skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave blood with them a lot during college, as did my brothers. Then we moved out. For probably about eight years after I moved across the country they would still call my parents' house. "Hi, is Luca there?" "No, he doesn't live here anymore. Please remove him from your list." "Okay."

Thirty seconds later, the phone would ring again. "Hi, is Duncan there?" Repeat a third time for my other brother. For years. I think it's stopped now, so it didn't quite last a decade (though maybe it did for my older brother).

The Blood Center of Central Texas, on the other hand, stopped calling the first time I asked them to. Once they stopped, I resumed donating regularly.

All that aside, I highly recommend donating blood regularly--it has health benefits and is a pretty effective form of charity.
"A virtual file system API would be great. It's definitely one of the core features still missing from the ecosystem"

yes. combined with an easy ability to make real files out of them.
I would think that practical effects would cost even more due to inflation.

Also you may miss how much of the shows are CGI if you aren't looking hard. Watch a few shows from the 70s and 80s, ones with high production values, then watch the average show today and you'll see that audiences demand much more realistic sets and scenery. Just about everything in the background of a sci-fi show is CGI.
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> But, it seems like it'd be a large pile of data and work. Unless they knew when and where they came from, I'm not sure how much value they'd have - other than aesthetics.

You're right, its a huge pile of work. Without the geotag and temporal EXIF data, you're relying on machine vision/structure from motion (think https://mapillary.com) to rebuild 3D scenes solely from image data.

https://help.mapillary.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001770329-Ma...

"Mapillary uses a technology called Structure from Motion (SfM) to create and reconstruct places in 3D. By matching points between different images, SfM is able to locate the point in a three-dimensional space and therefore determine its location on the map. The more images there are available for a specific point, the more accurately it can be reconstructed. In addition, SfM creates the kind of smooth transitions between images that you can see in the Mapillary viewer—again, provided that images have been taken within close proximity with enough overlap between them.

We also run semantic segmentation on the images. This means that the computer tries to understand what is in the image and assigns a category tag to each pixel. That enables us to detect different areas in the images (such as buildings, pedestrians, cars etc.). Semantic segmentation together with 3D reconstruction enables us to extract 3D positions of objects such as traffic signs and display them on the map. You can get more detailed information on what is currently available on our product page."

Disclaimer: No relation, just dig their tech (they're using machine vision to build world models for self-driving cars, using crowd sourced imagery).
Regular openvpn sees disruptions. They sniff out the ip addresses that sees vpn traffic and blocks them. You can get a different ip and have it run (or do multi-encapsulated tunneling), but in my opinion, nothing about this issue is technological. At the very end, if you try to evade too many times, the government just tells the telco not to sell any internet access to you. Or get the police to show up at your residence.

Regular Chinese citizens get jailed for 50+ years all the time for doing things online. If you are foreign, they can revoke your visa.
We also want orders of magnitude more special effects done!

See the Wolf of Wall Street VFX highlights: https://vimeo.com/83523133
Anathem by Neal Stephenson. You need to get through the first 100 or so pages and then it clicks in.
Blue Bacon Fat by Vladimir Sorokin.
At the time, mail order shopping was dying. Montgomery Ward and JC Penny were also bailing on mail order. The Sears model was for a pre-car America, where it was either Sears or some local overpriced retailers with no selection. By 1993, the US had malls everywhere there were people, Wal-Mart was taking on the job of servicing small towns, and the customer base of people reachable only by mail had shrunk.

Sears had the first good fulfillment system, but it was geared to the postal system and rail transport. It took about two weeks to get delivery on something from Sears, and you never knew what was out of stock until the package showed up. That allowed malls to beat them on convenience.
money quote:

>None of them present any evidence that they are any better than a single-threaded implementation on any problem at any scale. So, if nothing else the published papers are not yet right. But I suspect they are mostly wrong.
I'm not sure how many slots you have, but the MSRP for 2x16GB DDR4 is $250, though I've seen (and got) them lower.
Just to clarify, these pics are Tax Photos taken by the NYC Department of Records [1].

https://www.oldnyc.org does something similar.

1. http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/photos/photos.shtml
good at self-promotion. he practices what he preaches.
I think the blocking of foreign corporations also serves as a way to eliminate competition for services that are created inside the country. Obviously they would be able to pressure the in country services to do whatever they want.
Its usually impossible from the perspective of any individual to fix anything like this. The correct thing to do is to identify something as toxic so that other like minded individuals can avoid engaging. The resulting fix is that the toxic thing progressively shrinks to irrelevance.
Serious question: what would happen if China abolished the Communist Party or whatever they call and chose democracy. Chaos? Breakdown of the country into separate states /provinces? Civil war? Military rule?

