skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feathers act as insulation, they are warm blooded, and opportunistic eater. My chickens are hardy to -20 degrees outside. So long as they were farther south I could imagine them surviving. Even if they were north, as long as they could eat meat, the coming cold temperatures could keep food (other dead animal) around for quite a while. Even then, I could image ancestors of vultures doing quite well for a good long while.

Anyway, also a naive set of guesses on my part.
Hmm, I've never thought of that. I like your idea.
> Snowflake society doesn't like calculating the economic (market) value of risk to life or limb, but the truth is that without reasonable tort the economic impact will still be born, but socialized by non-risk takers subsidizing expanding bureaucracies.

Sounds like you should move to Somalia, land of the free market -- it's quite untouched and unregulated by nanny bureaucracies, in fact. Lots of opportunities to make money, I'm sure. Or perhaps you'll be lucky enough to break both your kneecaps and die on the streets, or get sold into slavery!

I can only imagine the reason you wouldn't do this is due to being a needy snowflake yourself. Hmmm....
See https://blog.cr.yp.to/20150314-optimizing.html
Hi lance, they really are. Not sure how much of the plan is public yet but they provided detail in person.

PS: we do call it cropdusting
Sometimes I wonder philosophically, how it is that electronics and digital systems - essentially, electrified/energized systems of some kind, have addictive and confounding properties to advancing societies and humans, similar to the way oil/petroleum/gas is to our way of life?

Oil/petroleum/gas have huge societal and human benefits, and yet, so many negative side effects (climate change, pollution, war, etc.) and complications. "Energy" has these challenges, like many natural resources.

sigh

I can't quite find the right words.. The electrification / "energization" of things seems to add this tangible quality of also being confounding, complicating and somehow exhausting to us.

It's like when you are walking out in nature somewhere remote, say, in a forest, where all you see are trees and rocks and rivers/streams, and breathe fresh air. There is something about this natural/analog state of being that can soothe us (although, nature can be quite alarming too). Books, analog toothbrushes, un-powered hand tools... things like this seem (in my opinion) to help humans feel... more human (and in control).

There was a moment of this kind of feeling of awe of nature that was so amazing the other day when the eclipse happened in the US. A moment where it was like, everyone put down their phones, their lives, their problems and... just observed this phenomenon of beauty. It was simple and fleeting, but wonderful.

I think the author is onto something here, but it's hard to say it in words. Is it an awakening of humanity within the digital age? A recognition of nature and humanity as something to balance with energy, digital, electronic? It definitely seems we are on this kind of a path.

Lest we forget that, it would not be the first time that there have been "awakenings" and "enlightenment" in humanity's history. For example, in western cultures - [1] [2], and certainly others in other cultures. It seems there is something to be learned from history here.

[1] The age of enlightment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

[2] The great awakening (religious context): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening
Anyone here might be interested in https://weatherspark.com/
I believe that our bodies weren't designed to handle intense mental processing for such long bouts. It's no wonder mathematicians, developers and other knowledge workers require immense volumes of caffeine to get anything done.

The use of caffeine results in a light activation of the fight or flight response. I'm sure it plays a role in the exhaustion. Especially when the "threats" are ever present unrealistic deadlines.
Or learn some self control and restraint.
Not in C, in C#. It's a vast difference.
The "unlimited" in Verizon's unlimited plans refer to the number of exceptions in their "unlimited" plans.
This is the key. "Moderation in all things, including moderation" is the most important advice my late father gave me.

I will freely admit that this is advice that occasionally gives me cause to grumble at him when hungover.
> I haven't found an up-to-date storage price calculator to see what my options are in the TB range.

For pay-as-you-go storage, I found this: http://coststorage.com/
See http://cr.yp.to/qhasm/literature.html
In that case, all I can advise, is to never get involved with GPU programming :)
This is getting a lot of traction because anything related to crypto evokes really strong responses here, but this was a phishing attack. The fact it happened in the crypto space is largely secondary.

People get phished and get tricked into handing out bank account and credit card details all the time. It's not even newsworthy unless it happens on a large scale. This is only newsworthy because of the fact that it's crypto so people equate this with some sort of deficiency with the technology and/or ecosystem. That's not the case.
Is there any plans to allow backup mounted disks? I have a small SSD on my notebook (30Gb) and all my data are stored on external NAS.

As I know, Backblaze doesn't allow me to backup mounted folders from NAS. This is only reason I don't use Backblaze.
Try an ultrasonic toothbrush (a real one operating in MHz) and you are going to ditch your dentist. Since I bought it three years ago I haven't had a single decay; even some bad job on root canal treatment and resulting inflammation gets down to acceptable levels after a week or so of use in my case.
Thanks for the in-depth reply, a lot here that I agree with, particularly on the homogenisation/monoculture issue (which I wish I could offer a compelling answer to -- telling people not to share their code would clearly be throwing the baby out with the bathwater).

