skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested to see your personal news aggregator – I too made myself a personally customised one – https://readspike.com – anyone else make their own after the death of Google reader?
And then 2 hours later, mailbox botnets?
I've read it. That doesn't mean that all of the files are licensed with the any-or-later clause.

I believe it was in the same talk that Cantrill likened Ellison to a lawnmower, but an ex-Sun employee talked about how the tangled legal web of who owned what part of Solaris precluded them from being able to release it under the GPL, and thus the CDDL was born. My understanding is that, if any of these bits that they do not own themselves and have restrictions on how they can license them, were licensed in such a way that they could be switched to the GPL or a GPL-compatible license, then Sun and now Oracle would probably be out of compliance with the terms they are bound by. My educated guess is that the files that have opted out of the update mechanism are the files that are in this situation.

It's also unlikely that Oracle would be the ones to sue Canonical - the CDDL license doesn't include any provisions that would give them the ability to sue. I'm sure they have copyrights on some parts of the Linux kernel, which they could potentially use to sue if they truly believe that they could win a case in court to show that OpenZFS is a derivative work of the kernel.
Wait, aren't those two statements opposed to each other?

Different versions of a paper should have different DOIs. A DOI is fundamentally quite abstract, and there is no reason that an object-appropriate versioning scheme can't be laid on top. Figshare, for example, uses a versioning system where there is a single DOI referring to the overall artefact (e.g. 10.6084/m9.figshare.2066037) and a versioned-by-suffix DOI referring to a specific version (e.g. 10.6084/m9.figshare.2066037.v16). That works really well IMO.
...and remember that Quake 3 required 64 MB to run, while Half Life managed to run on 96 MB of ram.
Why am I so so not surprised the stalker was a GamerGate nut? (the "ethics in the journalism industry" mantra in 2013).
It also acts as a repository in the way no IRC server ever did. The closest that irc came was irc bouncers that maintained persistence and logging.

Yep. Some people at work are super resistant to using slack and prefer IRC, even though slack will make their lives easier. And I get that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude, but I can't help but shake my head at the people managing these IRC bouncers at work. Like they'd rather die managing these cloud VMs running ZNC than ever use slack. Those bouncers are likely to be poorly-secured. They can see nothing when ZNC dies and the external servers don't play well with the corporate firewall (literally, people send IRC traffic through ports 80 or 443 because they can't get through the firewall otherwise).

And don't get me started on teams running bots in order to get github/jira/ci/etc integration with IRC. It's just insanity. Just use slack and its dead simple, no-bots-required webhooks/apps. Quit wasting the company's time standing up all this additional infrastructure because you're too stubborn to switch to a better chat client.
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Luxer One uses an iPad for it's Touchscreen interface, and front facing camera for QR scanning.
Use Slack on the browser. Works great. No performance or resource usage issues.

Not sure why so many people use the desktop app. It's an Electron app so of course it will suck up everything.
I wonder if they talk to Jeff regularly, or have direct access to him if they want to discuss something.
Nobody is talking about forcing publishers to do anything, though. If demanding free access to electronic copies of papers actually makes their business untenable as they claim, they should put their money where their mouth is and shut it down; at that point, based on what will replace it, we will see how much value they actually added to society.
As others have pointed out, some parts of the ZFS code exercise the opt-out and do not include the update mechanism.
> One day I added up what it would take to have the most obscene, ridiculously opulent lifestyle imaginable...private jets, presidential suites, chauffers, megayachts... I never surpassed a requirement for more than $20M per year.

Then you grossly underestimated your requirement. The first Google result on the subject of megayachts, for example, tells me that they cost tens or hundreds of millions to build (the record is 600M) and that their yearly upkeep can be on the order of 10% their build cost.

So that alone would eat a good chunk of your 20M. Now consider how much more you could spend on palaces (plural, because they don't move) than you could on your humble dinghy.
I've seen the op eds claiming a loophole, written by a large FedEx investor. I also read the response and I wasn't convinced that the USPS is losing money.
I think it's much better to tax the cars you don't want rather than to subsidize the cars you do want. Why? Because the state is not doing well financially, and they are not in the place to drop 3 billion on subsidies.

I think it also makes more sense from a moral standpoint. If using a gasoline powered car contributes more to the environment's woes, paying the tax is giving back to society in return for having made it a slightly worse place via pollution. It is also better to directly tax the undesirable car that way the tax is directly associated with the undesirable car, as opposed to a general income tax. This may be less politically feasible for that reason though.
If you're talking of the need to use polyfills, and test in multiple versions of multiple browsers before pushing to production, I think it's incomparable to having to write multiple native apps.

If you're talking about fonts rendering differently, or some line being some pixels further to the right, same thing; incomparable.

If you're talking about corporate web apps written for IE, those aren't accessible from a phone anyway, so the distinction between native and web app is meaningless for them.

