skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by "great", you mean "a podcast by a lobbying organization that is strongly against net neutrality, etc", then yeah, it's "great".

https://techpolicycorner.org/trumps-opportunities-on-tech-po...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/09/05...

These are the folks behind "don't break the net", which some folks may remember (http://dontbreakthe.net/)

and in case, you want to engage substantively, it's funny who benefits by shutting down lifeline:

Those "spiraling, out of control costs" are paid for by the universal service fund.

Where would that money otherwise go:
https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service-fund

"High Cost Support Mechanism - provides support to certain qualifying telephone companies that serve high cost areas, thereby making phone service affordable for the residents of these regions. "

So - right into the hands of the telecom companies.

Which is precisely why they (and techfreedom!) lobbied to kill Lifeline. It cuts into the money they get from USF.

Where they take it to claim they need it to serve rural areas, while simultaneously, wait for it, lobbying states and others to pass laws banning those municipalities from serving themselves. Because then they'd be free of this crap. Meanwhile, strangely, rural broadband penetration and speed still sucks for real, and the telecoms (and again, techfreedom!) strongly oppose things like "defining broadband as 10mbps" or anything that would demonstrate this.
Additionally, the dollars not going to subsidize lifeline go back to them double, because they also get the money from the higher telephone bills. Kind of a neat racket, if you can get it.

In case you want to argue that there are other programs that are getting the money anyway, the one i cited gets billions in funding given to phone companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund#Connect...

That's the one of the famous ones that has pretty much given phone companies billions and gotten us nothing actually in return.

Personally, i'm fine with that money all going to anyone but a telecom company, even if they aren't "low enough income" for you or whatever.
> When she did so, a large battery charge counter on the screen showed that it was indeed charging.

That doesn't prove it was charging, just that it could sense the ultrasound and throw up a graphic. Let's see it run for 30 minutes and show the Android battery app for proof.
How did you use slack in no team?
We know, many great Slack bot there, and also great team or any company use Slack in communication. But, how do you use Slack in case you have no team?

Are you make your own team with no member except you?
Evolution is a nice framework but, like Hund's rules, it warrants further investigation; it answers "what happened" but not "how it happened". Heuristics are pseudo-solutions and don't necessarily conduce a deep understanding. I guess I should have said "asking 'why?' is eventually useless".
Hearing the "the 1%" all the time gets annoying.

The proper term is "the 0.01%".
It makes me so angry that only 3.19m people are in the top 1%. We have got to do something about this.
Using AI how?
There are many ways of using an AI.
When I will use such insurance
AI used to automate their backend tasks reducing my price
AI used to automate billing issues, address changes anything I don't like manually doing
AI used to score customer support requests then handed to a human
AI used to price my contract dynamically while giving me ability to grant granular access to my data.
When I won't use if AI powered?
AI used to do large scale compartmentalization of clients and putting me in a bucket
Customer support fully done by AI causing no end to my headaches
AI used to predict my behaviour then alter my pricing
AI used as a buzzword to make me pay more for some reason
AI used to search for susceptible clients and upsell them other products
True. The amount of regulation in broadband, cable, etc. makes it really tough for new entrants in the market.

Still, more regulation to fix the problems caused by regulation in the first place? No thanks.
“True anti-discrimination law is getting the government out of dictating whether people should discriminate.”

“True free speech rights is getting the constitution out of dictating whether the government should censor.”
Sunlight, electric heaters, stoves, induction stoves, flying batteries (toy helicopters), electric lightbulbs. There are all kinds of common ways of transmitting large amount of power through space. Sure, they can be harmful but we work around the risks. As long as it deposits the energy into people slowly and as heat, then we'll feel it before it causes damage and get out of the way.

