skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot possibly recommend Beeminder highly enough, if you happen to have the personality type that it works well with.

The basic idea isn't too far off from the million other "habit" apps out there. I say I want to meditate X days a week, tell Beeminder whenever I meditate, Beeminder gives me a pretty (okay, decently attractive) graph of how I'm doing, and they tell me if I'm not meditating as much as I want to.

The key that makes Beeminder stick (heh) is that it makes use of commitment contracts. I don't just say I want to meditate X days a week, I promise Beeminder that if I don't meditate X days a week, I will pay them $5 (or $10, or $30). You can cancel or decrease your goal at any time, but only with a week of heads-up, so you can quit for a well thought out reason but not because you just don't feel like it today.

I've tried to start a lot of habits in my life, but I've historically been very bad at sticking with them for very long. It's so easy to give into the "I'll just do that tomorrow" syndrome.

As an example, here's my Beeminder graph for "tidying up": https://www.beeminder.com/jds02006/tidyup

I love having a clean desk, but historically I'd have a clean desk every 6 months, followed by a slow accretion of messy crap. Now, if I don't spend 5 minutes tidying up my work area every few days, I'll have to pay Beeminder $30. Result: my desk area is completely clear.

It sounds crazy (to my wife, at least), but it's ridiculously good at bringing your long-term goals (and the consequences for not achieving them) into the present.

Disclaimer: I have no association with Beeminder, but they have sent me stickers for making bug reports. :)
Nope. Let's give credit where credit is due. If it wasn't for Bush and Obama recognizing the problem and acting quickly to fix it, we could have had a crisis of much larger proportions. Now, I'm not saying they Personally fixed it. But they did recognize the enormity of the situation and actively took steps that helped remedy it.
It's not just the opportunities that were on the table at the time, but also declining all future opportunities if this venture failed.

You get one shot at a job like this. The company making the offer had to make it worth her while to

A. Leave Google, and while she wasn't the top dog at Google any more, she was still extremely well respected, and incredibly well compensated, and--perhaps most importantly--very, very safe. What would it take for you to leave a job like that?

B. Spend her one shot at the ultra-big time at a company near death, where it was likely that she couldn't save it, regardless of what she did.

Yahoo had to offer her the big bucks for to take a risk like that, and one part of reducing the risk to her is to give her a golden parachute, where regardless of whether the venture succeeds or fails, she is still better off than at her old position.

And you have to make all the numbers risk-adjusted.

All of this negotiated _before_ you know if she is going to succeed or fail.

Yahoo wanted her that badly and spent what it took to get her.
Mumble is not end to end encryption, at least if the setup isnt one of a party of two running a server.
I've not really been following it but isn't one of the main arguments that Obama would've had to have sign any FISA warrant?
If you want world prosperity this isn't a simple issue at all.

Why should the richest country in the world get richer by taking the best and brightest who could have helped elevate their own countries? Isn't this just contributing to a world stratification of wealth?
I wonder how many of the bugs were squashed by Dr. Su himself and how many were DISs or other forms of work supervised by Su. Maybe he did kill that many bugs on his own but that seems outrageous (without taking time to actually see what kinds of bugs they were).
Really? It seems to me that the touchscreen has already supplanted the screen-and-keyboard for most people for most of their day.
Couldn't the founders just give themselves common stock with similar terms (including non-transferability) as employees' RSUs? I don't see the need for a trust.
Get your kids to bed earlier ?
With due respect, if the community was fully behind Python 3, it wouldn't still be controversial. Clearly it still is.

