skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, only all the things it says are tame and they make much sense, as opposed to being some extravagant predictions about flying cars and robot assistants.

Other than that, totally like those futurist pieces from the 60s.
Bad advice and anonymous posts on forums are not mutually exclusive.
Seattle is an extremely walkable/bikeable city and has plenty of nature right outside. It also has a very sizable tech population with excellent salaries, especially considering the lack of income tax sucking 10% out of every paycheck.
where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been
I honestly don't know why the US doesn't have these capsule hotels. I can see so many upsides and very few downsides.

"But the homeless might sleep in them". Better there than on the streets, no?
Based on what metrics?
Me too! The speed and efficiency of typing, editing, saving, searching, how can paper compete with that?

Vim just needs a graphics plugin and we're set.
The article links a Miami condo project. 3,000 square feet. $3 million dollars (or apparently up to $20 million if you are feeling spendy).
Only 242 million adults.
If I understand correctly, the container you develop in can also run a different operating system in a completely separate environment.
I watched 15 minutes of the first video.

"To help more developers embrace deep-learning techniques, without the need to earn a Ph.D". Oh, good, I can do this.

"These fundamental concepts are taken for granted by many, if not most, authors of online educational resources about deep learning". Yup, true with this one as well.
Coincidentally I use the Hemingway App to de-complexify my academic writing. My work is in the top 1% of my cohort.

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

Orwell also has some great things to say on the subject.

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...

His six rules are :

* Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

* Never use a long word where a short one will do

* If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

* Never use the passive where you can use the active.

* Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

* Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

The only downside is now when I'm reading other people's academic papers I have to work harder to stop thinking about the writing style rather than the content.
No it doesn't, or at least not as far as I can read. A summary of that email is

> Here is a letter I've drafted outlining our position on trade. This draft assumes that Clinton will ultimately support the TPP and TPA, but we may change the letter dramatically if Clinton does not end up supporting the TPP and TPA (ostensibly because the final agreement doesn't cause a net gain in jobs).
We could as well be the result of a series of pranks perpetrated from time travelers from other saner timelines.
Machine Learning Automation: Beware of the Hype
What I'd like is a Learn TensorFlow and deep learning with a mathematics/physics background.
> The problem with todo apps is they become jobs that you need to complete.

Yep. I read this the other day https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-... and somewhat agree !
Poorer people are the main clientele.
The sharing economy for parking lots and bathrooms.
> Later it emerged that it was actually the Soviet delcaration of war on the 8th August that was the deciding factor for surrender

Emperor of Japan directly cited "a new powerful weapon" in a surrender address.

> the Japanese had stocked around 10,000 aircraft in Manchuria

Sources? Why Japan had to stock that number of aircraft so far away from the planned invasion points?
> Apple is asking Gab to censor “mean-spirited and objectionable” speech while completely tolerating and accepting this speech on other apps in their App Store such as Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Reddit.

Is there any way to make Apple pay attention to this content in the other apps?
What do you do in your bunker? Sit around, eat canned food and watch DVDs? What happens when the beer runs out?

It's one thing to seek shelter. It's another to go live in a hole. The other issue is that billionaire or not, once everything goes poof, your billions go with it.
> After all, if you're making $10 per customer per month, it's bound to be an uphill battle to convince people you should change to a business model that makes you $5 per customer per month.

That's something I just didn't get. Netflix has already set the bar by pricing their content at $10/month; why can't HBO do the same?

HBO Go/Now (that's another thing; why two different apps?) is $15/month, but with less content, albeit most of it better than the average Netflix title. So...it's not exactly a losing proposition for them. Why is it such an uphill battle for HBO to do this exactly?
I can't imagine being happy without a garage, but I find it weird that people put cars in them. Where do they keep their tablesaw?
When you say "mid-income", do you mean around $55K (roughly the median household income in the US) or the "Hacker News Mid-Income" of $150K+ ?
I'm not sure what you're getting at--people don't complain about stocks increasing at that rate because they aren't negatively affected by that. When housing increased a rate that significantly exceeds that rate that wages increase, people will have to leave and the social structure of the city changed drastically when only a certain type of person (in the case of SF, typically wealthy, male, and childless) can live there.
>Luxury
~ fly-over country ~
Exactly. I work for a 100% remote company and have never been happier. I probably have been more productive in other places, but that's a factor of the tech stack C# vs Ruby. I'm focused, productive, and happy. I know and like my coworkers. We meet 1-2x per year for a company retreat, and we meet online weekly. Everything else is ad-hoc and works just fine.
And importantly, proper sanitation facilities.
Time is not a universal component, it is a measurement.

Time is a tool we use in order to understand now. Only now exists, nothing else does. No past. No Future. Only now.

