skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to beg an important question: are people who use legal means to remedy their inclusion on a blocklist necessarily doing so for nefarious reasons? Not everyone who's used a cease-and-desist or the DMCA process is a bad actor.

This extension isn't necessarily bad---if its purpose is simply to ensure that DMCA takedowns and cease-and-desist orders are properly supported and enforced only with good cause, then that seems valuable. If it ends up as a tool that starts making people who are legitimately trying to protect their livelihood or interests give up by making their legal remedies unenforceable or too onerous to undertake, then maybe we need something a little less cavalier.
The formatting in this code is atrocious. It's so much harder to find bugs when the code itself is so disorganized
True, but it could potentially be coupled with government grants or other funding.
The main problem is that it runs hot as f*ck on the right palm rest, making it basically unusable.
I don't think this needs to be that complicated. If I'm understanding correctly, the DMCA takedowns in this case are against pages blocked by EasyList. You would just have to correlate DMCA takedowns with historical EasyList filters.
Here are two PubMed surveys that show there is no evidence for Soy consumption having feminizing effects on men.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20378106
Hrm. This article is functionally suspiciously like a banner-ad for the Nexus social network's ICO.

I'm not saying that it may have intended to be one, or that it isn't about Facebook taking over our lives. But it starts with how bad our privacy is, tells us how we can take control over messaging and our mic, and then ends with a switching to Nexus, and whose ICO starts in three days. Functionally speaking, it has the same impact as a sponsored article written for the ICO.

I mean, I use Telegram myself, but it doesn't replace Messenger for me. While we're on the subject, Whatsapp also provides end-to-end encryption, is owned by Facebook and is definitely a Telegram competitor.
I'm not sure if the people interviewed knew or not but the main reason the governor declined to purchase the base for $1 was due to the high renovation costs to turn it into a prison and the operating costs for a facility that large. This is an entire base with numerous buildings and neighborhoods. It is esentially a self-sufficient city.

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160726/sugar-grove-navy-...
The bundling model whether streaming or cable is obsolete. The iTunes model of pay per episode makes much more sense - although it was much preferable when you could rent an episode for .99 rather than buy it for 2.99.
This code was not made for bug fixing though, it’s just a prototype - the expression of an idea. The accompanying text even says as much - of course the final game couldn’t possibly have a single sim’s mood in a global variable.
There's nuance and opportunity for shell, Python, Ruby, C, etc. It's a good practice standardize on a couple of languages and treat executables as opaque processes with a limited, well-defined API/ABI. The advantage of scripting languages is reuse across scripts. There is a limited ability to reuse across shell scripts, but it's often somewhat awkward.
It must be extremely difficult for you to drive around in your car that is unable to go in reverse.

Math is fascinating. It is also just a tool.
It's not just dying, it's shedding customers. The only reason the stock price isn't in free-fall is because it's cutting costs rapidly via outsourcing and also buying back shares.

IBM Real(1) annual Revenue (in billions of 2016 dollars):

1986: 111
1996: 116
2006: 109
2016: 80

(1) adjusted by BLS CPI Calculator
It depends, I think.

Compared to the RISC based propietary Unix workstations of 20 years ago, the price is really good.

At work, our CAD people have machines that are in the € 1,000 - € 1,500 price range. Those machines are fairly big and powerful, at least compared to our regular desktop PCs.

It is possible to spend more money on a workstation, if one wants or needs to, and get a more powerful machine. Far more.

Depending on your use case, our CAD machines might be lightweights. But the amount of computing power you can get for € 1,000-1,500 these days is insane compared to the landscape 20 or even 10 years ago.

I am certain the Talos II offers good performance for its price. My point was that I would like to have a machine that comes without any opaque blobs or "management engine", but I am not going to spend that much money on it. I'd be happy go get such a machine in the € 500-1,000 price range at correspondingly lower performance.
How? Any more advanced technology must still obey the laws of physics, and if we really are that wrong about the laws of physics, we'd have no way to receive such a message.
> They're also fast adopters of technology. In my opinion people in the more left half of the political spectrum (call them Democrats or whatever makes sense), on average, move substantially faster as adopters of technology (Clinton & Obama were far more technologically progressive than the Bushes or Trump). The big platforms are all extremely left in their political bias, deriving from the people who work there, the memo was correct in that regard.

Disagree. The internet used to be more libertarian, even just a few years ago. This turn to authoritarianism coincides with an influx of late adopters.
Provo/Orem has long been high on the happy cities lists..I really enjoy Utah, sometimes it's not as progressive as I'd like politically but if you can get past the 'red state' thing it's pretty nice. The people are nice'ish, lots of Tech companies moving here left and right, beautiful landscapes, tons of outdoor activities and things to do in the mountains...

