skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just one of a constant stream of stories from the Guardian that boil down to "people are sheep and their opinions are formed by a sinister conspiracy to manipulate them". It is a fundamental part of their worldview, which is why they're so against referendums to begin with.

Indeed, the entire premise of this article is that people make up their mind based on what they see on Facebook, although Leave voters trend old (i.e. the people least likely to heavily use Facebook). The idea that it's sinister and scary comes from an academic "expert". This way of thinking has been pushed so hard by the left wing and pro-EU segment of media and society:

• Trust experts, not yourself.

• People who disagree with us are merely influenced by lies.

• It should be (pro-EU) MPs, not a referendum result, that decides what happens.

• When courts overrule referendums, that's democracy.

• Referendums are a bad idea because the outcome is pre-determined by whoever lies the most/spends the most money/is best at manipulation/etc.

It's a worldview that dehumanises anyone who disagrees and makes fools of anyone who adopts it, as the endless shrill cries of "what about the £350 million for the NHS" make clear - as if no lies were told by the Remain campaign! Emergency budgets that never happened, an insta-recession that never happened, Cameron saying he'd stay on and then immediately resigning, Obama saying the USA would shun the UK, the £4300/yr figure that was dropped the moment the Treasury produced it because it was clear this "expert prediction" was nonsense, the "we can stay in a reformed EU" despite the actual leaders of the EU saying that wasn't going to happen, etc etc.

But despite all that, only one side constantly harps on the idea that the vote wasn't reliable because of nonsense said by politicians: the side that never believed in voting to begin with.
> I often wish more software would make the same UX trade-offs.

It's worth noting that this is the antithesis of mainstream designer thinking right now. Designers i've worked with want to minimise the amount of information on screen to maximise its impact and clarity; lots of blank space, lots of elegance. Perhaps this works for general consumer apps, but it's not what heavy professional users want, are accustomed to, or can make the best use of.
Yahoo is weirdly popular in the energy sector
Intermediate Statistics: Topics and Sources
In a similar vein, I wrote a very quick Powershell script to check domains from a LastPass CSV export - can share if anyone wants it.
Newton Storage History (2007)
It's interesting to think about from a different angle:

Paul Graham once wrote that "information wants to be free", and that there are very few areas in which you can make a significant revenue by selling information, financial information being the exception.

$6B ($9b) seems to be the upper bound of revenue for an information product (company). And Bloomberg has unusually wide moat.
Like a lot of people, I studied basic stats in college. Recently, I've been looking to upgrade those skills, but it's hard to know what to study.

This list of courses and topics is the best I've found. Since it includes references, one could use this list to gain an advanced undergraduate level of knowledge in probability and statistics.
I used the Bloomberg terminal until 2010 so things might have changed since then. The breadth of the data is unrivaled as far as I know, enough examples have been given in the comments. Concerning the data quality I do have to object though, in my area of expertise (mutual funds at the time) Bloomberg data was far from perfect and there were better quality data sources available. I dont doubt that they deliver reliable real time quotes from stock exchanges etc.

Excel integration was generally good, at the time I used the Terminal you had however to decide between two types of applications. The original Terminal which is linked to one PC, i.e. can only be accessed from one specific PC at work and not from home, or the 'Bloomberg anywhere' edition, which I believe was launched as some kind of remote application from a browser and could be used at any PC. The issue with the latter option was that it did not offer Excel integration.

I never liked the UI, some windows application with a lot of 'Terminal' baggage from the 1980's. I think they should re-build the whole thing as a browser based application, not replacing the old 'Terminal' application that current users are accustomed to but to on-board new users on a modern platform with a long term migration path to shut down the current application for good. Otherwise they might be replaced by a newcomer eventually...

https://www.money.net/ seems to be such a potential newcomer, especially considering the much more reasonable price point and the use of current technology.
As long as investors see people using them, there'll be money. Stay away.
What a great comparison!

You are truly the greatest intellectual of our time, unparalleled in your analysis of how gaming is morally equivalent to the stock market.
> But before I get to that, there are a few places where non-developers have user interfaces that reward expertise. One prominent example are Bloomberg terminals: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/05/13/business/sub-....

See also ASCII POS terminals.

And there was an article some time back about Norwegian doctors getting floppies mailed to them because they refused to upgrade from their keyboard driven patient journals. This because once they had internalized the keystrokes, they could do them while maintaining eye contact and conversation with the patient.
This looks so shiny only because the experiment is low-scale. In a country with an acute shortage of access to capital, small money explainably gives huge returns. If it was done to every, or even every poor, household in Kenya, it won't have resulted in anything but inflation and probably riots/genocide/burning of Give Directly workers for witchcraft. If everyone could buy that fishnet, fish in Lake Victoria will run out in a month, and almost everyone who did that will have simply lost that money. Further advancement will need a ton of capital AND education, and tradition of legal system to sustain complex companies that depend on intangible assets... Simply put, require a first world country to be done in. Handing out $22 a month to every Kenyan would do absolutely nothing for him - at least many times less than handing out $22 to 0.01% of Kenyans.

