skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect sooner or later the book industry will have to go DRM-free to break Amazon's ebook stranglehold, in much the same way.

I wonder about this, because the fact is that I really LIKE Amazon's system. It doesn't matter where music comes from, I listen to it over and over and usually listen to each song totally.

But with books, it takes more than 3 minutes to read. The fact that all my stuff (Kindle App, Kindle, website) know my place and sync all that stuff is very handy. It's the main reason I use Kindle over physical books.

If you load non-DRMed eBooks onto Kindle my understanding is you don't get that functionality for them and I'm guessing no one would have the power to force Amazon to implement that feature. The end result is that Amazon's DRMed books may be more appealing to me than DRM free options from other places.

As for breaking their monopoly.... Apple tried and the government smacked them down for it.
People often use the word ‘you’ rather than ‘I’ to cope with negative experience
Two kinds of cities -- cities that already had good cab service before ridesharing took off (like yours, and mine) and cities that didn't (and ruralish areas, which, at least in the US, essentially had no taxi service at all).

That's why people are so polarized on whether Uber and company are the messiah or the devil. It just tells you which of the two kinds of cities/areas they lived in.
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I think this could set an interesting change in motion.

Assuming ISPs start selling their costumer's browsing behaviors I imagine we'll soon see a "marketplace" for selling of this style of information. This could be a win for startups as now they will have an easy place to sell the types of information they collect about users who have signed up for their service.

It used to be a notion that "if you aren't paying for a service you are the product being sold".

Now you can start to assume that your usage of a service or even any program you install on your device will in effect result in information about you being sold.
Someone needs to start publishing the web history of everyone who voted YES to showcase the power/data ISPs will have.
we do the same, but the npm scripts are just the "entry point". one of them was this:

"build:dist": "NODE_ENV=production babel ./src --out-dir ./dist"
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Was it a protest vote then?

edit: Oh I see, you voted for a republican senator but not necessarily a republican president.
Exploring concurrency in iOS and in general
Even in 1883, tech journalists were the worst
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The consolation is that it is always much quicker to build the second of something than it is to build the first one, because you know exactly how to do it.

I like to say that I could have done my PhD thesis in 3 months rather than 5 years if I had to do it all over again... Of course it's actually figuring out what to do that is the real work, not the doing. ;-)
I never say it is untouchable, but 31% is a lot. Perhaps they need to convince me their cutting will yield to better spending. But we know why the budget is cut - the head of EPA doesn't believe in EPA, Trump doesn't want EPA either.

It isn't just the internet privacy, but everything else.
Prohibition and war on drugs are about what people do to themselves. This is about what entities operating behind a shroud can do to whole countries. Different story altogether.

Free speech is me standing on a soapbox next to the local equivalent of the whitehouse, being able to make unpopular political opinions heard. It is not wholesale subversion of voters for the highest bidder in hard to detect ways using advanced technological measures.
Yes, but his point is that for ages it didn't exist. Like, for 2 decades and something, was first tables, then "floats" BS.

And even now it's still not mature and supported in all browsers.
And a lot of tweaking of configuration parameters until it's "automatic".
A solar cell could never achieve the Carnot limit, so the 95% number is not relevant. In order to extract the maximum amount of power from a solar cell, must operate it at it's max power point. When you do this, the cell is in forward bias and must emit light (because of the physics of absorption/emission). Emitting light is a loss mechanism and thus people take this into account when calculating the theoretical efficiency for solar cells. It has nothing to do with currently available device on the market and is just accounting for how solar cells work.
Propaganda efforts are one thing, results are another.
It amazes me how often Symantec is in the news about the same subject, yet they seem to be incapable of learning a lesson from it.
Ranked choice voting; allowing more choice into the process, and getting away from the extremes.
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Probably not easily. Remember this is what java AWT did and it was a complete mess. Write once debug everywhere.

My favorite issues was that on one OS (windows I think) a panel would only be visible if pixel 0,0 was on the screen and nothing was on top of it. The panel could be 99% visible but not be shown at all if the upper left corner was under another panel.
Soon, Putin will have no USSR debt.  Is this a critical turning point?
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There was a study a read (that I can't find now), I think by MIT, that showed there was no correlation between what bills passed in the house/senate and the 'will of the voter' (what people wanted).

Until you took into account money. Then there was a correlation between what was passed and the 'will of the lobbyist'.

Really wish I could find that study again.
> For convnets, you have to do a very unwieldy data unroll that either copies your data by (nxn) where n is the width of your kernel

Justin does a WAY better job of explaining it than I do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUTzeP_HTZg&t=36m30s
"Some of the lowest in the world" is pretty creative wording for second highest in the world. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
But how to trust that this other computer has a good set of CAs?
Totally agree. The only advantage I could see them working is being able to act as a central platform for paid outlets.

