skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, everything fits, seeing what Appel actually wanted, if I understood correctly: her wish was anyway to sail with the boat to some inhabited island and live on it for as long as it would be possible. Therefore it wasn't an accident for her to have the food "planned for a year" on the boat, she prepared for that. Then as she failed to reach an island, she figured out it's not much worse simply floating as long as they can, and kept the "call for help" option for as late as possible. Therefore she didn't want to even try to send a help signal too early.

Then even if the "details" (storms, sharks) turn out to be lies, what remains should be enough for her to enjoy a little more being "famous." I would like if she'd sell the rights for a movie about all what she did.

However, what definitely doesn't fit the story of being five months at the sea in any form is Appel's skin.

I can imagine that she managed to spend good amount of time just as she wished: on some inhabited island. Which would also explain the green stuff on the ship: it could have mostly grown while they were on the island. But I believe everybody would catch a lot of sun on an inhabited island too.

So if they haven't been on some island, they must have then really spent most of the time inside of the boat, being satisfied with floating. Once one doesn't care about actively navigating the boat she doesn't have to be too much exposed to the sun. Then the growth on the ship maybe originates even from the time before they started sailing: if the most money and energy was invested in the food "enough for one year" then it wouldn't be surprising.
Personally I think the concept of "particle" needs to go away completely.

I think really what "particle" means is that "all measurements are quantized". But the probabilities of any given measurement happening flows around as a wave.

For example, "there is a quantity of energy `e` at location `x`" is an observation you could make. The answer to that question has a discrete yes/no answer. The probability of the answer being "yes" flows around like a wave between all the different possible `x` as time progresses.
CW, which is in fact an abbreviation of Continuous Wave, is an often-used phrase used to describe Morse Code on the radio.
I don’t think “don’t blame the victim” applies to voluntary transactions. Consumers have shown we will not sacrifice much for privacy or security. That’s a trade-off made in the market by millions of people, independently, every day.
About the first point: in the 60s Paris suburbs were also filled with wood cabins and shared toilets. I wouldn't take this as that important.

But the rest hints at real problems, actually about my comment above, France has suffered problems due to the way they tried to improve things at mass-scales (which backfired into social problems 30 years later and now people back pedal a bit).

Now if we extrapolate this to the scale of China, and the frailty/falsity of their infrastructure.. and a sensation that they mostly want to feel like a great nation on the international scene .. I could see a catastrophic implosion.
I have a hard time doing these things without a car. Being able to reach a nature site/park/recreation area on public transit with a huge group of people makes it feel like just an extension of the city and city life. You’re surrounded by a mob of people with their phone cameras out, even if you don’t have yours.

How do countries without mass car ownership pull this off?
You really don't need much hash power to make the network work. Remember in the very early days it ran on a couple CPU miners.
Seriously? RabbitMQ is a huge waste of complexity for like 95% of modern webapp use cases.

I use tools like Dramatiq specifically because I want to abstract away the complexity of exchanges, bindings, queues, dead lettering, etc...

If you write out all the nouns associated with RMQ you start to realize there is a LOT going on. It’s a very powerful system but convention over configuration doesn’t work here.
I don’t like the new tipping functionality. Lyft is just pushing its obligation to pay its drivers fairly onto the customers.
Wal-Mart charges more for some products online than in stores
It's fairly well documented by numerous studies that for most people blood cholesterol is not significantly impacted by cholesterol consumed in food. That is, cholesterol in your coffee is likely a non issue.

Furthermore, the connection between cholesterol and heart disease is greatly overstated. The true culprit is sugar and too many carbs. In most cases sugar/carbs will kill you before cholesterol will.
No one is talking about your aunt. I would label this as off topic.
> I would probably have just said something like "I use an iPhone because Android is for poor people" just "for the lulz"

this is why we can't have nice things. when people's response to someone doing research about their opinion is to lie to the researcher 'for the lulz' there is something wrong...
> Peter Thiel, who’s written that capitalism is undermined by women being allowed to vote, is an investor in Yarvin’s startup.

I don’t know a lot about futurism, but given the author clearly doesn’t seem to know how to fact check I’m going to assume the time I spent getting to this part was wasted.
Zoning isn’t state law.
PBS propaganda series about Vietnam
Edge computing. Run computationally intensive tasks on the end user's machine instead of the cloud.

Basically, what we were doing before cloud took off.

Cloud computing is great and all. But the recent privacy and centralization issues are real things. There is also the issue of internet bandwidth in rural and poorer communities, where cloud is not a viable option.
Firefox OS - IIRC, it rendered the entire UI using HTML drawing directly to the screen using Open GL ES with no 'native' toolkit to speak of, nor requiring any X11 or Wayland backend.
I got an Asus vivobook pro a few weeks ago. It came with endless linux. I'm now running Ubuntu 17.10 and I've had no issues. Everything just works, including all the backlight / brightness control buttons.

