skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannot recommend Costco enough for electronics. Back during the Nvidia solder fails they replaced a high-end, 2+yo HP laptop(Out of warranty) when even HP denied there was a problem. I was stunned, in a good way.

And as stated below, Fry's is a good place for fictitious advice. According to them, XP was discontinued long before MS extended sales of XP for netbooks.
This should be a Verbraucherschutz court case in Germany. A lot of them disregard the 2yr warranty.
Ah, perhaps this is the difference. I'm not evaluating the Tiltbrush+Vive from the point of view of experience or 3D graphics but as a tool for art - I'm categorizing it among tools such as Blender, regular pen and paper, clay, etc, and not as a "transformative experience". Thus my statement "mindblowing" should be taken in same context as "mindblowingly good pen", not "a mindblowingly new view of the world".
That's not my experience, their adwords support isn't great either.
I signed up on their website, went through the onboarding flow and joined a couple of communities. Without them knowing anything about my political leanings they suggested a bunch of anti-Trump communities. I guess they're not trying to solve the "filter bubble" issue, but rather becoming the Reddit for liberals? I mean it's their business for them to run as they like, but I hope somebody can take us past the Breitbart vs Huffington Post dichotomy.
I've been having a good experience with duolingo so far. The lessons are short enough to not impose, and the difficulty curve is very low, so I don't dread getting everything wrong. I've been at it for two months, and have never missed more than one day at a time. I doubt I'll ever achieve fluency with the app alone, but I'd feel comfortable as a tourist.

This is somewhat surprising to me, as I've tried (and failed) to build a daily habit of journaling and mindful meditation, but they never stuck for more than a couple weeks, despite only being 10 minutes a day.
Think about what gives you control of the situation. Is it easier for other people to change or is it easier for you to change? It's always easier for you to change because you are in control of yourself. In this particular example it's easier for you to build a natural filter for behavior you dislike than it is to get people to not behave like you dislike.
I really like the attitude of the voat founders expressed in this article:

Has the fatpeoplehate group been hard to deal with?

This group posted an image of us and called us fat. Instead of removing the image and banning the entire group, we decided to change our lives...

I wish this attitude were more common in the world.
Lot's "but this isn't free speech" in here, but that's exactly the point, free speech has been tried and it leads to shit holes like reddit and voat. Places you might visit, but wouldn't recommend or even admit to using in a mixed group.

People talk about free speech like it's some goal, but in reality all people seem to do with it is make fun of fat people and post stolen naked pictures of celebrities.

When confronted with the fact that this isn't acceptable behavior, even if you specifically don't ban them, they will threaten you with death and ddos your site.

"Voat has been under constant DDoS [distributed denial of service] attacks almost since Day One. At one point, our servers were shut down by our ISP without notice. We even received death threats."

Instead of lowering the bar and getting surprised when people fling shit, Imzy is trying the opposite.

Will it work, no idea, but free speech as much talk as it gets doesn't work out as well as some people like to pretend it does.
I always thought there should be a one year masters of law program - no path to practicing, but gives you the frameworks and knowledge to be a good consumer of law
I learnt how not to behave because my parents taught me that everybody deserves at least a minimum of respect. How is it censorship to ask people to behave themselves?
Traceur doesn't use semver. I've used it for a while, but frequent breakages were annoying. Having to lock it down to an ageing version and being afraid to update it is a liability.
You can factor in the expected false positive base rate and the confidence to figure out by how much you should boost your prior expectation of the theory being correct. "Being sure" is shorthand for "having a prior very close to 1 or 0".
Why Magic Leap Ins't Doomed yet
>Zork created an Imzy community about debunking falsehoods, mostly political ones. It’s got 3,000 members and no trolls.

This just seems like a way of saying "people who agree agree with me." In any controversial topic determing who is a troll at the margins of discussion is very difficult.
AppleCare does cover worn out batteries though...

I also feel like you are comparing Dell's enterprise support to Apple's general customer support...
> So the built in csv module needs to support a reasonable behavior. Which it does not.

It could be argued that the csv module's behaviour is reasonable, and NumPy's isn't. (I'm not 100% sure about all the details of this issue) Hopefully, NumPy will change it's behaviour to match Python 3, but if not you could still use the NumPy CSV routines like `loadtxt` or `genfromtxt` [0]. So then this becomes a documentation change to add some warnings to both modules.

> they would do well to opt out. And they do--in droves.

This is simply not true. They would do well to handle strings properly and so avoid bugs in future - something Python 3 actively encourages, and Python 2 obscures. And while I can't speak for every company, our metrics show that our Python 3 code has far less customer issues than Python 2, Perl, or Ruby. Now that's business value. (Edit: I mean it's hard to make the comparison - the Perl code is e.g. older - but we're writing code now, and when the interns add new stuff to the Python 3 codebase, it breaks less. All of them are still actively developed, and the Ruby one is about as old as the Python 3 one).

