skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gnome partners with Purism to support its efforts to build the Librem 5 phone
Hi/Lo pricing is great that way. Harbor Freight always sends 20% off coupons. It's a wonderful technique for running price discrimination.

The frequency of running offers, and which offers to run, are just business details that can be tested and optimized. Some firms are a lot better at it than others. But at its core it's not fundamentally different than coupon mailers or rebate offers.

If you ever buy furniture for sticker price you're doing something wrong...
It’s the same in the U.S. I can have a shoemaker business named Microsoft without much issue.
The flip side of this is really unfortunate, though.

Sometimes people don't feel passion about the fundamental underpinnings of something they feel passionate about, e.g. they want to build brain interfaces but throw a tantrum when you try to teach them about biochemistry. Eventually they do learn the underpinnings of their passion, but are left with gaps in their knowledge which means they simply don't see solutions. Human intelligence is just pattern matching, and you do better pattern matching when you memorize a bunch of stuff even if it's boring.

The other part is that sometimes stuff just sucks to learn/do and it must get done-- metaphorically, taking out the trash, cleaning etc. Somebody that does all the fun stuff and disappears when it's time do do the boring stuff is a liability.

Doing only stuff that one feels passion about is a privilege that very few people are skilled/fortunate abough to enjoy.
Well, I had never heard of him before and now I want to go to his restaurant.

Well played!
When one has nothing but misinformed bigoted pedantry to bring to conversation,one picks where one can, sadly.
Are there many nutrients which may be present in good quantity in some food item, but some other chemical in that same food, interferes with the absorption (by the human body) of that nutrient?

Thinking of examples like spinach, where it is supposed to contain a lot of calcium, but also has oxalates (or oxalic acid) which interfere with the absorption of the calcium. Or is that a one-off case?
c. you develop the language openly for some time before calling it production ready (as it happened with kotlin)
Since most capitalist economies have never fully developed (especially in Latin America), this cannot be traced something that Venezuela did of not. It is, again, a bogus criticism.
There could be some kind of test as an alternative way to become an "accredited investor". If you make $250,000 for two years, or have $1 million in liquid assets, or pass the test. Why not?
Yes, Bill Gates Regrets Ctrl+Alt+Delete
Back then it was fun to get any time on any computer, regardless of whether what you were doing was objectively interesting or not.

Your OWN computer? That you could keep using all night if you wanted to? Whoa....
How long before you can print the parts for a low strength one off of thingiverse?
The article says she was leaving the Georgia Dome. It was likely not a sporting event (new year's eve).

Did you read the article? It was about access to their car, via city sidewalks, after the event at the sporting arena. Your comment about sporting events "having wheelchair access" is not really relevant at all, since it was clearly not about the facility itself.
New World is starting to roll out grocery delivery, they're trialing it in a couple of stores in Auckland.
I'm highlighting the failure of the Spanish nation-state to resolve this situation or least de-escalating it.
I wasn’t meaning that at all. I meant that if you have to ask why people solve problems with over complicated solutions, you haven’t been doing this very long.

The answer is: it’s in our nature to make simple things difficult.

It shows more maturity if you just accept people do stupid things without trying to pry a rationale out of them IMO.
Have you read Paul Graham's essay on schools? http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

I think you'll find it interesting. Email me at bcurran421@gmail.com if you want to continue the convo
Is there a JSON version of this API, or is XML the only way: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/spaces/ ?
You can have it, but only if your country is built on the idea of making sure that shared systems (like infrastructure) is maintained and checked, always and forever, and no corners are cut because someone wants to get rich quick.

In our country, our roads, bike roads and sidewalks all have to adhere to the same base set of rules, everywhere. They all have to be there, be maintained and it's not optional. If you have a sidewalk in front of your house and you want to clean/maintain/service it, that's great, but the country will check it, clean it, maintain it. We have sidewalk-streetcleaners about once a month, driving to every sidewalk and if any structural damage or loss of markings is seen, it's noted and fixed during the next maintenance round.

