skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Our evidence suggests that social media carried a cascade of messages about freedom and democracy across North Africa and the Middle East, and helped raise expectations for the success of political uprising," said Philip Howard, the project lead and an associate professor in communication at the University of Washington. "People who shared interest in democracy built extensive social networks and organized political action. Social media became a critical part of the toolkit for greater freedom." [1]

"Social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring. A spike in online revolutionary conversations often preceded major events on the ground. Social media helped spread democratic ideas across international borders." [2]

"Global Use of Social Media to Fight Corruption Inspires Youth in Brazil" [3]

"In the Bagega community in Nigeria, lead poisoning had resulted in thousands of children suffering serious health problems. The government announced it would release around $5.3 million for remediation but months later the funds had still not reached the affected community." Two passionate guys formed an organization called Follow the Money and amplified the voices of this forgotten community. Within 48 hours of a Twitter campaign targeting government officials and other influential leaders -- and following a campaign by groups including Human Rights Watch -- the funds were released and affected children are now receiving the urgent medical care that they deserve. [4]

[1] https://phys.org/news/2011-09-quantifies-social-media-arab.h...

[2] http://collectiondevelopment.library.cornell.edu/mideast/Rol...

[3] http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/11/09/Brazil-y...

[4] http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/18/opinion/want-to-expose-corrupt...
They just need to reverse polarity on the LHC!
Oh I'm not saying you can't get great food here, sorry for phrasing my original post poorly. I live in the Bay Area and cook a lot and I'm spoiled for choice. What I mean is that the big bucks in agribusiness go towards lowest-common-denominator choices of poor quality.

Simple example, most milk in the US comes from Holstein cows because they produce more than other breeds. But if you get milk from Jersey cows (smaller and browner) it's much fattier and generally more flavorful. Of course it's also a bit more expensive but not that much more...but you'll be hard put to find it outside of a farmer's market or specialty grocer.

I don't think it's fair to put all the blame on consumers for poor nutritional choices. Marketing and other factors shape those choices significantly.
Did not early WhatsApp use a covert channel in sms signalling, just like you can get 2.4kb/s across the x.25 "D" channel of ISDN?

I've no idea if true or not, my memory unreliably tells me I found some kind of confirmation, but common sense tells me not to rely on such recollections.. but I often pondered if such channels exist in the GSM spec, back in the day, when I was shocked to receive a sms, the service having been given free to early subscribers in the UK, I literally had the first (edit)model Nokia GSM handset, and was most sceptical :D
Would it even be possible to measure this?
the basic problem, once you put aside mythology and the realities of VCs tending to fund local companies, as summarized by a friend who picked up and did a funded startup in Austin:

1. top tech talent in austin is rare and they know they are rare
2. because of (1) they can always work remotely for big valley companies (e.g., the top ten by average eng salary)
3. so if they are working locally, you are mostly going to give the top guys valley-like comp
4. the rest of the talent is cheaper

... which doesn't sound too bad, as far as it goes. But then you run into an issue. There's going to be some specific skill that you need and you simply are not going to be able to hire it locally. So now you're in the position of hiring a remote worker or trying to get someone to move. Depending on your team, your product, team communications skills, how important in-person vs. remote is, etc. to the company, real or imagined, this can basically screw things up.
Getting lost without purpose is often a trap I fall into with open world games. However, probably the two great things that open world games can achieve is a sense of place and wonderful emergent stories in gameplay. And this reminds me that I've still to make the plunge into the as-"real"-as-it-can-get-in-games world of Dwarf Fortress. I love reading about the development and the truly astounding stories that happen while playing, which might be nearly as good as actually playing.
On a related note, how is Pinterest doing? How long can it survive as an independent social network. It focuses solely on one thing but how much is that pie growing?
Lol, Microsoft + Hardware... I think we know how this story will end
Guido of python, primarily for this insight: code is read much more often than it is written. This has improved my coding lot more.
https://goaccess.io/ ?
previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211913
"I'm not an expert" means "I am not an expert", not that I know nothing on these matters. I've read about Japanese culture quite a few times in the past. There's a lot of information out there about historical and present Japanese attitudes towards other races and cultures.

Regarding your second point, you made the positive claim that it's "almost certainly pure fiction". If you're going to make a positive claim and not provide any evidence, while criticising other people for doing the same thing, then that's ironic.
Yeah, but what if you want to respond to the text? There should be a human on the other side.
A week or two ago I was evaluating Discorse and by chance exchanged a few posts with Jeff, who to be frank seemed a little thin skinned.

Questions about feature priorities or technical architecture were met tersely and with a demand to know what kind of software I had ever built personally. So he wanted my resume rather that just discussing the merits of whatever topic.