If, instead, you're talking of websites that really don't work on a modern browser, and you stumble on them day to day, you just have an experience that's different from most other people. The easiest way to tell that what I'm telling you isn't just my individual experience is to compare what you see and read today from what used to be the case in the days of IE domination.

Acting like a dick that thinks people that disagree with you are in a sorry little bubble of ignorance is just a character flaw; nothing to do with this.
While I am all for reducing sugar consumption, this one sentence lead me to completely distrust this paper:

> The study found no link between sugar intake and new mood disorders in women and it is unclear why. More research is needed to test the sugar-depression effect in large population samples.

There is literally no further comment on why this effect was not observed in women. Why? To me, this means it's possible that some confounder is at play here.

I'm also with Xeoncross (another commenter here) who observed that this study took place from 1983 to 2013. Quoting him:

> Sugar consumption has gone up, so has US inflation, less overall exercise, social media consumption, and a variety of other possible negative factors.

So you're telling me that the link was not observable in women, AND that many social/economic realities changed in the course of the study, and we're supposed to believe there was little room left for confounders? This reeks.
I'd bet a small amount of money that chevy sells more cars in Texas than California.
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I wouldn't say no to an investment that is 5x over 11 years.
Sure, but browsers today are incredibly complex runtime environments that support all kinds of apps. That inevitably results in bloat.
I wonder what % of the people who "failed" would have made excellent air traffic controllers?
Weechat with Glowing Bear does too but it needs to be set up.
It might be just a visceral, reflexive reaction to reading "neuralink brain wi-fi device" and then thinking to oneself, "am I really ready to join the Borg collective?"
Ok but there are major downsides with this:

1. If I change my plans I have to go back home or go to my original destination to pick up a key to decrypt
2. I might get there before my yubikey arrives
3. An adversary might look at my machine, and know there is data on there (in the chrome book case it just looks like a new machine), they could then detain me indefinitely or travel with me to my destination and force me to decrypt

So it's not practical for casual use IMO
Wildly unnecessary. Apartment complexes have mailbox systems where they leave a one-time key in your mailbox to a special package-sized box. No touchscreen or Amazon needed.
Giving disproportionate attention to sexism in tech will probably discourage women from entering the field though.
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Well, we've seen malware on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs as well as smartphones of all kinds.

But now it seems that there's even malware for the Nintendo 3DS, which takes advantage of banned hackers and homebrew users to steal their data when they try and get their console unbanned.

It's unknown exactly why it does this, but it seems like the malware (disguised as a program called 'UnbanMii') is trying to use the data to unban accounts owned by its creators at the expense of users.

So yeah, watch out. Now even games consoles seem to have people releasing malware/trojan horses for them.
Indeed. I've always preferred using one billion seconds as a way of understanding just how much a billion is (hint: it's 31 and change years).

The average American lifespan is 2.4 billion seconds.

If you were shoveling 100 dollar bills, you could actually do some damage in the relatively short term (you could probably reasonably shovel $5k-10k/10s, or $500-1k/s, so you could burn through a billion every 1.5-3 weeks (assuming you never sleep or eat).

If you were working a 40hr week shoveling hundreds, it would take 6-12 weeks to burn through a billion.

If you were doing the same but with singles it would take 6-12 _years_ to burn through a billion.

So if you started with $30B - it would take between 180 and 360 years to get rid of all that money by shoveling it into a furnace.

You could literally have a few generations of heirs whose job is shoveling money into a furnace and they would be considered significantly wealthy for most of those generations.
This isn't Amazon, it's just delivery drivers in general.
The biggest problem with this is that packages are bursty -- your mail room is always bursting around Christmas time.

I saw one apartment complex this year that had a twist on the package robot concept -- there's an iPad at the door of the mail room, and you type in the code from your package, the iPad takes your photo and then unlocks the mail room door using a solenoid.

The UPS guy? Scans the barcodes on the packages, then wheels them in and drops them off on cheap metal shelves inside -- no need to pay an employee to manage the mail room 24/7. More residents/packages? Just buy a few more shelves. Resident wants to pick up a package as soon as Amazon buzzes them? No problem. Resident wants to pick up at 2am? Great.

The only problem is you have to trust your neighbors to not steal your packages.
Perhaps the client could help here? :-)

Other user types any of the common greetings alone (hi/hello/hey)

Client responds with: "this is an automated response - your greeting has been blocked until you provide a more meaningful reply"

Then filter out some rude/idiotic replies and keep filtering until the response's entropy is above a threshold and the sentence has some basic structure or presence of a couple of POS (eg a verb and noun)
i had to give up on using slack for multiple teams because of this
Seems like a pretty worthless study that indicates almost nothing. Lazy journalists, who are honestly worse than worthless, pick these lame correlation studies up and propegate weird misconceptions about increasing "risk factors". It's intellectually dishonest to even call the correlation increased "risk" when the cause of the link cannot be feasibly confirmed.

