skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet they're technically capable of duplicating, maybe even by you on your own, same goes for Snapchat. Yet they don't, because just like a lot of the social apps that are succesful, it's not the technical innovation that makes it valuable, but the network of people that support it, and I think just as important, eventually being able to monetize it (Remember Vine?)

Also the already stored data makes it quite the treasure. Even if every user instantly stops using it, it'll still be very valuable due to the existing data (if they keep it).

Too stray off-topic though somewhat on a self-created tangent: There's an app called Flitsmeister in the Metherlands (and abroad but several countries banned it) that keeps on growing. I wonder when they will be bought out. Not necessarily for the active social network behind it, but rather for the data that is already there. I believe such a vast amount of historic data is hugely valuable on it's own. I wonder by who, when and for how much they will be bought out.
I have the same question- I teach a class with 60 students in a lab and like to share my screen so they can follow along if they're in a poor position to view the projector screen. Currently use join.me but it's a little expensive and I'd love tighter Slack integration.
The documentation part is good.

I wrote a full description of what I have and where, with access details. I shared this with a friend I trust (he was cool and called me 6 months later to tell me that he cannot access my bank account anymore :) - I changed the password and forgot to update the document). Others were wondering if I was depressed or something, such preparation was weird in their eyes.
Here's another very interesting talk from Jeff Hawkins about modelling the neocortex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izO2_mCvFaw
Anecdote, but Cash is just as popular as Venmo among my friends/acquaintances/colleagues(mid-late 20s, pacific northwest). Everyone has both installed because you never know who's going to prefer which one or just happen to open that one first.
It drives me insane the same way that tourists stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at a map does, or when people walk 4-people wide, stand on the left of an escalator, queue up for a bus by blocking the sidewalk, or holding everyone up to 'just take a quick photo.'

It's really annoying, but I don't think you can just ad-hoc legislate it. We have tons of things that were made illegal in NYC and a tiny amount of the laws actually get enforced. As others have said, this can lead to laws only being enforced on people the police already want to harass, and everyone else doing it on a regular basis.

In addition, with our Vision Zero goals, there are so many other things to focus enforcement and government bandwidth on. Hundreds of people are still being killed by reckless drivers every year. If we can solve that, then we can focus on getting people to be less annoying when walking around.
When you have gazillion frameworks that keep changing with new releases, it is hard too keep up.

There is only one kind of developer. Some might know more about some stacks and frameworks.
I guess this is one example of an upside to authoritarianism. When the leadership decides something is important, you'd better get with the program or else...

That being said, it's a shame that the US is having difficulty demonstrating the upsides of democracy and capitalism on this front.
I'm a SolarCity customer and absolutely despise them. Their customer service makes Comcast look like a saint. I can't help but cross my fingers this is a sign Tesla might be doing something about it. But I'm not getting too hopeful.
We need more than universal healthcare; we need straight-up universal care. The idea should be that periods of unemployment or uncertainty are not terrifying gray areas for an average person. If people felt comfortable that they would have support for finding better pastures from a shitty job, they'd be more likely to seek them. If they felt more confident that they had prospects after a layoff, they'd be more likely to look for alternate employment instead of sitting around in an abandoned factory town as it rots to the ground around them.

I think it comes down to the fact that risk-taking cannot be a luxury, if we want the United States to remain a competitive and dynamic society. "Party of jobs?" How about a party for workers?

After all, as many conservatives will happily tell you, true value comes from the heads, the hearts, and the hands of individuals. Why are we giving so much free stuff to Big Jobernment?
It's unsurprising considering the increasing costs and regulations imposed upon full time workers.

When you see figures on what workers are paid, the figure should be "total compensation", which includes things like benefits, FICA taxes paid on behalf of the employee, etc. These can easily add 50% to the compensation. Showing just the wage is disingenuous.
I'm still shocked, and amazed, that Jack is the CEO of two public tech companies.
Okay I get your point. I noted it for improvement.
Spent nuclear fuel from reactors doesn't have usable quantities of the right plutonium isotope. RTGs use the uncommon Pu-238. Plutonium in spent nuclear fuel is mostly Pu-239, 240, 241, and 242.
It's a bad thing when you're not being honest.

"...we shared many of the same core values..."

