skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where all my family is 20 minutes away

To me this would be the factor that beats all others. Having raised a kid in perfectly nice area but with zero family or friends close by that could really help out, I'd probably consider moving to just about anywhere on earth to be closer to someone who could lend a hand.
... but now they've had to destroy the village to save it, again.

Drats. Those were some nice freedoms.
I'm not sure I get this logic. If I told someone they had a 16.6% chance of rolling a die and getting a 6, and then they proceed to roll the die and get a 6, would you laugh and tell me that I was wrong?
Friendly reminder: don't use Facebook and block any advertisement and trackers online using ublock.

It helps to keep some mental ecology.
Abiogenesis: Life May Have Evolved from Non-Living Matter with Relative Ease
"Common sense" maybe shouldn't be trusted if it's leading you to silly conclusions. The Dems lost the Presidency, as well, even though nearly 3 million more people voted for the Democratic Party candidate than the winning one.

Plenty of things that are "common sense" don't pan out once you throw in gerrymandering and voter turnout.
Im perfectly ok if HN bans all political news.
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Compiler theory, algorithms, famous people ...
The author of the NeverQuest banking Trojan arrested in Spain
Unless I'm very much mistaken, both.
If you have references, let them know you're worth more. Of not, show them what you got and ask for a raise within a few months.
Peloton is also Finnish word and it means 'fearless'
Sad part is for people who used it extensively for legitimate purposes and lost important data. Even businesses.
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I mean I sort of get where he's coming from; the Folsom Street Festival and Mr. S Leather aren't really what I'd consider proper for children either, however well I personally might think of them.

Where he's mixed up seems rather to be in imagining every day in SF is the Folsom Street Festival, and every store is Mr. S. Admittedly I've only visited SF myself, and rarely at that, and in considerable part specifically for the purpose of partaking in activities which are in no sense proper for children. But the very strong impression with which I've come away is that of a relatively ordinary town that's a bit unusually up itself but which also really knows how to let its hair down, rather than the latter-day Sodom which our interlocutor makes it out to be.
Inner scorecard. The things you named, and to which we usually pay attention, are all external and involve a lot of external circumstances over which you have no control.
However, if you do the right things, improve yourself every day, you're already a success.

I love this speech by Coach Wooden and highly recommend watching:
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_wooden_on_the_difference_betw...

PS. Also, having kids is a huge motivator. You realize that you are a living role model to them and what you do and how you behave will influence them for their entire life. And as you want to show your kids the best of humanity and positive qualities, you simple have no choice but to show them in yourself !
English is tough, though through thorough thought it can be understood.
> I'm not ok with private companies suing sovereign nations

Do you think government agencies and leaders should be above the law in general, or only with respect to companies?
The TPP doesn't weaken the nation-state. Like every other "trade deal", it has much more to do with foreign policy and geopolitics (reinforcing US power and isolating China) than with economics or trade.

I agree about the importance of sovereignty, for the same reasons as Nassim N. Taleb. He says the EU results slightly increases efficiency at the cost of vastly increased complexity and fragility, and therefore weakens the world order and threatens global peace. This isn't the case for the TPP, and it's unlikely that Trump can negotiate something much better economically.
Why do we only hear stories about this from the US and not from China or Russia?
That you are repeating this all over the thread doesn't make it a fact.

Sure, if you start with the lens that everything is controlled behind the scenes by shady billionaire puppet masters, then this fits in with that view. But that's just how all the other conspiracy theorists do it, too: hold fast to a predetermined conclusion, highlighting whatever situations you can grab ahold of that look like they fit.
If you stop, you let the negative force win. Our default mode is to always be doing something.
I agree and I was being partly tongue in cheek, but with an element of seriousness also.

It's a far more compelling story if a project like this is self hosting compared to hosting on what is essentially a competitor in the same space.
Admiring Donald Trump, that's depressing.
You know, when you need a VPN for a few seconds to pretend like you're in another country :)

Goes without saying - please don't use this for anything data sensitive.
Beware that running this will corrupt your RAM, you'll have to reboot.
The safest option, and what I recommend to all my friends, is to simply take vacation somewhere else. Lots of countries around in europe and asia that actually welcome visitors. Especially if you'd need a visa to visit the USA; seriously, not worth the effort.
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How is this different from "everything Trump is doing is an evil Russian conspiracy" claim that most media seems to be pushing these days? E.g. check out the front page of r/politics. I'm sure Trump will suck or fail in many ways (as all elected leaders do), but we've long time ago lost objectivity.
Ask HN: Why aren't there middle class cars shaped like Ferraris?
I always wondered why car companies like Mazda or Hyundai or Honda don't produce cars that may not have the performance capabilities of a Ferrari but resemble one in their shape? Thus advancing the way the car market looks now a days. Does anyone have a clear answer?
As for selfish. Since everybody's acting in their own interest selfish is pretty much a given. That's the basis of the whole process. That an act is selfish does not make it bad.

