skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So where do we draw the line when that "cheeky, mischievous humor" actually excludes people from our community?

First, who said the goal is not to exclude anyone?

It's totally fine for someone to want to exclude humorless squares.
Which means you edit the shortcut once and leave it that way forever. You don't have to use a command line.
You're discussing the derivative (rate of change) of the actual issue. The issue isn't how fast divorced households are growing; the issue is that they exist at all. Even if the divorce rate was zero, there would still be existent divorced households. And broken households don't do any favors for children, even if the parents do their best to make it seem amicable.
I use Google+ everyday. In my private circle, there are multiple posts from members each day. These are private posts shared among these people everyday.

It makes me curious how many other small private circles exist like that. Obviously it isn't as big as Facebook, but people don't use it like they do Facebook, Snapchat, or Twitter. For my private circle, most people have Facebook, Twitter, etc in addition to Google+ and the content posted on Twitter and Facebook is usually not what is in the private Google+ circle. I think a big mistake people made was that Google+ should replace Facebook, etc, rather than work in parallel with those services.

That said, there is writing on the wall that it is either going to be eliminated or drastically changed. For example, there are sometimes now little feedback windows that pop up and ask you questions about why you use Google+.
The key idea is already in the second sentence of TFA:

"The product was an unlikely pick for top technology investors, but they were drawn to the idea of an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage."

Keywords: IoT, single-serving refill packs, healthy fuit & veg.

further details reveal that the thing will track you at every single use pinging the central servers. It has a kill-switch to refuse juicing when they don't think you should be juicing anymore (for now expired package, but hey, nothing prevents updated from refining the "feature").

Need I continue?

Overall, it's a product that just rides the hype of juicing and IoT, but it's at least as nasty as the !#@%!# cloudpets [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/creepy-iot-teddy-be...
Basically, why would a user, with emotional and time investment in Facebook, relocate?

Some have literally hundreds of photos saved on Facebook for sharing.
I gave a talk about this at CCC this year!

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7865-gone_in_60_milliseconds

I'm sitting on a toolkit for this, just need to spend a Sunday polishing it to release quality:

https://github.com/Miserlou/Mackenzie
How I Got a 27% Return Buying Wine
Wow! where is that?
It's not even that expensive in the Bay Area... You can go to a dance club and pay $20 for a cocktail, but a $12 beer at a bar?

Even La Fin du Monde from Unibroue is $8 on draft at the Toronado on Haight... if you're into that kind of thing.
Does anyone know what this is based on? As a fork of Postgres v8, I would not expect it to be a foreign data wrapper.
Clearly, moving from two-factor to single-factor is going to be less secure, but that's not really the question for me. I want to know if this more secure than user-originated passwords?

User-originated passwords can be socially engineered, or just plain guessed. They can be sniffed with a key-logger, or over a non-secure connection. You can steal password databases and run them against rainbow tables, or brute-force them GPU farms. Password re-use also means that you don't have to defeat Microsoft's security to get at the password, you just need to defeat the security of the weakest vendor where that password is used. Some people will even just straight-up tell you their password if you ask them.

Using an authenticator app to generate one-time passwords means there is no database of password hashes to be stolen and leaked, nothing for the user to remember, no password to re-use with weaker vendor, and nothing for an attacker to brute-force. Because the passwords are single-use, a key-logger is of limited value too.

It also reduces the attack surface down from any script-kiddie who can break the security of the weakest vendor, down to people who physically have access to your phone (or can get malware on to it).

Yes, anyone with access to your phone has access to your Outlook, but chances are anyone with access to your phone has that anyway, and your device is probably locked with TouchID or similar.

So, I agree this is weaker than two-factor, but I don't think that's the point.
Even running itself. That would actually mean seeing what you wrote. That would be bad. Takes away potential job creation opportunities.
Apraxia is a motor disorder caused by damage to the brain
(specifically the posterior parietal cortex), in which the
individual has difficulty with the motor planning to
perform tasks or movements when asked, provided that the
request or command is understood and he/she is willing to
perform the task.

I'm sure he would do great as a tradesman.
Your standard of quality is whether a web page looks like it's not a web page?
>encounters with the police result in getting fatally shot or seriously injured

Which absolutely enrages a large portion of the populace. The state can't just put down protests with violence and expect things to get better. Ruling through fear never works for long. History is littered with revolts that only became popular after everyone involved were slaughtered and normal people became sympathetic
Maybe we should err on the side of not offending the creator of some software we can now use for free?
You might want to take a look at the profilist extension
>"Even if you aren't in a cubicle, as soon as you are on their website, you feel like you are in a cubicle. With bad lighting. "

This really made me laugh out loud, so thank you. I understand exactly what you mean and I agree. Cheers.
> I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete

Parts of Servo are being migrated to Firefox. IIRC, Quantum Compositor, mentioned in the blog post, is one of them - you can start using it today!

http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-w...
The more tooling you get around the higher level products, the more whole industries you will capture, at least in part. So many startups are just services adding a bit in the middle of AWS and clients, value that is slowly chipped away by Amazon. Instead of the "full team" you now have an automated lightweight SaaS.