The Nvidia settings gui (comes with drivers) allows me to switch between Nvidia and intel graphics. With intel graphics card selected and the tlp package (apt install tlp, no additional setup, should be installed by default imho), I get 60-90 minutes more than reviewers got on windows.
30 minutes is a long time. What if there's a tiny bit of inconsistency in the format, and you spend even more time working around it? Then there's the need to spend time to be sure that the transformed data is still correct.

By the time you've realized the thing is going to take much longer than you thought, you've already wasted enough time.
Thank you.

To which I'd like to add: It's sugar and carbs that are doing the damage. The bad reputation of cholesterol is at this point a myth, a myth that more need to be aware of.
A correction on sharks: not that many of them lay eggs and do a runner. Most shark varieties have the eggs develop in the womb, sometimes with a 'cord' and sometimes not. In the latter type there is the small matter of oophagy.

Here they have many, many baby sharks inside their womb and the baby sharks eat each other until only one baby shark is left. This shark has murdered scores of its siblings before it emerges into the world hungry.
Indeed, it can be very much worse than the present article even imagines. I’ve seen incompetent, tyrannical managers scape goat and fire developers because the teams failed to make releases. Never mind the mountains of technical debt, lack of tests or even the most basic documentation that made even the most trivial changes into bug fests.
Two Border Cities Share Russian History – And a Sharp European Divide
So let's make a daemon app which calls that exact number on the 2nd SIM and if it's not busy drops both calls.
Agreed - I created a new jsfiddle with a couple of body style rules and updated the link.
Futhermore, you (specifically your brain) needs cholesterol. There is such a thing as not enough cholesterol.
Note, it helps to have contact information in your profile if you're offering services.
You cannot deduce from that that that engineer is one of "these people." There is not enough information in the situation to draw that conclusion. It's like claiming, solely based on your remark, that you are one of those people who jumps to conclusions prematurely. It doesn't work like that.
You can get pretty close to that with JavaScript, especially with all the CodePen-like sites out there -- but even without those, the JavaScript console is pretty similar to the old BASIC prompt in terms of immediacy and ubiquity.

JavaScript also has this in common with BASIC: the language bigots hate it. :-)
I've gotten used to quickly bringing up the console (Command + alt + j on macOS Chrome, varies by platform) and running

document.querySelectorAll("audio").forEach(x => x.playbackRate = 2.0)

(And "video" for video tags). But it doesn't seem to work on this page because SquareSpace isn't actually adding any audio tags to the DOM (even though the mp3 URL is there). So instead you can run

window.location.href = /http[^\s]+\.mp3/ig.exec(document.body.innerHTML)[0]

To navigate to just the mp3 URL, and then run the playbackRate snippet in the newly-created tab to set the speed.
It depends, people can move in the wrong direction too. I especially worry about country with recent growth too tied in their fever. I appreciate countries with experience. Also not all new is good. Look at the nutrition theories of the 50s that are somehow bogus, while old japanese villages and Mediterranean islands have longer lifespans. We need perspective and patience.
Huey: https://huey.readthedocs.io -- even simpler :) redis or sqlite, mit license, greenlet/thread/process worker model support.
The gluten in that bread (read: insulin spike) will hurt you a lot more than the butter.
Probably better to post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/
Even people who are avid followers constantly get played. My advice if you rarely follow them is to let the news trickle in through reputable channels (WallStreet Journal, The LA Times etc.).

Learn about the industry, it's history, the major players, and then try to see how the company you're interested in fits into the picture. There are communities (subreddits) dedicated to those companies and although they are biased, you can also check out the competing company's communities. Try to judge for yourself if you think that the product or service that the company offers adds the market value that their market-cap claims it does. See if you can learn about the company's customers and how they're doing. Hows the economy as a whole doing? What about geo-political / climate situation - how large a role does it play?

Then, wait. Let things soak in a little. Keep asking questions.

Of course, most people will never do this. I myself am a victim, and let me tell you - I've lost a lot of money by not doing my own homework.
I’ve submitted code to this project and just want to state here for the record that Bogdan is very responsive and accepting of contributions. It was a very pleasing experience compared to other open source projects!

I reached out to the Python community recently with the question: “Django is to Flask as Celery is to ______?” Dramatiq was one of the suggested responses and the mission/purpose behind it resonated with me immediately.

