skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Hushmail and they've never done captchas, challenges, security questions and all the other nonsense the majors do when you move around to different IPs and devices. They try to look paid only, but there's still free accounts. No ads. Canadian. And three UIs, old school, new and mobile.
On the contrary, in my experience most people believe that propoganda being used within western countries is a conspiracy theory.
I believe "cool kids" is primarily used as sarcasm.
Unless you program in combinatorial space search, then you're halfway through solutionning-maths.
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Volvo says from 2019 all new models it introduces will be electric or hybrid
RTFM. /s

-- Mother Nature
> ICQ and others were like today's WhatsApp and hangout.

That's why they were awful. When they died or stopped being popular you lost all your contacts and had to start from scratch somewhere else. With open protocols you don't have that issue at all.

> As much as I really liked using IRC back in the day

You don't have to speak in channels to make use of IRC. I use it for private chats (I know it's not "private", but that's better for me than using any proprietary client and IRC has clients on every platform).
IANAL, but I doubt your friend's non-compete with Best Buy was enforceable, unless of course he was dealing with trade secrets or managing long term sales relationships.

I imagine the idea of a ordinary floor rep dealing with trade secrets would raise some eyebrows at court.

http://www.beckreedriden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nonc...
At it's core, a browser is a fancy telnet client. How a site decides to present itself is up to the site author...
According to the history on wikipedia's page on Tobermorite [1], this has been known at least since 2013.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tobermorite&actio...
Every minute a poor person is using tax subsidized luxuries like iPhones or refrigerators is a minute they're not on the streets looking to rob me.
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I'm in Norway. I've ridden in a Tesla taxi.

Yes, the upfront cost of the car is high. But on the other hand, the gas and maintenance costs make up for it. I completely understand the switch. Plus, the ride is nice, comfortable, and quiet for the passenger.
I typed my work username twice. Shows how simple social engineering can be.
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I never watched west wing, how did it seem like propoganda, and what message did it send?
The question was about secure communication, not just "pure" encryption.
Where do you live in the UK?! I'm in the north and have never seen a Tesla once (taxi or otherwise)!
The compiler would reject the following function :

int res(int a, int b) {
return a + b;
}

since it can be UB, for instance if a + b > INT_MAX.
That's a trivial cost when we're talking about sending things to Mars. The Curiosity rover has around 5kg of Pu-238. NASA estimates that restarting production will cost $6M/kg[1]. The total cost of the MSL program is 2.5 billion[2]. That's $30 million out of 2.5 billion, or 1.2%.

NASA has also been buying Pu-238 from the Russians at around $1.5 million/kg[3], which would be $7.5 million for Curiosity, or 0.3% of the cost of the program.

I'm interested in deep-space exploration (but am no expert), and as far as I can tell the reason the US is running out of Pu-238 has absolutely nothing to do with cost.

It's been happening because only NASA has really wanted this, but producing it has been the purview of the military or the DOE.

So the issue has been stuck in some bureaucratic nightmare for decades, the only people allowed to produce Pu-238 didn't need it, and NASA couldn't simply spend a crapload of money to pay another agency or branch of the government to restart production due to the way money politics works, even though it was an overall good investment.

So rather than simply restart production at a trivial cost compared to what NASA otherwise spends, it's been easier to buy it from Russia.

As [1] shows there's now a real possibility that Pu-238 will run out, so the US has restarted production.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/636900main_Howe_Presentation.pdf

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory

3. http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/28/nasa-wants-to-stop-buying-...
Sure, most people probably do. But some don't, and I guess in those cases it's good to have nice tooling to handle that.

Consider web applications without any backend using P2P technology, then you can't control the API, because you get sent data from other users directly. Once you deploy a new version, its useful to be able to transform that old data into the new format, if needed.
is this a thank you token for putting pressure on Qatar?
Prostate cancer is not a huge risk because the Prostate is a massive number of cells. So, cell type matters and elephants for example don't have the same number of skin cells relative to body mass as humans.

Cancer is not a single mutation. So, generally the first cancer cell is a descendent of the first cell that had a dangerous mutation. Further, some cells are being constantly produced over a lifetime (skin, GI tract etc), so you can mostly ignore mussel fiber or fact cells when calculating cancer risks.

In that context there are divisions related to growth and divisions related to homeostasis. Tacking on 4 extra related to growth is relatively less important vs lifespan and other factors especially when you look at human cancer risks pre 44.
The other day I tried parking assistance on my Volt, 3/5 times it was flawless. 1 time it happily parked in the middle of two spaces, and another time it couldn't detect a low curb and a hollow tube sticking out and would have happily ran them over if it didn't require manual acceleration and braking...

