skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From one of the imposter's wiki pages, some sage advice on office politics:

>(Demara)'... had come to two beliefs. One was that in any organization there is always a lot of loose, unused power lying about which can be picked up without alienating anyone. The second rule is, if you want power and want to expand, never encroach on anyone else's domain; open up new ones...'

>Demara referred to it as 'expanding into the power vacuum,' and described as such; 'if you come into a new situation (there's a nice word for it) don't join some other professor's committee and try to make your mark by moving up in that committee. You'll, one, have a long haul and two, make an enemy.' Demara's technique was to find his own committee. 'That way there's no competition, no past standards to measure you by. How can anyone tell you aren't running a top outfit? And then there's no past laws or rules or precedents to hold you down or limit you. Make your own rules and interpretations. Nothing like it. Remember it, expand into the power vacuum!'[7]
Maybe we like impostor stories because we can convince ourselves that the reason we don't feel like we're good at something is not because we legitimately aren't, but because we've somehow misjudged our abilities. In other words: we're better than we are, and we can do it!
Immigration increases the supply of low-skilled labour, thus lowering wages. And since a good deal of the US economy is based on exporting, the increase in the demand for labour due to the presence of immigrants is smaller (i.e., they don't have to be in the US to buy iPhones and Snickers bars).

Finally, people are naturally tribalistic - you can blame evolution for that one. Until we fix that, immigration will increase ethnic tensions, which serve as a distraction for corporations to use while they rob you.

But I guess I'm just being irrational..
1. Electromagnetic radiation has been the primary tool of astronomers and astrophysicist since before the first telescope. It is not "neglected" by any stretch of the imagination.

2. At large scales, the total number of electrons and protons tend to balance and thus result in electrically neutral objects.
Out of curiosity how have you found the performance of clustered Minio? I've been checking out Riak S2 but the simplicity of Minio is attractive. Thanks!
No one knows what to do with the International Space Station
> Why not require passengers to turn their laptops on as they go through security? That would be a more effective security measure than forcing them to check them in their luggage.

The reason that security checks aren't going to ask you to turn your laptop, ipad or mobile on, as a standard process, is that it takes too much time.
So, you want to found an AI startup?
Wouldn't be surprised if the surveillance infrastructure for physical mail started deteriorating already and a beautiful handcrafted, scented letter with calligraphy could fly under the radar.
Arguably taking your shoes off takes more time.
> I've liked some of netflix's original content - house of cards was the first

Erm.... House of Cards (on Netflix) is an American remake of the British show of the same name that was shown on the BBC in 1990? Not exactly "original content"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)
Any tips for getting over the first hump?
To be fair, all security is a form of security through obscurity. An encryption key is just very, very obscure.

If this security feature could only be reproduced using a bunch of PhD chemists and millions of dollars of lab equipment, then the security can be considered to be pretty obscure. Even the strongest key based encryption system is vulnerable to brute force attacks if you have enough computer power.
Typical lithium capacity-age chart:

http://www.calce.umd.edu/batteries/pics/dcir.png

I suspect many users will be happy with their car down to half the usual range (ie. the 700 cycle mark). Even if the original owner isn't happy with this, they can resell to someone needing less range.

After that, there really aren't many cycles left in the battery before it gets to zero. Remember that cycles aren't the only thing degrading batteries - simply storage also causes degradation, so even utilities who rarely have to make use of their batteries (eg only once per week) might only see a year or so use of the cells. I doubt that pays for the installation cost.
Take a look here https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-without-jsx.html
Deniable encryption

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-77566-...
The Eternal Search for a Gun That Doesn’t Kill
for sure but how else does one penetrate a clique? Perhaps one might find out under closer analysis that everyone got into the clique through such skulduggery.

Generally I would not recommend such behaviour but in regards to cliques and arbitrary walls where meritocracy is unwelcome I would recommend skulduggery.
For me the sweet spot is a season with around 10 episodes that tells a complete story.

Bosch over on Amazon was pretty good.
Disclaimer: I'm not a music producer, and my ear isn't that great, but I did write software for one of the major pitch-correction vendors for many years, and I think I have a better-than-average ear for it after listening to it for many years.

Pitch correction is something which is used on many, many professionally-produced tracks, and often without the knowledge or consent of the performers. Whether you can hear it or not is a stylistic choice (provided adequate skill from the production team: see [1]). But just because the pitch correction isn't in your face, T-Pain- or Cher-style, doesn't mean it isn't there. The software is better than that, and in the right hands, it just makes people sound more skilled than they are, and you can't hear it.

Producers generally are pretty quiet about where they use it to mask blemishes in the performance, probably because they don't want to embarrass anyone. But the producers we sold to would certainly say how much they used it, without naming artists or tracks.

