skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can also just enjoy the company of friends and relatives kids and once they "hit the wall", you can just go home and enjoy some peace and quiet :)
To take it a step further, the area in which I come from has been hit hard with economic and social disasters. Even though factories are closing down and heroin deaths are rising each day, people choose to stay here. Family and other social networks are a big part of it I think, as someone said downthread.

I bolted as soon as I could to gain employment and the resources of a bigger city. It still boggles my mind that more people my age don't, as things seem to be getting worse rather than better. But it's home, it's familiar, it's comforting, no matter what issues may loom. I had cousins refuse to leave post-Katrina New Orleans for similar reasons.

Sorry, just a comparison to your line of thinking from a different angle, slightly related.
What do you mean by the "entire case"?

GCSB, the NZ spy agency, has certainly strayed by using their powers against a NZ citizen, and there should be repercussions.

However, the DoJ's case against Dotcom does not revolve around GCSB. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
By the time my humble program had made the rounds, early 80s at MIT, it has ASCII trees and points for going through the gates. IIRC, the trees slowed you down and took points away. The point system was, I think, based on time remaining and gates cleared. If you ran out of time, the game was over.

I kinda wish I still had access to it, but only to use it as an example. It was a fun project in an otherwise not fun time. I pretty much despised computers back then, as they were difficult to use and had limited functionality. My, how times change.
> Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream

No need to imagine anything. Right after Facebook started their war on fake news, my FB acount was locked and the only way to unlock it is to provide my ID/passport to prove the name of the account is my real name.

Btw same thing happened on G+ few years ago.
Amazon, Whole Foods, and what it means to be a tech company
I don't; the fact that life is unfair doesn't mean we shouldn't push for better conditions, and in fact, this is the entire reason why we live so long, have worker rights, etc.
Los Angeles happens to be the most energy efficient in the country and residents are quite environmentally aware
Curious. About 1 week ago I saw a post on reddit that asked "What product would you pay $20,000 for?" I thought that was odd, typically that's not how you plan a business, you find something or create something of value and then you sell it. You don't start from how much you want to earn and then look for ways to earn that much.

Now here's a similar post, what would you pay "$10,000/yr" for.

You can label me a skeptic, but I wouldn't buy anything from anyone who's primary motivation for starting their business is to make X amount of dollars in Y timeframe.
Use of AdNauseum is more of a "fuck you" to companies like reddit or google who have turned the internet from a forum for free expression to a tool for censorship and social control.
I don't know what watch you have seen, but here is an explanation of a similar watch: http://newatlas.com/krayon-everywhere-watch-sunrise-sunset/5...

TL;DR: The factors such as latitude are user-programmable.
Its supposed to be a secret ballot.

Of course, most people tell their friends which way they voted, but that's their choice.
I'm also from Australia and moving money is not instant between different banks. Crypto settlement is instant.
This article doesn't provide enough data to support the conclusion it makes. They link to a report of population projections, but the report doesn't mention California (or any other state) at all. For all we know, just as many conservative Texans could be moving to California as there are Californians moving the other way, and the real trend is just an improved economy in both states -- or any number of other explanations.
Edible Apple Tattoo
> Literally right now, my good friends are being rescued from a rooftop in Houston. No number of bottles of water in their basement or generators are going to help them.

Some of this outcome is a direct result of conforming to commercially-fabricated social pressure. In this particular case, floodplain maps are publicly and freely available, so anyone can build structures that rise well above the highest-projected floods.

Except that developers don't want to have to build on top of stilts or as tethered floating structures. It decreases the available pool of customers looking for a pre-packaged vision of what they "should" buy, and it's more expensive than "conventional" building designs.

This illustrates that for some, a preparedness mindset can include thinking for oneself and outside social norms, with the aim of avoiding placing themselves in a situation that calls for preparedness to begin with. Teaching youngsters how to deconstruct the marketing that militates against this kind of mindset to externalize a future cost upon them in order to lift an immediate profit into the commercial entities standing behind those forces, can passively preempt many preparedness scenarios.
And the hurricanes are fueled by the amount of available water, which is increasing
These are pure Veblen goods, with a nostalgic slant on trivial practical utility, used to display purchasing power in a capitalist economy where purchasing power is considered a proxy for high social status.

In fact they're more like cult power objects - what anthropologists call fetish objects, which confer an implied cultural blessing on their owners.
Pop music is rejecting the piano. Why?
As a European looking on, the US political landscape is increasingly bizarre.

I wonder do Americans view us in the same way?
"detest", not "despise". Small thing I know but accuracy is important.
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Eisenhower

The idea being that the process of planning makes you more easily able to react when everything goes to shit. Eg don't treat a plan like a recipe for success.
I think it's a two step process. First, install SuiteCRM, second, replace all those salesforce plugins with a single SuiteCRM developer who can craft custom plugins.