That said, my personal feeling is that with awesome new toys like curio, Python 3 is finally starting to be worth the pain of cutting over.
Ah.. If only..
> Stable updates to this release will be versioned 4.0.x

/nit Semantic versioning (or communication) failure. I would think that "stable updates" would represent minor releases (i.e. 4.x.0), not bugfix-style patches. Unless all new features will be present in major releases instead of "stable updates"?
Of course your TV’s spying on you
It's the only way to block ads and tracking on locked-down devices, i.e. pads, pods and smartphones.
And only one of those three is someone I will be happy to have in my country. Mandela and the Lama are next to useless.
Agreed, the entropy is pretty big wrt mbp. I love the aluminum body and touchpad... screen is also nice, but not my biggest bit. Having a more consistent cli environment is pretty nice if you're using tools that lean in that direction... I find node dev and similar are cleaner on macOS, where windows is much better today than in the 0.6/0.8 days, it's still less than great. My two must haves in mac are iterm2 and moom, all else I get via homebrew (except chrome and vs code).

At least VS Code is great (can run it everywhere I work, linux, mac and windows).
I'm actually in a tax bracket right now that is well over 100%. In fact, this particular tax can be as much as 12 million percent.

I got caught in this when I turned 65 and signed up for Medicare Parts B and D.

This tax is the Income Related Monthly Adjustment Amount (IRMAA). The IRMAA tax is applied in increasing levels as your income goes over certain amounts. But it's not a marginal tax like income tax brackets where the higher rate applies only to your income over the bracket, and the tax rate doesn't change for income below that.

Instead, the IRMAA tax takes a hard jump of $1216/year as soon as your income goes one penny over the line. That one penny of additional income costs you $1216 in IRMAA tax. In other words, the tax on that penny is 12 million percent.

In my case, it wasn't quite so bad. I'm about $1800 over one of the IRMAA income levels. So that $1800 cost me $1216 in IRMAA tax, but I still have to pay federal and state income taxes on the extra $1800. Add it all up, and the total tax on that income is over 100%.

It is a strange thing, and I say downright evil, that my take-home pay goes down when my gross income goes up.
Sure, kind of. I agree: good tools should be able to handle being pushed beyond what counts as reasonable usage. But all tools break, at some point. Now we're splitting hairs: Is Facebook's use of the tools merely somewhat unreasonable, such that the tools should still hold? Or is it sufficiently past reasonability that they shouldn't have to hold any longer?

To answer that, the fact that they managed to break not one but several tools is highly informative. I'm willing to accept that some tools might not work at scale. I'm less willing to accept that what basically amounts to the whole stack for mobile development is _that_ weak, not without very solid evidence.

Near as I can tell, there haven't been reports of this sort of issue with MS Office for either Android or iOS, or from other applications that should, by any reasonable metric, be more complex than facebook.
Well, the title of the tutorial is "Naked Tensor"...
Samsung is an example of a manufacturer that doesn't make it easy. Oppo, One Plus and Google (LG) all have very easy to unlock bootloaders that have "official" instructions from the manufacturer (and it's two commands away).

Can you still brick it? Yes. Is it likely if you type the two commands as you're told to on the website? No.
wow I hope you never have to interact with anyone slightly different from you in the real world
Masters is the new Bachelors.
> Requires machine vision

no it doesn't. rfid, weight, a camera, can easily do this.

> the most prominent being that your fridge would have to have a ton of sensors

Sensors? in a refrigerator? the horror! How could we ever accomplish such a tremendous feat?!? /sarcasm

> This is a lot harder then one might think.

Sure, but it doesn't mean it's not possible. Just because something is hard doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. I'd argue the opposite.

> But it is no problem living without it all.

And it's no problem living without a cell phone, or central heating, or indoor plumbing, but we don't see many people running to that lifestyle very often.

Just because you don't want something, has no bearing on whether other people want it or not.
I wrote a tool that scrapes HN and detects moderator activity (and provides interesting stats in general).

Sounds great! It might be good to distinguish between "moderator activity" (which to me implies that a human reads and makes a decision) and "moderation activity" (which covers automatic adjustments such as the frequently faulty "flame detection algorithm").

If there's interest, I can put this back up and start pruning old data so it's more maintainable.

