skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most unexpected aspects of the emerging global surveillance regime is how trivially easy it is to opt out of.

All you have to do is leave your phone at home.

The over reliance on consumer technology and social platforms by end users is unfortunate but expected. Seeing how law enforcement has become so lazy as to piggyback all of their investigatory efforts on top of it is truly stupefying...
you might like https://www.planradar.com/

disclaimer: I met the founder once at a party.
Analysis of a fake news dataset with machine learning
He makes many claims that are based on science (e.g. nutritional value of various ingredients, health effects of food processing, etc.) Do his social views make his analysis of those studies invalid?
>The generation of kids now posting on 4chan actually group up watching shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which took one sentence sound bites from people, put labels (you might know which ones) on them and made them into a huge spectacle.

It's two sides of the same extreme, both of which have driven people to the far right (Trumpism) and left (Antifa) respectively. Stewart is a perfect example of this childish false dichotomy created by the media to set people against one another. There's clearly a lot of money in tribalism.

As far as 'taking over our media', what I meant is the rise of far right talk radio and things like Alex Jones being taken legitimately. These things have made it impossible for a normal person to filter out the nonsense these days.
"Norwegian is at the better end of the low fare airlines."

I saw a thread were pilots were freaked out by this:
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a1ae8c4
A topical example considering they were the headline act at Glastonbury last night.
The only way I'd take a LCC into an "alternate airport" would be if I lived closer to the alternate than major.

For someone like you who is commuting home, it makes a ton of sense. For typical business/leisure travel it rarely is convenient, and like many folks I'm astounded at the level of inconvenience people will go through to save $50 on a flight.
I'd like to hear more specific experiences on switching from working for free to $CONSULTING_RATE for the same client

I helped a local business group with their website, their previous host shut down and all they had was an archive on CD, they had some quotes for 10-20 hours to get it back up and running (and then everyone wanted to charge them hosting/domain registration).

I did the work for free. A couple hours importing databases and site files, configuring WP/Joomla (I forgot which), some testing... My hope was that I'd get a few leads from the 50-60 companies in the business group.

I was contacted by a few but once they found out I wouldn't do the work for free...
The social "tax rate" of things you must do in order to be a "good person" according to the establishment left got way too high. So if your choices are to make excruciatingly sure you don't accidentally forget the TQQIAAP part of LGBTQQIAAP alliance, or fuck all that noise and stop caring about what the left thinks, well, a bunch of folks are going to stop caring about what the left thinks.
Maybe something like
SI(sqrt(1/(eps0 mu0)))
= 299792458 m/s
factor(sqrt(mu0/eps0),ohm) = SI(sqrt(mu0/eps0)/ohm)*ohm
= 376.730 Ω
Learn COBOL or RPG, and the world will really be your oyster.

Not criticizing C++ (I'm in my 40's and spent the first several years of my career working with it). Just stating the reality of what people whine about on web forums (when they're not whining that open source developers should do even more free work).
It warms my heart to see people in the wild doing smart things like this (after getting laughed at by moron managers who wouldn't authorize any good ideas like this for years).
Yes, Kaplan's book touches on the silliness of the term (it was consciously borrowed from William Gibson) but policy makers and advocates seem to use it in discussion. Of course there are more impressive terms when needed, like "Information Warfare".
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It's a bit of both, to be honest. E.g., the Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul have very different sounds due to different pickups, electrics, tone woods, etc. People will buy a particular type of guitar because they want a particular sound. Choice of amplifier also comes into play here.

OTOH, there is definitely brand cachet/snobbery. A Gibson Les Paul will almost always get more respect than a Les Paul copy from another brand.

What I'm less aware of, except from perhaps a few niche guitar makers I know, is brand snobbery of the form of, "Well, Fender are better than Gibson and Gretsch because blah", or vice versa (people do tend to be a bit snobby about Ibanez though, for some reason).