This has the added benefit that you can then sell those SuiteCRM plugins to other businesses.
Ki.tc API fun
The standard LLA to ECEF function uses the WGS84 reference ellipsioid, not pear shaped
> Well why would I do it if I don't have to?

You absolutely don't. But if you say, "I would pay you to get rid of ads", and then I get rid of them and you don't pay, that makes you a bit of a hypocrite, no?
Respectfully, if a Sunday paper has a cost of $10 apiece, you have a major cost/value ratio mismatch. No paper that reposts AP articles, 1-2 local interest articles, and a ton of user generated content is worth anything approaching $4, let alone $10.
People have incorrect idea about intrusive surveillance by ads companies and its purpose. Personally identifiable data is of little importance to Goog and co. today, but is for arbitrage guys and other bottom feeders.

I worked for years as a webdev with mid-tier ad nets until last ones of them either went out of business or turned into niche players. We worked with "cube data" of people that had over 160 different parameters back in 2012-2013. The amount of data about an average internet user is huge, but nearly all of it is useless for a top tier ad player.

Google and few remaining top tier players take their "tax" on all kinds of ads that go through their platforms regardless of targeting efficiency and conversion rates. That is a lion share of value you can squeeze from a click. They let other "platform partners" to fight for remaining scraps. If DSPs and SSPs bring more clients and clicks or can somehow improve on the process, top tier players will only benefit from higher volumes.

However, the personally identifiable data sold by data vendors is of immense value to people running arbitrage schemes on ad exchanges. See, if you can price shows just few percents better on average than the rest of the ecosystem you make a lot of money. You bid for "garbage impressions (that's the industry's term)" in hopes to get expensive clicks for stuff like financial crap, RX, lawyers, amazon, "quasi-CPA" tagged clicks, and so on.

This type of business attracts a lot of rich "idle rentier" types. Naturally, those guys tend to "vote with their money," if they see that a certain arbitrage scheme is no longer profitable, and another one is. This is why there is so much of contention about such data, and cutthroat efforts to get it. I knew not one, but two RTB arbitrage collectives in Russia that had their RTB trading servers stolen from secure datacentres.
They should definitely increase discoverability of such features. Also don't miss my other answer in this thread.
I have an original copy. Will scan it in.
I think I said as much above. That most people don't get the same value that the advertisers do.
100% going more mainstream.

I know it'll seem like I have an ulterior motive, but it's the opposite - we recently started our site after teaching people one-to-one for a decade because we've seen it go mainstream just in the last 1-2 years, and particularly since the election.

Almost everyone starts off thinking it's a fringe thing until they find out their friends and neighbors are into it too.
Yup. They will be rare and fetch good auction prices.

I gave my watch collection to my son, keeping just a Citizen. He had them appraised and they have all pretty much retained or increased in value.
I've thought about doing this myself. I don't have quite that level of revenue yet however. I was thinking of traveling the country and visiting various sci-fi conventions, living out of the discounted hotel rooms that often accompany such events, and spending my copious free time enjoying the entertainment of con-life.

Travel is a pain tho. Especially if you have pets. I've got a cat who hates traveling, and we are best friends, so it wouldn't be right to leave him alone constantly. Ah well.
Not always. See hand rolled assembly loops in the right place.
Extracting at least text from PDFs is not always 100% perfect, due to inherent issues with the PDF format (partly because it is a graphic format, and does not have a one-to-one mapping to text, also maybe because of some weird decisions they made). I both read about this and was told about this by a key person at a PDF software product company, whose product I researched and then used in a project. The product was xpdf (a C library, it also had binaries or EXEs), from Glyph and Cog. I was contracted by a client to research PDF libraries for extraction of text from PDF; found and evaluated a few, then recommended xpdf to the client, and used it in the project. That is how I know this.

The only guaranteed way to get 100% accurate text from PDF is ... to not do it :) Instead, get the text from the same source that is used to generate the PDF. Obviously, that will not always be possible, but when it is, it is the better solution.
OP asked "in the world"
What annoys me is I was trying to tell people this was were this was headed. I suspect Monsanto is the big player or affiliated with whoever it is.

The right to grow needs yo be solidified.
There basically aren't any senior dev positions (that I've ever seen) where the money is low enough to even factor into my decision. Every other thing people commonly look for in a job is a higher priority to me.
Ask HN: Someone have gotten troubles for not show “We use cookies, Ok?” message?
It seems like nowadays mainstream dev workstations are all intel-powered, which are most developers use in the companies.

I did a simple search but didn't find any ThreadRipper powered dev workstations. Is it because AMD doesn't care about the market or that is too hard to enter?
> that's what real lack of freedom of speech is.