AWS's strategy is not looking for the one true workflow, its to envelop enough common usecases that it dominates nearly the whole field, giving you as custom a service as you want.
> There is a fundamental difference between a not-for-profit organisation...vs a for profit corporation

I'd like to petition my not-for-profit political action committee be zero rated on the Indian subcontinent. Less ridiculously, we have "alt fact" encyclopedias like the "Conservapedia" [1]. Should that be zero rated?

[1] http://www.conservapedia.com/Main%5FPage
Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for mentioning this. I've been using Firefox for months now (switched from chrome) and never knew about this feature in either browser.
LOL this made me wonder if there is a The_Donald for google+
Public Preview of Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
I love it although now that I have a Mozilla employee here I should mention that:

- it seems to be missing features when running with Tab Tree

- the ux of Mozilla vertical tabs experiment is weird and IMO bad. And I rarely complain about UX. The problem is: the tab bar goes up on the side of the awesomebar and slides it back and forth as the tab panel expands and goes back.

I have reported this but so far nobody seems to care.

Another small thing: I more or less love Firefox in general <3
Windows version is UWP app and it works on Windows 10 Mobile (or how it's referred in the name of a recent update, "Windows 10 for arm-based Phone Devices") despite a circle jerk in other comments.
> Let me ask you this question - when was last time you used a binary tree at work?

Three tools ago (my tools are small and orbit around 5kLOC). And it seems I'll
need one again in current tool, for similar reasons.

> Languages like Java, Objective-c, swift, etc. aren't built for schools.

Very little languages were written for schools specifically. But this
doesn't mean much, because the same stands for table saws or CNC machines, yet
students (woodworkers and machinists) are taught to operate those.

> The underlying/academic thing isn't relevant anymore in 2017.

As I said, I don't know what you do in your work, but the underlying concepts
are not relevant only if you never use them. Which I think tells something if
even a sysadmin uses them.

> Plus, I graduated from college with a CS major 10 years ago.

If we're bragging, then I don't even have a degree and apparently I have work
experience of similar length. And compare our attitudes towards data
structures knowledge: I use it often, you don't. What went wrong?

> [CS degree] That alone should be enough for a company to believe I'm not a Walmart employee trying to switch careers.

As I said, quizzes about data structures seem to be a location-based thing.

> We, software engineers, build products, or at least the majority of us. Technical interviews should focus on that, we should be building mini products and features and get evaluated on that rather than white boarding stuff.

Mind you, I don't claim we should not. I just say that your "white boarding
stuff" seems to be local to some geographical area(s?) and that knowledge
about basic algorithms and data structures is important even for a sysadmin
that happens to wirte tools, so it should also be the case for regular senior
programmers.
Here's what I saw: http://imgur.com/a/B83o4
Of course, economic hardship is at the heart of many of society's problems, drugs included. I don't argue with that. What I am skeptical of is the idea that people, once they reach adulthood and see dim prospects, turn to drugs to cope with that depression. The article you linked to pushes the same idea.

From my bubbled existence, most of the people who I went to school with who became drug addicts were always part of "the bad kids" cliques; those who always saw life through the prism of partying and never had ambitions to be much of anything. Maybe my perspective is totally wrong, and most drug addicts were B students who just decided not to go to college, but if that's the case I'd love hard data.
> By what definition created by who?

What definition:

- language that feels unwelcoming to people (all three articles)

- language that studies show excludes people (Quartz article)

Who:

- people affected by exclusive language (MIT article)

- people who research exclusive language (Quartz article)

> * That "bruh" is sexually "excluding language"

It's gendered language, which all the aforelinked sources list as exclusive

> * That an actual reasonable person feels "excluded" from using this update monitoring tool based on humor in its readme.

We don't need to prove the same case over and over for every single word. Gendered terms have been shown to be exclusive + "bruh" is a gendered term = bruh is exclusive
Shameless plug here. I built a small todo app that works very well with a large number of tasks. The app is 99% keyboard driven, supports Markdown, custom CSS and uses GitHub Gists for storage.

https://github.com/mstijak/tdo
Can anyone clarify the when or why you would use this instead of or with Athena?
Now all Sony has to do is design a real ruggerized body to go with it.