Why not just say, "They made us an offer we couldn't resist. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
I think you mean the O(r^3) Schwartzchild radius will eventually overtake the radius r?
No? If walking-distance-to-culture comes with a side of dangerous, failing schools then of course it doesn't matter compared with avoiding that. Driving-distance-to-culture will have to do.
Founders – Overcome self-doubt using the SCAT framework
Isn't that the same as "I should receive compensation for my work."? The I is just a placeholder for any person.
“Tackling Concurrency Bugs with TLAplus” by Hillel Wayne
Or use the std::size free function. It's overloaded to work with C-style arrays.
"Today I went on a hike with Benny, while [tab]"

"Soldier: I will not see your son to your house."

errr.. not sure how that follows..
> creating rules that clearly benefit

I think you mean removing rules that clearly constrain?
TWO decades!
After this rent will increase 800%
For anyone wanting to roll this themselves, it's actually quite easy with Chrome media capture these days. Just make a Chrome extension with desktopCapture permissions, follow the example codes to do things like chooseDesktopMedia and webkitGetUserMedia and let them choose the desktop (or tab). You can do what you want w/ the media stream after that (like capture to blobs which you can send around, or send over WebRTC or whatever).

I have even successfully captured a tab to video [0]

0 - https://github.com/cretz/chrome-screen-rec-poc/tree/master/a...

Edit: I should say screen capture, screen sharing is a different deal of course.
Video Shows Island-Wide Damage to Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria
Mobile Safari just sits there...
Apollo supports batching queries at the transport layer. graphql-ruby and I'm sure other graphql servers support this out of the box, which means with about ~10 LOC changed you can have your cake (separate queries for independent update) and eat it (combined into one initial call).
This isn't a meaningful definition because compilation and execution under a single command is trivial for any compiled language, including Go and Python and PHP. As for lack of boilerplate, Haskell and many statically-typed, compiled functional languages have less boilerplate than PHP or Python. Dynamic typing is more meaningful, but regardless of definition, I fail to see why it's useful to restrict the scope to scripting languages. However, even if you make this restriction, there are many, many languages that are dynamically typed "scripting" languages that are much faster than PHP and Python (JRuby, Lua, JS, Wren, most lisps, etc).
> Any other commercial OS at enterprise level is way beyond that in developer licenses.

Huh? If you need one license, Windows pro is much cheaper? Along with visual studio community edition etc.

It really annoys me that Apple refuses to license OS X for non-appearance hw though. Might even eventually have bought some Apple hw, if I could start developing for ios/OSX without having to start with buying a computer I don't need. (I might have bought an iphone, for example).
This report from GAO[1] published in 2015, referenced in the report, referenced in TFA (whew), is very eye opening and worth a read.

It states very clearly how the economy is changing. Public policy will need to adapt to this new environment. Also, this is just the beginning of a massive shift in work that was predicted as far back as the Regan administration.

1: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-168R
This is fantastic!

The Nik Collection can do some amazing things (and is worth spending some time with if you haven't already). Their contrast and polarizer tools are particularly good, as well as their B/W workflow.

From what I was told by a former Googler, they acquired Nik for the team, but didn't really have a use for the tools they created - they were mostly interested in the skills for Google Photos. At least Google found a way to pass the software on to another owner that will likely keep developing these tools, although it took a couple of years for that to happen.

PS - RAW editing tools seem to all have their own strengths and weaknesses. In my experience, Lightroom is the easiest to use (and gives good results overall), but Capture One (by Phase One) has much better color management. Skin tones just look 'right' with the default flow, and it's free (lite version) / discounted for Sony cameras. Canon's Digital Photo Professional is free (for supported cameras) and rather clunky, but it can produce very sharp results with some 'soft' lenses, like the 16-36mm f/2.8 II.

If you have a photo you really like and have some time to get the most out of it, you could produce a TIFF via Digital Photo Professional (assuming you have a Canon), then process with Lightroom/Capture One for basic settings, and finally adjust to your liking with Nik Collection.
How do you do that when it's the install EULA after you've already purchased the product?

How do you do that when the contracts are fundamentally entirely one sided (we can change it whenever we want).
Safari on latest MacOS gives me unintelligible words pretty often.

My input: "I went to the grocery store to pick up some milk for"

Output on wikipedia setting:

"I went to the grocery story to pick up some milk for ... proposes of such to take a amplifier and the exporteruation of the player of former"

None of the options seem to key off of the text of my sentence except for vaguely the last word (in my case a generic preposition). Am I doing it wrong?

Here's another example, with the ellipses where I pressed tab:

> As I walked along the forest trail, I came to a most amazing [...] the history of the town himself, the complete material was made to be a traditional
Wouldn't universal health care and public health insurance be completely different things? The primary issue with "insurance" as I see it is that it separates where the cost is generated from who pays it. This removes the responsibility and incentive to keep costs low. I'd hope if we had a universal health care system this would not be the case.
Is there a link to the old icon?
lol this is bad
This is significantly more readable, I think the OP should be changed to point to this.
That sure weighs in the other direction. But presumably no contractor or other non-employee would (should) work for less cost to the employer since they still have to fund pensions, healthcare etc?

I'm guessing that the situation is that in some sectors there are people now working as "contractors" for the same type of money they would be making as employees - but without benefits.

So it's a good thing at least that all this translates to fantastic growth which ultimately trickles down... /s
This is difficult to do in France.