It's not like i don't believe in UBI. There are few other visible solutions to the automation problem (other may be economic incentivizing - like through tax breaks - and cultural promotion of resurrection of personal servants as a mass occupation) - but it can't work as good as this example simply because it doesn't scale so well.
I just started using this myself. Having a good, free Linux client and a reasonably priced Android client was most important to me. I like how enpass is offline-only, but neatly integrates with a number of sync providers like Dropbox to share the encrypted password storage between devices.

Unfortunately, at this time the fingerprint reader support in the Android app should be avoided: https://discussion.enpass.io/index.php?/topic/1139-issues-wi...
So its like a proprietary google. Google incentivizes people to put their information publicly so they can crawl it, bloomberg gathers the info for a price. I see the two as complementary-but-future-competitors.
>> This program's testing the basic income and I think the idea is there will be a number of tests under different conditions.

IMHO there have been enough test for basic income where the basic income was decoupled from the free job market. It is called socialism / communism. All of these tests failed badly and ruined whole generations. No sane person have lived behind the iron curtain would consider it as a sustainable economic solution.
Nothing new. During WW2 (and probably other wars) gambling houses, racetracks, pubs, hotels and many other similarly frivolous services had lots of traffic and customers. People simply needed to escape from reality every now and then and enjoy themselves.

Sure, we can do more to help the world. But if we're unable to live ourselves we can't do sh*t.
in upper case letters: GO ON A LONG VACATION with as least planning as possible i.e. trip through south america, asia .... if you have family, take them with you!

gives you a new perspective, and perspective creates motivation
> Games are entertainment. They provide escapism and fun when we are bored or sad. This improves our wellbeing.

Does it?

I think sheer boredom improves our well-being.

As usual "What doesn't kill you makes you tougher". Escapism and fun leaves you vulnerable to the brutal real-world.
> This improves our wellbeing.

Which improves productivity.
"Search everything in few clicks" - poorly phrased or actually promotes navigating by clicking instead of using keyboard?
The Phenom X6 had great performance both in terms of price and actual performance for developer / thread-heavy workloads. Although this is now ~seven years ago.
True, but 90% of the work in most data processing is before you can use dplyr or the rest of the tidyverse.
I think the issue is exploitation to stoke hatred against minorities and women. Have you ever read the comments section on Breitbart? It's the new normalized Stormfront.
I've been using Alfred for probably 7 years or so, every single day, and I can't imagine not using it. Even if it had cost double what it does, I still think it's worth it.
Yes, maybe, or maybe it was meant to underline how they (border/custom officers) had not any kind of difficulties in doing that publicly, i.e. hinting that that kind of arrogant behaviour is (or can become) the "new normal"?
Anyway, it is yet another (to me) "terrifying report", I have never been to the US, but from what friends/people I know told me noone in the airport/custom have ever been anything less than respectful and professional when dealing with them (as tourists entering the country). Of course this is not even anecdotal, it is "reported anecdotal", so take it for what it is, but maybe something is really changing in the attitude towards visitors.
Cloudbleed Retrospective
Indeed, they are designed to reduce CPU load. Even so, if the game can't use multiple cores and previously was running game logic & OpenGL driver on the same core, now it's only the game logic. [1]

--

[1] nVidia actually implements Vulkan on top of their OpenGL driver, but nVidia's drivers have been relatively well optimized in terms of CPU usage already. AMD is the bigger winner here.
There's a school of thought[1] that suggests that video games are a contributing factor in the steady fall of crime in the West. Crime is overwhelmingly perpetrated by young men, who also happen to be the main consumers of video games.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/19/as-video-gam...
aka social media. I think thats the style they're intentionally aiming for. Come here instead of facebook.

Interestingly you can make a good comparison between "competitive like collectors" on social media and gaming.
Is there any impact on the tor browser bundle which uses Firefox?
This might work for a 10x super star developer. But what about the above average ones who is in the mid 30s and constantly worried about ageism and outsourcing. So the logical tells to follow money and sacrifice job satisfaction. Sad but true.
I've used a computer since I was about 5 too, and I learned how to type after I got my first job as a programmer. We're out there!
ASUS ZenBook UX360UAK
The Plan to Save the Most Important Piece of the Space Race
Using big data and propaganda to nudge elections was already well enough known to be a minor plot thread in House of Cards a few years ago. The one thing I find lacking in discussing anything like this is that the articles are always written from one side. You can say that this article is about Mercer, so it should only focus on his activities, but it's really about controlling influence in conservative politics, when this is all being done in the presence of George Soros. There was enormous detail in the article. I'd rather read half that detail, and then look at the activities from the liberal side, and compare and contrast. To me, the interesting part isn't that one side or the other is doing these things; it's what BOTH sides are doing to US.
I am well aware that vim comes with a crude autocomplete built in. It is just not anywhere near the same class of usefulness as IDEs' autocompeltes - YCM is. Hence just bite the bullet and install YCM or you will end up moving to an IDE in the end anyway.
It was a personal choice more than anything else. I personally have more experience with Mocha and Chai and I feel like they are slightly more mature than something like Jest. As I suggested in the README, this could very easily be switched out of desired.
It's Spotlight++, even better with an NP-hard template system.
Bloomberg delivers financial information, not information on every individual.
It's not just a matter of equipping police. Police are not the only people who occasionally need to make gestures that need to be recognized by cars: think construction workers in a crowded city, parking lot attendants, or anyone at the scene of an accident.

