skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My work computer is stuck with Office 2007, because I have Office 2007 Professional, and I need Access about once per year for an arcane reason. Office Pro is fairly expensive, so for the time being, I am stuck with 2007. I am still not entirely sure if I should be happy or sad about it. ;-) But I have used Outlook 2013 on coworkers' computers every now and then, and it was pretty laggy.

These days, I do a lot more programming than sysadmin'ning and help desk, but when I was the IT support guy at our company, my overall impression of Office 2013 was not very good. I have seen it just stop working on a handful of computers (out of about 75-80, so to that is a lot), in such a way that I could only "fix" it by uninstalling and reinstalling Office from scratch. On one of our CAD workstations, Outlook and Autodesk Inventor started a feud where an update to MS Office caused Inventor to crash, and the subsequent reinstallation of Inventor caused Outlook to crash when we tried to write an email. (Then we reinstalled Office, and then suddenly things worked magically, so I remain clueless as to what happened.) The latter may be Autodesk's fault as much as Microsoft's (I get the vague impression that they care even less about their software crashing than Microsoft, as long as the license is paid for). But the impression I get is that MS Office has suffered quite a bit over the years. Therefore I am not entirely unhappy about being stuck on Office 2007. I do miss OneNote, the one program from their Office suite I really like, but I have org-mode, so I can manage. ;-)

EDIT: Sorry for venting, that one has been building up for a long time.
I would be convinced, if I was leads boss, to consider firing him. If you can only run a team by steam rolling people, then I can hire much cheaper people to steam roll.
Wait but I thought the free market operated in good faith and not by brutally cutting corners on service, monopolizing, and lobbying government for preferential treatment?
If you want to go the low-commitment route, a lot of makerspaces have plenty of equipment for building / making activities and offer classes in subjects as diverse as TIG welding and sewing.
Great way for Chinese buyers to go straight from electricity bill to Canadian/Australian/Californian real estate without even moving any currency. Money laundering and capital control problems solved!

(OK the article looks to be about blockchain for confirming transaction rather than paying - but the joke still holds)
My favorite story about the SR-71 being badass: http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912704...
CBC The National, 20 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQfC6mKTErg

The segment from 7min to 14min talks about Medellín and shows videos of the escalators and cable cars.
Blockstream to Issue Fiat Currency Using Blockchain Tech, Raises  Million
Negócio Online de Sucesso (NOS) de Bruno Pinheiro
> not sure why it's such a crazy idea.

It's not a _crazy_ idea (many have proposed such an idea) it's just not _possible_ in the United States in most areas.
They don't.

From la poast

> You’ll also notice that there’s probably a lot less content from Facebook than from Twitter. Facebook allows us to show you posts from public pages, but not from your friends’ individual pages. We’re exploring ways you might be able to feed your whole, unedited Facebook news feed through Gobo, but we’re not there yet.
How to Know Which Title to Contact in B2B Sales
Wait- SpaceX is planning to tunnel on Mars? That means the Boring Company... Is everything Musk does part of his not-secret secret plan to retire on Mars?
Another great vim option is vimwiki: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

At a glance it supports all of the features provided by vim-orgmode, but it will probably never be as fully featured as emacs' orgmode
I tried that. It really doesn't, especially when there's congestion. I've had to go down to 240p on Youtube before, especially if I was trying to do something else in the background, e.g. watch Youtube while doing homework, watch Youtube while browsing Reddit/news/any other website with giant JS/CSS/media files/ads.

I was primarily a student then, and trying to skip around in Youtube/online video lectures was an insanely frustrating experience.
I've hidden window title bars for years, even on a full-size monitor; on a smaller screen it makes even better sense. Gives more vertical room for content in any application :-)

(Btw, with title bars hidden Firefox and Chrome actually have pixel-for-pixel same size nagivation elements, at least with Ubuntu's defaults – of course only when you toggle on system title bars in Chrome.)
Because it is a natural monopoly, essentially due to the massive cost of building and maintaining a second last-mile network which would necessarily be underutilised. The costs of maintaining a last-mile network are essentially independent of the number of users (unless you let unused parts of the network go out of date/fall into disrepair, in which case you effectively don't have a second network anymore).

As such, it is always better to try and win over one more customer to increase revenue, even if that customer pays less than the cost of keeping their line in working order, both because the costs are mostly there anyway, and because it reduces the revenue of the competition, thus increasing the likelyhood that they will fail and thus make you have a monopoly again.

That's actually exactly the behaviour you see over and over when some smaller business (or larger business, for that matter, see Google Fiber) tries to build a network where the monopolistic incumbent so far didn't care to provide useful service. The moment that project is announced, you get really good and cheap connectivity from the incumbent. Given that they before didn't consider it to be a good investment, you can guess that they are doing it only to destroy the competition.

