skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find a definitive source, but the average adult reading speed seems to be around 300 wpm. Popular podcast Hardcore History hovers around ~175 wpm (https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*_PUpCqAQyCQ-Whf02...), so you'd need to almost double the speed to reach a normal reading pace. So I don't think arguments against speed reading really apply to this.

Of course it all depends on the host. If you find a podcast where the host is already reading at 250 wpm, you'll probably have a hard time catching everything at 2x speed.
> all. Then again, with current restrictions on SGX, like having to partition out memory for it at boot time,

Huh? why is this an issue at all. The most memory SGX can directly use is 128MB. So partition it off-- it's a small cost if it's likely that you'll use it.

Enclaves are not limited to 128MB in total, since the OS can page in and out SGX pages...
New developer YouTube Series: “Build Out”
Very cool would it be possible to get a reminder of when something is in season to plant as well, this would be very helpful with my home vegetable gardening efforts.
Whopping 47% Spike in the Bitcoin Value
Visual breakdown of revenue streams of Big 5
I stumbled across this saying, recently: The Cross is steady while the world is turning; Stat crux dum volvitur orbis. It's the motto of the Carthusians, a monastic order founded in 1084. But I can't figure out when they adopted that motto. And as I don't know Latin, I can't tell whether "volvitur orbis" refers to the Earth or the Heavens turning. Though the English translation sure seems to refer to the Earth, as does the naive translation of "dum volvitur orbis".

If the saying was from the 11th century (or even prior to the 15th century) and refers to the Earth, that would be interesting. I realize the heliocentric model existed long before Copernicus, but an early date to the motto would add more weight to arguments correcting misperceptions of the Copernican affair.

EDIT: Looks like it may have been adopted around 1600, when it first appeared on the Carthusian shield: https://books.google.com/books?id=gZaeGVNjIfcC&lpg=PA471&dq=...
Internxt vs. Storj, Sia, MaidSafe
Internxt
As some of you might know, https://internxt.io/ focuses on providing a range of superior, distributed internet services which are aimed to be incredibly powerful and intuitive. We're making these services incredibly attractive so that you can fall in love with them. Our first service, X Cloud, gives you the security, privacy and reliability you'd expect from a cloud storage platform, thanks to distributed technology. X Cloud, will let you store your files on a cloud that's truly secure, private and reliable (unlike what services such as Google Drive or Dropbox have to offer, and similar to what providers such as Storj are doing).

How are we better than Storj, Sia, MaidSafe etc?
Right. So we are here to outperform mass market services such as Google Drive or Dropbox, fundamentally thanks to the technology we are using, and with a similar marketing strategy and UX. We differentiate from Storj, Sia, MaidSafe etc because we aren't building services which only blockchain geeks know how to use. Their main clients are those familiar with the blockchain industry, and although we will definitely also expect to have significant amount of users in this niche, we want to make sure we put big marketing and UX efforts to reach all those individuals and businesses who aren't specially blockchain geeks nor tech experts, but who do care about the security and privacy of their files stored in the cloud. X Cloud Alpha will be out in January 2018, and the later stages of the service will be released throughout 2018.

Website https://internxt.io/
Whitepaper https://internxt.io/whitepaper.pdf
Telegram https://t.me/internxt_io
Twitter https://twitter.com/internxt_io
CoinMarketCap https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/internxt/
CoinExchange https://www.coinexchange.io/market/INXT/BTC
Powerpc isn't too bad. Affordable power9 would be nice. What needs to be done to make that a reality?
When listening to a (non-fiction) audiobook or lecture about a novel topic, do you not find yourself needing time to think? When do you integrate the new information or ideas being presented into your existing framework of understanding?
Not really. I thought that Chromecast would become a thing in meeting rooms. You could just beam your laptop or phone up onto the big screen. Who needs more than a browser?

But no, it has not happened. We still fumble over connectors.

Given my failed ability to get anyone interested in going Chromecast I doubt I could persuade anyone to get DeX sorted for the meeting rooms.
Not that they aren't both impressive people, but Evan Spiegel has him beat by a hair.
FYI I can't read the link above
React-map-interaction: Add zoom and pan to any React element
> falls far short of "must have a lidar system accessible through an api".

Source?
Yeah, one of the reasons I value silence so much is because I don't get a lot of it during the day. I work in an open office, I use public transport, I go to a swimming pool. At evenings I usually spent some time with my wife.
So by the time I have some silence, it is night. If, our neighbours are not being too loud of course.

As a consequence, I really appreciate the quiet moments and nature walks etc.
Right like its actually AWS Atlantis-West.
Who'd have thought running arbitrary code from random websites was a bad idea?

