skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In defense of the absent-minded, labeling it a "dominance" behavior requires several value judgements. One could readily read his examples to demonstrate, for instance, that once people attain to a certain level of status and respect (enough that they don't have to worry about people calling them "stupid") they're simply less uptight about a lot of things than other people are. They treat social chores and the location of parked cars as being precisely as unimportant as everyone feels like they are. The way the author talks about the habit- "everyone would love to be absent-minded", how people can or can't "get away with it," etc- makes it sound like absent-mindedness is the natural way of being. One could turn the whole idea around and criticize modern culture for requiring us all (those of us without professor-level cachet) to maintain a mandated level of neuroticism. Neuroticism that is unnecessary for real performance- since, if someone can operate effectively enough to attain tenure, "absent-mindedness" certainly hasn't crippled their professional effectiveness.

(In all of this, of course, I except the story about the guy who left the author rideless at the office. That was a 'dickhead' move.)

Finally, on the claim "they only forget things that benefit them," be very careful about confirmation bias. I, for one, show up at meetings early not infrequently- but when this happens, no one knows because no one else is there.
That's a very melodramatic comment for someone who clearly hasn't been keeping track of the 3.x changelogs – which pretty much all contain at least one compelling update to the language. Modern Python is v3. Legacy support drop-off is the same with any project.
It freezes in FF from time to time.
If you don't produce it directly or demand it as taxes, you can't guarantee that it gets produced at all. And you need to guarantee that, if you're going to go around giving it away for free.

You don't need a bureaucracy to figure anything out. I have already done it. Everyone gets 2 L of bottled drinking water, 2200 kcal of food, a lockable room about 8'x10'x8.5', tap water, electricity, and Internet. The utility numbers mostly came from current usage statistics, the room size is based on solitary-confinement prison cells and self-storage units, and food and water based on the generally recognized dietary subsistence level of 2000 kcal/day and 1 mL/kcal rule of thumb for drinking water. An easy way to do it is to rely on the Geneva Conventions. If you cannot supply conditions sufficient for humane treatment of refugees and prisoners of war to your own citizens and residents, your numbers are wrong.

If you don't like the food you get with your ration, sell it. I'm sure there will be a service around to collect your unwanted UBI tangible goods and resell them to someone else in exchange for a cut of the proceeds, so you can get more, different, or better of something else that you do want. If you're a petite lady, you could likely trade in your 2200 kcal of basic UBI food for enough cash to buy 1800 kcal of better food. If you don't use all your free electricity, you could use it to mine bitcoins or purify copper electrode or recharge batteries. If you don't use your tap water, you could do someone else's laundry for money. But I picked the numbers to be in the "this kinda sucks" territory for a typical American. You'll probably always want more than you get, and for that, you still need to access the paid trade markets. And if for some reason you don't already want more than you get, that's what advertising is for.

The same calculation problem exists with the cash-only vision of UBI. Someone has to decide how much is enough. But then that number constantly changes as prices adjust to what people actually buy with their "enough".

The point of the tax thing is that the US has long been conditioned to be averse to communism in any recognizable form, and a less sizeable fraction is also averse to fascism. The fact remains that whatever you want to give away for free has to be produced first, and you can't guarantee that a for-profit business would make enough as long as it is possible to earn higher profit by producing less. If the government needs 750 Tcal of food to meet its UBI requirements, it can do one of 3 things: own farming capacity sufficient to produce it, order existing agribusiness to produce at least that amount and surrender it, or tax/print whatever it takes to buy that much on the open market. If communism is unacceptable, you have to do one of the other things, and the latter has the potential to destabilize your entire monetary system.
I don't think its so much a shame that Linus isn't a billionaire than it is we have billionaires at all.

There is limited rational or ethical reason for one human being to accumulate so much centralized wealth. There is being rewarded for hard work / skill / innovation and there is exploiting people to become rich, and the line between those is very hard to distinguish when talking about individuals making more than 9 figures off of the endeavor.

It is also worth considering you don't make billions operating a nonprofit or making a valuable software product (or any product, in general). You make billions founding or investing early into a multinational corporation that amasses more wealth than many nations.

