skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From some of the papers I've read, the necessary tech seems to be way cheaper; like <$50k USD. That's the truly frightening thing. Once scientist even wanted to make home CRISPR kits available so individuals could study the effects on bacteria and yeast:

https://newatlas.com/home-crispr-gene-editing-kit/40362/
The NATO alliance isn't the US. Canada leads the battlegroup in Latvia, with contributions by Albania, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Germany leads the battlegroup in Lithuania, with contributions by Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway. The United Kingdom leads the battlegroup in Estonia, with contributions by France. The United States leads the battlegroup in Poland, with contributions by Romania and the UK.
that's pretty easy. Muslims as a whole have little power, while the Christians do. Were Christians persecuted like Muslims, then likely it'd be the opposite.
Yeah, that part is confusing. If you can throw local drives at it plus a cloud service or two, and it'll just make backups on the cloud, that's actually pretty interesting. It's not clear if that's what's going on though.
Eugenics?
I haven't seen anyone else post anything along these lines, but doesn't this make it legal for the the government to ask/force/pay ISPs to hide sites (e.g. wikileaks, etc)? Maybe that is why politicians didn't really try to stop it?
> The entire premise of the articles is that millenials are “special”.

No, the premise is that millennials are normal people born into a society whose risk/reward/choice incentives are completely out of wack, and who face massive and untenable inequality created by the generations that came before them. If we are special, it's only because the actions of previous generations have made us so. Nobody is saying anywhere that we view ourselves as better or superior to other generations - almost the opposite; we're the same, yet, uniquely disadvantaged.

> Boom and bust cycles are normal. Millennials are not special in being screwed by the timing of their birth.

Except the most recent cycle (the 2007 recession) exacerbated these problems, and ten years later, for working-class millennials there's been no recovery whatsoever. The economy has recovered, the rich are getting richer, nobody at the bottom is doing any better than they were. Why's that?

> There is zero difference between what a millennial faces and what I faced in the last “great depression” coming out of school in the early 1990s, post the 1988 crash.

Again - did you read the article? There's a clear difference and they explain it quite well. It's not just about the ordinary economic cycle; it's about the way incentives have been perverted and restructuring of our economy and all its various parts have shifted all wealth to the wealthy and all burdens to those who are not. If you think this is just about some people being upset that 2007 happened, you're missing the bigger point: 2007 happened, but was happening before, and is still happening, and the problems are bigger than just "the markets aren't doing well this year."

What I'm trying to get across is that what you did was hard when you did it, and is now almost impossible. Why should it get harder? What's good about people suffering more, and longer, than you did? Why is the generation getting hurt the one to blame for being in trouble when we didn't create any of the problems or systems screwing us?

This is a data-driven, economic-realities based argument. Coming back with "well, toughen up and deal with it" is unhelpful - the way we're dealing with it is by pushing strongly for change.
Net Neutrality Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Was Written by Comcast Attorney
Glad I'm not insane, spent a long haul flight digging into Solidity docs and truffle and it seemed like a minefield of trouble to build crippled applications.
Please! Put them in touch wih the Internet Archive. The equipment you're looking for is called the Kryoflux - https://www.kryoflux.com/
Yes, with a perfect floppy disk. There aren't any perfect floppy disks left. You need a kryoflux or similar.
pro: better compatibility with external libraries, syntax is nicer

con: GUI programming will suck unless .net adds "visual python"

I don't have statistics but I imagine people would prefer sticking to VB for ease of adding buttons, etc.
Please tell me how I broke the guidelines with this comment. Please keep in mind this is the level of hyperbole I replied to that you did not warn against.

>Without the Internet you have no chance of fighting against things like the new tax bill. It takes away your voice. It takes away all of our voices.

That type of comment ignores thousands of years of civilization through extreme hyperbole and you have felt the need to call my hyperbolic response out instead?

I've seen you complain about this community falling apart but this blatant partisanship on your behalf as a moderator is one of the reasons this happens. Anyone who disagrees with the main stream silicon valley politics is treated like a child.
You don't even have to be "really good at it" to end up a monopoly when your competition needs to make ends meet and you don't.
Dramatic contrast also makes for a better, more memorable story. That's what gets written, that's what gets spread around by word of mouth. Survival of the fittest maximises contrast in the story.

BTW a variant I've heard is that people who get 2nd class honours do better in their (non-academic) careers than those who get a 1st.

BTW2 Einstein actually did do badly in one subject at school - practical physics. src: Isaacson's bio
Amazing stuff. It was a real pleasure to read. Despite its length I couldn't get myself to skip ahead or skim.