Also read a study that introverts do better emotionally surrounded by mountains than not.. (I'm originally from Dayton OH, which I remember as a good place growing up but lived there from 2008 - 2014 and it's become a real cesspool).
I've been doing similar. I realize that some people prefer to spend their money, including grocery shopping, somewhat spontaneously and for those people credit cards are probably a bad idea. But if you plan a monthly budget ahead of time there's almost no reason not to be using a credit card with a good rewards program. Different people value different things so what rewards program is the best is a more complicated issue. But purchasing via credit is only detrimental if you're spending more than you can pay back.
Since "intelligence" is ill-defined and "consciousness" can't be measured, some disambiguate with the term "technological". Take what I said to mean that if you prefer. :)

My point: If technological civilizations were common, we'd probably expect to have seen a few pop up in Earth's long history of life. Since it's only us, it's not likely to be more common than "one for every 3.5 billion years of life", and there's no bound how much rarer it could be than that.
Actually our use of fertilizer and irrigation makes CO2 level a significant limiter on plant growth rates. CO2 fixation is so expensive that plants adapted to arid environments have developed a better way of doing it, C4 carbon fixation.

I found the study: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/04/05/study-suggests-increa...
Even that source is a real stretch to support your point. Yes, some analyst thinks it's close to 100%, but sounds like most experts don't agree.
You still follow the naive OOP thinking and it remains ridiculous.

For example, why Room?
The Math Behind Uber’s $18B Valuation (2014)
Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us
I am assuming that he is implying that if he cord cut, he would have to spend more than 15$/ month in subscription fees. That seems like a much more reasonable interpretation than assuming he doesn't know that 120 > 105
Joe Rogan Podcast check it out!

The Joe Rogan Experience

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You would only use a DMCA takedown on a blacklist if you want to force your content to be viewed by others. That is bad acting. DMCA is to protect the rights of content owners from their content being spread maliciously, not for it to be blocked from viewing in an individual's private home or device.
It was approved in a matter of hours!
I keep seeing HN users who clearly have an irrational hatred of Zuckerburg trot out this stupid quote as if it proves anything, let alone that he's some kind of megalomaniac. Just really annoys me. It always reeks of jealousy and sour grapes to me :)
Crimetown was just absolutely fantastic. Wonder if Season 2 will compare.
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...
Is this a vile attempt at irony given the deaths and injuries in Charlottesville today?
It looks like an anti-adblock measure:

https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/pull/2502

> after the page finished loading. It removed the real page content and replaced it with a box asking me to whitelist the site.

The reason why they're using so many domains is to circumvent blacklisting, and then the DMCA takedowns are another layer of circumvention on top of that.
That's a trope, an overused cliché. Dune magnifies it, as can often be done. But if your universe involves travels between places, it is a waste to make a planet a single place with no variation. That would be like saying that USA is just a giant corn field.

I find Starwars stupidly annoying about it, where a planet is usually a single place and present no variation. Seeing that there are swamps on Dagobah, I expect there also must be nice sunny beaches somewhere.
On Twitter they told me that by "In the face of recent changes in Firefox", they mean "[Mozilla's] plan to remove plugins (and move to web extensions which are quite limited)". https://twitter.com/Team_NetRunner/status/896549606200287232
I don't think Youtube censors extremist content because "I" don't want to see it. It's because "I" don't want anyone else to see it! There's no use me filtering my own videos if my goal is to limit what other people see.
As much as I like the idea of wealth redistribution I have the same doubts it will work. A similar phenomenon happened in South Africa when it was tried. The initial wealth distribution worked okay but it got rid of owners that knew how to run a business and replaced them with corrupt politicians.

As much as many of the 1% don't deserve it... A lot of them have that much money for a reason. The ones I knew, the "new money", were generally extremely intelligent and hard working before they made their millions. A lot of them are on permanent vacation now but if all of us had that much brains, charm, and grit it would be a lot easier to get rich.
Yes, you can easily stream your owned multimedia content to basically any device.

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/forum/18-emby-apps/

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203082707-Supporte...
- Tim Ferris

- Sam Harris

- Joe Rogan
This is taking "but it's so convenient to give up my privacy!" to a new level. Now it's "but if I don't give up my privacy can't micro-optimize my life!"?