Most people I know buy premium guitars (and that's a loaded term in itself) for the sound rather than the brand... except that, as I've already suggested, they will often prefer a well-known brand over a "knock-off" or lower end brand: so "serious" musicians will generally buy Fender rather than Squire (low end brand owned by Fender).

Different genres of music can lead to different brand preferences. More "classic" music genres tend to favour Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and so on, whereas newer or more experimental genres tend to favour Ibanez, ESP, PRS, Jackson, etc. This is more of an observation than a hard and fast rule though, and there will always be exceptions, like the Fender Jaguar which has been a firm favourite of some more alternative bands since the late 80s.

Hopefully that rather rambling answer makes some sense.
What are the viewpoints you hold that you refer to as "unpopular" and "shameful" that you're afraid to express to your coworkers?
>Maybe these old people in the article (I'm 37 so I'm one of them as well, I guess) are the problem, and when younger people that don't revere the word "vintage" so much can usher in the era of the truly modern guitar that Ned Steinberger has shown us glimpses of? One can only hope.

It's already happening. A huge proportion of young guitarists are playing metal, which is a hugely progressive scene in terms of technology. The coolest young guitarists are playing Strandberg Bodens, Kiesel Vaders and the weird and wonderful stuff from Ibanez's Iron Label. 7, 8 and 9 strings, fanned frets, headless, active electronics, carbon and titanium reinforcement, it's all on the table. They're abandoning valve amps in favour of Helix, AxeFX and Bias. They couldn't give a toss about Hendrix and Clapton - they revere the likes of Tosin Abasi and Rob Scallion.

The baby boomers have disproportionate influence because they've got a ton of disposable income, but big changes are afoot in the guitar business.

The future of guitar looks very much like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbW4sptVnE
Extreme left is probably not quite right, "totalitarian left" would probably be closer to the mark. A left that considers all its views and actions beyond question and wields social justice ideas as weapons against dissent. For example, remember how every criticism of Hillary Clinton the neoliberal warmonger was and still is blamed on misogyny? How Sanders and his supporters were smeared as sexists and racists and all sorts? Every single idea in the modern social justice arsenal has become a cynical tool to protect the powerful and the status quo. And don't even get me started on the gloating about poor, lower-class white folks dying of drug addictions, or the articles in rags like the Guardian hoping for the day when demographic shifts mean the Democrats don't have to care about what happens to them anymore because their votes are irrelevant; Richard Spencer couldn't come up with a better fucking argument for white supremacy if he tried. It doesn't matter that none of this is actually left-wing, because it's beyond criticism or challenge.
I would have thought "Oregon Trail" was solidly Gen-X? I think I played that in the mid-1980s?
Are you suggesting that belief in the efficacy of chiropractic correlates with belief that climate change isn't real, or the reverse?

It seems to me that skepticism of the medical establishment and skepticism of mainstream environmental science would go hand-in-hand, but I also think chiropractic is bullshit (and I've been to a chiropractor for back and neck related problems).
In my experience with parallel code written in Haskell, hyper-threading offers only a very mild speedup, perhaps 10%. It is essentially an illusion, a logical convenience. (How long does it take to complete a parallel task on a dedicated machine? Four cores with hyper-threading off has nearly the performance of eight virtual cores with hyper-threading on.)

Many people have neither the interest nor the hardware access to overclock, and these processors have less overclocking headroom than earlier designs. Nevertheless, the hyper-threading hardware itself generates heat, restricting the overclocking range for given cpu cooling hardware. In this case, turning off hyper-threading pays for itself, because one can then overclock further, overtaking any advantage to hyper-threading.
> If so, what were your reasons for foregoing a framework?

Many other people have written about this, so I'll keep it short.

It's quick and easy to get started with frameworks, but you inevitably try to do something that's very difficult to figure out how to do. Instead of just writing code that does it, you have to search the docs of the framework to figure out how to do it the way the framework wants.