Unit test vs REPLs is an interesting one. Agree that there are similarities there (although I'd argue that your tooling needs to be pretty damn good for unit tests to offer the responsiveness that a good REPL can). For me, I think part of the difference is that a REPL session is personal and nobody sees the blind alleys, while unit tests are an enduring part of the product and something others will see, use, and potentially critique. So while they can address the same kinds of questions, I'm not too shocked that people feel differently about them.
Note: those are the worst-case timings, power-saving mode in a VirtualBox.

IDEA without the zero-latency mod is 198.8.
It's funny that we can take totally opposite lessons from "I'm sure it's different this time".
The Atlantic itself, where this piece was published, had its own rocky transition to the digital world. I was a longtime print subscriber, and around 2012 or so I found that the cover of the book was becoming more and more offputting. Not the art, but the titles of the articles. They were deliberately provocative, to the point of being irrelevant to the actual content. Clickbait without the clicks. I got so tired of that, along with the shady antics of their subscription department, that I eventually stopped renewing my subscription. By shady antics, I mean requiring a credit card for subscription renewal, so they could auto-renew you every year thereafter. I had been happy to send a check for several years' worth of the Atlantic in advance, but I'm not going to sign up for automatic charges to my credit card. Their attempts to grow or at least maintain their subscriber base cost them my subscription.
I don't know what your perception is, or how you were using it... and I don't actually do this on a daily basis, but I think if what you did was using crosh in a browser tab, there is a much better experience on ChromeOS to be had. I used crouton with X11 and it was IMHO decidedly serviceable.

I could not get used to using a shell in a browser tab; it was just too easy to accidentally lose my work by pressing ctrl+W.

But I have been a desktop linux user for ~20 years until switching to MacOS last year, when I got a new job and inherited my predecessor's Macbook Pro. So, getting E17 started, even with no GL acceleration, was really quite OK for me. (But as a desktop linux user, I'm sure I'm probably on a short list who would be ok with that... you might be too, I don't know how you were using it or what your background is.)

If I had something better than a 2012-model Samsung XE303C12 (anything but an ARM-based chromebook, I guess) something with an intel CPU that has Haswell chipset or Bay Trail, or i915 video, or the Chromebook Pixel line, or... I think it would be even better (with supported graphics acceleration, I mean.)

What were your issues/how far did you get, if you don't mind my asking?
>Serious questions: Where was this amazing place? When were you there? Was it a STEMish PhD? Really.

Yes. Engineering. I don't like to reveal too much about my past, so I won't say the name. Suffice it to say that it's ranked in the top 10 for pretty much all engineering + many of the sciences. EE, CE and CS are all in the top 5.

It was a decade ago, though.

Workload all depended on your advisor and funding landscape. Some were very demanding, and they had miserable lives (mostly pointless, too - most of academia seems to be converging towards a race to the bottom). But not all professors were that way. Of course, standards still have to be met, and laid back professors' students usually took longer to get a PhD because they were more relaxed.

To give you an idea, two of my fellow group mates are now faculty members. And the one whose work was most like what you describe, and who did the best work IMO, never was able to secure a tenure track position.

The lifestyle you describe is really not worth the PhD you get in the end. The ROI is just not there - financially or otherwise.
I share your sentiment, but the profiling amps are coming along (Kemper, two notes speaker emulators, etc)
>Data have turned journalism into a commodity, something to be marketed, tested, calibrated. Perhaps people in the media have always thought this way. But if that impulse existed, it was at least buffered. Journalism’s leaders were vigilant about separating the church of editorial from the secular concerns of business

I understand the author's frustration with the current state of affairs but let's be honest, the only reason journalism was not an aggressively marketed "commodity" in the past is because competition was lower. 40-50 years ago very few people could afford to own and operate widely circulated newspapers/magazines. You could write anything you liked and you would have guaranteed readership, the public had very few options. But as we saw in the 80s/90s when printing and distribution became cheaper and more widespread the public turned more and more towards tabloids, gossip columns, sensationalist stories and partisan viewpoints. Nowadays there are millions of sites offering more or less the same content and the only way to stand out is to be even more aggressive, viral, sensationalist, tabloid-esque than the printed tabloid era.

The problem is not data driven content, the problem is that everyone has access to the same "stories" and the ability to publish it. Go to New Republic website right now and see what the main stories are: Trump, even more trump, the dnc, game of thrones, some bs liberal article about police/sexism/hollywood, something about instagram, etc.

What insight will you get if you read the n-th article about the latest Trump antics or the i-th article about sexism or social media? Does it matter if the author is an intern at buzzfeed or an journalist with 30 years of experience? You won't get any wiser on the subject even if the author is Ernest Hemingway. The content is now trivial and no amount of good intentions, idealism or journalistic craftsmanship is going to help you.

