skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two questions and one observation:

(1) Why is it the government's job to motivate people? Shouldn't people be motivated by their own self-interest?

(2) The rise of bigger government and a welfare state might even be contributing to the problem, but debasing the impetus to train. Some carefully considered welfare can provide relief to an acute problem, but long term welfare is counterproductive.
Several people brought up alternative solutions like this, and I addressed them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15295556

Summary: I may have oversimplified the problem in my example. I think my solution is nicer for the real problem. It has fewer assumptions and will "scale up" to more fields with arbitrary text. I want to write the escaping ONCE, not modify it every time I change the format of the output table.
Open source or not, thank you for bringing it to my attention, I can see some potential benefits of Licence Zero, especially for larger projects where funding is more important.

The Lil licence looks promising too.
It's an inner suburb where the population center is like a lower density urban neighborhood.

IMO, it's a way to fight the in-demand construction for today, which is medium density apartments, and more kids looking for access to the schools.
It should happen right away I believe. As soon as the next block after the 2016th is accepted, the difficulty updates.

The transaction rate would only be affected for a max of two weeks as I understand it.
As for how the 'market' would react if all Chinese miners dropped out, I have no idea :)
Historical search engine data retention less useful than supposed
Inflation doesn't include housing costs, right? So cost of living can go through the roof but as long as consumables are cheap, official measures of inflation won't notice.
OpenBOM Introduces Order Bill of Materials for Production Planning
Do you have experience with them? What about latency?
Definitely true. The "angel's advocate" way of putting it is that C lets you write code relatively quickly that appears to work but is actually undefined behavior in subtle cases that are difficult to test. Though for someone learning the language and mostly coding small examples, "correct in all cases" might not matter very much, and it can feel super frustrating.
Hi! Big fan of your work here. My question is: What do you think about Kythe, the open-source version of Google's Grok (https://github.com/google/kythe)? In the context of both your overall vision, and of strategies: Do you do things similarly? Do you see collaboration/integration there as desirable?
When people downvote enough to grey out what seems to me to be a decent opinion, I wish they'd at least offer a counterpoint. I agree with bbatha, if this is such a downvote worthy sentiment, I'd like to hear why so I can improve my own thinking.
Not really...Netbooks promised a fully-fledged laptop/desktop replacement, which is not the goal of these highly mobile and very light ARM machines. They aim for battery life, ease-of-use, and flexibility more than all-purpose work.

But I still do use it for EDA software, designing models to 3D print, etc etc. But you often need to compile binaries specifically for ARM to do so, which requires steps that most users won't want to bother with.

Chromebooks are products that are cheap, sturdy, functional, and target both entry-level users who don't need a computer to do much as well as powerusers who want extensibility and relatively strong ownership of the device.
That's right. You'd only be forfeiting the right to sue in the event that they get hacked again. Which to be fair is looking decently probable at this point.

Edit: I would like to know at this point, which got taken down faster after it was first reported on... This tweet, or the perfectly fine video interview of CISO Susan Mauldin with the Cazena CEO from 2016 before the breach? That one went down quickly after it was reported on by Hollywood LA News.

It's gotta be close. I believe that both were taken down in less than 24 hours.
Thanks! I'll keep this in mind.
Well, to some degree, yes. Maybe it's even mostly true. But the fact that point A and B are close to point C by some mode of transportation does not guarantee that they are close to each other. They might be separated by some geographic feature like a river, mountain or large road that doesn't separate them from C. Or the transportation options between A and C and between B and C may be excellent, but horrible between A and B. And so on. You need a normal map, or very good prior knowledge of the geography indeed, to know that.
I have experience with OVH, but not with this product. They do have a terrific network, ddos protection, etc, as compared to other low budget dedicated server vendors. Their support, though, isn't terrific.
>"Remember Citizen, your worth as a human being begins and ends at how much more measurable value you provide than average. If you can't do better than average, your existence was a mistake!"

Apologies for the pedantry, but doesn't that make half the world a mistake?

I think the roses comment is from V for vendetta (the comic book not the movie) but it's probably quoting from something better.
This is a pretty neat idea, and I could see myself using this in day to day life.

It's nice to see real thought, study and execution into new ways of portraying things that have the possibility of becoming stale. While maps and their functionalities are very much "still in development" with many developers adding new features to them... most of these "new features" don't try to rethink how we see and use them. They just extend the feature set instead of stopping and trying to re-think what a map is and what it is supposed to do.
What's your answer to the last exercise?
The History of Java
I woke up in the middle of the night, seized by the realization that this meant that Adobe knows, down to the half-minute resolution, when I am using my computer (to do anything).
context: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41331152

(the spanish police seem to be raiding anything that could potentially be related to catalonian independence)
I find the biggest problem is that even if you have a picture of the person's face, the cops really, really don't give a shit.