Blocking all scripts (at least by default) is the only solution.
I glossed over a few details, but the main reasons are that a.) current interest rates are lower in Japan than the U.S. to begin with (BOJ benchmark rate is 0%, vs. Fed rate of 1.25%) and b.) the most common long-term Japanese mortgage is actually a 35-year mortgage partially guaranteed by the government. The 35-year term (vs. 30 years) knocks the interest rate down a bit, and the partial guarantee (similar to a U.S. FHA or VA loan, but the buyer still needs a 10-20% downpayment) reduces it even further.
If you do it at a large enough scale it will be impossible to collect it all and it will completely destroy the North Korean military's morale.

They won't be able to claim it as theirs because you'd label all the food in English and Korean. With a picture of people of different ethnicities hold hands and smiling.

Oh, also you'd drop appropriate medicine as well, because many NK's are riddled with parasites.
Whilst I largely agree (and follow) the suggestions here, I take extreme exception to providing this sort of response as a solution to the problem.

We're living in a world in which, individually and atomically, our willpower is being tested against AI-driven, algorithmic, electronic colossi whose own goal-seeking behaviour is to maximise demands on our attention. And the systems mentioned -- smartphones, the Internet, email, messaging systems, even specific platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, are increasing less optional luxury choices and far more necessary, if not for transacting all life, then at least significant portions of it.

The bottom-up response doesn't scale or work, and it fails to address the consequences of the behaviours of others who do not, or can not, follow the advice.

I've spent much of the past year occupied with studying the history of media, communications, and the interactions they have with society. And those impacts are absolutely massive. The printing press, cheap paper, mass literacy, high-speed printing, telegraph, radio (and its very strong co-evolution with fascism and Nazism, as well as other populist political cults), had absolutely disruptive effects, and not at all uniformly in a good way.

Which is to say that the Internet giants, and Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon specifically, are toying with our fundamental social and cultural infrastructure whilst externalising massive costs and risks.

One school of thought, and it's gaining credible voices by the day, demands regulation.

A growing question I'm developing is whether, or what, changes are absolutely inevitable, and how our tomorrows won't look in the least like our yesterdays. Professor Stuart's "Slaughterbots" video plays on a similar, and very closely related theme, and suggests a level of potential impact I suspect is of roughly similar magnitude.
Yeah, I'm using IntelliJ IDEA with intellij-haskell plugin as well! Works quite nicely, but my work is pretty trivial at the moment, so I'm not sure how it will hold up for something a bit more complicated. We shall see..!
Simple. Either revenue/profit or growth. That's all there is.

If your business model is network based, you can go for "grow now, monetize later" model. Then you need growth even if it means revenue sacrifice.

If your business model is not network based, then revenue/profit.

In case of Snapchat, they made personal gains for the founders and the VCs, but from company point of view, they don't make no money, their growth has stalled. The industry #1 has exactly the same app with larger user base and faster growth.

I can't think of a single reason why this would fall into a success category. If anything, the founders and VCs cashing out so much when the company is dying indicates failure rather than success.
In long term, this could change everything. In the short term, the tech is cool but I'm having trouble imagining how I would use this.

In the short-term:

Would I set this up at home for personal use? Likely not as I would have my laptop already for this purpose. At home, I would want the flexibility to be able to move between my desk and couch, at least.

Would I use this at work? I already have a powerful work laptop - this would definitely not substitute.

If my employer had many traveling employees, would they setup DeX workstations for those who are visiting for a few hours? Maybe. For work use, it's too limited in power and applications to be a serious competitor.

In the long term:
If I were a casual user of tech, whose primary needs were email, documents, videos and photos, would this let me not buy a separate laptop altogether? Yes - possibly. This is the killer use case. Eventually, the phone will get more and more powerful and internet speeds will get faster. For the casual tech user of email, documents, media and web browsing, this will more than suffice. Having two machines to buy and maintain, that do the same thing for you, will seem clunky and out-dated.
Yeah he's literally described iCloud. Even though it's moved into some dropbox competitor, that's really the secondary usecase for it.
printf is not built into the language so the compiler doesn't know about its semantics...
Agreed. Sad little boxes of anti-aging pills regularly appear at the door for my mother in law who is a prime target for these old people / skin thing funnels.
Can you point me to one non-scam ICO (not Brave) and what investors gained from it?
I finally updated to OS X Yosemite (10.10) and went to buy this app as I had been intending to once I updated, but unfortunately since I made those plans, Haskell for Mac now requires an even newer version of OS X :( Unfortunate... I'll have to stick with IntelliJ IDEA for now -- no plans to ever "upgrade" beyond Yosemite unless absolutely necessary.
Yeah... Sounds like hoarding tendencies.
tl;dr: Start selling picks and shovels.
True ;-)

> Man OS/2 Warp was going to be AWESOME and than the infighting killed the whole thing. :(

OS/2 Warp was actually the IBM monopoly's last concerted attempt to kill little upstart Microsoft. One of IBM's senior managers at the time told me "We're going to burn Bill's butt."