Wasn't going to mention it but somehow your comment seemed to click.

Not sure what you mean about a tech vendetta, sounds like the tail end of a story.
Shipbreaking has some similarities with electronics recycling in that it's hard work ideally requiring some significant precautions, but if you forego those precautions and employ hordes of desperate people in a jurisdiction that either doesn't care or is just happy about the jobs, you can get that done half a world away for more bang for your buck.

Then again, in that respect, it has similarities with many other kinds of labor as well.

It's fascinating to see that, though challenging, the owners in this case were persuaded by factors other than just money, and this work was performed at a place that appeared decidedly less dystopian than what you see on the tidal beaches of Southeast Asia.

Great article, though. This is the long-form content I like to read. It informs by painting scenes and portraying moods. It's not just obligatory anecdotes, but prose that takes you there, makes you see an issue through the different players' eyes, and makes you think.
Seconding the proposition that these are two distinctly different words. Then there's crisply which has nothing to do with food but is reserved for describing the manner in which civil servants (British, sizes 4-7) deliver ultimata in trenchcoat spy novels. True fact.
If that's true, it's hard to imagine why anyone at Uber's size is still using Twilio.
Takeaways from Scott Carlson's “The Future of Work”
Superluminal Speeds (faster than light) – Sixty Symbols
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Doesn't it just need to watch what ports are accessed by applications and allow/deny with a firewall?
This is very much the opposite for me (and quite common in Argentina).

I've no signal at home. Can't receive SMS or calls. So I need to leave my phone next to the window to get the SMS. And then, generally, wait, since verification SMSs take from minutes to hours to reach.

I wish companies abroad would stop taking instant SMS for granted. It's also the stupidest second-factor you can ask me for: if I ever lose my phone, then I lost my number too.

I get get Wi-Fi from home up to about half a block down my road. Then there's the cafes and stuff, and of course, 4G.
With respect to WW2 and stimulants, check out the "Red Ball Express", where American truck drivers used amphetamines. The Germans used "Pervitin". Japanese pilots used amphetamines, though I'm not sure of a phrase to point you to.
it's free for personal and commercial use.
I would build some cool side projects. Not a ton of them (like not 50 CRUD websites), but a few good ones. Things that showcase interest and ability to pick up on new things.

Remember, you're taking a shortcut into a well-paying profession. People that study other engineering disciplines for 4 years still have to search for jobs for months, often chasing lower salaries. If you have to invest even a couple more years building your portfolio and gaining what experience you can, and you land a job, your ROI is still better than the majority of technical college graduates.

Just try to make yourself stand out from other bootcamp graduates by building something cool. And you'll develop better skills in the process.
It did. You edited it. Then in your reply above you still remain stubborn with "for all intents and purposes". Amazon has brick and mortar and expanding it's part of their strategy. I'm not saying it's a big piece of their business right now. No need to adjust your statements semantically and go back and forth because you weren't accurate in your prior claim.

Furthermore - you said "Walmart's model is to have a store in every town in America". Amazon wants a piece of that $480 B in revenue too. You can't steal all of that revenue by only being online.
This is consistent with what I've experienced hiring newer / junior devs. However, because we didn't have any female developers, we were more likely to offer interviews to females who sent in resumes, but they were asked the same questions we asked everyone else.
This is tougher than it seems on the surface.

A few years ago, I was involved in planning and running a maker "fest". We invited makers, and artists to the festival to show off their projects, and some of them wanted to sell things.

A not-insignificant number of participants who wanted to sell things were just reselling things you could buy at Michaels, or buy online (in bulk) for cheap.

Sometimes with just a little modification, or maybe a creative recombination, or repackaging.

The problem is that you basically have to examine every single item, and then personally decide if it qualifies as art or not.

That's a lot harder than it sounds, and can quickly devolve into a judgemental mess that nobody wants to participate in (we wanted to encourage makers, not subject them to some "must be at least this cool" test, which is scary for people).

Imagine the PR fallout for etsy the first time they tell somebody that their handmade widgets look like mass produced junk.

I think they're in a really tough spot. When they weighed the options, my guess is that they realized that it would be best to let the consumers just decide what they want to buy.
Does it really have carpet on it?
Those ads are actually prohibited, or at least were when I was there. :)
Was Francis Fukuyama the first man to see Trump coming?
Absolutely beautiful read about the life cycle of capitalism and beautiful machines, thanks for posting it!

