skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> are a huge stimulus to the economy and young people in particular.

Sure a gold rush is always good.

However one's life should be based on the normal, not the exceptional. Otherwise it's completely unstable. You should definitely embrace the exceptional when it happens, you may even look for it or try to trigger it, but it should not be a sine qua non condition for you having a decent life.

> in the future seems to be that the workers would require a high degree of education to participate

It may be a good thing. Right now, society promote art and sports are mean to become rich. We communicate value about violence, sex, money, owning stuff, power...

If suddenly the media see a gold rush and promote "hey, to become rich, educate yourself and try to make a dent in the world." that would not be so bad. After all, the 2000 bubble did a HUGE service to all the nerds. We are way cooler than we used to be, and our life is way easier now.
MA to ME already have a different species of Fire ants[0]; from Europe though, not S. America. Please do not purposely import these foreign species.

[0]https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2550e/
we've been suffering from this since 3:07am UK time and it's sad to see google still hasn't learnt how to do support/communicate with their paying customers after all the flack they always take about this.

The number of mistakes (silly and otherwise) keeps increasing and I'm not talking about the technical problem itself! ok, end of rant
Switch to protonmail. The only downside is spelling out the domain when giving it to people over the phone.
At first your system seemed to me like a solution to bought reviews (mturk and otherwise) and bots.

Then I realized that it would just incentivise bots to add 1-star reviews to random products once their creators figure out this mechanism.

Sometimes these problems make me sad, it could all be so nice and easy if it weren't for these bad actors.
I didn't say it was their objection.
I've actually found FastMail wholly superior to Gmail, HERE Maps refreshingly good at working without a data connection, which is a lifesaver while traveling, and I use Sandstorm.io over Drive, which is capable of a lot more as well.

I started with an attempt to leave Google products for political/moral reasons and ended up finding superior products on the way.
Don't we already have *coin ?
Deploying a global, private CDN
A basic hue setup was pretty easy. Getting the keywords right with groups/scenes and multiple bulbs with an alexa has been a challenge. I've helped 2 fairly technical people with it. Both had the same problem. Once you lay out all the parts and pieces and explain how they interact it makes sense. It isn't something I could just give to my parents and have them figure it out.
I feel the value of some coins, at least BTC and ETH stand to rise big time in the coming years. We're still in a phase of mostly early adopters (tech people), but slowly digital coins will become of use for 'normal' people. Banks are also starting to show an interest in digital coins. And at many online stores you can now pay with Bitcoin. In The Netherlands there are a few Bitcoin ATM's as well, though I have never used one.

Of course, for governments these digital coins are problematic. It's much more difficult to estimate someone's wealth if one keeps coins in more or less anonymous digital wallets. Also, digital coins make it easy to transfer wealth oversees without fees, which is probably something that banks won't like (the usually subtract a fee through the exchange rate), so banks might try to lobby against Bitcoin.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we don't use our conventional bank accounts anymore for payments, but use some ATM card connected to a digital wallet. Again, this would be bad for banks.

A few weeks ago I bought my first digital coins as well for around 12.000 EUR. I expect the value of these coins to still rise quickly over the coming years.

I'd say BTC, ETH, NEO and OMG are safe bets for now.
The "cloud" is a hilarious failure at the main marketing point. Decentralized just means you have no idea where your servers are.

Scaling is the only real selling-point of cloud and far more people think they need it than actually do
Agreed on headphones for immersion. More specifically for me -- when I really need to focus and I'm around other people, I listen to noise (playnoise.com is good and simple). Anything but noise is just another mental distraction for me. If I listen to music, no matter how ambient, my mind still wants to follow the music instead of whatever it is that I'm trying to focus on.
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Our load is not being "balanced", as not all backends are being utilized because of this.
>( the one that they finally got rid of )

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
> A simple solution is to treat these companies as telcos.

Woh woh woh. Back the truck up. We're not even treating ISPs as common carriers. I mean, we are, but the FCC is about to reverse that.

If that happens we'll all end up paying more for slower access to limited content. It'll be like going back to when you thought AOL or Prodigy was the internet. Even if Google and Facebook were put under greater government supervision, you wouldn't have many options outside of those anyway.
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I worked in an office made up of mostly Indian people and I can confirm they used the on-screen accessibility button instead of the physical button.
8. Screenshot.
I think you have stated it well. And I agree that there is overhead in creating a schema. I think, however, where we might disagree is on whether or not that overhead is anything more than trivial.