The sane assumption from this study is that depression or addiction prone people are more likely to look for satisfaction in glutany. Unfortunately that doesn't generate as much fear/ad rev.
Absolutely. And our papers are a fair bit shorter than yours, for the most part. :). 14 pages, 2 column, 10 or 11pt type is the norm for us, with figures and references included.
Seems like a problem that a scriptable chat client should solve: if it's the first message in a long time and it's short, debounce notifications for 30sec~1min.

Not a silver bullet but it might solve it in many cases

It reminds me of my old mIRC scripting days
Poster sessions at conferences have traditionally filled this role. I view any enhancement along this form as an evolution of that form of communication.

PDF's are a danged-sight easier to organize for research as well, IMO.
Why would organic meat be better? Link to science?
My buddy lived in a rather nice condo complex in Chicago, with about 100 units in it. This was literally the reason he sold his place. Any time anything was sent to him there was a 50% chance he would get it.
That is one of the better explanations I heard for this phenomenon... Thanks!
Again, that's only accessible to USPS and requires a locking box per resident (your mailbox).
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But what if I get bored during those 3 minutes? Or god forbid, introspect!?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-04-25
There are, people just have to step outside their comfort zone to use them.
Snap! Great suggestion there
The creator of this project has a really amazing talk about his work, including interactive explainers, narrative games and chaos theory. Really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9m0AQInBk
There's a section in the readme which I'm not sure of - "Running integration Tests for example is much faster." I guess that gains is from the parallel executions. But for the integration testings, there is still work to be done to make a central controller / runner to distribute various tests to different Lambda instances, correct? If that's the case, is loadtesting using Chromeless be another use case? Just initiate in parallel and blast the app infrastructure. It won't be efficient in terms of costs as using non-real browsers but this is probably as realistic as simulating real users load through real browsers.
Call Amazon customer support (ask Google for the 800 number) and ask them to deprioritize Amazon Fulfillment. That weights it to the bottom of their selection algorithm, so it's only chosen if no other shipper can fulfill - which mostly relegates them to same-day fulfillment, and not always then.

Worked for me after a string of delivery errors; I haven't had a problem since.
What if you miss a youtube notification?
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Men only. Quoting the article:

> The study found no link between sugar intake and new mood disorders in women and it is unclear why.

This, plus the fact that many socio-economic realities changed over the course of the study, makes it hard to believe there aren't other confounders at play here.
Bezos just got a big target on his head today with the announcement he's now the worlds richest man. Give it a few months.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense - I was trying to find information on how ultrasound machines worked awhile ago, and most of the information I found just said that a ceramic piezo is used to emit the sound and measure the time until it returned. I could not fathom at the time what kind of math must be required to get a 2D image out of a single data point like that, and I couldn't find much elaboration on the subject.

But if it's just a few hundred piezos in an array, now THAT makes a lot more sense.
Yes, the end product has an arguably better and 'native-like' experience, but it took me longer to do and it is lacking some of the features that I could have rolled out if I was able to use PWA's. And it would have worked on Android out of the box as well.

So am I as an end user suppose to be upset that you were forced to make a better product.

Holding back innovation for the company's selfish reasons?

Back in 2008 they said the same thing about Apple not supporting Flash and Java.

If anyone is being selfish to try foist cross platform apps that you admitted weren't as good, it isn't Apple.
Whatever happened to "Error 404 - File Not Found" ?
Sounds like Hungary :)
It's as if they care more about pretty and shiny than quality code.
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- My RSS feeds (I use feedly for this)
- HN
- Twitter
- Fastmail
- GitLab
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My apartments have those also, but it's USPS only.
It's the same locker Amazon already has in many supermarkets. I use those a lot; much more convenient than worrying about a package being left on my door, or dropped blindly inside my patio ruining a plant.

What you mean is that this isn't opt-in? All your packets potentially go there without you explicitly asking for it?
Yeah this website is definitely to be taken with a grain of salt (even though Greger wouldn't be happy about the sodium intake), but at least he thoroughly cites his sources.

