skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am quite skeptical of the results of this paper. The claims are very strong, but the paper was published in "Journal of the Association for Consumer Research". I would AT LEAST expect it to be published in a journal related to cognitive sciences (even low-impact cognitive science journals would be fine), this seems like a safety net journal that is not really related to any of that..

Anyway, reading through the paper, there are a few methodological issues that I believe severely weaken the claims made by the authors.

1. Even though the claims made specifically towards phones, there was no "control" item situation.

2. Participants were explicitly drawn to the item in 2 out of 3 conditions right before the task.

3. Experiment 1 does not randomize on task (OSpan and RSPM) order.

4. Item (phone) dependency tests were based on self-reporting. Why not some more objective measure like in a neutral situation, how many times does the participant take the phone out of their pockets to check it?

5. As far as I can tell, there is no control for differences in their population & their measure of phone dependency (ie, is phone dependency uncorrelated to factors like age?)

but really, the killer finding is: there is a (non-linear) interaction effect between phone dependence and phone location. In the phone on desk condition, there is a negative correlation between phone dependence and performance on the OSpan (working memory) task (which is the result the abstract talks about), but in the phone/bag AND other room condition, there is a POSITIVE correlation between phone dependence and performance on the OSpan test.

So based on these results, I can make the claim that we should use our phone MORE to increase our cognitive capacity. We should become more dependent on them. We just need to remember to put them away, out of sight, rather than leave them on the table nearby.

I would put as much trust in the claim above as the original claim by the paper's authors.

EDIT: continuous grammar improvements
Smiling hard, I was looking for a solar concentrator online when I should have gone to the nearest IKEA store.

ps: a video that go well with the PrimitiveTechnology channel
Unless I missed it, nowhere in the article does the author suggest including these kinds of projects in your portfolio.

As Clark Terry said about the road to jazz improv: "Imitate, assimilate and innovate."
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It seems like the harvesting is done mostly by customers, or at the least by existing grocery employees, and land space would just replace the existing produce section - light and water and licensing the tech seem to be the main costs
Remember that part of being an experienced developer is having the wisdom and knowledge to select the right tool for the right job. Sometimes that's the hot new cool shit. Oftentimes it's something much more mundane.

If you project calls for "standard, ECMAScript, and (gasp) jQuery," then use them! Just be aware of the benefits and trade-offs.
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I was stationed at a very remote weather station where apparently, in previous years, some of the meteorologists were too lazy to change the sun exposure sheets during the year. Just before the relief voyage came there was a sunny day and they 'recorded' the whole year's data.
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Google fined $2.7B by European Commission for abusing search monopoly
If you agree that the minimum wage would likely mean that there would be fewer businesses, and therefore fewer jobs, then isn't it hard to also believe that the people who lost their jobs would likely find other work? Isn't it also likely that at least some of them will become permanently unemployed?
I feel that, for the end-user business at least, security is both a gamble (you may never be targeted at all) and being totally safe seems unreachable therefore stakeholders spend symbolic amount of resources to feel good about themselves.

Windows Defender is present on my Win7 installation.
Without second thought? Can you read the easy to understand explanation given for the fine and judge again?
Nostalgia is overrated.

You can with a 10 line HTML file and linking a few CDNs make an interactive application that can reach 1 billion people with no install and no buffer overflows. That's magic. The 90s wish they could do that.
What is it with this idea that things are always better in Canada? Without any data to back it up? Considering Canada has been blamed at the UN for their treatment of First Nations, I wouldn't race to this conclusion. Considering how terrible it is in Canada, it would be good to question what can be done in Canada instead of trying to diminish the problem by "betting" that at least we are better than Americans ??!
If by a lot you mean 1 province (alberta) out of the top 10 urban centres in Canada ... oh hell i'll just say it, no alberta is not the engine of the Canadian economy, the golden horseshoe is. Oil prices are at rock bottom and Canada is still doing fine.
Your bio isn't a disclaimer.
>There is an interesting parallel to make here with the Soviet Union: they used to set up puppet states which were nominally sovereign, independent, "people's republic", etc, while in practice were obviously just colonies.

So just like "wars to spread democracy" when it's just oil/control of land/etc?
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If those people really "sailed" through your phone interview and technical discussion there is something very wrong with your phone interview format and technical discussion methods.
Every time I see a link from atlasobscura.com, it seems to be click baity. Some kind of high brow clickbait, but still clickbait recycled from around the internet.
I had good results with using a simple timer board that switched the pump on and off at fixed intervals. The total setup (for 5 potted plants) costed around $25 including the timer board. The results were great especially with tomato and okra where we had a hard time collecting the produce :)

Edit: Was using something similar to this board:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Automation-DC-12V-LED-Display-Digita...

