skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure:

first, I would push back against the idea that Uber has vastly increased mobility. It's made mobility slightly less annoying in certain places for certain groups of people. But most parts of the world have had taxis for a long time. You've been able to schedule a taxi for decades, something which Uber just recently added. Prices are a bit better with Uber, but it's unclear if the VC subsidized pricing is sustainable. In places like Cuba and Cambodia the taxis and tuk-tuks have been excellent and painless methods of transportation for generations and often require zero wait and have zero barrier to entry other than the price of the transportation, that is; it requires to smart phone, no data plan, no credit card.

I don't perceive Uber as having done anything other than contribute a level of convenience to transportation. I don't feel as though it's provided mobility to anyone who didn't have it before, it hasn't decreased congestion or pollution. How many lives has it saved? How many people who desperately lacked needed resources has it helped? How much has it decreased dependency on non-renewable resources?

I think companies that provide life-saving resources to people or companies that increase equality are much more important. Creating the technology to get everyone access to clean water or drought resistant crops are some ideas that come to mind.
> Not in any sense.

Eh?

> Only in abstract terms.

You want something literal?
Lets throw some reverse-VIOLENCE into the mix!

I'm going to bash my neighbors head in, because he's "definitely" a violent psychopath (It said so on the internet remember).

The heart of the issue is DISCRIMINATION. Doesn't matter if its positive or negative, you're EXCLUDING groups/individuals which is divisive and breeds discontent.

Someone posted below

> judged by the content and quality of their character rather than some of the variation of an attempt to combat discrimination through discrimination.

THAT is equality.
After having been working on compiler and PLs for more than a decade, you would feel bored and want new challenges. Besides, Chris did not leave PL, he is still involved in Swift, LLVM etc.
> strikes me as naive

This is interesting because your viewpoint focuses on the law and who is technically in the right, while his viewpoint values community cohesion and well-being. This tends to be the line between conservative and liberal viewpoints regarding treatment of lawbreakers - hard line reactions which favour the capital holder versus rehabilitation, decriminalisation, consideration of the social fabric.

That said, stealing someones walnuts and reselling them is a douche move. Being a centrist, I'd recommend approaching them about it and providing a warning. If you'd prefer not to approach, leave signs near the trees indicating theft will be reported and what the punishment could be. If they don't heed the warning then report them. The correct answer is often somewhere in the middle.
I suspect that if cooperation cannot be secured with the threat of prison time, tying the conditions of actual imprisonment to the degree of cooperation provided would be the next object lesson regarding his career. On the other hand, it would not surprise me if Hutchins was predisposed to act in the interest of national and international intelligence and law enforcement agencies...they are certainly among the places doing the most interesting and most professional malware production and defense for causes that people can often get behind. And Hutchins is a young man who does not seem particularly inclined toward entrepreneurship.

Prosecutors told a Las Vegas court on Friday that Mr
Hutchins had been caught in a sting operation when
undercover officers bought the code. They claimed the
software was sold for $2,000 in digital currency in
June 2015. [1]

Hutchins actions that brought him to fame suggest a willingness to act in the British national interests.

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40833951
I downvoted you because you talked about mindfulness instead of paying attention to your environment.

Please reread the comment you just replied to.
Another longer article on that same site (by a different author) actually mentions the grandparent's suggested method of looking through a floppy disk medium:

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/safety2.html

> Many experienced solar observers use one or two layers of black-and-white film that has been fully exposed to light and developed to maximum density. The metallic silver contained in the film emulsion is the protective filter. Some of the newer black and white films use dyes instead of silver and these are unsafe. Black-and-white negatives with images on it (e.g., medical x-rays) are also not suitable. More recently, solar observers have used floppy disks and compact disks (both CDs and CD-ROMs) as protective filters by covering the central openings and looking through the disk media. However, the optical quality of the solar image formed by a floppy disk or CD is relatively poor compared to mylar or welder's glass. Some CDs are made with very thin aluminum coatings which are not safe - if you can see through the CD in normal room lighting, don't use it!! No filter should be used with an optical device (e.g. binoculars, telescope, camera) unless it has been specifically designed for that purpose and is mounted at the front end (i.e., end towards the Sun). Some sources of solar filters are listed in the following section.

> Unsafe filters include all color film, black-and-white film that contains no silver, photographic negatives with images on them (x-rays and snapshots), smoked glass, sunglasses (single or multiple pairs), photographic neutral density filters and polarizing filters.

This second NASA author seems to believe that floppy disk media (with the hole covered) may actually be safe for eclipse viewing, just not very effective.
Australia has the best of all of this already to study at any Australian University!

