skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean it could be theoretically possible to warp between two locations utilizing the 2d properties of the unprojected universe?
This is dated January 18th.

Considering everything that has happened, I wholeheartedly disagree. Even though some immigrants will fare better (especially white immigrants from Canada or Eastern Europe), I'd not recommend it because entire populations - anyone that could pass as latino or arab - could easily have a difficult time.
Apple's Activation Lock Website Played Key Role in Hack
I remember getting a little handbook that had all the "patterns" you could learn to evade the ghosts. One of the top days of my youth was when I "turned over" Pac-Man by topping 1,000,000 points, I think I was on the seventh key (the little symbols that you could eat would progress through a series, ending with the key symbol which would then repeat ad infinitum).

People would gather around the game console if you were really on a roll, craning their necks to get a look...good times, good times.
Here.

First link, from near the top:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/politics/reince-pre...

An article nitpicking about a failure to specifically include the word Jew when talking about the Holocaust, even though it was an event that everyone knows targeted the Jews. Included is a quote by Tim Kaine trying to equate it with Holocaust denial. Especially interesting given Bibi Netanyahu seems to be a Trump fan.

Link from the end of the article, what I was alluding to: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-ca...

And here's a quote from the author, contained in this article: "I’m reading this as “1933 playbook continues on schedule"

Edit - should also add, my original comment was intentionally flippant given the submission isn't real journalism (it's not, it's a blog), and the topic has been beaten like a dead horse.
The author talks up Microsoft so much it's easy to forget they axed sunrise in the least optimal way possible to secure a transition of those users to the Microsoft equivalent. How do? They didn't even wait till they had a feature complete alternative ready before they killed sunrise.

Reminds me of their decision to buy danger mobile.
Operational transforms.

https://github.com/ether/pad/tree/master/infrastructure/ace

(I used to work on Dropbox Paper)
Yes the tone is obnoxious, but the advice is good

But sometimes the medium is the message.
I agree with the others. The way I like to put it is that the only true freedom is in the _choice_ of suicide. The corollary is that to find any meaning in life you have to first come to terms with that grim reality. If and how you come to terms with that reality shapes the meaning of your life.

You can, of course, choose suicide. But then it's lights-out and so there's not much to discuss in that case. I don't think either Sartre or Camus saw suicide as cowardly, but maybe I'm wrong about that. As far as I see it, perceiving suicide as cowardly is sort of at odds with existentialist claim. If suicide is cowardly then suicide isn't much of a choice at all and then there really isn't any freedom at all.

(Of course, being animals with an intrinsic evolutionary predisposition to avoid death, suicide isn't much of a choice at all. Unless you're mentally ill, it's _really_ difficult to convince yourself to die. The lack of freedom in this world is actually much more grim than even existentialists wish to admit. But I'm happy to adopt the existentialist conceit as I think existentialism says something profound and profoundly concise about how to find meaning in life.)
I'm not in any way advocating for toxins in the water supply, but do you worry that news like this will embolden anti-flouride people?
I used to like to sleep for as long as possible, then slowly it began to feel like a waste of time.

Also, having small children affect sleep although not directly, it's the time you try to claw back after putting them to sleep, pushing it a little later to get other things done.

After a while it became obvious nothing much was being achieved this way, in fact my mental acuity seemed to drop substantially.

Then I realized I hadn't been dreaming (or at least remembering dreams) for a while and that was weird. Slowed down, went to bed as soon as tiredness kicked in for a few months. Improved my diet which probably helped a lot.

Dreams have returned with a vengence, it feels like all night is one long dream, I feel better and sharper.

I wish I could sleep less than 7 hours, but my body disagrees.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says Trump’s immigration order “is one we do not support”
I just tried this in the browser and I can't get autofocus to work (Firefox 51 on Linux). Every time I hit enter for a new paragraph I need to click on it to be able to type again. Needless to say, a very dissatisfying experience. Though I can imagine it being nice if the auto-focus actually worked.

I sent them a bug report, we'll see if they fix it.
The same goes for their OCR full-text search which (I think) is only available to business customers (and not „regular“ paying customers).

EDIT: source (at the very bottom) https://www.dropbox.com/help/9244
Other than human nature, it had everything going for it.
Sounds like you might be better off using Jenkins than roll your own. I use Jenkins over cron when I want easier auditing & authentication. I got the idea to use Jenkins as a 1-size fits all hammer from https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/drop-cron-use-jenkins-instead...
So is holographic universe theory expected to work without qualification (thus being indistinguishable), or is it more of a temporary patch that nobody believes is correct, but works better for one area, and worse for others?