I think ultimately this is similar to the debate on static vs. dynamic typing.
I definitely think the UK system for PhDs is more focused and therefore more productive. On day one of my PhD my advisor showed me to my desk and told me to start researching what I wanted to research. I think in the US you do courses for years before you start actually researching, which is what you're there to do in the first place. And many US students seem to spend hours teaching.
This seems a bit unnecessary to me, but I'd love to proved wrong. Voice as a medium has a nasty discoverability problem and most of the main voice assistant functions are covered first class by all the major assistants (weather, music controls, timers, etc).

I hardly know all the features of Alexa and all the features of Cortana, and I have less an idea of what areas one excels in over the other.

Can anyone name one?
Some of the ants will drown. But they use the arrangement of bodies to trap air bubbles, keeping the colony as a whole afloat and alive. Its an amazing trick to have figured out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Libertine
A revolution they might be, but so was Betamax. Not all revolutions succeed.
This sounds really messy. If i issue a voice command, I want my device to work out what provider (alexa, cortana, you name it) to handle that request. I dont care which one. I just want it turn down the volume if that was my request.
I actually don't mind the camera bump. I don't see it and it does not bother me at all. Not sure why people make such a big deal out of it. Also if you put a case on your phone which 95% of people do - the bump won't even be noticeable.
Totally agree.

> (which go way beyond mere bit-twiddling, btw)

I was fascinated by optimizations people come up for Game of Life by reading Michael Abrash's Black Book.

> a programmer who "merely" plugs frontends into backends with databases"

I am such a programmer: never have used bit manipulation in my job, and while it is kinda boring, it is a job, and someone has to do it.
Two-thirds of Americans approve of editing human DNA to treat disease
Use deep learning to identify fish in videos for $50k prize
What a load of garbage. The world is awash in opportunity - biotech, genetics, AI, fledging nanotechnology, robotics/drones and other things that will transform us into posthumans in 50-100 years. The greatest fortunes in history will be created in this period.

Whiny idiots will complain though. As they always had.
Well, if it managed to inspire the creation of the Internet a decade after Cerf et all actually created it, that is truly remarkable!
> I wonder if the idea simply bothers people?

This idea bothers people because it calls in question everything that they believe in -- in the West the so called educated population believes in the idea of abstract "good" and idea of people/entities being "good" compared to the extreme cynicism coming from say Eastern Europeans.

In my, not very humble, opinion it is caused by Western population of the last sixty years living a rather easy and lazy life, which breeds a total disassociation with say possible drivers other people. So they want to destroy everything and anything that pierces their bubble. In HN it means flagging/downvoting such articles/opinions.
The ants are small enough and light enough that they float because of surface tension. These ant rafts operate on a similar effect to how Gerridae (pond skaters) walk on the water's surface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerridae

The human body is far too dense and large for surface tension based floating to work. Humans can survive reasonably long times in water by employing the Dead Man's Float though.
Yikes! that's a huge failure.
A second question then: how do you define a conflict of interest?
I don't deny that, I just say it's not opportunity related.

My big "oh oh" moment was when I started to play the "return to your 10 years old self with your current mind" game. I realized I could have earned much more money than my parent's allowance, use much better my time and freedom, improved my health a lot, but couldn't see the opportunities.

It's the same now. We have opportunities everywhere. As long as people have problems, you have opportunities to solve them and charge for it.
If I had to take a quick pass: Search/Gmail/Drive, Android/Play, and Chrome. The largest monopolizing power Google has is it's control of platforms, which can drive it's services. Between setting up defaults to their own products and including tight integrations nobody else can match, this is Google's biggest advantage today. Chrome and Android also actually each have ways they could independently be monetized, Chrome via search placement auction like Firefox, Android via licensing from OEMs.

Gmail and Drive and such predominantly need to be ad-funded to survive, I suspect, and I think allowing an online services company to run ads is fundamentally okay. The monopolizing power of losing Chrome and Android would over time relegate them to losing monopoly status by default.
the mound just collapsed around your foot and you sank in?
This is so true. The younger generation got hosed because the older generation screwed up in a big way. Our country had a chance to clean house during the 2008 financial melt down. The big banks failing would have caused a horrible economy but we would've flushed Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, AIG, and a host of other leaches down the drain. Check out the historical prices of Goldman Sachs from 2007 to late 2008 if you don't believe me. The market was anticipating the bankruptcy of Goldman Sachs and this company is supposed to be the pillar of Wall Street.

