skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you give people a big wall and free spray paint, of course they 'll fill it with dicks. Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them. Trolling is a natural part of the internet, its the price for having relative freedom, i dont have a problem with it. If that puts off people who don't have the capacity to tune it out, all the better.
This comes just a bit too late for the movie "Loving Vincent" [1,2], for which artists laboriously translated frames into the style of Van Gogh.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47h6pQ6StCk

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3262342
Amazon quietly launches its own social media influencer program into beta
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I laughed hard enough to distract my neighbors at the mantissa multiplier. Good job.
The Da Vinci is _not_ a Makerbot knockoff. Its a printer based on open source designs of Reprap.

Makerbot should never get credit for it after they chose to leave the community. Markerbot is actually a Reprap ripoff!

That said, I will be waiting for the next set of articles. This is good! :)
Will Using AI to Make Loans Trade One Kind of Bias for Another?
Hey there - I like your project. Sounds like our tools are complementary, and you make an interesting point about the browser-vs-plugin based approach. I do think it's worthwhile to specifically browse news sites - I believe they're the worst "filter bubble" offenders right now, and this can help break that. The more efforts there are in this space, the better. Thanks for sharing your project!
I don't like the direction they're going and I'm certain giving them more money won't change it.

It's in the ~$100Ks. I usually pay people directly to build things I think the world needs and then have them give it away.

I'm not here to brag and I'd like to stay anonymous so I'm going retire this HN account now.
Silicon Valley (especially SF) is all for diversity...as long as you think exactly like they do.
Silicon Valley (especially SF) are all for diversity...as long as you think exactly like they do.
Depends on what time zone you're in ;)
I rang up Verizon Wireless this morning and asked to speak with a supervisor. I use a Google Pixel. I told the woman that came on the line my fear of AppFlash not only ruining the security of my mobile phone, but molesting the beauty that is pure Google Android.

At first the lady was perturbed that I called, but after calmly explaining to her what was at stake, she actually seemed to agree with me it was a problem. I pray she gets to keep her job, considering she agreed with me on a recorded line.

The takeaway from her is that Verizon does not plan on soiling Google Pixel devices due to their deal with Google to keep the ecosystem clean and allow Google alone to push software updates to the Pixel line. I'm praying this is the real story and I won't come to learn my phone has been infected with spyware.
Good question regarding affiliate marketing.

The majority of companies which are the best candidates for advertising on Office Snapshots do not have e-commerce stores to point users to as most of the sales in this particular vertical happen via office furniture dealerships.

There are some exceptions, and I've tried some affiliate links in the past, but the types of people I'm marketing at are people who will at some point in the future purchase 100 chairs for a project they are working on and not people who see an ad for a chair and want to buy it immediately.
If the root cause of this problem is that

-companies violate privacy rights to gather more big data

-more data translates to more investment (I'm seeing this happen at my current company right now)

-VCs, who are the top of the food chain, are the ones pushing for higher returns (like any rational actor would do)

-then shouldn't the government step in and regulate this area?

Define standards that would limit the amount of funding/valuation based on 'user as product'?
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Finally be able to go to the gym 5 - 6 times a week for however long I deemed necessary. Cook a lot of good food. Read & write.

I'd basically spend it on self-improvement.
Your product looks interesting. I like that you can swap out batteries without removing the case. Also that you aren't blocking the headphone port. (You should list that as a feature ).
One thing that I feel that is missing from your site is how many maH the battery is. I wouldn't know this is a good deal unless you listed this.
You actually can guarantee the transmission of information from one entity to another without sniffing or alteration...that is how internet transport layer security works....our API is built on those principles.

Of course there may be other caveats that I am not aware of, I don't know much about HIPAA.

EDIT:

You don't need to trust twilio (or any intermediary)...You can transmit encrypted information end-to-end without any risk that the intermediary can access it. That is the solution we've created with our API, you can see the full docs here: https://www.cipheredtrust.com/doc/
And let's not forget this fantastic article about Android from back in 2007.

https://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/symbian-nokia-microsoft-...
I think most developers just want a Sinatra-style blog cms so they can just hack it to their hearts content.
I just tried it, and it worked for me. Maybe they fixed it.
/r/T_D has over 6m subscribers. Suppressed by the Admins
In San Francisco, the occupancy limits for existing buildings is contained in SF Housing Code §503[1]: bedroom must have 70 sq. ft. of superficial floor area for the first 2 people, plus 50 sq. ft. for each additional person. The subdivided apartments probably easily comply with these limits.

