skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a site mainly in the UK ( https://opentechcalendar.co.uk ) but with a small presence in Germany. ( http://opentechcalendar.de )

Our big idea is simple ..... we don't compete with meetup.com!

We are a event listing service only. We work hard to list events and make the resulting data Open Data so many people can reuse it (and they do!).

We do not sell/do tickets - if organisers want that they use the service of their choice and we link to that. We do not do members lists - organisers can use the email list or whatever of their choice and we link to that.

Your point about it being hard to organise events - so true. To support event organisers in Scotland, we run a private email list and private real life discussion events to make connections, allow discussion and share resources but it's always hard.

As for your goal - we would love to help you list all your local events :-) Anyone can add - you don't have to be the event organiser to do so: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/new
My understanding is: The author is a VHS electronics enthusiast and had published photos of unmarked VHS cassettes [1]. Some designer photoshopped them to add the "Stranger Things" graphics and Netflix used the photoshopped images without attribution. Author's photographs are literally the first hits in a google search for "VHS cassette". Author did not create a VHS version of the TV program.

[1]: http://goughlui.com/the-vhs-corner/intro-inside-the-vhs-cass...
TRAI (India) backs net neutrality in recommendations released today
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I don’t have any confidence to agree or disagree with this prediction. I’m always tempted to recommend friends to “invest” some disposable income into cryptocurrency, as long as it’s literally disposable income, but I would never recommend that without effusive and explicit caveats about my uncertainty. I tend to think that anyone who makes predictions or recommendations with higher apparent confidence or fewer caveats, whether bullish or bearish, is probably unwarranted in doing so.
I'm insanely curious how so many people managed to lodge needles in their heart and either not know it was there or not know to have it looked at.
Pfff it was MINT, not MATE
Yes, I've used xubuntu for the past years, not just because everything "just works" at the right minimal level for me but also for it's lightness and performance.
But why should I care about their perspective? When we judge people, we judge them based on our own system of values (morality, ethics etc - call it whatever you like). They are basically axioms that we take for granted, and that provide a starting point for the logical reasoning process. I don't see why societies should be any different in that regard.

So, yes, every time you see a statement along the lines of "society X is better than Y", it comes with an implied "Based on my values, ...". But precisely because it is always there, there's no point spelling it out every time.
Plex is the most addicted self hosting service I've ever used.
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India'a telecom regulator upholds net neutrality principles
I agree that Canadian engineers don't always adhere to the purported ethical principles of their profession.

On the other hand, I hear about far fewer white collar crime scandals involving engineers than people who are not engineers. ...anecdotal of course.
Full recommendation can be read here: http://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/Recommendations_N...
A lot of awesome ideas! Good luck!
BTW I was thinking about a museum myself - antique cars, but that's just a thought.
Anyway thumbs up and thanks for sharing.
No, logically, there are many more times than "X" and "not X", furthermore most countries have more parties than "Y" and "not Y".

And there are different pieces of information that could be released.

But it's also a false balance, just because two sides have different positions doesn't mean they are equal. Process abuse and dirty tricks are not okay.
It just helps you keep track of all the things. I personally lent so many things that it helps me track who has what. ;)
Thanks. I don't know why you're getting downvoted so much. Meditation definitely won't hurt, I've been wanting to try it.
Last time I've used Ubuntu was about 5 years ago. And it seems to look the same now. I wonder if anything meaningful was achieved during that time in terms of UI/UX besides switching desktop environments back and forth.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind. Additionally, I've been told recently that Scala is losing ground to Go for things not related to data engineering.
Maybe you are talking about grammars of NON-natural languages or about the current state of research, which isn't there yet, but grammar induction is shown to be possible by children learning natural languages.
Nice presentation page, but it doesn't explain how does this work. It says I can host my own podcasts. What exactly is meant by that? I can host podcast on a hard-drive on a machine with public IP. Or I can host the podcasts on AWS S3. What's the added value of your tool?

What's the architecture of your solution? What are the benefits? I can look into the source myself, but if the tool is meant for an average audio-blogger who is not a SW developer (who would look into github and try to understand what this is by reading the source), then I guess you need to share more info on this matter. Is this command-line only? If this has a GUI, any chance to see some screenshots? Does this allow streaming? If so, how? Does this tool come bundled with a web-server?

From my perspective if you want people to try this out a little you need to set some (positive) expectations.

If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange (disclaimer: I am associated with it).