Regarding ramps (as outlined in the article), there is a guarantee that you will always have a clear path between two points, with no hard barriers. So no fences in the wrong place, ramps always facing ramps on the other side of the street, all with the same inclination. No hard edges, everything is rounded off ever so slightly (reduces wear/tripping/hooking dirt), and it's against the law to block any of it.
The auto-Nazi phenomenon is a more recent one; not even a year old. It's honestly disheartening seeing people reduce the meaning of these words to nil; they have grave, horrendous origins. People that are using them so meaninglessly are disrespecting the millions of people that have died in the vein of those words.
This is how the robots win, by social engineering ;P
"All in all, it can cost a business up to a few thousand dollars per year to be featured on these various types of signs close to a given exit."

That seems insanely cheap.
Smart man would get both and load balance the tld
Processing 100,000 Events per Second on Azure Functions
While obviously not a substitute for actual military training or experience, I strongly recommend looking into a company called GORUCK [0] and their corresponding events.

GORUCK events range in duration and distance (4-5 hours / 7-10 miles for Light, 10-12 hours / 15-20 miles for Tough, 24+ hours / 40+ miles for Heavy).

> Based on Special Forces training, your class is led from start to finish by a Special Forces Cadre. His job is to test your limits, push you beyond them, and build your class into a team. There are no cash prizes at the finish. All you earn is a 2x3 inch patch and the respect of everyone to your left and right.

I've done 2 GORUCK events (1 Light, 1 Tough). They rank among the most challenging physical and mental experiences in my life. I enjoy testing my limits as well as the comradery of collective suffering amongst the rest of the team as you work together towards a common objective or goal. It has been a great way to meet new friends; I'm planning my 2018 event calendar now.

[0] https://www.goruck.com/the-challenge/
>is this statement based on some kind of study?

It's based on the law. They punish crimes after they have been committed. Where is the law that doesn't say "if you murder, you go to jail" but instead sets things up so you physically can not murder?

>not terribly convincing... 'crimes happen' doesn't seem to sufficiently demonstrate that 'deterrence doesn't work

Yeah, the part you cut out is the important bit. Sure you could argue 'oh well people are willing to steal a pair of shoes because they only get punished with 3 days in jail so they make a value judgement' if that's what we were talking about. But it's not. I pointed out the case of extreme punishment, death, not even THAT being capable of preventing the simple stupid crimes like stealing a pair of shoes.

>some aren't. some are much, much worse.

'Some' are individuals. I was speaking of humans overall. They're two very different things. Individually humans are impossible to predict, in groups they're among the most predictable things around. 'America went to war with Vietnam in the 60s' is not false simply because there were a bunch of protestors that opposed it. A statement about a group is not a statement about all of the individuals within it, and language would be incapable of functioning if that was the standard you attempted to apply.
>but then claim that the problem is that they didn't reshape the economy enough.

Another way to express this which lacks the apparent contradiction is: their socialist policies inhibited the natural tendency of the economy to reshape itself.

However the real problem in Venezuela was not "socialism" per se nor a lack of diversification -- in fact several countries, particularly Brazil and Argentina, experienced problems when they tried to forcibly diversify their economies (Peronism/import substitution), whereas Chile went all in on copper, and while they've suffered downturns, their long-run growth has more than made up for it, making them today the richest country in Latin America. And precisely this pattern (comparative advantage) is how capitalism usually succeeds, and Chile today is diversifying at a natural/gradual pace. But in Venezuela the biggest problem was that Chavez appointed his friends to run the oil companies, and refused to cooperate with the previous administration and employees of the oil companies, which resulted in a lot of skilled people in Venezuela's oil industry taking their ball and going home. In other words, the problem was not that Chavez was a socialist but that he was a strongman who had no respect for democracy, the rule of law, or the desires of anyone but himself, which was also reflected in his later attempts to silence his critics in the media and to sabotage the Venezuelan Constitution and its legislature. I think this is why we've seen post-Chavez socialists like Mujica and Moreno taking a more measured approach to economic reforms and working with, rather than against, preexisting institutions.
I'm not sure I follow you on real estate. Does the OP's proposal for long term capital fix that? Best I can tell, the one thing that will fix expensive real estate is autonomous cars. (Parking can be converted to housing, and longer commutes become tolerable)
Even teenagers are commissioning their own smartphone: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/09/05/frank-isnt-just-phon...
Intel ME has the MINIX license copyright message in it: https://twitter.com/qrs/status/857342798420422657