[1]: http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/sfbuil...
And we have donuts!
SQLite 3.18 released
It's sort of a JavaScript in-joke. The originaly "Wat?" talk was somewhat entertaining but it's now become ubiquitous enough that I'd probably throttle its progenitor given half a chance.
The same forces that have killed unions in the US will kill this. As long as labor can be shipped to areas of the world with a lower quality of life, they will do so. Lower level tech positions like tech support have already been shipped overseas, and once countries like India and China develop the infrastructure to take higher level tech jobs, they will go there too.

If we want to protect our workers, our labor laws, and our standard of living, we have to stop globalization.
If we define "troll" as anyone who posts inflammatory, bad faith, needlessly aggressive, insulting, false, or otherwise unproductive content, then the entire class of authors of the genre of news article decrying trolling and harassment are themselves trolls.

Isn't that a bit of a tautology? "If I expand the definition of the word 'troll' to include 'authors decrying trolling' then authors who decry trolling become 'trolls' themselves."

It's not an exceedingly convincing statement to me personally.

Though you've used one of the adjectives I think best describes the nature of 'trolling' and that's "bad faith". Personally, I feel the most useful definition of 'troll' is someone who argues/antagonizes/insults others not because they are trying to make a point or start a conversation, but merely to provoke a negative response.
I checked to see if this article was hosted on WordPress. It's not.
One should have a solid grounding in principles and concepts. Try shipping principles and concepts at the end of the quarter, though.
It's interesting because it would need to have the teeth of a union yes, but unlike unions of the past that lobbied for better wages and working conditions, what is being proposed is a union to ensure their company does what the workers feel is morally right for the world (not necessarily their customers, but the greater community of people affected by each companies goals and purposes).
While it may not mean jobs for laid off rust belt workers if there were a number of tech workers living in the rust belt they would spend most of their salary in the rust belt which could very well lead to jobs in other sectors in the region.
It is; but they're employing shills, not trolls.

It doesn't even have to be political, I'm sure we've all seen the forced corporate memes that totally aren't an advertisement.
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You are not welcome to insult entire groups of people on Hacker News. It violates the guidelines by being seriously uncivil and we ban accounts that post like this.
I see the phrase "tone-deaf" everywhere and still don't get what it means. Is it just another getting-along-with-other-people thing?
What are your guys thoughts on moving or starting a new tech community in a remote city that are not too expensive, such as Alaska even?
I don't know... most of those places that pay a low salary in the name of 'culture' are startups, and most of those don't ever make any money... so there isn't really anyone laughing all the way to the bank.
On the contrary, it's entirely class-ful. The lesson from this post is that the moneyed class will not allow the rabble any leadership.

But hey, Friday flamebait I guess.
Yep, that's something that accidentally got removed on the most recent re-design...

The batteries are each 3,000 mAh.
We're not special. We're just like the other engineering disciplines.
It looks like they quietly make agreements with the corporate housing developers beforehand. They don't want the deal to be publicized since it's not good for their image.
I follow a nearly identical flow several times a day to connect bluetooth headphones to my laptop.

- Turn on headphones
* Laptop connects immediately and uses the HSP/HFP mode (works!)
* Trying to select A2DP appears to work, but no audio will play
- Disconnect the headphones using the Bluetooth manager
- Reconnect the headphones using the Bluetooth manager
- Select A2DP, this now works.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1438510

Separately, many web videos will stop playing and refuse to play when the Bluetooth audio device is selected.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1589008
They work directly with property management companies, not individual master tenants. That's why they're only in a handful of buildings.
Ubuntu has the brand name recognition that they could create a certification or compatibility program.

Imagine if they would license a trademark to be used on products that will work out-of-the box on a linux system. No more guessing....
"Seattle, Washington" up and coming? There are a lot of good things about Seattle but it is not up and coming.
I both like the idea of unions on the one hand (have greater group self-determination) but on the other hand it can lead to ossification and ultimately our own demise (through complacency, irrelevancy, protectionism, etc.)

I do like the idea of spreading the wealth to other parts of the country, especially those that are hit hardest by the changing characteristics of the economy --people we often forget, hollowed out industrial cities, forgotten rural areas, etc.
I think this definitely qualifies as a new OS. It's true that not everything is completely reimagined compared to what has come before. So what? Great artists steal.
Although the tooling is great, I found it super frustrating that you basically have to use the entire suite of prescribed tools to feel productive. Basically everything except emacs sucks with clojure, especially if you're a vim user. I found that pretty frustrating. Vim fireplace sucks. Then if you want to use a gui editor with a vim plugin you have to abandon the vim world and use editor-esque paredit plugins (since no one is developing vim-style paredit for vim-editor-plugins) gasps for air.

