skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are contradicting yourself. First you oppose class warfare evoked by the headline. Later, you recreate it on your own terms.

Wanting clean air or medical advances isn't exclusive to the elite. Nor is the "misery" of others due to size of their wallet. The elite have political and fiscal means of dictating and incentivizing others to work towards a common goal; some positive and some negative. As decision makers in our capitalism, they need to be held responsible and accountable proportionally to the benefits and accolades they reap; you gotta take the bad with the good. Fwiw all things equal, we are all responsible for the air pollution and its cleaning.

You make an interesting point. Society needs leadership to initiate and orchestrate the big projects.

Kudos to Bill Gates for pursuing cleaner air.
Thankfully I never switched to Chrome/ium; at first there were some FF extensions still not ported to Chrome that kept me from switching, then came privacy concerns keeping me away from it, finally when I was still running a slow machine as main PC and FF started to become slow and bloated it came Palemoon offering the same functionality at higher speed. Now Although I still run Palemoon on my main PC and all netbooks/laptops, I install Firefox on all customers/friends/relatives PC plus a basic set of addons for privacy protection (ublock origin + disconnect + https everywhere) and have to admit it got really better with time.
Such pseudoscience.

Water is also found in both vomit and chocolate.

They didn't provide any quote suggesting butyrate tastes like vomit, or gives vomit its distinctive flavor - just that it provides a tang, like /all acids do/. You wouldn't say that sour butter or Parmesan taste like vomit, but those were also listed as containing butyrate.
A jewish chief data mining officer straight outa Orwell's 1984. Who woulda thunk...
Search for "Code Review" posts by the author of the "Game Engine Black Book":

http://fabiensanglard.net/

He walks you through his whole code review process starting from cloning/building the project:

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php

http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php
It’s completely contrived one has to have 3D Touch to access such a basic thing now. There is a long press context, with plenty of space in the expanded area for the same setting.
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Yes, no, no, no, N/A as GDPR provides escape hatches for actions to do with 'public safety'.
Event on Nov 22 in NYC Mobile App Product Management by Verizon Product Manager
To me using feature flags for what are effectively branches just feels wrong.
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> unless you would prefer visual recognition software

Given they already have multiple cameras covering platforms from multiple angles, this seems like it would have been on the list.
This series is rather spoiled by the author's determination to trash Galileo's reputation. While he definitely has a point about simplistic, hagiographical accounts of Galileo's contributions, especially those that present geocentrists as being blind to the obvious, he goes on about it at length, introducing some rather weak and self-serving arguments along with the valid ones.
You don't need to include a pixel display for autofocus. DSLRs show the real world projected directly onto a screen at a comfortable focus distance for example.
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Childhood is training for adulthood.
It is almost certain that software and

Back when children were made to read en mass there were panics about them spending too much time in doors and not playing outside. When TV came along, too much time watching TV not reading nooks. Now Ipads.

I agree - there needs to be a balance. humans are designed to be roaming outdoors. but 10,000 years ago ones life and prosperity depended on correctly identifying edible vs poisonous plants. Today a kids life / prosperity depends on much more complex social and technological skills - and playing Pokémon with other kids will help improve both social and technological skills.

Don't leave them to be pulled about by evil corporations in mindless adverts, but do encourage modern play as well as other things.

PS
Tooling in this case matters. I can easily find OSS tools to run a firewall, less to audit web usage (netflow etc) but I want to be able to audit how much TV was watched (where is the API output from Netflix let alone from a damn TV aerial). How do I get a report off my iphone saying how many minutes (hours) I was looking at facebook? HN?

In order to make good choices we need good tools - and those tools are anti the interests of the peddlars - so I really want OSS to step up and take its place. but I am not sure how tractable the problem is.
Other solutions in the `write sql and share the graphs with your team`-space:

- ChartIO

- 'WagonHQ, Modern SQL Editor' [1] (now aquired by Box)

- MetaBase [2,3]

- Redash [4]

MetaBase is the only one that I know of that is

- fully open source,

- mature (graphing options, permission model),

- still actively maintained, and

- both friendly to non-technical users and expert sql'ers alike

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9792464

[2] http://www.metabase.com
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10425959

[4] https://redash.io
Autocorrect always thinks it's smarter than me. Probably because it might be.

*Affiliated
If crimes were easily trackable and prosecutable, we probably wouldn't have such a hard time keeping criminals in jail. We still have crimes committed in jail that don't get properly solved, much less sentenced.