There was talk about someone stealing packages from someone's front porch on NextDoor in my neighbourhood, and the cops told them to contact the Post Office General. The Post Office General told them to contact the cops. Literally no one cares, especially the cops.
It sounds like your mailbox and/or client is compromised (that or someone is an idiot on paypal's end). I would assume you're totally compromised and start with a new computer that's installed with ISOs obtained from different computers/networks then change your passwords from there. There's probably guides you can follow online. But don't trust me, get the paypal phone number from the paypal site from somewhere like an Apple store or library and call them to ask about that URL yourself. The domain is not registered with the same provider and it's just super shady looking. Good luck.
Not really. A search engine crawls the web (billions and billions of sites) and indexes them for quick and easy access. If you use Outlook for email, it's kind of analogous to how the search option works there. When an email arrives on your company's system, the mail server processes the mail and indexes it for searchability. The key here is that either your computer or your mail server have to have a copy to make it searchable.

So, for the case of web searching, you would have to know/read the content on the entire web. This is the "crawling" process that search engines perform. They read it and store/index what they need for searchability. It is entirely infeasible, obviously, for anyone (let alone every person) to do so on their individual devices.
Isn't that just the public search? All the tweets are still there and indexed; Twitter is just trying to monetize by restricting access to metrics.
This time we're going to go in depth at one of the most nefarious tools ever devised by the snake. Java. Java was created by one of the snake's most devious companies, Sun Microsystems. Java embodied the principal philosophy of the snake 'object' oriented programming (materialism). This shallow pathetic shell of a language was designed from the ground up as a tool of the snake.

First and foremost it runs in a virtual machine. Virtual machine keep the unwashed plebs away from the precious processor and ram. Allowing the plebs to program only what the snake allows. Concepts like memory management replaced with 'classes'. The c++ experiment taught the snake what it needed to know to create the ideal language to control both business and eventually nearly every cell phone in use today (dalvik) and together with ARM (another head of the snake) have ensured everyone carry's around a permanent enema back full of the snakes mind numbing poison.

Java's 0.1 version was known as Jewva internally. It was the ultimate project of the snake that would allow total control of computing devices. Eventually the name was changed to Java to make it less obvious to the plebs about who was in control and dulling their senses making them think of a warm cup of Java, more like a warm cup of some jew blowing his jew load up in you, but I digress.

If you think I'm wrong, tell me what runs the phone in your pocket? Is it Microsoft or apple? You might say with a sneering tone....well bill gates and Steve jobs eat jew cum for breakfast on their fucking wheatyos. Well I guess not jobs but anyway the take it hard from the jews. Basically other than that jew shit you got the jewyest shit of em all. A nice warm cup of steaming jewva mmmmmmmmmmmm warm and sticky like a fresh load from a circumcised jew cock. Lap it up bitches.
Just be wary of Amazon vendors. I purchased a camera fulfilled through Amazon and it was a fake. Returning/Exchanging was simple but the difference in the label was clear when viewed side by side.
I am so done with .io. This is one of many issues they've had in the last year.

My problem is that we have scripts all over customer websites hardcoded with api.gator.io

We're going to have to have them update the scripts and that is going to be a major pain.
Appreciate the recommendations. We considered getting a Nest, but we don't have great internet and therefore can't handle HD streaming up to the cloud 24/7. Until (unless?) the Nest can do bursts based on motion, we'll opt for a camera with SD backup instead.
Here's my problem with the Long Term Stock Exchange idea...

What makes the tech echosystem thrive is the flexible capital and labor model. Anyone can get a little money to chase their idea. The small ideas get starved for capital and labor until they get market validation. Then the capital and labor chases them. And that's how great companies grow so quickly in a land of startups.

Anything that restricts mobility of labor hinders this and should be fought. (Example: Non-competes, cost-prohibitive real estate, etc)

Anything that restricts mobility of capital should be fought too. To have capital available for great ideas, it should be easy to flee ideas that aren't working out. (This is also why share buybacks from mature companies are fine - the capital get recycled)
They've done an excellent job of going as far as you can, without re-writing parts of the code to not be backwards compatible.

My personal desire is to see a backwards incompatible UI layer, that makes generics usable.

As a simple example - you currently can't have a UITableViewCell<YourModel>, which's the most obvious and proper use of generics for UI logic.

So as it stands, all this work has gone into mixing polymorphism and subclassing, and yet it doesn't actually get used a whole lot, because of the existing libraries having been written when generics were not around.
Just to add to this. If you want something a little more "beefy"

The Dell Chromebook 13 also checks almost all those boxes

- Runs Native Linux (GalliumOS or otherwise. Mainline kernel support was added for all hardware in 4.9)

- Works awesome for every day use. Coding, browsing etc

- 1080P IPS display (touch screen model also available, apparently?)