I don't think manually plugging in a charger is a big deal
but it's yes, most people are not familiar with the subject. And you can hide propaganda. Only a very few people are familiar with what goes on. It needs journalism similar to the featured article to raise the awareness of more people.

Consider that idea flawed? Then think about Snowden's revelations and the comments on HN before and afterwards.
It's not a theory, it's my practice. There's many cultures/religions where drinking is not allowed and somehow they manage to socialise too. I just say "thank you, but no thank you, I don't drink" and that's the end of it, the one time somebody was pushy I just remarked I'm on medication (little white lie there) and that was it.

Plus, incidentally, this is Malaysia... I lived in Malaysia for several years in the mid 2000s. There's a lot of heavy social drinking there but there's also a predominant Muslim culture (the Malays) who in theory should be barred from imbibing alcohol. As such, Malaysians are, in my experience, very adept at mixing in social situations where copious drinking is occurring while still allowing for some members that abstain from doing so on cultural grounds not to fell out of place.

It isn't impossible to do. It isn't even difficult to do. In fact it's an absolute non-issue.

Now, this is not terribly relevant in the present context (this was her house, I presume the alcohol was taken from her drinks cabinet, & cetera) but you should never allow anybody to pressure you into drinking because of social pressure. That somehow you seem to believe that the social situation begets the behaviour is a bit alarming.
Apple only has a significant share in a few geographies, for the most part the world has turned to Android already.
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Those Swedish startups didn't form out of nothing. Not only was Sweden early when it comes to things like personal computers, internet access and English, but also notable in many other areas. Almost all successful Swedish companies are at least partly related to gaming, music or telecom. That stems from a rather long organic history of the demoscene, artists and industry. Attitude might have something to do with, but few people would say that the Swedish attitude is anything like what people commonly think is needed for entrepreneurship.
I don't understand why these bans are only for specific airlines. Maybe if the flights originate from specific airports which may have lax security. However the ban is also for flights to those destination originating from the US.

If there was a way to turn a laptop into a bomb I am sure the terrorist would just jump on a local US aircraft.
I remember hearing some time back that Tesla's entire electric car plan was to produce the more expensive, luxury cars first, using the benefits (monetary and production improvements and so on) from those to start making more affordable electric cars - because understandably, most folks can't understand the more expensive ones. The vision is more to make sure everyone can own an electric car, hence the cheaper models.

So no, I truly don't think that is a worry. I think this is just continuation of the bigger picture and a calculated risk.
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That's true. If they wanted, Tesla could easily add this functionality.

I'm not too familiar with ny in particular, but there are systems that allow for metering based on peak/off peak usage. Looks like coned allows this.
I live on less than $20,000/year, and will continue until I'm financially independent. This is not difficult, if you're rational and don't seek luxury.

I sleep on the floor, eat once a day, only buy things on sale and in bulk, choose free entertainment, live in a single room, don't own a car, dumpster dive, etc.

Once I'm financially independent, I'll finally be able to do research (which I can't at the moment since I lack a degree).
Reuters is blocked in China. China has been "closing" for 5 years now. According to "china watchers", this is expected to continue. Blame Xi.
I bet people had the same thing to say about cars in the early 20th century (not without some justification though).
yeah exactly. also you didn't need a freedom of information act to know this. I remember generals / DOD officials talking about it in a TV interviews (1996 independence day, 2007 transformers). directors are overly focused on realism for better or for worse, so a lot also goes to providing stock footage for inspiration, advice, and fact checking like 'is this aircraft meant for the role its portrayed in the movie'. etc.

and as they said openly in the interviews: they often do it for free, but if they dont like the content they will pull out.
Arrests over China 'straddling bus' project
People keep saying that electric cars are inherently more reliable but Tesla has worse-than-average drivetrain reliability.
Turkey is supporting Qatar.
There are a lot of political initiatives, corporate accelerators etc going on at the moment but they don’t fix the inherent problem here in Switzerland: Cost of living is absurdly high, unemployment is low and life is just really convenient. Why risk it all for a startup when you can just cruise through life with a 42h-week and long lunches at a bank and save a ridiculous amount of money doing so.

Because of this cultural issue and the fact that a overproportional number of very large corporates are based in Switzerland, the whole ecosystem is geared towards that. One part is certainly that there is basically no VC money available but just throwing a bunch of money at it won’t fix the underlying issues.
That's always something where I think current build systems are failing.
We just have to make sure that there's a Marine onboard. Or maybe a nuclear scientist with a crowbar.
I can't really think of any case where this is possible. Warnings are produced (only?) before the serious optimisation passes. Have you got an example where unused result warning changes between optimisation levels?
This might sound glib but it's not meant to be; habit and discipline take over after desire fails.

