skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They deserve better than to be just "not ignored". The whole game has to be changed so that everything isn't rigged toward the people who are already rich. That means rule of law, that means not fighting against your equally poor immigrant neighbour, that means getting your fair share of the benefits of globalization, not just trying to make it go away.

Trump and Co. is exactly opposite of that.

If the working class is holding out for great ideas so long as educated people don't propose them, I think that's an unwinnable game. The ideas that work against the concentration of wealth and power are the ones championed by academia, but they have been dismissed as "commies" not matter how unrelated their ideas are to Marxism, or as "elites" despite the fact that they have very little influence or money compared to the corporate class that just got installed in the White House.
At a glance, it looks like no. It appears that if you have iCloud Drive enabled, Apple will store call history there for the purposes of syncing across devices. If iCloud Drive is disabled, it appears the call logs never leave the device.

http://www.macworld.com/article/3142400/data-center-cloud/ap...
So. Much. Clickbait. Isn't the article itself an example of such "weaponized" propaganda?

On a slightly meta point I'm starting to notice that a much larger portion of the population is prone to conspiracy theories than I previously suspected. It might be another one of those broken design things. The propensity to see patterns in everything naturally gives rise to conspiracy theory galore.
That was basically my situation. My project was c# but a vendor exe packaged with it required c++ libs. Never figured out how to bundle it.
Is this an argument against IF, or for getting a checkup? I'm not sure how IF would have contributed to diabetes, nor how not doing IF would have prevented it. The core issue here seems to be not getting a checkup and/or not enough information in general, the IF seems irrelevant.
Neither of those things inspire confidence in their business model. Also Blendle has been in beta for 11 months. Maybe longer? The exact opposite of "internet years".
Wow, cracked screens are serious business. OS squabbles are nothing compared to the judgement you'll apparently get for that.
The article seems to conflate the proliferation of music streaming services and of video streaming services. But the difference couldn't be greater: Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Music have a majority overlap in their catalogs. Apart from the odd exclusive, it would make little sense to subscribe to more than one of them.

Meanwhile, video streaming services have almost no catalog overlap, and genuinely do represent the return of cable-style bundling. Even beyond Amazon- or Netflix-produced content, the world of general film and TV content licensing is such that it's rare for a film or show to even appear on two of the top-tier services.
No. Microsoft had more than just MS DOS, ex. MS Word for DOS, which competed head-to-head against Wordperfect. You forget that the PC craze was well on its way by 1989, and Microsoft had their IPO 3 years previous, so obviously Bill Gates was known by many at that point because he was already a billionaire, and very young.

Sure, Bill Gates was even more famous later on, and Microsoft was even more of a dominating factor in the 90s, but he wasn't chump change in 1989 in the least.
I'm not convinced. If we took a Star Trek "Prime Directive" approach and didn't interfere with Africa, why wouldn't their population be at a naturally lower carrying capacity?

Is it really wise to use all of that money in a part of the world where their carbon footprint is small, versus spending it on reducing the carbon footprint in the first world? Why are we exacerbating the problem by making Africa more developed and therefore worse for climate change? In the short term, we could be left with a greater number of Africans who leave Africa because of climate change issues way before 2100 when their population will supposedly level off.
That's a really neat approach. I like how it allows you to trigger code on missing paths. That seems like a really simple way to model an API.
To support your point: look at the fertility rate of Mexican-Americans.
Do you have any info on how cell phone spoofing works? Is the IMEI number used by signal to verify you?
Measuring the Real-World Performance Impact of Service Workers
I wouldn't call it organic. The Republicans have purposefully employed a multi-decadal strategy of painting the "mainstream media" as biased and untrustworthy. This has sown excessive and mostly unwarranted _generalized_ cynicism, and granted people carte blanche to outright reject challenging facts and perspectives in favor of much more partisan narratives.

This cynicism has infected not just conservatives but most other factions. It turns out that if you repeat a narrative often enough even your opponents as well as the "mainstream media" will pick it up and run with it.

The organic parts would be the dissolution and fragmentation of the mid-century media empires--broadcast news, regional newspapers, etc--into all the various cable and Internet outlets we have today. That fragmentation means readerships are more self-selected, creating market pressures for outlets to cater to their particular readerships' preferences and biases.

This is in some sense a regression to a 250-year mean of political culture, but that's a mean of slow and highly volatile social, economic, and scientific progress.

And there's no excuse for the slash-and-burn, nihilistic tactics adopted by conservative strategists. You simply cannot have a functioning democracy unless society retains the _myth_ of an objective, shared truth. It's one thing to nurture skepticism, it's another to nurture cynicism.

Not that there's no fault on the part of the left or other political factions. But I'm not going to equivocate factions which, say, pursue ill-considered policy objectives with a faction that undermines the fundamental prerequisites for a functioning body politic.