Then finally there's emacs which I really don't want to get started with.
Depending on when you were going through training, a lot of that had to do with the early (in Iraq and Afghanistan) issues of the military having no real concept of policing (the thing they were tasked with after the initial invasions) and going on to do things like abuse prisoners. The training was essential because our early actions or lack of restraint was a losing strategy (it directly led to insurgent numbers growing and propaganda against the US and US military, completely counter to the intended purpose of the missions).
Some examples would help illustrate your points.
Is the battery held in by friction and the connector? If so does it ever fall out?

How do you deal with the lightning port being used the headphone jack?
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Everything. The case looks like a giraffe's tongue, and giraffes suck.

Just kidding. The case looks fine. I'd briefly wonder whether dropping it on the metal connector at the bottom would damage it, and I'd prefer the battery color match the case, but those are just nitpicks.
Sure, I could see that being a problem, but if the question that the "help vampire" is asking is a valid one, then you have to remember that all online conversations have an audience, and that your response is as much to the audience as it is to the person you're directly responding to.

Even just politely linking a similar question and response is better than responding with RTFM.

> RTFM has always been part of the hacker culture

That doesn't necessarily make it a good thing, or anything worth keeping.
I can't articulate why exactly... but I have a very bad feeling about this.

> We also believe tech companies have an opportunity and an obligation to reduce the polarization we've helped create.

I'm pretty sure this kind of thing is just going to make the polarization worse.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Go back to a stock DE, instead of shipping Unity

- DESCRIPTION: People don't write unified apps for mobile and desktop. It doesn't make sense to have a "compromise" desktop environment either.
As a pen tester, I largely use open source and "nefarious derived" software...
Roughly put: in a capability based system, if you have a valid handle for a service, then you can use that service. But the only way you can get a valid handle is to ask your parent process for one --- handles are unforgeable. So your parent gets to check that you're legitimate.

...but your parent, in turn, has limited permissions, because the only way it can get a handle is to ask its parent. And when you ask your parent for a filesystem handle, your parent doesn't have to give you the handle it has. Your parent might give you a limited filesystem handle which only allows writes to /tmp.

...and when you, in turn, start a subprocess --- say, an instance of sqlite for use as a database --- you have to give it handles for the things it wants to do on your behalf. But your filesystem handle only allows writes to /tmp. That means that your sqlite instance can only write to /tmp too.

There's more to it than that, because in real life you also want to forward capabilities to other running services as part of RPCs, but you tend to end up with a natural container system with multiple redundant layers of isolation, all running at minimum necessary privilege, and all hardware-mediated.

Another really interesting capability-based OS is Genode:

https://genode.org/about/screenshots

https://genode.org/documentation/general-overview/index

It'll allow you to run complete OS kernels as capability-restricted Genode processes, effectively allowing virtual machines as first-class citizens.
Amazon is way too business and money oriented to make such a long term and risky investment.
I like the fictional future on Mars in the Kim Stanley Robinson novels where there are no companies, but co-ops. Your time goes into the co-op and everyone owns a portion of that for life.

This is a greater dramatic shift and I'm not sure if we'll see it in our lifetimes, but it would be nice that, even that first high school job at a cinema would earn you shares in that company equal to the time you put in, for life. In some ways, that would make more sense than basic minimum income.
I don't like the loose language used in this article and others that uses "trolling" as a catch-all for online harassment, violence, privacy violations, and more. It's misleading and gets people riled up as they talk past each other. Conflating 'baiting someone into looking stupid online' with 'sending threats to their family members' muddles the conversation. Worse, it erodes the meaning of the term. I'd call it cultural appropriation but that'd be too obvious.
2 and 2 = 5… ? and why compiler warnings are good
Yeah, this is applicable to huge swathes of Internet culture. Tons of Pinterest boards, tumblrs, and subreddits are just collections of images that fit a particular aesthetic. What will the web look like when almost all curation can be automated?
Would appreciate a link to a pcpartpicker page. Thanks!
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Ha you are clearly more knowledgeable about 3D printers than I am :).

Reprap for anyone reading this is totally awesome. I didn't include it in my post but Reprap is an open source 3D-printer that can make itself...

It's basically the hardware version of the singularity: http://reprap.org/
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If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. - Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn

We're getting ready to work on our version two of the product, with a new more fitting name/brand and domain and we've already got our new design underway. However, I'd like to gauge your feedback so we can implement it in version 2.

