do MDMA. But when someone, say, becomes addicted to heroin, their mind changes so dramatically you honestly cannot even call them "consenting adults" in the same sense anymore.
The way I see it is Svelte treating the browser JS implementation as "machine code": while frameworks such as React or Vue are by definition a (runtime) layer on top of vanilla JS, Svelte _compiles_ your code to vanilla JS.

It's a very slight but interesting distinction.
What people often don't often realise that in the 20's 30's racket was a slang term for any job / profession it had yet to take on its illegal connotations
Except, what is the threshold? Are MS responsible for every time a 20 year old machine running windows 98 because nothing else can run the data collection software crashes? Should I give Linus a ring every time my aunt breaks her laptop that I installed Mint on?

Assuming the software itself has no meaningful or significant bugs (a hard thing to prove), it likely IS a problem of training. I know that my travel request time went from 5 minutes to closer to an hour for the first few times I used it after we switched to a new system. And while the admins were trained properly, the rest of us just were told "Ask an admin if you need help"

Similarly, it might actually BE the third party systems. I know that every time we upgrade part of our infrastructure we have to deal with the hell of components that should, but don't, interface well. And as often as I scream profanities and talk about how much I hate a certain vendor, I also know it isn't their responsibility to ensure that their software works with a different vendor's (I do yell at our procurement people though since they should make it so).

Do I think Tyler Tech should try to help? Of course, this is bad PR. And if they were the ones providing the training, address what went wrong and update the training and possibly GUI to resolve this. But so long as they met the requirements of the contract, I see no reason they should be held responsible or penalized.
bad journalism is very nearly the only kind being practiced in 2016
You paid for your printer with money, so contact your vendor and solve your driver problem with them. When you will finish, compare their support with community support, provided by community for free.
I.m.o. abusing free monads for everything is kinda awesome :-)
Perhaps you have to take a test designed to measure self control before being allowed access to addictive drugs?

I think many of these dangers would be much smaller if we had a better educated public when it comes to the differences and specific dangers of particular drugs. I think legalization would increase awareness in this area, but I agree I am not convinced it would be enough for everyone.

Funny though that all of your comparisons are legal. We don't outlaw fast food because some people eat it to obesity. We don't outlaw credit cards because some people use them to drive themselves into unworkable debt.
In the UK Gulf War Vets are being given psychiatrists, not the treatment they want or has been demonstrated to offer help, it's a fairly shameful situation with a history to match, if we want to go around starting wars we need to factor in the long term costs...
Yes, it is really harder to use! The use case here is "user reads the text", not "user with large screen reads the text". I click on the link on my phone and I can't read the text. Even with pinch-zoom to fill the screen, I can still only sort of read the text. If I must gain expertise with the stylesheet of a site in order to manually re-style it to fulfill its primary use-case, then that site is very hard to use.

I'm not even arguing with the theory here. Proxying gopher text files to a simple text-based website is a really nifty idea, but this implementation has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. An implementation of this that conscientiously picks and chooses web platform features that aid in usability (for instance, perhaps responsive layout and typography) while rejecting those that are unnecessary for this use case (perhaps javascript) would be neat.
If you install through a GUI or a package manager, it will often check a cryptographic signature to validate that you downloaded the genuine thing, and you weren't man-in-the-middle'd with some malware. Also, it will check that nothing was corrupted in transit.

But generally speaking, you're right. You're taking a risk every time you run executable code from the internet, and if you don't want to live in a paranoid state of fear constantly, you have to balance security and convenience. If you check that it says "https" in the beginning and that you trust the source, then you're probably fine.
The only surprise here is i couldn't immediately find their Linode or Digital Ocean referral link.

> Of course, these stats should be taken with a pinch of salt, as the old VPS was located on the East coast of the States, and the new one is located on the West coast.

oh hey, that 4x performance gain? i think we found it.
That's up to the distribution policy/packaging. Fedora refuses to add H264, on Ubuntu you can install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra and it works fine.

The code is there in Chromium and it's fully open source.
Nidium: JavaScript runtime built on Mozilla SpiderMonkey engine
I have VM's at Linode, DigitalOcean and RamNode. My VM's are long running (vs. bursty spin-up, do a job then terminate)

I prefer the UI and feature-set of Linode. I have found the technical staff of Linode to be superior to others.

I find the CPU and disk performance of Linode and DO to be about the same.

RamNode is cheaper with similar CPU performance, but their UI is qwerky and I have run into billing problems with them. Their support are always fast to fix, but they shouldn't have to in the first place.
tl;dr - Jolla tried to make a tablet based on an existing Chinese tablet design (Aigo X86). [0] They screwed up the project management to legendary levels, lied to backers, and kept the money. Backers have received NOTHING from Jolla and still don't have a refund. What Jolla did to Jolla Tablet backers borders on fraud. Jolla had the chance for a popular product with people who wanted an Apple/Google alternative, but destroyed their relationship with the community through their repeated delays and lying.

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I would celebrate, but I have first hand experience with the incompetent management at Jolla. So, I don't expect this to really make an impact at all.

