skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be today's least original comment, but I've recently discovered the magic combination of podcast and treadmill. (I knew them both, separately, for a long time already.)

In addition to helping make 30 minutes of sweating go by much faster, I find it almost always generates a bunch of ideas. Like a little brainstorming walk, if you will, but all-weather and easier to schedule.

My current favorite podcast for this is the Andreessen Horowitz "a16z podcast."

http://a16z.com/podcasts/
> Short-term capital gains are not heavily taxed, for example.

I think you mean long-term capital gains. Short term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income in the US.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/101515...
France is divided but I am optimistic and on Sunday I will vote twice for Macron
We looked at using Chromebooks (or really just browser based OSs) several years ago (7+) but couldn't do it because of one fact; the network infrastructure just wasn't good enough. However, next year we are going with Chromebooks and I'm not worried about the network at all. In the last several years our Internet access speed has increased 10 fold and we have a nice WiFi mesh that reaches every part of the campus. In the coming months|years we are going to be moving to Google Fiber and that will remove another road-block. Google is hitting all the right buttons and is where Apple once stood.
It goes like this: "We doubled the prices of
food expecting demand to go down, but it went
up!"

I've had that experience selling (small, cheap, non-critical) software* to end users (i.e. not business or bespoke solutions). When I released at $10 I got a lot of complaints about the price (including many "it should be free!"), panicked, and lowered the price.

I later experimented with various price points (without announcing, just changed the price on the home page) & lo and behold- I sold as many units at $9.99 as at $4.99 and $6.99 (I didn't dare raise it beyond the launch price)!

The corollary is to not listen to customers saying what they want, but to observe what they buy.

* this was in 2011 and that particular market has changed since, please do not email me asking "how to make money selling software online" - I don't know!
Even earlier were the Byzantine monks who smuggled silk worm eggs out of China. Arguably not espionage, unless you consider the eggs to be DNA packages.
Didn't Tesla have this thing where they changed the battery from a model S in like 2 minutes? Scale that to a semi and the 40 hour charge time is a moot point.
Didn't teals have this thing where they changed the battery from a model S in like 2 minutes? Scale that to a semi and the 40 hour charge time is a moot point.
I'm experimenting with building the social network I want to see at https://postbelt.com

It's designed to be a place where discussion within your network is front and center, with distractions kept to a minimum.

This means no ads, no images or video, no upvoting of posts, no rearranging of your feed based on what you may find more instantly appealing or to see certain people's posts more frequently, complete control over your own data and the ability to silently edit and delete posts even at the expense of others' UX, and privacy focused rather than the alternative broadcast-focused behaviour being encouraged.

The problem, as you say, is really in the business model. There are two confounding factors that make it almost impossible to implement a free social network in this style: growth, and profit from advertising by having control over what a lot of people are exposed to. They feed into each other in a positive feedback loop, and implementing any of the features I mentioned above will hinder you where the competition won't be.

A way to short circuit this is to charge a small subscription fee for a centralised service, free up to a certain number of connections to bootstrap the growth of the network into something populated enough to be interesting. With the subscription, you have a very clear incentive structure and people can trust that you can prioritise the user's (customer's) interests above all else.

That's what I'm trying with postbelt to see if there's any appetite for it. If it sounds interesting to you please check it out. Thanks by the way for the very interesting links.
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"For years, I've “called out” Silicon Valley's “bad apples”, but by the start of 2017 it was impossible to distinguish maggot from apple from the rotting barrel itself. My workdays were an endless perp walk of sociopaths, psychopaths and criminals with names like (Pando investor) Peter Thiel, Travis Kalanick, Emil Michael, Palmer Luckey, and Gurbaksh Chahal – not to mention their enablers and co-conspirators like Paul Graham and Sam Altman, Rachel Whetstone and Steve Hilton, Joe Lonsdale, Arianna Huffington, Sherwin Pishevar, and a thousand more like them."

Interesting. The authour calls out bad behaviour of an industry and individuals and singles out ^Tech^. I'd say most business is like this full stop, tech is just more visible than say finance, armaments or dining.
Europe does not want those refugees even if Merkel told you otherwise and undemocratically imposed refugee quotas on other EU states, which now threatens the EU's very existence. Then they're only Syrian in part.

But yes, I agree we should refuse to be blackmailed by Erdogan, although I'd not go as far as to kick him out of Nato.
> I'm thinking of is a co-working space with a cafe next door?

The Dock and Dock St Café & Bar in London is exactly this.

[1] http://www.thedocklondon.com/

[2] http://www.thedocklondon.com/the-dock-club-affiliate-members...

[3] https://officesnapshots.com/2015/12/03/dock-london-coworking...