I would not want to the one in charge the day after. Obviously (moderated) rule by the people is best but not sure how China and say countries in the mold of Saudi Arabia will handle it.
As well as "the border" including any international airports, it is difficult to find a heavily populated area that is not in this zone
cmd+opt+i, select the ad element, delete it. What the website considers "OK" is never a factor as to whether your browser can block an ad.
> co-founded an ISP (Prodigy)

Famous for being one of the least competently-managed joint ventures of all time.
I think you are being downvoted because there is little information in what you are saying.

Off topic. Well known argument. Tone seems angry.

Just a guess
The original Star Trek I think did it with reason.

I think 2017 is not the 1960's - and the problem is 'populist social leftism' is still using the 1960's playbook.

It's tired, it lacks nuance. The new Star Trek's remind me of the Canadian government's 'soft propaganda' in 'Degrassi Street' - which is lampooned spectacularly well on 'Kroll Show'. And I don't use the term 'propaganda' lightly - it's state sponsored 'youth education' - again, which can be positive, but it's always going to be a hint 'North Korea' no matter how you cut it.

I think motives are not so bad ... but we live in a new world. It's not so easy as 'putting a traditionally marginalized person in a leading role' anymore. That's all fine, but it's not thoughtful. It's Disney. And lazy.

As evidence of this culture - here you have a show that puts extraordinary attention on putting 'marginalized people into leading roles' - and yet the storyline is 'still racist'. This is getting ridiculous.

How about 'it's just not good'. Because it's not?

Coen Brothers said it right - while 'diversity might be important' - the most important thing is the story'. Start with the story, focus on the story. If you start with a social objective, it's just going to come out all wrong, and be 'bad'. Like the new Star Trek. Sadly.

"If only we could go back to those long-ago days of the 1960s when nobody ever talked about these terrible newfangled hippie-dippie ideals!"

It's not a 'hippie dippy idea' in 2017 to have a 'Black Woman' in charge of something. It's not common, but nobody will bat an eye, and I really don't think the vast, vast majority of people care one way or another. It's not the 1960's.

There are a lot of interesting stories to tell, that may very well involve 'non classical' views, so let's tell them.
Maybe you should get out more. I'm pretty sure a cross-country trucker would agree the towns off the main interstates are crumbling. I just visited my mom's hometown, Lamar, Colorado. They clearly surf the same internet you do, they are trying to mimic the same patterns of behavior, but the town is falling apart.
1.) Politics - ability to negotiate, ability to convince. Experience with management - ability enforce the rules and create organization that follows them. Ability to write down understandable rules. (There is no security if employees dont follow the instruction and share passwords with each other.) That means creating structures for employees learning including lessons etc, understands incentives, knows how to verify things are done the way they should.

2.) Politics two - ability to plan, think ahead and gauge risk vs cost (unless you are CIA you dont aim for zero risk). Follow up plan, have plans about what to do after incident including PR and know that such plan is needed.

3.) Knows big picture security. Knows various standards, what they are good for, how much they cost, their weaknesses and whether they are good idea for your company. Understands what rules in those standards are for and whether they apply.

4.) Lower picture security - knows what is pen testing, intrusion detection a bit about networks etc etc. Does not need to be expert and configure the stuff from top of head, but needs to understand what his/her people are talking about when they talk. Needs ability to distinguish between bullshit and fact.
Do you think it's changing? Are young adults in China as accepting of government controls as their great-grandparents were?
Thanks for a good feedback! Btw I've added Sandbox mode where one can practice without restarting the game every time. I hope Sandbox and lower BPM will make the flag a bit greener :)
I believe they are referring to the character you are controlling. It doesn't let you walk off the cliff.
Even if OpenVPN doesn't work, ssh tunneling could get you onto the free internet. I imagine that using Tor would certainly get you into trouble in China. There was a statement in a documentary from an ex Syrian Intelligence Officer that they found out and tortured people who used Tor or other encryption methods. Anonymity in the Internet at the age of surveillance states is really tricky. One slip-up and your identiy might get comprimised.
The article even specifically suggests having fewer, better customers.
It's not a technology problem. Be aware that human operators are hired specifically for correlating internet traffic with these kinds of evasions. In the end, unless it's a robot talking to another robot, all internet traffic in China can be resolved to people. And people can be arrested or jailed or killed.