By that stage, it wasn't infighting, it was war. (The infighting was Microsoft's attempt to get IBM to accept Windows NT as OS/2 version 3.)

As it happened, Microsoft had a very strong ally in Kirkland called ... IBM. Big Blue's PC division was interested in selling PCs and it was selling lots of PCs running Windows. PCs running OS/2 were virtually unsaleable.

Eventually, Gerstner arrived and told the OS/2 guys they'd lost and they should just stop.
Got it. Ya, it looks touched up. If someone could build a real bezel free monitor....
The irony is overwhelming: a screen-takeover modal advertisement for some "Black Friday" sale popped up over the article content as I attempted to start reading it.
mps-youtube

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
Literally the 7th sentence points out that Spiegel is older than him.
On return from a trip to Norway last week, I was shocked at how shabby, dirty, and poorly-maintained JFK is in comparison to the Oslo Airport. No doubt the New York subways are in serious trouble, but I'd encourage journalists in New York to take an even broader look at the deterioration of public assets and services throughout the city.
"True"
Previous Evidence of Water on Mars Now Identified as Grainflows
FB earnings to revenue just waiting for somebody to come and say "your earnings is my opportunity"
Ah, a non-pay walled version of this Uber news WSJ post. Here is the link in case you want to see/join the discussion:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15741019
My experience with Firefox Quantum [as compared to Chromium]
Take responsibility for your choices and your votes. You are not helpless.

Blaming Trump’s election (which this article insuates by equating his victory with the failure of democracy) on social media is incredibly disingenuous. Americans are not the helpless fools the author says we are.
I may be wrong about this, but I don't think the Brave browser intends to allow google to stop them. That's kinda the point of making it a different browser.
> Maybe you've never had to deal with a false rape accusation in your own life or in the life of someone who was close to you.

False rape accusations are a little more rare than men abusing their position of power over women. The later is endemic. Avoiding a false rape accusation isn't luck. But ask your wife, your mother, your daughter, your sister. I bet they all have stories of unwanted sexual attention from men. This kind of stuff happens daily for them. For women, it's like a constant background drone of men leering at them. Sometimes it's whistling. Sometimes it's stalking. Sometime's it's groping, and yes, sometimes it's rape. But it's a minefield, and it really is luck if they are never confronted with such indecency.

Further, if you've been paying attention, you'll notice the people being accused are serial offenders. In one case, more than a dozen women came forward. Unless you're willing to claim that women are engaged in a widespread conspiracy to take down men in positions of power, it's pretty hard to dismiss any of this as "false" accusations.
Not to be confused with “an approach to incremental compiler construction.”
I replaced the physical location of the Facebook app on my phone with Pumped 3, a really fun BMX game that I love.

Every time I unconsciously tried to open FB, I ended up opening Pumped 3 instead, which snapped me out of my trance and made me realize - “hey, you’re about to waste time”.

Now, I am getting good at Pumped 3, and I spend way less time playing that than I did scrolling FB; and none of my attention is being monetized by a global media conglomerate. Win-win.
interesting. I would have thought a watch would be worse because it's basically a "hey, look at your phone alarm".

I spend too much time futsing around the internet but I have almost all notifications turned off. no Twitter notifications, no Facebook notifications, no Instagram notifications. I only have messenger like app notifications on.
Maybe another way I'd frame the issue is that there are 2 orthogonal themes.

1, whether the structural incentives of the institution is altogether aligned with the interests of the common working people (http://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories...) or with the financial elites (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/cia-funded-washington-pos...), and

2, whether the publication follows scientific rigor to produce in-depth factual investigations (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-atlantic-commits-malp...)

It sounds like you're mainly addressing the second theme (i.e. they're less prone to just making things up). Though I'd argue they're not 'serious' institutions on both fronts.

On the one hand, they're less likely to even attempt to enter into discussion about whether to think about starting to investigate the types of stories that are detrimental to the elite consensus (When's the last time WaPo wrote about the 99% or DAPL or TiSa or had an opinion about this last $700 billion pentagon budget?). The same way how political bribes work. We think politicians get bribed to vote a certain way. It's way way too late by that point. Politicians get bribed to stop items from entering into the agenda for select committees so it'll never reach any assemblies for votes.

On the other hand, though large multi-month investigative journalism pieces correlate strongly with the wealth of the institutions that publish them, large scoped journalistic rigor isn't somehow exclusive to corporate media. Medium sized institutions like The Intercept (before they got influential and turned corporate) and fair.org produces many well researched articles corporate media will never get into.

No one is saying corporate media don't employ disciplined honest journalists who produces quality work. In fact, I strongly believe everyone who goes to work for NYT and WaPo do so because they want to productively contribute and be a force of good for society. What I'm saying is those journalists don't get promoted or get
fired like Phil Donahue while journalists who understand the game and self censor and don't get carried away with independent thought get airtime.
Reassessing the safety of nuclear power
I don't think there is a "technical profit" to be had, though.

