skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What are the long term impacts of wearing headphones? bacteria growth and hearing loss? Can't be good for my health long term.

For the hearing loss, not necessarily. Get some good noise-canceling headphones that completely cover and enclose the ears, and then either play no music at all or something quiet, at very low volume. With the noise-canceling on and the noise-isolation from the muffs themselves, you'll find you don't need very much volume to hear the music extremely well (human hearing is logarithmic).

However, even the best headphones do have a little weight, which is on your head, and there's always going to be a comfort factor. Wearing them 8 hours straight, day in and day out, may be too much.

>The person unaware that their constant sniffing of mucus is awful.

How are they supposed to help that? It's not their fault that they're sick; people get sick sometimes. It's management's fault for providing you a workspace where there's no privacy at all, so you're forced to see and hear every little thing from your cow-orkers like that. And you can't guarantee that you'll never have a workplace without an annoying or less-intelligent coworker; again it's management's fault for not setting up a work environment that mitigates that factor by giving you some privacy and isolation.
They cut my neighbors water main in the process, and then blamed it on inaccurate (spray painted) markings. I'm a novice, but even I could tell that the markings were accurate. They also managed to put a speed bump in his driveway when they were tunneling under it - big enough to spill a beer. I got pretty lucky with my dead grass and misshapen tree rings.
I'd suggest RLE:

Yes: 50 Republicans

No: 46 Democrats and 2 independents

Abstentions: 2 Republicans

edit: tx fjert!
So I just did this. Have to say that I really didn't feel comfortable with the unencrypted CSV data transfer. I made sure that time machine doesn't index it, but accessing this file in the time window needed to export/import seems like a prime attack vector to me.
If this succeeds, how will Google and Howard keep whites and Asians from taking too many positions in the class? Outright racial discrimination in university admissions is still illegal, and Howard couldn't seriously argue that they're engaging in affirmative action (their student body is over 90% black)
What "incomplete incapacity for language" means? There is speech, hearing, reading, writing, signs language…

I can't imagine a "normal functioning" human that cannot communicate in any way with others. Surely there are things she can do to express herself and understand others?
That's incredible. Our two party system is so clearly suboptimal, yet there seems to be no strong agreement, or even leading ideas, on what we can do to improve it.

One day... if we can overcome our deeply set ideologies...
* Compared to completely cloud-based password manager like LastPass and 1Password, it's no worse.

* The database in encrypted with your master password.

* You can optionally also encrypt it with static "Key File" that are on all your devices but not in Dropbox.
Google and Mozilla were heavy sponsors of LetsEncrypt (in money and in Mozilla's case manpower too) because they wanted to push out HTTPS more, and mandate HTTPS for some new HTML features. That would have been problematic if certificates weren't free or convenient.

In Mozilla's case, HTTPS is better for privacy. In Google's case, HTTPS makes it harder to substitude their ads.
How can you make sure level3, AWS, DO or anyone else doesn't log everything too ;)
They should get rid of the regulations that prevent customers of these ISPs from banding together and suing them.

Hah!
This is what I'm thinking. We can't rely on our government to do the right thing so we need to do it ourselves.
> I strongly suggest using a third-party DNS provider as well.

I don't know the exact equipment and mechanisms used by ISPs today, but it's extremely likely that the surveillance works just based on sniffing every DNS packet, not just those sent to ISP resolvers.

Someone with a better knowledge of the current state of the art is invited to comment :)
I have some of these that I use for lawn work, which are designed for shooting guns. They isolate sound pretty well, but they're also not terribly comfortable. They're OK for driving around on my lawn mower for 30 minutes, but there's no way in hell I'd wear them for 8 hours.
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>"both sides do it" is utterly false.

So Obama stopped the NSA mass collection program during its administration?
The same will happen here on HN at times. A whole bunch of inflammatory comments and then a few hours later all that remains are a few '.'s.