The Donald Trump phenomenon and the age of alternative facts is principally a result of a _particular_ concerted partisan political effort. And it's not new--it goes back to before Reagan, although really got going with Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution, which finally solidified a unified GOP narrative on all policy matters. The only difference is that we're now much more focused on some of the starker consequences of that shift in strategy.
>Yes, and the guy offering a bad solution looks better than the guy offering no solution.

People for whom a self-serving lie (what you call a bad solution) is better than no solution deserve what they get. It's just a pity that the rest of us are along for the ride.
The lack of an index, and indeed the incredible technology dedicated to preventing external indices, is widely considered to be a feature of craigslist.
From Rotating Needles to Stability of Waves: Emerging Connections B/t Combina [pdf]
The concern here isn't about who won, in the UK or the US. The concern is about personalized propaganda. There's nothing new about propaganda. There's nothing new about astroturfing. There's nothing new about targeted advertising. What's new is how effectively Cambridge Analytics combined and leveraged them.
> By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion

And somehow managed to overcome the constant "fact checking" by major cable networks, the Post, NYT and generally a large majority of the established media. Let's be serious. The narrative is ridiculous, but even if we were to take it at face value the cure is worse than the disease. Basically voters can no longer be trusted with making up their own mind in a democracy and they need to be automatically manipulated for the greater good:

> From now on, the distinguishing factor between those who win elections and those who lose them will be how a candidate uses that data to refine their machine learning algorithms and automated engagement tactics. Elections in 2018 and 2020 won’t be a contest of ideas, but a battle of automated behavior change.

I think at this point the losing side needs to accept that they didn't make their case properly ("the other guy is worse" only gets you so far) and stop chasing ridiculous scapegoats. American democracy has endured through secession, yellow journalism and Joseph McCarthy. It will survive Facebook and sentiment analysis bots.
Last time I heard tell of similar things, it was probably mild starvation-induced ketoacidosis.

Of course, it makes as much sense to say we shouldn't exercise because it releases "toxins"that make our muscles hurt. But, I'm guessing that's what people are normally misunderstanding in these cases.
Raspberry Pi – The Future of Microcomputers
You mean - pun not really intended - that making choices based on the mean of the supposed distribution, say for risk assessment purposes, may lead to wildly wrong conclusions? Or more generally, that characteristics of different distributions can be very different even if they fit a given dataset similarly well?
Hmm. Does it? That seems to be a loophole that would have been covered when COBRA was enacted -- the insurance company still being in business and able to ensure, with payments coming from the insured (or an administrative third party) rather than the employer.

I don't know, so I'm asking. If I were the OP, I'd double-check this point with respect to their state's laws and regulations as well as Federal law and regulation. (Sounds complicated, but probably has a final, simple answer that the local experts know.)
I would argue the opposite. All of human history until relatively recently involved hunting and gathering to survive, and later agriculture, which still involved manual work. I think ennui is a new experience unlocked by industry and automation, since we no longer have to work for our basic needs.
Amazon bundles Prime Video with next day shipping!
Mylar chip bags and 20oz soda bottles... What a revolution for litter and health it'd be if we got rid of those, too.
It's really not a pain. Every store sells paper bags at 10¢ a bag.
A couple of years ago, I saw some reporting of studies tying it to bone tissue biology.

It appears it may have systemic role(s) throughout the body.
Tech Partnership Exposes $2 Trillion Federal Reserve Bank Forbidden Documents
They could use the cups or plates made from leaves - it is called dona/donnai in India, I am not sure what it is exactly made of.
That's what WebRender will likely do.
And then you have to maintain a bunch of ad hoc shell scripts separate from your actual build process. Like I said: fragile and a pain.
Plenty of better solutions are being put forward. Nobody listens to them because they come from "educated elites" AKA those people with unique experiences and depth of knowledge necessary to come up with new ideas.

If you don't see better solutions, it's because you're actively avoiding them.
> Our bodies evolved in much more demanding conditions than we have now.

Why do you think how our body evolved is related to longevity ?
This reminds me of those gold digger videos on YouTube. Guy asks nice girl for a date and she brushes him off. When girl sees guy get into his super car she suddenly changes her mind. Guy then hands girl a shovel, calls her a gold digger and drives off.

If your second date is conditional based on the type of smartphone you have then be thankful for bypassing that world of misery.
Our company’s remote work system failed
I think Bill Gates would agree that when you control the philanthropic funds of the 2 richest people on earth then you have some obligation to spend the money in proportion to the importance of the issues being addressed.