I went to a funeral company, met a distinguished guy ready for his role of grieving with me over the loss of someone, and was completely taken off guard when I wanted to discuss the details of my funeral in 40 years or so. There was no way to prepare this with him and I doubt it is possible with any other company.
Well, the previous 'don't ask don't tell'-equivalent era lasted about a month after their latest funding round. What a surprise!
It's less about component-level refetching (though you can), it's more about the strong data specificity and composition that is the point of this article. That said, it's up to your query builder to figure out intelligent refreshing / refetching. I use Relay, and it's pretty good at this.
Its about the home services delivery angle. The courier is just the simplest one to explain to get some level of adoption.
Google's photo strategy is so strange.

Photos is a great app and has universal appeal - powerful, intuitive editing, easy and smart search, free backup, etc.

Snapseed is also one of the best mobile photo editing tools around, certainly the best free one IMHO.

My guess is they used the Nik technology in these tools to make the editing and retouching functions work so well, and now they sold it with contingent that they can use it in perpetuity...

Here is the weird part -why wouldn't Google merge Snapseed editing with Photos? It would be a killer combination and dominate the consumer space, locking in users to the Goole platform. Isn't that ultimately what they want?.

I always assumed Snapseed and Photos would merge one day. Yet, it has never come, and instead Google is empowering others in the space with their tech.

Maybe they have "good enough" dominance in the area and don't care anymore? Maybe all they care about is tying users into the Drive platform and Photos is just another funnel that did good enough and can be ignored?
> inventing undetectable dark this or dark that sounds way more kookier than this

It's not really "invented". People get stuck on names way too much, forgetting these are simply placeholders, stopgap measures for a still incomplete, but evolving, understanding of nature.
I (sadly) have production experience from within the last year. I don't use Spring by choice, but it still gets forced on me by coworkers and teammates, so I reserve the right to complain.

I've heard the "you're probably re-writing it... and doing a worse job than they did" argument so many times, is this on the spring forums or something?
I bike in NYC and occasionally deal with people stepping into the street while looking at their phones and not checking for cross traffic because they can't hear me. It's annoying, but doesn't take much to just brake and dodge them. I wish they would've looked, but the streets are for the people in the city. It's not a freeway.

I do fear there will be an uptick in problems with EVs, though, that don't have pedestrian warning sounds added and people not looking because they hear nothing and expect to hear an engine (experienced this a little bit in parking lots during my time driving a Leaf). But we'll see what happens I guess.
> Does it make sense for the patrons of that bank to be able to sue the bank?

If they left the doors unlocked and didn't bother to hire security then sure.
I'm sure twitter trump-eted growth numbers both internally and externally when they had hockey stick growth around the 2016 election.
I had to look up "venery" :)
> ...the popular mainstream one (Einstein's) that, let's face it, we've all been secretly hoping to take down.

Please ELI5 what benefits follow from taking down the GR-based gravity theory?
No Ticket; No Work
“If you remember nothing else about the superiority of democracies to other forms of government, remember the fact that in three years, we will have a change of leadership and almost no one is stocking up on canned goods to prepare for the inevitable civil war.” - http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-fa...

I would go so far as to say that the peaceful transition of power is the defining advantage of democracy.
I've thought this ever since i learned to program in a Unix environment. Bash scripts suck and command line interfaces make for terrible apis. Error handing is non existent, which inevitably leads to unreliable software. It's definitely great to have an interface that's composable with other programs, but a character stream is a blunt tool to work with
Can you give some examples of what these costs are and how they've increased since 2005 (or 1995)?
This is a pretty one sided account. The CFPB didn't spring into existence because some unelected bureaucrat decided it should exist. The structure that the DC Circuit Court of Appeals found unconstitutional likewise wasn't the design of some unelected bureaucrat.

The Federal Arbitration Act is not the only piece of duly enacted legislation in question here. Another peice of legislation -- one that was passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President of the United States -- was the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

A lot of bankers and their lawyers fought against Dodd-Frank tooth and nail. They were very happy with how things worked up until that point, thank you very much. Normally the American public doesn't have the attention span to thwart the bankers' lobbyists -- they are in there 24/7 lobbying for narrow concentrated interests and public interests on the other side are too diffuse and abstract to mount an effective defense. But in this case the stars aligned and legislation was passed. So the lobbyists moved on from stopping the bill from being passed to killing it afterwords in the regulatory process.

Where were the impassioned speeches about separation of powers and the will of Congress when bank lobbyists were busy eviscerating the skin-in-the-game rule?

Sure, Congress has every right to pass a law, which is what they did here, and override a prior law. But by the same token the Dodd-Frank Congress had every right to override the Federal Arbitration Act. This isn't a question of separation of powers, it's a question of public policy. Congress didn't stand up for Congressional prerogatives, they stood up for banks.
Thanks for that, hope I get the willpower to!
> Don't forget, smartwatches originated from a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.