Newton's model of gravity works well enough for approximation at human scales, but is flawed enough that you don't use it for astrophysics or microscopic realms.
Yes. They don't put the individual vulnerabilities in there on purpose. It's an indirect effect that they're conscious of. They know certain practices will reduce the amount of vulnerabilities in their software at some increased cost. They know a quick-and-dirty approach will leave a ton of bugs, including vulnerabilities, in there at a higher, profit margin. If not embedded, they also usually sell the fixes for it in terms of support contracts or upgrades. They consciously choose to go the route that increases vulnerabilities and profits. After problems happen, they do as little as possible to patch them while underlying process creating them for profit remains. We call the result of this game penetrate-and-patch.

By avoiding QA for extra profit, they're effectively adding vulnerabilities to their software. There's other companies that know certain practices reduce their defect rates or security worries. They're preventing or removing defects on a regular basis while still making a profit. These companies are rare. Most leave vulnerabilities in. The project managers will even tell you that if you question them in a way to get a straight answer.

Here's Lipner at Microsoft straight up saying it. He at least still turned their security around a lot with compromise that was SDL.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2007/08/23/the-e...

A recent example comes from Jack Ganssle in The Embedded Muse where he points out basically nobody commissioning embedded systems will sacrifice dollars or time-to-market for security:

http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem314.html#article2

A follow up was a person that lost their job improving security in an embedded product:

http://www.ganssle.com/tem/tem315.html#article5

Others in later issues & other forums I've read all consistently say the same things. Total apathy where it's not even on the checklist or requirements is default. I experienced this myself with a lot of people I tried to sell on security at 10-30% extra cost. Just 10-30% on a critical system! Most in embedded will also frown on or fire you for improving security if it adds substantially to the BOM cost, dev cost, or time-to-market. You're supposed to do it cheap as possible. It's why 8-bitters are still selling by the millions of units or however large number despite little to no built-in safety/security. Hard to argue with $1 a chip vs $5-30 when selling 100,000+ units of a product with that different being profit. And you probably won't even get sued over hacks! :)

Counterexamples in case you're curious of methods for making software with low defects at somewhere from slightly to 50% increased cost:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html

http://www.anthonyhall.org/c_by_c_secure_system.pdf

Companies using those methods actually warrantied their software at specific defect levels that were usually under 6 bugs per loc. Praxis is still around as Altran.
Exactly! Everyone's always so worried about fluoride in drinking water, with little justification and without giving a thought to all the chlorine which is often present in far greater concentrations and, in certain conditions, can react with other organic and inorganic compounds to form all sorts of nasties.

Get a good filter for your drinking water and most of these concerns vanish. Plus you'll save a fortune on bottled water.
Ireland passes law to become world First country to fully divest from fossil fuels
Unfortunately more true than I wish it were.
Heaven forbid accurate reporting embolden undesirable elements.
No I don't.
I think the executive limits worked pretty well here.
President Trump may have wanted a muslim ban, but they couldn't do it.

So they tried to take Obama what did in 2011, a few steps further and are rightfully taking flak for it, just like I think Obama should have gotten in 2011.

Again though a muslim ban not based in religion sounds nonsensical.

Edit: Is there subtext I'm missing. Are you implying this is a slippery slope to a full muslim ban ?
Lol, winter oscar-bait season is supposed to be their offering to that market. Too bad all those movies are the same too.
Thanks, I already did that work.
John Walkenbach. https://plus.google.com/+JohnWalkenbach

I followed him initially hoping to learn some Excel tricks, but he mostly posts recipes and songs and political posts. I've been following him since I was about 13 years old, and I feel like his posts have really shaped my personality growing up.

I also started following these two guys after I came across an interesting post they wrote (not together):

https://plus.google.com/+EliBenderskyGplus

https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru

However, I've never seen an interesting post from them since, so I should probably stop following them.
To me, the article wasn't in the vein of "how-to-never-run-systemd-ever-and-be-a-linux-hermit", it was more of a "hey, it's here to stay, but it will break your stuff, so here's a temporary way to prevent it from installing on your 4-year-old-distro".
Developers Without Borders: The Global Stack Overflow Network
to me it like classical electrodynamics ie. like Gauss's law connecting field on the closed surface with what is inside. The key in classical EM is that EM field is holomorphic, and the gravity in GM seems to be close to that too. So in that sense holographic principle is something like this - integral of information flux taken over closed surface equals the integral of the information [charges] taken over the enclosed volume, and thus the upper limit of r^2 is just being a simple consequence of the equality in the situation of maximum entropy (minimum information) situation of a black hole (with gravity being fully compatible with [and alternatively reformulated through] entropy description a black hole is the ultimate gravitational as well as ultimate entropy state).
no... no....... say it ain't so.
Thanks for noticing! JIRA Jr. is indeed an April 1st thing we did 2013. Notice the first date that the Internet Archive captured the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20130215000000*/https://www.atla...