[1] http://productionadvice.co.uk/aretha-autotune/
The other reason is that it's going to be of limited use these days, since I'm pretty sure some devices such as iPads effectively have multiple cells in parallel and should power on just fine with all but one of them replaced with explosives.
UK government renews calls for WhatsApp backdoor after London attack
You should see how bad American Football is. $50 USD for "Sunday Ticket" and literally half the game is advertisements. Its gotten so bad the NFL actually took notice that viewership is dropping.
Think the word you're looking for is long tail.

Rounding up to $10 a person subscription, Netflix can comfortably spend a million dollars on a show even if it thinks only 100,000 people, and no one else ever, are going to enjoy it. When they have almost a 100 million subscribers, they can basically make 1000 shows, each of which will be thought of as "great" by 0.1 million people and "trash" by 99.9 million people.
UAE Sees $192B Savings in Switch to Green Power from Gas
Make your own Lisp
Generating C code that (waving hands here) generates machine code is more complex than just generating machine code.
I don't understand why they mess with newlines, what's the reason?
Those are two separate questions really.

React is another in a long line of Backbone, Angular, Durandal, etc. that ultimately just make stuff a lot more complicated for fairly trivial benefits. It dictates fairly complicated ways of doing simple things with long complicated tool chains that regularly break for obscure reasons that you can debug but ultimately it feels like you're simply wasting your life dealing with it. It's easy for juniors to make ridiculously complicated messes in them. They remind me of the good old days of RAD dev tools. "Oh so easy" they claimed.

And if you're any good, you can enhance traditional web forms and add the same sort of functionality without all the overhead, or complexity. Perhaps I simply have the benefit of over a decade of front-end dev.

As for SPAs, they still live firmly in the uncanny valley. They're poor versions of desktop apps, even desktop apps from the 1990s. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply delusional. Because of javascript and the DOM, they also tend to complexity, so that anything past a glorified to-do app becomes an absolute nightmare to code in.

I use Trello, Asana, Toggl, SendWithUs, etc., etc. They're all, well, a bit shit. All of them have really annoying niggles, fields you click and then might auto-save but might not. Poor desktop interfaces because "mobile first". Tabbing that doesn't work properly. Data that gets out of sync. Or they're sllllooooowwwwwwwwwww.

As for the reason React became so popular? This happened before with terrible frameworks. I may be a cynic, but it feels front end devs have got into some sort of mega-echo chamber where a new framework comes along and everyone jumps on to it because they don't want to seem out-of-date. The front-end world feels like it's in a strange kind of culture at the moment, a type of Emperor's New Clothes, where if you're not using The Latest Framework, you're obviously not worth employing.

Not because it makes you get a product to market quicker. It's a new form of bike shedding.
Now that I think about it, China is very concerned about external batteries too, they must be below 100Wh and manually inspected.
If you only need money to finish visual effects I'd say give Kickstarter another go. If you've got a decent edit of the movie ready you can use that to make a good video and even give backers access to the current version of the film when they pledge.
The are many scenarios where we still need provable code/security, i.e. health and safety related matters.

Not sure I would fully entrust a trained AI to control even an elevator door, where failure could result in bodily harm.
I'm interested in hearing about your team and diversity discounts, it doesn't look like there is any information on them on the site (unless I missed it!)
I mean, sure, and if you have users running VAX or the Hurd, that matters. But it turns out that most of us use one of Linux, NT or OS X. And even if you add BSD and Solaris (and a few other Unixes) you can still find languages without C's known problems that cover 100% of users. "But embedded." Embedded can maintain their own software, they do all the time. How long are we going to insist that end users run software that cannot be secure because of the lowest common denominator of programming languages?
Defeating MitB attacks with Clickstream,or fraud prev with behavioural profiling [pdf]
You basically can, once you connect you can just pay using card . also integrates with FON so if you're from overseas you can use that.
I find it hard to believe that NetFlix should be worth $60b on $8b of revenue when Time-Warner (which owns HBO) has a $75B market cap in $25b of revenue. NetFlix had higher EPS in 2014 so scale is not a great argument here.
Well not with that attitude it can't.

Have you even looked at other tools like Plex https://www.plex.tv/, Foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/, Clementine https://www.clementine-player.org/, iSyncr http://www.jrtstudio.com/iSyncr-iTunes-for-Android, or DoubleTwist Sync?
Yes...the post above me was talking about Ocaml. Similar arguments for not redoing curl in Go.
How to Kill a WiFi Network Way of PRO Hackrs
Do you think you are in danger of being banned from Amazon for too many returns? They have been known to do that to other buyers.
But I think experience has already shown that machine learning models blow away expert systems in a lot of domains.
Unless they explicitly stated any players submit their rights to ownership of the algorithms they write. Even then I feel an open source alternative geared towards research would be better than a for-profit closed source organisation, but they will have their own business needs and ideas they want to stick to.
What could they possibly say to "he was hot" ?
> The problem is that for many, react does not do that – because you need npm, webpack, babel, systemjs, and so on and so on.