Yes, I think it would be very useful to have this available.
But my point is that they don't want their own currency. Also, the EU won't let them have their own currency. So given that that's off the table, the Euro is as good as the Pound for them.
It could be both.

Anyway, it's not so difficult to see why to have the flexibility of adjusting your currency, independently of the rest of the system, to suit your current situation is a good thing.

micro-services anyone?
I, for one, would have been perfectly able and happy to have done the job of "fail to turn around Yahoo" for a mere 1/100'th of what she got. For some reason, the board chose not to call me for that interview. Could have saved those shareholders some big money!
They have their reasoning behind this scheme over here: http://blog.llvm.org/2016/12/llvms-new-versioning-scheme.htm...

I personally do not agree with their line of reasoning.
With what? Pills?
Then how are the republicans so ducking successful? Like it or not our system is controlled by two parties. One of them is opposed to science and democracy. The other is an imperfect group of competing interests. If you want things to change you have to deal with the framework we have. Not choosing is a choice for the side that aims to empower the already powerful.

But you look great on that high horse, cowboy. Your cool disinterest and disdain for the world as is must make your apathy relatively painless. Getty up!
> an orchestrated political attempt, that featured prominently in the NYT and other media, and was the excuse for a whole war.

So you've decided to forget that there was a inspection non-compliance from Iraq and WMDs _were_ found there.

> absurd "Russia hacked the elections" meme, when not only there's been no proof released

No proof released? Really?
Such a risk!

With respect to the complexity of running a multi-billion, it still seems a little absurd to phrase out that way. To me, real personal risk is losing your house or dying.
I've noticed a bunch of these in Uber/Lyft cars in NYC, but didn't know what they were until I saw TechCrunch linked to a Mobileye press release about installing 4500 of these systems:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mobileye-completes-i...
If I recall correctly, the textual IR is unstable between releases. They recommend building ASTs with their APIs instead.
Summary:

Don't let the title throw you off, UTC is fine. Just be aware that when you convert the UTC time that you store back to local time, the conversion might be off depending on where you convert it. If your API is hosted on a server in Amsterdam and your users in Japan, that won't work. If your app is run on a tablet bought a few years ago, it will have an old timezone database. As the article highlights:

> Do date/time transformation on the server side, where you can control it.
True "tea" comes from the camellia sinensis plant. Tisanes, which we in the US like to call "herbal teas" are any number of plant infusions not made from camellia sinensis.
Did you read the website? They tell you to check it first.
> It feels like the mid-90s just before Apple started allowing Mac clones.

There's parallels there, where at the time Apple was being pinched by infighting within the the PowerPC consortium. Motorola and IBM were squabbling over who would get to do what, and the 604 vs. 603e battle was well under-way.

Apple eventually bailed on the PowerPC and moved to the more industry standard Intel CPU. It wasn't cloning that solved Apple's problems, it was eliminating their PowerPC handicap.

The real obstacle right now is Intel. They're up against the wall on process, they're flailing a little, and the year over year CPU gains are pretty marginal.

Now that AMD is back in the game maybe that'll help clear up this logjam. The alternative is, strangely enough, that Apple steers towards ARM for their laptops where they have more control over their destiny.

Note that Apple's not the only one feeling the crunch here. Every single laptop vendor is stuck using whatever Intel gives them excepting the few that have gone with AMD.
Well, it fit just fine until a few short weeks ago.

Mexico was getting wealthier, people were more likely to return to Mexico.

Ironically this whole border wall + move jobs back to the USA thing has made the chances of illegal immigration from Mexico to the USA for a given individual go up rather than down.

As for who would make Mexico wealthy: that would not be the US government but market forces and corporations, the things that America has historically been such a huge proponent of.

But that's all gone now, it's the new times now, market forces are bad, companies need to be 'incentivized' to move their production back to the home country and all those illegals need to rounded up and sent back.

Government would have a hard time achieving the goal of making Mexico wealthy but they sure can do a lot to make things worse which will put upwards pressure on Mexicans to seek a better life elsewhere.
https://getpocket.com/a/queue/
I wonder if this will effect the UN Security Council membership? The dissolution of the UK and it's nuclear naval bases based in an EU country which is anti-nuclear weapons.
I would argue requiring people to pay a disproportionate share of their income is absurd too.
The Note 3 is not a Google-made device, it's made by Samsung. Google's own Nexus and Pixel devices allow it in a single button press, I'm unsure of other manufacturers except OnePlus which does the same as Google. As I said in my post, some devices are a lot better than others when it comes to this.

Also, bricking doesn't just happen, if you understand what you're doing you'll be fine. That "some risk" isn't random, it's in the case that you do something incredibly stupid. Get a custom recovery on there as soon as possible and you can pretty much recover anything.
Yeah, you can always make it a pain to block ads.. but then who will use it?
A look into Messenger Day and what might happen next
Start running down the list of classic famous artists and you may be surprised at how many wouldn't have met those criteria at the time when they created their most important work.
The intent of the warrant is to provide a check on the power of the executive branch, where hopefully the jusdge's incentives are divorced enough from the police's so that they can make a decision that is in the best interests of society and not just the police.
Does it have a digital port (dp/mini-dp)?
I thought it was a ROTFL synonym...
Sorry but this is a load. I've seen you post before. I'm 90% certain that you're a paid shill. The more desirable ones have nothing to hide. They're usually college educated and speak English. You should never use the outliers to justify an opinion. You look like a fool.
> Has anyone actually tried paying $25 per hour plus benefits for strawberry picking?

Yes. Actually here's one article about farmers offering $25/hr picking strawberries:

http://komonews.com/news/local/local-berry-farmers-lament-la...

Their crops are getting ruined because they can't get workers.

I can't believe people don't understand how comfortable the average millennial is in this life, and how completely unnecessary it is for them to work hard labor.

And there's no faking it in economics. If you artificially raise prices for unskilled labor, you're going to raise inflation, and now you're back to square one in needing to raise wages again.

We need to have wages tied with age and skill level/profession. A blanket minimum wage is just a dumb idea. Teenagers don't need $15/hour, as they should be at school. The head of a family household does.
I'm actually wondering if they simply didn't repackage this hardware with a better then average design for a case, frankly. The specs are very similar. I think even though these are AMD embedded processors they're ARM, not sure though, it didn't say (or i missed it).

Thanks for the link!
There is urgency in the market around autonomous vehicles - for better or worse, it is believed that it will be the next big technology market - but I think that the Nvidia push around it is the main thing spurring Intel.
Ouch. I can't imagine working in an environment where I don't have control over my development machine and tools. (Never been in that scenario luckily)
>"I have to chuckle at this question. Do you think..."

This is kind of rude and condescending and I don't see how prepending it to your comment improves the discussion.
Controllable Text Generation
I think the last example was a clASSifier, so it makes sense.
Nobody is making a "big deal" about it[0]. What they did was wrap something well known up into a relatively easy to install "package". They're not claiming this is new or magic, just simple.

[0] Except, maybe, you.
Because you end up with more people working and for low wage jobs there isn't all that much room to cut wages.

At the moment we have pretty good job growth combined with low unemployment so new people starting working aren't putting downward pressure on wages (evidence of this is that we are seeing wage growth).
When would it start?
Are you serious you don't know about her Google demotion? Here read this and get enlightened: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/17/marissa-mayer-yahoo/

Also you didn't know about Henrique de Castro catastrophe? Here read this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercov...

If Yahoo was a capsized ship, why did they have to hire a very expensive exec for the death march? Obviously, the expectation was that Marissa can bring about some improvements.

Apologies for being snarky in this comment as I had a difficult time appreciating your ignorance.
> Obama would've had to have sign any FISA warrant?

No, the straw man argument is that we can tell whether Trump was wiretapped by the presence or absence of a FISA warrant.

The president does not sign FISA warrants, the entire purpose of FISA is to streamline (almost to automate) the issuance of warrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
It's very strange and I would argue it decreases your incentive for making more, which in turn generates growth in the economy based on spend.
Or CEO. They need a change at the top IMO.
The rest of your post seems to be talking about cases where the market changes and the labor force changes as a result. But we're looking at the opposite, right? We're looking at a direct change to the labor force, and there may or may not be any commensurate change in the market. So I don't see how your example of the transition from agrarian society applies, at least not directly.

By the way, I'm asking these questions in earnest -- this isn't a debate to me, and I'm more than happy to "lose". I don't know much about this topic and would like to learn.
I love how they recommend curl-bash-piping, but then put a disclaimer beneath it, even with a detailed post about it. As if people would not just copy paste it anyway. I think they were just trying to dodge the usual curl-pipe-bash-is-evil comment thread – unsuccessfully, since I started it anyway.
> I personally find the dual-world "experimental" vs. certified regulatory environment to be a pretty good compromise.

Agreed. The accident rates in both categories are also a good indicator.
This is a PAL demo, so it's worth setting your monitor to 50Hz refresh rate if possible to see it as intended. Many monitors will sync to 50Hz even if they don't report it in the EDID. On Linux you can attempt to use arbitrary modelines with xrandr.
Critical Vulnerability in JSON Web Encryption
Wet behind the ear grads are useless in white collar organizations too. College doesn't teach you about your job, it teaches you about the wider world. Being a military vet is an admirable use of your time, but the picture it paints of the world is very different than that of a university education. Likewise, I wouldn't want to debate a construction worker about the proper building code for a multi-occupancy building, but I'm willing to bet one semester of finance would far outweigh the knowledge that construction worker has about why the building is being built like it is.

You make good points about getting a broader picture, but the notion that the military or blue collar jobs are the "real world" is false, IMO. That's one aspect of the real world, it is far from a broader picture of it. University is supposed to present the other side, a far deeper picture of the other side.

And for the record... what I'm talking about is the pre-reqs. I'm specifically saying those pre-reqs are not bullshit and are the most important part of a university education. I just want to be clear on that. Job training is better left to an internship/apprenticeship.

Finance and marketing and math and science and English classes are the real benefits of college that you can't replicate on a construction site.
How to Make a Plane with Battery and DC Motor – Popsticks
You're stuck in the mindset that the consumer CPUs that you can purchase are the only ones Intel can make. They can and do make custom chips, extremely custom, for large customers and government agencies. It would be very, very easy for them to mass produce a chip that drops all the unnecessary features for an "appliance" like self-driving cars.
This is why you want something like an exokernel.
If that's really true, I feel sorry for them! My experience with touchscreens has been that they are mostly sort of okay in small doses, if that's all you've got - but if I need to write anything longer than a sentence or two, or read anything that takes longer than a minute or two, I'll wait til I can use a computer instead.
I believe there are two critical components of that that aren't simply natural result of the democratic nature of the internet, nor are necessary.

First, WWW is relatively young, so people haven't learned how to use it well.

Second, large platforms have been created to shift the democratic nature of the internet - make pseudo-open spaces that are not truly open, like various social networks, and give the users content that is a) tailored to them, so leads to less openness, less improvement and more mindless consumption and b) does it in an obfuscated way, via closed algorithms that prioritize you staying on the website to improving your life.

Those might be somewhat naturally occurring, but the degree to which they occur doesn't have to stay the same.
Coding directly in LLVM IR is tedious. It's supposed to be used via the AST building APIs.
Building a Regular Decision Boundary with Deep Networks
Scientists Have Created an Artificial Retina Implant That Could Restore Vision
And yet Apple introduced a first-class ad blocking mechanism into iOS that even works in 3rd party apps (using SFSafariViewController). There are dozens of ad blocking apps available on the App Store, which are much more accessible to the average user than having to root your device and install apps that have full root privileges.
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