Positive Technologies, the people doing the presentation in the OP, have this blog entry about earlier findings surrounding Intel ME (some of the language from this entry is used in OP): http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
Are you saying that limiting people's ability to exit bad investments encourages good ideas?
Could you take a screenshot? I have a personal archive of unsolvable captchas.
> Only you can control how you react to any given idea.

this is a bit simplistic. receiving information is a physiological process and not purely a cold and analytical affair. that's why a particularly vicious insult can drive some into a fit of violent irrational rage.

> And how common is it for them to drive it into a crowd and kill and injure people? Run the numbers. You're more likely to die from being hit by a meteor, so concern yourself with that instead.

there is a tremendous amount security work that contributes to this. many billions of dollars (possibly into the trillions, worldwide). a lot of dissuading machinery in legal and social systems.

however you quantify them, the dangers people face are not a simple consequence of unwilling perpetrators.
Yes, that’s right
Yeah, the "rascal" kind of mobility scooter is designed more for suburban use; being mounted on the back of a car or van, and designed to travel in public places where they are used sparsely; supermarkets, etc. They simply aren't designed for a lot of urban travel, and it's a bit unrealistic to expect all sidewalks to be able to handle a three hundred pound bed on casters essentially.
Right - the IPO is about trading future claims on income. But if the owners do bad things, in theory it hurts the equity price in the future.

The system isn't perfect by any means, but discouraging people from exchanging equity when they have differences of opinion doesn't help.
I had a look. I recognise Allan Hazlett's name, but that's as much as I can say. Epistemology, PoM and stuff are all fairly interesting but depend a lot on the quality of teaching, in my experience.

If you don't want to just read Kenny's ANHWP, and I were to provide a reading list:

* Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Parmenides, Charmides, Apology. If you enjoy it, then try reading The Republic.

* Aurelius' Meditations. Democritus and Epicurus are worth reading about too, to summarise the Greeks. And Zeno's paradoxes.

* meaningness.com as an entry-point to Buddhist philosophy in general.

* Logicomix as an introduction to Russell & his project in Principia Mathematica.

* Mill's Utilitarianism, Hannah Arendt 'The Human Condition', and Henry George 'Progress & Poverty' for politics, history and economy, throw in a bit of Rawls. Schiller's 'The Robbers' is also very much worth reading.

* SEP articles for the classic writers: Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant; then Kripke, Tyler Burge, and Searle present some interesting problems.

Other mentions off the top of my head: Dreyfus, Chalmers, Parfitt, Singer.

There are some great YouTube channels out there that teach to the intelligent adult. Gregory B Sadler, Mark Thorsby, Daniel Bonevac, Carneades.org are the ones I remember being useful. Some good series' are out there: Human, All Too Human; Alan Watts' TV series; The Reith Lectures...

I've missed a ton, of course, this is just stuff I remember enjoying or gaining something from. I hope this list isn't too overwhelming. I'd start with the Greeks, then flick around some YouTube channels, then meaningness, then off into whatever takes your fancy. I don't really fancy digging through MOOCs so sorry I can't recommend any in particular.

My personal favourite philosophers/philosophical writers: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Darwin, Hegel, Camus, CS Pierce, Feyerabend, Epicurus.
No standard capitalist regime would be able to do that anyway

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying.