Until science embraces this simple truth, all of the compiled understanding we've accumulated will be flawed.

Time is a rock splashing in the pond. The rock exists, and the pond exists. The ripples are mere effects of the rock meeting the water. They do not exist as entities of themselves, they are representations of the action between rock and pond. There is only now. There is only rock-and-pond.
Really? Do you see no other options? Like, you know, sanctions?
It's nice to see GV isn't dead (yet), but unless I can make it my default SMS app it's pointless - so I am keeping my GV number integrated into hangouts.
Please no personal attacks like this on HN, no matter what you're replying to.
AI for Science, but not for the Arts & Humanities.

With that slight snark I applaud this philanthropic move. :/

Tried out Meta once but couldn't get it to surface similar material to a set that I fed it. I don't need Meta to recommend by citations, I need it to recommend by topical similarity.

Still though, props to team Zuck and I can see Meta complementing G Scholar or possibly supplanting it.
Apologies, I mistook watercooler as literal rather than a metaphor.

I agree the little things that mimic, or substitute for, the subtleties of working in an office are still vital when working remotely.
Hangouts is for voice and video too, not just sms, which shows you how overlapped/redundant they all are
yes of course.
i don't think that's a fair comparison given the likely hood of the reverse also being true. Personally I like to work at home when I have a huge complex task so that I can focus and spend all my time on it. I can easily when WFH start work at 8am and work til 2am because I can't sleep until big problems are solved. I also feel more inclined to hang back take my time to do needed research, where in the office I may not do that so It doesn't appear that I am just browsing the web. Overall, I can have complex tasks completed in a couple days WFH where if I came in to the office it could take weeks.
> why do they owe their drivers anything but incentive to work for them

I'd say they may owe it to themselves. Press like this demoralizes employees, dissuades potential customers and hints at the presence of political capital for the taking. Whether those costs and risks are worth it is a business decision, of course, but public perception isn't a non-issue.
Sorry. I should have just said "can". It can't be confirmed yet that it does for every element, but it would be very surprising if it didn't. A huge amount of computational power was used to calculate the gyromagnetic moment of the isolated electron to ten decimal places using QED, and it was found to exactly match those digits obtained experimentally. It's one of the greatest precision tests of QED ever performed. So there's not really any a priori reason to think that, were we given exponentially large computational resources, we couldn't compute any property of a compound or chemical reaction to as many decimal places as we desired (ignoring some details like the divergence of Feynman path integrals and the effects of quantum gravity, which are both expected to affect calculations at some far out point in their decimal expansion).
Also,

- AI singularity will probably be waaay more interesting then visiting period of first computers.

- What are nuclear bombs compared to... death star ?

- Why is moon important once you conquered entire star systems ...

And most of all, why go back in time when you can simulate the world so realistically that you can go anywhere you want as anything you like. If humans are so technologically advacned that type of stuff will certainly be the norm. Its even probable that we live in VR so that can be a reason that we don't see time travelers - its not coded in our particular version of the world.
What might that option look like?
That is absolutely not true. There is evidence from HSBC at executive levels that they knew exactly what was going on:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...

"As a result of the government's investigation, HSBC has . . . "clawed back" deferred compensation bonuses given to some of its most senior U.S. anti-money laundering and compliance officers, and agreed to partially defer bonus compensation for its most senior officials during the five-year period of the deferred prosecution agreement."

Faced with a lot of this knowledge, HSBC officials stated that to implement more AML would reduce profitability, and as such, they should "change their position".
I believe the display of NSFW content is entirely tied to one's Reddit account settings and whether the user has opted in on that level, but I could be wrong.

Reddit's app had NSFW toggles when I had it several months ago, but it appears that may have changed: (https://motherboard.vice.com/read/reddit-ios-apps-disappear-...) - if this is the case, then one would have to allow NSFW content via the web interface before it would appear in the app.

I find that the point about NSFW content unconvincing on its own, and the bulk of the argument seems to lie in rejection #3 onwards.
There's also a blog post about it here https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

My YC company https://www.interana.com took a lot of lessons from this and is doing something that I think is even better for cos like Reddit, Sonos, Comcast, Bing. You can sign up if you'd like a demo :)
I read a book called "King David's Spaceship" by, IIRC, Niven and Pournelle. It had one point in it that horse collars were a critical technology. Without horse collars, a horse could do five times as much work as a slave. A horse also ate five times as much. But with horse collars, a horse could do ten times as much work as a slave, but still only eat five times as much. This made slavery uneconomic, which changed all of society.

But nobody's going back in time to watch the invention of horse collars...

My point: Important and interesting are rather orthogonal.
Yeah it wasn't altruism, I meant commercial interests forces good but old to be replaced by new for the sake of new; you have to have something to pitch to the customers.
> While it is dishonest to claim credit for the Fiverr job, isn't it a smart thing to do?