I think RPi is a overkill for this project.
In other news, sales of the bowl spike :).
> Said Linus Neumann

Given that name how could he not be hacker.
The term female is not disrespectful. I hear both genders use it all the time.

Female by itself is known to imply female human. When people say they have a kid, do you think they have goats at home?
But they will still track links you click from gmail.com ?
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Try Ottawa or Montreal, I work for a national delivery service and both those areas have higher volume than Winnipeg.
Email me if you want to talk architectural patterns or Microsoft products or both.

Details are in my profile.
The US is already much of the way towards that non-hostile legal environment, which as you can see in many comments here is making many people very sure the EU is doing the right thing.
The plants look waterlogged; the roots need air to breathe.

Drain the water back into the reservoir (use a simple filter to prevent damage to the pump) and just use a schedule for watering.

I used a mechanical timer switch for 15 mins every hour for my hyrdo setup. For soil, such tiny plants, and no lights you would need far less frequency. A general rule of thumb is to give it enough time between waterings to let it get a bit dry.
https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder can be run using Docker. There's also plenty of Proxys that can save your browsing. See: http://netpreserve.org/projects/live-archiving-http-proxy/
>It's weird that someone commenting here never read corporate PR before

You seem to confuse having never read PR releases with still being outraged by their BS.

Something being familiar doesn't make it right -- or means that only people that have never seen it would ever be enraged by it.

For pointing out "nonsensical" stuff this was a very nonsensical argument. Not even wrong.
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> In this case, google did nothing wrong

Well that's just factually incorrect isn't it?
The issue is that the map doesn't account for population density. Toronto has high population density but it shows up as a very small dot compared to large country-side-right-leaning regions that will take half the territory of a province.
The strange thing is I've not heard any substantial allegations of "hacking" in the UK's recent snap election. Possibly it was called with too short notice for any to be organised. The other possible conclusion is that the British government is doing too good a job at weakening itself for the Russians to risk interfering...

(There is an allegation that a large chunk of Saudi money was given to the DUP, now coalition minor partners: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election-dup-b... )
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>> "Thinking aloud" ... is a specific metacognitive skill

Is there evidence for this claim? I'm inclined to believe it but that's experiential. It's also something I've never had to work to acquire, but that could be a cultural thing (my family and friends talk a lot about thinking) or a personal history thing (I have a minor learning disability, and it has forced me to develop strong, conscious meta-cognition).

It's not a given, tho, that being able to talk about thinking is distinct from being able to think and being able to talk.
You'll see people baffled by this decision and generally happy with the service and products google offers

You'll also see people (me) baffled by this decision and generally disgusted by the services Google offers.
I wish they would retaliate, but do not assume they don't do anything. They killed the "no battery devices in cabin" policy in less than two weeks.
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Microsoft makes the source of Windows available to partners and big customers. Just not for free.
Ha, the idea being that once you've said to someone that they you'll do a thing for them, the social pressure will make you complete it.

Recently I hooked up with some friend of a friend students who needed an app. I don't normally do that kind of work so it's been fun. That said, I'm in a non-programming job at the moment so it's easier to have the right kind of mental energy in the evening than it was.

A long while ago I went on a pair programming site and found another programmer who wanted help on their projects, and found the social aspect very focusing. We didn't get on, so that didn't work out, but it could have.
Yeah, like that pesky Netscape that totally screwed over MS and almost stopped the golden age of web browsers between 2001 and 2006. /s
> This is only a problem if the interview/hiring/capitalism process is meant to be fair.

It's also a problem when those same companies want to bitch and whine about a "talent shortage" or a lack of diverse candidates.
Countries with higher standards 'often' have reasons to monitor and eventually penalise international companies from laxer countries.

I fully expect a future superpower to have strict rules in some new area, say China will only take English-language/law services from legal firms in any country if they are zero carbon.
If you're aiming to be comprehensive, then you may want to add Onyx under streaming processors. It's not as popular as the options you've listed though, so I understand why it might be left off.

http://www.onyxplatform.org
You are actually wrong, they have been classed as an essential platform, see the discussion in regards to the NIS directive and its application to Google.
Last I played with it, the latency on webrecorder was uncomfortably high for always-on recording of personal web usage (the pages only display once fully rendered). I wish webpages would render as normal and get asynchronously archived once loading is complete.

That would allow constant archival of every webpage a user ever visits -- an immutable record over the user's years of crawling the web.
> With open source you can always hire some programmers to fix bugs.