But guess what? The framework can't/doesn't have infinite documentation, so they often don't tell you how to do it.

You end up reading docs more than writing code.

Frameworks are also complicated and full of magic. You have to know the language, but then you also have to learn the framework. You usually can't just read the code to understand how the app works.

> How have you found the process of going framework-free?

Amazing. I'll never go back.
It is, the issue being fixed was the only feedback the OCaml community received.
> can't break your headstock off — a quite common way to damage your guitar

Really? Are people using their guitars as hammers? I think it's pretty damn hard to break a headstock off. Much more common damage to a guitar is denting the frets, distorting the neck or busting the tuning pegs. I'd put "breaking off the headstock" as the 99th percentile of common ways people materially damage their guitar.
Wouldn't we all love a breakdown on how someone spends that kind of money. So far the game is solid. But I wonder if someone had their eyes on another WOW killer.
The UI is confusing, hard to read and unapproachable for non-technical people. You guys should really hire some UI guru and get him to re-design and re-word the whole system and create an easy to start, plain english language tutorials.
Huh? I use GMail via IMAP and I can't think of any time I've had problems. Am I just not noticing them?
The problem comes with advertising and selling products that they haven't made yet.
Windows does have a microcode update driver, as you would expect, so it can fix this.

However, looking at the microcode update driver on an updated Windows 10 as of right now, I don't see a recent enough microcode version to fix it. The latest updates appear to be from 2015.
AI means death of the personal income tax. It puts AI work at an unfair tax advantage.
The drama basically arises from where common people are a good source of funds but actually terrible investors, giving personal money by impulse, usually without being equipped with the industry insight to evaluate the risks, or fully accepting there are risks because they are too emotionally invested in the product.
It depends how complex the thing you're building is and what it needs to do. If you're building a web app for low/moderate traffic (i.e. not Youtube or Facebook) that talks to a database, authenticates users, has a load of assets that require preparing/precompiling, serves dynamic server-rendered templates, implements caching etc you may as well use a framework. Much of the work is done and decisions have been made by experts.

I wouldn't classify Sinatra in the same way as the other frameworks you mention; it's very lightweight and (intentionally) doesn't offer much out of the box. It's ideal for building APIs and other simple things but, if you need a fully-fledged site that does everything listed above, the case for just using Django or Rails is much stronger.

I now build APIs and services with Go. It's well suited for the task and makes deployment super-easy.
"they didn't go to a loan shark neither a shitty bank. It's the bank that manage the assets of the Queen. I don't think they give loan that easily hence the huge collaterals."

Irrelevant. Why would they care which bank the money comes from?

It would be careless to take any deal on less favourable terms than you could get elsewhere, which implies this Coutts deal was the best they could get.

It could easily be a deal on a REALLY good rate to extend their runway well into the release cycle of a finished game, but the lack of disclosure implies otherwise.

Anyone here old enough to remember the original boo.com?

That was also an emperor-has-no-clothes fiasco of epic proportions. Which is ironic, because their problem was that they couldn't sell any of the mountains of clothes they had in storage.
I really like the way Medium creates a "screenshot" when you share highlighted text to Twitter. I thought that's what this was going to be - although this is pretty cool, and it looks like this library makes it really easy to extend and add something like that.
Is being a "WOW killer" worth it anymore? Activision doesn't even release the subscription numbers anymore (most likely because they've fallen so much since WotLK).
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Because futher down the stack, more reliable a tech has to be. Otherwise good luck debugging. Also agree with heisenbit.
There are hardware bugs that are impossible to fix in microcode. What then?
You can hop on a train to South Station. Granted you can do that from Newark, but it is a cheap train (only during the week because America). So not as convenient as Logan, but definitely comparable to SFO/Oakland.
SEEKING FREELANCER – I'm in Bay Area/Midwest, Remote Is OK
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I'm not sure if this is actually showing up on the "Freelancer" section of the site. If someone can point me to any docs/information on what I might be going wrong?? (Thanks!)
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I posted a bit ago, on a scrapping app. I want to thank the community for the replies I got!! Talked with a few, we'll see how it goes.