A Canon 5D mk3 or mk4 can withstand a 6 feet fall (I've been through this several times). A Canon 1DX can be thrown in sand, dust and kicked like a soccer ball and still work. A Sony mirrorless camera won't work after mild rain or slight fall.
Here too. Going from a single keystroke to a minimum of three per term still really grinds my gears, every time.
And, as always, I just added Firefox 53 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing or updating it:

https://www.browserling.com/firefox/53/news.ycombinator.com

I've a bunch of VMs available for free testing. If there are too many people wanting to try it, then you'll have to wait in a queue for a few minutes.
This is weak evidence, further weakened by not being shown in humans.

I suppose some variants of autism could be caused by essentially autoimmune reactions. Good luck showing causation. You would need full immune library of thousands of mothers and their children. Further luck in fixing the problem, you cannot just immunosuppress the mother.

What is worse, is that symptoms of autism tend to show up quite late in many cases. Few years of age which suggests some sort of an inherited problem though potentially also autoimmune.
A tiny library for quickly drawing cryptographic protocols
Ok, what if you do mind IEMs?
The secret to never burning out again
This does seem to be the case. CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline and CodeDeploy feel like (and most likely were) developed by entirely different teams, and the actual experience of using any of them is not as good as your average 3rd party provider that fully focuses on just one of the pieces. The main thing the AWS equivalents have going for them at this time is the ultra-low pricing (by selling the underlying AWS services, and mostly not charging for the Code* tools).
You got flagged off for this, probably because of the thinly veiled insult, but I'd agree that there's nothing wrong with signaling that you'd rather not work with people with a deficiency of sense of humor.

If "wat", "bruh" and "performance gainzzz" (of all things.. we're not talking about slurs here) in a readme actually gets people to self select out of using an update checker, I find it very hard to see that as anything other than a positive for people who want to work, rather than debate sociology.

...not that I think that was an intentional goal of the author.
The Deskless Workforce, “Enterprized” Consumer – 2017 Enterprise Cloud Trends
Being "sick and tired" of a technology is just about as bad a reason to not use it in your business as chasing the shiny new thing.
The psychology of attraction
I feel like this is a slippery slope. As with all neutrality, net neutrality means that for good or bad you can't prefer some traffic. Any zero-rated service is not neutral. You can't block Facebook from being zero rated but allow Wikipedia.
Very BigQuery like system.

Has anything been sacrificed for this type of scale-out?

BQ and other Dremel based systems are weak at joins for star based schemas, and frequently advise denormalization of data.
I do everything with events/reminders in my google calendar. I don't see what this offers above that. I also like with google now, I can schedule events when my hands aren't free.
And yet, I like the current look. It's clean and functional, and doesn't have the modern/flat/whatever style that makes one lose context easily. Do you prefer something like the S3 redesign? I'm scared they will do that to the whole site.

(Not to mention, most tasks you should script/do from the CLI, once you got the hang of things.)
> But 20 fps isn't that much.

20FPS is insane on a 24MP full-frame camera. Each RAW is 6000x4000.. The image buffer can handle 241 pictures, so you can basically capture 12 seconds of 6k video.

To give some context, this camera can easily record 120FPS 1080P video with full autofocusing. It can record no-crop 4K video which means if you take a video of a scene, you can grab a full 24MP still from the video. 1080P video has 2 million pixels, 4K video has 8.3 million pixels, burst mode on this camera has 24 million pixels per still.
this has more to do with governance than technology, imo. Even in the Bible Joseph recognized the need to store food for bad harvests and famine. We're fortunate that the industrial revolution was also paralleled by a revolution in the idea of government and the rights of man.
One extension is that the model can dynamically grow/reduce the external augmented memory.
Did you reply to the wrong thread? Your reply would make a whole lot more sense in a completely different context.
I was struck by the lack of "Below The Root", that was the game that made me a computer gamer.

Now that I think of it, maybe it was more of an Adventure game than a true RPG but it still was influential to me.
On the judicious use of Clojure's core.async
Is this a particularly US-centric thing? Because over here in Europeland, I don't think I have ever, like, ever seen a use of bro-speak that wasn't intentionally self-parodic. But people do seem to react strongly against it, so... I guess it's a real thing somewhere? If so, where?
In 2008, state and local law enforcement agencies
employed more than 1.1 million people on a full-time
basis, including about 765,000 sworn personnel (defined
as those with general arrest powers).