Good luck!
Mongo is one of the few NoSqls to offer "unique" keys. While common in SQL, this is a big differentiator from other NoSqls and allows many use cases that would have otherwise ended up in the SQL world
Alternate perspective (not sure if I agree, just it’s possible) - humans were already polarized and split into sub groups. Now though it is far more apparent because people butt into each other all the time on the internet.
But Kurds, despite having 30_000_000 - 46_000_000 population, don't have a country. And if they're not so organized (this may change in future) states feel okay to ignore them.
Out of curiosity, what did you use in the meantime?
Wow, this town has good cell phone coverage :-)
Read your own description: it's a choice between a handful of sites. That's not the internet. That relies on rent-seeking by imposing artificial tarrifs on how you want your traffic to go. This is not a technical solution to nothing. That's just a scheme to extort extra pay while imposing heavy traffic monitoring (i.e. spying) on unsuspecting users.

If that isn't clear enough, this sort of scheme does not make traffic cheaper . In fact, these schemes are devised to impose additional charges on traffic that doesn't comply with an arbitrary whitelist.
The problem with the "they weren't fighting for slavery" narrative is that the leaders of the Confederacy laid out their cause clearly and unambiguously very early on - the state declarations of secession, the Cornerstone Speech etc - and slavery featured very prominently in them all. It's not like those documents and speeches were hidden from the public eye, either. So anyone who volunteered knew exactly what they were fighting for.
And for a server it enables to reboot autonomously while protecting you from someone pulling a hard drive from the array (think server colocation).
I super hard agree with the primary point of this article. Honor culture is unbelievably toxic. However, i'd like to quibble with this:

> When a concept has a label that is diametrically opposed to the normal sense of the term, it's the wrong label. This has nothing to do with value judgment (although my value judgment is clearly stated), it is simply a matter of using words accurately. If you translate a foreign word as "red," and notice that people always use it when describing grass, it's obvious that your translation is faulty. If you translate a foreign word as "honor" and find it often used to describe dishonorable acts, it's equally obvious that your translation is faulty.

The author doesn't seem to understand abstraction. The fact that the instances of 'honorable acts' in a given culture differ does not negate the shared meaning. The thing 'honor' refers to is not the definition of the particular acts, but the role this abstract concept fulfills in a society. Honor is the thing that, once impugned, requires retribution to regain. Honor is the thing that bleeds down a family tree for generations. Honor is the thing without which there is shame. Which acts credit and discredit this thing called honor are irrelevant to the definition of the term.

In certain street gangs in the US it is honorable to wear certain colors and not others. In certain sects of Islam it is dishonorable for your wife's face to be seen by other men. These two seemingly unrelated acts fulfill recognizably similar roles in their respective cultures. To not allow language to recognize this shared heritage is to discredit the very notion of abstraction, and to deny the genuine intellectual and social roots of the very concept the author is quite nicely articulating.
Optimism Bias: We’re biased towards positive info, and it’s a problem for health
I've settled on it after trying most of the alternatives, for me it was the only reliable desktop with good high-dpi support.
Nice indeed. A few problems on my Firefox with shadows in the bottom left, and the question mark button does nothing.
Also the fb connection helps both sides remember it.
Random Internet Guess: Heavy metal poisoning?
To be fair, you can pay off the full amount of your credit card every month and never have to pay interest. A common misconception is the idea that you have to pay interest to build credit.
Revise Your Incentive Plans and Ways to Motivate Kids
This is really neat, love how clean it looks. Any intention on a follow up post with a bit of behind the scenes information?
If Facebook was really like a society, it would splinter into a number of communities based on common interests. It doesn't, because it's a farm controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. Farm animals rebel only in books. Facebook controls how and when users interact. Users have no power to cause any change in Facebook. A society of slaves that can't govern itself. Let me know when Facebook has elections.
Apparently, this is the system favoured in US: make people depend on credit and add protections to offset the negatives that you mentioned.

End result: http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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OK let's say you are a private person in the USA and want a solicitor for legal action against Australian company. Where would you even start? How much is that going to cost you? How is that more reasonable than leveraging social media?
That sure was the case in Ukraine during the was and it's going on on now with Saakashvili. Lots of people just tag everything as porno and user who posted this goes to ban.

When you are trying to appeal, it obviously goes to somebody who should know the language post was written and it happens to be some Russian, who also flags it.
Just experienced the difference between Chrome and FireFox.

To be fair, I did have a lot of tabs open in chrome already. Like about 30.

Edit - 47 to be exact.
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Mobile Apps and Its Growing Importance for Today’s Businesses
There was an assumption of the inequality of the races and acceptance of slavery on that basis. That's probably what was meant by "those values".

For the regressions, and continuing with my previous assumption: President Trump has been soft on some of the white supremacist groups, for example, being slow to disavow the support of those groups' leaders. This has emboldened some racists to be bolder. Previously, in places like California, racism almost seemed like a thing of a bygone era (at least, it wasn't as overt).
I use OpenBox on Debian since 5 years. But it's not because Gnome or KDE is broken, it's just because I don't need all of the stuff a regular desktop provides. I think your comment implies regular desktops are broken but I don't think so. They're not perfect but not to the point of being unusable.
They look like radio towers, not cell towers.
FWIW, American Apparel products are no longer made in the US, despite being on this list. You can easily confirm this by looking at the details in their online shop and seeing “imported”.
Very good idea. Usually the way I choose movies is that I (on IMDB) read the plot, then ratings, afterwards the category and finally eventually reviews/comments.