The output of the effort put into technology is a new process or workflow, rather than raw "tech stuff". It's a multiplier to a different input, some other task or application, and so the creators of the technology are frequently disconnected from feedback about its actual use.

For tech to be useful it has to succeed at creating enough leverage that you would use it over what was there previously, and plenty of technical projects get stuck on that point: they show an immense engineering effort but are solving the wrong problem because they don't optimize the desired workflow, or they expect everything to change around the product's workflow.

In that light, in a universe where most of these designs are bad and misguided and deserve to be put out to pasture, the cost-center mentality makes total sense because it asks the design to prove itself as early as possible. And the outcome of that in turn is the familiar rushed, unmaintainable prototype-in-production scenario.

New technology efforts always have this element of being a judo match: if you can find just the right time and place to strike and take the problem off-balance you can get an instant win, but the same strategy at a different moment doesn't work at all, no matter how hard you flex your coding muscles, and would leave you better off not attempting any new tech.

The balance-sheet model doesn't explain when and where to strike, though. It just says whether or not you're trying to do so this quarter, and any benefit will most likely show up on a different business unit's balance sheet.
I'd be interested to see whether the total numbers of SSL sites has expanded because of LetsEncrypt.

I remember, one of the arguments that the Comodo CEO had on the forum was a rant about LetsEncrypt attacking their business model. While there were a lot of weird things in that rant, it does seem reasonable that a free service will erode the paid, commercial offering. So I would be curious if Letsencrypt is enabling people who otherwise would not have gotten an SSL cert, as well as the extent Letsencrypt is taking away customers.

I would also be curious to see what happens when wildcard SSL certs are launched.
>claiming that this time it will be different due to some vague, hand-wavy reason.

Because I'm not an advocate of Marxism-Leninism nor Soviet state capitalism, or depriving people of life.

>Yeah, millions being moved out of poverty is the same as "exploited".

Both can be true, the forms of exploitation have changed but the essence remains the same - the massive extraction of surplus from those in too dire a situation to do anything about it, especially in sweatshops.

>removing 50% of the world population from extreme poverty in half a century

The Soviet model transformed Russia from a barely industrialised feudal backwater into competing with the world's largest superpowers and enduring a world war and making extreme advancements in science and technology while facing constant embargoes. It lifted many people to much better standards of living and education and liberty.

>where death is part of the governing process.

I disagree that this is a feature of Socialism, it is a feature of an authoritarian state. Pinochet's Chile and Hitler's Nazi Germany were destructive even though neither were Socialist societies.

> as if he is a reasonable source

Marx is highly respected in the fields of classical political economy, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, journalism and revolutionary and liberation movements. Even his bourgeois critics hold him as one of the best critics of capitalism. The continuance of his ideas which goes on to this day in new Communist projects and research within philosophy by the likes of Badiou, Zizek, Negri, and the Frankfurt School has ensured he hasn't died. As his friend Engels said at his funeral: his name will endure through the ages.
We have testimonies from factory owners and artists that well known galleries in Europe essentially just sell stuff made in China. In the best cases an artist there touches it up, in the worst cases someone there just gives it the "ok".
Google docs. Sync, offline, voice dictations. I use it many times a day
Been using template literals for basic apps instead of the usual overhead. Mostly loving it.
The Top Three Mobile Attribution Mistakes Advertisers Made in 2017
A Nuclear Jet at Chernobyl Around 21:23:45 UTC on April 25, 1986
This is what happens when people pin all of their hopes on the power of the state. It puts them in the situation where if they don't get complete control of government to implement their utopia, then they believe its the end of the world or something. Any thought of tolerance, kindness, gentleness, etc, goes out the window as they become fixated. They become willing to excuse almost any behavior on the part of politicians who say the right things to them, and believe almost any bad thing about politicians who don't. They lose the ability to think for themselves.
I like (and do follow) your suggestion. However, i disagree on Twitter. Twitter is a cacophony of misinformation, misquotes, comments taken out of context, and or responses to really fringe & stupid opinions.
The case. Not the electronics.
In a totally pendantically isolated world that's true. It's not an actual hindrance to implementing something like this, as long as it can be turned off for people not using the usual stdlib.
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Don't get hung up too much on the price. They charge that because they can.

Expect Xiaomi to release a $25 knockoff for their phones if there's ever a demand for it. I suspect there's very little in the dock hardware itself over a standard USB-C OTG charging hub with HDMI passthrough and an ethernet port. Maybe I'm wrong but the rest is just software on the phone?
> The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

> The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death

I knew the first, but thought that someone else might not. I didn't remember the second abbreviation offhand, and thought someone else might appreciate a short explanation too.