Our economy would have recovered by now but we live in an even more distorted world. Risk is not priced correctly because interest rates are too low. Take Amazon for example. They can borrow at low rates to acquire an overpriced company in Whole Foods. Had Amazon borrowed at say 8% then the transaction is a lot riskier. This miss pricing of risk is radically distorting the economy throughout the country and there will be bad consequences. Those at the bottom of the economy will have the worst time and that includes recent high school and college graduates who will be looking for the few entry level positions.
It looks like yet another satellite is breaking apart at GEO
To have another gold rush we have to slow down the flow of information. No longer can a man search for a better life, based on simple writings. Now, everything is validated or rejected before he can pack his bags and head west.

We are currently living in a gold rush.. Make something and sell it online. Or support those that do.
Sure, but in a scenario where the government was so interventionist and controlling that it nationalised a search engine, social engine and retailer how likely is it that such laws would stay on the books?
I'm still pretty young and I need health care. I'm not sure why this myth keeps persisting. We all need regular cancer checkups, and you simply can't do that as a young person in America without health insurance.
I don't see this as bad. Being able to manufacture simple things just increases how complex things can be for a certain cost.

CNC and automated process control isn't killing Asian metalworking.
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Worried they're too busy chasing the industrial design dream of an entire screen surface that usability and sensibility is being thrown out of the window.

Normally I'd have faith but honestly things are getting weird over there.
You can "pre-arm" Apple Pay before moving the phone close to the reader.
Ah, slow startups on unittests is a big headache. This is especially apparent on big projects like Django where you might as well leave your desk and grab coffee when the unittests start, even for small projects. That said, I can't help but think that this is just an inevitable tradeoff of Python. You want great expressive power? You have to sacrifice speed. Awesome constructs like namedtuple make this worth it imo.
But what's a robot? Is a 3D printer a robot? (it has moving parts and builds things) is the Google Adwords code a robot? (it sure makes a lot of money) a quant hedge fund? Do you tax all computers by cost or value produced?

Seems simpler to tax companies for making money.

EDIT: We won't need middle-manager bots that show each other powerpoints all day. What "robot" would get taxed for the disappearance of that function?
I think it's more to do with him primarily teaching python (iirc) rather than working on large systems with it.

It's the same strain of rant Zed Shaw had of Py3, ie., that its harder to teach than Py2 and thef. bad. Crazy.

EDIT: OK, if not primarily teaching, spending a lot of his time teaching it. That's a big part of his motivation + worth knowing that when assessing his arguments.
what a nice ui design, very fresh, the icons are crazy cool
Stannis has taught you well
DDA accounts are basically risk free.
But wasn't that the point of the article? The fixate on one giant leap and ignore the massive other changes the availability of that technology (or its constituent parts) would likely cause?
Not a culture of secrecy, they just have good relationships with the vendors, so it's professional courtesy not to publicly compare.

Where you do see it is when relations are strained, see for example YouTube bandwidth reports.
> Bribery is inefficient. Systems that operate according to law are safer, cleaner, and more productive

Not always. If bribery had been common in the US, Michael Brown would still be alive and the Ferguson scandal would not have happened.

A lot of other bad things would have occurred instead, but it's not 100% black and white.
Why GPs are always running late
Ahead of the pack: how to sell more on Magento
Two women entrepreneurs invented a cofounder named “Keith” to be taken seriously
I've been saying this for about 15 years, but the moment Eric joined google the phrase "Don't be evil" mostly disappeared from almost every location they used to publish the phrase.
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What happens to the plants during the summer if there is too little rain? Do they also install watering systems? That would be expensive to maintain.
This is Schmidt acting thru one of his private foundations. It is his money. This isn't Google.
Whenever the sun starts shining, the clouds disappear.
Wait for all those greybeards beeing in the street once the warming creates a global recession and theire pension funds collapse.

"Spare some change we can believe in Sir?"

"Not today, old Scooter, not today."
Arguably what Urban Dictionary is doing is to weigh by "net favorability" in some sense and quantity of votes. Quantity of votes correlates to relevance, particularly because UD is meant to represent popular usage.
that sounds a lot like what i described. it avoids being a money-losing system by limiting how much care people can receive.
should clarify that I am not serious. I've just had Lyme disease enough times to want to kill ticks.

Better solution, AFAICT, is aggressive reduction in deer populations. Hunting and predator reintroduction to bring deer population down into historical norms would seemingly reduce a major host/transport mechanism, and would have secondary benefits for the hardwood forest ecosystem.
But we're talking about a think tank, right? It's a private group of people that write about their opinions. Why shouldn't they have conflicts of interest?
Well, yeah. There's no substantial anti-corporate voting bloc.