Those things don't even have fancy high tech people-detecting safety features. Maybe this charger shuts down when it detects that some of its energy is being lost to an unknown place.
YouTube is broken in other ways too. Just try a search for something a bit off the beaten path, sort by view count, and filter by videos. When I do this I get a lot of crap results back for many searches. For fun add in some qualifiers: OR (|), AND (+), and NOT (-). Or it'll say it got X number of responses, but if you actually go through all the pages at some point you'll suddenly get an empty page, and the result count will change to something completely different.

I'm astonished that YouTube has such glaringly obvious bugs.
It is so concerning to me that the company has committed to spending an average of $400M per year on cloud infra when their revenue is only $200M, and they've revealed that user growth slowed from 17% to 3% in the quarter Insta released Stories.

It'd be one thing if they were going to use some of the IPO money to cost-optimize revenue, but I get the feeling that they need to focus on growing revenue due to how Insta Stories gutted them in 2016. That means hiring more people and writing bigger checks to Google.

And they're branding themselves as a "camera company." Their hardware division does not contribute materially to revenue (not profit: Revenue), and practically every other consumer camera company, from Kodak to GoPro, is dying.

This is not a healthy company.
You can help by having more kids.
Right after New Years and yes. It shipped within hours from the warehouse.
FB sure has access to everything you put on FB. They are selling the ability to track a person from point of click to point of sale so they have access to data far more intrusive than a background check.

Do they have access to check your criminal records and tax records probably not.
Legohead, my startup blocks just the unsafe ads without revenue impact for the publisher. One of our beta clients plans to reach out to their ad-blocking audience to re-enable ads once we're fully deployed. Maybe we can help? jerome at clarityad dot com, we're in private beta.
Part of the challenge with this is that Amazon Logistics is the only carrier that has "lost" items I've ordered. Several times.

But with respect to delivery times: In the UK they have rolled out increasing number of regional warehouses to support same day delivery for many goods (e.g. London has at least two Amazon warehouses). Being able to order in the morning and gets things delivered in the afternoon certainly stops me from going to the shops for a lot of things where even 24 hour delivery feels "too long".
What about the labourer? He is still being exploited when if it weren't for the profit motive he would not be required to sell his labour. That difference in profit, once the cost of the machinery and its maintenance is substracted, could be passed to the displaced worker.

Why should it go to the 'consumer'?
Are you suggesting we should follow the example of that notorious UK minister who wanted all schools to be above the average? I'm all for that.
The way people freely judge until the experience is given a scientific name is the problem.
Sure, and then there's Prime, which they're reveiving revenue for and providing many different services. That revenue is probably not counted as shipping, yet they have costs to send out those free Prime packages.
The semantic Web.
If your point is that this is somehow damning to Amazon, it is an extremely silly metric.

At least Amazon is collecting some revenue for shipping. I pay zero shipping costs to Costco, or Walmart, or Target, most Newegg items, gas stations, or grocery stores. Because it has become customary to package shipping costs into unit prices.

I know people who buy everything, like toilet paper, from Amazon. I think they are crazy, because Amazon prices are generally at least double or triple for similar items from Costco. They like paying for the convenience. To each their own.
It happened. Duh! But IMO either side would have done the same if given the chance. There was/is no love lost between "Turks" and Orthodox Christians. Back then it was sort of a land grab: clean the area of x population and you may claim it as part of soon to be new country.

In a part of the Balkans the world powers had decided to divide the border based on population. If, say, Vermont speaks "Canadian" then it becomes part of Canada. What happened? Mass killings over the border areas by the stronger army.

Greece even exchanged Muslim Greek people (by blood) for random Christians from Turkey. By their definition, once you became a Muslim you were no longer a Greek.
Jawbone drops consumer wearables for B2B clinical services
Yes, the crime is copyright infringement, not theft, even if movie studios like to spin the former as a form of the latter.
The really proper term is "the owning class": those for which money is invested, to produce goods, which are then sold for a profit to make money. This contrasts with everyone else, who uses labor to produce goods, which makes wages, which are then spent to consume goods.
Servers.com sues Buzzfeed for defamation over its publication of Trump dossier
$38k to support a whole household sounds pretty poor to me.
This is a really cool demonstration, love the code breakdowns. For a less technical, but broader scale description of ray tracing, Disney made an excellent video describing their use of ray tracing in movies. Check it out here:

https://youtu.be/frLwRLS_ZR0
Yes, this is odd.