That might work for changing the text on a web site running Drupal 6 ten years later, but thinking that this sentence makes any sense when you're talking about a huge distributed system ported from probably some commercial Unix-like or even bare-metal Ada or whatever to NT then that's just a very naive sentiment.
So all those people who say they are gay allies but don't happen to employing gay people are full of shit?

It absolutely flies. Just because YOU think they should be all or nothing doesn't mean they should. Maybe you should make a competing partnership and hire all women.

Hiring is not the only way to show support. Public statements apply pressure to other groups, signal that this place is a good place for women to do business with, etc.
Only a mail from the EC that this is already being investigated after I filed a claim against the AMP cache granting a search ranking benefit.
Yes! The blogger knows the theory, but not how to apply it.
Why I've never seen any Ember.js dev writing about javascript fatigue? Because healthy community, matured framework, happy developers never felt that. Ah, and there are plenty of jobs with much higher salaries.
This project reminds me of an installation at MOMA NY, the same concept but they used an Arduino. Now there are even kits to do it for whole garden https://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/open-g...
Great question.

Currently there is no global redundancy checking, only locally within the same page. So two CSS files which are the same from multiple archives are both kept. While this might not be ideal in terms of scaling to infinity, each archive + its dependencies are right now limited in size to 25MB, which should help keep costs under control until this is monetised. :)
> When I go to the SNCF (French rail) website, are they showing me flight and bus options or only their train results?

Yes, apparently they do show bus results. Both from their own bus company and at least one seemingly unrelated one. I know it is similar in Sweden with SJ, which shows trains and buses from other companies.

> Nobody is forcing anyone to visit google. It’s a website. Perhaps if the EU really cared, they’d ask themselves why Europe hasn’t produced a credible Google rival.

Isn't that essentially what they are doing? It might be to late to compete on web search. That doesn't mean Google should have an unfair advantage in other search like price comparison.

> That settlement money ought to go directly to funding EU startups.

Most EU startups will be happy if they just have a chance to compete "pound for pound". US companies have been enjoying single digit VAT and corporate income tax for years. Which is both the result of EU laws and the US leaving their own "loopholes" open to make their companies more competitive.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-checkthebox-insigh...
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Seconding Webrecorder (and the newly updated WAIL) - I had the chance of meeting Ilya Kremer at a conference a few weeks ago, and I can confirm what he's doing is top notch - I'm hoping to see more work around WARC viewing and sharing in the future.

(Disclaimer: I also do personal archiving stuff with getkumbu)
They are not. New shift shows up at 8am, and enters birth of date, as 8am, because night shift forgot it ;)
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> That would allow constant archival of every webpage a user ever visits -- an immutable record over the user's years of crawling the web.

This is usually solved by using a proxy: http://netpreserve.org/projects/live-archiving-http-proxy/
Wonder if that has changed recently as i swear i read about a new destroyer or something that would get a RHEL based "datacenter" installed.
How does this compare to NHS Direct in the UK? I'd have thought talking to a chatbot that knows about services I could buy would be less good for my overall healthcare than talking to a nurse or other trained medical professional who can recommend me government provided health services. I'd be concerned using this, that it would direct me to paid competitors to services that would otherwise be free on the NHS (or equivalent in your country, if you're outside the US).

I can see this becoming a great advertising platform for massages, and "alternative" medical procedures like accupuncture or homeopathy, as these are very often bought privately (since they often aren't covered by nationalised health services as they are not always recognised as medecine).
Maybe the answer is that Google should be a utility. Search is obviously a natural monopoly.
I thought it was a typo but it seems all your post contains link like this :)
I used to disbelieve hiring managers regularly encountered candidates who actually couldn't code, or whatever other basic technical thing was reported on their resumes. Such a possibility - even the audacity of it on a conceptual level - simply seemed beyond the pale for me. I had interviewed before and not done well, and that I could absolutely understand. But I had no way of relating to the idea of someone entering an interview without the fundamental mental schema requisite for doing the job.

Then I started interviewing people for engineering and security engineering roles. That's when I realized that unless you put a lot of effort into curating your candidate pipeline, you interview engineers who literally (without exaggeration!) cannot complete anagram toy programming questions in their "favorite languages." That was a sobering moment for me.

I'm in agreement that a lot of tech hiring is suboptimal, selects for noisy heuristics and is even (sometimes) sadistic. But I've also met engineers - typically people who have not done interviewing or hiring much - who think that reports of fizzbuzz failures have been greatly exaggerated. They have not been exaggerated.

