skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, again with the "democrats are no different than republicans" trope. The exact kind of wrongheaded and ignorant belief from the left that delivered Trump into the executive branch in the first place.

Yes, Obama was not perfect on civil liberties, but there has absolutely been an uptick in these kind of instances since Trump took over. Obama had no Muslim ban. And in general, Trump has given more delegated authority to CBP/DHS and other departments.

Maybe try to put things into perspective? We will never get 100% "pure" politicians and if the left keep staying home or voting for people like Jill Stein, then Republicans will continue to dominate.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-border-patrol-wa...

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/02/21/dhs-removes-obamas...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/us/ice-immigrant-deportat...

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/17_0220...
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On eBay I stopped giving neutral reviews because if it wasn't 5 star then I'd get negative reviews back on my own account. Neutral = Negative to some people.
You've submitted this. I hope the spelling and grammatical errors aren't a problem for the readers. First of which is a missing 'the' in the first sentence. Later 'categories' instead of categorise.

Still, it seems interesting and I wish you all the best. I hope you are awarded your PhD.
Funny, HN is all about capitalism while it works against labor.

Suddenly, when it works against capital, HN gets very upset.
I don't think No Man's Sky was scam so much as it was a game where the hype far outran what was realistically possible. I mean, there's only so much a small indie studio can get done in a year or two, so people expecting the moon were just being unreasonable.

In the case of Star Citizen we're deep into gold-plating territory, wouldn't be surprised if it became a Duke Nukem Forever. But even then, Chris Roberts is genuinely trying to deliver a game, even if his ambitions may have gotten too large to deliver.
Is Automation Warping the Labor Market as Dramatically as We Think?
Ah, snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with the closing sentence.

Most people aren't gung ho compensation maximizers, otherwise nobody would work in education or government. Free-market capitalism has so far been the most successful economic model, but that doesn't mean it's the right approach for everything. You might be surprised how many drugs are developed by government research institutes.

Besides, why shouldn't human rights, like healthcare, be free? Well, ok, taxpayer-funded is not quite the same as free, but the idea still has merit. Can we really say we deserve this planet if we don't even take care of our own? Desperately wanting to fit everything into a free market model has so far produced more problems than it solved.
Revoker: Java Implementation of a CRL Distribution Point and an OCSP Responder
As I read France set very troublesome restrictions for any software which uses cryptography. As I remember it requires some kind of approval from government, assignment of special code based on documents you provide via mail. And it takes up to 4 month.
"First of all, that's completely wrong, especially when it comes to startups."

Are you saying his presentations are some kind of startup? It is completely right that aesthetics don't really matter for his presentations. In my experience, aesthetics only matter when trying to sell turds as diamonds. People will use useful things, regardless of aesthetics. Sadly, they'll also use useless things because of aesthetics.
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> I would feel bad about it and I think the person should ask my permission first.

But if that person just memorizes customer reactions to understand how people on average react to particular products or actions, that's ok, right? Because this is what sellers and business owners do to improve their product. So is it about human-to-human interaction or some more subtle detail? I'm biased here, so sorry if I miss something obvious in this situation.
This might be useful for you.

https://www.mongodb.com/compare/mongodb-postgresql
Oooohhh ok, I get it now. Thanks for the explanation!
It's almost as if there are multiple people with different opinions posting on HN
You are quite right. My comment was made tongue-in-cheek. Healthy verbal abuse is part of all of my best friendships.
I'm not sure why they didn't just "Build the $10m game" and release that, then spend the rest on expansions to that game. Would have been a much more predictable approach (assuming the original game is setup to be appropriately expandable.
Wow, what an asshole of a hunter, to bait these wolves out, he kills a horse in a creek, fouling it for the local residents who rely on it & making them boil their water so its drinkable (very expensive to do).

Beyond killing the majority of one of the most well known wolf packs out there, this hunter successfully fucked over the locals water supply, and gave the National Parks Service hard data that getting rid of the buffer zone was bad.

Idiots like this should be forced to go back and clean up their messes, allowing them to shit all over state & federal lands is ridiculous.
Ah, yes, Elvis. Everyone knows Elvis.

It's actually quite relevant - You can be absolutely sure that people know the connection between Elvis and Memphis, but they're just names to most people, and unless Memphis is full of Elvis replicas (well, it probably is), they'll know nothing about the city or the state from that bite of information.
I like the line of thinking, but people can't even be bothered to boycott places like Walmart in meaningful numbers.
I know from firsthand experience how the elk and deer herds have been decimated in that region of the country, and in fact have been cut by more than 50% in the region I've hunted over the past decade. This dramatically shortens the season for us and also means we haven't been able to take any females for years now. We've also been tracked and surrounded by them on a few occasions, and I challenge anyone who enjoys watching them on YouTube to feel the same way after you've heard their chorus of howls completely surrounding you in dark timber. I'm talking about deep instinctual fear . . . it's sobering.