If the company fails, do the VCs take over? This could be their way of ensuring control over this technology.
Did you account for AWS in your equation?
Hapi's primary author and only maintainer left Walmart labs, took Hapi with him, severed ties to Walmart and has publicly proclaimed his dislike of the new CTO of Walmart.

His own words: https://twitter.com/eranhammer/status/824006905253089280
On the one hand this seems like a strange decision given that Go purposefully avoids asynchronous code. On the other hand, I think this project is trying to get at something that is (IMHO) a blind-spot for the Go community. Namely: I find it difficult to design abstract data-flow patterns and encapsulate behind a nice API.

Go is great for dealing with the nitty-gritty of concurrency, but I find it hard to express a high-level vision of what's going on in my app/lib. This is why this project almost feels good. There's a clear view of what we're manipulating and how we're positioned relative to the data.

Has anybody else struggled with this?

The closest thing I've found to a solution has been go-mangos[0], a native go implementation of the scalable protocols. This is extremely useful for designing the data-flow of an application when I'm shuffling bytes around, but what I find myself wanting is an equivalent system for raw (i.e.: unserialized) Go data-structures.

I want to be able to do something like this (assume a hypothetical library to this effect called `portal`):

p0, _ := portal.NewPortal(iface, portal.REP) // iface is a types.Interface
p0.Bind("foo")

p1, _ := portal.NewPortal(iface, portal.REP)
p1.Dial("foo")

go func() {
for {
i, _ := p0.Recv() // `i` guaranteed to satisfy the interface represented by `iface`
i.DoSomething()
p0.Send(i)
}
}()

p1.Send(iRequest)
iResult, _ := p1.Recv()

I'm very curious to get some feedback on this idea. It's been gnawing away at my brain for a while now.

[0] https://github.com/go-mangos/mangos
That's really interesting, I hadn't seen his input method stuff before.

Reminds a lot of MessagEase, which I use on every touch system that supports it.
They suppressed wages for 6-7 years through no poaching agreements and are only paying about $10k per class member over that time. They saved more money than they're paying out.
I started using ad blockers for virus protection. I got hit twice through ad networks on big websites. Extra bonus that website loads faster etc.

It was 90% the viruses for me.
How Cloud Computing Provides Innovative Business Solutions
Interview with Albert Einstein's cousin (comedy)
Online Tone Generator
Well, there was quite a hostile response from some to it, so its proponent dropped it. What was interesting about the response was how specific individuals did not respond civilly (personal attacks, framing it as a political conspiracy, etc.), thus demonstrating why a code of conduct might be useful.

The original proposal was this: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/adopt-code-of-conduct?rev=145194062...
That's powerful. I always imagined these things were a matter of grabbing the top of the stick. How easy can it be to try and sneak your ads through when ad block developers only have to pick out one way to identify and block them? I imagine you guys were trading man hours somewhere to the tune of 1:5
I would say look at indiehackers and see if there is something similar you want to do.
Also why not join someone else s project? Collaborate on something that's close to your vision get them to sales and voila.
Nah, it was barely enough to cover cost of living, and I got a 136% raise by switching to another field. I didn't think it was great pay, that was the employer when they refused to give me a raise after 2 years...
It is not true that ultrasound is used to power pacemakers. Citation definitely needed.
The attitude you express towards Misophonia is one of the reasons why having this disorder is such a burden. It has nothing to do with table manners. There is nothing rational, or for that matter culturally relevant, about the emotional reaction I have to someone eating an apple next to me. The visceral, angry emotional response I feel to that sound has nothing to do with culture.
Fascinating stuff. But for computer viruses, 22k is really a lot. Back when computers and OSes were simpler, there were viruses fitting into a boot sector (512 bytes). Of course, since the boot sector has also to have some useful information (otherwise the OS won't boot and the virus can't distribute itself) the actual size was less. It wasn't super-hard to do such viruses either - provided you are comfortable with assembly coding and low-level OS programming of course. I wrote one myself back when I was a student as an exercise (didn't distribute it of course ;). It didn't anything sophisticated, but still could replicate.
You want to play word games? Fine.