We're now in the process of switching to a structure similar to Basecamp's 6-week cycles[0]. And those cycles obviously do have a deadline. However, I would still say this kind of deadline is better than your typical one for a couple of reasons:

1. The team is self-managing. Typically the team was involved in the pitch process for the project, so they have vested interest in getting this done. I think this is key to avoiding the Student problem. It's no longer an assignment dropped from above, but something you are keen to push forward.

2. The cycle is 6 weeks rather than a sprint of 2... So this feels more like a slower-pace mini-marathon. And the team has autonomy to drop features or make adjustments. I admit that's a weaker argument for it than the one above.

I wonder what's your take on this?

[0] https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-set-up-our-work-cbce3d3d9c...
Affinity Photo is also available on Windows, alongside Affinity Designer and soon(tm) Affinity Publisher.
So are they gonna introduce Facebook Pro for $9.99/mo?
I gave up and just pay for YouTube now.
I rarely watch videos on Facebook though.
If you are looking to be acquired by someone like Walmart the you might as well build your infrastructure on GCP/Azure now!
I didn't downvote you, but you might have gotten downvotes because the beginning of your post built up anticipation by making it sound like you had some amazing point/rebuttal to drop, and then seeing only an `s/your/you're` was a huge disappointment ;-)
I don't know, the articles it links to aren't especially good judging by a few that I've checked just now.

They're mostly either partisan drivel, or bland statements of fact that don't explain why this news is good/bad/important.

The ability to do the latter in a neutral manner is what's valuable – to me, at least, – and I don't see it here.
that's pretty easy. Muslims as a whole have little power in THE US while the Christians do. Were Christians persecuted like Muslims are today, then likely it'd be the opposite.
They probably need to fund some more awful originals.
Use messenger.com?
We don’t want organized political activists? Maybe you don’t, but I would say the US, for example, is better off thanks to Rosa Parks, MLK, and those other pesky people that “go organize a large of people and scream in public something politically sensitive.”
> 14,000 classes..., zero types

In my view, classes are types. (Well, maybe I'm just spoiled by C++.)
Yup, the obvious next step will be to go after muni ISPs. Republicans will be more than happy to regulate them out of existence.
Blueprint for Simple Scalable Microservices
I'm curious, is there an intersection of people who make significant use of AWS who purport to support the open source movement? If so, how do you reconcile centralizing so much of your business/personal data and technology influence behind such a proprietary platform?
Sounds like San Francisco.
One of the reasons haemophilia appears to be more treatable by gene therapy (than other diseases) is because the cells that should be producing the clotting factors are found in the liver. When virus carrying the gene therapy enters the blood it is collected by the liver's filtration mechanisms, conveniently aggregating the gene therapy in the tissue that the gene therapy is targeting.

It is hard to target gene therapy toward specific cells/tissues but the liver makes targeting haemophilia with gene therapy easier.
Van Gogh never got monetary reimbursement for his art. Are we all suppose to feel terrible for such an injustice?

As a budding musician. I am mentally prepare for my art to be a financial failure/setback. It comes with the territory.
The level of disinformation with NN is staggering. The perils and draw of confirmation bias does not discriminate based on political orientation.
not sure org mode is a superset of it, now it can and probably will absord the ideas demonstrated there; the timer thing was more than great.
I've been watching Camlistore for a few years. I peek in on it every once in a while, long enough between that I usually can't remember the name. I like the look of it, but haven't been convinced to go from my decade old ZFS setup to Camlistore.

I feel like OwnCloud is more compelling, from a glance. Anyone use one or both and able to comment?
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> Amazon also said it would begin selling both Apple TV models
Code written in a statically typed language requires less testing. How is that not essential?
Hi, Jason Scott of the Internet Archive. Let's talk. jscott@archive.org.
Sure, but there's still a very stark difference between the population around a military base and some remote atoll, artic outpost, remote desert etc.

Most US air and naval bases are in close proximity to population centers.
More activity means more people posting memes, fake rumors and "to the moon" kind of stuff. Do not underestimate human stupidity.
I read the article and was completely unmoved.

Again, I don’t think you realize this is the way the world works and has always worked.

The young always bitch about being screwed over by their predecessors, bitch about income inequality, and wear T-shirts with the face of mass murderers like Che Guevara thinking they’re sticking it to “the man”.

Then they finally realize they actually have to find their own way, which might be very different from what their parents did. And life moves on.
If you're going to make blatant conspiratorial statements about the motivations of nearly half of the US population you are going to need to back that up with evidence.

That would be the biggest 'cover story' in the history of humanity
Heh, you think that now, was trying almost two years ago and it was rather arduous. It's improved some though not by a ton.
Look up P-elements in Drosophila. It's the stuff of nightmares.
I would imagine the majority is Hollywood demanding more and more money to have access to their content.
No one is proposing that we get rid of spreadsheets.

