skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not meaning to be snarky at all, but have you tried reading about mindfulness first? I found that in my 20s running was awful and I was almost literally counting the steps until I got to the end. But as I've gotten older and embraced a more mindful worldview running, walking, swimming or any of the traditional "slog" activities has become a really nice quiet time where I can appreciate all the little motions and sensations of being awake.

Sorry if that comes off as patronizing or hokey, but if you can stay in shape "enough" early, I've found that it becomes it's own reward as I've gotten older.
It's more about what makes us human is being lost. The ability to socialize, even if you're bad at it like me, is a big part of the human condition. If we let capitalists continue to alienate us from each other all we'll become is just smarter cows. And my complaint isn't even remotely like that of a Victorian complaining about Tinder for one good reason: I don't care with whom you socialize or how. But latching onto corporate brands in place of a fully sentient being is a recipe for permanent slave mentality. And I'd rather someone make a friend with a robot (like in the film Robot and Frank) than pledge undying love to a corporation. A corporation and its "brands" aren't our friends. It's why I despise companies like Apple because they've tried (and in some part succeeded) in shoving the lifestyle consumerism crap down our throats.
Linguician is not meant to be the exclusive resource one may use for language learning. We don't brand or market it as a trick. It is meant as a playful and entertaining alternative you have on top of your own methods that you have for language learning.
We already had an underwear bomber. I believe that was the driver for the body scanners or obligitory grope policy in the US.
Given that about 10% of the ocean has been mapped like this, I'd bet that portion has been used as a calibration for the gravity based dataset.
Waymo begins first public on-demand self-driving service test in Arizona
From the Times article that has more details:

"British security chiefs have been put on alert that the US is planning to impose its laptop ban on incoming flights from some parts of Europe — a move that could be implemented within weeks. They are waiting to see whether Britain is included, according to a senior Whitehall source."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/trump-considers-bann...
I believe in a quite majority that is perfectly capable of independent thought and self-awareness, but lacking news outlets they trust to give them anything but narrative. It could be the slow death of newspapers that led us here.
With the plane you can spend 2 days recovering from jetlag and still come out ahead.
You and me both! I've seen one Elixir job in Chicago and it definitely wasn't remote. I would settle for non-remote Elixir biding time for remote jobs to be available.

For the time being, I'm doing my darnedest to try to make a product that could transition into a full time Elixir job for myself.
Why Responsive Performance Matters More Than Responsive Design?
Turning off JavaScript usually works well and does not break as much mobile sites as it does with desktop versions.

The difference for me is 70-80% less data, but I usually browse mainly text content with relatively small amount of images.
Hey, man, if you can make school more interesting than football with friends you're sitting on an education revolution.

Demonstrate it and you'll not only be rich but revered.
United and American Airlines suggest that we ban cell phones with cameras(probably shouldn't have to make this distinction) too, for umm safety.
I love your website, please continue doing what you're doing! Best of luck!
I'd argue relative importance facts are more important than topics. Incorrect facts is more fundamental form of bias and topic bias is higher level.

Getting facts wrong constantly is either incompetent journalism or malevolent behavior.

Selecting topics with bias but reporting them accurately creates value for everyone and the bias is rarely malevolent in mainstream media. It just reflects and enforces the world view of the writers and readers.
The US operations aren't cash starved; they can repatriate unlimited funds for operations with no problem, since operations are all deductible expenses which would result in no tax hit from bringing the money back.
>I don't have any idea how someone with such an understanding of algebra could even get into a college even if he wanted to learn humanities.

Schools' income depends on the number of students (either a budget allocated according to student population, or students paying directly). Therefore, the incentive is to delay failing people as long as possible, as long as it doesn't affect the quality of the graduates.
There was plenty of bad press, pre-Waymo lawsuit.

It's also worth noting that Google also has a sizable stake in Uber via their investment arm, Google Ventures.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-...
Even if they're college students, they'll know way more than I do about plants
I'm fascinated by people who think emoji could someday be a more universal way of communication given all of its inherent ambiguity.

There are many people who do not have enough command of their own native language to avoid ambiguity. Sometimes I find this very frustrating, but for the most part they seem happy to misunderstand and be misunderstood, so I try my best to let it go and move on.
Speaking of war, I suspect the Navy already has maps that good or better than for a variety of reasons can't be publicly released.

A better application of money than redoing work already done, might be talking the navy into releasing their data. Declassification isn't cheap, but its cheaper than having civilians re-run the mission.
This is very distressful. They've tried to combat this in many ways but I think it's time they pulled the plug on this. I can't imagine a worse feeling than having to look at something like this. The occurrence has increased to one every week which is just unacceptable.

Until they find a solution to this, please shut down Facebook Live (and other similar services)
Sexting – From Congressman to Car Dealerships
Something happened to Ghost in the Shell soundtrack; 100s of fans want answers
I don't understand what point you are trying to make here.

You talk about danger but danger for whom? One person's danger is another person's gain.
Would this prevent ISPs from being able to store your browsing metadata, as is currently being threatening to become a legal requirement in the UK?
You might consider using Opera Mini [1] and turning off photos -- worked fine on a 100mb plan.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini...
That's creepy TBH. Even though I have some respect for those who made things like a smart phone possible I don't see my iPhone as indispensable beyond its utility. I won't cry when my iPhone finally stops working, so I can't imagine how anyone could develop any affection for theirs.
Brain stimulation during training boosts performance – Science Bulletin
All you're saying is true, but they still would have been much better off designing something that didn't cost them so much to produce. It would have looked, and weighed the same, but they would have made a lot more money.
Wow that is really interesting, how did you manage to sell them a paid (hourly) service when as you said they had firms knocking down their door doing it on contingency?
Putting the Front Desk in the Hotel Guest’s Pocket
Same in France with Free Mobile. Free voice and text roadming, data roaming is limited to 3Go though. Cost 20 euros/month.
They change the clocks an hour daily, so it is pretty easy on the body clock. More so in one direction than the other, of course, but still better than flying.
The lack of newspapers they trust is just a consequence of political parties undermining that trust. You still can read the New York or Wall Street Journal and get enough information to form a reasonable opinion.
Sure but I don't even think that the ideas on Ribbonfarm are extremely radical (definitely not the same as 'zero is a number')
Reminds me of when I wrote an app to track and store tweets about a given hashtag. Worked fine in its first few months, then started throwing encoding errors right around the time Twitter enabled emoji support. I was using MySQL as a data store and was ignorant to the fact that UTF8 encoding in MySQL only uses 3 bytes. I was ignorant about encoding in general but thought that UTF8 always meant 4-bytes. Apparently so did many other MySQL users, and it was bad enough that MySQL questions on Stackoverflow are already filled with erroneous info about all kinds of encoding issues.

The search for the fix -- which is that MySQL has a utf8mb4 encoding for 4-bytes -- was probably the most frustrating debugging exercise in my career. Even worse was the eventual revelation that the MySQL devs were technically right -- the UTF8 spec says nothing about requiring 4 bytes, and 3 bytes probably seemed sensible enough in terms of efficiency at the time of MySQL 4.
Also it seems to require too many permissions for what is does.
In addition to the loans and direct investments in banks, there was a large asset purchase program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93Private_Investm...

It can be cost neutral by way of selling the assets back to the market, but that isn't happening at any sort of rapid clip. The Fed currently has ~$1.8 trillion of mortgage backed securities.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBST

The bailout targeted the entire economy. Imagine the pinch we'd be in if housing all of the sudden wasn't too expensive to buy (and thus not a glorious asset for all the people that have it).
It was to me, as a "Artificial Intelligence II" optional lectures, in the mid-90's.

I rather focused on compiler design and graphical programming options instead, but I remember that all the basis for neuron learning algorithms were already part of the content.
Only straight white men need to pay for TechSummit tickets
What you missed, is that you do not become the thing, you already are the thing. You just need to realize it.
Fintech Meets the Sharing Economy: Convenience, Efficiency and Accessibility
A pity they put all that work into something that doesn't work as well as a regular chainsaw... Lucky nobody lost an eye with those bits welded onto the teeth of the original chain.
There's a similar situation waiting to happen with OFAC regulations. They have a blacklist of people's names[1]. They compel banks and companies like Paypal to do loose/fuzzy string matching for any money transaction and block it. The string doesn't have to match just in the payer or payee field. It can match anything, like a memo field. It already affects people with popular common names that are similar to the real person on the list[2].

Waiting for some suspected terrorist on the list to legally change their name to "THANK YOU" or "PAYMENT FOR" or similar.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/...

[2] https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Business-Archive/T...
So what's stopping them from flying to Canada and taking a connecting flight?

Or putting the device in the cargo hold, landing in the US, and detonating it at any sports event or concert?

This whole thing smacks of Security Theater more than anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiHHOL3pH-I

Mike Tyson was one of the best mental fighters ever.
> Sega invited me to a marketing event for Dawn of War 3 so I wrote an "article" around the gimmick they used as bait.
Except a Nature study comparing Wikipedia to the Encyclopedia Britannica found them comparable in accuracy. [0] It's also funny that you think a lot of news hasn't already reached that point.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/study-wikipedia-as-accurate-as-bri...
Presumably then, if your post were misinterpreted as suggesting that a significant proportion of Jews hold that "remembering gypsies and other groups 'diminishes the memory' of the holocaust" then you would be aghast, right?
As a former exploration geologist on the petroleum side and marine geophysicist on the academic side - No, this data isn't very useful for petroleum exploration at all.

Most of the deep ocean basins have absolutely zero oil.

To create thermogenic hydrocarbons, you need thick sediments. You can make methane biogenically without significant sediment cover, and that's important sometimes, but you cannot make oil that way. Oil is what drives exploration far away from population centers.

The abyssal plain you're seeing in that data is mostly exposed oceanic crust. There's almost no sediment cover. No sediments --> no exploration potential.

There's one narrow continental fragment that could have significant sediment cover. However, it's highly unlikely that that's prospective. (If you're curious, I'm happy to elaborate, but it will take a bit of explanation.)

There is one way this data will be used for petroleum exploration. It aids our understanding of the tectonic evolution of the area, which in turn aids petroleum exploration. However, if you're going to take a moral stance against that, you also need to a moral stance against every scientific advance in every field. They all aid the oil industry indirectly. (Ditto for software.)
HYIP and Cloud Mining vs. Real Bitcoin / Altcoin Mining
>why let them off?

Too many people here directly or indirectly dependent on the ecosystem.
Mobile app to recognize tree species based on photos
>be comfortable with it, introvert and proud

That's the hardest thing to understand. I had all these issues until I realized that: A) me is me, and it is permanent (and I am important to me); B) my empathy and caring what others think is mostly my own illusion.

Meta-issue is that 'be comfortable' is probably a thing that doesn't come easily. First step for me was to start to accept future uncomfortable situations, instead of trying to prevent them. Acceptance is not a comfort, but it leads to it.
My app is for a very niche population so spreading the word for it was incredibly easy as there are only 3-5 really good hubs for this crowd (pinball players) online.
> My own working code is terribly simple and straightforward

That makes you a good programmer, too. ;)
I'm sceptical of these figures. How can the US rank higher than Botswana and Brazil in PPP adjusted dollars, when it ranks lower in unadjusted dollars and the cost of living is higher in the USA?
Sadly to use the Assistant still requires disabling almost all privacy controls on your Google account.
Detecting objects in satellite imagery using machine learning
I used to hate any type of training for years, but I'm really glad I was able to coax myself into starting & sticking with it in spite of my resistance. Few things in life have so many upsides and so few downsides.

Anyway, I think you have to commit to it long enough that you actually see some measurable results. Many people give up before they even reach that point. It takes effort and persistence, but not on some superhuman level. Pick a program and stick to it for a few months, while making sure your diet is on point.
No, I've become somewhat sceptical about the 'benefits' of travel, mostly it seems to have become more about one-upmanship than anything else.
concurrency will always limit ruby.. it will never ever get there and that's ok because that's not ruby's goal.
can't believe it made it to hn front page. HackerNews works in mysterious ways.
Huh, I had no idea. An Easter egg, almost, as I've never seen this mentioned by Google.

It works ok, send pretty beta right now. I pointed my camera at a business card and pressed the home button. Google Assistant appeared and I asked it to tell me about what was on my screen. It noticed one piece of the address, and brought up a listing for that general area, but there was no way to further inquire into any of the rest of the card.
Debian Shutting down public FTP services
Obesity is top cause of preventable life-years lost, study shows
Honestly, I'd rather be led by a "dinosaur" programmer than some marketing or MBA geek any day. At least then I know that my boss would go to bat for me when it's clear something is achievable within the capacities of the team or department. I've worked for too many clowns that think computers are magic boxes where you just whisper a few words into then you get a fully fleshed out platform out of it. Seriously, it should be a legal requirement that you have at least a year of experience in the profession you'll be acting as manager in.
My kingdom for a horse
In what scenarios is GCP's load-balancer not trusted but their compute instance is?
Why I’m Making It My Feminist Mission to End Wikipedia’s Notability Policy
Logic bombs.
There are also people with enough command of their own native language to introduce ambiguities on purpose, which I sometimes find fascinating.
Is Facebook capable of adapting to the world it created?
Judging Apple Watch’s Success
CSGO Server Launcher
That actually happens a lot with English but native English speakers (or those foreigners with similar langs/cultures) normally don't realize that it is happening.

Defining world culture symbols would be pretty hard. If you count by number of people there'd be a lot more Asian cultural things than you would expect.
On the flip side, I lose coverage incredibly often with Freedom Mobile. Basements, but also random parts of ground-level buildings, are off-limits. To be fair, their coverage map doesn't flat out lie anymore, so they are improving.
The Ultimate Guide to Sales Qualification
Because US telcos are some of the most price gouging in the world?
All or Nothing Productivity
An interesting project. Curious if there were any particular challenges when writing the code.
Do you think it's a complete guide or do we need to add something more?
Performance is only one of several factors when selecting a programming language, like suitability to problem domain, available libraries, tooling etc.