Scenario: I'm using X 2.0. The defaults are shit, and I complain. Nothing happens. At this point, I've got three options. Deal with the shitty defaults, customize the OS, or move elsewhere.
Robots?
Aeropincs++
Soylent that works
VR white room++( basically a holodeck)
If you really want to bump up against a wall,
Try to change charities and non profits
What good area? It wasn't good pay... and they replaced me before I had even finished my 2 weeks... Sounds like the opposite of a "shortage"
I ate a vegan diet for many years. Zinc was one of the things I was very conscious of (I tracked my diet fairly carefully). One of the things I noticed was that if I ate a traditional (i.e. from a culture that ate that way historically) vegan diet, that getting the nutrients I needed was not nearly as difficult. I think a lot of people simply cut out animal products from a traditional meat based diet and end up with problems. Potato chips are usually vegan, but a diet consisting of only potato chips is not healthy ;-)

My own personal take on this kind of thing is that there traditional diets where people have eaten a certain way for hundreds of years. While we may not have good studies on these diets, there is a kind of evolutionary effect. As people get a lot more choice in how they eat, we're running into problems where people think they can design a healthy diet. Sometimes they get it quite wrong.

I've also spent a good part of my free time over the last 20 years reading papers on nutrition. Another big thing that I notice is that a huge proportion of these papers are terrible - poor sampling techniques, inadequate reporting of conditions, insanely small trial sizes (sometime less than 10 people!!!), statistics that are plain wrong, etc. People with particular agendas often push their point of view, backing up impressive arguments with mountains of really poor research. It is hard/impossible for the average person to adequately judge the validity of the arguments and they end up making poor dietary choices as a result. Even with the amount of time I spend, I have no idea if my current biases are reasonable or not.

Diet is hard :-( Usually I suggest that people pick a traditional diet that appeals to them, study it carefully and try to adopt it. Then they should track their health carefully and make sure to get frequent health checks.
The Walton family represents a lot of what I think is wrong with America. If Sam Walton knew that Walmart pays their employees so little that they have to claim social assistance just to survive, what would he say?

While Jeff Bezos isn't an angel, at least he's doing things with his money that I find noble, like Blue Origin and contributing millions to expand the computer science program at the University of Washington

I shudder to think of a future where Walmart dominates the tech logistics scene. Might there be a "Committee for a Third Term for Donald Trump" SuperPAC in the future?
I'm more of a recording engineer than a guitarist (member of the AES for many years.)

Shitty digital pedals from 20 years ago sound shitty, I agree!

Well modelled digital effects, however, can these days give you anything an analog pedal can. Most of the time, just run a high accuracy Spice model of the pedal in real time! Modern DSP is so cheap and fast that this is possible and works fine.
stop shitting in the well?
Late deliveries go way, way up during the holiday season. Anybody who ships anything by fedex/UPS ground would see something like this.

Source: I work for an online retailer.
Your lawn looks great! How did you manage to get natural grass looking so green in the winter?

I heard its pretty expensive[0]

[0] http://upvotes.club/buying-hacker-news-growthhackers-upvotes...
I hate to have to tell you this, but there isn't really such thing as a $2 shirt, please hear me out.