As for stupid, large complex and overarching new legislation taking away tons of rights relating to everything from food to medical treatment from individuals ... and everybody (including the vast majority of Hacker News I might point out) seems to have a problem with this.

This is not a stupid attitude. Why not ?

Start here: https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
From that same paper:

> In hospitals, both modelling and analysis of
the correlations between antibiotic resistance and variation
in antibiotic use show that alterations in antibiotic
use can cause rapid changes (in the order of days
to months) in the frequency of resistance. By contrast,
when the fitness cost of resistance is the main driving
force behind its reversal, the rate of change is expected to
be much slower (months to years).

I think what that means is that hospitals are able to create more selective pressure by rotating through different kinds of antibiotics.
Our son was born in a 230sqft studio. We moved to a 75sqmtr, 760sqft, 3BR apartment. This is in Paris where anything over 500sqft is considered luxurious. Somehow with kids, visitors, and our stuff we managed to make it work. I honestly believe most Americans are latent hoarders. Just buy whatever's on sale with no thought on where it fits into our lifestyle.

BTW, everything else I agree with. Childcare is criminally expensive here.
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The prevailing opinion isn't always the one most written or voted. There is an activation cost to spreading your opinion, and writing is often the act of last resort (ie, no definitively positive action is available).

In the previous situation all that agreed with the TPP need do nothing, as it looked sure to pass, so the argument was not worth having for them. The anti-TPP had very few positive actions available to them so it largely fell to writing.

Now the anti-TPP position has prevailed those against the TPP see little reason to debate it, yet those who were for it are left with nothing but writing.
You are wrong.

'Use it or loose it' apply to bacteria far more then for example humans.

Evolution doesn't work the way you think it does. Its not an adaption to something to all eternity but adaptation for current surroundings - once the context is changed, the genome will change too.

The process is simple - the first bacteria that ditch the antibiotic resistence gene will multiply more and use more available resources so other bacteria that have that gene gene (witch becomes resource hog since it doesn't contribute to survival any more) will die out.
And even "cause bit flips in data that gets written back to disc". I think MemTest86's "create bootable CD/USB for testing" approach is safer.
Google.

The entire notification center, cross-site hangouts chat, etc all requires third-party cookies.
Pretty sure it was thought up by unstable countries to generate investment interests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/canadian-traveling-to-w...
Lets hope Steve remembers to do the right thing (tm) this time.

Edit: in particular, next time someone in his organization does/says something incredibly stupid I want Steve to stop it right away instead of waiting 2 years...
- When you have no motivation: just do some sport.
- When you fail think about worst case scenario: for any small epsilon > 0, your fail < epsilon compared to death.
For anyone who isn't already aware, this is a continuation of the work on CyanogenMod, after the company behind the latter closed down.

More here: http://www.gsmarena.com/lineage_os_is_now_officially_picking...
DC schools spend more per student than anywhere and the results are uneven at best (though improving). Money sent everything.
we (USV) are the VCs who invested in DDG. we are very patient. and are happy to wait and see where this goes. this was a very small investment for us so there is no pressure on them from us.
because you have the WTO, the US can declare retaliatory tariffs within a generally accepted framework.

There's less debate and uncertainty about the legitimacy of the retaliation, and its better understood than the advanced kremlinology required to decipher some other things.

Not many things are panacea, but things like the WTO have been pretty useful at avoiding trade wars IMO.
> Ok but when you hate them, why do you check them out manually? You can just mkdir $GOPATH ; go get { pkg1, pkg2, ..., pkg50 }

That still has the same issue of all my projects following a logical structure, except for anything written in go / with a component written in go, which has at $RANDOM_LOCATION.

Plus, I think `go get` doesn't work with our internal company git server, but I'm not 100% about it.
I used to be the lead developer on an IVR/PBX SaaS solution. It hasn't been necessary to have dedicated hardware for years (ever since out-of-band DTMF has been a thing). The only reason that companies buy it is because they're getting conned into it.

We had a server through which the conversation (SIP, converted from landlines) went, and enabled the agent to interact with the call through either a web page, or hitting keys on their phone. Transfers, blind or not, holds, recordings, assistance, we could handle all of it. To dumb phones. Literally things that weren't able to display the time of day.