Meaning you need to establish a new normal for yourself. Maybe that means no more soda (not even the sugar free crap) and no ketchup on your fries. After a while weight comes off and stays off without you missing the extra calories.
Over Surveillance Would Be Nice – If Only It Worked
Well, you prove my point. It's not likely that someone is going to get hit by lightning but everyone knows not to stand outside under a tree during a lightning storm. Similarly, a man should not be alone with a woman he isn't married or related to. When something has low probability, high risk, and is easily avoidable, you avoid it.
Anyone with half a brain and a vague awareness of the modern world should have realized this years ago.
Still have them today... Driving home last night, I tried to imagine how many of the people next to me on the road were drunk while riding their 2 ton steel horses home.
Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?
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to give counterpoint to both of you on some topic (ie I think you both are wrong on it :))

why people want fully automated car? simply to do something else then stare blandly for hours ahead - sleep, reading, watching movies, playing with other passengers... basically anything you can do while seated. this will be great improvement for <= average car owner out there.

and why people would want manual mode? well if you ever drove a proper car (say bmw/porsche and better - it is not so much function of just raw power rather than overall handling and responsiveness), then you know the experience on non-congested road outside of cities is not comparable with usual mundane driving. Not at all. It is pleasure, it is joy, it is fun and in some cases adrenaline.

this might not be strong enough reason for 'premium' car companies to survive, or at least not all of them. but I can't imagine Lamborghini or Ferrari going out of business just because of that. there will be exceptions in one way or the other, that's for sure. Otherwise it means losing 100s of thousands of highly qualified jobs just on EU market.
Plug in ignores one very large population: people who live in apartments. Unless the apartment builders start to consider charging stations sufficient to the population, plug-ins are pointless. A hybrid works since I don't need a plug.
You can't make socialism with too much freedom. People would look at homosexual stuff and wouldn't go to party meetings.
Liberalizing their immigration laws that prevent availability of talent for startups (and everyone else) is a better solution to this problem than just throwing together a giant pile of dumb money. But that's going to require some pretty existential changes to Switzerland that I sincerely doubt they're actually interested in making.
As a matter of fact, the ability to walk without falling relies on lightly controlling the passive dynamics of the biped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Q2Lx8O6Cg
In general I'd expect the backlash from an unsatisfactory daily report to be low, there's a lot of opportunity to coach you and it lets your supervisor coach you/steer you if you've developed an inconsistency. It's also an opportunity to get domain specific knowledge of pitfall you might experience integrating with an existing system.

I think that deliberately making a to-be-scrapped system just to generate some work-done for the report is a waste of your time and you'd be better just making the real progress you can within the day and then reporting on how it's going/what (if anything) is stopping you from making progress; in general I don't think that tasks which take more than a day are expected to be complete.

The report is really about making sure that you're not sitting there unable to make any progress for days/weeks/months at a time resulting in an unexpected failure to deliver at the other end.

HTH.
I don't see anything wrong with that. We don't need an Uber here. There are still a lot of startups and yes things move more slowly and carefully but for the better of everyone.

The culture is what makes Switzerland such a nice place to live.
The other problem with IRC is that it's not very user friendly: there are many different networks, which implement different rules. Your IP may be banned for some reason. People can steal your nickname, etc.

While this is totally fine for internet-savvy people, I can see why regular people who just want to chat turn to alternatives.
Eh? Don't think socialism is to blame here. Sweden, as an example, is a very socialist country and also with a high degree of freedom to look at whatever you want (almost).
Users lose the ability to run their own analytics without third party image hosting.
So, if you want DOD support and resources and voluntarily go to them for help, they will have a say in the script?

To me it seems that anti-establishment Americans are so eager to find evidence of "censorship", "police state" and "tyranny" that they forget what do these words actually mean.
There's going to be multiple LIGO style detectors around the world, could their results be combined to account for the 3rd axis?
That's the closest example to what I really want from such a film (and De Palma's "Redacted"), it is a great film, but I think it was not enough.
But why do we, as society, grant them that right?

I mean, this is the reason why patents were invented originally: You publish the way your technology works, in return, after a short term, everyone can use it, which improves innovation.

Yet, nowadays, a lot more is done via trade secrets.

It would be awesome if we could get that innovation back that we’ve lost.
The brain is actually really good at math - the best example I've heard of this (I think from the book 'Blink') is catching a flyball - in an instant someone is able to calculate the trajectory, wind speed, spin and coordinate with it's own body to run at the right speed to be in the right place when it lands. Now of course that takes experience but it's not just pattern matching since training allows people to adapt to new and unseen conditions. But anytime you have a 'gut' feeling, it's usually because of some behind the scenes calculations.

Translating maths into a mess of symbols and deconstructing it consciously is of course a laborious process - but AFAIK no computer is good at that either.