[0] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.l...
WOW, 5 years for a smartphone? I'm all for longer warranties but honestly that seems excessive to enforce. There's no way an even 4 year old smartphone wouldn't have at least some consumer caused damage. How do they account for that? If I beat the hell out of my phone but still insist there's "a problem" they have to just eat the cost?
I am an Apple user primarily for support reasons, but I have never heard of someone having this problem with a Pixel. You are probably safe from experiencing this problem if you decide to buy it. If you buy the phone with a good credit card, you can get an extra year of warranty service too.
Played a game, my opponent's color was so similar to mine I didn't even know I was being attacked. :|
Green and slightly darker green.
Voat does not really support free speech, as per their user agreement:

You may not use Voat to break the law, violate an individual's privacy,
or infringe any person or entity’s intellectual property or any other
proprietary rights.

(...)

You agree to not post anyone's sensitive personal information that relates to
that person's real world or online identity. Do Not Incite Harm: You agree
not to encourage harm against people. Protect Kids: You agree not to post
any child pornography or sexually suggestive content involving minors.

No site which recognizes the authority of laws prohibiting content or expression of any kind truly supports free speech. When most people say free speech it seems what they really mean is a degree of censorship that doesn't interfere with them personally.
Thats almost dangerous actually. The internet makes it easier than never before to isolate yourself with same-minded people.

Once you do that, you're in a positive feedback loop to reinforce your beliefs and behaviours, no matter how wrong they may be.

I don't think forums should cater to every subject, but they should be accessible to anyone interested.
If you have feedback from infosec students, or topics that would benefit students, please contact me :)
A safe space was originally a place where you could have a discussion about anything. A transgender individual could sit down with say an evangelical pastor and have an honest discussion about issues they disagree on without ad hominem attacks, fear of saying the wrong thing, etc. Somehow Safe Spaces came to be regarded as a place safe from anything remotely controversial, which hinders having conversation with people on the other side of the divide.
I've found the Nest protect service amazing. Sure technically they're Alphabet not Google.

I complained on Twitter about false positives and how I lost trust in it. They contacted me to say I can get a new replacement of the new version.

So I called them and the person spoke perfect fluent English and it wasn't tin can VoIP line. I was more amazed at those two things than getting a new smoke detector.

All good fast service I wish all tech support was as smooth. It was like being back in time when you got a person and everyone was polite plus your problem was resolved.
The guarantees can be seen here [0].

Personally, I've never needed to test it, as mentioning the Consumer Rights Commission is enough to make the worst of businesses suddenly become your best friend.

However, a little research shows:

The ACL will assist if the business refuses to honour the guarantee. [0]

> "If we find that a retailer is not honouring the obligations imposed on the retailer under the consumer guarantee provisions of the Australia consumer law then the ACCC will take action to deal with those issues," Mr Samuel said.

Optus, a sizeable telecom, got a decent fine for hiding stuff in fine print.

> The ACCC has already been busy enforcing a prohibition on false, misleading or deceptive claims, with Optus recently agreeing to pay $178,200 in fines for potentially misleading consumers with some of its phone cap advertising.

There's actually a TV show revolving around this stuff [1], so I'd say its relatively enforced.

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-06-07/broken-but-out-of-warr...

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/tv/thecheckout/
That's exactly my experience as well, and a major reason I moved away from google services in general. I had about as much chance of my cat helping me fix an issue as I did google.
There's no free speech if you want to ban "hate speech" or "trolling".

This more or less means removing all challenging opinions and basically focus on being an echo chamber even more so than reddit. Basically thought-crime policing
I'm sorry, but implicit slippery slope arguments are not a means by which one can force every functional language to run the project the way Haskell does.

But it's also worth noting that this is not a rejection of the entire concept of lenses, just that right now Haskell's implementations leave a lot to be desired (e.g., abandon all error sanity, ye who enter here).

Haskell is as much a research platform as a programming language, and as such it has the leisure to experiment this way. Everyone else will wait awhile for things to bake. Look what happened when Haskell built its entire stdlib on monad transformers and then we all realized they're awful compared to the alternatives.
APT 28 group is ramping up information warfare against Germany
"If anything, there should be law outlawing websites like this."

There is, don't worry. This would be 'Standalone Software' that is labeled as:

"intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals"

So, by claiming to be a Medical Device, it's regulated. And since it seems to be a pretty lousy, unapproved, medical device, it's actually illegal.

Maybe when Theranos.com comes available, these guys could try to snag it though!