Mission accomplished I guess.
I extracted a readable list of cert providers:

Equifax
VeriSign
TC TrustCenter GmbH
RSA Data Security
Equifax Secure
Symantec Corporation
GeoTrust Inc.
Thawte Consulting cc
thawte
Thawte Consulting
Equifax Secure Inc.
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH
The USERTRUST Network
Thawte

Source here in case I screwed up or anyone wants to verify my terrible regex: https://gist.github.com/JodiWarren/376aebbf7ce6902b06766843f...
Yes, operating systems other than OpenSUSE have this feature. TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD) has had it for some years, too.

* https://blog.pcbsd.org/2012/07/9-1-feature-multiple-boot-env...

* https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/

* https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-changes-...

* https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/the-revamped-life-preserver/
A thousand times this! People who fear an internet without advertising obviously were not cognizant when the internet did not have advertising.

The only down side I remember is that we only had one Mr. T fan page.
Sanity check: there are only 100 senators, 2 per state.
Mine is similar, but uses drugs: http://bit.ly/2nW8GbR
SDRAM is a simpler kind of RAM and is likely what would be used in the project of the original post.

I seem to have gotten myself sidetracked by the DDR3 comment, but yeah, going to SDRAM is a practical solution
That is an interesting scheme. I feel like the same thing could be done by asking Amazon Prime or Google or Netflix too though. (Who is singed into this ip? Who has the cookie/session id)
That depends on how much engineering goes into the delivery mechanism.
This should be covered by NYTimes and the other news outlets. The lede is that this restriction was enforced by "the government" for a long time, and the FCC power grab argument is a non-starter.

Internet browsing history is like one's library, phone and mail records all lumped into one. The Internet is a basic necessity in the developed world, and so it should be treated like a utility (common carrier) that they are.

This is THE SAME THING as the USPS, your library branch, and your telephone carrier selling your transaction records for profit.

It is dispicable.
Good ole dang, shows up 10-12 hours late after the conversation is over with.

That's what I call effective!
When talking about solar cells, the efficiency is defined as electrical power produced divided by the solar irradiance on the panel (~1000 W/m^s without concentration). In this situation, the theoretical limit for a single junction solar cell on Earth is ~34% as shown by Shockley-Queisser in their detailed balance calculations. Multijunction cells can be more efficient than single junction cells and can theoretically reach ~70-80% efficiency if >30 junctions are used and concentrated sunlight is used. In practice it is prohibitively difficult and expensive to make a device with more than 4 or 5 junctions, so you will not see one sun efficiency greater than 70% in real life. The 95% number is for a Carnot engine and doesn't apply to an operating solar cell. In order to extract power from a solar cell, you need to operate it in forward bias (typically at the maximum power point). When at the maximum power point, the solar cell emits radiation and therefore has irreversible losses. This is why the real limit for a single junction cell is 34% and not 95%.
Operating and Controlling Your HVAC System with DDC
If you run it yourself, what the heck is the point? The ISP of the VPN will log you.
I lived this out a few years ago when I had (great) offers in hand from TechCo in the Bay Area and FinCo in NYC. Running the numbers, the former was simply impossible without a four-hour daily commute, whereas the latter worked pretty well with a commute half that long.
I got a scio dev kit from kickstarter. I backed it because they claimed at launch you would be able scan the leaf of a living plant and determine if it was sufficiently watered. Unfortunately this functionality, along with many other promised applets, was never built and the dev forums are prettmuch dead. When I looked into building my own model, I found the time required is pretty huge. To build a remotely useful model, one would need to scan between 200 and 300 samples. That means 200-300 individually potted plants for every plant variety you want to measure!!!
It’s Not Just Unfair: Inequality Is a Threat to Our Governance
I'm still disappointed php projects haven't embraced .phar files for distribution.
Barrett M82?
"The reason why I hate these kinds of threads in IT communities is that we usually don't seem to talk about the issue(s) the article is referring to."