- Intel Core i5

- 8GB memory

- 8-10 hour battery depending on usage
I actually think this is a step too far, conceptually. The isochrone map actually maps better to how I think about travel, and I would find it much more useful.
Germany has much lower soft costs than the US so there is still room for the price to fall. Particularly, customer acquisition costs are comparitively higher in the US because there is much less environmental awareness.
Not at all, the original Pixel Chromebook is a design classic, the updated one is notionally better but it is more like a mid-life update that you get with a car, despite the extra features the design is not so pure. Think of it as like the VW camper van going from split-screen to normal windscreen, better but not if you are into design classics.

The keyboard is designed without legacy cruft, it is still QWERTY but very much redesigned and not to emulate an Apple - there are none of those weird keys with weird symbols on them in the place of where things like the CTRL key should be. There are also no silly Windows keys.

The screen is 3:2 with a touch screen. Apple do not do that. Sure they do 'retina' and that gets the resolution up to Pixel levels of awesomeness.

The speakers are below the keyboard rather than some tinny things hidden under lots of holes drilled in aluminium. I don't believe you can get better sound on a laptop or tablet than what the original Pixel does.

The colour-bar on the lid is not fruit shaped. It does things too, like an Easter Egg rather than 'obligatory branding'.

The tactile look and feel aspects are definitely an improvement on what Apple offers. The keyboard is much nicer for actual typing. I think the same goes for the trackpad but I use an external mouse in Apple world whereas with the Pixel there is no need to plug stuff like external pointing devices in. This is subjective to a certain extent, some people prefer cheap wine.

Then the final form factor. There is no roundy-roundy-ness. It is not overly branded with fruit-style images. It is square, not round. Even the colour sets the Pixel apart from Apple products.

The Pixel is a start from a blank piece of paper design, it is not a copy of a rival product, it is an example of what can be done and that is not the same idea as 'derivative'.
Actually they've tweeted the wrong link over 8 times, going all the way back to September 9th: https://twitter.com/MadcapOcelot/status/910533555494760449
I just came back and have been using it for the last few days now. It is getting very good.

Thanks for your hard work.
Agree. Show me a time map for nearby draft beers with Beer Advocate or Ratebeer scores and I would use this all the time. Bonus points to restrict to certain styles like IPA, lagers, etc. Untappd could actually do this if they wanted.
Good analysis from Matt Levine on how Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp (SPAC trying to eliminate the headache of IPOs) is actually more expensive than going public.

> A final thing about SPACs is that they are so expensive. Banks charge a rack rate of about 7 percent for initial public offerings, though big sexy tech IPOs tend to be done more cheaply. SPAC sponsors compensate themselves rather more lavishly. Hedosophia's sponsor -- a Cayman Islands company owned by Palihapitiya and his co-founder -- invested $25,000 to found the SPAC. In exchange for that nominal payment, and their work on finding a company to take public, they get 20 percent of the SPAC's stock. (They are also are putting in another $12 million or so to buy warrants in connection with its IPO.) A 20 percent fee for taking a company public is just ... more ... than a 7 percent fee. And that's not even counting the 5.5 percent fee that Credit Suisse charged for taking Hedosophia public! Something like a quarter of every dollar that investors are putting into Hedosophia is going to compensate financiers for doing the work of (ultimately) taking a unicorn public, which is a funny way to make that process more efficient.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-15/icos-vcs-...
"They wanted evidence that Bin Laden had anything to do with the attacks (which of course he denied)."

What are you talking about? Bin Laden took credit for 9/11 immediately and it was pretty clear that they had their training camps in Afghanistan. Nobody denied that.

Iraq was a different situation. to go there the US had to make up things.
Luckily they tweeted it not once, but 8 times! https://twitter.com/MadcapOcelot/status/910533555494760449
Quite cool, congratulations.

I am not always positive about WebGL stuff, but this one run quite well on my devices.
Yup. These salaries seem low to me. I wonder if there was a dis-proportionate response to the surveys
Heh, we must be around the same age.

Man, I went to Wikipedia because I was curious whether the timeline and events I had in my head for the early let-the-inspectors-back-in demands and the later, infamous leave-or-die "ultimatum" Bush leveled against Hussein right before Iraq invasion was correct (there's very little about all that, and I found some material on the ultimatum itself but never the actual word "ultimatum", which is weird since that's what everyone called it at the time and a big deal was made of it) and now I'm all pissed off again that Bush & Co. aren't in prison for life, from reading all the war lead-up material, including some of the suspected-at-the-time-and-now-confirmed stuff about how they were planning to invade no matter what. Wow, there are some emotions I hadn't felt in a while. Nostalgic, I guess.
My felines are hurt by this and I want it back right meow.