Of course, if you want to "go tech" you can go underground, but being illegal has disadvantages in a state like china
Beat me by 13 minutes! I suppose considering the benefits of APFS that the perf decreases on writes are understandable and the reads are on par with HFS+. Not bad.
> For “Continuity” features like AirDrop and Handoff, you’ll need a Mac with both Bluetooth 4.0 and a 5GHz 802.11n or 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter:

-MacBook (Early 2015 and later)
-iMac (Late 2012 and later)
-MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later)
-MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later)
-Mac Mini (Late 2012 and later)
-Mac Pro (Late 2013)

> And Apple Watch unlocking requires 802.11ac because of the way the software determines the distance between your watch and your Mac. This narrows the support list further:

-MacBook (Early 2015 and later)
-iMac (Late 2012 and later)
-MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later)
-MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later)
-Mac Mini (Late 2012 and later)
-Mac Pro (Late 2013)

> Finally, support for Metal and Metal 2 requires a relatively modern GPU. These Macs all include integrated or dedicated GPUs that support the API, though some earlier Mac Pros can also support it with an upgrade to a more modern GPU:

-MacBook (Early 2015 or newer)
-MacBook Pro (2012 or newer)
-MacBook Air (2012 or newer)
-Mac Mini (2012 or newer)
-iMac (2012 or newer)
-Mac Pro (Late 2013)

I appreciate the attempt at a specific list of models compatible with each feature. But this appears to be the exact same list twice, followed by a less-specific version of the same list a third time.
>> that's supposed to be orders of magnitude cheaper than what people did in the XX century.

I think it's the opposite. In 1970s you would just create plastic models of spaceships and film them with normal camera. That's as cheap as creating plastic models can get. Of course end result wasn't that great, but it was enough to get by.

Now you can create pretty much anything you can imagine, and generate it as CG so it looks perfect on the screen, but you need expensive equipment and even more expensive people to operate it.

The point I'm trying to make is that 40 years ago we did simple effects with simple (and cheap) tools. Now we use advanced effects created with the expensive tools. Increased cost is justified by increased quality.
Given the contents of the quote I wouldn't be surprised if his comment was auto-killed until a moderator reviewed it.
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https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/facebook-mobile-app-....
Over 50% of facebook users only access it from"

maybe it is hidden somewhere, but I only read "mobile users only", not "native app" only. So users who access by browser would be in that category as well
> The people who will get ahead in China in the future are the ones who are somehow able to live outside of China to experience new ideas.

So in other words, the ruling class continues to rule, as they will be the only ones with the sanctioned political freedoms to study abroad, etc.

> China's fate as being relegated to being the world's giant copy machine is sealed unless things revert

China being the world's giant copy machine has worked very well for those in power in China. Why not sustain that as long as possible? What other country has the stability and resources to replicate that? Most countries with extremely cheap labor don't have the supply chain.
FWIW, I have a 15-inch Late 2013 MBP with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB, and have experienced neither of these issues. Just an anecdote for balance.
Anything by Alastair Reynolds (but Revelation Space is a good place to start).
Apathy is conformity by default.
First thing I noticed was the ReactJS favicon...
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Instead of signing up yet another throwaway123, wouldn't it be great to have an Ask Anonymously feature?
Is this guy for real?

He is limited by not having an "expensive macbook with 4 real cores" ??
He gave up on a test because it "paged out the 15GB of data".

Of course at these scales a cluster is x5 slower.

Can someone please explain - am i missing something here ?
What about Telegram?
Politics can be a double-edged sword. "Avoiding conflicts" is an unreasonably effective strategy until it stops working.
Theo's reputation is very well deserved.
I am running a startup that is a market place, http://greensprout.co for afterschool programs and summer camp providers (limited to Bay area). Naturally I am interested in this space.
As a Korean, it is great to see startups working from Korea. The coding school is getting popular. So, it is a good place to start. But, there are many varieties. This seems to me like a tutoring service for computer programming. As you said it is video chat, is there youtube video to introduce the service? That will be helpful.

I have one kid, who is at your target. But I am not sure if I need tutoring like for block programming. I am more interested in real programming. Also, it is not clear what you will achieve at the end.

But, keep doing the good work since you have traction and I guess that people like the teaching quality, which you need to keep it consistent.
If you're a fan of classic Trek check out The Orville. There's just 3 episodes out but so far it's shaping up to be a true spiritual sequel to 90s Trek in ways the JJ Abrahams-esque Discovery show won't be, judging from the first two episodes.
That's a very cool suggestion, added "Sandbox" mode (next to existing "Survival" one): https://makaroni4.github.io/guitar_bro/
Is the NSA Doing More Harm Than Good in Not Disclosing Exploits?
Wrong? I have it opening in Opera just fine?
Is it supposed to work with transparency? I only get black pixels instead.
That some people perceive a distinction to between "race relations, social justice, equality, multiculturalism, and all that other socialist garbage," and SJWism and PC culture.
TeachBay (for grade schools) - Parents bid in an auction for seats in a teacher's classroom at the beginning of the school year, instead of having the principal assign students to teachers. This will reward the good teachers, punish the bad ones, and give everyone an incentive to do better.
This is nothing new, and it didn't happen overnight. The prosperous-vs-declining areas have been moving in that direction for at least a generation. Perhaps more magnified/pronounced in one area vs another, but on the whole this has been the trend for as long as I can recall.