And that is where I think the conversation breaks down - people take personal offense to conversations about wealth and equality but we aren't talking about people wielding the influence of themselves as individuals, we are talking about people who control more assets than some nations, that can potentially have financial influence on the world stage greater than the combined influence of millions of fellow humans.
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YouTube defaults to serving WebM on Firefox, but on a Mac there is no hardware support for video decoding WebMs like there is for h.264. BUT there is an awesome plugin called h264ify that will force YouTube to use the h.264 codec. I've been running it a while and it stops my fan from kicking on when visiting YouTube.
Your DE may be at fault as some of them try to do "smart" defaults. xdg-open itself may also be at fault (it's an atrociously bad shell script -- you can take a look at it if you want to debug it).
I’m amazed that the US charge capital gains on primary residence sales - in the UK we have Private Residence Relief which means you pay no capital gains from the sale of your primary residence, so long as you meet some requirements that are very easy to meet and I would say 99% of owner occupiers meet.
I think you are doing a great job.

I've been using Atom since 2015 and it's only getting better on each new version.

I tried going back to Sublime which has objectively much better performance but that doesn't make the whole experience better. It's like sitting in a Formula 1 car with no cushion and no AC.
A lot of Finns speak Swedish as their mother tongue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_population_of...
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The reason a static device connected to the Internet with terrible security should be prohibited is the same reason that devices not meeting FCC certification standards are prohibited.

Both such devices do as much if not more harm to your neighbor as to you. An electrical appliance that interferes with TV broadcasts may not bother you but it bothers your neighbor. An IoT camera that's hacked to DoS a hospital may not bother you but it bothers the patients of the hospital.

In some fictional Libertarian wonderland, these problems could be dealt with neighbors suing neighbors but in the real world we need the state to regulate products with serious cost "externalities".
As Bitcoin fans are starting losing faith in Amazon adopting their hopes for getting instant millionaires, so, now their hopes are in Square, which will be another disappointment. One thing I give to Bitcoin fans - man, that pest is resilient and stubborn beyond reason! They are like cockroaches that can survive even a Nuclear Winter! They are the rare kind that can break the wall after years of banging on it! Regardless, Bitcoin today is still useless, and outdated technology, so, they should instead channel their energy into something with real future!
>>> You make billions founding or investing early into a multinational corporation that amasses more wealth than many nations.

Or you buy land in the 80s.
Well... 2 could easily be both, or even just what linkedin said. If HR gets an alert when you start sniffing around for new opportunities, people will sniff elsewhere. Linkedin don't want that and (coincidentally) neither do users. Either way, I don't think it's the interesting question.

On question 1, I think you are really on the money. Concise.

We're used to thinking in terms of principles when it comes to our principles, especially laws. Realistically though, our moral codes are not like physics. They're approximations that seem to work for the most part, for the situations we know about. Being a somewhat anal retentive species, we don't generally like this. It feels like the principles are unsound.
Holgas shoot 6x6 or 6x4.5.
I wonder how well we'd adapt to living around a star with very different spectra than our own. For example, if it put out less blue light, would daytime suppress melatonin production as well as ours does? Then there's the different day length.

Not that either of those are in the top 1,000 problems of colonizing another system.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. I don't care for everything-is-unicode-by-default.

You can take my Python 2 when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
By that logic any language can be supported by never upgrading the system. Support implies some kind of active support from the creators / maintainers of the language, not active use by people.
I'm going to posit that most of us are spoiled by how much attention we get from recruiters, which is why the attention on this article seems to be on the legality of scraping someones site are not.

The focus should be on how disturbing it is that a company is using metrics like "independence from employer brand" to take the power out of the hands of the worker and put it into the hands of the corporation who already wields so much power and influence over our society.

Programmers are lucky, a last bastion of decent treatment by corporations. Companies like HiQ are looking to tip the scale back in favor of the corporation, run by people like Mark Weidick who want to be a useful and well kept pet and identify as a "Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Hollywood wanna-be." (twitter)

I fear secretive preemptive firing and hiring. "Talks" from your manager, based on encroachments into your private internet browser. This will force developers to combine their personal identity with their corporate identity (which far too many developers do already wearing their respective companies t-shirt like a big walking free advertisement) and curate their online life to reflect how grateful they are to the lords of their fiefdom.
The biggest concern with WebCrypto (with the JavaScript code using WebCrypto) is the fact that you have to trust the delivery mechanism.

If there is a problem with TLS then there is a potential for a MITM attack that could modify the JavaScript code.

Another potential issue is phishing. It is easier to create a fake web app compared to a fake native app.
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I think that EU's approach to this is in its idea the correct one: whoever imports and sells stuff (the legal term is AFAIK "introduces to common market") has to declare that it conforms to relevant safety regulations and is then held responsible should that declaration prove to be wrong. (Slight implementation problem is that the punishment incurred for that is usually too small, typically it boils down to ban of sale of the item involved without any punitive fines)
:)

Yes, since Swedish is a Germanic language, I suppose. I know a bit of German too, and have noticed that when I read words in Scandinavian languages, I can sometimes guess what they mean, due to their being similar to corresponding German words.