I clearly describe the issue: "a program that knows the right password, shows it to you, but then inputs the wrong one in the password field". This isn't a bugtracker. If you want details, I'll gladly supply them. But don't accuse me of not writing something that's clearly in my post.
Anecdotally, I went to Tennessee State and we had a fairly decent population of Caribbean students, including Caribbean Hispanics from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
For $90, get this board:

http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndKits...

Includes 45K LUT FPGA with 250KB on-die RAM, DDR3, controller license and PCIe.. Actually this is so cheap I wonder if they are about to discontinue it.

Anyway, I otherwise think the capture the data with the DMA trick is cool. There are a bunch of projects which do the reverse: generate video with SPI output with tricks to make jitter free sync signals.
Context all the way down
They want functionality, but they don't care if the functionality is brought to them with a SPA built on the latest JS fart or some older than two years stack.
An internet points out the obvious -- that performance matters in computing. Hackernews nods in agreement, then goes back to coding Ruby on Rails applications in an editor implemented in HTML5 and JavaScript that consumes 13% CPU just to make the cursor blink.
But, but, the internet told me that both sides are equally bad!
Wouldn't it be better for one developer to learn and adapt to the rest of the team? I don't get why all the rest had to adapt to this single person who didn't know shell.
I've had good luck blocking ads on my Asus RT-AC87U running MerlinWRT. It can block ads by installing AB-solution and also supports VPN both to your network from elsewhere and for routing your entire WAN through VPN if desired. https://www.ab-solution.info and http://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca
Is there a way to whitelist domains to skip the VPN? Like Netflix, Amazon, Amazon Video, YoutTube etc. I don't mind if my ISP knows I'm there, but everything else goes through the VPN? Specifically with OpenVPN?
In the minds of people who've spent long time on traditional client-server tier architectures view Javascript as a toy and view all the Javascript frameworks as "over engineering".

Yet, what they fail to realize is they are comparing a webpage to an application. An application contains information about the state it's in. Handling the application state has always remained complex and it has been two way coupling to the presentation layer making life more difficult.

The latter is why Javascript is perceived to be "over engineered" by people viewing it nothing short of "fairy dust on ugly document pages" which is absolutely incorrect way of viewing application development.

I used to be the biggest Javascript skeptic but once I realized the intent behind React/Redux/Vue.js, it changed my perspective and have started treating it with more weight and respect.

Once that paradigm shift happened in my perception, I found it a lot easier to navigate and endure the fragmented tooling and endless variations of npm modules.

Because I realized that it's going to get better eventually and it's here to stay. Young people aren't learning Java & using Maven on Eclipse or Netbeans anymore. They are on Atom or Visual Code, writing Javascript.
I think the common consensus online is: more representatives and a transition to a non-FPTP (first-past-the-post) voting system.
A 3rd party?

Even if they held only 4 seats, would change the entire political landscape.
This is extremely outdated bad info.
> I've often wondered: why is trust in CAs an all-or-nothing proposition (aside from EV certs), and why should my particular browser vendor have all the authority over who I should trust?

It doesn't. You can adjust your root certs in Firefox by going to about:preferences#advanced and clicking on certificates.

But what does partial trust look like? Showing half of the HTML? An eyebrow raised emoji instead of a lock?
>No: 48 Democrats and 2 independents

I think you meant 46 Democrats and 2 Independents.
I literally just decided to jump into the world of password managers this past weekend. I went with LastPass
Fair to mention that Howard U does not discriminate on race in admissions.
The WP article title is "David Gelernter, fiercely anti-intellectual computer scientist, is being eyed for Trump’s science adviser."

Your WE article says "Gelernter is also a fierce critic of academia."

Gelernter is self-defined as anti-intellectual. He wrote a book titled America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats).

His Amazon book description states "David Gelernter connects the historical dots to reveal a stealth revolution carried out by post-religious globalist intellectuals who..."

So what did the WP get wrong?
I agree that it's a hit piece, actually not as bad as I had expected based on the title.
I disagree that it's fakenews, because the only disputable statements are the conclusions / interpretations / shade-throwing of the author, e.g. Scott's girlfriend.

But going meta -- not surprised by anything about the article except the timing, for which Scott offers an explanation in his counter-blog.

The #Resistance has not had much luck in attacking Trump directly, so they go after his allies and those upon whom Trump might have to lean for support.

Such a strategy may look cheap, but if one were tasked with stopping tanks without anti-tank weapons, then attacking fuel sources and making roads harder to navigate aren't such bad ideas.
You don't need AI. The starting simulations and agents don't need to be that complex. You make a toy first, and then see if it's of use. (I think Europa universalis and other games from that house may suit you?)

Matter of fact, if you have time, use the bay12 Way.

Write a story of what you'd like to see. Then break it down into interactions, atomic items, compound items, and then go from there.

Do note, that DF allows for hugely complex interactions and emergence partly because it has the advantage of a millions year of development time, unburdened by having to conform to market or business expectations.

So this allows for moderately deep systems to interact with shallow systems and yet more systems which are very deep.

The sheer number of systems results in all sorts of emergent behavior, without having to resort to depth of simulation.

So for example, you don't need a z axis when you start out. You may well want geography though, since that determines ecology and weather.

These inform resources, nutrition, growth, abundance and derive from there to economy.

Assuming you don't simulate evolution, and hard code races/civs - you have the basics to define conflict.

But unless you write a story down, it results in an antiseptic sim. A story or text helps you identify quirks of your style, which you want to see reflected in your sim (you may want people to always have a predilection for ponies, or prefer cats over dogs. You may hardcore pacifism as a civ trait which leads to other results )

This keeps some sort of emotional and narrative hook, which makes the simulation worth engaging with.
Yeah I corrected my mistake but thanks.
Cubicles take up more space per employee than a typical open office plan. You won't be able to fit the cubes in there.

Also, cubicle furniture is extremely expensive, so your manager or the company executives will not look kindly at this purchase request. Expect a poor review.
They'll say they are always striving to provide the best consumer experience.

AKA they would probably sell your dog to you if they thought they could get away with it.
Enpass seems to be your (and mine) best choice at the moment.
At least it's a standalone Qt application (not a JS-based browser one), with it's separate UI and without any autofills without asking.
Bonus points for reasonably good integration with your usual clouds (Dropbox, GoogleDrive, OwnCloud, etc) for synchronization.

Cons: NOT open-source, paid cellphone apps.
Congress can still make changes, they are just preventing administrative changes. It's not weird or scary, it's how the US system works, the executive branch is given authority by legislation and legislation can take it away.
Dans les entrailles du Dom Virtuel – Part 1
I would argue that they are not in their _right_ mind.
The only two Republicans who didn't vote for the bill were Rand Paul and Johnny Isakson. Pretty sad.

edit: Rand Paul is listed as a cosponsor on the bill.
This is always something that's baffled me, mostly since it seems totally counter to how the democratic process should work (apart from the fact that it seems totally petty). Does that mean that this resolution would have to be repealed in order for the FCC to make similar policies again? That sounds less like "never enact policies like this" and more like "now it'll take one extra round of voting before new privacy-related policies can be enacted".
I also do this. However, literally just hours ago, Greg Wooledge, author of The Bash Guide, posted the following to the GNU bug-bash mailing list.

> Errexit (a.k.a. set -e) is horrible, and you should not be using it in any new shell scripts you write. It exists solely for support of legacy scripts.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-03/msg00170....

edit: I asked after this (for whatever reason, my email isn't yet showing in the archives; maybe it will appear later), and got an interesting response!

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-03/msg00171....
The difference is all the trump voters that said the exact same thing actually went out and voted. Lo and behold, their votes counted.
Don't worry, if you leave MS you can still experience the same sort of thing from other providers. e.g. https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Stop-auto-inheriting...
Struggling Music Service SoundCloud Raises $70M in Debt
Not entirely sure how this works, but there could be a new bill that reverses this to allow them. This bill prevents them from independently creating "enacting" similar protections. A future bill could cancel this provision, or enact new protections that could be enforced.