The car needs to be able to communicate with people outside of it, or it needs to have a human inside who can drive it.
React progressive web app demo
Also, error scrubbing.

There's lots of financial data available on yahoo, for example, but it's just lousy quality.
This attitude is harmful. Although new and better protocols is a worthy area of research and development, we should also improve the tools people are already using.

Note I said research: I do not consider the current crop of secure messaging protocols to be viable alternatives to e-mail, as they all suffer from extreme centralization. Allowing unicorns to own and monopolize global infrastructure may appeal to silicon valley insiders, but it's not something the rest of us should be promoting.
> Animations are a particularly egregious visual gimmick

some lightweight animations might work to cover actual loading times.

> The learing curve is steep, but rewarding

That's almost a contradiction, at least considering parts of the curve. If you average an upward curve to a linear function, of course the slope will look less steep over time than it actually is at the time.
"Cerebro" in Spanish means "brain".
Good catch.
We've fixed the issue, it should be working fine now.
8 preamble paragraph leading to a wider historycal perspective on capitalism, ain't nobody got time for that?
Illegal voting had nothing to do with Trump's unprecedented loss of the popular vote.
a) >Everyone here seems dumb and working on a few useless things.

Read: Barry Oshry - Seeing Systems
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1241559.Seeing_Systems

b) >I was hired for a position that has no decision making power at all.
Power isn't given, power is taken. Trust is earned. Leadership = Power * Trust

but if a) is your current view, you can forget b) especially the trust part.
if a) is true, then change the company, best start your own.
I wish siri would let me type queries.

Having "information at your fingertips" really kills productivity for me. I need long stretches away from twitch reactions to "what's the capital of Uganda?" type of intrusive thoughts. I'd honestly pay for a "2 click" browser extension where you only get to make two clicks on any link per hour for a given domain on a blacklist of time sinks during certain hours.
Yeah, we shouldn't have books, games, websites, sports, arts, music, etc. because fun is bad
Jonathan Neal’s Proposal for an ‘h’ generic header in HTML
As someone who worked at Boo.com - escaping in Feb 2000 as its death become obvious to anyone, I don't think boohoo.com capitalises on boo.com - most people have never heard of boo.com..
On the other hand, thanks in part to gaming, the proliferation of gpu's has helped out in reducing the cost and putting r&d money into making them better, so now we have inexpensive ways to use them for machine learning models.
EURUSD: Risk Remains Lower Bear Pressure
I'm surprised that none of the top comments mentioned "So good they can't ignore you" (Cal Newport). It's an enlightening book. Long story short: "follow your passion" is crappy advice, you start enjoying what you do once you become very good at it (the author calls it "accumulating career capital") and by deliberate practice (i.e. always challenging yourself so that you are always slightly outside your comfort zone but not too much or you'll feel discouraged). Once you have enough career capital you can spend it to apply the changes you need in your life. For example, to ask your employer to work remotely to travel the world or reduce your working hours to attend college etc. (be careful about the "control traps" though).

The obvious question is: how can I practice something I'm not passionate about? And the answer is the same you'd give someone who wants to be muscular but is not passionate about going to the gym: be more disciplined. But that's an entirely different beast.

The way I see it: you force yourself to do something you know has good results (you exercise 4 days a week so you are already doing that) -> You start improving and appreciating your efforts -> You create a "mission" out of your work -> You get so good you can call the shots on something important -> Rinse and repeat. Eventually I think what makes us happy is not the prize but the appreciation for the efforts that led to it.
11 Things You Can Do with OnlyOffice, but Can’t with Google Docs or MSW Online
Doesn't Cortana do this? Also unit dash can also search the web and local files.
I wrote about a cross-platform alternative using Terminal, specially if you work with multiple OSs https://hackernoon.com/cross-platform-productivity-tool-with...
Better, he should have his blood tested. I take 10,000 IU/day and my blood concentration routinely tests at the low normal edge. Individual responses, etc.
The full article from the NYT[0] which is the source for the information presented in the Verge post includes a quote indicating that Uber blames the operator for not manually stopping the vehicle. Their story is essentially that the car isn't ready to handle this scenario on its own and the operator should have known to intervene.