Digital subscriptions (NY Times, Washington Post) have seen a boost since the election in the U.S., but does anyone pay for multiple subscriptions? It's frustrating - even as someone who really wants to support media - that each outlet has their own barrier.

This is so different from how we consume other media (video: Amazon Prime, HBO, Netflix; music: Spotify, Apple Music) where I can get access to a library and it makes the tradeoff with finding a free version online easier to deal with.

To my knowledge, major publishers have never tried this and they instead are caught in the digital impression arbitrage game.

Admittedly, Medium doesn't have those publishers on board but I do think that's an angle the market has not tested/figured out.
I've begun mentally treating "Natural" as the equivalent of someone saying "trust me". Well, I did... until you seemed to preemptively think I had a reason not to.

Ignore the words on the front, flip the package over and read the little ones on the back. The higher up the ingredients list a word is, the more prominent it is in the product. Some big scary words are no big deal, others are just another word for sugar. So many ways to say sugar, it's incredible. And then there's sugar alcohols, which are a whole other pain in the ass to decode.

Then there's the loop holes, if a particular ingredient isn't above a certain concentration it doesn't have to be listed- well that's freaking helpful!

I'm probably not saying anything new, but you're a lot better off if you can just assemble the raw ingredients yourself.
You can cherry-pick this all day long. Partisans from both sides can point to specific cases of the opposing party behaving badly and/or biting an outstretched hand.

Both parties are self-serving.

Both parties have supported the surveillance state.

Both parties ignore their constituents when convenient.

Both parties have promoted legislation that they themselves are exempt from.

"Less bad" is a red herring. What's better, a shit sandwich or a sandwich with 90% less shit in it? Partisans will try to convince you that any sandwich will have shit in it, and their particular sandwich's shit is barely noticeable and actually good for you if you were smart enough to realize it.
To both you and cortesoft: ISPs (and the countries they reside in) don't all share everything. They don't all have the same, or even compatible, rules, legal regimes, or economic interests. In particular, the economic drivers of last-mile ISPs vs backbone providers to major data centers are vastly different.

Therefore routing across
multiple independent networks (which is what a VPN is) actually does provide some additional privacy protection because it means that coordination between multiple entities is now required to see the same information that would have been available to one before, and it changes which entity with which economic interests can see the most.

Essentially, it's a competition hack. There is massive competition (and customer responsiveness) when you get close to the core, but very little for most people at the last mile. So a VPN allows you to shift you effective entry point to an arbitrary provider, and that can be quite helpful.
Certainly. I do think that this metal-body Galago will be fairly sturdy though; System76 is simply getting better at it.

This too is part of my dilemma; I want to support a company that simply sells me a GNU/Linux laptop. There is always the alternative of spending days browsing reviews and anecdotes from people who bought some laptop with Windows on it and then installed Linux to find out if all the hardware works. It's a waste of time, and not necessary if I can buy a laptop that comes with Linux out of the box.
> I could care less about attractions

That means you still care.

I'll show myself out.
If we have the ability to vote (sort of electoral college), but giving incentive to people to participate, perhaps we will see some more engagement. Perhaps. I don't know, it's ideal.

Perhaps if their job is more about explaining and convincing people, and we hold the keys voting, then perhaps the power will indeed back to us. Again, ideal, I don't know how effective it will ever be.
The real issue here should be the abuse of the small provider provision 'hobby' tax code exemption for businesses netting <$30K that provide ride sharing.

Uber should fail on both of those counts, but instead the law is changing to end that exemption. This appears unfortunate to me as we could use continued innovation in the ride sharing space.
> Uber drivers are not employees.

This is Canada. I'm sure that's how Uber would like to see it but not everybody agrees:

http://business.financialpost.com/news/transportation/uber-d...
Not even close. Just off the top of my head, the infamous Yvette's Bridal Formal website was easily a couple of orders of magnitude worse. I think Yvette's is gone now, but here is a mirror: https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net

Even better (worse?), unlike the submitted site Yvette's was not intentionally a bad site. It was actually a serious attempt at a good site promoting their business.
Sounds fake.
That's egregious. How long ago was that? Was it a legitimate cab?

Until very recently, NYC's TLC required drivers to pass tests to prove geographical knowledge and basic English.
I understand and agree with the thoughts behind your argument. My city, Saint Paul, implemented ranked choice voting a couple years ago and I'm thrilled about it. Stay active, not bitter.

But at the end of the day what matters is who gets out to vote. Your state's outcome was decided not by fate, but by people who vote. Count yourself among them.
I wonder about that... If you look at each individual district, I'd agree with you. If you look at it more generally though, there would be a case for the Republicans wanting to push this in CA (where they are almost non-players at the state level at this point), and similarly the Democrats pushing for it in Texas.