Thats only half of it. For the other half : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
In my experience, the best non-dairy cheeses are made from culturing nuts. Miyoko's Creamery and Punk Rawk Labs in the US both use cashews (and sometimes include other nuts) as the base, then culture them. They both taste fantastic to me, though as a 20+ year vegan I cannot compare them to dairy cheese.

I've also had recipes that used non-dairy milk as the base. None of these were cultured, so while they can taste good, they generally don't have any of the tang or sharpness of cheese. This can be fine if you're trying to make a cheese sauce but it doesn't cut it for something that's trying to be like solid cheese.

If you want to make some at home I highly recommend the cookbook Artisan Vegan Cheese by Miyoko Schinner (of Miyoko's Creamery). The recipes are actually fairly simple, though I think it takes practice to get a consistently excellent result, which is why I'm lazy and just buy the cheese from her company instead of making it myself.

You can definitely make yogurt from non-dairy milks, and AFAIK it's done with the same strain of bacteria. In the US, these are available at mainstream groceries (at least in Minneapolis where I live) as well as co-ops and Whole Foods. I've had yogurt based on on soy, almond, and coconut milk (and maybe others I'm forgetting). My favorite is probably Kite Hill's yogurt. That said, I'm not that into yogurt in general, so I rarely eat it.
Um, Facebook can arbitrarily lock out your account and demand a scan of government issued ID. It happened to a friend of mine. I think there is only a small step to the government working with Facebook to do this in the name of keeping people "safe".
I don't mean to disparage your content or get into an argument over the 'worth' of an infinitely reproducible good, or even the labour theory of value - but is your content really 'worth' $10 if such a small number of people would pay that much for it? Usually you'd have people offering more than the actual value and also people offering less than the actual value, but it seems that nobody is offering more than the purported worth of $10.

There isn't a way I can see around this problem short of abolishing the requirement to fund journalistic investigation and reporting and hosting.
That's because opinions in the US don't have the potential to go far. If they had, they'd be illegal. In China they can tumble a whole state of 1+ billion people and its unstable-is regime.
If you don't like the rules, you are welcome to not participate. But that's a terrible excuse for knowingly causing damage.

Or do you also think it's ok to steal from Walmart because you don't like their corporate policies?
Web Scraping vs. Doing the Work
I remember those days when people uploaded mp3s of albums they owned - https://music.ihoc.net/

Edit: no markdown
OPM breach was one of the worst things to happen to national security recently. They weren't pointing any fingers for a while, but suspected the Chinese to have something to do with it. It looks like they are a lot more sure now.

OPM asks applicants very personal questions to see if they are being honest. The leak included information on government employee's that have clearance about infidelity, drug use, debt, and other sensitive topics for people working in very sensitive positions. Also more benign stuff like every place they have ever lived and people they had contact with while living in those places. That information could be used in a lot of ways.
No, the situation is "take it or leave it". Give all the permissions, or don't get to use the app. There are now even web sites (facebook, google maps, yahoo email) that seem to refuse service if you are determined to be on a phone. They demand that you install their app instead.

Proper permissions would have 4 possible settings:

1. ask (the default), with checkbox to make the choice stick

2. deny

3. allow

4. deceive the app, pretending to allow.

That last one is important. It keeps apps from forcing users to allow absurd permissions. Deception plug-ins should be possible, allowing various kinds of deception (like "oh, sorry, there is no signal") and even man-in-the-middle against the apps.
I do fraud investigations for a bank. We spend an insane amount on labor costs because all of our transactional data resides in different systems. Want to review credit card data? Go pull system X. Want to review wire transfers? Go pull system Y. Etc etc. some of these things have to be separated out of necessity (e.g. card data is stored in a particular way due to regulations), but I would easily pay 10k / y to be able to get a complete view of customer transaction activity from a single place. We'd save millions in labor costs if someone could pull it off correctly.
The watch is build to function at the desired latitude of the buyer. These aren't mass produced models, so it's feasible. Especially considering the price tag. :)
There are different approaches, things like cameras, brain wave monitoring, etc. I would guess the ones that use heart rate would be the least expensive and easiest to retrofit. No idea how the different approaches perform though. Here's one that seems well suited for retrofit: http://www.plesseysemiconductors.com/products/warden/
> Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream. Only the Chinese government can get away with something unbelievable like these regulations, while still gaining loyalty from their citizens to the point where these supporters will even defend the govt.

Many Western messengers try to obtain your phone number and phone contact list when installing the app, and some of them (Whatsapp, Telegram) require you to provide a phone number to register.

Private companies and democratic governments are no less curious than Chinese government. They also want you to save your data into their "cloud" so NSA can look at any time.

Russian major social network Vkontakte requires a phone number to register an account. Russia is also developing a legislation requiring all messenger apps to identify their users with a phone number.