Either way, it is frightening to think about this passing.
Someone should start a project to gather and share as much information on the lawmakers as possible within the new legal bounds of what is now allowed.
Wow that's egregious. One thing I'm curious about -- what leverage does the driver have when trying to strongarm you into cancelling? Why do you end up giving in?

> I eventually gave in and canceled the request.
Who's going to pay for the research to prove your idea that quiet spaces improve productivity? Especially when all the current consultants are hyping open-offices, which aligns nicely with managers/executives who want to save money on floor space and cubicle furniture so they can get bigger bonuses?
Hey there! Fouad here, from Segment. We're really excited to share the fellowship with everyone and hear about people's projects.

If you have any questions/ideas, please feel free to leave a comment here & I'll be around to respond :)
Slowly the price advantage that Uber has by using loopholes fades away.
I mean, there are technically two "I"s hiding in the sea of "D"s...
You're right. I didn't look into the Chrome release schedule so I just assumed they followed the max validity deprecation schedule. My mistake.
> They are heavy because they need to be extremely sturdy.

That makes sense.

> That said, weight isn't too much of a problem.

This I would dispute. The way I see it there are two main consumers of bikeshares in the beginning (before the system hits critical mass and ubiquity):

1. People who don't own bikes, aren't regular cyclists

2. Cyclists who are visiting the area and didn't/couldn't bring their own bike with them

Of those, 1 is likely to be the majority. When I tried viaCycle, I was in category 1. I was also in terrible shape (as some non-cyclists are also). When you're in that demographic, a few extra kilos in bike weight (plus hills) makes a massive difference to how the ride _feels_ and how likely you are to try it again.

Overall I wonder whether, instead of promoting bikeshares, cities should try and foster a biking culture and make it easier to ride everywhere. Examples:

1. Mandate minimum amounts of bike parking for businesses (I don't know if any cities already do this), as they already do for car parking

2. Mandate minimum levels of convenience for bike parking at businesses. Eg. Valley Fair Mall in San Jose/Santa Clara has maybe 2 or 3 tiny bike parking stands, sometimes hidden away inside the car parking structures. Which means you're in for a long walk after locking your bike. It doesn't have to be like that. I understand that bike stands might be demand-driven; i.e they aren't installed because customers don't demand them. But it could very well be a chicken-and-egg problem and it doesn't cost much to find out.

3. Make street bike parking and locking safer (I'll admit I don't have any ideas for how to do this)

4. Make it easier to bring bikes onto public transport - This one is admittedly a tough sell in places with already-crowded public transport; but in most places like that you probably have the critical density needed for a successful bikeshare program. OTOH it could also increase public transport ridership in places that don't have that much population density.

5. Bike lanes with barriers - drivers hate them but if a city is determined to get more people biking, this could help. Many would-be cyclists are skittish about sharing the road with huge pickup trucks and texting drivers.

6. During the planning approval process (or whatever it's called) for new buildings, take into account pedestrian/bike accessibility. Eg. Buildings or complexes that are built on corner lots and only have parking lot entrances on either street side built for cars, but no pedestrian/bike entrance on the corner. Pedestrians/cyclists have to walk/ride all the way around to one of the car entrances or hop a fence/hedge or something. In theory it shouldn't even be hard for most existing parking lots on corners to add a small pedestrian/bike entrance.

EDIT: formatting
Cross Functional Doesn’t Mean Everyone Can Do Everything
If you knew someone in particular worked as a member of the CIA/NSA or as a politician, couldn't you (possibly unknowingly) sell their personal browsing history to a foreign adversary (and give that adversary leverage over the individual)?
In case you want a general understanding of some alternatives and how they work:

http://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/
Analysing that Python code snippet