If you're saying that no pro-capitalist government could have diversified Venezuela's economy, then I completely agree with you.

If you're saying that nurturing a market economy in Venezuela would have failed to diversify it's economy, then I have to disagree.

Markets tend to diversify on their own as entrepreneurs recognize new demand and respond to meet it. Because of the limitless variables that drive how this happens in different regions and industries in any given country, government administrators are not well suited to recognize and respond to such needs at a national level.

Government should instead cultivate market economies that produce economic surplus, and then tax some percentage of that surplus to provide the social programs their citizens request.
This! It still makes me sad that safari is updated as part of the OS like IE instead of out of band like Chrome.
Not sure why it all has to be paved, using tiles or bricks works fine here.

We do have some problems with ZOAB-based paved roads if the freeze/thaw cycles are too high, but any big problems are repaired in two or three days, and all roads are maintained and replaced relatively quickly anyway, so it's not a big deal.

It's strange to see the broken roads and patchwork in the US. Every time I visit I wonder why there is no majority that agrees on fixing it. Short term "it works now" is such a bad idea...
It's interesting to watch the game of telephone unfold right before your eyes.

>>> Google has already poached Apple's lead chip architect in June of this year.

No where has it been mentioned that the person they poached was Apple's "lead" chip architect. All it says is that google poached An architect from Apple to be it's SoC lead.
That's a good point, but given the current general trend I would expect a newer gen board to be probably more power efficient, of course that's just speculation since I don't have insider knowledge about this specific project.
> For example, if my shoddy water heater install causes my house to burn down and my insurance refuses to cover the damage because it wasn't up to code, then that sucks

What if you're still inside the house when it catches fire, causing me (a firefighter) to enter the house to attempt to rescue you, and I'm killed in the process. Does that also "suck"? I imagine my wife and kids might feel a bit more strongly about that...
I was taught that some of the minerals in whole wheat were not available because of phytic acid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid#Food_science
It's mostly guesses from working with other rendering systems on mobile and desktop :)
I use a VPN whenever I'm not at work, so I know how frustrating it is to be told I didn't pick all the images with a street sign or whatever ridiculous hoop I have to jump through. Especially when I'm only casually interested in the article.

Plus, I'm totally fine to help robots out. If they can convincingly post online comments or converse with me, who am I to discriminate?
Gorsuch was approved by the Senate by a 54-45, non-party-line vote. As for the remaining tiebreakers, one was the approval of DeVos as Education Secretary, two involve HHS items, and one was to push forward AHCA.

So far, none of the above have been groundbreaking.

As for your last point: the idea that Trump would delegate anything to VP Clinton in the same manner he delegates items to Pence is utterly absurd.
I found the relevant flags:

--soft-disable-only

and

--soft-disable

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/commit/d5705b62f802fdf1c...
> Laws should only regulate how a person interacts with other entities.

Right, which is why building codes make sense. The "other entities" involved are the people who may buy your house someday, and the first responders who may enter your house in an emergency to save you or your loved ones.
You should also put "backdoor" in quotes. It's not a backdoor in any meaningful sense; it's just an undocumented setting that allows them to (mostly) disable the ME on their machines.
This is one of those things where you decide you are an adult and take some precaution, be sensitive and be nice and be wary of the optics of what you say.

But if someone else says such a thing, interpret what they say in the most charitable way possible and move on.

Really, move on guys. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill, just move on. Yes indeed I know you are not a Nazi sympathizer and I'm moving on.
That's also from Positive Technologies, the people giving the presentation at Black Hat.
That is so reductive, even if it weren't a tired cliche. Not every example of a successful policy that happens outside the U.S. is because of accidental political geography.
To anyone from Booking.com reading this: I'll go elsewhere next time I need to book a room.

Dark patterns may help profits in the short-term, but they're terrible for your brand. Just ask TicketMaster.