> I asked him if it ever seemed a pity to break up such monumental and characterful structures. Did he look at Winner in the way that I had come to look at her, in the way her former crew looked at her, as something dignified? Sari said the only emotion he could feel about Winner was relief, when she was gone, on schedule. But not long ago, he acknowledged, he had had a wobble. It was over those two young Ensco rigs – Ensco 6003 and 6004 – that had come out of Brazilian waters. When Sari won the right to scrap them, he took the unusual decision to sail the rigs under their own power from South America to Turkey. “I piloted one myself, for the last mile to Aliaga. I wanted to try it out.” Sari mimed adjusting thrusters, striking buttons. “Everything was like new, all the controls.” They demolished Ensco 6003 and 6004 over the course of about 10 weeks. “Beautiful machines. Beautiful machines,” Sari said.

Afterwards, To get a better appreciation of how dangerous the job of ship breaking actually is, I looked for some videos.

"Scrapped: Chittagong Cutters"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fqrRhqv0Iw

"The Ship Breakers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdYK2vb6McE
The most interesting part of this article to me was how the Nazi's used the bodies as evidence of German's conservative nature, and superiority, over the surrounding region. Insofar as the Nazi historians were concerned, the cause the the bodies deaths was their violation of some social contract. This minimally supported hypothesis was used successfully to help incite the events leading up to Kristallnacht. Drawing a parallel between the so called reprisals of Germans in the past, and their present day descendants.
This is the main reason I decided to learn Japanese and then live there for a year of college.
Sentiment is slightly negative. Chrome OS is unpopular among techies for not doing things "real" computers can do. Login used to be very sluggish (it goes through a district SSO page, not normal google login), maybe it is better now? Don't think I've heard anyone say good things about them, but not a lot of complaints either.

The web filter is minimal (porn, pretty much), but that's just the district wifi (opendns), not the chromebooks themselves.
I do know some of the history. I was just asking those questions as a challenge. Regarding the question of the other dialect, the parent used the term as a way of distancing Scheme from what I assume is the one true Lisp: Common Lisp. But the point the passage they had an issue with noted two dialects. The other, of course, being that one true Lisp.

The way I see it, the things that make Lisp "Lisp" are not exclusive to either one. One might say that the intersecting characteristics aren't interesting, but these characteristics are what Lisp is truly about.

SML and Caml are both ML. Haskell 98 and Glasgow Haskell are both Haskell. Dyalog APL and APL2 are both APL. And so on.
Do this with MD5 and then find the original link using bozocrack[0].

[0]: https://github.com/juuso/BozoCrack
I wonder if there was another human sacrifice under the Shiva statue to mark the restart.

Only half joking. Has anyone heard any more about why scientists performed a mock ritual like that?
Windows 10 S doesn't run Windows apps.

"Streamlined for security and superior performance. Windows 10 S works exclusively with apps from the Windows Store. Some accessories and apps compatible with Windows 10 may not work, and performance may vary. Certain default settings, features, and apps cannot be changed.Easily and affordably switch to Windows 10 Pro at any time."
Getting into Product – Your Experience
Caffeine triggers seizures for me, so un-caffeinated is a must. But yeah, mostly what I drink is just fizzy water from a sodastream.
I think there's maybe something tradable from over-reactions to short-term news, but buying on an "over-reaction dip" is fraught with peril that it's just the beginning of a prolonged fall.

I bought a bunch of UAL after the UA3411 incident came out and sold the last of it today for a tidy profit. Now, if their earnings had been lackluster or worse, that trade could have gone poorly.

I have also made money in aggregate on 3x oil ETFs, but the swings can be long and deep.
Lol. Nope. It's been out less than a year. How many writing careers do you follow?
Atlassian jira has the worst UX in any modern SAAS software I have used. Glad to know they are giving some thought to this.

But I've also learned Enterprises pay more $$$ for worse unusable UX since that needs consultants and bigger support contracts.
Sure - because that burden has been pushed, in part, onto its staff.

I know it may seem pedantic but phrases like "Government funding", "free", and "entitlements" muddy the waters when discussing the morality of policies.

Is the same as hearing "the US Government declared war on North Korea". Sounds much more heroic than it'd wind up being. At least, since Davy Crockett died ;)
There are even more complications.

My SO makes a living selling hand made party supplies on Etsy, and has for years at this point. I assume she's fairly successful for an Etsy seller since she makes multiple thousands a month on hand made items (all made to order, a fair portion customized to specification). Even so, with all the work she puts in it's not significantly better than minimum wage after expenses and the time she puts into the shop. She has for a few years considered buying cheaper party supplies (plates, napkins, etc) in bulk and selling them in addition to her hand made crafts because customers generally need and so are going somewhere else to buy these items anyways. This is a case where allowing mass produces items would be a win-win, as the customers could get their custom and generic items in one order (they specifically ask if they are offered), and she could make some additional money from each order. Without the ability to resell mass produced items, you constrain this positive aspect of the system.
War and Peace in HTML on Gutenberg is 12,000 paragraph tags, which is a lot but it's very easy to find forum threads with more than 12,000 posts. And each post is more than a paragraph tag, it's probably more like a dozen: the author name, an icon, the date, controls, etc.