[1]http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidanc...
ThrowAwayMail: a disposable email address service
Wine was extremely helpful during my PhD to get a few weird win32 programs running on Debian. Pleased to see they're continuing the effort!
Not guaranteed if you caused the damage.

Its against manufacturing defects, and designed to fight planned obsolescence.

EDIT: Most warranties here don't cover consumer-caused damage either. If they do, extended warranty makes sense, but it's few and far between.
Colombia reports huge jump in babies harmed by Zika
Do you then consider hacker news a "safe space?" Many of the things they don't allow aren't allowed here.
> To my knowledge nobody has yet been able to reproduce the original claims, but I haven't followed in a while.

http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php

It has multiple times. But if you really spend time looking into this it gets very interesting. It seems like the Pd Fleischmann & Pons used was no ordinary one.It came from a recycling process and had nano structural properties.
Most likely it was not even very pure but contained certain impurities that made tho whole process that effective. See the publications of Navy Research in the last months.

BTW: There are unified models that explain LENR very well, it just does and will never work under the current accepted paradigm - I personally give shit about paradigms, I use falsification and solomonoff induction only :)
Apparently my shoulder pain is caused by...an internal server error?
Yes people should be challenged. They should be challenged by being told we expect them to act like adults. They should be challenged by being told it is unacceptable to threaten people with rape and murder.
Dell also send out parts no-questions-asked if you don't mind fitting them yourself, which is pretty great when you know exactly which part you need and what to do with it.

I assume that's why there are so many new Latitude/Precision keyboards on eBay at any given time (people bullshitting their way to getting spares and then selling them on).
Im vlogging everyday. Every. Day. Its hard. Not all content is great. But Im learning a lot and making progress. Results so far have been better than I thought. People are starting to engage my content. Ive also motivated others to vlog as well. You should try it.
I see both cynicism and optimism here in different parts.
If you let the gov create an extrajudicial zone where they aren't subject to their own laws that becomes a very attractive option. I agree that if there is resonable suspicion, that falls within the pre agreed upon laws. Ideally, to prevent hypocracy and gradual constitutional errosion via offshoring, the fundamental rules applied internally should also apply externally.
Do you have to have purchased the items in Australia? I know some people try to only purchase electronics overseas, because they are so much more expensive there.
As is my post nasal drip. I always suspected I was a cylon.

Good idea though.
Free speech doesn't mean "anything goes even if illegal"
Blazing fast catalogue of transparent PNG images
Just because most people are decent doesn't mean most comments are going to be. A decent person might right out a thoughtful post at one site with the same frequency that it takes a misanthrope to write 100 comments across multiple sites. And once something starts to become a shouting match, you'll get a certain number of people who go along with things even if they wouldn't act that way normally (since they think that's what most people are doing, even if it's just what a loud minority is doing).

But with good moderation you can have good conversations. For instance, I've found subreddits like /r/AskHistorians to be pretty good (for the most part).
What fascinates me in the electronic voting is not the economical benefits of it or computers being involved, but the guarrantees provided by the cryptography. Not the paper itself, but the handritten signatures are driving me crazy.

Of course, the particilar implementation of an electronic voting protocol can be hacked. Also, some cryptographic algorithms are not proven to be completely secure, so there is a chance that someone will learn to break them. We should take those facts into consideration and be aware.

What about paper elections? Aren't they fundamentally broken because of their protocol? I go to the election, sign a ballot paper and drop it into a box. Then some people from the government report me the voting result. Why should I trust it? Because I trust all the people who were involved in collecting the ballots, counting them and so on?

Why should I trust people at all if the cryptography allows me to verify their actions?

You are afraid of voting machines being hacked? No problem, let's use paper. I'm OK with paper certifying my vote as long as my digital signature is printed on it (in hex, QR-code or whatever). Alternatively, the government can publish an open protocol of internet voting so that everyone can use an implementation that he accepts to be secure.

Should be noted that I am not very proficient at cryptography. All I know is based on a couple of books and a university course.
I know! Ironically, I can see myself procrastinating, getting lost in the site just exploring different topics and answers. A site which was supposed to motivate me to study in the first place!
In summary the takeaway would be "you only understand the importance of something when you lose it" thus those kids who won the game despite receiving good advice thought that it was normal somehow to the point of not acknowledging the help they've got as they succeed anyways, but those who lost recognize that good advice would have helped them. I hope I understood it correctly.
I started looking for work as a programmer in 1999, in the shadow of the dot-com crash. There weren’t many programming jobs to go around in the Chicago suburbs. And if you wanted to know what work was out there, you looked in the newspaper, not online. I faxed…yes, faxed…my resume to a bunch of companies with ads, but there was a huge pool of experienced developers forced out of work recently, and little incentive to hire a youngster without any “real-world” experience.