Most substantial voting blocs are pro- something. Pro-union, pro-environmental, and pro-privacy voters may support positions which some corporations oppose, but the voters themselves aren't by-and-large anti-corporation; as long as corporations behave they don't have any problem with them.
How would you differentiate say:
"http://googlemail.buyviagra.com"

From: "https://mail.google.com"

If they looked the same.
I'm sure they can be replaced with "Gesture and Swipe Soup"

Hey at least we'll have a (mostly) bezel-less display which is a win to someone at Apple for some reason.
Seems perfectly accurate to me.

They are no different than any other company and claiming that they are somehow exceptional is what seems silly in my opinion.
When americans are discussing politics they are always missing the point. At least from the outside perspective.

It's like two parties arguing about football. One side is saying, we need to abolish referees, the players should sort problems out themselves. The other party is saying the referees need more power and instruments in order to better control the game.

The simple truth is, people need to make sure that the referees work for them and not for the individual players who hand them the most money.
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If Google is paying for this think tank I dont see what the heck is the problem. Its their or partially theirs to do as they wish.
welcome development. apparent that Firefox is paying attention what's happening in JS world...
Yea, that's the main reason why I'm not sure it could be made to work.
465,000 Patients Need Software Updates for Their Hackable Pacemakers
On the other hand most people are only generally moved to bother writing a review for something if it's exceptionally good or exceptionally bad. So someone only giving 5-star ratings could very well be someone who only bothers writing a review if a product is a life changing experience and as such his opinion isn't less valid than that of someone who reviews every little thing he has ever bought.
Innovation isn't the most time consuming part of a PhD. If you are doing benchwork there is an amount of time that is simply required to get experiments functioning.
Are there comparative latency numbers between SW dock and HW button, as Apple reports for the Pencil?
There is really very little content in this article. It reads like a classic case of "Write an essay in N words" and you find yourself finishing at M << N words, and just add random fluff to fulfill the requirements.

The whole premise is a bit flawed - it's putting most of the blame on Google. When an "independent" organization takes on average $1M/yr from any entity, and structure themselves such that losing that money is a big concern, then they've played an equal role in this mess.

It's almost as if the article is trying to make it Google's obligation to continue funding, which is a ridiculous proposition in itself.

>This year, it has donated to 170 such groups, according to Google’s voluntary disclosures on Google’s website. While Google does not indicate how much cash was donated, the number of beneficiaries has grown exponentially since it started disclosing its donations in 2010, when it gave to 45 groups.

I could equally well call it linear. Two data points does not an exponential growth make.
I have a Master's degree in physics from the University of Copenhagen and I have taught together with one of the leading climate scientists from that university Bo Møllesøe Vinther. He claimed that the best dataset on global average temperatures is satellite based and is the University of Alabama in Huntington dataset (UAH) which goes back to 1979.

You can find it here:
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

Direct link for monthly temperature averages:
http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6....
Satoshi might have sold 3000 of his mined Bitcoins from 2010
I suppose I wasn't clear enough. I do think that his characterization of the social role of cannabis is accurate, but the technical challenges are a bit different. Which is mostly just an opportunity to mention my personal technological interest in this. Which may not be quite entirely topical.
Any blog posts/papers on what the best general approach to onliene reviews is?
Yeah, but the people talking about finding their own interpolating polynomials and Pade approximations are looking for those approximations in the regular common cases, and omitting the special cases happens almost by accident. You could just take the same approximation used by openlibm or whatever and it's likely better than anything you yourself can come up with.
I have never encountered this myself nor heard of it happen to anyone I know.
You should talk to more women. I've heard stories from women who have experienced very scary things while walking alone at night. Thankfully none of them actually ended in rape or assault, but they were dangerous situations that rightfully changed their perception of what is and is not safe for them to do alone at night. I've dated people who have had numerous sketchy interactions with men at night, sometimes involving men trying to lure them to a vehicle. It's disheartening and frustrating to hear, and possibly more disheartening that people don't see a problem because the rape numbers aren't high enough.
This is dramatic and certainly renders the drive itself useless, but this is not how you securely destroy data. The bits on those platters are still largely recoverable. Do Terry a favor and run that drive over a degausser (or at least a really big magnet) before putting it in a museum. And let everyone know you did it. Remove the temptation for someone to steal it, attempt a forensic recovery, and try to sell unfinished Terry Pratchett novels that the author never intended to see the light of day.