[4] https://hubblehq.com/office-space/1313/the-dock
> Japanese civilians at the time weren't really innocent. The whole country was working for the war effort, mainly to kill other Asian people.

Wow, this is sounding terrifyingly similar to how suicide bombers justify their targeting of civilians. It's sad to see how easy it is for people who didn't grow up under the dogma of fundamentalist religion can still come to this way of thinking.

My friend, I implore you to think really hard about what you said, and take the time to recalibrate your moral compass. I can only hope that at some point in the future, you'll come to think that, war or not, enemy or not, killing civilians is bad. There is no shade of grey. It's only bad.
Fi is a nice option for for US residents. Beyond the roaming benefit, I don't think it achieves much in most of Europe and Asia anyway. That, combined with the history of Google Voice, means I don't see Fi going global anytime soon.)

I have Three in UK and it does have decent free internet roaming in a lot of countries. The roaming is slow with not a hope of streaming media, but seems to have certain types of content like maps and mail whitelisted for fast access. It's useful but still requires getting a local sim for anything serious.
Prior discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79713
ZFS is supported by both Linux and FreeBSD (not yet on NetBSD).
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Very much the later.

as for how they did it..

I only have experience with Visual effects, the post house that was "hacked" was an audio place.

They are much smaller, and have much less engineering staff to deal with this sort of thing.

If I was a hacker, I'd be targeting the FTP/aspera server, or the cinesync machine(its a way of showing what work you've done without having to move the data, like logmein, but colour correct, and with doodling features.)

Or they might have just walked in dressed as a runner and stole a bunch of drives.
I've heard* that the discs in your back cannot repair themselves -- they have no blood flow. So strengthen your "core", because if you squeeze those discs (thru bad posture) year after year, eventually they deteriorate. Then your nerves get pinched, and the pain can be insane.

* Not a doctor. Let me know if they self-heal.
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I read on some forums that guys were canceling ESPN due to too many female presenters commenting on sports they weren't passionate/knowledgeable about, and pushing political agenda. Could that be a compounding factor for a major loss of subscribers where many viewers decided it's no longer worth watching and found more active outlets in their spare time?
The point is, not really possible, given Swiss defense system. Have you been to Switzerland? That country is a fortress.
Well, that seems to be a recurring issue with go.

Not nearly as mature libs as Java.
They reported an accuracy of baseline FBCSP and ConvNets on the BCIC dataset around ~68%-70%, which is reminiscent of early WER for speech recognition (prior to the advent of specialized speech architectures). However, when you consider the datasets (BCIC 2a and 2b) are only using 22 scalp electrodes (for 2a) and 3 (for 2b) at 250 Hz, that's pretty amazing. That's analogous to using something like 8-bit audio for speech recognition.

Clearly there is lots of room for improvement here, both in neural net architectures, measurement technology, and preprocessing. One technique the authors didn't explore is source localization [1], which typically requires much higher density (somewhere on the order of 128-256 active electrodes), but offers much higher spatial resolution (up to ~5mm isotropic). Given that most of the EEG datasets are recorded on less than 32 channels, I wonder how much more signal can be detected from such low resolution methods, or if we're approaching the theoretical maximum channel capacity of 32 scalp electrodes.

It's like Feynman's analogy of measuring the height of corks in a swimming pool to determine the physics of an object that hit its surface. The more corks you have, the more information about the source (location, velocity, trajectory, geometry) you can reconstruct.

[1]: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Source_localization#Elec...
Sorry I should have been more clear, The people that leaked are not employees of the post house. They were people attached to the film it's self. The clients if you will.

The security drive has been exceptionally effective in london and vancouver, not sure about LA.
No. They killed they intellectual elite and added a system in place to make sure they will never grow a new one.

The reality is way worst: some company from our countries accepted a contract with NK and built that for them.

I know that my country, France, is actually pretty famous for their surveillance technology. We have companies such as Amesys that have been caught blatantly selling huge systems for spying on entire countries. Nobody bats an eye because they make banks.

So the UK, Israel, the US or France probably made the tablet. Knowingly.
So I guess is should order a metric ton of painkiller for my potentiel headache.

"Relational programming using SQL with a focus on generation of data rather than querying it" is basically my job since 4-5 years. And i can't believe I'm the only one SQL guy out there doing that.

It very effective for data manipulation once you get the correct mindset.
What sort of tax do you pay on that $100k, in the US? Would it be taxed as if it were salary?
As I understand it a distinction is made in psychology between affective empathy and cognitive empathy.

Affective empathy is feeling sad when you see someone sad. Cognitive empathy is the ability to "put yourself in another's shoes", so to speak.