In my work I have found Ruby often more than makes up for its poor performance record with an excellent ecosystem, mature testing tools, and outstanding string processing APIs. It also offers a high fun factor, which is just as important IMHO.
It's bias via omission. Anything positive about Trump or the right has a zero percent chance of not being moderated away.
I can't really go into detail much, but my wife too intensive/immersion French in her school days. As she became fluent in basic spoken and casual-written French, they taught her the French style of literary writing. She's the one who told me it's meant to be profound or deep, but comes across to her Anglo brain as vague and, well, bad at saying anything at all.
A Progressive Web Application with Vue JS, Webpack and Material Design
The Problem with the March for Science
It's quite hard to say whether it's a sustainable career path in the abstract. The real question is whether you have the additional skills you need (marketing and sales) or can learn them, and whether you are interested in spending your time on doing it. Would you be happy spending 25-50% of your time just working on getting clients?

It helps a lot if you can position yourself as a specialist (doesn't mean your skills have to be specialized; technical skills are distinct from positioning: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/19/specialist-vs-genera...).

I've done some consulting, tied to a specific technical niche, and switched back to being an employee. There were two problems:

1. The niche was slightly too small, so there was little competition and steady work, but not enough demand to be able to fill a pipeline completely.

2. I stated missing the engagement of actually continuing work on a project, instead of just showing up, doing a bit, and moving on.

These days if I became a consultant I would spend a lot more time on choosing a positioning that would still be specific, but allow for a broader set of clients. And ideally one where I'd feel a sense of accomplishment within the bounds of each engagement.
Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
found it! http://www.economist.com/node/4079027 they def called that one. "Interest-only loans"
It gets even messier when politics are involved. See Apple and the gun emoji.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240386
I would be interested in finding out more on the subject. Would you care to expand a bit on the above?
You don't think private enterprises lobby for economic policy? Maybe you're just making an argument about wording?
This is horrible. As a straight white mail I feel triggered, and need my safe space.
They fall under the Unicode standard. Warning, this page is quite big!

http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
Or, even more on-theme, woodworm.
I'm not sure why FB doesn't just disable Live for a while. That seems like the obviously ethical thing to do.

From a purely selfish point of view, is there some legal repercussion to disabling it? I.e. will this mean that FB could be liable for other objectionable content, and can't claim that it's the posting user's fault?
Huffington Post Redesign
Likely but the whole point of 'AI' is that it should be able to identify flowers that don't look like what it's seen before. If not, it's just a huge lookup table that's like a memory repository.

This is, of course, a critical challenge in data science and is definitely not a trivial one to solve.
These look like the TARS blimps or DEA blimps used for border surveillance and trying to catch drug smugglers.
You could also check out https://oldgeekjobs.com/. I'm not sure how senior most of the jobs are but I like the name. :)
This is very disappointing, but not surprising. I've been hoping for a new news outlet that can structure itself to be immune to a narrative or hive-mind mentality, I'd be happy to support such an organization.
I was surprised a lot when Apple changed the grinning face emoji in iOS 10 to a boring smile. For me and my friends the original version was a sort of mischivious smile, but definitely positive. Seems a ton of people had negative connotations with it, and it got voted out by majority opinion. The new one conveys a totally different meaning for me, and as such I have basically stopped using it. I tend to use "Face With Stuck-Out Tongue & Winking Eye" now instead...

Also: browsing Emojipedia I just realised that the Smirking Face is supposed to be smirking... I always interpreted it as annoyed or bored... talk about ambiguity...
Never mind the internet, users will lock themselves out of their own computer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/202143/i-included-...
The disturbing role of psycho-social deprivation in autism
The site says:

"The TechSummit diversity ticket program is meant to facilitate attendance at the conference by candidates from traditionally under-represented groups in Tech including women, people of color, LGBT, and people with disabilities."
I imagine this situation might surface when looking at optimized native code, either from JIT or AOT, for example via WinDbg sos plugin for .NET.

Still not a reason enough to avoid using a debugger.
Oxford gives this definition of biologist:

"An expert in or student of the branch of science concerning living organisms."
I don't understand why emojis should be customizable with skin colors. And five of them nonetheless. If discriminating based on skin color is racist, why do we invent new ways to do it? I'd rather use a single color for everyone (don't care which) because I don't want to express "a black man smiling", I want to express "a man smiling".
No video?
i.e. if you are straight, white, male and able-bodied then you have to pay the registration fee.

EDIT: forgot 'male' as well.
Silicon Valley season 4 starts by teetering on the edge of repetition
https://books.google.com/books?id=BrhBAAAAYAAJ&dq=calculus%2...