Also, the network operator that has the less-utilized network necessarily has to charge higher prices per user to cover their costs, which leads to a positive feedback of even less customers, leading to even higher prices, ...

Having two parallel last mile networks is effectively unstable. There is a reason why there aren't multiple water pipes and multiple electricity cables and multiple natural gas pipes in your house.
Don't be boring.

The nice thing about asking on hacker news is you get answers from experts, and you can often get insider knowledge that really isn't available anywhere on google.

But thanks for the link, it's a good one ;)
Very nice, thank you!

I'm not much into APIs or JS (CBA with auth tokens etc either) so I often forget the sheer power of jq.

I prefer to output the curl data 2>/dev/null so there's less noise and the data could be parsed further. I also want to default to eur, with the option of say usd. Finally, I want the currency to be shown as $2 and I want it uppercase.

I ended up with:

coinmon() {
local currency=$1
case "$currency" in "") currency="eur";; esac
data=`curl "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$currency" 2>/dev/null | jq ".[0] .price_$currency" | cut -d \" -f 2`
echo "$data ${currency^^} "
}

(Sorry for the scrollbar here on HN.)

One could also use tosheets [1] to put $data in spreadsheet or perhaps use something like gnuplot. One could also round $data to say 2 numbers behind the comma (or well, dot is being used in this case) to get a more human readable amount. This could also be implemented like df -h creates human readable output (see man df).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15722108
> If you're concerned about this level of location tracking, don't carry a cell phone at all.

This seems to be implying that this level of tracking is expected, or required. It's not. Not by Google anyway, which doesn't need and should never access this information.
How often does a bug of this severity slip through the net?
About Price: the google Pixel phones are not much cheaper than an iPhone. The last I checked Pixel xl 2 was 10% cheaper than an iPhone X
In a day and age where most of the TVs and monitors sold right now are 1080p and up, 720p is not an acceptable maximum resolution for streaming anymore.
This is barter. Barter is taxed. You are required to estimate the value in dollars and pay the appropriate tax, whether or not dollars were actually involved in the transaction.
>>But they do care most about making money from the public and no one has convinced me that filtering internet packages by website makes any technical, marketing, or business model sense at all.

Charge internet companies for access to subscribers. Charge subscribers to access certain websites. It's a simple model.

>>No ISP for the ~15yr timeframe before the FTC regulation was passed a few years ago had ever offered such an arrangement.

Again, not true.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/24/5541916/netflix-deal-with...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/16010766/verizon-netflix-...

>>Plenty of ISPs have repeatedly said they have zero intention of doing it either (including a few this year). Not to mention no ISP in any other country has offered anything close to that either.

Why would you ever trust an ISP? If they were not going to take advantage of this new opportunity, then they should be fine with having the regulation stay in place. Also, wireless carriers which are in many ways analogous to ISPs already have started preying on consumers using this model https://imgur.com/yYobj7x

>>This has proven to be incredibly unpopular idea with the public for over a decade as well, whenever it has come up in the press. It wouldn't take much market research to see it's a terrible idea.

Market research and public opinion don't matter when you have no competition and have numerous state laws written for protection.

>>This would be a boon to any ISP who DIDN'T do this. Competition, and obvious lack of business sense, has always been a far larger counter-balance to this idea. Plus the huge technical challenge of filtering at the ISP level... this would be a huge boon for encryption and VPNs as well.

Again, there is little to no competition in most markets.

>>So I'm a bit confused why this is generating so much FUD over such a highly hypothetical and hand wavy scenario... as if the only thing stopping them from doing it was this three year old regulation.

It's not hypothetical at all, see above links. It's a big deal because it will ultimately be a huge wealth transfer away from consumers. You're not by chance Ajit Pai, are you?
The tiny amount of syntax is lovely. I could see this added to org-mode
Could you mention in what regions it could mean 2:30? Never heard of it and a quick search on google ergab nichts.

(edited)
Is there a non-negligible fraction of ads that do this for this to be an actual problem? Or is it another article riding the wave of the media crusade against Facebook? Genuine question, I don't have a Facebook account and I live in a country rather separated from the racial discrimination concerns present in the US.
Here is the commit that introduces the bug: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Can you spot the error?

Here is the commit that fixes the bug: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Yes, like Gab that is banned from the app store.
Mostly used to pass the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/

https://www.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tiltshift/

https://www.reddit.com/r/tooktoomuch/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnethicalLifeProTips/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youdontsurf/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubehaiku/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyprogramming/
>It is not clear how cell-tower addresses, transmitted as a data string that identifies a specific cell tower

Couldn't it be used to avoid faulty towers ?

I am not an expert at all, but I was told several times that it was a problematic issue.