For framework configuration questions just search Stack(Overflow|Exchange) directly. For local results append the name of your city.
That's way after I had to reset a terminal and log back in the first time that I tried to use vi.
The enigma of the face in forming first impressions
It so happens that our own planet was once a monobiome kinda like Hoth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

Admittedly, this was before the Cambrian explosion.
I will never again feel safe in the woods.
Youtube isn't the only channel to upload videos. Check out webtorrent or bitchute for p2p based videos.
I don't see anything haunting the city, is the general census that NSA shouldn't exist and that their presence somehow is causing harm or issue?
Thank you. I had no idea...
In addition to lessening misery, reducing the consumption of animal meat also helps prevent global warming (since animal farming is a significant contributor to the problem).
Google knows far far more about you than Facebook. Facebook knows the information you want public or general information like usage. Google knows your darkest secrets. Sure, Facebook tracking pixels might track some of your shopping habits too; but Google has analytics everywhere, Adwords linked up, your search history, your browser history, your location history etc.
Very true, Pad Thai without any protein aside from tofu is still delicious.
You pretty much act as you do with regular type systems, rarely creating types that are compatible by accident. There is one place however where you use structural typing constantly.

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript and using "options" objects as method parameters is a common pattern. These options objects are synonymous with anonymous classes and don't have a name, only a shape. Structural typing is one of the strategies TypeScript uses to maintain compatibility with patterns in JavaScript that use these nameless objects.

There are no namespaces. Methods are compatible if they take the same or a subset of the parameters. Objects need to have matching property names and values.
>And it seems likely that the finance institutions behind the credit cards are offering them as a product that makes money and not as an act of goodwill.

Correct, credit card companies take a fee on the transaction, which is in turn baked into the prices of all consumer goods.

To pay the normal price with something other than a credit card is to miss out on what you're already paying for.
...and Andrej Karpathy's Sanity Preserver website to search and review Arxiv papers more easily: http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/
There are strong and opposite forces at work.

Hyper-capitalism in the form of efficiency gains made possible by software-driven matching algorithms in markets that, when productivity is higher, don't need/warrant these efficiency gains. Such as the formalized platforms for the micro sharing of cars (Uber), personal living spaces (Airbnb), and labor (TaskRabbit, Mechanical Turk, Fiverr, etc.). We currently do more efficiency-shaving than actual new product building, so programmers are in high demand, but programmers aren't to blame. It's just business.

Then there's the hyper-socialism of government-back asset purchases in response to the 2008 financial crisis. For example the $700B in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds were used to purchase equity in financial institutions and other important institutions, giving the government part-ownership of major banks, insurance companies, auto manufacturers, etc. - recapitalizing them so they could begin to shed toxic assets. Thankfully TARP is closed out and the government got paid back, with interest, so we closed the book on mass government ownership of private assets back in 2014.

Technically, the biggest boost to the economy - $4.5T of mortgage-backed securities, bonds, and assets by the Federal Reserve's 3 waves of QE - shouldn't be considered socialism, because the Federal Reserve is an independent, non-government entity. [1]

But it certainly feels like hyper-socialism because it undermines of the organizing principle of a democratic society - citizens should have both the right and the duty to elect officials to act on their behalf, and hold them accountable. Especially in such an important organization as a central bank, which basically plans and attempts to control major economic variables such as the rates of inflation and unemployment.

In the end, I believe that the governors of the Fed made the right call to bail out banks through lowering the FFR and engaging in QE. It probably saved many people's lives, without exaggeration.

Who knows what the hell the public would have voted for if they had direct representation in the Federal Reserve. If people voted for change over stability, many would have ended up shooting themselves in the feet. Ala Trump trying to remove healthcare subsidies for many of his voters.

But TARP and QE also set a terrible precedent. The bailouts undermined the idea/feeling of "economic freedom" that is probably the central and most powerful idea the United States of America has going for it. No taxation without representation? What about no bailouts without representation?

[1] Creation chartered by Congress, with the president appointing governors, but with monetary policy decisions taking effect without the approval of Congress or the Executive branch, does not receive funding from Congress, governors' terms span multiple presidential/congressional terms.
To me it looks like the coverup of a crime. Anyway, it's all speculation at this point.
I stopped obsessing about the supposed morality of eating meat after I learned these things. Just because you can't hear your veggies scream doesn't mean they aren't suffering.