It isn't just tech-savvy users that will catch on to this either. If an everyday user uses Booking.com, reads reviews and thinks their room will be great, but then has a bad experience, they're going to stop trusting Booking.com's reviews, and stop trusting their brand. It will only take a few bad experiences to go elsewhere.
Declining oil prices and US sanctions.
This is only popular vote for the president though. Each state has equal representation in the Senate, which is half of the law making process. Big states cannot simply ram through legislation that is slanted against small states. And since there are only 17 states with greater than 2% of the population (what you'd expect if population was evenly distributed), there are more small states than large ones to prevent that if they tried.
Performance still matters. They're getting closer, but they aren't there.
> Theoretically I think it's true because there are far too many variables at play in economies of any decent size for a national government to efficiently organize it.

This has been a common complaint, though it's not without response. As to what variables need to be taken into account, there's been discussion that not every product made would have to be. Here's a comment by "Keshav"[0] on Cockshott's input-output tables idea of economic planning, which came about in 1995:

"On a related note, Cockshott and Cottrell have a number of papers arguing that central planning is feasible with modern computer technology. As I understand it, the algorithm they present (e.g. in “Towards a New Socialism”) does not consider a linear programming problem; rather, it takes as given a target for final goods production (determined elsewhere in their model, which includes some markets for consumer goods) and solve for the gross output levels required to meet this target. They exploit the fact that the input-output structure of the economy is sparse (only a small fraction of the goods in the economy are directly used to produce any single good). Their algorithm’s complexity increases with n*m, where m is the number of direct inputs for each product, which seems manageable even with n=12 billion."

Cockshott talks at length about "The problem of scale" (the one which is your theoretical agrument) in his book in the chapter of the same name, which is downloadable for free as a PDF in its LaTeX glory here[1]. I last read it many years ago and refutations of it exist, though it's worth a read in my opinion.

[0] http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299519892_Towards_a...
Wonder what this means in the grand scheme of things. Will Apple dump Broadcom and go with Qualcomm or attempt to fix Broadcom's broken driver.

I say broken as I've yet to see good code come from Broadcom.
The experiment is thought-provoking. Along somewhat similar lines I have a (completely unsubstantiated) hunch that strong AI ultimately will arise from something like this architecture rather than anything based on the current wave of machine learning. Among several interesting quotes this one was particularly striking:

[O]ne of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers, the K computer in Kobe, Japan, consumes as much as 9.89 megawatts of energy — an amount roughly equivalent to the power usage of 10,000 households. Yet in 2013, even with that much power, it took the machine 40 minutes to simulate just a single second’s worth of 1 percent of human brain activity.
How is the quality? Thewirecutter's review of it is pretty bad.
I've just recently started exploring React Native, so I'm curious if you have any pointers on how to implement responsive designs in a way that's compatible across web and native apps? Actually, I'd love to hear some suggestions on what to do w.r.t responsive design on React Native in general, since the solutions I've seen so far don't seem very well adopted and battle-tested. Once I settle on an approach, I should be able to just shim it out into a utility function or higher-order component like I'm doing for everything else.
Direct link to falcon mesa fact sheet: https://newsroom.intel.com/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/sites...

(as posted at reddit by ProgrammableGatorade)
seems very elitist to say functional vs imperative depends on the caliber of the developer. there's plenty of reasons to choose either paradigm. language choice is a reasonable factor. just because you like OO doesn't mean you are bad and just because you like functional doesn't mean you are good
There has never been a successful centrally planned economy. Perhaps with the assistance of massive computation and information spread via the Internet it could be conceivable. But without that it seems like every toy model a central planner uses is going to fail miserably.
It's nothing compared to what you see in the comment section of news sites in rainbow South Africa.
Unfortunately for us (and fortunately for TicketMaster), there usually is no alternative to them. That doesn't hold true for Booking.com