Want to stand out and not be tormented by "data"? Find a niche and write about specialized subjects that few can write about. Trivial subjects are a mass consumer commodity and there's no turning back
@jlrubin, do you have any specific plans on how you would like to spend your profits from these pins in order to combat nazism?
Had an almost identical experience when I bought a bunch of electronics.

In my case, they sent a warning saying I would not be able to contest any more purchases for some period of time and that my account was at risk of being suspended.

I try to avoid eBay as much as possible now. When their response to rampant fraud is "we're gonna suspend your account if you point it out again," it's time to move on. The only people left there seem to be scammers who know how to navigate the system.

AliExpress is usually cheaper for the China-direct items anyway, and those seem to comprise most of the listings on eBay nowadays.
The point is that Google will know, as GCHQ let the Americans spy on UK networks and Google is close to American spooks.
I think the product is exactly what the users want, actually, though it seems to generally result in a toxic shithole of all-against-all.

I think the business model problem is a direct consequence of the product succeeding at being what it is. That's not really a very good environment for "brand engagement" or whatever kind of consumerist brainslug implantation program they think they might use it for.

A radical redesign of the product could probably make it a better advertising platform. The question they're facing I think is really that they are being pulled in two directions: increase (or at least retain) the number of users on the platform pulling opposite make the platform more appealing to advertisers and people who have discretionary income.

They could hire me as a consultant maybe and I would instruct them that being the world's greatest engine for social strife is not an admirable product design goal.
I recently had evaluated my entire backup plan and CrashPlan was evaluated as a possible change. It was one of two finalists I was debating between. Boy am I glad I didn't go with them. I understand that they will not just cancel the existing users and are only preventing new customers from signing up. But let's be real. We know what this means. It means they will not be giving the individual consumers in any sort of priority whatsoever. The non-commercial customers have now become a legacy operation.

FWIW - the reason I decided against CrashPlan was:
1) I inherently don't trust anything that is unlimited everything (storage space, versions, undelete, etc.)
2) I especially don't trust anything that gives all those unlimited features for a paltry $5 a month
3) My speed was horrendously slow. Seemingly capped at about 2 mpbs (250 kbps).
4) The application seemed to be bloated and resource heavy.
5) They have a well known issue where you can wipe your entire backup from their server if you encounter the dreaded disaster scenario (or get a new machine) and have a fresh O/S with a new installation of the software. If you don't do the steps exactly in the correct order, it will see your new installation as being the source copy and having nothing to store, and subsequently wipe everything on their servers. I see that they recently posted something on August 1, 2017 about "adoption" which seems to be migration for new machines so maybe this issue is finally addressed.
Excuse me, but Bitcoin is ENCRYPTED and SECRET
They would avoid a lot of trouble if they change the version name:

Dev -> Beta

Beta -> Final

Final -> Legacy

The current beta versions are rock solid. If you have been sticking with the previous stable version, you have been missing a lot for no reason.

IMHO this is the same mistake the Gnome team is making recently: Calling the finished version "final" or "stable". "Final" means to me "doesn't crash and has no bugs (as far as possible)". It doesn't mean that it receives no more updates. On the contrary, if it gets no more updates I would call it "legacy" or "abandoned".
We can go into an amazing yet pointless semantical argument of what "privacy" means. But let's look at this from a different perspective:

I like your faith. However, if this change goes in, and the capability is there, it will get misused. Because, statistically that's how these things go on this planet+capitalism.
Are you honestly suggesting that the only possible use for aggregate user statistics is for ads? Not for A/B testing or tracking performance regressions?
I agree. Check Atlanta for example. The note says, "The warmest time of year is generally late June where highs are regularly around 71.6°F (22°C)" [1]. Meanwhile the historic average highs for August range from 86-89°F [2]. The average low in August [3] is almost as high as what this site says is the warmest regular high.

[1] - https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-atlant...

[2] - https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/atlanta-ga/30303/august-we...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta#Climate
Im just getting started with hardware electronics so forgive me if this is way off. Also, not to defend the title...

Is a standard transistor just two diodes with similar sides facing each other?
What were the other 4?
And the alt text ‘Enterprise_License.png’, because screen reader users would never need to compare features.
I think our present space technology research focus should be on these asteroids. Both how to deflect them (peacefully) and how to mine them for rare metals.

If I read this table correctly it seems that only eight days ago a fairly chunky rock passed within 60,000 miles of us:

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
The government already does this, in some areas on a blanket basis. This device puts the same data into the hands of citizens, evening the score. From that point of view it's a great thing.
"a brief, 20 minute pause."
The age of zen computing!
Great app, really usable!
Given the fact that we're discussing this in the comments of a popular link aggregator for a VC firm/startup accelerator, I'd wager if Internet 1.0 hadn't happened we wouldn't be here.
except development on ChromeOS is akin to pulling your fingernails out millimeter by agonizing millimeter.