Interestingly enough we did in fact have that swag, and we sold quite a number. Both my kids had JIRA Jr onesies. Fun times :)
I'm not aware of any large-scale A/B tests for this. That being said, I imagine if Amazon thinks OV is good enough for them, I think it's safe to say it won't affect conversion rates all that much.

Perhaps it would even have a negative impact, given that some browsers enforce OCSP for EV certificates, which could slow things down if the server or client does not support OCSP stapling. (Not sure if that combination - enforcing OCSP for EV but not supporting stapling - exists in a browser out there.)
Cinema Arts Centre In Hton? i live here and its great! lol
This article is about heavily fluorinated organic compounds -- molecules with a carbon skeleton and all or most of the hydrogen atoms replaced by fluorine. These are not the ionic fluorine compounds that protect teeth against decay (and that cause acute toxicity in case of over-consumption).

Why are these compounds hazardous?

- Harmful biological effects in the human body, like hormone-mimic activity.

- Low molecular polarity leads to bio-magnification in fats and oils up through the food chain, and persistence in human fat.

- The high strength of the carbon-fluorine bonds greatly reduces the rate at which typical environmental degradation mechanisms (hydrolysis, photolysis, atmospheric oxidation, enzymatic breakdown in cells...) act on these compounds, compared to their hydrocarbon counterparts.

Why are these compounds used?

The same properties that make them hazards once dispersed -- strong carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breakdown, low polarity -- make them desirable in applications where people want water-repellant surfaces or materials that resist high temperatures and/or chemical attack.

Why weren't the risks better known before?

It's a lot easier to test for acute hazards than for chronic ones. By acute toxicity metrics, like feeding a bunch of rats these compounds until the dose is high enough to kill half, these materials are generally less toxic than substances like potassium fluoride. It turns out that for low level chronic exposure, perfluorinated compounds are more hazardous than simple ionic fluorides due to persistence and accumulation.

The link between stability and persistence makes up a recurring theme in environmental toxicology: materials with lower acute hazards are often worse hazards in the long term. The very lack of reactivity that makes molecules less acutely hazardous in case of e.g. a fire or a worker accidentally splashing some on skin makes them more likely to be long term problems, because the same basic properties impair how quickly environmental sinks can break them down. Pure methanol ignites more easily than diesel fuel and has worse acute toxicity risks if a worker gets drenched in a spill. But diesel contamination from a leaking storage tank is more persistent.
How does this compare technically to iCloud[1] and (lesser known) Upthere[2]? And any other cloud storage providers that treat local files as purgeable / do selective syncing.

For example one major difference I've noticed is iCloud can sync while asleep (Power Nap). This has proven to be very useful with my iCloud Photo Library, which has tons of syncing to do every day and night over a slow connection.

Another distinction with Apple's approach, maybe not directly comparable to Dropbox Business, is how it is integrated with apps. I mentioned photos, but it also covers iTunes music and movies/TV. It lets it be smarter than a purely filesystem level sync, like downloading photo previews and purging movies only after you've watched them. In other words it has a direct Dropbox competitor in iCloud Drive, but also adds domain-specific syncing.

Are there any advantages to Dropbox's approach?

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206996

[2] https://upthere.com/technology
And you know this because....?
The minimum pressure in the test track was 0.125 psi (teams using an air cushion could request a higher pressure and presumably if there was a leak the pressure could be higher than the minimum) while the air pressure on Mars is 0.087 psi.
Dropbox's enterprise offering includes OCR with handwriting recognition:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/22/dropbox-ios-app-scanning...

I believe it was previously discussed on HN but I can't find the link anymore, anyway they go into detail on the implementation here:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...
"In summary, motivation is trying to feel like doing stuff. Discipline is doing it even if you don’t feel like it.

You get to feel good afterwards."

not sure I want to feel good about my career/life afterwards...

I as allways we need the compromise. Disciplin where short-term affirmation just won't happen, but doing something you are motivated to do in general.
reading this right after drinking oats w/tap water...
I actually had one of the two Amiga models (A600) that traded the generic properitary expansion slot for a PCMCIA one. However, living in the country I live in I never actually encountered a PCMCIA _card_. Catching on the topic years later it turned out I did not miss on much, PCMCIA being not very well defined at the time of A600's design phase, the slot wasn't really useful for anything more than a slow flash based disk drive or very sluggish memory expansion (there were some really neat gizmos you could put in there, but those came about YEARS later)
Most didn't according to a metric that's not the metric that is actually used to select the president and thus candidates and parties don't try to optimize for. As for the other point, agree to disagree.
Couldn't the amount of curve within our observable universe be less than the margin of error in our methods of observation?
Also the (now defunct) Paper by Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Paper), and Paper by FiftyThree (http://www.fiftythree.com)
Melatonin is naturally occurring and works wonderfully for me. After popping 3mg, I'm out after an hour.