Given this, there is an argument for both parties wanting this so that they could potentially have more power in areas where they do not now...
Why is Apple afraid of forcing users to reset their passwords?
Adding to this:

- UV is effective only when it directly hits a microbial cell

the lamps must be cleaned regularly to remove any dust and dirt that may block its germicidal effectiveness (ethanol approx every 2 weeks)

- UV lamps used in biological safety cabinets use much more power than a battery powered micro-lamp (so they're much more effective), yet do not disinfect the spill area under the directly exposed surface, a favorite hideout for fungal spores

how can a couple of balls scattered throughout the house actually have an effect ?

- skin cancer ??
> New Problems, Not-Yet-Established Solutions

FTFY: Zero Problems, Not-Tested Solutions
They still have the price advantage from not having the capital costs of buying a million-dollar medallion, though
So is Chase, Citi, PNC, Schwab, TD, ...
I was mostly referring to the enthusiasm that tends to spring up around technology that isn't really all that good. The merits of the underlying technology isn't important for adoption -- the momentum of the community is. Programming languages don't win on merit. They win on ease of entry and community.

Hence so many programming languages (and/or implementations of them) that, in sober retrospect, are horseshit.

I've even seen that the community around a language or a technology doesn't have to be a positive one. Even negative communities can create momentum. Which is puzzling to me, but probably not to a political scientist who would actually know something about the behaviors of multitudes.

As for keeping your cool and seeing what sticks: nobody has ever regretted being on the fence for a few years before committing a big chunk of your professional life to a technology. The only thing that really happens is that stuff is even better by the time you make your bet. You don't really lose out on anything by waiting.

(That being said: like anyone else, I've charged in early and started using technologies prematurely. And regretted it)
That's an unusual experience. Based on a handful of benchmarks[0] done by the author of JOE, VS Code is sometimes an order of magnitude slower than Notepad++ and Sublime at some tasks.

I use VS Code pretty much exclusively these days myself, so I'm not picking on it by any means.

[0]: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
I have never seen word open instantly. When I do it there is always a second or two for teh obnoxious splash screen, then often 10 to 15 seconds waiting for it to do whatever. Notepad++, yeah, that opens nearly instantly.

I mostly use Ubuntu and there Libreoffice still has a stupid splash screen. After that though the amount of time is too small for me to count.
I think HN mods may have changed headline to a more reasonable one (or maybe they didn't) but lets contrast the reasonable HN headline (US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules) with the more alarmist Washington Post version (The Senate just voted to undo landmark rules covering your Internet privacy).

I mean, OMG, these privacy rules were Landmark. And now they are Undone. And it's YOUR privacy that is gone. OMG OMG OMG your ISP is going to start spying on you Right Now! Guaranteed per the headline.

Look, I don't agree with this action by the Senate either as I read about it.

I just am opposed to clickbait headlines from Washington Post and feel they go a bit far and it's worth looking into the claims and implications they make rather than taking them at face value. And they have been getting a bit carried away with this type of thing and sometimes don't present a very accurate picture. That's all.

As far as the thread painting a clear picture it does for me as well. The picture I get is that otherwise intelligent people are forgiving when sensationalism and clickbait support an ideology they uphold.
Do you have any similar thoughts about HAMMER (from DragonFly BSD)?
sigh.

And supporters for both ways feel the same way you do, so, guess what? nothing truly changes.
The implementation is open source. You can launch your own ACME server (valuable for testing), and use that. CAs implementing this technology obviously need to go through the same hoop-jumping in order to become trusted, but that's true of any strategy of starting a CA.

The technology is available for any CA, existing or new, to copycat.

And if they don't want to use the open source reference implementation, they can cleanroom an ACME server that works with all the existing clients that work with letsencrypt.
Interesting that it would be "so much easier" for the U.S. intelligence community to steal most certificates or work around TLS, when countries like Thailand, which have much fewer resources, prefer to get Microsoft to install their own root certificate for them in Windows. Perhaps this is what the IC meant as well, when it said there are other easier ways? Why bother with Verisign's solution, when they could have their own root certs in Windows?

The CA system is such an untrustworthy mess.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14381174/microsoft-thailan...
If I staff my grocery store with contractors, can I claim a $30,000/contractor tax exemption too?

The intent of the law is pretty clear - serious businesses (That do more then $30,000/year in sales) are expected to pay taxes. Small ones are not - because of the small amount of tax revenue, and the high burden of compliance for individuals.