Also, this isn't necessarily about dumb kids being busted for drugs or stealing, but organized crime members. The possibility of them ordering hits from inside prison walls or tracking down people in witness protection kind of makes people nervous about letting them talk with anyone and everyone. That's not to say it's the most effective means, since smuggling, messengers, visitors and other means still exist for passing information. But that's not really an excuse to not try at all.
Here's my attempt to correct this depressing state of affairs \s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzagBTcYsYQ
No my position is a tad more complicated than that.

My position is that of course people should voice concern over actual discrimination based on gender. But this rant on social interactions in which there is no evidence presented and just big claims that this happens a lot is simply what is is, big claims.

I claim that this don't happen as often as some people suggests, a claim that is just as valid as the authors. My position is that this hurts women in tech and diversity as a whole.

Baseless arguments like the authors contributes to the toxic environment we have today where everything you do is wrong. Just take that conference Github was supposed to have. They picked all candidates from without knowing gender or anything about the authors (blind review) [1] and when it was discovered every presenter picked was a male, the conference was cancelled because meritocracy is appearantly not ok if only men were selected even if their talks were deemed superior [2].

This is just one demonstration about the extreme views that is hurting equality. Another is Brit Ruby 2013 which was cancelled for the same reasons basically: https://gist.github.com/seanhandley/4106776

And it is just the absolute top of the mountain, there are so many stupid things going on in the name of equality and diversity it's unbelievable.

If we are not supposed to care about genders, why do we care if there is more women in tech at all?

[1] https://cfp.githubapp.com/events/electronconf-2017
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868
anybody who will vote for that guy is just plain stupid.
As far as I know there is not. There is no such thing as "more significant", results either are significant or they're not.
True, but you can't unlearn your genes (yet).
Only access point connection time, hashed MAC address and time are logged.

The only thing that can be found out about anyone, is where they were, at what time, possibly who they were (all of which can be obtained from CCTV footage), and (additionally) how many web requests were made.

No browsing data is stored.

This doesn't particularly change the state of existing LU monitoring.
For me, the technology used in projects like these is far more interesting than the end result itself (I'll probably never actually run it, but I took a good look at the source code).
I don't know constellations because I don't depend on them for navigation. I'm not sure why else I should even care that a bunch of ancients thought this bunch of stars looked like this animal or that one. It's not like I can even see half of them in the sky where I live, regardless of whether the stars are otherwise visible. And even if I could see them, all anyone ever seems to talk about is this small canon of Western names.

And if I ever needed to know for some reason, if it could ever in anyone's life possibly matter in the slightest whether this clump was called Cassiopeia by a bunch of people a thousand years ago, I'm about 10 seconds away from downloading an app that will superimpose constellations on my current sky. I can spend an hour reading about constellations and know more about them and their travels than many ancient astronomers could have observed in their lifetimes. And it doesn't mean a thing to me, because we know more about the universe than a handful of clumps that are occasionally visible to the naked eye.

I can appreciate the spectacle of a constellation, but everything about them that could possibly matter to my daily experience has been documented and indexed to the point that I never need to know it. I'm not trying to sail back to Ithaca. It has nothing really to do with urbanization and light pollution. Maybe I have fewer opportunities to see them, but if they blazed overhead every night, I probably wouldn't care one lick more about them.
Meanwhile the top comment is saying exactly what I was trying to say and got upvoted... I obviously didn't articulate myself well.
AMP onboards the publishers onto Google's platform and effectively holds their content for ransom. Makes it easy to implement revenue sharing on advertisements or subscriptions, especially when all AMP ads must be "approved" and "compatible." Watch, the next move from Google will be a paywall subscription service for publishers with 30% revshare to Google and some kind of unified subscription management and/or bundling for users. Or before that maybe we'll even see "AMP for desktop".
Crypto-currencies are not actually currencies (they are generally not used to buy common goods in a common market) - and so it's really not appropriate to use the terminology 'deflationary' or otherwise. I mean - I 'get what you are saying' - but the 'inflation/deflation' is really kind of a second order function of the 'driver' of this, which is really that people tend to 'hold' crytos, as opposed to doing much else.

It's the 'behaviour' of the crypto-owners that's the key thing.

'Inflation/deflation' is the interpreted result of that behaviour.

So, yes - if there were super-super strict monetary policy in the US - it would probably be 'deflationary' - but - that's a function of that economic system.
I agree. That would be awesome, but probably beyond what we can expect an ad company to do as part of its mission to sell ads.

But they might do it if they thought doing so would cause more people to use their their search engine more, thereby generating more ad clicks. I know I probably would, but otoh I’m probably not their target demo (since I only click about 7 ads per year, usually after coming home drunk from some event).
If you’re looking for a small phone I’d recommend the iPhone SE over it any day of the week. As for something different and stupidly small it’s a neat little thing and it seems to perform pretty well although I’d recommend installing a custom rom and disabling animations etc... if you want it to be speedy, at the end of the day I don’t find Android’s UI/UX overly well thought out and iOS is certainly easier to use on a small screen.
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You can also make a git script to check what files are the most modified.

I also have a script that checks what are the most crypto-y file in a directory.
> that makes this a bit of a dumb study

Only if you assume no intent on the part of the study's authors. For example, I wonder if they would have had quite a different result if they'd used, say, 14 year olds. Or a mix of ages.

I wasn't overly encouraged that two of their citations were for the Biophilia Hypothesis. An interesting book, for sure, but not exactly rigorous science.

I was left with the definite impression that this study was as much about politics as science. To that end, maybe not dumb just not particularly impartial.
Early adopters are rewarded proportionally to the risk they took (and the work they put in).

Bitcoin wouldn’t even be here today if the early adopters hadn’t spent many years making it usable and valuable. Why would anyone who was uninvolved expect to profit from that?
How does this play out? Legitimate news are behind a paywall, fake news free to access, because they make money in other ways. Shouldn’t this actually increase clickthrough to fake news sites?
An article long on patriotism, short on detail! The boffins at Roke Manor are presumably talking about passive radar:

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

Ah yes:

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/archived/resources-ar...

The most impressive passive radar idea i've heard is to use GPS signals as the illumination. There is really no escape from those.
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Metabase it’s pretty nice, although it’s a bit slow and resource intensive.
5 Simple Crossfit Movements That Anyone Can Do
Question: is the native app actually native or JavaScript in a web frame?
Cryptocurrency Flash Crash Draws Scrutiny from Watchdog
Hi. Last weekend, i built codecast.rocks for fun. A place to discover podcasts about building software.

New episodes are are automatically posted on https://twitter.com/codecastrocks with a Twitter Player Card. That means you can listen to the podcast on Twitter. I know it's nothing magical, but I had some fun to built it :)

Feel free to try it out and I would appreciate feedback.
Basically they took the easy way out of just pushing code to the master and letting the consumers worry about consequences instead of fixing the actual problem (which was long living branches caused by other underlying issues with general processes). Not really a huge fan of that.
"Stop emailing SQL queries or pasting them in chat"

Hunh you don't you put your queries in sprocs and store that in the data base and your source control system of choice.

Soory I don't see what problem this product is for apart from maybe enabling sub optimal coding practices
your eyeballs have more than 10ms latency iirc
safe-area-inset values on iOS11
...or Thorcon Power.
Bitcoin mining puts an interesting economic incentive on cheap energy production and chip efficiency. That and its implications always fascinated me.
Gosh, I loved Eudora! I used it into the 2000s. Eventually was (forcibly) migrated to Outlook at work, and Gmail came along in 2004 to convert me off of desktop mail clients at home.

Seeing the picture of that box brought back memories (such as when software came in boxes!)
" who decides when the monetary base gets expanded and by how much"

You allow entities to trade assets for currency at a central bank.

The central bank can do it (i.e. Fed exchanging currency for TBills). The ECB allows banks to exchange assets (like property) for Euros.

This is good because it allows flexibility in the amount of currency in circulation. Without this, you can get into all sorts of trouble, for example, Spain, Greece, et. al. in the 'Euro trap'. Monetary policy can be dangerous, of course, like anything powerful, but it can be used for good.

Also to the commenters point about 'inflation is a tax' - well, it's a 'tax on cash' and a 'negative tax to everything else'. It's really nothing like a tax at all, it shouldn't be referred to as such. Inflation/deflation is just the changing value of one good vis-a-vis another.

There are a lot of 'stores of value' out there and anyone with significant enough portfolio can easily take advantage of those if they chose for whatever reason not to hold a specific currency.
This would give Intel complete control over the global currency creation system. Anyone at Intel could choose to create an SGX-registered privkey off-chip and do as much fraudulent “mining” as they wanted, for free.
Skipping code reviews for faster pushes to "trunk" does not sound like a stable solution. Why not just encourage faster reviews and smaller diffs..
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Securing a public ledger is useful.

The only kinds of problems that are suitable for PoW are those with predictable computational cost. The only thing that even approaches this and is also extrinsically useful is maybe math problems like finding prime numbers, but we don’t actually know what complexity class that falls under.
> I was left with the definite impression that this study was as much about politics as science.

I suppose if they were trying to force a conversation about (say) getting children to zoos, it wasn't dumb.

But in the sense of extending the human race's knowledge, it was dumb.
I don't see this as spoiled by any kind of determination to trash Galileo's reputation. Pointing out the reality of Galileo's situation is exactly the point, and to people who believe Galileo's fairy tale, of course that's going to hurt his reputation.

This account is actually more careful and nuanced than other accounts of the Galileo trial that I've come across.

Another possibly useful insight into Galileo is that he ridiculed Kepler for suggesting that the planets would have elliptical orbits. Galileo could never make his heliocentric model fit the observations, and meant he couldn't convince anyone that it was correct, because it wasn't. Kepler basically saved heliocentrism by proposing a model that worked, and Galileo mocked him for it, because he found non-circular orbits as ridiculous as others found his heliocentric model.

Galileo did a lot of important other work, but in the past his role in proving the heliocentric worldview has incorrectly been painted as unrealistically saintly. He was about as wrong as he was right, and he was self-centered and careless.
For those who haven't seen it, here's a great illustration of what that data looked like for one person back in 2009:

http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention

I can imagine that it's only gotten more granular and comprehensive since then.
Do you have any thoughts on how it might even begin to be possible to do back pointers safely, in ways that don't already exist in Rust?

I find it very confusing that you often complain about Rust's complexity, and then also complain that it isn't complex enough (i.e. doesn't have the features required statically reason about complex ownership graphs at compile time). It's fair that maybe there's complexity budget spent in places that you think aren't quite right, but I haven't picked up any reasonable plan for modelling back pointers (from anyone), nor many specific pain points that could be solved in your suggested way while maintaining the low-level nature of Rust.
The aspect where the majority of the supply is generated in the first few weeks after the genesis block is what makes clear the designers are running a scheme to gain control of the supply, exploiting any would be normal users in the longevity of the project.

Satoshi could easily have changed the coin minting production curve to suit a long term project, but instead chose to mint the majority of coins for miners running very low hash power nodes at the start of the project. Along the lines of 10,000 bitcoins being worth 2 pizzas - this means the majority of bitcoins in existence have gone to disproportionately low value capital traders (both in computational power, actual production and electrical cost, and external capital traded for BTC) whereas now coins being produced require several magnitude more computational power to mint and the rewards are less. Paradoxically, the miners require more energy input in return for less and less rewards.
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I like to use:
`alias sp='vim ~/notes/scratchpad-$(date +"%m-%d-%Y-%T")'`
Actually there is a great article by Nick Szabo on the social cost of organizing by third party that Bitcoin replaces - if you take the energy it costs to run governments/banks with everything they utilize in terms of energy cost then that's what Bitcoin tries to 'free up' also in terms of energy usage (and still comes out ahead)
The article is from April 2016. Otherwise I would be inclined to agree.
"you could see it from the trailers, really"

Trailers are to movies what titles and summaries are to newspapers articles: eyegrabbers.

As others pointed out, trailers are edited in order to make people want to see the movie, not to give an idea of what the movie is really about. They mostly put stronger scenes in there so that a movie with just 2 minutes of gunfire or fighting will appear as an action movie. I never watch trailers for that reason and would rather wait to hear other people I trust reactions.
Do you know a good learning resource that got you there? Esp. Apollo and GraphQl. I feel a little overwhelmed, similar to how i felt when i encountered flux/redux the first time. I figured it was easier than i thought after a while, but the first step was hard.
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And yet this screed is just as one-sided. As an example -

>> Bucky the beaver wants your little settlement gone and flooded. He does not need protection after two generations- your house does.

Beavers are being reintroduced into the UK precisely because of the massive impact they have on local ecology. Bucky the beaver doesn't give two hoots about your house - but the earthworks Bucky and his family will undertake shape the local ecosystem and help keep everything alive.
Connection with nature in my opinion does not equal knowing the names of all of the life found in nature. Connecting with nature means dropping your misguided identification as being somehow separate from nature. Experiencing the unmistakable unity of humans being a part of this earth just as any other life is what I call being connected. Putting a label on a bird is not an experience of anything but a symbol.
I start with finding entry points and analyzing data structures.
Actually I think parmesan does taste a bit like vomit. I think it's pretty well known - if you google "parmesan tastes" the first autocomplete is "like vomit"
firefox and thunderbird they are usually mention at same time,but now only firefox got the attention. No one care thunderbird anymore. Webmail turn to main stream.