So, 1 in 416 people in the US is a sworn law enforcement official. Not great odds for fighting armed revolt.
Okay, you have me a little confused now :) I read my parent as saying that in order to move investments out of Wealthfront, you'll need to sell and pay capital gains. I read your comment saying this isn't necessarily the case. There seems to be some disagreement here. What am I misunderstanding? The ins and outs of investments and tax ramifications can sometimes seem very opaque to me, so I appreciate any education on this front.
Its not gone, I just signed in and all my wunderlist to do's got transferred immediately and the interface looks like wunderlist a bit. This is mostly them rebranding, everything remains the same more or less.
Looks like Google BigQuery which is based on the Dremel paper.
The resources are cheap to developers and big-name business. The resources are still not cheap to everyone else. Small businesses generally suffer pretty badly while the poor suffer the most. I know several poor families who have computers from ages ago (if any) because that's all they can afford. The computer still works for now, but it takes minutes for them to do anything, even browsing certain popular websites.

I know tons of people at small businesses who work with or on machines that are considered "new". But these new computers are as cheap as possible. $250 for a computer is amazing. Disk space is the greatest (maybe 500GB, but it's a spindle disk). RAM is starved (lucky if there's 4GB). CPU is typically, at best, a Core i3, and probably more like a Celeron, Pentium, or often AMD.

The real irony? Despite having a poor-man's CPU, its utilization is usually really low because of the amount of swapping that occurs to a spindle disk. Having superlarge pretty fancy apps (that, honestly, business users don't care about for productivity) really kills the user experience. That's, of course, assuming that the app doesn't have other shortcomings. Bugs and counter-intuitiveness really hinders things too, particularly when certain problems only show up when things run slow.

First thing I recommend to them is to invest in an SSD and some more RAM. But the $100 for that is often out of the reach of these people.

So, to reiterate: cheap resources to you doesn't mean your desired audience also considers these to cheap too.
Because Facebook managed to be the first massive service that convinced just about everyone to sign up. A good chunk of those people would much rather deal with the minor annoyances or nebulous complaints about Facebook than set up and learn how to use a new service. Just being "a bit better in some ways" is not enough to drive the mass adoption needed to create a shift away from the incumbent Facebook.

And since Facebook would never allow some theoretical decentralized network to interface with their service, it would end up like all the other attempts: people who like to try new things/dislike the status quo will check it out, realize they still need to cross-post to Facebook, and give up.

The only way to pull it off would be to offer something sufficiently novel and in-demand that people would scramble to use it. From what I've seen in the past, those sorts of things don't come from loose federations of decentralized network nodes. They come from commercial development and heavy promotion....or they are bought up by a company that does those things.
Google+ was quite good in the beginning, invite-only to get a circle of incrowd users on it first. Much like Facebook only allowing students from certain universities, but for nerds where people would write interesting stuff.

It would've grown to Twitter like proportions easily if they would just let it grow organically. Imagine getting an invite, signing up and then seeing great content by great people. Of course you want to partake.

Then came the YouTube mistake. Millions and millions and millions of user accounts that do absolute nothing. Google somebody's name and a good chance you'll find a completely void Google+ profile.
Each frame would be 6000x4000 pixels -- 6K with a 3x2 aspect ratio.

20 fps is almost there (playing at 24fps is a 12% speedup), but how long can you practically record at that speed?
Or maybe set up an office with a fat pipe in Detroit where you can buy a house for $5k, rather than forcing them in to San Fran. Every large city could have a small office.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3233935
G+ didn't have a community feature until about 18 months after launch. ~ December 2012.

It's always been tremendously underpowered, in terms of admin and moderation tools.

Large Communities rapidly became cesspits or marketing tarpits.

Small and private communities -- I had one with about 40-50 members -- were suprisingly good, though that involved a lot of attitudinal orientation and careful curation of participants, most of whom I'd come to know over several years' general discussion.
I love tech: Take something old (apprenticeships), re-package it as something new (a farm team) and bam: Instant, free, PR for zero innovation.
Author here: I made Circa because creating circos plots was very difficult and time-consuming when I had to do it during my PhD research. Increasingly people who have genomic data to show are biologists who can't or won't spend days writing code to get a nice circos plot for publication or presentations, so I made a GUI desktop app that helps them do it. I made it extremely flexible so they can style it in every way imaginable, but I tried to keep the UI intuitive and very easy to use.
Circa is a desktop application made with Electron and D3, and it is the first product from my new business OMGenomics, where I also put out free educational bioinformatics content in the form of YouTube videos.
> I could go in and set up a dot/non dot email address to people I know and just wait until I receive an email that was supposed to be for them but now goes to my email account.

Err, you can't do that?

The fact that somebody's email address is johndoe at gmail.com, and the fact that Gmail strips all the dots from the username, imply that john.doe and john.d.oe and so on… are taken as well.

You just can't register as e.g. john.doe and get johndoe's mail redirected because for Google, these two aliases are the exact same username!

(An exercise for the reader: if you have a Google account, try to log in by putting random dots in your username. Then, try to create a new account by putting random dots in your login.)
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