Version 1, www.fastvenues.com.

Idea: you're hungry and you don't know what to eat you visit fastvenues.com and see restaurants around you that offer set-menu, meal deals. By booking and pre-paying through fastvenues.com you get the deal. The main value is that you know you're hungry and these set-menu's are what we recommend, so you won't have to choose from a huge menu we recommend what's best.

Feedback, open to any feedback that we can apply to version 2.

Thanks!
Chrome was based on WebKit, and they bought Android (already based on Linux). Neither one was made from scratch.

Google certainly has the resources to do something like this. But neither of those projects (others mentioned Android) were started from scratch at Google.
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> won't publish their sources for the various device drivers needed.

And how is Fuchsia supposed to help that?
My one takeaway from this is that the future will be a scary place. This is impressive work, so please don't take that as a knock against this phenomenal work.

This shows that computers soon will have the ability to fool our senses so well that we may not even believe reality when it is right in front of us. Some of the pictures, when I was just viewing them (before reading captions or titles) looked real. I was astounded to see that they were derivatives from paintings.

The implications are significant, not just in things like gaming, or finance, but especially in psychology, where the delicate aspects of the mind may be easily disrupted. I expect there will be numerous growth in neuroses over the coming decades. Technology will have surpassed natural evolution by such a margin, that it could be difficult to recover.
The concepts of globalism and free trade derive from simple Western economic models that are incomplete and have many externalities that bear examination. The Samuelson paper I reference elsewhere in these posts is just one example of how the simple models fail.

Most economic models omit the social aspects of life. In the drive to "globalize" societies, groups, families have been destroyed, religious and social communities relocated, torn apart, and decimated by economic forces in ways we barely understand. The search for meaning (factors that economics fails to address) continues nonetheless. The yearning for the old life is strong but control lies, for now (as usual), with those who have money.

We need to constantly remind ourselves that a model is a model of only one part of a world (and possibly incorrect at that).
Why? You don't think managing infrastructure composed of open source components is providing a valuable service?
The biggest problem I see with this is that is assumes something not in evidence - that the concept of 'freedom' actually means anything, ever meant anything, or could possibly ever mean anything. But then, that is true of nearly everything people believe in; self-deception is, IMAO, the primary nature of the human brain.
they're employing shills, not trolls.

I disagree. CTR was known for promotion, shilling, just as advertisers are, but people in Russian employ were known for disruption. They aren't pushing the merits of Donald Trump, Marine LePen, etc., as much as they're fomenting discord through fake news and aggressive bias.
Traditional work from home advice is wrong
It sets a precedent that the left does want to acknowledge. There was likely collusion between Obama and "Remainers". Obama made a speech with a threat that was intended to directly influence a vote in a foreign country. Where was the outrage from the Democrats and media when this was done?

Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell has stated that he has seen no evidence of collusions between Trump and the Kremlin. "On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all," Morell said.[156]

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, said there was no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives as of January 2017 when the intelligence community issued its report on the subject.[157]
Gonna throw some nuance out there on this.

I think it's much more complicated than resisting expansion of the Armed Forces. The last ~16 years of war has fundamentally changed the way the military operates, both in terms of how we build our strategies and how we operationally conduct these wars. Instead of a full-force commitment (units deploy and don't come home until the job is done), we've instead fought this thing in spastic increments, with a kind of warped "turn-based" leadership model ("Whose turn is it to be a Combatant Commander?"). This is why from the invasion through 2014 we had 16 different ISAF commanders. No wonder we've struggled to develop a coherent strategy.

I point that out because I agree that we need to back off from pointless Middle East entanglements immediately, because the Long War has altered how we (I mean soldiers and their leaders, both GOs and Civilians) view preparation for war. There is no way the model used in Afghanistan and Iraq (I understand the difference between the two, I'm talking about sustainment differences here), full of mega-FOBs for the sustainers and (mostly) consistent resupply for the war-fighters, is something we should be expecting in the future - be it a conflict with Russia, China, those pesky Donovians.

There's reasons to be optimistic, and Mattis is one of them. General Milley also seems to "get it", that we've gotten pretty lost in our understanding of what "readiness" and "sustainment" really means.[1]

Disclaimer: Former Infantry Officer, though I do spend a lot of time thinking and writing with friends both in and out about this stuff.

[1]http://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/miserable-disobedient-vic...
A rather unfortunate one, at that, as it legitimizes all sorts of bias. At best, it's an intellectually lazy way to conceptualize a whole bundle of soft skills.
No reason it couldn't be a mix of both.
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