That said, we've identified a couple of other short-term projects that need to be built.

1) - Implement/modify the github apps for:
lockitron - https://github.com/lockitron
The app is a "kickstarter" clone, developed in ruby/rails.

Incorporate "mods' as defined/needed

harry's "prelauncher" -- https://github.com/harrystech/prelaunchr
The app is the clone of the "Harry's pre-launcher" app from 2014/15 that as used as the pre-lauch page for the Harry's shaver. The app is also Ruby/Rails.
Incorporate "mods' as defined/needed

Basically, we have a larger project/app that we need to do preliminary testing for to determine/validate the target market is really large enough. The goal is to use one or both of the above apps to be able to "drive" the initial userbase to the funnel process and get a feel for the actual user/community numbers.

2) -Implement the Kickstarter IOS/Android mobile apps from github.
-Implement the Telegram IOS/Android mobile apps from github

--This is required if the 1st part works.

At the same time, a person/resource for the 1st part might not be the person to implement the 2nd project.

So if anyone is interested feel free to get back to us with your input/contact data.

Thanks Guys

-usc_dog@yahoo.com
Title is a bit misleading. The court didn't deny access to statute. The court denied access to opinions issued by the FISC. This is still really terrible because precedent is, in a way, just as important as statute in determining legal outcomes. But it's a little bit different than what the title of TFA would have you believe.

Yes, precedent can in some instances be considered 'law'. But to a non-legal layperson it's not generally referred to as such. Most people when thinking about what the 'law' is think about statute.

So it's still terrible, but the article headline is a bit misleading.
If you aren't careful, you could end up getting charged with lying to police. That's a serious charge.
Expectations of hardware are indeed higher than for software, but isn't it a valid trade-off for Intel to make as long as most of the issues can be fixed with a microcode update? On Windows, it's updated via Windows Update, and on most Linux distributions, a package exists for CPU microcode. Most users have an easy—if not automatic—way to obtain the updates.

I believe the main issue with formally verifying everything is that reasoning about parallel code is extremely hard and might well make the entire endeavour unattainable. It would be great to have formally verified CPUs, though.

> They could've caught and fixed this one with some more testing, before actually releasing.

Isn't this true of any bug?
Yes, consumers do, they ultimately have the most control. The guitar manufacturers don't, they are the "you" I was referring to. No one person or company can reverse the decline of Rock music, the public is buying less of it over time despite large scale marketing efforts.

Publishers certainly have some limited influence over which specific artists get traction through promotion and marketing. They can milk extra sales of declining genres for a while, but no amount of promotion and marketing can ever make renaissance or classical or ragtime or doo-wop appeal to the young mass pop-music consuming market again. Rock will eventually be part of that same past.

No amount of money can be spent to create a new style of music that will be guaranteed to be popular. Nobody has the ability to restore the electric guitar to it's former prominence by design. It could happen organically, but it can't be forced.
Well, how many people go to doctors and get no useful information or solutions to their problems? Tons. It doesn't follow that doctors are bullshit. (And I would argue that a couple hours of nominally feeling better is more than those people get from a doctor visit, but I digress)

If your problems are spine/neck/etc related, having yourself adjusted will provide relief, and strengthening, stretching and maintaining good posture habits will help keep those things from recurring. And, of course, as you age, the body breaks down... there's only so much that can be corrected.

I will say, strengthening my core made the most difference in my spine/neck pain. Heavy weight squats, push ups, planks, etc.
Microsoft confirms some Windows 10 source code has leaked
not only social constructs, everything is only "true" to our poor brain notion of truth.
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i am more willing to accept software having bugs / failing. i have 0 tolerance for hardware to have bugs
Did they recommend any exercises? And did you follow them?
The pain coming back is hardly a surprise if neither of those things occurred. Same with physio.
Go back to rust-land now :D
> I'm curious why people keep asking this?