Nonetheless, a couple of observations:

- Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska: regional chunks of comfortable/prosperous areas compared to the rhetoric espoused during the 2016 election campaign. I expected these to look much worse.

- The map looks a lot like the federal distribution of taxes per dollar contributed: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vby1dJlsXmM/VtkJnusdGXI/AAAAAAAAJ...

- "A large portion of the country..." is actually "a large geo-graphic portion of the country"
> prosperity without democracy exist

There has never been a large nation example of that in world history. China has yet to get there in any broad sense. Further, there are exceptionally few examples of it, regardless of nation size. A solid 80% to 90% of the prosperous, well developed nations use representative government systems, and not a single large nation that is prosperous at the median doesn't. Most of the exceptions are smaller, resource nations like Qatar (even Saudi Arabia hasn't achieved high-level prosperity at the median, their median income is nearly 1/3 that of the US).

Here's the list of nations that are prosperous at the median -

Democratic: US, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Israel, South Korea

Not Democratic: Singapore, Qatar, Kuwait, Brunei, UAE

Questionable inclusions: Czech, Portugal, Taiwan, Slovenia, Greece, Estonia, Slovakia; vs Saudi Arabia on the other side

I don't see how this could be any more blatant.
Keep reading and there will be a link to the NIH article with a list of studies.

(The downvote is not mine, by the way.)
Here is one of the statements he made about 30k members of /r/node not being part of the Node community: https://twitter.com/izs/status/911732466758516736. Be warned, it devolves into a long thread and rant.

He's actually blocking 170,839 users at the moment. He often brags about it.

see:

https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/c8XK_YKEO-bTsJBLIcSnJZ...

https://imgur.com/a/TKykh
Showing them all seems a bit impossible because the number would blow up really quickly, wouldn't it? Maybe it could categorise them, but that could be misleading, too... I don't know.
This is an honest question and not intended to be snarky, but what have Democrats done to improve job scarcity in middle America? I'm not insinuating that the GOP has done anything either.
You're right. There's definitely protectionism, but imo moves like limiting VPN's go beyond that.
>It isn't supposed to make sense. it's suppose to reinforce the "you do whatever the police ask you or face the consequences." Apparently the law backs them...

I meant "make sense" as a deterrent for next occasion AND useful for counter-terrorism.

If you are "innocent" and refuse to give away your passwords, you now know that you have serious chances to be punished in a non-trivial way.(losing your electronic device + fine + 12 months conditional)

If you are "guilty" (of terrorism or contiguity with it) you now know that you can refuse to give away your password, effectively preventing the police to read your data and maybe in one year time you will get a slap on the wrist (when compared to the punishments for actual being part of a terrorist plot).

So, "real" terrorists will surely continue not giving away their passwords to the Police, whilst most innocent people will be giving them - fearing the punishment[1].

The net effect will be that Police will have not access to relevant terrorism related material but it will lose a lot of time on analyzing gigabytes of - say - lolcat videos.

[1] a few innocent people will anyway refuse to give away the passwords for this or that principle, so among the "non-answering" will be both innocent and possibly guilty people, so it doesn't even work as a "screening" method.
If you are foreign, in a first tier city, just pay for the corporate internet (the unblocked version) in a lot of office districts.

The government knows that the expats aren't their customer for censorship, they just want to make it inconvenient enough for their citizens to get to the new york times or the scmp.

Have people actually gotten visa's revoked, that would be a crazy escalation by the MPS.
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Perhaps you could give examples as to how they are similar?
When Anglicized, the 'd' is typically pronounced, also.
Ok great, Steve Blank excludes companies that already have a scalable repeatable model? Somehow I doubt that's his intention

EDIT: Most ecommerce startups would fall into your "proven business model" category, and yet they, like McDonalds before them, do extensive experimentation to find the path to rapid growth. Which is why Steve Blank underscores that the search is never finished.
I think the policies you cite as bad ideas do in fact enjoy broad support in the areas that enact them. "Hearts and minds" campaigns led by outsiders are notoriously difficult and prone to failure. Can you suggest a way to start the conversation about these policies in a way that you think is likely to succeed?
I wonder if steganography + encryption will be the way past internet censorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_messages
hrm. I'm not denying small towns are dying. I'm saying it's not unusual that they will die out as the economy moves towards increased efficiency.
I run an after school coding program for kids in the bay area. Happy to talk if you would like. Info is in my profile.
They also have a similar site for New York: https://www.oldnyc.org/
Wiki on Github (particularly for runbook stuff.) Onenote.
Those are the durable ones that craftsman makes.
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