Not really - if you aren't authorized to do that as a developer, it's likely because of IP issues, etc; IOW, you have access to privileged info (the code and IP) - and you are supplying it to an outside 3rd party without permission from your employer.

If all that happens is you get fired - you are lucky. A very expensive lawsuit would be a more likely outcome, depending on the company and their resources, and whether they want to "make an example". It's not much different than taking their code and handing it to a competitor.
Scriptable tmux status line
IMO, they don't care enough to spot this. As long as deliverables are met, there is no incentive for them to dig around the roots. But I think once the "ponzi scheme" is exposed by having good talent refusing work in that toxic environment. shit gets really real, fast.
Field Notes + Uniball Signo 207
Have you heard of the Livescribe pens? They unfortunately use special paper, but digitize everything you write.

https://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/ls3/
Camera able to capture imagery of an optical Mach cone
I don't have any brilliant insights besides the obvious:

- documenting their BS claims (for your own usage, primarily)

- building trust and credibility with superiors and peers

- biding your time and eventually calling them out on BS in meetings, but only doing so when:

a) they go quite deep into the BS (as they inevitably do)

b) you have firm and credible facts/knowledge ready to use against the BS

c) you are able to pull it off in a calm manner, preferably something that could be perceived as you just asking for a clarification, but still leaves the meeting in a slightly uncomfortable state because the bullshitter's "explanation" seems so obviously fake to anyone with half a brain.

2-3 well-directed questions for "clarifications" like that can be quite lethal over time.
If you are ever interested in pursuing aesthetic beauty as a developer, you might enjoy generative/procedural art.

Tools like Processing[0] are very accessible even to those with minimal programming experience, and can be very powerful and fluid environments if you have any familiarity with Java or similar languages (or clojure[1]). It's very easy to iterate rapidly (even some live-coding elements) and have a lot of visual feedback, such that it almost feels more like sculpting than a normal programming workflow.

[0]https://processing.org/

[1]https://github.com/quil/quil
Roughly 200,000 Devices still affected by the Heartbleed vulnerability
The supreme court is way ahead of you. They made it defacto legal last year for citizens to bring a referendum in their State to create an independent redistricting committee instead of allowing state legislatures and the sitting party to redraw boundaries: http://www.npr.org/2016/12/05/504188630/questions-of-race-an...

These committees would be free to use whatever criteria they deem appropriate to determine new boundaries but by far the most popular rallying cry around this issue has been, "One person, One vote" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/us/politics/supreme-court...

Which seems a bit short sighted to me. It has been trivial for politicians to create boundaries that circumvent this "common sense ideal" by tactics such as creating "representative" districts that encircle prisons comprised of mostly poor minorities.

There have been some initiatives by political consulting firms to draw better boundaries (Civis and Blue State Digital come to mind) but I think you're definitely on the right track with a grass roots initiative like this.
What I am discussing about with my correspondent is none of the business of the FBI or my email service provider, and if they want to read my conversation they need a warrant, exactly like they do for physical mail.
looks like a serious case of "physics envy", something usually found in the social sciences!8-))

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=ph...

But seriously the guy sounds just like Ernst Mach (1838-1916) who cautioned against attributing reality to "molecules" (at that time not directly observed). I appreciate Professor Henry's viewpoint (chemistry is distinct from physics, in fact chemistry is better and chemistry is cool) but almost every part of his discussion uses the tools of _physics_ to support both sides.

Perhaps he's irritated by the unspoken idea that chemistry is merely the yet-to-be-straightened-out basement of physics, to be organized only after physics has found the missing strings. (And perhaps string theory is physicists' way of putting off the chemistry basement cleanup?8-))
Ayn Rand wrote about the W+S crowd leaving this world behind because they couldn't tolerate the evil bullshitters.

I guess that's a more interesting story than W-Ss that 'disappear' after they get burned by the corporate environment.
Please comment civilly on HN or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How would you know if we are on a timeline where intervention from the future has changed the past? In our timeline, it hasn't changed.

That is: The original timeline is timeline A. Travelers from the future come back, intervene, and the result is timeline B. But to those on timeline B, nothing has changed - it just looks the way timeline B always looked.

(Unless the intervention is blatant - people show up in a flying saucer and use death rays to assassinate Hitler before he becomes Chancellor, say...)
I just switched from an iPhone to Android; there are pros and cons to both platforms. But one of the cons of the Apple ecosystem is how terrible all their (cloud) services are.

I still haven't fully bought into the Google ecosystem but I'm slowly move over.
I got hit with a Western Union scam when I was a teenager. I spent numerous hours on the phone with WU trying to get any information on who picked up the money. Name, id, or even city where they picked it up. WU understood I had been robbed but refused to help me.