I won't argue the relative merits of the marginal value of a human life vs. mass extinction of species because I'm sure we both have different values underlying our respective views and will never convince each other of anything.
Sorry about the edit, but I added this part: In fact, the more you marginalize them the more radical and United they will get, before you criticize others for acting against their own self interest realize that you're doing the same.

Your actions are just as self defeating as theirs.
The only names I recognized on there was Influx and Compose.

Influx actually looks like they use AWS for their cloud offering now:

https://www.influxdata.com/announcing-influxcloud-fully-mana...

and Compose deploys to AWS, Google, Softlayer and only to D.O for MongoDB classic whatever that is:

https://www.compose.com/mongodb
Other than being a senator, a lawyer, and a constitutional scholar, you mean?
Microsoft delaying Patch Tuesday
Large businesses instantly answer when I have a question? Is this a joke? Maybe some do but most do not. Worse even, most have office hours and weekends meaning that if you ask your question at the wrong time, there is a chance you wait 3 days. Most big corps are ghastly in that respect. And most answers, even from real sales and support humans are canned responses. While small companies I work with are on chat and mail always. Not sure if this differs by region but this does not reflect reality at all for me.

Edit: anecdotal of this which made me snicker; as a gold tier member I asked a question on the British Airways website. They say it will be answered in about 24 hours. It took a month. When I called and asked why, they said, we are sorry but we are very busy. Thanks guys. And that was not the first time but the most extreme.
Your subscriptions don't have all of the hidden fees of Comcast -- set top rental, hd technology, sports access, network access, etc.

I save over $70 a month in fees by subscribing to Hulu, Netflix, Sling, CBS All Access, and Amazon Prime. Most of the savings is by not having to rent 5 extra set top boxes.
Hey byuu, just wanted to say that I appreciate everything you've done for preserving gaming history. higan is still the finest emulator I've ever seen, and it's an amazing feat that it can run SFC games cycle-accurately.

On a side note, has anyone gone to the Jersey City facility? Is that even possible?
Casual ad hoc surveillance can be very useful for law enforcement. It can save a tremendous amount of time and money keeping track of where people are and where they are planning to be. The fact that the information gained is not admissible in court is not important. From the article:

>“You guys picking up any information? Where they're going, possibly?"

Law enforcement has become somewhat dependent on this sort of access and would not be able to do their job as effectively without it. Hence the desperation shown by the use of things like Stingrays where the network is actively attacked in what is arguably a straight up illegal way.
Both, actually. And of mechanistic statements.

For example, if you have this sort of multiplicative central limit theorem with no lower bound, where you imagine independent variables being multiplied together - the attractor of that dynamical process, the result of that universal phenomenon, is lognormal.

Add a lower bound, bam, power law (champernowne 1953 "A Model of Income Distribution"). So you're really making different claims about reality.
Power. Invoking public fear. Using that as an end-around the 1st Amendment.
Why the police in Baton Rouge look like they’re dressed for war
Also, why do I have to pay for +200 channels to get the sum total of about 10-20 that I ever watch?

(edit: grammar)
> And somehow managed to overcome the constant "fact checking" by major cable networks, the Post, NYT and generally a large majority of the established media.

Well a big part of the campaign was delegitimizing the establishment as "fake news" that is in bed with Hillary. Combined with a bombardment of headlines that confirm their biases, targeted by personality, it could have a big impact.
How many would vote for him if they knew he hoped to help non-Americans with US txpayer dollars?
For me, butter was the lubricant for stuffing myself with carbohydrates.
Did you notice the format that report took? Melinda, Bill, Melinda, Bill...
"All lives have equal value"

I hope one day all governments across the world operate with this principle.

Gates foundation is doing some amazing work. Looking forward to their contribution in the coming years.
Maybe if people would quit killing cops then they wouldn't have to?
Perhaps, but you'll also have the huge negative of your developers being unable to focus.
CrowdStrike Initiates Legal Action Against NSS Labs for Misappropriation of IP
Don't Compare Yourself to Others
> but that doesn't mean we should pay for apartments for English majors with the money we're currently spending on bombs.

If we took half the money we now spend on bombs and spent it on apartments for English majors instead would the result be a better or worse society than we have now?
Well you don't have to. I've never paid for cable. I have this crazy thing called an aerial which picks up television signals out of the goddamn vacuum.
Hiring at Startups: The Tom Brady Problem
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/justice-naps-man...
My read was that the SIP protocol was just less well suited to a mobile environment. Not merely that long-lived connections are bad, but that it would be inappropriate to use a long-lived connection that requires keepalive packets or loses user data every time the user goes underground (SMS queues up for delivery when the connection is re-established, and APNS will at least deliver the most recent push). Technically even the SMS solution requires a persistent connection, it's just the device's persistent connection to the cell network, which is presumably better tailored for the mobile use case.
Passing a rule is very easy in India as opposed to the enforcement or people following that. However in this case majority of the source are commercial outlets which is relatively less difficult to enforce .
You didn't read the link, did you.

I say that because one of its topics is promoting contraception.

Or perhaps you did read the link, and decided to pretend that it hadn't talked about contraception.
Then the tax was not high enough. The role of government should not be to use heavy-handed rules that arbitrarily distort market and place limits on freedoms. It can work out better for everyone to govern the externalities of human behaviour through market incentives. Everyone can win in that situation. People that still really need disposable plastic can still buy it if they need it that much. In other words, there is a price equilibrium where the cost of plastic pollution to society is less than the revenue generated by plastic goods consumption.

One of my favourite examples of this concept is marijuana laws in Colorado. 1 BB in gov rev, 200 MM in tax rev alone. Less spent on law enforcement. Less crime due to a black market. Less innocents in jail that are spending tax dollars instead of producing them. Everyone wins except the DEA and prison system.

edit, source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/marijuana-tax-revenue-hit-2...
no, that is a perfectly reasonable idea. However, an example of a dumb idea is trying to bring back the coal industry to give people back the jobs that they lost, when things like renewable energies are more cost efficient in the long run and better for the environment.
> If you don't see better solutions, it's because you're actively avoiding them.

Not sure exactly what you're talking about but I've long been a proponent of UBI for instance. But new ideas like this aren't being adopting by the mainstream left and probably won't for some time. You never get any progress without a firebrand to sell the message. The mainstream left seems more interested in playing identity politics as a wedge than coming out with a positive action plan.
ISRO livestream of PSLV-C37 rocket launch
I think aurora is the closest.
With missed deliveries, startup florist UrbanStems has tough Valentine's Day
You can get together with a few people and some investors and start a new place of learning that may someday become a university. You can't get together with a few friends and start a new government without a lot more hassle than that.

The metaphor is unsalvagable.
Earlier discussion of the launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13623824

This URL is the livestream of the launch
CambridgeAnalytica's site is interesting. https://cambridgeanalytica.org

Overall this kind of thing very much jibes with Yuval Harari's ideas about liberalism's approaching demise, as forecast in his book Homo Deus.

Edit: A Bloomberg article of note here https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-da...
Perhaps it's dead because it's dismissing people as bots and trolls because the author doesn't agree with them.

> Broadly speaking, Trump has two categories of support on Twitter. Alt-right trolls, and Russian bot accounts
> suspected
The spammer bots are so dumb that using anything besides default "pageview" events seems to work
You know, we get a fair number of commenters here at HN who are cynical about the world, who say everyone with any power is corrupt, things are getting worse, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Whenever someone like that shows up, perhaps we can refer them to this letter.
ISRO to launch 104 satellites into space
I mention H1Bs because it's a direct parallel to the broader immigration issue, yet many people have different opinions on the two.

People sponsored for H1Bs by sweat shops are to educated American tech workers as "illegal immigrants" are to American manual laborers: competitors for the same jobs willing to work under worse conditions for much lower wages.
> Does it occur o anyone they may have actually had real grievances against globalization?

Your assessment might hold water except that they also sent back the congressmen responsible for the situation in record numbers.

So, even if I give them that they believed Trump was their champion, what are we to make of the fact that they sent everybody else responsible for the situation back?

> Maybe they were tired of being belittled by metropolitan and coastal elites ignoring those grievances and dismissing them as racists to be ignored.

Yet they bitch, complain and fight when said coastal elites attempt to help things: see Obamacare. Even a SINGLE moderate Republican senator driven by moderate constituents would have made the ACA a lauded national accomplishment and enabled compromise instead of a partisan war.

There wasn't a SINGLE moderate Republican senator in the entire batch. Not ... one ...

You can't fight people when they attempt to help and then complain when they give up and tell you to get stuffed and go die in a fire. And, from what I can tell, the ACA was the breaking point where the left finally threw in the towel that there was any working with the right and that they should simply be left to rot.

> Ok, so people living outside major cities in UK voting against centralization of unaccountable power in the EU and unemployed, politically abandoned industrial workers in the US Rust Belt were just a bunch of idiot rubes tricked by click bait headlines.

Pretty much. Whenever I sit down an talk to people to explain the ACA stuff, I invariably get "Well, nobody ever told me that." Of course they didn't. Most things in the ACA are driven by the fundamental choices that most people agree with. If you agree with no exclusions for preexisting conditions, then you need to amortize the sick over the well. That implies sign up periods and getting the healthy to sign on when they really don't want to. etc.

Unfortunately, that's too subtle an argument to get through a wall of interference of "Obama's a muslim and wants to oppress Christians! They wanna take arrr gunzzzz! Mexicans took all arrr jerbs!"