Mobile is doing diddly squat, frankly. Same as softphones. The voice quality over wi-fi is terrible, and what's the point of using a mobile device if it needs to be plugged in anyway. Softphones never took off because call centres couldn't reuse their headphone equipment, and having a headphone's "pick up" button work on a softphone was impossible, at scale. It also meant that actually interacting with the call was tricky (change focus of the window to find the numpad, then either click on digits, or type on the keyboard).

One major game changer, however, seems to be WebRTC. A lot of companies are investing big on it (see Dixa and COLT for example).

I really think this is a generational problem. Callcentres of old want the highly integrated hardware. Train your people once, and then they can become robots. New, modern places want the ability to switch providers. They want their agents to be close to the customer, and even closer to the tracking/reporting software stack, without going through 10 layers of proprietary integration.

WebRTC also means that you can simply talk to the person on your website, while you see what they see, and can walk them through whatever they need.
On bohmian mechanics by reinhard f. werner
I don't think GP is saying solitude or isolation is necessarily harmful. But for a member of a pack-ape species whose default mode for the individual is some varying degree of gregarity, isolation isn't something to be considered lightly, because it carries significant risk along with potential benefit.
Lavabit accepts Bitcoin now
Noticed in the Lavabit thread the other day that some people were complaining about the lack of a Bitcoin option and the amount of info you had to give up to sign up to Lavabit. Looks like they support Bitcoin now and don't require as much info for signup:

https://lavabit.com/want-lavabit.php

Just something I noticed.
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Sadly that seems to be a very bipartisan attitude:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla...

Actually, one might have some (small) hope that Trump is actually libertarian enough to tone the surveillance state down. Not hoping for much though.
He doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs.

He has a strong work ethic.

He believes in himself and doesn't give up in the face of adversity or when presented with seemingly insurmountable odds.

I might not like or agree with Trump on many things, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have any qualities deserving of admiration.
I'm pretty sure this is the research report about how social influence determines which songs are likely to become hits:

https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full....
IPFS is only permanent for content tha can't get you in trouble for distributing or posessing.

To make it truly permanent it would need some layer for anonymization.
It isn't, necessarily. Why does it have to be? The fact that those opposed to Trump also think poorly at times doesn't excuse poor thinking elsewhere.

That said, I just went over to /r/politics and saw zero Russia stories on the front page.
Good grief, I can see why a bizarre incident like that would stick in your mind.

That said, I can relate a story where I was ordering takeaway on a Friday evening in (the UK city) Bristol, when one of the customers started weeing where they were sat, on a bar stool at the counter.

I think some of these incidents are a reflection of cities in general, but also - like shark attacks and plane crashes - they're talked about because they are so unusual and rare. The consequent discussions aren't necessarily proportionate to the number of incidents.

I also wonder whether the "must relocate to San Francisco" phenomenon has brought in people who have previously lived in more suburban or rural surroundings, and are attributing their changed experiences specifically to SF, rather than to cities in general.

Or it could simply be that SF does have a significantly different homeless population to most cities, which would make for a fascinating study in behavioural science. It sounds like your experiences support that, and I'll keep an open mind to the question.
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I get your point but that's not a fair comparison because there were 2 choices, not 6.
Look at how computing has changed in the past 30 years. From huge ugly boxes with CRT monitors to powerful touch computers in our pockets. How is this not physics? Sure, the principles and the foundations were laid out in the decades prior to that, but moving in smaller but important practical increments is also science.
Ask HN: How can I improve entertainment site?
Any suggestions how to improve entertainment site?(url: vimow.com)

Right now the website is scraping for videos that are trending on other sites. But besides web scraping, it seems that it's not enough.

I know that a lot of people are coming for the download mp3 section, which I really want to eliminate. That brings a lot of traffic, but it's crappy... I want to move away from that area. That functionality is broken anyway.

I'm looking to create a community, but I don't know how. Any suggestions how to improve it? I tested a lot of things but results aren't pleasing at all.

I have plenty of web traffic, no ads and still not good.
> This is a stale and old debate, personality is extremely flexible and heavily depends on environmental and social constraints, as were demonstrated by seminal social experiment studies such as those of Milgram or Zimbardo.

These experiments first of all show how people react in highly stressful situations. To equalize this with changes in their personalities doesn't seem right to me.