Had been reading on Wikipedia about different human languages and their backgrounds and histories a while ago, and was interested to see that Finnish and Hungarian had stuff in common. They are both Uralic family languages according to Wikipedia.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language
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Orphan blocks are common, one block has never been considered secure. Early in Bitcoin, a best practice emerged to consider six blocks secure. So that takes an hour, best case.

(Given the insane hash power now maybe that standard can be lowered, but on the other hand it's not common to get a spot in the next block anymore.)

So point of sale was never a good fit for Bitcoin. What most real world merchants do when the amount is small enough is to eat the risk. Even if it's easy to double spend in practice most customers won't bother for a can of coke.
Nothing in the transition roadmap from HockeyApp :/
https://www.hockeyapp.net/appcenter/roadmap/
No it is not at all. This is what the whole debacle was a few months ago when you removed most of the download links from your website.

https://twitter.com/cryptovillage/status/884205077459738624
I use 5mm A4 squared paper in cheap A4 card folders (pad goes in front of pages torn out which are numbered), I use different colored folders and I have a rule that pad goes in a folder before I get a different pad out, I think in 3 years I've written in the wrong pad one or twice.

The advantage of this approach is that I can jot random crap in a pad and then if it's really not relevant just rip it out and bin it, I only number the top page of the pad that way if I do need to bin it I can just write the same number on the next page.

Having all the pages (neatly) torn out also means I can shove them through the scanner tray on the copiers at work which is nice and of course spread them around my desk, put third party pages in (and number them) etc.

I usually keep the folders for a few months then if I haven't referred to them (I write the last date I did on the back of the folder) I just scan them into decent quality TIFF's and recycle them.
Just not in Tokyo. That would be a bad investment by the 90s.
Yes, one of the most painful aspects of Python 2 to 3 migration.
How many plumbers, carpenters and electricians do we need?
Counterparty can run the EVM port, it doesn't run on the EVM port.
Wow, thanks for the link. That makes things a lot better; the accessibility features are great.
The problem is that most of the "bad" JS violators aren't building data viz, they're doing something much less complicated with the same tools.

Edit: the article mentions CNN, which is a mostly "static" site, but has enough JS to take 13 seconds to load on the "average" phone.
On the surface, I agree with this.

In practice I expect it to result in fewer products on the market that are more expensive and no more secure as this sort of regulation will simply select for large companies who are experts at paperwork and soft bribes.

I wish I had a better idea.
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Yeah, let's hold up the vacation so that we can get that airport sandwich for free.

I don't even think people have a grasp of the effects on inflation/deflation in practice anyway, let alone suddenly make strategic decisions upon it.
- It feels a lot faster than Chrome
- It uses less memory (especially with many tabs open)
- multi-account containers are a game changer
- I think it also looks better than Chrome
> And all for what? So you can turn the lights on after you go through multiple steps to unlock your phone?

I wanted network-connected lightbulbs so I could have them turn on at the time I needed to wake up, when that time was well before dawn.

I never installed them because I didn't know how to secure them and my schedule got more reasonable, but I think the use case is pretty compelling.
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A former coworker has a theory that you can accurately assess corporate morale by monitoring the volume of http requests to linkedin over time...
I read "prescribes" in the title as "proscribes." There's an argument for that too.
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Over the years I went through a few:

- Batsu games (no-laugh game shows from Japan. Search for it, the first result is a reddit link with list of episodes)

- Angry Video Game Nerd episodes (I love old school nintendo games)

- DBZ-Tubers (mostly started watching because of DBZ making a resurgence with DBSuper)
Of course Schneier would want regulation in Iot. That's literally billions of tax dollars that would go to his and other tech consulting and compliance companies. What we really should push for is Open source regulation. Naturally government is always behind on cutting edge tech issues. Open source regulation would improve the efficiency of regulation while saving billions of dollars.
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There's some indication that Adam Smith was aware of this:

The plenty and cheapness of good land, it has already been observed, are the principal causes of the rapid prosperity of new colonies. The engrossing of land, in effect, destroys this plenty and cheapness. The engrossing of uncultivated land, besides, is the greatest obstruction to its improvement. But the labour that is employed in the improvement and cultivation of land affords the greatest and most valuable produce to the society.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...

It helps greatly to know that "engross" in this context means "to purchase or control large quantities".

Another realisation I've had is that the incentive amongst those who hold valuable assets is to see their value increased. This includes land, money, financial holdings, commodities, licences (think of taxi medallions or professional licenses), education, and the like.

And the means of increasing price generally involves restricting the supply, or throwing constraints on the production of more of a thing.