I understand, though: you hate VBA. And by extension, Access. But Excel, with or without Python, doesn't mean it can suddenly be used as a relational database. But you knew that.

So, what should replace Access?
If you have a Samsung phone you can use some apps that run as part of the Knox framework and block ads or arbitrary websites system-wide without rooting.
was it a typo or a huge backdoor of piracy into privacy talks?
Quite a bit of FX content (including IASIP) left Netflix this month due to expiring contracts. Convenient timing for the Disney deal.
Well I suppose both are possible, and it's on a case by case basis.

If I put on my website terms of service "please don't try to go everywhere" , and then you do... seems like you did _something_.

I don't really get what sort of stuff is enforceable, though.
Camlistore (renamed to Perkeep) author here.

It is true that the website needs some love & updated docs. We've been working on Camlistore for 8 years now (with a few drier spells) but our focus has never been marketing. If anything, we didn't want too many non-nerd users for a number of years because it wasn't ready for non-developer usage. That's starting to change.

We have pretty good docs for configuration and such, but we lack some concise high-level text about what the project is and why.

I'll prioritize that.
Culture of hospitality exists is many other places that has nothing to do with Bible. Example Afghanistan
NetGuard, it's from the same developer who created Xprivacy

install it from the Github repo and you can use it load a custom host file (the playstore version doesn't allow this) it functions as a VPN. Free service that also lets you block trackers and individual app analytics

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
>> Not having to worry if there will be any Blu-Ray readers available in a century.

Century? Startup sites like the one above last on average 6 months, that is, until they find out that their $6/mo DigitalOcean droplet suddenly costs... $10/mo! Or $100/mo or whatever and then they find out they cannot fund their $100/mo droplet and call it quits.

So... if you need the data to be around for 100 years, maybe not give it to the random startup.
I even saw an ad that I wanted to click on but it just vanished. Never to be seen again.
This specific decision turned out to be mistaken, but W3C makes this type of mistake way more often and doesn't even always fix them. You can see in the record of this issue that the problem was eventually resolved. WHATWG Working Mode has also been updated since this change and would not allow this type of change to be made today without implementor support.

Regardless of issues like this, browsers track WHATWG DOM near exclusively. You can see devs from all of the major browser engines commenting in the issue you linked.
>The new government simply doesn't care what commitments the previous one made. (See the Paris Agreement.)

No, Trump is a real exception here. The US has traditionally honored treaties signed by past administrations, and even most private agreements. I am not saying it is perfect here, but no country is.

>Voters don't have "keeping our word with people who speak with funny accents" at the top of their agenda.

But the American foreign policy establishment has long made this a priority. And part of the reason is its members stay in positions of influence over many decades. And another is they realize that a nation will not get very far in the world over the long run if it doesn't keep its promises. And Trump has made it quite clear that he wants to overturn the Washington establishment in general, and this most definitely includes the foreign affairs establishment.
>I think that a pretty big chunk of Trump's votes came from people who would otherwise not have voted for him...but did so because they sensed, correctly, that their thoughts, ideas and voices were being marginalized (and demonized) by progressives.

I read that as "we wouldn't vote for Trump, but did anyways because of how progressives see us". Maybe I misread this.
> I fear that the heavy anti-republican, anti-business sentiment will morph into a call for communism which will absolutely destroy the future of the human race.

This statement is insanely detached from reality. People are "heavy anti-republican" because modern Republican policies tend to be more about throwing humanity (or just poor people) under the bus for a quick money grab under the obviously misleading and fake pretense of family values and fiscal responsibility.
You're right.

This makes me really sad that this is the goal of Facebook, who will then serve only the goal of capitalizing on the latest and greatest type of platform format (by acquisition or copying) for social media while systematically and methodically milking the patience of their users with ads.
To be fair this has gotten somewhat better, at least with TV series and newer releases on Amazon.
Newer shows releasing with proper audio quality, language choice and often even CC subtitles in both languages.

I was pleasantly surprised that my Prime subscription might actually still be useful for something.
Blu-ray VS DVD
I’m a huge fan of Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick.

- If you only read it linearly it gives you the most crucial points early up front.

- It does an excellent job of linking between and to relevant sections. The most natural way to read the book is to read it non-linearly.

- It balances depth and brevity.

https://practicaltypography.com
No, not really. Most people are not violent without good reason. But if you are gay, trans or in any group that gets targeted for violence by irrational people without any provocation beyond being a member of that group, you need to consider that open verbal hostility is a potential indicator of willingness to harm you in some way.
- Always do code reviews

- Focus on "Developer UX". Bottlenecks in codebase, testing, deployment, Q/A pipeline can cause massive productivity issues.

- Use a wiki to document infrastructure and internal practices (reducing "tribal knowledge")

- Focus on culture - in particular, we have great success with "Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose" as one of the guiding principles.