I’m a big fan of convention over configuration. Most of the time, if I’m writing software in Python, I don’t want to worry about a system that is not Python. IE, I enjoy an ORM that abstracts PostgreSQL. I enjoy this because it abstracts Rabbit. Obviously you need to understand the underlying system and an ORM is no replacement for knowing the ins and outs of Postgres, just as this is no replacement for understanding Rabbit. But... I love that it does everything I want it to do with minimal or zero configuration.
What I'd really like is a smarter compiler. My normal dev process is

1. Write code

2. Run code

3. See error

4. Google error

5. Write code to fix error

6. Repeat

I'd like a compiler that helps speed up steps 3-5. I know IDEs do some of this, but I'd like a compiler that automatically fixes errors instead of just telling me what went wrong. One that fixes parentheses that I left off or automatically fixes typos in variable names or function calls. One that knows to keep things DRY and creates a function for me when it sees the same similar code written twice. One that knows when I wrote an inefficient bubble sort and swaps it out with a faster sorting algorithm etc. One that can make my code run faster. I think this is a long way off, and I know it's really hard to write a program that writes code, but it's always seemed that programming simple things is way harder and takes longer than it should to me.
Unless “us” is other alphabet agencies competing for the same budget, be realistic. The NSA is not the problem, it’s the attitude, culture, and insane funding of their mission which is the problem. The failure of the agency will not change that, just redirect it.
Typical transatlantic latency is way more than 15ms - more like 50 one way. To Asia and Australia is much more. Thats on top of processing and last mile delays.

Anyone can notice the total latency in even a Skype conversation.
Gluten is protein, which isn't going to cause an insulin spike. I suspect you mean carbs.
I love your work (Peewee is a tool I use very often). I would have liked to use Huey in a recent project but it doesn’t have modular backend support for Rabbit.
I agree. Typing is not the hard part of programming.
> Junior engineers should feel welcome to suggest work.

Of course. Senior developer should welcome Junior's feedback and then deliver detailed critique on the suggestion.

Junior developer should learn from it and try to make his future suggestions better.

Rinse and repeat until Junior would come up with something useful.
What to Do in SF When You’re Wealthy? Join a Private Club
Really?

You mean all particles are virtual?

Whaz is the alternative?
I can think of field where these kind of tools flourish: music and art. I'm thinking of this specific counter-example:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synt...

There may be other specific problem domains where subject matter experts may be able to be productive, if given relatively basic programming tools along with specific, modular, abstractions useful to their problem domain.

I could see drone programming becoming something like this - a farmer may need to update his drone behaviour every day, but he may not be excited about learning to 'program' it.
The Guidelines don't support any of this theorizing.

Reddit's "reddiquette" has a rule like the one you suggest for HN. I think the fact that this rule has failed to show up in the published Guidelines, after a decade or so, even through Guidelines edits, is (weak) evidence that HN does not use Reddit's rule.

As far as I can tell, downvotes are for whatever you want them to be for. I mean, I mostly only use my downvotes according to the rule you propose. But I think your claim that this is the "meaning" of downvotes is unsupported by evidence. And, from the Guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

As such, one thing I do downvote for: unconstructive complaining about downvotes.
The source of the claim comes from here: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

> Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

Thiel add's an update addressing this point:

> It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better.

I frankly have no idea about what he is trying to say.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute"
Thanks so much. You're right, I think some people have written storage engines for rabbit (as well as mongo) but you might have to search for them. The storage api is simple enough you could write your own in an hour or two.
Well, German public TV and radio isn’t nearly as good as the newspaper cited in the article. Compared with BBC - it’s certainly is not a great example of spending public funds.
How do you know the difference? Is it in the banner or the url?
I once read an interesting article about a journalist who had reported on a lot of corruption in FIFA.

He asked a question at a press conference to the effect of "there are a lot of rumours you are corrupt, do you have any comment?" - but his motivation to ask that question wasn't that he expected a good answer. Rather, he was advertising his interest in the story to anyone who had info they'd like to leak. And just like that, he starts getting tips and leaked documents.

Süddeutsche Zeitung is in a similar position. By handling previous leaks well they've advertised several things: (a) They have the knowledge to recognise the importance of such documents, (b) they consider such content within the remit of their paper, (c) they won't bury the story out of fear of the rich and powerful (or on the advice of a risk-averse legal team) and (d) they can do an adequate job of OpSec and source protection.

For a leaker, the choice between Süddeutsche Zeitung and Teen Vogue is obvious.
Households do spend >$1000 per month on consumer goods/services (food, clothes, personal care items, etc). Those companies do spend >10% on marketing. I'm not sure what portion of it is spent online, which is what you'd need the subscription to replace.

There's no implication that every dollar they spend on marketing directly translates into $10 of new spending "that they would otherwise not get at all".