Where the underlying asset is itself directly productive or essential, this tends to be tremdously disruptive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/608w97/asset_p...
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You are correct. This is the main reason 1Password X never uses a web page when it prompts for the master password -- the master password must be entered in the popup that is only accessible to the extension itself.

It is certainly tricky and there are many other concerns. We hope to have a white paper about the security decisions made in 1Password X design.
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yeah, i want whacking the enter key to basically be guaranteed to give me a new tab.
there have been several problems with clogged pipes on Zimbabwe due to the usage of dollar notes as toilet paper.
..and pets...
I wrote this [1] guide on how to reduce the size of your JS bundles via transpiler optimizations. There's a lot you can do to write code which results in less boilerplate from your toolchain. It also covers code splitting via webpack and some other goodies (like evaulating the size of your polyfills). We've been using these techniques for a while in production (our library is very focused on size) with good success.

[1] https://medium.com/@jbartos/to-ship-less-code-write-transpil...
Yes, their post applies to nearly everyone. That doesn't give them the right to call the exceptions naive, delusional, and misled.
I don't think anyone is going to pry it from you. If you want to keep using 2.7, go ahead. It's open source so you can even hire someone to keep maintaining it for you.

However, be aware that the vast majority of the people maintaining Python have moved on to 3.x. 2.7.x continues to be maintained because the team believes in giving people a stable platform and a long maintenance window. Long does not mean forever though and most of the people back-porting fixes to 2.7.x will stop by 2020.

So, you should have a plan for that. May give 3.x a spin and see how it works for you. I feel like 3.x adoption is speeding up because people have tried porting their code and decided that "yes, 3.x is better".
>What was facile or deceptive about what he said? He's absolutely correct.

First, he withheld the amount of capital gains, so everyone who initially responded naturally assumed it was under $500k, which is true of 99.9% of transactions. That was very misleading information to omit.

Secondly, he complained about broker fees, but it isn't required to sell a house using a broker by any stretch. Just do FSBO if you think the 3% cut (probably less) isn't worth it. And 3% isn't much at all when your already expensive house just went up over 100% in value. Facile and disingenuous.

>Where are these bitter complaints?

Pretending that he and his wife are "trapped" in his house and "can't afford to sell" makes it sound like a horrific and dire situation. Which is completely misleading, he and his wife are quite wealthy and could do anything they wanted. They are pretty much the opposite of "trapped."

>we can't afford to move!

Lies. They could easily afford to move.

They bought their house for something like $600k and now it's probably worth $1.3M. They pay 20% taxes on the $200k, so $40k and they lose 3% if they use a broker. That's another $40k, so $80k total. Let's make it an even $100k. So they have $1.2M to throw around, subtract $500k to pay off the existing mortgage, that's $700k free and clear.

$700k is a hell of a down-payment, even in the ritziest areas of Marin. Buy whatever you want.

I own a restaurant in norcal and have an employee whose room share / rental house burned in the recent fires. He goes to SRJC, doesn't have any family in the area, had no rental insurance, makes $12 an hour and no savings.

THAT's a dire situation, and considering I know people in situations like that, OP's framing of his (extremely cushy) situation as "I can't afford X!" is pretty disgusting to me.
> 7. Salsa (Not doing well... =/)

If you have the basic step down you may want to try rueda which will take some of the pressure of leading away. You still have to lead the move but you don't have to choreograph at the same time as that's done by the caller.
> don't call the U.S. the "guarantor of international order". It sounds as if the U.S. were a benefactor to the world

Order is not democracy or freedom; the US had the role of maintaining international order - preventing chaos. My comment pointed out many times when the US did not support democracy, including some of the same examples used by the parent.

However, I'll point out here that while imperfect, democracy expanded rapidly under 'Pax Americana' from WWII until recently. Almost all of Europe and all of the Americas are now democratic; there are some African countries, India, East Asia, SE Asia, and more. It has been an incredible time for liberty, despite the many and substantial setbacks.
>Guys, seriously Ethereum is a way better method for actual payments.

>Shorter block times

transaction security is proportional to confirmation time, not # of blocks. if you want even faster "block times", you can accept 0conf transactions. although to be fair it does allow you to be more flexible in terms of confirmation policy (you can't set your policy to confirm on 0.2 blocks).

>the network is not congested at all

...with a blockchain that's growing at a rate that's over 3x of bitcoin. in the same respect, you can argue that litecoin is better because it has faster blocks, lower fees, and no congestion.

>they already process more transactions than BTC does per day

see point about network congestion.
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This looks like a cool feature to use to teach.