I would rather shave with a belt sander than use ChromeOS for any modicum of development ever again. Ended up installing Crouton on it, which made it workable, but then are you _really_ using ChromeOS anymore?
foundation: Apache

licensing: MIT
good luck getting a 'locked down OS' on crouton. if you're going to do that you might as well install Ubuntu on the bare metal and do away with the middle man. Can't run Docker on a crouton machine either because the kernel they used for ChromeOS doesn't support containerization (yet).
there is a (very basic) plug-in for that
it was encrypted and it was secret. They tricked people into giving them money. The currency is the only variable here.

I do understand you're being sarcastic, though.
There are some things in this article that I can definitely identify with, mainly the 'old laptop' that she was talking about, but an electric toothbrush??? That's hardly the notification-blasting brain-melter that she so despises.

I'd certainly go back to a flip-phone if they had cameras like current smartphones.
x86 and 68K are night and day. x86 is no fun at all; there is way too much legacy stuff.
Benchmark vs. Kalanick (featuring Pishevar):A modern Silicon Valley morality play
Would you please not post unsubstantive inflammatory comments, especially on divisive topics, to HN? That's flamebait and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly, regardless of the views they favor/disfavor.
Mine is <myname>.co.uk :)
Hmm, they said end of service would be October 22nd 2018, so I'm wondering if they were only expecting one year plus sixty days, not 1.9 years plus sixty days... may need to check on your situation.

In any case, it sounds like the business version drops the peer to peer free solution.
Indeed, there's a reason why tv networks have for decades chose "safe" tv that can be monetized and for a very long time chose to evade politics, see Smothers Brothers. It's easier to coax revenue from largely apolitical media.
> Whenever anything cryptocurrency or blockchain is posted, nearly all the comments label it as a "scam" fueled by "greed".

When it's another blockchain-as-a-cloud-serverless-service, it's usually
made by cryptographic dilettantes who don't understand what is the
blockchain's function and just want to join the hype bandwagon.
Haven't even read it, just looked at the drawings and now i know how a browser parses css.
Routing traffic through a VPN should circumvent this malarkey, right?
This is a really interesting idea - the kind of tool that you only realize that you've been waiting for when someone shows you it! As someone who likes to travel quite a bit, this will replace a lot of Google searches for me potentially. Your weather summaries will also be great for SEO and are very well optimised.

One bit of feedback I'd give is it'd be worth populating with some "temperate" defaults (i.e. normal average temperature, normal humidity etc.). At the moment it seems like it might take a bit of configuring to get to the information you'd want, when it'd seem like you could take an educated guess.

UI/UX wise I would also make the "date" slider a bit more prominent and maybe have it simply limited to monthly averages (doesn't seem to matter too much if we're talking 2nd or 3rd week of March) for instance.

Otherwise, really love it, and excited to see the ways people are using Tableau for this kind of thing :)
I agree. Programming forums are full of this crap. I hate asking a pretty straightforward question online and getting that patronizing "But what are you really trying to do?" response.

What I'm really trying to do is get an answer to this specific question. I'm not asking you to re-think my problem statement. Thanks for not helping.
Some of them operate in the ultrasonic region which, according to my dentist, means they can get a lot more cleaning done.
I think a static site generator sounds useful. Not only for viewing when one is without one's apps, but also for sharing as you say.
I did something a little more drastic. I have a electronic timer device on my plug socket for the internet router.

So much easier than screwing around with software.
Coursecoin is going to change the academic world altogether. The combination of a distributed ledger algorithm with online academia opens up a world of education to people who otherwise could not afford it. Student loans are out of control, but with course coin, the students earn their tuition by mining coins. All the overhead of an academic institution is distributed over a wide array of systems that are responsible for keeping track of enrollment, grades, and personal progress on the blockchain. Teachers get paid better because they get paid in coursecoins as they are mined. They have an actual incentive for their students to remain interested and to succeed.

The ICO will be raising money to bring on new material and for marketing of the courses. We expect 100,000 students in the first quarter, at which point the coin value on the open market is expected to skyrocket beyond all other blockchain coins.

Send your donation or investment money to coursecoin@gmail.com (seriously, please don't.). We will handle the rest.

If you'd like to see our white paper, check it out. https://futureoflife.org/data/documents/research_survey.pdf
If you had a lossless rip of a rare album that is not on iTunes, not on Amazon, not on Google Play Music, and cannot be found via torrents, wouldn't you want a backup of it in the cloud as well?
I think it's not used much nowadays, but I'm thinking about using it again.

But what happened to Txp5, with several blog posts years ago? Is that effort dead? Rolled back into 4.x?