I think this is pretty obvious. Dart was created to be an VM-optimizable language for the web.

I attended talks by it's creators in the early days, and this was the majority of the conversation.

Then other browsers refused to implement it and even stable Chrome never included DartVM, and the project announced it was giving up on that goal.

So with the raison d'etre gone, people wonder if the new language is still used. If infinite RAM had been invented three years ago, people would be asking the same question about Rust today, despite the fact that the language has more to offer than low-overhead maintainable memory management.
The parent should not be downvoted. He/she is correct.
Maybe so, but it's probably important not to enact regulations preventing people from doing this. Otherwise we'll lose all the things that Kickstarter et al. helped create.

Anyone who's loved the game Undertale will tell you that was a fine use of their funds. But games like that wouldn't be possible without unsophisticated investors throwing their money at it in small quantities.
Is this sarcasm?

Leaving your phone at home is equivalent to having no phone at all.
nobody has, but it ain't easy.
Just my 2¢ as a migraine sufferer - although I am wary about getting adjusted (I fear having too many adjustments would increase the frequency at which I need adjustments) on more than one occasion, while suffering tremendously with migraine I've had chiropractors be able to make an adjustment that stops the migraine like flipping a light switch. (A $40 light switch lol). For me, this enabled me to drive home from the city where I was visiting (I was there every week on business and a migraine would have left me stranded unable to drive home, for hours)

So just be aware that there are real cases where chiropractic, though expensive, can be insanely (and immediately) effective! There's no room for doubt in my experience, just what would be a potentially expensive habit if I kept going.
Kind of takes away from the point in having a mobile phone when you leave it at home.
In the US, you can get into a ton of trouble lying to the police even if it's not sworn testimony.
They absolutely sound different. A Fender Jazzmaster doesn't sound like a Fender Telecaster, and even within the same model, a Squier won't sound like a guitar build in US. A good guitarist can tell. But the most important things is that they also play differently. Some models are better suited for some genres too. This is mostly true for every acoustic or electric instrument by the way. The brand actually matters.

BUT a lot of guitarists also forget is sound is as good as the weakest link in the sound chain.

A $10.000 electric guitar will not sound good on a shitty amp.
I too am sceptical the pure LCC model will work for extended long haul routes but I think it can definitely work for medium-haul (i.e. Western Europe to Eastern/Central US). I think the legacy carriers will also have an easier time catching up to Norwegian's prices in the medium-haul space since the distances involved restrict how creative you can be to get costs down (compared to the short-haul market) i.e. there's a limit to how cheap Norwegian can make it.
How about Luca Stricagnoli, who tends to play guitar, bass, and drums all at once, with just the guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJiok_3B-JA
Or with some extra instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxHGyqobsbI

Or Mike Dawes, same deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYksCAhjthk

Most of the people Candyrat Records sign, really.
you make workarounds in software, obviously.
Django provides ungettext for the pluralizing problem, and pgettext, if implemented conscientiously, for the gender problem.
Yes my last high school reunion was like that. (i.e., people who weren't on facebook weren't invited, even if they were known in the community and available at phone numbers advertised to the public.) Their loss!
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Formal verification cannot be used to fully verify an entire Intel CPU, simply because the computational resources required to do so are astronomical. Heck, the cache coherence unit alone is basically impossible to verify.

Therefore, CPU designers verify the important units (e.g., the ALU) independently of each other, and then try to verify their interaction. But a system level design verification check is simply not possible.

Obviously, faults that result from fabrication can still take place, so they are tested for using BIST and JTAG. Test coverage can be pretty high, but obviously not 100%.

As you can see, there are still a ton of places where hardware errors can seep through.
Watch out—it's not that easy: http://modern-sql.com/feature/with/performance