Autistic people can come across as lacking empathy because they have difficulty with the latter, but the 'affective' form of empathy is (usually?) quite functional. In fact, there's even some evidence that autistic people have more affective empathy on average, or at least they experience it more intensely.

For many people with Asperger's this is perhaps the shittiest part of their condition. In social interaction they can appear quite narcissistic and lacking in empathy, but internally they feel just the same amount of guilt, sadness, or regret as 'regular' people, if not more.
He didn't say what they did was simple. He said it's a simple explanation for what they did. Google created a great search engine at the right place and time. Since then Google's products have been a hit but mostly a miss by a company with endless money.
First time I learned about SETL at NYU was when I was learning about Spitbol.

Here is a fizzbuzz in Spitbol. Probably not the best way to do it.

var a = 0;
start
+a = a + 1;
break
+lt(a,101) :f(end);
x01
+x = (remdr(a,3) + remdr(a,5)); eq(x,0) :s(x06);
x02
+y = remdr(a,3); eq(y,0) :s(x04);
x03
+z = remdr(a,5); eq(z,0) :s(x05)f(x07);
x04
+output = 'fizz' :(start);
x05
+output = 'buzz' :(start);
x06
+output = 'fizzbuzz' :(start);
x07
+output = a :(start);
end

More: http://www.hakank.org/setl/fizzbuzz.setl

He also has pages on APL and k.
Can't agree with this at all. Bare function pointers are inadequate for many purposes; using them often requires explicitly passing around an additional environment pointer ('qsort_r' on Linux is an example), which is ugly and not type-safe.

What you see as "delusions of grandeur" I see as the elegance of two concepts which, while duals with each other, are much more general than bare function pointers.

(And yes, I understand very well how closures and objects are implemented using function pointers.)
There is more to it than that though, what do the North Koreans actually want? They want a federal Korea with two systems, two leaders, united as one country and with a seat at the U.N. for that one country. A united Korea would be a true world power within a generation, with GDP and population that would outshine all but one of the security council permanent members. None of the North's weapons point at the South, I think the North just want the USA out of the peninsula and for there to be an orderly reunification process without external interference.

The South also expect unification to happen one day, it not being a hostile takeover.

A united Korea with nuclear weapons would be deserved of veto rights at the U.N. and I don't believe the U.S. wants someone else at the top table. So a war is very much being fought, Korea can't be allowed to be united!!!

It is easy to condemn the crazy Kim guy and slag off North Korea but I think that we are the ones propagandised against as much as them. In all my decades of watching and reading the news I have not once been told what the goals of the respective sides are regarding unification. None of these newsreaders have told me the implications of a united Korea either. I wonder if the U.S. is at war to keep Korea divided, as opposed to keeping their South Korean buddies safe from those crazies up North.

I also think that North Korea is okay to censor out capitalism in its many advertised forms from the web since they are very much under siege/at war with the U.S.A. Would you want your people to be using electronic devices that the CIA could 'Arab Spring' a faux revolution from? Would you want your population drowning in fake news? Is it really that bad to just ban the mainstream media?!? To Ad-Block everything, for everyone? Is access to Facebook or being able to tweet now a human right?

If the international community wanted to resolve North Korea it could be simple - unification - let Korea become a united country with the U.S. taking their tanks out, sorting out their issues by themselves with those pesky nukes swapped for a top seat at the U.N.
Or, maybe, the Allies and Soviet Union won WW2, and both setup their system of government in the states they controlled and/or their former colonies as they became independent.

Then there was that whole cold war thing, and the USSR lost its client states, most of which adopted the political system of the winners.

The fact that so many democracies derive from the UK means that democracy is not a default state and to be successful needs centuries of tradition and institutions to make it work well.

I don't see how that follows at all. Democracy seems to be working out pretty well in Timor Leste, which doesn't have a long tradition, but not in Thailand, which does. Switzerland was never ruled by the UK and democracy works well, Zimbabwe was ruled by the UK and democracy hasn't worked out.

There's a lot more going on than some kind of simplistic explanation like this.
Anecdotally it seems to me to be a variation of being a musician, author or indie film maker- it's the sort of job a lot of people think they want to have before realising how much work it is for how little pay.

At least when making indie games you can come out of the adventure with enough experience to get a well paid software developer job somewhere else afterwards (the chances of success from actually selling the games is unfortunately not higher tho).
> Japan's debt-to-GDP figure far exceeds the US

That's the Japanese government, which is different from the Japanese people, who have among the largest savings per heard on the planet. Do not equal the people to the state, please.
> After much experimenting they managed to make a thin type of earthenware which was covered with a white tin glaze. Although made of low-fired earthenware, it resembled porcelain amazingly well."

They did not produce porcelain, but a product designed to look like it.
I don't fully understand that this comment is downvoted. He has a point there. We are all being tracked, just see your history [1] on the google website.