My own personal metaphor is the conscious mind as programmer and the unconscious mind as computer. If I correctly program my unconscious mind I can spontaneously realize the right answer far faster than I can understand why.
You come off sounding like all of the whiners on various Reddit fitness subs complaining about how they can't lose weight, or their lift numbers aren't going up just looking for someone to tell them that's it ok to quit or ease-up. To steal from fitit, have you tried trying.

rudeness intended.
They care about social harmony.
Don't want to make people upset.

That's the official version.

It's most probably about rejecting the influences from the West, preservation of Chinese culture. Recently there's also quite a huge war on influence of Korean culture.
Volvo becomes the first major car manufacturer to go all electric
Spoken in a true Swiss way... slow change :)

An Uber would actually be nice to have as the (eventual) exit would maybe create a scene of true local angel investors.
Also there is some sort of system here where you can pay for a expert witness who will confirm your story. As a foreigner living here I can't get anyone to explain it to me with any sense.
Facial Recognition – privacy vs. security
But otherwise a good article... I realize this is getting hung up on the clickbaity title...
How do you deal with thirdparty includes, particularly with big header-only libraries? You basically have to change compiler flags on the fly, and AFAIK it isn't well supported. My colleagues have dealt with this by defining some ugly macros which enable/disable hardcoded warnings, and there are lots of them.
I see your Useless Ethereum Token and raise you something even more useless!

http://ethdirect.io
When I see that smarter guys are leaving.
Volvo will only make electric and hybrid cars starting in 2019
It's not for the lack of capital though.

The capital is already here, it's just not used for VC investments due to reasons on both supply and demand side.
You don't necesssarily need to know the rates. "If blue whales got 1,000 times more cancer than humans, they would likely die before they were able to reproduce and the species would quickly go extinct" yet the species does exist. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060950/
How does this tumor suppressor know what is a good cell and what is a bad cell? is there a simple heuristic to decide that?
Do you work out or exercise at all? I can't see that working for folks that do. Or do you take any medications that might inhibit your hunger? For example Adderall tends to be an appetite suppressant.
"China's Vision", I mean, come on. There seems to be some opinion leaking into the title.
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Or you can just tell Microsoft that they won't get special treatment and should use `int main(int argc, char* argv[])` ffs.
> Can I start a company?

Depends on where you are from exactly.

If you are an EU national, then you can. Otherwise you will first need to get a work permit (against a promise to start a company, reviewed and approved by the canton) and it's generally a slow and expensive hassle requiring an experienced attorney. Whether this will make your company eligible for a startup loan is an open question, but I'm pretty sure that it will.
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And soon he'll be a boring messiah!
Privacy Mythbusting #3: Anonymized data is safe, right? (Er, no.)
I heard a radio program a few years ago about childhood obesity. They had an expert on who said something I'd never really thought of before: They said the conventional causality of sports curing obesity is the wrong way around. The reason you don't see fat marathon runners isn't because running makes you thin, it's because being thin makes it easier to run.

The guy's reasoning was: You exercise for an hour doing something like walking or golf, then reward yourself with a snack? Net intake of calories [1]. And it's easier to cut a snack from your diet than to find the time and motivation to do an hour's exercise.

To put it another way, when you're obese exercising is like a job that pays ten cents an hour.

Of course, once you've become thin and athletic, you gain access to more time-efficient types of exercise. But that snack might still need 15 minutes of vigorous cycling, or competitive soccer or basketball.

[1] e.g. an hour's dog-walking or golf are roughly equivalent to a 16 fl.oz can of Coca-Cola and a 2 oz packet of skittles, respectively.
I upvoted you (it's nice food for thought) but I'm also hesitant to give anyone bad credit for a good thing. The ban needed to be removed eventually, and it was.
not so much - Suisse has 4 official languages, so even app developed only for their own languages already also covers Germany, Austria, Italy, France, part of Belgium and Canada and other few hundreds of millions of french-speaking people worldwide. Add english which is still not used as much as elsewhere but everybody knows it +-OKish, and you can cover most of the world.

Suisse has another advantage - proper data privacy. Well maybe not 100% (honestly not sure), but its far better compared to a joke of US (or UK it seems). Plus top notch technical universities (Lausanne, Zurich). This could be big thing, a nice counterbalance to SV at least for EMEA markets
In a general case I'd agree with you, but Photobucket is an exception. This would be like Yahoo shuttering their free email tier overnight and asking for payment.
Sorry but a successful Uber would indicate that is ok to ignore any law[1] in your way and effectively ruin many peoples lives to enrich a few VCs. No thanks.

Not that Switzerland doesn't have its corrupt Corporations but we don't need more.

[1] http://www.uberscandals.org/all/
Sweden isn't socialist at all, it's a social democracy. Social democracies do not aim at making means of production a common good.