I think the article does a poor job of describing the hunting process, it's not like you just kill wolves and tell Fish & Game about it later. You have to hunt in season using certain weapons or traps and you have to apply for tags beforehand. The success rate is extremely low, I know the first year it was open in Idaho the projected rate was 20% but the actual rate was 0.3%. Turns out wolves are extremely hard to hunt.

Having them off the list is a huge improvement though because the ranchers and hunters are working in cooperation instead of opposition to the authorities. There used to be a real S.S.S. attitude among the old timers (Shoot, Shovel, Shut up), now they are going to be giving good data back to the authorities who will be better able to adjust the numbers in favor of all the species that share the ecosystem.

For context, the first wolf killed during the legal season in my area was stuffed and mounted in the local sporting goods store . . . 7 feet nose to tail and probably north of 140#. Not what you want to meet in the woods, and especially not when there are two dozen of them.
Well, I explicitly wrote "BEYOND convenience and luxury needs"

Of course some people take Uber. For almost any kind of service there will be customers. But that's not the point. At least not my point. My point is that the large majority of people in Europe do not need Uber for their mobility needs. And therefore, Uber should - in my point of view - not get outsize influence over transportation policy.

Because Uber is not just a startup that wants equal terms. It is a predatory (I really rarely use this word, but for Uber, I do) giant that has zero consideration for social responsibility and very deep pockets for lobbyism. Once they have a foot in the door, they'll push it wide open. Which is why cautiousness in this case is really necessary, in my eyes.
What market manipulation? First we haven't seen proof that zillow's zestimate is effecting real prices. Presumably after initial research stages people have an actual assessor come in before closing.

Then you have to show that they profited from such manipulation rather than you know from ads.

It looks more like they changed their algorithm and rather than show imaginary swings in the value of homes revised their historical projections. This makes tons of sense if you understand the historical data to mean this was what the property was worth in 2010 as opposed to in 2010 this is what we thought it was worth.

In fact this interpretation is the logical one. Nobody cares what zillow thought in 2010 they care what the historical value was.
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> A typical OEM windows system will have a half-dozen pieces of crap in its system tray written by third-party hardware vendors, implementing features that a decent operating system would already have built in.

Actually, my OEM Windows laptop came with a half dozen pieces of crap in systray implementing features that Windows already has. A battery monitor, volume icon, WiFi applet, shit like that.

So it's not only Microsoft to blame but also the all-pervasive fu&*( "differentiation", like you just have to crap the system with something others don't have to make TV ads and PowerPoint presentations about it.

Also, just few days ago we had a great example of how "competently" Microsoft plugged the former functionality hole which was antivirus software so it's not like they are perfect or something.
>Is there anybody here is who _doesn't_ like technical progress and doesn't want it to go faster?

Sure. I am quite glad we stopped iterating on nuclear weapon designs and I am quite fine with the state of the art not obliterating entire continents yet. I'm also quite happy we haven't done the R&D and optimization to lower the cost for mass producing neutron bombs too. I think you are too.

I like technical progress that ameliorates the human condition. Some of it does. Some of it doesn't.

Talking about the idea is difficult and complicated when you drill down beneath some trivial level, so people rarely bother, unless they, in one form or another, abstract that complexity away.

If you do that, you're left with "progress is good!" and forget all the times when it wasn't or the reverse. Neither position is particularly interesting.
Don't despair
Keybase is great, makes the whole process of PGP significantly nicer to use, lowers the barrier and hopefully encourages more people to participate.

Great work, thanks!
I used to count calories and I still keep an eye on my calories, but I have switched to keeping an eye on carbs. Since I sit at a desk most of my day and I'm still sitting, I try to ride my bike to work and back home for some exercise. So I try to eat and live on the ketosis diet.

I also swim and go hiking when I can. But for the most part, it all comes down to what I eat, and I have since switched to high fat, moderate protein, and low carb. I'm not really losing much weight anymore, but I'm maintaining about +/- 5 pounds of my current weight.

If you are interested, basically, I lost 80 pounds, but gained about 10 pounds back, and that's where I'm at about now... this post was written 2 years ago, but its very relevant to the life I still continue to live today. https://mypost.io/post/no-bullshit-diet
Thanks chris! I appreciate the feedback. It really helps to hear when faced with the indifference of the internet, for anyone launching a project.
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This is really great news but I wish it was actually available. The Apple Watch right now is largely useless.

It captures all of these health metrics but then does absolutely nothing with it. It really is desperate for some actual killer health use cases.
I use fingerprint screen unlock, because it's the most convenient screen unlock mechanism. The phone will not be unlocked by a mistake and it is very fast when you really want it.

I like especially the placement of the sensor on the back cover. When the phone is in front of my face it is already unlocked if I want it.
Crazy how quickly Gabor-like patterns start to show up.
Please tell me this guy is in jail.

In a lot of places, it's illegal to even lure deer with a salt lick.

And deer are common and breed like bunnies. And carry nasty diseases.
I just set up a cheap Windows 10 laptop I bought for my mom. It was the first time I got in touch with Windows again since the XP days. Can't say I'm too intrigued, imho the UI is lacking in so many points. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of that Cortana-thing in the taskbar, every window is littered with ribbons, list goes on and on and on … I don't see why I would go for Windows + WSL when I can just slap a distro of choice on it?

While I wish Apple got its shit together, I have 0 incentive to move to Windows as a developer. I'd have to find replacements for a lot of small utility apps I take for granted on OS X, and I'd have to cope with the stupid UI Windows shoves down my throat.
That was my initial thought as well.. build the $10m game, ensure appropriate hooks for expansion.. then build lots of expansions... open contests to fund developer expansions from other dev groups... There's lots of more effective ways this could be done then to try to release a 9-figure game from the start.
It seems like a safer use of extra funding is for free expansions. It may seem unfair to take $140 million and build a $10 million game, but people funded you with your $10 million game, deadlines included, in mind.
Agree.
But that would mean people would make new Win32 apps which can theoretically be sold on other places than the store. (I realize Win32 apps + bridge makes it possible to sell store apps based on Win32 too - but it's not exactly the way they want it to happen).

It feels like microsoft these days think that people who make desktop apps and don't sell them in the store are robbing them.

Microsoft just needs the library of legacy Win32 apps to get their Windows-on-arm to take off, but they want as much as possible of new apps to be using the store. Not least evident by the new "The app you are installing is not from the windows store" messages in Creators Update.
Battlecruiser 3000AD?
I wonder how much Arabic translation suffers from a lack of available data to feed the ML. [1]

> Nor are foreign books much translated: in the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, say the authors, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in one year.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/1213392
True story...after popping a button off my dockers for the third time I said "the heck with this" and decided to skip the fast food for lunch, then I embarked on a simple plan.

No fast food, no soda. I weighed a little over 200 pounds. I went to the supermarket after work and bought vegetables, some kind of meat, and decided to just eat food that I cooked, and only drinking water (mostly) and some fruit juice. Some nights I ate salads with vinaigrette for dinner (big ones) and brought roasted vegetables with chicken breasts to work for lunch.

2 months later (and many comments about how I was looking kinda thin) I weighed myself for the first time since I started. 164 pounds. I lost over 30 pounds in two months.

I gained all of it back eventually and then some, then eventually I stayed away from fast food again, along with getting a little more exercise, and I'm around 184 right now, at 5'8".

Moral of the story for me: Don't eat crap.
Nearly all of Star Citizen's crowdfunding came from their own website, not Kickstarter. The Kickstarter "only" raised a few million dollars.
> It's certainly understandable, but it's also worth remembering that for almost any business the idea that they could call, say, Microsoft and get their bug fixed is pretty much a fantasy.

If you believe that, you've never been in an organization which purchased the topmost tiers of a support contract before from one of the big tech companies before. It's actually quite impressive.
And buy beef from the places where wolves have been eliminated entirely and not reintroduced? That may not be sending the message you hope for.
Which is why they're slowly trickling them out a few at a time (though there's some gems in there!).
We've had taxi apps (like mytaxi and taxi.eu) long before Uber started in Europe. This really isn't anything new.
SoftBank injects $500m into UK startup, Improbable, at more than $1bn valuation
Studies have long shown that what is good for the touch gander is good for the mouse goose. Fitt's Law has been known forever and touch makes considering it a requirement rather than just a good idea (bigger targets are easier to touch; bigger targets are easier to mouse to and click). The same applies to proper DPI awareness, in touch it is a requirement, for mouse users it has often been considered a secondary consideration.

Not every click in a business app or on a server needs to be a headshot to get work done. The business case should be clear: Fitt's Law is a productivity gain even for mouse users; DPI awareness is a good idea when even desktop screens are going 4k and beyond.
Exactly.

I call this the "Segway effect".

It is when the hype far exceeds any possible realistic product.
This will probably not be a well-liked response but I'm going to post it anyway.

I preordered Star Citizen back in 2012 or 2013. Whenever the original Kickstarter was. I've kind of forgotten about it. I've never preordered another game--or anything really. And I don't think this was a bad experience.

I haven't received a game yet, but I have played some demos that were really fun. I've seen hours of content (Sure, that content is freely available, but so is NPR), read some great stories, and had some great conversations about the game.

In 2013 I paid $60 for a game I have not yet played. That year I also went to a casino one night with $80 in my pocket. Both times I came away with nothing but a fun experience and some stories. In both cases I feel like I paid for some entertainment and received it.

This isn't a post to excuse vaporware titles on Steam Greenlight or preordering broken-on-launch games. Quite the contrary. I won't buy EA games until at least a year after they come out. I will NEVER buy a pre-release game on Steam. But I bought Star Citizen. I took a gamble, and I had some fun. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't think there would be some fun along the way.

Star Citizen could never come out, and I wouldn't really feel cheated, because I still got something out of it.
Yeah, Google's been messing up messaging ever since Google Wave.
For those who's going to mention Bayes' Theorem regarding medical tests, here's a link to save you a Google search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem#Drug_testing
actually I don't have to be more specific when I am refuting the statement "nobody".
How does boiccoting and ruining farmers lives help with biodiversity? How is that net positive for them?
Yeah it's a fine line between "insurance" and "protection".

The key distinguishing factor here is the protection pool actively seeks to invalidate bad patents. It could also lobby for patent reform. By doing so, it makes patent trolling less profitable and thereby, reduces the need for itself in the future. It's like a health insurance company funding research into perfect health and immortality (but more achievable).
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Semi-true, as the ECJ tends to follow the Advocate General's opinion. So that opinion is, in fact, somewhat newsworthy.
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Not cryptographic hashing functions, definitely. What about locality-sensitive hashing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
My vote is firmly in the "too soon" category.

As evidence: I can get a 35 pound bag of dog food delivered to my house in about an hour via Amazon Prime Now. That's basically both WebVan's and Pets.com business model but on the back of Amazon's logistics ecosystem.

What makes this work is both that it's not 2001: both in that there are significantly more Internet users, they have higher speed connections, and they're much more comfortable with online purchases.
Download Google Hangouts and get a Google Voice number. There you go
Capital? We're talking about some farmers here not billion dollars corporations.
Why didn't you just do a clean install?
>"There's no indication the driver package uploads or otherwise distributes any of the logged information."

i remember how PM team (not just a team of typical poor technically clueless PMs, mind you, it was the "product management" team including actual PMs, project leads, lead architects, managers, etc.) waived security bug because it was only starting "notepad.exe" and thus was really harmless. Not joking, true story.
This might be true for this particular game but the lack of checks and balances on kickstarter is troubling.
Great tool, simple but effective. It has really helped me organise my emails.
Don't tell me that, tell that dude who said boiccoting farmers meat is protecting wolves.
Kindness and caring isn't a finite resource that has to be "earned". If you begin caring for others by default, you might find that mindset disappears.
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And look what they've materially accomplished. The tech is incredible, even if it isn't productized yet.
You speculated. Hmm. This makes me wonder if there are books on Kickstarter. Who's running the odds, and what are they?
I don't think I understand your argument. It seems like you are saying that if patents are overall good then patent trolling isn't always bad and I don't understand how that follows.
With apologies to Mister Sinclair: It is very difficult to make a developer finish a game when his salary depends on not finishing it.
Of course not, "protecting" wolves by boyccoting meat from those farmers does nothing for the environment.
Fluent is "Modern Design Language 3.0" (aka "Metro 3.0"). It seems to be an evolution of UWP, not a brand new UI Kit, and the code demos shown show a very easy crossover from existing UWP XAML to add Fluent tools/design.
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It reminds me of the people who put significantly larger amounts of money into the "Aido" home robot - a heap of unrealistic promises in an unrealistic timeframe for an unrealistic price - it's way behind schedule but has yet to pull the rug out.

(More on Aido here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aido-next-gen-home-robot-...)
If most of that $148M came in via KickStarter, their cut is 5%, so almost $7.5 million, on a single project.

Really good ROI for a low-to-medium complexity website, and a company of 129 employees.
Mantra's is a great concept, and I think you're on the right track. I think I've unwittingly implemented some of my own, like commitment. That is definitely something that i've tried to adopt.

But simple? I wish it were so, for me. My thoughts move in too many directions, and i can so easily deceive myself, that there were a great deal of things that were not just mantra but voices screaming in my head to do something that would rarely/ever get done. And attempts to undo them were themselves undone with time; which made it all just very stressful.

But you know, surrounding the concepts of behavioral and cognitive changes are a number of old school/new school concepts, such as this, that I think are worthwhile to explore more.

thanks for the thoughtful comment
First, that's just for 2017. Each progressive year before 2020 will be even higher.

Second, the link below to the 2017 budget details provides some detailed answers:

https://www2.census.gov/about/budget/FY2017-census-budget-su...

General budget page:

https://www.census.gov/about/budget.html

tl;dr - the $778 million is for a wide range of modernization efforts, not just "computers".