- Do 1-on-1's
Camlistore author here.

If you only store files, sure, use ZFS.

Perkeep (Camlistore) doesn't write to a block device. It has storage backends for a filesystem (which can be ZFS) and any number of cloud object storage providers (S3, GCS, etc).

Perkeep's main value over a fancy POSIX filesystem is storing nameless things (tweets, other social media content + interactions, bookmarks) in common schemas, and permitting search over it all, and then having a variety of ways to browse it (CLI, FUSE, API, web UI, etc).

It's also good at sync to & from things any which way without merge conflicts.
No building or home 25 years old has even Cat-3 in the walls. It’s all “uncategorized” cheap ass aluminum or maybe copper unshielded twisted pair.
I tried truffle for one project, but found Embark [777] more flexible and better designed.

[777] https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework
Honestly, I have recently been trying not to use anything from google or facebook. I try to use stuff from Microsoft and apple. These are straightforward businesses that I pay to use. No bullshit ads or other hidden shit. A big impediment has been the utterly low quality of the apple music app on android.
It's not whether you were moved or not, it's whether you even acknowledge that what the article presented is fact. I keep citing evidence, from the piece and elsewhere, that the challenges facing millennials are unique, bigger than in previous generations, and potentially devastating for society (of all ages) long-term, and you just keep coming back with "that's how the world has always worked." You're starting with your conclusion, then going backwards, so to me your logic seems to go:

1) Things are working how they always work.

2) If someone tells you that things are working differently, that can't be true, because things are working the way they always work.

3) Therefore, evidence that this is not in fact the same as how things always work should be ignored.

Can you please respond to the evidence I and the article are giving - massive and rising inequality, lack of wage growth, unprecedented encumbrance with debt, and restructuring of corporate interest and benefit systems - and explain how it's how things have always worked?

> Then they finally realize they actually have to find their own way, which might be very different from what their parents did. And life moves on.

Who is to say that "change the system so this doesn't keep happening" can't be the way millennials are finding?
I don't live in SF. I live in the Bay Area suburbs. SF represents about 1/7th of Bay Area's population. I was referring to overall Bay Area. Although SF is freaking awesome too
"Can establish a ... total order on events" is somewhat vacuous, the point is how it corresponds to the actual observed ordering. Otherwise you can just label arbitrarily, 1, 2, 3, ... that's also an ordering. I'm saying there is no such correspondence that is globally correct. It doesn't matter what protocol you run. You cannot synchronize two clocks that are apart. You can only synchronize them when they are in the same place.

I perfectly understand that with communication you can establish (read: impose) any arbitrary ordering you want and get nodes to agree to that. That's not really a useful resolution except in a narrow sense of "sometimes we really don't care about strict observed ordering," which may or may not be true.

The larger point is, Spanner doesn't solve any distributed database problem. It simply notices that on the timescale that today's workload appears to operate at, all the nodes can still be approximated as being collocated. There is, after all, a clock inside a computer as well, and this just extends it a little further.
Too late: http://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/
T-mobile has uncapped tethering. Plenty fast too.
Flat so far, but they will deploy some promotions for sure
I wish the screenshots and video showed the window chrome. Is this a normal Mac app with normal windows, etc.?
I would actually be far more comfortable with storing my data for archival on CD-ROM or DVDs than BluRay, since the former standards have been publicly and freely documented[1][2] from the physical properties up to the logical bits and bytes, while I don't believe the same exists for the latter.

In other words, anyone can, with enough engineering resources, create a drive capable of reading those discs, which is more than can be said of more proprietary formats.

[1]http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...

[2]https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...
And yet the temptation to extract rents from content providers is higher than it has ever been. Just look at the market capitalization of Netflix today, which is about 20x compared to 2010.

I just can't imagine that ISPs won't make a grab for revenues, otherwise why spend money to lobby against NN? They're probably just waiting for the current furor to die down and sneak it in without people noticing.
Banks are logically CP. ("Your deposit will be available by the next business day.")

Technological advances are however, per Professor, reducing (or entirely eliminating) service availability gaps. But should the branch office partition from the main office, then the system will revert to strict CP.
Net neutrality has already been around implicitly since the beginning of the internet. Life before NN was life before internet.
If your view of the Second Amendment runs more towards militias than self defense, MD isn't bad. For long guns, there is no permit required, and either concealed or open carry is allowed without a permit. The ban on "assault style" weapons just means the state police runs a website listing all the semi-auto rifles you can legally buy (which is a lot). You can get your 30-round magazines in Virginia and bring them in with no trouble.

Fun fact: MD has more NFA registered weapons per capita than most of flyover country: http://metrocosm.com/map-of-federally-regulated-weapons.