Not that it would be an excuse for collecting it when location sharing is off but I am curious to know why I can be helpful to FCM

I am really curious to know how Qz determined that Google was collecting this data.
I think the main beef is with PACs targeting political ads by race.
I have a dozen of GTD tabs opened. Irony
i'm surprised there aren't more things entering our solar system from deep space considering how large the universe is
a general reply to the replies of my original post..

When I mentioned mental stimulation I should have emphasized the kind. Stimulation can trigger many mental activities of course - reasoning, analysis, entertainment, contemplation, etc. It's this unbalance, a majority of entertainment that worries me. Don't get me wrong, I love entertainment and mindless stuff and I think it's part of healthy life! So, I don't think it's over stimulation per-se, but a gross unbalance of kinds of stimulation..

But I'm moving away from my main point/question which I think is: can we off-sourcing most our mental abilities without major negative impact on our health? It's not just these mental abilities aren't needed. What are the consequences of a brain that barely uses its memory? What are the consequences when you almost never use your brain for any challenging task? Maybe this will lead to all sorts of mental illnesses...

These are the things I am really curious about
Fifteen years ago Net Neutrality was the de facto policy. Nobody would dare block a site or have paid prioritization because it would topple numerous peering agreement Apple carts, and consumers had actually competitive choices between access providers.

It didn’t become necessary to “make it official” until the consumer access industry was consolidated, giving rise to the idea of “hey, we know our consumers are paying for the entire operation and netting us a healthy profit already, so where can we get even more profit?”
Have you forgotten the whole controversy about Verizon throttling Netflix back in July? This is a real scenario that has actually happened.

http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-netflix-youtube-throt...

Your other points hold up equally poorly: there are no unsolved technical hurdles in throttling or blocking specific sites or services -- as evidenced by the fact that they can and have already done so. As for "marketing" and "business model" and it being an "unpopular idea", these again fall back to the issue of consumer choice: in an effective monopoly, it doesn't matter a whit whether the populace dislikes the idea. It's not like Comcast is winning any popularity contests as it is.
It makes sense, I guess the question is if there's language in the tax code for alternative payment sources. It's not unreasonable that someone could trade their car, and 300 shares in Google; in exchange for something of equal value.

If there is, it sucks because you're getting hit doubly for taxes on the item you're paying and the capital gains you'd be taking.
Recognizing race does not equal being racist at all, imho.

I don't want to live in a society where I can't objectively (in no bad way whatsoever) acknowledge trait differences, whether they be skin colour or hair length.
At the same time capital gains on such a stellar return is pretty amazing problem to have.
Sure, Google also sells pricey hardware, it's just not their core business.
UserGrid[1]?

[1]: http://usergrid.apache.org/
Only governments can tame this beast now, way too big and too rich for any startup.

I noticed several chrome instances running on "Task manager" almost all the time. Used Chrome maybe months ago. So I uninstalled. Who knows what they were doing, collecting. I trust them as much as I (would) trust a hustler on the old 42nd street
Have you tried pale moon?
I tell all my friends / family to get an iPhone if they are upgrading.

I used iOS and Android phones and I like both. However it makes even me nerveous to use a banking application or similar on an Android. Can’t imagine what kind of shit my dad would have running on an Android device with all the fake fishing apps, bloatware, tracking etc going around.

With a non jailbroken iPhone I have a lot more peace of mind.
It's on my list of things to do someday when the stars line up correctly, but I do fear that it's the sort of thing that seems more exciting and romantic on paper than in reality.
When is the last time that a jury found for a plaintiff who sued a company for being too friendly to human rights?
Have you tried Vim Vixen?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/
Maybe, I could have phrased that better. What I meant was the assumption in the quotes listed in your link all indicate that Byzantium is where people would travel to learn Greek philosophy. Therefore even if incorrect the assumption would be that Al-Farabi would have traveled to Byzantium which was the center of Greek learning aside from a few marginal Nestorian Christians in the Caliphate at the time. There is no indication anywhere that the reverse was true.

I agree that no new commentaries were written and that Aristotle was considered a relatively minor philosopher during this time. But it's not true to state that the Caliphate was responsible for preserving his writings or that he was 'forgotten'.

However as I stated above this in my opinion is the correct way to approach Aristotle. Aristotle should be relegated to a minor role as both orthodox Christianity and later Avicennism did.
Fuck yeah, that is a badass story. Thanks for link!
I soon have to buy a new (smart)phone. Looks like this might just be the straw that pushes me over to iPhone.
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude by Race
Ask HN: Something like iftt to work on either ethereum or rootstock?
Anybody building something like iftt to work on either ethereum or rootstock?
Worked in Russia and Israel, both had exactly this. But isn't something like this implied anyway? I would be surprised.
Another obstacle is rights of way. You cannot just tear up streets and bury cables. And in practice, you also cannot build a cable network through private property either, because you inevitably will encounter some owners of real estate who don't care about your network and thus have no incentive you allow you to build through their property unless you pay them as much as you can, because that is what they are going to be asking for.