Apple should be next. Once I had an iPod stolen and Apple refused to help me recover it. They wouldn't give me the IP or geolocation of where it was or even tell me if it connected to iTunes and whos account it connected as.

From these two events, I always felt that Apple and Western Union aided and protected criminals and thieves.
Likely because of their "20% personal project time" policy.

As best I recall, ChromeOS started as a personal project to see if one could build a OS around a web browser (and Google already had one handy).

On top of this Android didn't start within Google. And Rubin ran it as his own fief. Supposedly he insisted that all Android devices come equipped with a mobile radio, and thus Google would not certify WiFi only tablet devices.
I was wondering. Does anyone here use Accumulo internally or for a client?

I had not heard of it before and the line "widely used for government applications" made me wonder why I hadn't. I'm a consultant working with graphs in Norway and this database is completely new to me.
>You should never assume that a cloud provider is better at managing anything better than you could do in house.

This is a piece for a general audience, explaining what a cloud is.

What percentage of its audience do you think could secure things as well as any of the major clouds? 1% 0.1%? 0.00001%?

If you were to take the class of IT professionals, those with jobs working in IT, I would say less than 0.5% would be able to put something in place in their house that even matches what's going on in the large clouds whose design and policies have been vetted by multiple people.

Whatever a person is doing in their own house is going to be quite difficult to match to the same level of security. Not least of which because people's houses are not secure. Breaking in and adding a keylogger or such in order to break disk encryption is much easier there.
In case it helps, not OP but here is my daily journal template:

https://pastebin.com/djyFiZkz

This is not on paper but I do the same thing on paper when I'm away from the computer. On my computer a cron job just pops this into a Dropbox folder as YYYY-MM-DD.md and I edit it from there.

There are some neat journaling cues available if you read e.g. "The New Diary" by Tristine Rainer. Like writing in the third person, or just viewing a diary/journal as a place to scribble down work notes and improving on it from there.

I probably change my own template every 1-2 months. You'll see on the "schedule" portion that the least productive part of my day is 1-3 p.m., so I encourage a lot of fun and relaxation during that time as a way of releasing anxiety and picking up task momentum.

Most of my work in the journal is under the "other" heading, and I don't fill out every heading every day. Most entries just have a score for the day, some notes on why I chose that score, and ideas to improve it, and then a lot of ideas under "Other".

Every Friday I do a sort of "information archaeology" thing where I go back over my paper & digital journal entries and round up reusable tips or things I've learned into a "frameworks" folder where I have separate files for things like building websites, coding, preparing for meetings, working with various types of people, possible new hobbies, etc. The recapture of these ideas has been worth quite a lot to me, as it feels like I have a better foothold next time I encounter the problem.
I don't know if there is a way to do that, but it raises the question of "should we?"

Where do we draw the line? Would you be in favor of action targeting content accessed via Safari?

I struggle to form a conclusion on this matter. Specifically, I can't determine if the correct principles to refer to are those set by the store curator vs. those of net neutrality.
I suppose the economic theory here is that they enriched the population and hopefully kept someone in a line of employment that's beneficial to society instead of nose-diving in to drugs, crime, or some other 'drain on society'?
I don't park my car in the garage, but my mountain bikes and tools all go there. Can't imaging not having a garage for that reason.
In my experience, trust is the #1 reason. The #2 reason is still related to trust, when you dig deeper, and has to do with a perception in loss of "culture" or productivity due to decreased collaboration. My evidence is anecdotal, but it has been a consistent experience for me talking to several dozens of non-remote vs remote workplaces in the Durham, NC and Charleston, SC areas.
so what actually gets done with the submissions? I will admit, when I first got started out freelancing we (my business partner and I) would find local businesses with outdated websites and offer our services, touting mobile/responsive as a selling point. Perhaps this is a way of crowdsourcing the same?
Your search is hella impressive. Sure you're not working on the next Google Search competitor...?
Ask HN: How many of us are shooting for FIRE?
FIRE: Financial Independent, Retired Early

If so, what's your target retirement age?
Methodological choice aside, I am primarily shocked by the size of the racial disparity (I mean, I have expected it, but not this big).
Handy having a plan with contingency for a 180 degree pivot on her position.
Why would you want to take a cross-platform interpreted language and run it under a pseudo-VM like Docker?
> A quick google search confirms this. ~195ish is also where home drip brewers are set.

And McDonald's cooks their french fries at 375F, it doesn't mean they give them to you while they're that hot.
If you unregister your number from iMessages, group texts switch over from iMessages to non-iMessage as soon as you send a message that has a member in it that is no longer iMessage.