- Depending on your social-economic background, The government pays you a cost-of-living income [1],

- pays your university fees [2] which are tiny compared to US fees,

- and you repay back 4%/year once your have an income > than approx A$55,000.

17% looks very painful in comparison!

Of cause, you need to be an Australian, so it probably doesn't help most of you!

[1] Depending on your Probably actually less than cost of living, so most students also work a day or more a week while studying.

[2] They cover the university fees -- You still need to pay for books, and other similar expenses up front.
Yeah, we hope to be the antidote to that and create our own brand.
I don't get either of their arguments. Yes, 180mbps is pretty fast for residential internet, but it's certainly not hard to get nor is there any reason to believe he was using residential broadband. The MS Word thing I didn't follow at all.
most users would switch it to google if apple switched it to bing or something else meaning Google is paying them for just the ease of not having the risk of not being default.
It's hard to deny that women vote against capitalists more often.

Why is it wrong to speak the truth?
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> I'm also curious whether you get a tolerance, so that heavy drinkers need to drink more to recover the same amount of energy. Can anyone give their experience?

You don't have to go by anecdotes: caffeine is the most popular drug in the world and has been studied fairly heavily. It improves focus and some other cognitive metrics for a short period of regular use, and then your daily hit of caffeine just brings you up to what your baseline used to be.
Thanks for the link! Might be worth going down that path.
David Sacks: Cryptocurrency fulfills the 'original vision' we had at PayPal
Apple will probably do the Bluetooth equivalent to what they did with earphones: they switched the mic and ground wire, forcing earphone manufacturers to either support iOS or TRRS on the built-in remotes. I love my Macbook Pro and iPhone, but Apple can be a truly infuriating company.
Yeah, this is why scrapers and archiving tools and websites have actually been important political tools lately.
If you spent all your money with China or with your neighbor, which one is more likely to buy something from you in return?
I learned to accept that I feel bad sometimes and it made me happier.

But I went farther than that.

I also learned to accept that my ideas and behaviors are inconsistent and it helped me better understand the world and myself.

And finally, I learned to accept that I sometimes do bad things (and desire to do even more bad things) and it made me a better person.

(Disclaimer: my experiments have n=1, no control group and subjective measurements chosen in hindsight.)
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Neat to see that optical is the new RF, in that it is using coherent modulation techniques that were once restricted to radio. In a similar vein, RF is also the new baseband (like audio and video before), in that the lower ends of RF (VHF and below) are transitioning to direct sampling at a reasonable cost.

The takeaway for me is that there are opportunities for people with experience in radio modulation and DSP to move into the optical game.
For a really cool syntax check out hello world written in the Whitespace language:
http://daly.axiom-developer.org/hello.w

No, it's not a blank page. It's a page of spaces, tabs, and newlines
but it compiles and runs.

Now you can publish all of your source code in Whitespace.
Acronyms for bills are like the one place where the legislature does inject some humor. Despite my distaste for our government, I gotta hand it to them, they're pretty darn good at coming up with funny acronyms.
This is a great insight (at least for me) and has shed light on a problem I've been grappling with for a long time. Thank you.
Extracting the fluid is already going to be an interesting task (it seems like it'd probably be uneconomical to suck it out with a vacuum). I can see the cars having separate input and output holes. With a clever design in the car you could probably start refilling while you finish emptying.

A recharge should be pretty cheap. The national average cost for electricity is ~13¢/kWh, so refilling a 100 kWh battery would only be $13 of energy. Other costs - storage, maintenance, labor, land, etc - add to that, but you still aren't out that much. It's possible that you just pay full price regardless, since they are giving you totally fresh solution.

One of the most important things about flow batteries is that they're basically invariant with charge and scale, so almost certainly (until you really hit the dregs - you probably lose voltage at 4%).
(fun fact, not strictly important here) - 8.2.k was added quite recently [1], likely triggered by the HiQ case.

[1] https://blog.linkedin.com/2017/april/10/updates-to-our-terms...

[2] Here https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/blob/master/crawl/linkedin... is an older version of the ToS, which one can read while enjoying the irony of a crawler focused on scrapping ToS
> Because they remove the unsafe way of sharing state from the programmer. The issue isn't that state can be shared correct in threads, it's that it doesn't have to be done correctly and programmers are simply terrible at doing it right.

Please read what I said before the part you quoted. In fact, maybe read the rest of the chain of comments--the topic of conversation is threads versus processes in Python, and threads in Python do not require you to use shared mutable state, locks, or any of the assumptions you've made. If you can write multiprocess code in Python, you can write multithread code using the same mechanisms for memory-safe interthread communication as you would for interprocess communication.

> It's not about locks, it's about shared mutable state. Programmers are bad at dealing with shared mutable state, regardless of how access is synchronized.