One of the few companies to bring me in for an interview was a bit of a mystery. They were looking for entry-level programmers, but the ad didn’t say much more. I don’t remember their website, if they even had one, giving up any details of their technology stack. So, I walked into the interview with ten pages of sample code from school, object-oriented C++ code calling out to OpenGL through GLUT. The technical interviewer rolled his eyes at it. “I’ll be honest. Someone like you is probably going to be pretty bored working here. Are you sure you really want the job?” Of course I did. How bad could it be?

From "Pick is a living fossil of computer history: https://medium.com/@csixty4/pick-is-a-living-fossil-of-compu...
Motion Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3LRVsvhYY
I like the music and that fact that you can design while you feel like dancing to the beats of the music. There is also a fashion site at http://www.collagemate.com
Atari 2600 Emulator in Minecraft [Technical Version]
Random question, what does it take to get an advertisement in a major paper? I suppose as long as you are part of the "in" crowd, any site/app/service you build will garner a free article for publicity?
Some of the restrictions in Whole 30 are silly, but for most programs like this, the main point is that the restrictions force you to change your habits. The details of the allowed and forbidden foods are almost irrelevant as long as the resulting diet is complete and balanced. I bet you could run this program with whole wheat (actually eating the wheat berries, not bread/pasta) and lower-starch legumes (again, eaten whole and not as stuff like refried beans) and get similar benefits.
You're right, of course - while not a particle physicist, I know about the sigma standards, and mistakenly assumed others would see the "2.9 sigma" and immediately knew what that implied.
That doesn't answer the question. TSX is typescript-JSX (e.g., the typescript-typed React node-building language inside javascript).
Couldn't good employers write contracts where instead of

> Not related to your employer’s line of work.

there's something like "Not a project started at the job"?
Neoconservatism reloaded?
I'm not sure I understand what's stopping the burglar today? 50 year old Aunt May with the bad hip who has been selling houses for 25 years? I'd also expect the person to be checked out ahead of time similar to Airbnb or other services.
If you are purchasing a lot of ad space. You won't be getting any higher level service spending a few thousand a month.
I think your examples are muddying up the discussion. Your 2 examples of:

>Identity/Software/Systems architecture may be able to enable this - i.e. being able to make online transactions without actually identifying oneself.

>Starting with: any account you open, you should be able to close and have all relevant information erased

... is not what OP (danaliv) you're replying to nor The Right To Be Forgotten[1] is conceptually about.

Your examples are about transactions getting erased. E.g. if a woman creates a Facebook account and posts some selfies, she should later be able to delete that social account and Facebook would erase the associated photos. It would not do further data mining on her profile.

RTBF is about erasing negative or embarrassing information. E.g. President George W Bush was arrested for drunk driving in 1976. RTBF would require Google, Bing, New York Times, Wayback Machine,etc to remove that information so people couldn't find it. Bush's arrest isn't a private transaction with a company -- it was a publicized incident that RTBF wants to erase. Would the (ideal) compliance of the law also require citizens who wrote personal emails such as "I won't be voting for Bush because of his drunk driving arrest" to delete that from their email archives? What about discussion forums (Usenet/reddit/HN/blogs/etc) where people talked about his arrest?

Erasing the Facebook account is a trivial implementation. In contrast, erasing Bush's arrest from the public mind is only solvable for centralized institutions such as the Google search index or The New York Times archives. All the decentralized nodes of information will not comply.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
The problem here is that we don't have a fixed definition of this relatively new concept. Your description here of safe spaces as places devoid of controversy does not match up with my experience of encountering the concept in the world and online. As I said, for me it means a place where prejudices are not expressed in (in your words) ad hominem attacks, not a place where complex, innovative thinking is forbidden. I'm not saying my experience of the concept is right and yours is wrong, but the fact is this discussion is bound to end in mutual confusion from the get-go given our differing understandings of 'safe space'.
Desgin while rythms
I've been using imzy since very early on, and I have to say, I really like the idea of it. The basic premise is basically: "do whatever but play nice". And if you don't play nice you get modded and eventually kicked out.

I can get behind that TBH.

Also, to be sure, they do have some growing pains to go through. There are too many empty communities at this point (they should've started with fewer high-traffic ones). And the website perf isn't as fast as Reddit or HN. But I'm sure that will get worked out over time...
The only internet community that I've ever seen achieve a set of rules that are followed by the community has been somethingawful.com. And while there's lots of criticism you can lay on them, they've maintained a culture and community for nearly two decades.

They did this by making accounts to comment cost money, a one-time $10 fee. If you troll, you get banned and you need to pay $10 again to get your account back. It's a simple and brilliant solution- those who are good members of the community pay the least and those who make the community worse pay the most.