The cost of compliance for Uber is trivial. It's a bloody app, for Pete's sakes.
SREcon17 review
Cochrane (http://www.cochrane.org/) is often a good aggregator for medicine-related subjects. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they've got anything good for this one -- just a few things relating to caffeine and pain, pregnancy, etc.: http://uk.cochrane.org/news/caffeine-and-health-evidence-coc...
>My only point is you can't glance at Washington Post headlines and have a guaranteed accurate picture of the event. Which is true. Ideology aside.

You also can't glance at ANY headlines from ANY publication and "have a guaranteed accurate picture of the event." Which is true. Ideology aside. So why the need to point it out specifically in the case of the WaPo?
People have discussed in the past that SO's user base is heavily biased towards web/mobile/database (including ETL) development. Are there any competitors to this survey that would be more holistic/diverse in its view of the industry?
I tried Keepass but couldn't find a Mac compatible port that supported import from CSV, which kinda kills it because I already have all my passwords elsewhere and there are too many to move manually.
Gotta agree with you there. Market failures refer to failure in a free market, or some problem caused by some market being too free.

Regulation failures are problems caused by bad/too much/too little regulation. In this sense, regulation failure can sometimes overlap with market failures.
How does this show otherwise?
They didn't vote because they are probably up for re-election soon and its expected to be a close race.
Does anyone know of an extension based program, that doesn't rely on an application, that just uses a keepass file stored in the cloud? I really like the idea of KeeWeb, but I wish it could be part of an extension, with support for things like automatic detection and autofill.
> A talking lion would still be a lion.

But it's not. Lions can't talk, almost by definition. A talking lion is necessarily a creature so different from a regular lion that it can't reliably tell you what being a regular lion is like.

It's like how smartphones aren't really phones, they're computers with telephony capabilities. Calling them phones is ridiculous when you really think about it, but we apply that label for historical reasons based on their evolution from early phones. Still, opening up a smartphone won't really tell you anything about how regular phones work.
Is this new? or Alaska?

It looks that only Alaska has internet voting beyond corner cases (military and citizens abroad) whose votes don't get counted anyway except in statistically tied races.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/interne...
I am a satisfied customer of System76. I own a Lemur laptop which I basically maxed out. I've had it since December, and am very pleased with the build quality, the keyboard, and the battery life.

My suspicion is that a lot of people don't know how to configure a Linux OS for optimal laptop use. I imagine that even if one were to keep the Ubuntu installation that comes with the unit there are many further optimizations that can be performed to improve battery life.
Should you not be able to?
> Oh, the commie card. I call bullshit.

Had Sanders been elected, I am confident we would be talking about the marxist administration instead of the fascist administration. Hillary? Not so much.
My point is that the built-in text edit control needs some way to draw it's caret, so surely a universal method to draw a blinking caret exists somewhere.
> I'm still not sure why the JS community seems determined to slowly bootstrap an OS in javascript.

Well it worked for Emacs didn't it?
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
This is precisely why Dr. Guy McPherson has predicted human extinction on earth by 2030. Methane clathrates coming from the Arctic sea floor and from Canadian and Siberian permafrost. This is the most serious threat we face now.
Hi, OP author here: I have actually set up a VRRP (well, UCARP) on Docker, so it's possible even to containerize this facet of running a HA ops stack with Docker as the infrastructure. It is however, as you say, it is only used for one active node + a number of fail-overs in case that one goes down. In terms of maintenance (hosts do go down, scheduled downtime is common), it's priceless to have this part of the puzzle portable as well. If you want to check it out, there's a github available here: https://github.com/titpetric/ucarp-ha - and a future article with it is planned as well. It will also become a part of the E-book which I'm currently working on and publishing on leanpub: https://leanpub.com/12fa-docker-golang :)
Breaks down more quickly though I'd expect?
"When the goo is placed on a chair it becomes the chair..."

You are the Bruce Lee of Modern Javascript programming and I salute you.

https://vimeo.com/3191188
Not necessarily true. There is a HUGE contingent of very poor, rural white Republicans. (e.g. the ones who voted for Dear Leader Trump). Just like there ARE wealthy African-Americans out there. African American does not necessarily equal poor in America.
What about Globalsign?
Can you buffer the incoming websockets data and only update at a small percentage of the inputs or maybe based on time?

Lodash has a debounce function which is useful to throttle UI features hooked to incoming data. https://css-tricks.com/debouncing-throttling-explained-examp...

You never really want the UI repaint to be dictated by data, it's better to use timers.
Comodo, as in the Comodo which tried to trademark "Let's Encrypt" last year? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/800-pound-comodo...
This is exactly why I switched to ClojureScript for new projects, and have ported over a few from JS. One of the best decisions I ever made.
So, this sort of thing must have happened in past warm periods. Yet life survived.
They aren't that great in the Linux bubble.

I say that from the developer and the user perspective.
Not quickly enough to save us from disaster, if the CG hypothesis holds.
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