The monetary cost to you, acting as a consumer is an incredible $6 or, $2 a shirt; However, as a citizen of earth, the environmental and social costs of buying cheap garments from places like Walmart is absolutely, shockingly enormous. [1][2]

It's just currently impossible to produce clothing at that price in an even slightly responsible way. Unfortunately, buying super cheap garments is really taking out a loan out against the future and that bonded or forced labour is probably involved. [3] If you're a documentary person, "The True Cost" is really worth watching. [7]

There is a few apps that can help people make informed choices before a purchase [4][5] and of course, great brands like Patagonia [6] who make quality clothing in a responsible way.

There are also amazingly good quality items in second hand stores around the world too, I know there can be some stigma attached to second hand clothing, but it's only stigma, it wears off quickly and no one knows you have a second hand shirt on.

I have a friend who works at a second hand store, which is part of franchise, and there are a lot good quality, safe items in surplus around the world waiting to be worn again.

[1] http://source.ethicalfashionforum.com/article/introduction-t...

[2] http://source.ethicalfashionforum.com/article/introduction-t...

[3] http://labourbehindthelabel.net/campaigns/living-wage/

[4] http://goodonyou.org.au/

[5] https://rankabrand.org/

[6] http://www.patagonia.com

[7] http://truecostmovie.com/
Precious little technical details don't inspire much confidence on the performance of the product.
After years of research and controversy we get a demo that shows basically very little.

To trigger a charge detection on a phone, you only need to apply a sufficient voltage and be able to supply a small current. It will "charge" but may take days to do so.

As a minimum, the UBeam receiver must be able to generate 5W of power (1A at 5V) to adequately charge a phone (10W or more would be needed for a faster charge though).

Assuming that the technology is 100% efficient in its power transceivers (which is impossible), there is still the matter of exponential attenuation when transmitting ultrasounds through air: at 2m, to produce 5W at the receiver, you need to generate 25W at the transmitter.

This gets worse very fast. Even if you assume they magically manage to get extremely efficient, the laws of physic will prevent the technology from being useful beyond a couple of meters without requiring hundreds of watts of transmitted power.
And we're not even talking about the actual performance of the transducers, or the fact that the angle between the transmitter and receiver can affect power transmission, as would air humidity levels...

UBeam will most probably end up producing something super-niche. On paper and in controlled demos, you can transmit some power through the air using ultrasounds.
So maybe they'll manage to have an exhibit in a museum or some technology-of-the-future showrooms and they'll probably continue to have demo at exhibitions for years to come while not answering the difficult questions of efficiency and practicality with actual verifiable numbers.

Having an affordable, safe, useful, practical mass-consumer product though?
Nah, not a chance.

UBeam is one of these companies build on wishful thinking. They sell a dream and get money from people caught in that dream. They can't back down now, so they have to keep up appearances and come up with polished demos from time to time just to keep the buzz and the mystery alive, and the money flowing.
Same with "French Advance - Erkki Havansi vs Jorma Kekki, Jyvaskyla, 1993" I had assumed that this would be a replay of this actual game.
Important distinction in terminology. Qubes _runs_ Whonix, Whonix can _use_ Qubes as a host. And the Whonix workstation is an optional addition that a lot of users find no need for. It does not come preloaded, you must enable it during installation. But Qubes does not use Whonix anymore than Windows uses Firefox when you run the firefox process.

In software, when you say something "uses" something, you are implying it uses it as a backend or API. But Qubes does not communicate with nor expose any information to Whonix, and especially does not utilize it for any sort of functionality.
Nice post! I deleted my Facebook account about 2 or 3 weeks ago and I haven't been happier. Before pulling the plug though, I spent a couple days babysitting a post deletion script that wasn't as autonomous as I've hoped. However, I was able to delete my first 3 years and last 5 years of Facebook posts and a decent amount of recent likes/reactions.

I think if you really want to make sure Facebook doesn't have data directly from you, you'd need to take the time to delete every possible interaction you can, delete browser cookies, wait a couple days, then initiate account deletion (Facebook makes you wait 2 weeks until your account is actually deleted, just enough time for you to change your mind).