Even Chrome on my i7 doesn't instantly respond when loading those Gutenburg URLs.
Glasswire doesn't do this, it either blocks all connectivity for the process or not. There is no fine grained control over hosts or ports.
If Etsy can't fix discoverability it's dead. It's the only problem. There's so much low quality, zero effort, dropshipped crap that there's no real value to the platform anymore.
"Morally good" is dependent on perspective. I'm sure there are patriotic, moral NSA workers who believe that they are helping make America safe, and that it is morally better to lie to Americans and save their lives, than to tell them the truth and let Americans die.

Of course, I'd disagree with that entirely -- there's no way of knowing how effective the NSA program is at stopping terrorism and no way to know that it's not being used for nefarious purposes... but the idea that there is a moral "good" and a moral "bad" ignores the nuance inherent in making such judgments.
Thanks!! Wow ~50% lower prices is A LOT when it comes to the highly competitive market for produce.
> "I'm not an expert" means "I am not an expert", not that I know nothing on these matters. I've read about Japanese culture quite a few times in the past. There's a lot of information out there about historical and present Japanese attitudes towards other races and cultures.

Then perhaps you can provide a shred of evidence that the Japanese people in postwar Japan were "constantly exhorted" that they were superior to other asians.

> Regarding your second point, you made the positive claim that it's "almost certainly pure fiction". If you're going to make a positive claim and not provide any evidence, while criticising other people for doing the same thing, then that's ironic.

The claim that people born under the star sign Pisces are easily confused is almost certainly pure fiction. Confabulating the words "almost certainly pure fiction" into a positive claim on my part is pointless semantic game-playing.
Dumb reader is dumb. It's an op-ed not an article.
For the details, perhaps open FB's ad creation UI. You are indeed correct you don't target ads like you enter a search query.
If his research is any good, then how can he not get any NIH funding? I'm skeptical that a missile defense researcher will suddenly achieve a breakthrough in AIDS treatment. Not that it couldn't happen, but it's unlikely.
I understand why they did the fabric. Microsoft can't release a laptop with an aluminum unibody and Windows 10 on it and call it a Macbook killer. They have to do something innovative with the design. But if aluminum is taken and you plastic doesn't scream "high end," what do you do? Apparently you put fabric on it? I often balance my coffee on my Macbook, so I can only see this ending in stains and sadness.
The Jay-z example was real and the tool was shot down by policy. Some targeting is really prohibited thanks to policy.
Attack of the Offendotrons: Tyranny of the Flash Mob
Hello, OP here. I went to bed with three points in 4 hours, thought this idea will never take here, and a few hours after I woke up I checked on my account. 54 points and so many comments. I'll try to make my way through them.
I believe the government is immoral, and people and businesses should be free to create and trade unregulated. Even if I thought net neutrality was 'good' for consumers and business and the economy, I wouldn't trust the government to pen it's legislation
If I understand it correctly, it only intercepts DNS and the beginning of new connections: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/blob/master/opensni...
SonarLint – A free static analysis tool
It does appear to be the M0 stepping based on the eBay auction. I don't suppose you have any place you can pull errata for stepping M0 so I can know what buttons not to push here?

In CPU-Z I am getting something different from the seller's published CPU-Z screenshot - it's showing stepping "R2" ("retail"?) - however the name string is also still showing as "ES".

I've attached a dump from CPU-Z that shows CPUID 0x0 and 0x1 values. From the processor value (0x000306F2) and the Intel data I could dig up - it would appear that this is actually the SR1Y1 stepping. Which is apparently the M1 stepping. Possibly actually a QS rather than ES.

https://pastebin.com/2YnishGK

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

Not holding out hope overall given that it was sold as the M0 stepping but I guess you never know, maybe I got lucky. There was no pic on the eBay auction, and I would have to pull the cooler back off to check what's printed on the processor itself.
Actually existed for years and made a pile of money, and was only closed down when their entire programmatic stack was shut down (LiveRail, the test DSP, and effectively Atlas). You clearly don't know dick about ad tech.
There's still a chance they can get us all back into the correct timeline.
Hey I am not one of the people who downvoted you. I think while yes there is a point to be made that Sydney/Australia also has water quality issues the problem in general when you compare the US to Australia is quite a big difference.