It's not about shared mutable state, because that's not what anyone was talking about before you brought it up, and there are plenty of threading models that don't have shared mutable state, too.

You're preaching to the choir here about locks and shared mutable state being bad, but it has nothing to do with anything that was being discussed before your showed up with a bunch of assumptions.
This hasn't stopped Google according to the Labor Department lawsuit.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/technology/google-labor-depa...
Want to, sure. But you usually sign a contract, you can't just change.
> the purchase experience at a super-cute vending machine

So that's what that yellow thing at the mall was! I thought it was some sort of bizarre Minions tie in for something.
I don't know why this was downvoted. For people that have astigmatism grey on white is not very pleasant for reading.
I've found that when I'm in a better mood I find myself more busy with meaningful work, so the correlation may go the other way.
Not the person you replied to, but this thread is really frustrating to read. Multithreading does not imply shared mutable state.
I don't think most users would switch. Don't forget how many users Internet Explorer has since it comes preinstalled. And that's after a monopoly suit to make it easier to choose a competitor.

Most people are not techies and are lazy. Sure maybe their kids will switch it or their friend will tell them to do so, but MANY devices will stick with the default.
If you run NoScript in default deny javascript mode, you get to read the whole article and never even know there are any "full-motion, obnoxious video ads" anywhere on the page.
This is probably why there is not a proof yet, since the truth is undesirable.

You are presenting an explanation to a false observation.
I have a commercial blueberry operation. So long as you're hand-picking, and not doing it for commerce, help yourself. The amount you take will be trivial when compared with the amount taken by animals.

Besides, I can't begrudge anyone who loves blueberries.
when it comes to traveling its a big drawback. You need quick charging stations and tesla even admits the lines are getting long.
> That's one hell of a bubble. Almost no one does this. Source: worked customer service for an issuer for 18 months, ~150 calls/day, saw a broad cross-section of the customer base, and it was a rare day in which I talked to a monthly PIF.

Yea... That's why I went out of my way to call it a bubble. The point of mentioning my bubble was that "I've never met anyone who doesn't carry a cc balance" isn't a sound basis for to making a claim about all credit card usage the way the parent comment was.

> even if you're in the former category, it's still a hell of a risk to take, because if anything happens that negatively affects your liquidity in a significant way, you're suddenly a lot more screwed than you would be if you hadn't been using credit the way you were.

I'm pretty sure you're messing up your math here. How could the addition of liquidity (plus deferment of payment by 30+ days) at zero cost possibly be making me more screwed, in the event of a serious liquidity crunch?
Really? Because Germans have banned Nazi speech and they're doing pretty damn well.

It's easy for you to say that you're not afraid. I bet you're not a persecuted minority. The torches aren't going to be coming down on you buddy.

And like I said, we ban speech all the time. We have NDAs, we have court orders, we ban fighting words and so on. The idea that the slippery slope is just not happening seems alien to you.
Yeah, I bought a Chevy Bolt EV a few months back, and I treat it like my phone. I plug it in every night, and it's typically topped off by morning.
I for one have had serious stability issues with version 55. It always crashes on facebook and cnet. And the best part, the crash submission dialog which comes up in 32 bit firefox doesn't show up for 64 bit.
Also, uninstalling 64 bit and reinstalling from 32 bit installer still installs 64 bit FF. I had to remove the user config before reinstallation.
> they make all their shit unintuitive

Why so aggressive?

There is a clear reasoning for this strategy. People and especially press talk more about the product.