So, in practice, networks are built on public ground, or potentially using eminent domain. Neither of those should result in exclusive ownership of the market thus obtained.
I haven't written this functionality in, it's a browser API:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/history.html#history

None of these arguments are for a specific stack. React has little to do with any of this. We're talking about underlying technologies that enable the web to be used as a platform for application development.

My point about an ORM is that your API becomes so simple you don't require a lot of complexity that is required with server-side joins of data in order to render a view. That is gone. No need. I'm giving you examples assuming you can extrapolate them to a bigger picture.
> Also, pretty sure Google doesnt pay for transit. They have a giant network footprint and push a ton of the internet's traffic. They are likely to be settlement free with everyone.

Almost certainly. Bad example, but the point still stands.

> The problem with a hands off approach is the lack of competition. I cant jump to another provider when the quality of my internet service does not live up to my expectations.

> Since most ISPs have an effective monopoly there are no economic pressures for them to deliver quality service. So we need government to step in and treat them like the utilities they are.

I don't know if I agree with that. Even in the most rural parts of the US you probably have a handful of ISPs available, just maybe not the type of ISP that caters to power users on reddit and HN. Between LTE wireless providers, satellite, DSL, cable, I think most people have a greater degree of choice than we realize. A lot of these options are not going to cut it if you like Netflix and/or torrenting, but for casual facebook, wikipedia, and emailing-- arguably the usage patterns of the majority of US internet users, any of these providers will work out just fine.

If what you're saying is true, why do we see such a dramatic difference in the quality of service across the board in the past decade? We went from terrible GSM to incredibly fast LTE. You can now buy 25 Mbit satellite internet without a data cap. You used to be lucky to get 16m/2m cable internet, now I see the lowest tier of plans with speeds of anywhere from 60Mbit to 100Mbit. If there's no competition, why do we see this progress? Why would they put money into increasing their speeds if the market didn't force their hand?
I can understand barter being taxed, that's fair, but would capital gains would be triggered if the item being bartered had appreciated in value before being used directly for purchase?
Well, actually it just sits there forever and no one can use it.

Think of this more like converting your home into a museum for future generations.
>A buzz a couple days ago will not fail a test.

I don't think that's true.

Your first use will usually stay in your system for 5-8 days
If you use cannabis 2-4 times per week and then stop, you’ll test positive for 11-18 days
If you smoke 5-6 times per week, it’ll stay in your urine for 33-48 days
For Medical cannabis patients and people in the #smokeweedeveryday club,
THC-COOH will stay in your urine for 49-63 days

https://herb.co/2017/02/09/heres-long-weed-stays-urine/

Even if it was true, the fact that it is so easily passible doesn't help the argument that it's not pointless and arbitrary.
Do you even want to use floats when talking about FPGA NNs?

You can talk directly about circuits on bitvectors, of which a subset looks like floats doing math, but your network might have a better encoding than that.
No, but the 15+ year plus maturity of existing debt stock means that on average, borrowers won't need to go back to the capital markets any time soon.

Slightly oversimplified way to think about it: every year companies need to refi only 1/T of their debt, where T is the average maturity.
Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better? [pdf]
I personally have them both turned on in about:config.

But It would be nice to have an extension to turn off resistfingerprinting on some sites (like firefox's extension site) because it fakes the browser's user agent which breaks things that check your user agent. I'm not sure this will allow that. It seems like it'll allow a privacy extension to easily enable / disable it for all sites with a check box.
The Laffer curve applies even if nobody moves - if you have to pay 95% of your income in taxes, you are going to go have a beer with your friends and plot how to get a nice sinecure where you don't have to do much of anything.
Many jurisdictions don't need signed records. Many Americans can deed property among themselves without touching a public database. There are surely reasons why one might want to register such a deed, but it isn't an absolute requirement. I do scratch my head at the desire to use blockchain tech in areas where absolute assurance isn't needed or even desired. And to implement such a system in an area as diverse as contracts and real estate seems folly. What happens when we want to do something that the blockchain's design hasn't anticipated?
This reduces the extent to which Tor Browser has to delve into the Firefox internals. Ideally they'd be able to package up all their changes as an extension.
> who can't follow a test that elaborate and complicated.

There's also the possibility that giving up an addiction is not an intellectual activity (if you think about it a little!)
For the same reason a group of banks would prefer a blockchain despite not having to worry about the Sybil attacks that motivated it -- it sounds modern and high tech and fancy.
I... WOW. This one is epic. I don’t even... wow.