This couldn't be further from the truth. And besides, create-react-app solves that.

> No need to configure thousands of transpilers, no need to handle constantly breaking dependencies, because people keep their API stable for years, some even decades

I have been using react since early 2014, back when it was still very early pre-release. I have had to change exactly one thing w.r.t to the react API. When we decided to add in webpack, again, I had to change exactly one thing there as well -- I switched to a .babelrc file and they included the react transpiler by default.
Sky show nfl in the UK and for a lot of the breaks over there they have a studio discussion of the last play. So they show maybe half the amount of ads you have to watch there and it's still way too many.
It's not hard to solve.

It's hard to solve under Amazons business model whilst retaining Amazons profit margins.

It's a problem they chose to ignore for a long time because they could.
Understanding China's Belt and Road Initiative
Right, this is the whole end game. They own the content so they can sell it forever to everyone and their library only grows. The Studios and traditional movie powers saw all the interest and decided to squeeze out as much juice as they can. I wouldn't be surprised to see Netflix and Amazon eventually start releasing their movies to the theaters directly and then they later add it exclusively to their streaming platform.
But with an even number of sides (12 in the new coin), can that work?
Wow, this is ridiculously impressive. I wonder what the audio equivalent of this would be.

Anyone know how long this takes per image?
Encoding.com's 2017 Global Media Format Report
If you put development cycle time over user experience you're doing it wrong.

Personally, I dislike that React is 100+KB file size, when Preact or Inferno can do 95% of what I want at with 3KB.

(Yes, I know gzipping exists but it's still huge by comparison, and JS parse time is a real issue on underpowered mobile devices)
> Compare the Netflix versions of Black Mirror and Sherlock Holmes with the ones put out by the BBC

Black Mirror was never made by the BBC, and all episodes of Sherlock were made by the BBC not by Netflix, so neither of your examples make any sense and don't allow you to compare what you are saying they would.
It's a pretty good argument: the three features mentioned as advantages over static or server-rendered html only exist to mitigate problems created by the SPA structure itself. It's like touting "fast battery charging" as an advantage of a Tesla over a Porsche.
If the Netflix version is better, how good was the BBC version? :/
The fact that it will occur and likely outcomes has been priced in, but there will possibly be new information on government strategy which may move prices up or down.
A Fortnight is a period of fourteen days, or two weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight
> However lately Netflix' content simply seems to lack substance to me. It feels as if it's just the superficial result of throwing a promising combination of those very specific tags/categories the services is famous for onto the assembly line and ending up with a show or film that, while ticking all the boxes and not being bad at all, is still pretty far off the masterpieces of the medium.

That is very much the feeling I got from Stranger Things. It is solid in almost every way, but it also felt like it was written to maximize variables and checkboxes from a user survey. Add characters, references and stylistic choices to get the most 80's nostalgic feeling in the viewer as possible.
It seems with the wealth of blogs out there people either gravitate to those with the greatest quality or unfortunately, to those with the worst quality. The former in order to learn from the best the internet has to offer and the latter in order to just disconnect from this difficult world and embrace the pleasures of dumbness and the absence of cognition. Those in the middle will have difficulties and if one of them has mightier goals, he'll be sad seeing the disconnect between his ideal and reality daily.

I used to create blogs with hopes of gaining 'financial independence' because I idolise those many and reproducing gurus gallivanting around the net space, those who told me it is possible despite the disclaimer "only if you work under an unspecificied amount of hard work". But I'm tired of trying again and it is probably my fault that things didn't pan put well. Right now, I try to write like I used to; I write because I love writing even if my skills are abysmal at best.

Though, aswering your question, it's indeed getting more difficult but escalating difficulty is all that happens when the rack and pinion of progress and keeps moving.
I'm really disappointed it ended. I was really enjoying it. I admit it wasn't as good at the end as it was at the start but it was still good enough to keep me watching and entertained. I'm still holding out hope of a return.
> And besides, create-react-app solves that.

Until something breaks, and you have to go through all the configs and try to fix it.

I’ve seen https://kukuruku.co/post/hello-real-world-in-php-in-2017/ far too often.
Im sure they do give you the options to not share anything, they are just below the setting in question http://i.imgur.com/fPg93BJ.jpg

They way I interpreted "private session" is that you can stop posting what you are playing to Facebook, Last.Fm and Spotify's own profile for a short period but want to resume posting later.

If you want to stop posting all together you can turn off the places you post to one by one.

Not sure if posting to your Spotify profile is opt-in or out, if it's opt-out I set it a while ago, but if you found the private session setting the opt-out setting is right below.
I think you raise a great point. Perhaps I'm conflating some issues that should really be separate.