I haven't interviewed anyone in over a year, but back when I was doing it weekly I used to mentally sigh with relief when the candidate I was talking to could actually approach technical questions, even if they ultimately didn't give winning answers. It is a sad reality indeed; the bar is low enough that you have an edge by merely engaging with the problem and reasoning about it with technical competence in an interview.
I've been a web developers for 5 years like the author, and, I as well, went through the jQuery, Knockout, Backbone, React, Vue road. On my daily job I use Node & React/Redux, on personal projects, I prototype in Python using bottle and vanilla JavaScript with axios[1].

Before, I wanted to use the latest stack, maybe looking for approval from the "community", something like: "Hey, I'm building a X app with Express, React, React Router, Redux, Immutable..." But by the time I had the basic setup, my motivation was gone (at that time there was no react-starter-app[2]).

So I'd say you should start with whatever you are most comfortable, doesn't matter if it's React or jQuery. The goal, IMO, is to start building stuff.

Now, I just don't care what's the latest JS framework, I don't dislike them, all the opposite, I get excited about them[3], but I focus on what's my best weapon for the job.

- [1] https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios

- [2] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

- [3] https://github.com/KingPixil/moon
Every time I read an article like this I wonder: "Where are all the three.js users? Am I the only one? And am I the only one not suffering from JS fatigue?"
Openbuildservice acquired by Microsoft, support stopped
What happened to the concerns of Jigsaw breaking Maven builds?
It's a little more than that; it also incorporates silence detection so that it waits for the caller to finish talking before 'Lenny' plays its next line.

But otherwise, yeah, it's just recordings.
You don't understand the difference between grandstanding and public support. That's why you don't understand how it's being downvoted.
Except NY/NYC has extremely low greenhouse gas production per capita. I am aware this is not equivalent to all pollution, but its asinine to claim that New Yorkers don't care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_...
Even the Russians started using typewritters on sensitive stuff. Even they know complicated computers aren't the solution. Then, the German folks have it all figured out: just use complicated computers with extra complications. Hand-checked, scan sheets are better route so far.

Interestingly, Germany has at least three, security-focused microkernels, two defense contractors making high-security devices (eg TEMPEST) that I know of, and maybe one fab. Funny how little they're utilizing this German talent for protecting German votes.
A popular tactic of intelligence agencies, Mata Hari passim.
Hey, I had a 'best viewed with any browser' icon on my sites at the time (in fact http://dougal.sourceforge.net/ still boasts one ...).

Doesn't alter the fact that Netscape was incapable of competing with Microsoft (in fact I think you sort of made my point, there) once the latter got their arses into gear.

Edited: Wow! The "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign site is still up, in 2017. I wonder if they're keeping it handy for the forthcoming Webkit monopoly ...
Traditional consumer goods providers aren't necessarily known for being providers stand out when it comes to successfully going digital.
So, I tend to agree that this house does not immediately jump out as ugly, and the suggestion that it is obviously flawed does come over as snobbish.

I'm not sure I mind the mixed stone and stucco that another comment mentions. It seems like a valid aesthetic style, especially with the chosen colours.

However, there are a few weird things I do notice. The double roof gable on the right seems unnecessary and unbalanced. And there are also many random windows in different styles, and in strange places. The ones below the double roof seem particularly obviously mismatched, and the window on the diagonal portion above the main door really looks out of position.
Wait, maybe I am dumb, but why do you need AWS Lambda to scale Node.js better? You use something like Lambda which is build to handle one request per instance to scale something which is single threaded anyway?
Funny fact below the article is that 2 contacts - that are in fact British citizens.
Ricardo CARDOSO (+32 2 298 01 00)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardocardosodeandrade/
Yizhou REN (+32 2 299 48 89)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yizhou-ren-a2950616/

Both graduated from same school and both have financial sector background.
Both were working in big UK corporations before their career in EU commission.
You know your site actually does a better job reproducing webpages than archive.org. I've noticed that if you use a CDN to serve up CSS & JS for a webpage that you're trying to archive on archive.org, it won't render correctly. On your site, there doesn't seem to be a problem including CSS & JS from an external domain. Thumbs up :)
Are you asking about Defender itself or the emulation component? I'd think that Defender does need the higher privilege level for obvious reasons, though conceivably the more "risky" emulation could be done in a separate process with reduced privileges. It would be a pretty big undertaking though; just consider e.g. DoS on a multi-user system by attacking the process with dropped privileges. Not saying it's infeasible, but I think it would be complex.
Suppose I want to fight climate change, and I decide to make a documentary to raise awareness. The logistics of making a documentary is certainly going to result in some amount of additional carbon emissions being produced. I might be called a hypocrite for creating all these CO2 emissions to make a movie that tells people to emit less CO2.

But does that mean it was wrong of me to create this documentary? Not necessarily. If people watch my film and take action to reduce worldwide emissions, it's likely to cancel out the carbon cost of making the film in the first place.