Jolla ran an IndieGoGo campaign to manufacture a Jolla tablet. [1] They raised over $2 million dollars, then spent the next 18 months mismanaging the project into the ground.

By early-2016, their ODM in China had manufactured all the tablets for the backers, something like 10,000 tablets were made. But Jolla ran out of money to pay the factory for the units (and in the mean time, mislead all the backers and said there were no tablets at all).

Now, I know people are going to say "it's crowdfunding, they're not required to give you anything" and that's true.

But what Jolla did next was really, really angering. They only delivered a hand full of the tablets manufactured [2]. The factory actually started selling the finished tablets directly on Taobao, so people who weren't even part of the IndieGoGo campaign could buy them for LESS than the IndieGoGo perk amounts. [3]

It was only after the community found out about the factory direct sale that Jolla admitted to anything. There was extreme backlash from the community for being lied to, and eventually to stop the extremely negative PR, Jolla offered a partial refund for contributors. Their CEO even showed up for a token apology, it was lip service at its best.

In May this year, they offered backers 50% of their contribution back as a refund, with the other 50% being refunded in 2017 with "our financial situation permitting."

[0] https://together.jolla.com/question/110875/we-hadnt-jolla-ta...

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jolla-tablet-world-s-firs...

[2] https://blog.jolla.com/jolla-tablet-closure/

[3] https://together.jolla.com/question/124628/the-jolla-tablet-...

(P.S. Jolla, if you don't want backers to post negative things about your company, maybe you'd consider refunding their money you kept?)
paintball weekend warriors probably think that to but real soldiers consider them "walts"
current inequality is about globalization and the internet. Most income at the top of the pyramid is a function of the resources you manage/own(assuming things like too big to fail are anomalies)

You get to keep a portion of what you make and/or manage. As the organizations get larger the higher the number of layers.

The internet has even exacerbated the problem because now "customer/users" can self service and need even few people in the pyramid.
GWT was backend oriented and sucked at delivering a nice UX in a decent timeframe. So it's actually extremely different.
You could compare this to vue, ractive + a strong compilation step.
> I think blue was the most expensive.

When blue LEDs were first available in sample quantities, the R&D Lab in which I worked ordered a few 5mm blues for £35 each - no free samples available!
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I think this is pretty awesome. In the short term it slows development but if they find some core costumers it will allow them to continually improve the OS long term and hopefully more hardware.
Which projects are doing this with SELinux?
I think it's OK to be concerned about the welfare of people who aren't me.
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

But if you must: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
Am I really seeing a training material priced as a per month subscription?
This madness has to stop!
Whatever happened to the simple life of buy something and own it, like a book.
In general, Indian homes use very little power.

A fan or open windows are likely to replace central heating/aircon, a bicycle or public transport a car, a radio a television, and locally sourced wood-fired stoves electricity and gas in the kitchen.

Your global 'energy consumption' figure probably includes stupid things like American industrial agriculture, Dubai, the US military, people's calories from food, ~free geothermal power in volcanic zones, established hydropower, etc.
I recently had to replace my ancient Sony alarm clock. I found one that used an LCD with a backlight that wasn't blue. And of course, it was still too bright.

So I put some window tint on it. I picked up some samples with different transmissivity from the local shop that did my car, and mixed & matched until I got what I wanted, then applied them.
If you think Labour is in favour of individual rights over the rights of the state, you haven't been paying attention.
I really don't understand your rage about this, you could offer up constructive criticism and suggest an alternative that more closely suits Clojure/Lisp development.

The strain you're referring seems like this perception that is somehow self perpetuating. My experience is that of an incredibly helpful community that gives up its time to help and educate people.
In my opinion, an important component of the legalization of drugs is to ensure that any who is receiving public money has no drugs in their system.

If you are on food stamps, there is absolutely no reason you should be spending money on any type of recreational drug.

So mandatory drug tests before any social spending.

We'd need to get the cost down and efficacy up for drug testing, though.

If you are destitute and they find drugs in your system, you are sent to rehab.
> Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. This is like a poster child of that.

Dang it[1], I strenuously disagree. I didn't post some 'generic ideological tangent'; I just mentioned the first two things which leapt to mind as indicators that our industry is silly. I could have mentioned Adria Richards, Marco Ament or Jon Gruber, but those didn't come to mind first.

My point — and I think it's a serious one — is that our industry takes itself far too, and undeservedly, seriously. Choosing to shut down a well-operating group over the misbehaviour of the host site's CEO (and it is serious misbehaviour: my opinion is that he should resign or be fired) is, IMHO, among those silly things done from a sense of inflated seriousness.

[1] Couldn't resist the pun; I'm sure it's not original
I think the name will work out just fine (witness MySQL and PostgreSQL).

From looking at the docs, the two-way binding seems entirely optional and I can't find anything that would prevent a developer from using a redux model of state management.

I've got framework fatigue, too, but on the surface this project seems to embody the best of what I love: a tiny API, little magic, and getting out of the way.
Airstrip One? If they think they have nothing to hide, you could ask them whether they'd be happy with a telescreen in every room of their house or flat.
Sounds good. I know that a lot PTSD patients feel that they are neglected.