It tracks the websites you've visited, the video's you've watched, music I've played, things I've searched, App's I've used (Camera for example), directions I've searched (google maps), ads I've seen, cards in my feed (google now), my location history (actually very cool and very scary)... There are probably a LOT more metadata they have on me that I don't know

I mean, they have a LOT of my data, they know probably more about me that I know about myself.

Of course we aren't blocked for using any apps or viewing files, but they know that we are using and viewing the apps/files. I think it's in their best interests not to block anything, as this way they get a lot of information they otherwise would not get.

You can compare the "my activity" with "Trace Viewer". It's just a matter of perspective. Don't get me wrong, I don't approve the NK way of blocking everything, but the tracking of the data happens in the West already too and we just "accept" it.

[1] https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
I wonder if the problem is that nobody will write something else because of the huge effort it will be, and there will be no users of the alternative until it achieves some level of functionality. I wonder if there's an economics term for this conundrum.
> Sharp contrast to the eternal optimist, borrower spender American stereotype.

Agree, while there is a growing number of Japanese who resort to カードローン (quick credit) these days, for instant gratification despite having few savings.
Indeed. Autistic people are often extremely loyal, non-judgmental (in particular ways), and lacking in much ego. If you can get past the problems that this 'miscalibration' cause, there are a lot of benefits to having an autistic friend!

I don't blame people who are not up to the challenge, but I do hate it when people aren't even willing to respect the differences and instead choose to cast moral judgment.
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I'm all for the desk excercises and fitness in general, but if anyone ever suggested we all plank during scrum I would immediately quit.

It seems like they would also be looking at a massive discrimination suit as soon as they had an employee with any kind of injury, and potentially a lesser one simply because there would be otherwise healthy employees who felt uncomfortable about it.
Not including RAM, CPU and disk space in a cost comparison because your work doesn't require much RAM, CPU or disk space is fine. I don't poopoo anyone for not having these requirements in the first place.

But not including RAM, CPU and disk space because they're on a server somewhere makes absolutely no sense.

SCM and CI/CD are irrelevant for the comparison because they cost exactly the same whether you use a Chromebook, a Windows laptop or a Mac.
If suppressing certain behaviour is the goal then the victim has to be informed somehow whether it is a beating after the behaviour is discovered or a notice beforehand.
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Virulent viruses don't work like that. Once they destabilize one subsystem, the system as a whole takes hit. By the time they switch to which ever other subsystem they want the body is more or less shutting down. That's why highly optimized virus don't last long.
LaTeX isn't used much outside academia, so I don't think there's hope of it getting any better.
I actually studied carefully the Koan from the Japanese Buddhist traditions a few years ago. I can't tell you much about Japanese Buddhism, but I can tell you a lot about the Koan.

Not all Koan share all the same themes with each other, but for my money, a contemporary Koan really should try to embody all of a few important themes that I find repeated throughout the Koan.

A lot of non-experts seem to want to emphasize how often someone is struck, but for me I think this comes from a one of the most interesting themes in the Koan: a sense of humor about failing to attain enlightenment.

When a person attains enlightenment in the Koan, it is often at the moment when they are forced to acknowledge the duality of two opposing views, as if in the fleeting moment between seeing Rubin's Vase or the faces in its negative spaces.

In that sense, at least, it is a perfect Koan.
It's controversial for some people. OO is that horrible verbose enterprise code with all the mutable state. And if you suggest that certain features or patterns approximate OO they get very defensive.

There are certain famous FP language implementers that should probably read what Guy Steele wrote in the topic, because listening to their talks I strongly get the impression they haven't.
Ten years is actually a pretty long time for it to take a popular leader to destroy a functioning democracy.

There are numerous examples of democracies collapsing from what seemed a stable state much quicker than that.

The collapse of the French Fourth Republic in 1958 is a good example[1]. In that case it led to another democracy, but that is only because the army wanted de Gaulle, and de Gaulle was happy to be president in a parliamentary system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republic#Algeria...
You have a choice here if you're tech savy and a ROM is available for your specific baseband. I've so far been unlucky with my S6 because I have a rather obscure baseband.

I'm not saying it's anywhere near as bad as living in NK, but the "open" option is not at all known or available to what I'd estimate at 95+% of the population, and many fewer will actually use it.
The North Korean developers who worked on this must be privileged beings with access to the open Internet. I can't imagine developing such a complex system without documentation and references.

Maybe they even hang out in Stack Overflow...
I think in those examples, there are probably smaller objects hiding inside your bigger objects, and you should construct them first.

FYI ruby has named arguments since a few versions back.
I don't follow why objects need an identity, as you define it. How does not having an identity make something un-objectlike?
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