Any chance to add the other information to the list as well? It would be interesting to list the movies by categories as I tend to skip 'romance' :)

Also, I like the minimalist design of the website. I think it suits well the purpose.

If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange (disclaimer: I am associated with it).
"Ubuntu's developers have put considerable effort into making GNOME cosmetically similar to Unity". I am a "ubuntu gnome" user since the start of unity (I have used it 2 weeks, it was unusable for me). Do you mean that I will have to accept the defects of gnome plus the ugly misbehaving unity dock combined ? Should I leave for fedora ?
Leftism and Clinton in the same post is very amusing, America is weird.

I can't really think of anything about her that aligns with leftists politics.
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At the point that nobody notices that you ripped off the image! That's the point you can feel safe, although you may not feel satisfied with your work ethic.

The more commercial the usage, or bigger the company, the more responsibility to do the right thing by the rights holder of image.
It's more like Gnome + Extensions = Look of Unityish. I used to use Gnome 3 Vanilla + Extensions and didn't like Unity either.

Now I am using 17.10 and this new Ubuntu Gnome thingy and I am enjoying it.
The alternative is shutting down your 1.0 when you release your 2.0. Keeping the 1.0 service running in maintenance mode seems pretty helpful to me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans
Down that line of thinking, I always found this example interesting. It's one of Andy warhols most well known paintings, and it's literally just of Campbell's soup cans. I've always wondered how the original designer of those cans felt, that a painter just painted his design and became famous.
Basic income isn't like Negative Income Tax at all. The core idea of BI is that no matter how much money you make you always get the BI, it's "basic".

NIT is just moving the progressive tax system into negative values, which means you subsidize the poor but once you make enough money you won't get subsidized.
> Hamilton started on the pit lane and clawed his way up to 4th

isn't that the boring part? it's like playing F1 2017 on PC on easy mode.
>So what is the non capitalist alternative?

Here they are:

https://prism-break.org/en/all/#social-networks
Lovely work.
> So, maximizing return on their capital and labor is not based on some "mistaken belief", it is a basic existential requirement.

That is wrong. The existential requirement is to not lose more money over the lifetime of the corporation than the capital.
It seems like a needle piercing the skin between two ribs to a distance of at least 2-3 cm could become lodged in tissue inside and be pulled in completely when the rib cage expands on the next breath. Once the needle is inside the body, anything goes. The heart is only approximately 3-4 cm from the skin. The heart's beating could grab the needle and pull it even farther in.

A web search brings up several instances. This one [1] at least seems to somewhat confirm my intuition.

[1]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Docs-use-magnet-to...
No, but if you're being told that _______ is for your own good, trust us, we have secret information that we can't possibly share with you, you are almost certainly being fed a pot of crock.

Remember the entire song and dance that surrounded the Iraq war? That was a conspiracy by the Bush administration to start a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people... On a pack of lies.

Any time a group of people gather, and, in secret, make a decision contrary to the public welfare... That's a conspiracy. This happens all the time in the world - and it's not crazy to believe that it does. It's arguably crazy to believe that it doesn't.
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IANAL but I think that this rather works in the manner that for example, the Sony Logo can be freely recreated without repercussions. So you can make your own Sony Logo no problems.

Same for a vodka bottle as some other commenter stated. But a copy of someone's photo of a vodka bottle or a copy of someone's Sony logo can be a IP/CR violation.
options of pausing and looping are not good things when it comes to small animated clips ("gifs").

basically real video wins on download size and loses at everything else for this use-case.

but sites keep transcoding to mp4 because it keeps their bandwidth costs down. users don't care -- most internet is plenty fast enough to download even large gifs super fast.
Ctrl-U works, just tried it.
So if people can't posit an alternative, they must never complain about the existing system?
> He has a great talk where he describes how the English language is optimized for dialogue (things like "I" and "you") and TeX messages are designed in that way.

Is this online? I listen to everything I can from Knuth but haven't heard this one.
FTA : "The last few Ubuntu desktop releases have been about as exciting as OpenSSH releases"

I felt the same with the last Debian stable. But I was kinda happy about that. Because it means it's reaching maturity.
Hijacking SSH (2015)
Two things dubious about this, a) should any photograph of a common object ever be covered under copyright? talking about threshold of originality[1]. and b) was netflix use of it transformative in nature [2] and protected under fair-use. For those reasons the author seems to me an unpleasant nitpicker to make such a fuzz about nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(law)
What I find really useful in (default?) Unity:

* Ctrl + Alt + left/right/up/down to switch workspaces

* Ctrl + Alt + Shift + left/right/up/down to move the current window to a different workspace

* Alt + Left mouse button to drag windows

* Alt + Middle mouse button to resize windows

* Drag a window to the left or right edge to resize it to that half of the screen.