It would be interesting to see a breakdown of why older devs get less awesome over time. I can imagine a variety of causes:

- Slower learning due to reduced brain plasticity.

- Early stages of dementia.

- More poorly rested due to kids, age-related physical discomfort during sleeping, or obesity-based sleep apnea.

- Reduced focus on career development due to getting comfortable and/or responsibilities outside of work (child-rearing, etc.) This includes less time on evenings / weekends to self-learn new technologies.

- Reduced exposure to new technologies, because they're now so expensive that employers only want to pay them to work in their current niche(s) of expertise.

- False perception that they actually are less awesome. E.g., they write half as much code as before, because of a better idea about what's a waste of time.
Patents are cheap and fairly easy to file - you can get a provisional patent for a few hundred dollars that gives you about a year to test the waters and see if you want to get the final patent. The total cost if you file yourself will be under $2k. Lawyers will add another 5-10k to that, but you don't need them if you're willing to do a little research. The big benefit of lawyers is that they know how to make the patent language vague so it is easily "weaponized."

The next step while you're preparing your provisional patent/final patent is to create a really slick demo to sell prospective licensees.

Once you have a provisional patent and a demo the next step is to actually find people to license to. If you have lots of industry contacts this could involve making a few phone calls, but in most cases you are going to need to work trade shows. Cold calling can work too but it's tough.
The 18650 cell is fairly standardized though.

One might imagine a machine to rapidly tear the cells out of car battery packs, automatically test each cell, and then reassemble the rest into a new utility level pack.

It might turn out to be better to just grind the whole lot up in a fire suppressing environment, extract the lithium metal, and remake the cells from scratch though.
Sounds like it's time to do some anti-Netflix lobbying.
The hell? How did they know that?
I think you're confusing two very different kinds of personal appeal, and this can be seen most in the way that attractive people are often allowed to talk, but aren't required to listen.

On a separate note, I'd warn people (as someone to whom people have always freely talked) it can be a bad thing! You might not see this, and I understand that a lot of people here struggle socially, but it can be terrible to be a "go-to" person. If it's your friends and family, it's a good thing most of the time, but how about in a large or casual group?

The old, the infirm, the lonely... they're the first to realize that I'll be polite, listen, and engage. Sometimes they latch on, and it can be exceedingly difficult to shake them off without hurting them. Then, the crazy people and the broken people sense compassion and an ear, and they come running.

To paraphrase a comedian's description of cleavage, being someone that people love to talk to does not discriminate. Sure, you attract the people you want to attract, but you attract EVERYONE ELSE too. It can be exhausting...
Exactly. Their "What happens if we walk away?" goes from "Back to DVDs" to "We'll produce more of our own stuff."
The video is available also on Vimeo, for those that cannot see it: https://vimeo.com/30042289
In my grocery store they give you 50% discount after 8pm. No need to change price labels.
We haven't done it yet, but my boss has mused about the idea of installing "phone booths" in our office where people can take personal calls without hogging up our one conference room.
Why?

This is $84 a year for the high-end subscription, including Steam discounts, which isn't really that much money. I don't know if the game is any good, but if you're the type of person that considers it to be, that is the sort of money that can be well worth playing for the feelings of accomplishment the game provides.

That's why games can have monthly costs that are similar to Netflix, with much less content - Netflix doesn't provide the same sort of sense of accomplishing something. (Let's ignore the fact that nothing in the game world might actually matter - it's the feeling that is important.)
> this sort of doom-saying and cherry-picking of statistics to derive a narrative is in itself harmful, as the economy is almost entirely based on consumer demand and confidence

Consumer demand and confidence largely comes from how safe people feel in their jobs and whether or not they get raises, not statistics. I'm sure there's some feedback, but my own cautious spending is a direct result of knowing of direct threats to a substantial number of jobs, and seeing the consequences of e.g. potential clients pulling back on spending. I'm not very worried about my own income, but the only reason I'm not very worried is that my disposable income is high enough that I can sustain drops without being affected much.

Meanwhile e.g. my ex. has to deal with knowing that hundreds of jobs where she works will be cut (and no, that's not rumours - she works in HR and has direct knowledge of the plans) as a consequence of Brexit. If the negotiations goes badly, it will be several times that.

That is the kind of things that's causing consumer confidence to soften.

> brexit itself doesn't change the fact there's a short term business cycle driven by credit and low interest rates

No, but it has directly affected that starting to come to and end because of softening consumer confidence.

> capitalism is based entirely on eternal exponential growth, which is clearly not sustainable, there's nothing UK specific about this

No, but there is something UK specific about currently being in a situation where the government has chosen to drastically cut public spending at a time when low salary growth has left people using low credit as a means to keep the party going, and are then suddenly hit by events that cause a great deal of uncertainty over their ability to continue to service debt.