And by the way (I have read it somewhere) if you are trying to access pornhub from Russia it requires you to sign in with Vkontakte (social network with real names policy) account to prove that you are adult. So even if you want just to watch video you have to identify yourself first. I wonder, what are they going to do with that information? Will they post "videos you might like" to user's wall in Vkontakte? Or will they show who of your friends likes the same genre?
For those wondering about Clickspring, here is a link:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZioPDnFPNsETq9h35dgQq80Ry...

I advise you not to click on it. It will eat up your time and it takes your complete attention.
vi mode!
Matlab has a nice sort-of-repl feature which I miss in every other language: you can separate the code in a file into several blocks and then execute the current block (the one with which contained the cursor) with ctrl+enter. With this feature you still have the full text editing capabilities but you also have a flexibility you get from a repl.
Cool share. If anyone has more links to these songs, plz share here. The article just has one.

EDIT. Actually, the Soundcloud its from has a ton: https://soundcloud.com/ostinatorecords
See my previous comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113405 about this.

There are excellent butter, yogurt, and cheese products made without dairy. The cheese is made from nuts, not plant-based milks.
Two Xeon Gold 6138s yield a kernel build time around 20 seconds - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=tyan-inte...
>In a lot of cases, those sites get a lot more money from the advertisers than you would ever be willing to pay, because they simply don't provide that much value to you.

90% amateur blogs make no money what so ever over the cost of running them. Smart bloggers switched to affiliate schemes ages ago. Amateur bloggers making money of ad shows will go out of business sooner or later, regardless of adnauseam or adblock. Running ads is simply not a suitable business model for such guys.
I am working on some Threadripper Linux comparison benchmarks/article currently and will have it in the next day or two on Phoronix, this was just a quick finding shared on Twitter.
And this is why SPIEGEL and Süddeutsche have few problems with funding their papers, and why papers just copy-pasting stuff without any actual journalistic effort do.

(And why the second category might die anyway, and ads just prolong their suffering)
Lisp + Emacs + SLIME: miss no longer.

Picking them all up is a tall order though.
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Help a family:

https://www.gofundme.com/a54hv-renteria-family

Started here:
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/901798264474927104
If you'd read the article, you'd know it's not Monsanto.
Here is example of time switch with solar dial [1][2]. Big Clive explains its internals a bit. The dial seems to be made for specyfic latitude as cams are set and only input is day of the year.

I think that it can be made to use latitude input with some more complex set of cams and user setable input.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_vfsuCpJY
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_dial
This is correct. You do not need a license to possess any ham equipment - including equipment that is capable of transmitting. All ham communications are explicitly public, and there is nothing wrong with listening in.

You only need a license to transmit.
Sounds like all the Orwellian (paid for) proposals I was hearing back in India.

"Soon Aadhar will solve all the world's problems." /s
Many european apartment houses have stairway lighting that is on around dawn and dusk, but at other times you push a button for about 10 minutes of light. The timing of these things is not static but follows the sun, and older such equipment was mechanical and used what I imagine was simply a sinusoidally shaped gear.

I used to manage a small apartment block in Stockholm and remember setting latitude and day-of-year into ours to get the timing to agree with the sun, and to stay there. Here's a photo of a similar device:

http://www.aew-electrical.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/e...
Hmm, "bizarre". I don't think so. More, "bureaucratic" on average.

Things which might have seemed "bizarre" to American observers of Europe in recent years: the nativist parties in the Netherlands and France, the superstition of the Italian court system in the Amanda Knox trial, Boris Johnson...

But those are all supporting characters, whereas I imagine that European observers of the US are focused on our central drama.
"write bug-free code"

There's no such a thing, specially when you decide it's a good idea to rewrite libc.

But yeah, the "stdio seem designed to encourage bugs" phrase seems pretty correct.
Central/eastern Europe is pretty good as far as disasters go.

Natural disasters, perhaps.

That region doesn't have a great record in terms of political stability, and often has the bad luck of being in the middle of a warzone though.
Snowdens documents shown that the GCSB is really just a front for NSA intelligence gathering and is likely mostly funded by US Tax dollars, I guess they are just doing what their paymaster asked of them.
I needed to send a long URL to my SmartTV browser, could not find anything easy. I normally use URL shortener service but this time I decided to give this a go.

I might add file sharing support soon, any feedback appreciated. Thanks.
Great article.

I love good journalism like this. Well written, informative, and interesting.

Thanks for sharing!
Anyone know if there is a video with this talk?
A four digits PIN is too short to be secure. It looks easy to use brute force to pick one. For example copilot uses 9 digits like: 891 192 971

I don't understand what you can send. Only text like in a chat?
Our cats are pretty strict vegans; they've been eating this stuff for about 5 years: http://www.petfoodshop.com/ingredients/

Neither have had any health problems in that time. And their shit smells a lot better than when they would eat the meat-based kibble.