Btw, I think Snapchat is quite intuitive. Some features might not be easy to find or to know about. But once you know it is very intuitive and fast to use them. I think it is similar to Vim, if you don't know anything about Vim you cannot even quit Vim but once you know all the stuff Vim is one of the most intuitive editors because UI and most commands are well designed.
Perhaps you're unaware of the power that a US Navy carrier group has in 2017 :)
The lawsuit in that article is about a dispute over Google providing employee contact information to support a Labor Dept audit, not about alleged pay discrimination.
I'd say the UK legal system (well, the legislation) isn't in great condition either. Currently you can be imprisoned for possessing certain pornographic drawings of fictional characters in England, Wales and NI. The Republic of Ireland has similar silly laws, such as how one can be convicted of possessing child pornography if the actors/acresses in the pornography are made to look as though they are underage (e.g through roleplaying or makeup).
Yeah totally agree. And Apple Maps was more noticeably flawed than Bing or another search competitor would be. Maps would send you to the wrong addresses over and over (especially internationally) while supposedly users may actually prefer Bing results when given both search results without branding.
My personal anecdote filtering candidates for three years in the 1990's for a video game studio was 100's of male candidates submitted their resume for programming positions versus three females at that stage. We interviewed two of the women (the third took a job in another industry before we had the chance to interview her) and made offers to the other two of them.
I applaud your effort and am interested in how you're working out the tax implications. $17,000 doesn't come of the top in reality, for the marginal $50k person you'd be taking nearly 1/2 of their take home pay. Seems like a longer repayment would be more fair. Also if you forgive the $30,000 that's still a taxable event for the student; they'd owe the IRS as through you'd given them the money, might cost the student $10,000 or more depending on the person's situation.
Ok, I understand. Thank you.
I am not convinced about the stability of 64 bit FF. Even with no add-ons, stability is poor. Hope it gets fixed as more users start using it and more crash data shows up.
I think the same goes for worrying too much about and trying to assert too much control over one's impulsive behavior. Like trying to eliminate it completely. It may paradoxically bring more of it.
Too late...I don't even know what level I'm in anymore. Hopefully this will stop before I experience a depression stack overflow.
How is silencing someone's speech a form of defending yourself? And frankly, as someone who had multiple family members killed during the holocaust, trying to shame someone into agreement with you based on "encountering real Nazis" is ridiculous. Saying that the person who had to delete their response because of what "Nazis" said to them is even worse. You cannot compare people making mean comments or even threats against you on an online forum to a systematic genocide and denial of all human rights committed by your government on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. Fearing for you life because a dictator has established a mass system designed for your extermination is a very different reality than how you feel after sharing an unpopular opinion under your real identity.
I use the 'turn flux off for an hour' feature when I'm actually thinking about colors in the evening. There's a lot of parts of the process where color accuracy isn't important.

The fact that the color change makes drawing a little bit harder may also serve as a gentle reminder to get the fuck off the computer and go to bed instead of staying up until the wee hours of the morning.
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Just to put my mind at rest..."Despite the constant negative press covfefe."...we all agree Trump meant 'coverage' right?
Discord shuts down alt-right server and accounts for ToS violations
This is a bit vague, but here are some suggestions

Algorithms to live by Brian Christian
https://www.amazon.ca/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decis...

Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier by Ali Almossawi
https://www.amazon.ca/Bad-Choices-Algorithms-Smarter-Happier...
They can—but that doesn't mean we should assume it's a silly mistake (as opposed to a deep one) without more information than that he's an accomplished researcher.
> LinkedIn is not recalling the data, they asked to stop HiQ from scraping and collating their data and using it for their own business.

It's not LinkedIn's right to tell me how to use facts. Just like I can't make LinkedIn liable for my EULA. It doesn't constitute an actual legal agreement.

That said I think the judge is wrong that LI should remove barriers from accessing the information. Information is speech. To mandate information be suppressed or produced is less than ideal.
Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire
Is there a good reason why they're not using Russian registrars?

Do you honestly think Apple will allow Nazi apps in their app store? I don't see why Google would want to damage the brand by supporting Nazis.
Is F.lux open source software? I don't see a link to source code on their site and a quick web search didn't turn anything up. I wonder why they would lock down development when they could get a lot of great community support (not much to lose; it's free and they just ask for a $5 donation).
You can own a TV and not pay a TV license, it's not a problem.
But that's exactly what LI did, then came a judge and ordered them (temporarily) to remove said access controls.
You are conflating action with speech. Showing pornography to minors is an act, not a statement of
opinion.
It's hard to imagine what else he meant. The assumption is that he got interrupted mid-typing and accidentally sent it.
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From my experience, tmpfs adds an overhead. If I use an in-menory database for SQLite, it is about twice as fast to interact with than accessing a database file loaded into a tmpfs.
I think this is a narrative created by old people who have no idea how "young people" think.

Nobody likes invasion of privacy, period. Especially young people. An old married couple in their 60 has not much to hide (also nothing much interesting to share), whereas a teenager does a lot of things they don't want to be made public.

If you don't believe me, go ask any teenager if they're cool with some random person "frictionlessly sharing" someone else's footage without consent. Google glass didn't fail because it was weird, it failed because people passionately hated when someone else was wearing a google glass.
I can't speak about Canada, but in the US, personal anecdotes aside, 60% of college graduates are women.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/12/11/...

And young women earn more than young men, on average.

http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274...

I'm sorry about what happened to your sister, but that's not the norm.
For my part, I value the right of black/gay/jewish/whoever people to exist and live their lives without threats of violence more than I value freedom of speech.

Right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, in that order.

Groups calling for their extermination, I'm not going to stand up for any of them, because they're actively working against the first of those three values.

What good is freedom of speech or assembly when you're being run over by a white supremacist in a Charger?

If that's a slippery slope--that ordering of values that prizes life over website hosting--then it's one I'm still content to stand on, because the alternative isn't taking us anywhere good right now.