(There are lots of really good reasons to limit meat consumption. But, the touchy-feely appeal to "think about the suffering of the animals" is species-ist (for lack of a better word).)
That code is just a prototype, the seed around which the rest of the game nucleated. There is a big thick layer of behavior trees, hierarchal state machines and lots of whatever layered on top, including a visual behavior tree programming language called "SimAntics" and an editing tool called "Edith", which is described and demonstrated here (starting at 11:20):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs

Here's another demo of some tools for making and managing user created content for The Sims, and SimSlices's amazing version of SimCity embedded in The Sims!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imu1v3GecB8
Stanford scientist searches for answer to his son’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I hate "is suspected" -- without saying who suspects. It's a weird kind of programming, expecting readers to trust the authority of the publication without all of the facts.
March on Google – Saturday, August 19th
> I.e. "I don't want to see this kind of content" leads to "someone else should remove it from all the sites I visit".

I don’t think that’s always the mindset. Isn’t it reasonable for people to have the mindset of “I want to go to sites that don’t have content that I find objectionable”? This way websites can decide which group of people they want to cater to.
This has been a feature of American society as long as there has been an America. It was noted by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. There were strict bounds on what people could discuss, though within those bounds they could say what they liked. As opposed to, for example, English society, which traditionally was more accepting of the eccentric (upperclass) oddball.
If you're going to get that picky about it, they would have arrived in Alaska first. Not Canada.
You speak as if customers do not also enjoy lower prices, faster delivery, lower fares, wider choices, etc. All this is also enabled by the very same platforms.
Shadow Bands Are a Solar Eclipse Mystery (and Not Everyone Sees Them)
This is interesting! Even in Hindi, the bun type of bread as paõ. Could be very well derived from Portuguese
Those look cool, but how are those sites any different from creating a torrent of the files you want to share yourself, and then sending your recipient the magnet link?
That's a beautiful story. I've been fascinated by Gödel since I read Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter back in the 1980s. I'm not a mathematician, so I can't plumb the depths of his work, but I gain a little more insight by reading articles like this one.
Not to mention a good accountant, good lawyer, decent optometrist, decent dentist, decent doctor.

Not only do lots of those jobs pay better than tech jobs in most places you can also live more easily in cheap, nice places where a nice house can be had for less than 300K.

And their jobs are much, much harder to offshore.

It's interesting how there is this great push to get people to code, pushed by politicians who are almost all lawyers.

You don't see a push for more lawyers or doctors to drop costs. They don't import H1Bs. Try getting a medical or legal licence from another country.
> If everyone paid their credit cards off at the end of the month like they say they do, do you think credit cards would be advertised or pushed as hard as they are?

Yes. CC companies make money on every transaction (google keyword: interchange fee).

I am also one of those people that pays off my balance every month. In fact, I use an Amex charge card that is designed to be paid off every month.

If not using/having credit cards is what works for your family, more power to you. But don't assume just because I use a CC for my purchases I'm in debt or foolish. In fact there's a whole subculture of making money off of credit card offers (see /r/churning).
https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/895162795733524481 seems to be a popular source.
I usually send files to friends by hosting a local web server (python -m SimpleHTTPServer) then forwarding the port via ngrok (ngrok 8000 http)

I understand why this isn't a widespread solution, but it works great, and use it to share big files with non-technical folks (just give them the ngrok link).
One thing to really watch out for is if the product can be sold profitably or not. Especially in the SMB B2B market many technology products are in great demand, but the CAC is just too high for the product to be viable.

You can get sucked into to creating a product that your customers love, but which can only be sold at a loss once the cost of acquiring the customer is taken into account. After making something that nobody wants (to pay for anyway), this is probably the biggest mistake made by entrepreneurs.
I wish I could read faster
If it's for use mainly with Tor I suppose they could just target HTML 4.01.
I'm worried about being replaced, I need to understand it better to defend myself.
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94's a good age to go. It seemed like she lived a rich and fulfilling life. We should all be so lucky.
We don't need to resort to archaeology. The indigenous people of the Bering Strait region could, and did, routinely cross it in boats made from local materials (animal hides, mostly) for centuries, and were still doing so at the time of European contact.

I mean, there are photographs from that era.
I think what these companies are doing has a different appeal, though. There are plenty of vegetarian protein sources I enjoy, but I also just like the taste of a good burger. If I could get a burger that tasted like real beef, but without the environmental and ethical concerns of beef, I would gladly trade it.
In the past it's the kind of tone that would inspire me to greatly escalate the issue, and I doubt that I'm alone.
> the Federal Reserve is an independent, non-government entity.

Its a self-funded government entity created by law.

> But it certainly feels like hyper-socialism because it undermines of the organizing principle of a democratic society - citizens should have both the right and the duty to elect officials to act on their behalf, and hold them accountable.

Like many government entities, it's officials are appointed by elected officials and powers and priorities are set by elected officials through law; this in no way subverts accountability.
Dev vs. Ops