(yes, knows it's Catalina but doesn't care)
It might not be inappropriate to you, but I'd argue it's counterproductive to use it. If the idea is to find allies outside of certain digital echo chambers of very like-minded people who all would instanly agree on the offensiveness, then it's not working, as outside of such groups, the concepts of what's offensive and what's not are very different.

It's like someone highly involved in church talks to non-religious people on the street in the same way as to members of the church, assuming that they by definition have the same context & associations. This assumption then could be considered a sign of ignorance from the church representative, who seemingly isn't even aware of what he/she is doing.
I didn't even realize until now that Google has this and DuckDuckGo doesn't. So, that's a No for me, I guess.

Others here are saying that they need this for researching programming-related things. I just add the version number of the programming language (or whatever technology) I'm working with to the search query, when I find that the search results are outdated.
"x86/64 compatibility is going to be necessary for awhile"

Not necessarily, if Apple can get the developer community onboard with releasing fat Intel/ARM binaries with updates for any already-owned software. Xcode obviously supports both instruction sets, and fat binaries date back to the good old NeXT days. :-)
Gray on gray text... Just why?
Near a crime for which this equipment is relevant (note the cameras and high-capacity drives)? I'd say that should make you suspect. But, obviously, not presumed guilty.
This article goes into more detail:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981

And provides this interesting line:

"A final interesting observation that Imperato-McGinley made was that these boys, despite being brought up as girls, almost all showed strong heterosexual preferences."
I have a few Nest Cameras. They are awesome, because the killer feature is the person-detection feature. It's very, very good and unlike other cameras or software packages like Blue Iris (which I bought), the person-detection and machine-learning stuff is fantastic and actually useful. I get almost zero false positives from shadows, etc.

I have gone through the entire gambit, having bought Arlo, Nest, Foscam, and trying Blue Iris, etc and can definitively say that Nest is the easiest and most reliable outdoor camera.

That said, I'm not going to buy this trumped up version of the camera mainly because I don't know what it buys me over the currect camera. The fact this has made the front page is kind of weird to me.
I have an SSD (along with a USB SATA enclosure to connect it), a spinning disk, and at least one USB thumb drive in my bag that I bring to work every day (along with my laptop).

This is in part because I switch between working from home and working at the office fairly often, have travel time in between, and need to have access to more VMs than I can fit on my laptop's internal SSD comfortably.

I also may have SIM cards rattling around somewhere; when I travel internationally, I buy a local prepaid SIM, and I may have older SIM cards left over from the last time I replaced one.
And I'm certain that if Boeing were offered similar information from a defector within a Chinese firm, they'd turn it down and report the spy to the proper authorities.

Industrial espionage is as old as industry. It got porcelain and tea out of China and is, in fact, the reason the UK was able to grow tea as early as it was.

It isn't nice, but business isn't nice.
"Vaporlake"
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How do they plan to scale with the number of users?
whoops yep.
It would be cool if the directionality of the unit circle (northing/heading) changed based upon gyro orientation, when viewed on a mobile device.
Can you please give some examples on how to correct insensitive speech well?
They could always farm out the new site and point a subdomain to it.

Something like https://breach.equifax.com
"It seems that for employers and their hirelings, there is always a labor shortage or a looming labor shortage"

Of course, competition makes the prices go down, ergo, there is never enough competition. The only good price is 0 (or less).

That is also true if you are consuming labour.
i don't believe she was at a sporting event. that part of the text, along with her love of dogs, being married, working for Amazon, was all fluff to make you feel a connection with the individual, not a relevant to the situation that happened. also, sporting events that i have been to have had wheel chair access.

its also a little confusing, because they are trying to make their way back to the car, but didn't encounter any problems when leaving it
This is a Tank not a cartridge.
Ink is really expansive: https://www.fastcodesign.com/3021290/why-printer-ink-should-...
Fastmail allows you to do things like stavrosk@dropbox.yourdomain.com, and then you can filter emails by that domain name. Lets you easily block out spam without having completely different email addresses.
Women in Victorian England campaigned for their own bathrooms because they wanted a safe and private place to do their business. Originally there would be a single public bathroom with no gender marking, but what that really meant was that they were men's bathrooms, and women would wait to go at home. This was a pretty big damper on their ability to participate in the public sphere because it limited how much time they could physically spend in public. Gendered bathrooms followed later in other countries for similar reasons. They exist for the same reason that trains in Japan have women-only cars, why there is a women-only rideshare app, etc.

https://www.livescience.com/54692-why-bathrooms-are-gender-s...

http://theconversation.com/how-did-public-bathrooms-get-to-b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime