skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is tangential, and I'm not a designer so this is just one dev's opinion, but I found Dropbox's latest rebrand (dropbox.design) to be a bizarre departure for them. It was so off the wall I just assumed it was some sort of parody site until I realized it was official. I'm in no place to determine if it's "good" or "bad", but it's certainly an...interesting direction, if nothing else.
Maybe not being able to store cookies?
(OP here). I don't necessarily want to disagree with you, but I think the answer with all of these things is "well, it depends". It really depends on the person, the situation, and everything.

I think some people are perfectly fine seeing a therapist. My therapist was a psychologist as well, so that opened up some avenues that we might not have been able to explore otherwise, but when it came to any brain chemistry thing he was very quick to say, hey, go see a specialist in this area.

I think that's kind of the commonality here; I know people who have seen different people (of varying professional degrees) and they hated their person. Sometimes it just depends on if you click or not.

(Unfortunately, "hey go see a therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist, but also it might take you a few months and people before you're comfortable!" is not a great rallying cry for people who are really depressed. But unfortunately that's how it goes sometimes.)

In either case, I do agree with you that it's important to know what type of person you're seeking out, and whether you think that'll jive with what will help.
The features emphasised can be quite different though, for instance angle-of-view, color-vision, focus-distance, ability to see motion/still objects. And even when using the same primary-sensing system like the eye, the behavior can be quite different. Compare say fox, deer, eagle and human?
How Russian content ended up on Pinterest
I think that the OP point is that it doesn't matter much.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... can help verify everything loaded is what it's supposed to be. However you'd still need to verify that the set of things loaded is the set of things you expect, not just that the things are the things, and that requires having an out-of-band checklist or extension...
When hunting bears, it's prudent to carry a sidearm. Bears will sometimes stay really still, appearing as if they're dead, and will attack when you get close enough.

(That situation counts for every black bear attack in Maine since the 1880s.)

A rifle isn't as easily maneuvered in tight situations and close up. You don't want to damage the meat more than you have to - so that you're maximizing the value.

Dispatching a wounded animal (of other types) with a pistol is fairly common and the rounds are less likely to cause much more damage.

Additionally, I rabbit hunt with a .22 (Ruger Mk II) frequently. Opportunistic rabbits are delicious and easily taken with a small round.

Then, there's sport shooting. Pistol clubs and competitions are quite common activities in certain spheres. I was on both a rifle and pistol club. (Back then, they were actually functions at my school. Our firearms were locked in the closet in the headmaster's office.)

So, there's justified reasons to own a pistol.

Also, as you suggested, I have no idea how they'd get them off the street. I can't even begin to imagine the uproar.

As an aside, as far as I know, the largest mass killing of civilians in America was at the Battle of Wounded Knee. After disarming the civilians, they massacred a bunch of them, including women and children.

When the Revolution really got started, the British were marching their way to Concord to confiscate the powder, shot, and cannon. They were going to go disarm the citizens.

I have no idea how we'd be able to get pistols off the street and I'm not sure that'd actually solve anything. Most firearm deaths that aren't suicides are caused by people who aren't actually interested in obeying the law.

Even if we could, I'm not sure that I'd want to give up that liberty. Freedom does come with penalties. Liberties come with associated risk. We can speculate that speech is a more a cause than the firearm used to commit the act, I don't want to give up that right either.

As for the police, I'd like to disarm them except for specially trained officers and only for use in certain situations. I don't see that as being political feasible either. Call it a hunch, but that doesn't seem likely to happen.
Awesome! Fellow smash player on HN!

GeekyGoonSquad started doing something similar when they were still around/streaming, and automated the uploading to youtube.

Re: automating the player names, on a non-stream set up, I think it will be difficult to get the names from players in a standardised way. My first thought was webcam + the players venue pass to get the competitors name, but even that is a little fiddly.

Best of luck!
People lived in 100sqft apartments?
I wish we could get that much residential square footage per year.
Well, it does say that the hole periodically comes and goes, or at least it has once before, several decades ago.

Literally nothing to see here, at least until some actual papers come out.
Here's the gallery of renderings... Not exactly an architectural masterpiece.

http://theexchangesf.com/gallery/
> I'd actually like to try and take a step back and apply self-play to something lower dimensional. Perhaps a 2D Tron Light Cycle sim. And see if some truly unexpected strategies arise ;)

Dude needs to google "Corewars Genetic Algorithms".

http://www.corewars.org/docs/evolving_warriors.html

Corewars is just one example of an game that AI dudes have been playing for... a long time, decades at least.

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Anyway, Fighting Games are mostly about reaction speed and execution. Perfect play in a fighting game is ridiculously super-human due to technique (1-frame links) and reaction speed that there's no way a human would beat any serious bot.

Most bots made aren't serious though.
I'm confused, how did someone get into his iCloud? Or was there a MiTM?
Because people keep using valuable space for offices instead of affordable housing?

This is exactly why SF sucks to live in. You have to live there to be close to work, but you're in competition with your damn office. Talk about screwing over your employees.
The Linux desktop of today still occasionally requires teaching users how to install new udev rules so they can properly use that USB serial converter or other gadget sanely.

Now imagine raising that pain to the power of 10, but instead of only weird USB or "device not found" errors nothing works anymore because "AppArmor" is blocking syscalls. I can already see the StackOverflow answer that just tells you to set it to permissive, and you know what, that fixes it everytime, too!

This is just a non-starter. Maybe they should look at deploying ASLR first, it's not 2000 anymore you know. (Update: they just managed to get this done with stretch, released 4 months ago! That's only like 7 years late for a crucial actual security feature)
Right. I haven't written any Java in a while so it slipped my mind.
The quoted rule would have been better stated in terms of frequency, like: Risk becomes a vehicle by which privilege reinforces itself – for the most part, only the privileged can take risks, and for the most part, only risk is rewarded.

There is substantial evidence in support of this thesis, from decades of research in economic mobility. Your story of success is only a single data point in answering this question.
Why and how Coach changed its name to Tapestry
One of two things depending on my mood:

1. A Pandora station seeded with Moonlight Sonata. It plays calmer classical music, avoiding the more in-your-face classical like Bach's Toccata and Fugue. Sometimes plays modern stuff like Piano Guys. I frequently combine this with some rain noise from Noisli.

2. Classic Trance. Stuff like Paul Van Dyk - Words.

I generally avoid anything with lyrics. Lyrics are incredibly distracting.
The Logitech H390 is recommended for podcast guests. I do video conferencing from home, and I am dissatisfied with the quality of my home headset. This looks like it might be a good candidate for me to invest in.

Does anyone else have other recommendations for my use case?
Aol isn’t closing up shop in nova.
health insurance problems (yay 🇺🇸, home of the brave, land of the shit health system)

Not sure about other countries with universal healthcare, but seeking therapy for depression in Canada isn’t exactly that much better.

Such treatments aren’t covered by public health insurance so you’ll be spending $100/hr CAD, likely more, out-of-pocket.

When I sought therapy, and this is probably due to unfortunate timing or being in an underserved city (but highly doubt it being Ottawa), I had to wait 3+ months before any therapist near me had room. By that time I had largely remedied my depression myself out of necessity.

EDIT: Realized I’m conflating psychiatry and psychotherapy with my comment. The former is covered by our system but due to the demand you’re looking at several months before seeing someone. My example of waiting 3+ months was just for a psychotherapist.
Let's say I post on a relevant article that I think P equals NP, and that I've seen some NP problems that don't yet have polynomial-time solutions. That's it; no justification for the statement, no further elaboration. Would you say my comment was interesting, or valuable, or really added anything to the discussion whatsoever? Or would you think that I was just posting a random, unsubstantiated opinion that actually distracted from productive conversation on the issue at hand?
So impact isn't necessary for a concussion...I wonder if aggressive roller-coaster style rides could be causing brain damage?
Let's become nomadic scholars
Perhaps peruse this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

Firefox is Mozilla's flagship, and the largest by far way in which we achieve our mission, but our goal is a healthy and open internet.

Additionally, this is a great way to determine whether something like this would work well as an in-browser feature, and we've built it in such a way that it works in more browsers than just Firefox on day one.
Facebook’s new virtual reality strategy: self-reliance
Silver line is going to go all the way to ashburn.
I wish I could pay them more for more that 1tb storage. I have a ton of raw files and years of images I'd be happy to back up there instead of using Backblaze or S3 etc.
Octavia is quite nice and traffic flows through there pretty well.
How did you deal with the come downs?
Psychedelic therapy is very real. MDMA was recently deemed a "breakthrough therapy" by the FDA, which means Phase 3 trials are being fast-tracked as they have shown so far to treat PTSD far better than anything currently on the market.

This is just the beginning of rigorous research into psychedelic therapy. We don't have good non-anecdotal data on how it treats depression yet, but we'll get there. And the data is compelling enough so far that to completely dismiss the entire idea is closing your eyes to very valuable tools that we're just beginning to understand.
The SD 835 and A11 are sort of out of sequence in release cycles as the SD 835 is over 7-8 months old. A better comparison would be between the A11 and SD 845.

As for Qualcomm, they're really not an innovator in the SoC space as they just take whatever ARM gives them and add their modifications. The ARM A75 cores in the new Q1 2018 SoC's will exceed the multicore of the A11 and be about 25% slower in single core I predict.
Subtle differences in IndexedDB handling, for one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31159316/detecting-preve...
It looked like AppArmor was done for. Thanks to OpenSUSE for saving it!
My wife and I met online in 1992. Not on a dating site; we were both posting to a Usenet group, alt.psychology.personality. She had posted that she was trying to figure out whether she was a Five or a Six in the Enneagram system of personality analysis. My first words to her, in a private email, were "Well, do you have a bigger problem with depression or paranoia?" Ha! How's that for a smooth come-on line?? :-)
The book "The Know-it-all" by A.J. Jacobs was a great fun read a while back, on a similar topic. https://www.amazon.com/Know-All-Humble-Become-Smartest/dp/07...
Why should I use that over this?
http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static.php?page=FileOptimi...
I still can't get PA to directly work with my USB sound card. I ended up configuring alsa dmix for it (which is definitely not easy to configure), and pointing PA at dmix.

Supposedly it should see the card arrive through hotplug and add it to the device list, but that has never happened.
>Obviously, I don't have the same kind of opportunities as a rich trust-fund kid from Manhattan. But I'll be damned if I don't try. I recently quit my cozy six-figure job in ad-tech to try and bring some of my ideas to fruition. Will I fail? The odds are stacked against me -- I've failed before and failing sucks. The purpose of life is not wallowing in self-pity, but rising above the adversity. I leave you with this quite by Nassim Taleb[1]:

...

But your parents have $1M house, and you have a six figure job. Are you not the definition of a rich trust-fund kid? (To be fair, I don't know your age) I don't understand? To me it seems that you perfectly personify this section of the article:

>The research that concludes that entrepreneurs don’t have a propensity for risk, they just have wealthy parents backs this up. It is less of a risk to start a company if you can be supported while doing so, and have fall back options.

And this one:

>A senior manager once told me they loved risk, and I remember thinking, ‘but you aren’t affected by it’. They’d go on to a well paid job elsewhere, and not only would they be untouched by any failure of their risk but it would likely boost their status. They become a person willing to take risk, which has increased currency. This is not the case for someone who may be made unemployed in their late 50s with little chance of re-employment as a result of the change they sought to introduce.
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Probably on how you select your pivot.
> The native search implementation is nearly always competitive with the best algorithm for your particular lunch.

Did you mean "The native sort implementation"? Also "lunch"?
People today still? In Paris, Chambre de bonnes "must have a minimum surface area of 9 m2"[1].

That's 96.87 sqft.

"The rooms usually have a surface area of around 6–12 m2" (65 to 129 sqft)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_de_bonne
It's possible this is a test for a feature they're considering adding to the browser.
Naive question, but why would large companies favor leasing instead of just outright purchasing the property? It seems that when the terms of the lease are up, the leasing company has almost unlimited leverage in the next negotiation (unless the tenant company doesn't mind relocating all of its employees).
How about lack of necessity? I isolate my systems in many ways, using vms, tunnels and network isolation, but SELinux just doesn't fall into that, if anything's getting compromised it's the service in question that's the problem. Just because something exists doesn't mean you have to learn it and it doesn't make you lazy for refusing to do so. Proper protections extend far beyond using tools like this.

Additionally, if you're running a desktop system and software installation is a frequent task, you'll have to deal with that constantly, often many times for the same application. At some point you're going to give up and say it's not worth it. Most people can't even stand the GUI based notifications of Outpost or ZoneAlarm in my experience.
They are repeating it with the Cliqz integration now. I love Firefox, but these decisions are baffling!
A "vested interest"? You got me, I am a paid shill for Big Debate :)

There is a lot on this page about what modern debate is and isn't. It's not supposed to be a mechanism for the exchange of ideas or advancement of understating; it's a game, with rules, and players who optimize performance within those rules. This, here, now, is a forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement of understanding. Notice that neither of us are hyperventilating while trying to score a victory.

I don't think the specific recording you posted is a fair representation of modern debate. Yes, the video presented modern debate in a terrible, terrible light. But, it was scant seconds of a performance which lasted how long? My point is that the material you posted to back up your opinion over-eggs the pudding to the extent that it undermines you. If you think modern debate is so bad, then an ordinary performance recording would make that point perfectly well, wouldn't it?

The Atlantic article posted somewhere close to our discussion here talks about how black students are challenging the rules within the framework of the competitions themselves. These Towson(sp?) ladies seem to be an example of that. I found it a thought-provoking read which didn't suggest any obvious self-evidently correct solution. What did you think?
This is what I was disagreeing with. People are allowed to take risks who are not part of "the privileged", else we wouldn't have terms like "self-made millionaire".
That isn't how affordable housing works. You can't will it into existence.
Data visualization based on openresty, Akumuli and Grafana
As pcwalton said, there is a whole lot of things on the web that are very cheap to render on a GPU if done right. For these things, a well tuned gpu renderer can easily outperform a naive compositor like what you can see in most browsers.
All of the caching optimizations that one gets from a compositor can be incorporated in something like webrender (and some are, like glyphs and a bunch of other stuff). Right now webrender doesn't have all of the tweaks to avoid rendering the whole page when there is a small spinning throbber, but that will be implemented eventually (there is still a lot of work going into rendering the long tail of weird and specific things right).
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/16/4627342/microsoft-google-...
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This neglects the fact that IP imposes a fixed per-packet overhead. More packets means lower efficiency.

Using larger packets reduces the overhead as a percentage of traffic, so is desirable regardless of the TCP window size.

Higher efficiency means higher bandwidth, which means lower latency for small transfers. Waiting for two 10-byte packets yields latency equal to the higher of the two latencies. Waiting for one 20-byte packet is, on average, lower latency (because you take one sample instead of worst-of-two).
This is only tangentially related, but the story of Kiidk'yaas, the Golden Spruce, cut down in 1997 as an act of protest, is fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiidk%27yaas

https://thetyee.ca/Life/2005/08/03/GoldenSpruce/
Weren't Ainu some race thing in the Lord Of The Ring lore? I think they were in Silmarilion...
Right on.

The US was not settled by privileged people who could go back and live with their parents. Many came with absolutely nothing.

Having grown up poor myself, I find it strange to have people classify me as privileged. They see success and make up their own story about it. The ideas they've accepted are more important than the real world.
That's not what they said: "As a former wildland fire fighter I can tell you the sprinklers made a huge difference but..."
This article is very poorly argued. While there are some questionable things happening among some Fintech firms they're still far too small to harm the overall economy and could simply go out of business without too large an impact. Mt Gox isn't a good example because it did precisely that, and they felt the need to overplay the total loss by quoting bitcoin prices as if they were lost today rather than 3 years ago.

Seems more likely that crises from sub-prime auto loans or student loans could cause the next real issue. Attempting to compare total size of risk from massive wall street firms and banks to relatively small fintech firms seems like a fools errand.
I loved it! It was very fresh and provides a great brand framework for dropbox moving forward. It'll evolve and pivot in lots of great ways, keep an eye on it !
Trouble is there are just so many reprobates... (See also robocalls)
I can think of a great reason to disable SELinux; you actually use linux for a workstation and don't want fight with it every time you install a new application.
I've got a few things that come to mind:

Hue lights: The Hue lights in the master bedroom turn on at 9PM, since it's visible from the living room it's kind of a "Hey, you should think about going to bed soon" reminder. They turn off at 11PM as a "If you're still up reading you should probably stop" reminder. This is easy to set up with the Hue app.

More Hue lights: The Hue lights outside turn on a half-hour before dusk and off a half-hour after dawn. This needed to be set up by hand[0], but it's very much a set it and forget it type of thing. Once set up it automatically adjusts to the changing sunrise/sunset times.

Home security: I've got a bunch of cheap wifi cameras and Zoneminder keeping watch on my house. There isn't much automation happening here, but it solves a few problems for me.

Cat feeding: The vet was concerned that one of my cats was losing weight, so I set up a camera on the food dishes. Since the camera is hooked into Zoneminder, I can set it up to only record when there's motion. It's very easy see who comes to eat, how often they come, which food they eat, and roughly how much. This has helped in getting the portion sizes adjusted so that the cats are all happy and healthy.

Document Management: While not fully automated, I've found that putting documents into Mayan EDMS[1] instead of paper files has saved me a LOT of time when I need to find things. There is also huge potential for more automation by extending Mayan to do things with new documents based on their OCR'd contents.

I'm sure I've got others, but these are definitely the big ones for me.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26782957/how-to-use-suns...

[1] https://mayan-edms.org/
Didn't almost all of our founders come from privilege?
Twitter isn't perfect. Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from the platform just for insulting the appearance of a movie star.
https://github.com/vitalif/grive2
Now I am imagining an AI coming up with an idea in a bot-net composed of actual light bulbs.
Municipalities _lose_ money on residential space. And make money on commercial space. Sure the companies are collectively going along with this, but it's a really ridiculous structural problem that the state of California needs to fix.
From the article linked within, where 'Lil B' sent Vice News the posts that led to his ban:

> In a phone interview, Facebook spokesperson Ruchika Budhraja defended the company's decision. "I think if you were to change 'white' to something else, like 'black people are the problem, they're so violent'—if you just took a step back and replaced it with anything else, those are the type of things that our hate speech policies are intended to capture and they apply equally to all races," Budhraja said. "They are race-neutral."