[0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/technology/anthony-lev...
Good information!
Here is also one good blog about Virtual and augmented realities.
https://thinkmobiles.com/blog/
There is no comprehensible moral equivalence between outfits like Breitbart News (N.B. Steve Bannon is on the board of Cambridge Analytica) and the Obama campaign. What people use their tools for matters.
Lots of those are work or productivity related. Actual fun things are already banned.

If it's fun, it's most likely already illegal.
Intro to graph compression techniques for in-memory graph computation (2015) [pdf]
I was super sold, ready to install. But then realized that too.

Electron apps drain my mac battery super fast. It's a pity.
How One of the Original Cypherpunks Recalls Bitcoin’s Inception
As you're ignoring 99% of what I posted and your premise is simply "I'm not saying it was North Korea, but it was North Korea", then yes we can stop right here.
Git has a security model?

edit: rephrase: Git has no security model.
Yes, I am fully aware of the vitriol, and again, not making a case for it. I am simply trying to be objective on the way manipulating media is perceived by the public and press. The ends don't justify the means for either side is what I am saying, and how surprised you don't find any cautionary tales from the other campaigns mentioned.
I am a privacy advocate, and since taking media classes at NYU in 1982, I have always known this was going to happen - control of the media and public mindset. Polarization of the US into just a two-party system has allowed this to happen. It's good guys vs. bad guys simplicity - a much easier sell on the public for either side.
The magic iPod
>What?

Fyi for readers who might get the wrong impression about the article based on grabcocque's criticism: The author is actually explaining why he continues to play with video games even though people are dying. It's a long essay (4500 words) and it takes Paul Kilduff-Taylor a while to build up to his justifications of pursuing the activities he finds meaningful even though people are suffering in the world.
There are quite a few of these Quicksilver-clones these days:

* Ulauncher http://ulauncher.io/

* Albert https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert#albert-

* Synapse https://launchpad.net/synapse-project

* Kupfer https://kupferlauncher.github.io/

* Zazu http://zazuapp.org/

* M-x counsel-linux-app http://oremacs.com/2016/03/16/counsel-linux-app/

I've tried a couple, but I always end up back to Alt+F2 in XFCE, since most of these launchers always start so slowly in comparison, and I never use any other features (more than once) than starting Firefox/Emacs/Terminal …
The clothes were awful. It sounded like a good story from a distance, but if you looked at the catalog it was a definite maybe and if you saw the clothes in person you realized they used cheap materials and were photographed from the good angle.
Here's an extension that can block sites by domain after a pre defined number of minutes on those sites:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...

Here is more of a nuclear option that lets you micro manage your activity on an os-level. Unfortunately no Linux client afaik. A bit pricy, but very customizable and very effective:
https://focusme.com
I suggesting looking at Cal Newport's So good they can't ignore you, and his blog.

The notion that you just need to find the right thing (passion/purpose) and then the big money and satisfaction (that you think you're entitled to) will roll in is misguided.

Exercising 4 days a week shows that there's sufficient motivation there.

At any rate, good luck!

http://calnewport.com/blog/
Some people consider human consciousness as a singularity in the human evolution which shouldn't have evolved at all. Human consciousness, as a powerfull problem solving tool, helped us to climb to the top of the food chain and to conquer the whole planet. We can sustain human life under water, in the arctic, even in space. The most of us in the developed world have no existential problems any more, don't starve or freeze to death, don't get eaten by wolves. But human consciousness has a big drawback. It can not be turned off, even if all of the problems needing a solution are gone. So why not work on [put a big burning issue here] to feel occupied and having a meaningful life?

There come video games and other drugs helping us turning our consciousness off, at least for a couple of hours.
Making more people while people are dying, for that matter.

Cursing future generations with death by giving birth to your children. You monster.
I love the idea of extending it with Javascript. Every service my company uses has an API that'd be (presumably) trivial to wire-in to this, making for a nice alternative to the traditional informational portal.
People have been dying since people existed and keep doing so. (See The Onion for details http://www.theonion.com/article/world-death-rate-holding-ste...)

The best hope to fix it is to move to computer simulation so games developers may be our saviours.
In the end Kodak's film processing business was way larger than the entire modern digital camera industry. It employed hundreds of thousands of people in the USA alone.

There was no replacing that, ever, even if they transitioned to the digital age, it was over for kodak.
Which one of those runs stories that argue against observed scientific fact? Which one of those repeatedly stokes religious intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiments, to the detriment of a nation built on immigration and tolerance? There is no moral equivalence here.
I got my blood tested and it was low. I'm getting the levels back up.
Outstanding work by an undergraduate