Worth a shot, if anything.
I'm broadly read on the subject. The problem isn't what I've read, it's what the next person or article means by the term. It varies wildly.
>I prefer the Amazon/walmart approach. Commoditize aggressively and keep the competition away by having low profit margins.

Yes, and pay everyone in between absolute peanuts. Enjoy your sitcoms farmed out to overworked Amazon Turk writers.

Amazon can get away with it because buying a book on Amazon is the same as buying one on Barnes and Nobles. Good content however costs money, and decent writers won't work for the same wages as Amazon warehouse workers.
How many of that 30% do you actually think are in their market though. Airbnb hosts tend to be in urban areas and they have agreed to accept foreign guests in their home. Guests are probably at least semi frequent travelers and usually tech savvy.I don't think Airbnb is as ubiquitous as you seem to think.
Have they been following the story of Hoosick Falls, NY at all?
Just look for French and Italian movies, for starters.
I don't have time to put a lot of energy into maintaining a backend. Parse server was a godsend, and it was so easy to use. Needless to say, I was horrified to learn a year ago of its shut down. Although I could roll my own Parse Server and mongoldb instance, I still did not have the time. I turned to SashiDo.io and its easy, seamless migration. Also, I was glad they were charging me a nominal fee. It shows that there is an income stream and, hopefully, this will mitigate against shut down like Parse.com. The help desk is quite helpful, also.
And nowhere in there I was able to find what's Parse and what does the open-source Parse Server do.
Who's the Favorite Senator of Followers of White Nationalists on Twitter?
Not always true, my last job had one director who worked 100% remote. She had multiple years of process knowledge she chose to share only when specifically needed to answer a question in a meeting or email. Much of this was critical information like "last year we published this report this way, but we promised to change the format this year." Even better, "we agreed not to change for 3 years but we're doing a ground-up rebuild in 2018."

A significant subset of my job for a year and a half was figuring out how to maximize the number of answers I could get from her, and recording them in the team wiki.
Instead of saving to local, there's a PHP script that lets you save your edits to a file on a server. http://tiddlywiki.com/static/Saving%2520on%2520a%2520PHP%252...
Freedom of will is completely compatible with fully deterministic world. Just consider that there are many fully deterministic worlds but the one one perceives themselves in depends on freedom of choice.
Interesting, I would have called it a good example of how moving fast and breaking things is OK even for government action. It's only been two days and it's already been amended to allow green card holders to enter again, and several courts have ordered it to not be enforced. Before this, I and most people I know would not have guessed that government could move to amend broken policy this quickly.
I recall reading a criticism of Sartre essentially to the effect of "he elevated anxieties of the early 20th century to eternal truths." It's an insightful observation that does double labor, serving both as grounds for serious concern about Sartre's work and as an explanation for much of its popularity.
Nope, the thing that triggered Manning to leak was being told to ignore evidence and collaborate in framing innocent Iraqis for treason.
I'm impressed how the landing page is completely localized in Russian. Even the screenshots. You can switch the language in the selector at the bottom with like 20 different languages. Pretty cool for a small(?) company like Dropbox.
'a non-linear personal web notebook' which you use to build a web site.
I was reading this, and nodding along, until I saw that number. Is SV really that inflated?

Your average entrepreneur, say Bob from Bob's Plumbing, would be really happy to have his company build to $10MM over a decade or two.
and here I was trying to avoid an existential crisis today. There that goes.
Trump orders “1 in, 2 out” rule for federal regulations
At the risk of getting down-voted for self-promotion...

For self-hosting try https://github.com/documize/community -- WYSIWYG or Markdown, integrate data from Trello, GitHub, or roll your own integration.

Still early days yet, but you should get a feel for docs/wiki/SaaS data embedding.
The study found that PFASs were detectable at the minimum reporting levels required by the EPA in 194 out of 4,864 water supplies in 33 states across the United States.

So, about 4% of water supplies had something at the minimum reporting levels; which must be above the detection limits, but may not be at action levels. I'd probably be more worried about heavy metals and organics in some of those locations than fire-fighting foam, but I drink groundwater, not surface-based treatment plant water.
Thanks for the heads up Koolba. Fixed!
There's nothing theoretical about the billions that have already been spent (wasted) replacing GPL projects with code with a more permissive license - namely one that actually permits companies to keep their patents, among other things. Think about Chromium (which is not derived from webkit, that had to be replaced by Blink) and Android (replacing the GNU libraries and making them redundant. Total waste, caused by a license that over-reaches. Not everyone wants to abandon the idea of having patents.