Also don't forget that Sony Ericsson released the MBW-100 smartwatch[1] several years before Kickstarter existed ... so I'm not sure how they could have originated on Kickstarter.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=385SISfXUNU
Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work. I've been a huge fan of the Screenhero product since the first time someone showed it to me several years ago.
Seeking Alpha, the free piece of the service. It ties my portfolio to constant official news and internal opinion articles with comments at the bottom, lets you follow some authors, has a web and an app version, and a few other things. It's just not very good at cost basis stuff, and it's a pain to enter that stuff in. It also doesn't persist the cost basis between my web and app account, strangely. It gets angry at adblocking but still lets you use the free version of the site.
No I don't agree.

To me, it's like saying "somewhat unique".

The phrase "relatively optimal" doesn't make sense to me. Do you have a server that's optimal relative to some other server? That's just "optimal", no? And if it's sub-optimal relative to some other server, that's just "sub-optimal"?

Locally optimal is a known thing (it even has it's own wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_optimum), but "relatively optimal" is just sloppy thinking in my view.
Does screehero still use 200% cpu?
They have examined it and found it's fine.
LMAOing at the idea of a "free nation" in which saudi arabia--one of the most insanely conservative nations on earth--has total sovereignty.
They are being paid enough to invest.
>> Outlawing something that large portions of the population already do

That in and of itself should signal that we aren't quite as "democratic" as we are told. We are allowed to vote on people who vote on things on our behalf - we are never allowed to vote on laws such as this one(otherwise, it would likely fail).
I have a website for the space opera game here: festive.ninja which will give you a sense of the game. I'm hoping to get a quickstart version of the game out shortly, after I get a chance to incorporate the playtest feedback. (Which was to double down on the whole "post-scarcity geeks, gamers and makers" aspects of the setting.)

Good luck with your game--when you get a draft in playable form I'd be happy to run a session and share feedback if that'd be helpful. Speaking of talking nerdy game-design, the RPG design reddit is surprisingly active, if you haven't had a chance visit yet.

I agree that default Fate is tonally suited best for pulpy games, or other genres where the characters default to remarkably competent.
FaceID is not required to unlock your phone. From Apple's FaceID support page in the Privacy section:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108

"If you choose to enroll in Face ID, you can control how it's used or disable it at any time. For example, if you don’t want to use Face ID to unlock your iPhone, open Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Use Face ID, and disable iPhone Unlock. To disable Face ID, open Settings > Face ID & Passcode, and tap Reset Face ID. Doing so will delete Face ID data, including mathematical representations of your face, from your device. If you choose to erase or reset your device using Find My iPhone or erasing all content and settings, all Face ID data will be deleted."
Always happy to see Joanna Rutkowska mentioned. She has been a huge inspiration for me.
AFAIK, all of the recent consoles have been profit making on just the hardware alone. Not very much money per unit at first, but none of them shipped as a loss leader.
We need guaranteed minimum income, its the most freedom enhancing way of solving these problems. Give people cash, give them financial literacy training, the rest ought to work out okay.
Arbitration is also secret, so it's very difficult to gather data about its results.
Sure, but imagine how much worse things would be if the bar were lower. Govt contracts always bring out the leeches - it's not unique to software contracts.
The FBI takes counterintelligence really really seriously and their job involves protecting their agents. And I'd bet those dudes don't have much to do most of the time, at least compared to their supposed importance. So if anything it's largely the side effect of a bureaucratic system rather than some malicious attack.

I'm sure they'd say they take any 'threats' against their agents seriously, even seemingly benign ones. It's possible most of this stuff is automated anyway, so they can do deep searches with all identifiers into their NSA-fueled databases on anyone talking about FBI agents on social media.
Do the IR filters in those nice glasses block the wavelengths that the iPhone’s sensors use? I imagine they’re aimed at blocking the sun which is probably not the same spectrum.
i mean, ill just rake the leaves. itll take an hour. maybe ill design a robot to do it. i would rather do all of that than work to earn money to pay someone to rake the leaves. thats just my personal preference.
While this is technically true, what's the point in making the whole thing more complicated?

Say you relax the restrictions such that only the first parent of every commit must be signed. While this might make sense for a small branch edited by one person, what if it was a long-lived branch modified by multiple people?

The only case I can see for such a system is if you're doing a pull-request based workflow where your code review tool (GHE, Bitbucket, whatever) is the only tool capable of updating `master` and produces signed merge commits whenever a branch passes code review. Then you can at least (in theory) attest that all commits to master have been reviewed.

But if not that, and people are signing their commits to master anyway (which you can automate in your `~/.gitconfig`, why allow exemptions to commits on branches?