The hardest part of these artificial and mostly extreme experiments - because you want to see reactions in a short amount of time - is what kind of conclusions you can take out of them.
Actually, just open about:profiles in the browser, and you can easily switch.
Samsung+Will+Reveal+Galaxy+Note+7+Recall+Findings+Tonight
only on the weekends. about one hour on Saturday and Sunday.
It's not about sovereignty, it's about the rule of law. Every international agreement involves governments committing themselves to do certain things and not do others. Sometimes that also means agreeing to abide by judgements by an arbitrator. But they're free to negotiate changes to those agreements or withdraw from them. That means they retain sovereignty.

Treaties passed by the legislative branch of the government are laws. Do you believe that your governments executive branch should be bound by the laws of your nation, or not?
Here's an MIT Technology Review article covering this reach, "Data Mining Solves the Mystery of Your Slow Wi-Fi Connection":

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603414/data-mining-solves...
Any team of database admins/engineers worth their salary plans for capacity, fixes inefficient queries, And works with development on future goals for what they want out of the database layer.
Question, say that I travel with an reset telephone, can you be forced to "install" it, complete setup and enter account information so it syncs it with your icloud/google/microsoft acocunt?
I have been working at avaya for the last couple years and I have been scratching my head trying to understand how this company works and how it got into this situation. On one hand its a company thats hasn't made a profit in 10 years but on the other it takes in a billion every quarter. When you look at the numbers it turns out it is paying tens of millions to service the interest on its massive debt... it would be quite profitable if it was not for this. So where did the debt come from? Most of it seems to have come from the leveraged buyout it underwent 10 years back. So now they file for chapter 11 bankruptcy but who is getting burned here? Anyone who bought an avaya bond will lose out but what about the private equity company that owns the place? The way the company was allowed to grow its debt seems like they just didnt care as if it wasnt going to hurt them when bankruptcy finally beckons.
So; I was going to wait until Monday, but have just read a whole load of statements by Trump that the first day literally means the first day.

So where is the UK trade deal?
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There's a new tech called MulteFire, which is LTE over unlicensed spectrum. Everybody could buy an access point(altough those will be more expensive for than wifi for some time, at the very least).

One of the biggest selling points for it is a simpler faster handoff than WIFI. Is that a big enough problem that people will be willing to buy access points ?
Wow, cool! I missed this.. One of the things I dislike about TrueOS is how it uses grub for beadm management.

I think I may just switch back to vanilla FreeBSD.
I'd you are using a new IV when encrypting the new index then this won't work, since the old and new indexes will be completely different.
It's a nice theory you got there, but it's trivially false

Alternative medicine is a 34 billion dollar industry in the US alone

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSTRE56T6MN20090730
0: When my nation decides to reduce smoking in the population by significantly increasing the taxes on cigarettes, companies in other countries that want to sell cigarettes here can go get stuffed.

Why should a foreign company decide what is and isn't legal in my country? Why should a democratic country, whose government is beholden to the people, have to kneel before a corporation, beholden to foreign wealth? Why does a corporation have rights that override the democratically-determined laws of a foreign country?

Not to mention your spin doctoring - 'investor confidence' is the good guys, and 'court systems and political systems' are just corruption and nepotism (because as we know, corps don't have either of those in abundance...)
I reviewed the compiler in an old issue of DDJ:

http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/examining-the-tawk-compiler/184...

I ended up writing a couple of command-line email utility programs with it that I sold, for a while.
It's true that open source can replace some PBX functionality.

There are though, operations that require scale or functionality that either doesn't exist, or isn't quite bulletproof in the open source world.

SS7 connectivity, geographically spread call centers, priority queuing based on multiple concurrent data sources, drag-drop complex IVR software, natural language parsing, natural language generation, contextual screen pops with hooks to caller information, and so forth.

Some of those are available in open source, yes. Not necessarily proven at scale, easy to integrate, etc.

Of course, Avaya filing for bankruptcy hints that there aren't many customers that need this sort of stuff anymore. Either the support function is shifting to chat/email, or they are using SaaS vs their own equipment.
Another reason to grow laboratory meat in rooms so clean they do not need antibiotics.
Do not need antibiotics.

Less water to consume.

Less energy to produce.

Can be situated closer to populations who consume it.

*Cruelty free.
Trump would be last on my Admiration list, I would have went with Gandhi or any wounded soldier who risked their life for this country the list goes on.
You can't haul people or stuff in a Ferrari. The largest selling vehicle in USA is a pickup truck.
I just keep reminding myself that for almost everything, the only way to fail is to give up. If I haven't given up yet, I haven't failed.
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Maybe it's just me, but wasn't everyone in Silicon Valley that wasn't senior management of a huge company vehemently anti-TPP ?

Why the change ?