Much of it is brand spending. Procter & Gamble is the world's largest advertiser, and the goal of their ads is to make sure you keep picking up Tide every time you're in the detergent aisle. Coca-Cola's ads aren't trying to get you to buy $10 more of soda than last week, just to keep soda on your shopping list every week. Those ad dollars would need to be replaced by the subscription if you're going to remove the ads but keep compensation for the websites the same.
No, I mean that there are no particles. Only waves.

Only that if you try to measure something about the wave, you will always get a discrete "yes/no" answer.
I get why it would make sense to employ mules who are credibly non-narcotraficante-ish. I just don't think anyone with access to thousands of pounds of illegal drugs would be dumb enough to entrust the payload to these two.
Spammers generate random numbers in your area code for each call though, they don't call from the same number twice.
Analyzing Your Browser History Using Python and Pandas
I might need to do this! And thanks again for your work on Peewee... I think people underestimate it’s power due to the funny name.
Industry Insight: Job Hunting Could Someday Resemble 'Black Mirror'
I stopped when the author wrote that "Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) — wove [his] worlds with far-right, reactionary, and even outright fascistic themes and heroes." This is just not at all an accurate read of Ender's Game. The later books, sure -- i.e. the character in one of the Shadow of the X books who says that the purpose of life is to reproduce and that he himself suppressed his homosexuality to fulfill this purpose (???) -- but Ender's Game's themes, while religious, are downright anti-fascist.

Thiel actually has said the thing that you quote [0] (though perhaps I'm misunderstanding you).

[0] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... "Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."
You could golf it down a bit more with:

document.body.innerHTML += (Math.random() > 0.5 ? "\\":"/")
Specifically, IBM had no real roadmap for the PPC 970 series (G5), and could not offer pricing that matched Intel.
You're the one dodging questions here. You imply that you think murder isn't wrong, but you decline to define it. You raise strawman questions about "killing" when I specifically asked about murder.

It's very simple: do you think murder is wrong? Yes or no?

If your answer is yes, then we can talk about the definition of murder as opposed to war, justified homicide, etc.

If your answer is no, then we can talk about objective morality, and why it wouldn't be ok for me to kill you just because I feel like it--i.e. why there is objective morality, because if there isn't, then there is no moral reason for me not to kill you and take all your stuff whenever I feel like it.

> I'm sorry if I took your response of "many people think this" as a serious response. ... And if you can't answer my questions about murder, which apparently is such an easy moral issue for you.

You literally asked, "Who says murder is wrong?" I literally answered the question. Your question was obviously rhetorical, yet pointless, because you didn't make a point by asking it. So I then asked the relevant, next, serious question, to move the discussion forward. You then declined to answer it, instead making silly personal attacks, as if performing for an audience. Note, BTW, that I haven't said anything about taxation.

It seems to be you who is not interested in seriously discussing objective morality, yet it is you who raised the topic, and you obviously know that most people disagree. Therefore you seem to be trolling. A shame, because it could be an interesting conversation.

Please prove me wrong by taking the conversation seriously now.
I can assure you that 'taking' data off these systems is non-trivial -- Snowden was one of the few people with physical access and admin access. Attempting to access a large amount of info in 24H would also set off alarms. There is also no end to the pain-in-the-ass rules.

But the gist of what you are saying is correct, a lot more interconnection, a lot more software, using standard (albeit locked down) desktop operating systems. I think there was a realisation that the ultra-compartmented sharing-via-paper approach was killing effectiveness.

What I haven't seen in any of the SB leaks is evidence of access to core NSA systems via implants or a very trusted source. All the powerpoints could all be individual data spills, collected over time. All the TAO tooling could be stuff that sat on the dev system behind some bastion host, ready to be pushed to staging servers. Personally, I would only let binaries get that far out, but operational exigencies occur, high side operators can be phished, etc.
Uber confirms SoftBank has agreed to invest
It's a poor metaphor. I'm an engineer and I still call a plumber.

What I enjoy about Engineering is that you have a set of constraints and you have the challenge of working within those constraints to solve a problem in a feasible manner. All most everything can be boiled down to an optimization problem, make this reactor use less fuel, make this engine deliver more power, make this component lighter etc.

To create my own (bad) metaphor engineering is about coloring between the lines in the most efficient way possible. Science is what draws the lines and engineering is what fills them in.
What happens in the body when it's consumed?
> N.S.A. employees have been subjected to polygraphs

Oh,good to see an organization entrusted with an unconstitutional amount of data on Americans is defending against those threats with rank pseudoscience. Maybe they should hire a psychic to find that mole of theirs.
A Nation of McHospitals