No idea how much of this is Gnome/remains in 17.10. Or how easy it is to set up. I guess I need to give it a try.
Wow this town has a lot of radio stations.
this is a great and very clear standard, I'm sure it will scale to every photograph on the internet.
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No animosity here. I get what you're saying, but we all know that "Google Images" will be the answer to the question "where did you get the VHS image from". The answer won't be "Gough Lui".

And the choice of image wasn't decided by "Netflix" but by a designer probably trying to meet a deadline. Personally I would not feel one tiny bit of satisfaction, but I understand and accept that you would if you were the photographer.
Even if they don't, Amazon's still huge here. According to my annual income, I am in the top 0.2% of Indians, but there are 13 million Indians who earn more than me. I bet at least they are using Amazon as much as me and my friends.

Used this calculator: http://www.thehindu.com/data/how-many-indians-are-richer-tha...
>So, yes, every time you see a statement along the lines of "society X is better than Y", it comes with an implied "Based on my values, ..." But precisely because it is always there, there's no point spelling it out every time.

The problem is: it isn't always there, even when it should be. Some people actually mean "Society X is better than Y in an absolute, not relative, sense."
using FF 58 on Debian, works flawlessly
I don't think client side computation is "edge" computing. It's just client side. But the 90% cost savings are indeed worthy of mention. Maybe edit the title to reflect that?
Can you point to any successful lawsuits that argue that companies have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits?
I'm sure you're right, but not understand economics to that level wow.
Yes, mainly in other countries. If the local IT sector goes bust they won't be able to find any IT jobs locally.
I’d love someone to finish my tool that would semi-randomly query Matrix and find “interesting” business class flights, where interesting is a ratio between price and either distance or tier points / eqm / airmiles earned.
Moving will have very little affect on your weight loss compared to the amount of calories you are eating. Also, it’d be a high metabolism that’ll cause weight loss, not a slow/low one. Not that this helps, but it’s worth having the basics straight, on the off chance it helps in any way :)
Employee GPS tracking in the corporate world: features and advantages
In some way yes, but as soon as all these countries are dependent on China for export, China will have a dictating voice in many other areas.
How is that relevant to what was being discussed earlier in the thread? It was merely an example.

That you share some values with a historical culture is hardly important information, if you look hard enough you can probably find something you like in all cultures, historical and present day.
Dynadocs for a ClojureScript game library: play-cljs
Settings->keyboard or just search "shortcuts" in the search bar
Rationally, I think this maturity is the best thing that could happen to my system. However, I must admit I grow bored if I don't introduce some new widget/functionality from time to time.
Here's an article I wrote about what each of us can do about it : https://climate.btmx.fr/en/

TL;DR: Don't eat meat, insulate your home, limit use of fossil fuel powered transportation, advocate change.
If you are going to write simplified markup in some DSL that adapts HTML to the needs of your pages and a translator to turn it into complete markup with all the classes and utility HTML elements needed for CSS styling, there's no reason to avoid the target CSS framework conventions, including classes, in the output, and there's no place for CSS in the input because it is abstract (it should represent document structure only, e.g. a "panel", without bothering with styling, e.g. turning a "panel" into two levels of DIV and IMG elements with certain classes).
I don’t think either Linux or MacOS X was ever tuned well for PPC, even when consumer PPC hardware was available.

MacOS X feels nice once you get above version 10.2 and above 1.5 GHz, but it never felt as snappy as MacOS 9 on 300 MHz. I always thought it was suspicious how snappy MacOS X was on the first Intel Macs, considering that NeXTstep was on x86 but never on PPC.

Linux on PPC always felt sluggish. It felt sluggish back when Power Macs were contemporary.
The structure on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/48°10'44.8%22N+8°37'30.7%2...

Wikipedia-Article (German, has more info): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufzugstestturm_(Rottweil)

You can also see it from the Autobahn A81, driving to / from Rottweil...
Will try. At least with Ubuntu 17 from spring, it had no related menu entries to open a tab in Terminal app.
My main app-switching feature across machines, OSes an desktop environments has been Super+[1-9] to focus my pinned app number [1-9] on the taskbar.

This works in Windows. It worked in Unity. It works with my custom i3/sway setup.

I never quite got it working in Gnome/KDE though.

This single key-combo is super-crucial to my flow, and if Canonical has shipped a default-config which preserves this behaviour from Unity, I'd be super happy to give it a spin.
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