Websites advocating for a Ketogenic diet feel just as biased and most of the time don't have half the research backing it.
I'm disappointed nobody's made a public version of this yet: https://github.com/jaimeMF/youtube-dl-api-server

I'd use the demo server, but its youtube-dl is out of date, and it just feels wrong.
For those wondering about "Electricity And Religion": it's pg213 ( https://books.google.com/books?id=NqQZ3XSvWcAC&lpg=PA213 ), chapter 27 of _The Truths of Spiritualism: Immortality proved beyond a doubt by living witnesses_, Wilson 1876 (not to be confused with Henslow's 1919, _The Proofs of the Truths of Spiritualism_), which as the name indicates is a rather credulous retelling of American spiritualism.
Appears to not be a full essay but one of the summary descriptions of it from the table of contents ("Electricity and Religion - Christian Generosity - Brick Bats and Theology - Baptized into Glory").
Let's suppose the median monthly rent in America was $1000. (It's actually $959 as of 2015, according to google.) Would you be shocked to find out someone was paying $500 a month? I mean, that's on the cheap side, but I wouldn't exactly call it weird, especially when they're probably living in rural Nebraska or something. Given that, why is it so shocking for someone to go the other direction, by the same factor?
Of course the reverse trade is possible. Vitamins, Trainers, Chefs that make you healthy meals, weird medical procedures:
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A digital solution seems cheaper and faster than manually walking a physical key to your mailbox.
At the very least he got optionality. No matter what road this thing traveled, he had a piece of ownership in its future, up until it had no future. Even then he had a mental stake in the founders, which is no small thing.
Yes and no.

Yes, they work.

No, they don't capture shortcuts like 'ctrl+W' which are handled by ChromeOS.
> but a bit tired of Amazon's attempt to collect everyone's data about everything.

Amazon is the easiest to avoid unlike other online services.
It's a part of the same mailbox unit that personal boxes are in. You don't walk it anywhere.
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I've had an Amazon deliveryman upbraid me for the fact that he had trouble finding my apartment. I've had a different one (or maybe the same one; how would I know?) deliver my stuff to the wrong address.

Obviously, I contacted them to complain about that second one; I'm pretty sure they're aware that it's a problem. Knowing you have a problem doesn't mean you can quickly fix it.
This looks like a Green Hill Zone level from Sonic games, but with more flowers and less rings.
Fair enough. I feel like we don't need a new thread whenever AWS, Github or whatever goes down, though.
I asked Google Home: "Is it cold outside?" and it responded: "Sorry, I can't answer that yet." Seriously!?

This is the same for all of these home devices, but I have to talk to it in such a robotic manner, and if I deviate at all it won't do what I want. It definitely has some niceties, but a long way to go to being essential in my life.
The closest modern day equivalent to living in Stalinist Russia in the 30s is North Korea. At the slightest suspicion that one was somehow demonstrating disloyalty to the Soviet state one could be hauled away to be tortured and executed or sent to the Siberian Gulag to be slowly worked to death.

Bulgakov's writings, if discovered, would have lead to him being executed. To people who lived in the system, their was an unacknowledged understanding that something bad was happening as people would mysteriously disappear on a regular basis. The movie "The Inner Circle" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103838/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_p... ) and "Burnt By The Sun" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111579/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ) are good depictions of what life was like during those times. It makes the high anxiety and paranoia of most characters in M & M much more understandable.
https://arrowdirect.com/

Get a dealer account and you get 20-40% off the listed prices. I applied and got the account in about a week or two.

"Grade A" refurbs are in really good shape.

Cheapest X220 (Grade A) right now is $153.60 ($192.00 list).
It serves a real beneficial purpose for those of us who have missed packages while at work and had to drive 20min in terrible traffic to the nearest FedEx/UPS/etc retail outlet - at 6pm when everyone else got off work with the same idea. Then wait 20min in line for the pleasure of dealing with an annoyed retail lady who is short with you.

I'd much prefer having a machine on my property as a backup if I'm not home!

Your inconvenience of forgetting your wallet seems minor by comparison when you can just go upstairs, imagine forgetting it after driving and waiting in line... that really is the only alternative isn't it besides the old school "dumb" parcel boxes?

Your inconvenience of not knowing it was there and getting charged was the fault of your landlord, who rightfully paid the fee for you. It wasn't the fault of the box design per-se - but obviously something to be aware of.*

Your inconvenience of spam filtering is probably less likely with an amazon based email system.

I'm happy to see these becoming a widespread thing and being pushed to residential property owners. It even seems superior to the typical package boxes in most new apartment buildings or suburbs as it comes with email/mobile notifications (typical package tracking is far too often less than accurate)!

The only thing better than a machine here is a human concierge who signs for them and calls you if you don't pick it up with your mail. They're paid to be nice to you and are rarely busy.

* Maybe Amazon should make sure to tell new owners to thoroughly notify every tenant before using it - with signs saying it will be installed in x weeks and letters left on your door.
You are underestimating the women. They will remember who is the mother of who, and try to favor their own children. Perhaps with enough time it will develop into a matriarchy instead of a patriarchy. (Elephants and whales are organized in a matriarchy. Is this a good comparison?)

And gossip, memory, guess and comparison will try to track who is the father anyway. Men will not be ignored.
Not to mention this is a fucking sidescroller that lags during the transition.

It's 2017 and they can't get it to scroll fluidly.
The only reason we don't leave slack is because there's 3 years of indexed useful chat history. And the sales guys like it. The rest of us think it's slow and bloated.