skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar concept and similar speed, but notmuch is a little more actively developed. I also find the notmuch command line interface a bit easier and the various tools built on top of it to be better. Alot, the terminal UI I mentioned in the parent comment, is almost exactly what I want in a mail program.
AR can also selectively block out the background to give you a virtual monitor. The advantage is that it can go transparent where required so that you can find that coffeecup or talk to your colleague without taking off the headset.
A 'pay it forward' startup triggers a wave of kindness in the US
This resolves major complaints about 3D movies: forced focus, forced POV, and required normal eye-pair function. It's not so much "interactivity" as resolving chronic subtle annoyances: allow natural eye focus around the scene, get subtle shifts in perspective from moving one's head, and realize that not everyone's eyeballs are functioning & coordinated as a "double 2D" view requires.
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I don't know, the polls seem to suggest that 3 out of 4 Republicans polled support net neutrality (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/12...). I suppose it boils down to where in the priority list this falls for the average voter.

I think you could easily give supporters in this realm, that aren't quite aware of the worst case scenarios people fear about net neutrality repeal, food for thought using news as an example. Comcast for instance owns NBC Universal. If Comcast, often the de facto Internet provider in some areas, decides to favor vertical integration in news and "prioritize their outlets"... let's just say that the news outlets NBC Universal owns tend to be exactly opposite of the "parallel news system" outlets you are talking about. :)
Robert's Rules of Order (the Cadillac of parliamentary procedure texts) contains a few simple rules concerning this issue.

Simply put, no person may add content to a proposal that is not directly related to the original proposal. You want to add a rider to an HHS funding bill to also fund your pet project? Too bad. You want to include language in a standard farm bill about the second amendment? Not gonna happen.

Under these rules, proposals/bills are forced into MUCH smaller packages and the ability of any particular legislator to sneak in lobbied language becomes stymied.

Congress does not have these simple rules in place. We should force them to adopt the relevant section(s) of Robert's Rules of Order.
> You're welcome to attempt to argue that there's an unavoidable equivalence between QoS as everybody defines it and the other concept you're trying to equate it to, but you have to actually make that argument, not just declare the definition of QoS to have changed because you don't like what it means. QoS still stands for Quality of Service.

QoS being a quantity of service is a very well known term, pioneered and popularized by Dave Rand/Avi Freedman to describe that QOS establishes which packets are to be dropped on the floor first. QOS might work OK on networks with microspikes but it completely breaks on networks that are > 20% oversubscribed.

If I were made to pick between positions of Dave Rand and Avi Freedman and positions of all people supporting Net Neutrality, I would go with the first two as those people actually built networks.

> Net neutrality doesn't require you to ignore the past 20+ years of research into QoS.

This only works within a single AS. It has been demonstrated when a pair of crazy dudes built a Sprintlink on a top of ANS without ANS' knowledge.

> The technical requirements of having large, reasonably direct links between big producers and big consumers does not say anything about whether Netflix has to negotiate with Comcast and Verizon directly, or whether they can outsource those concerns to Level 3. That's purely in the domain of business shenanigans.

It does. Without that you end up with Enron.
I will not hesitate to terminate the employee

Surely if there is wrongdoing it is not the work of one employee.
Alleycat ! Am I that old ???
Caan you show some numbers and profiling?
I disagree. The Title IX kangaroo courts were a disgrace to America. The accused had no right to an attorney, no right to remain silent, no right to face their accuser. They faced panels, of professors, college administrators, and naive fellow students, that were politically hostile to young men and that accepted allegations as necessarily true. Even in civil cases, where there is a preponderance standard, the burden of persuasion is on the plaintiff. Here, the burden was effectively on the defendant.

The consequences of a finding against the accused was ruinous to that person's career, and wasteful of their previous investment in their diploma. The consequences of the process itself, where the accused was subject to treatment that would grossly violate the Bill of Rights if it were the government's doing, was likely to prejudice any criminal prosecutions or real civil cases. And yet it was the government mandating this treatment.

This is different than an employment situation, where the at-will relationship is understood to govern and employees aren't generally seen as entitled to their job or any due process for ending it. Besides occupying a special place in American society as a necessary rite of passage, a university is charging students tens of thousands of dollars per year to attend. To expel a student without adequate due process, wasting their previous investment in their diploma, is unconscionable.

In many of these cases where students were expelled, the only evidence was the allegation itself. Is that the world you want to live in, where a young person's life can be ruined by a single malicious accusation?
No joke, the chunks of butter for the bread were space shuttles. Now I need to dig into my photos to see if I can find them...
Facebook Now Lets You Know When You Show Up in a Picture You're Not Tagged In
Any idea if uBlock Origin protects against session-replay?:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfil...
I would not be surprised if the move to opt-out spying is consequences of the dropping ALSA and adding a hard dependency to pulseaudio fiasco.

Telemetry has been held as one of the main justification for the change as it supposedly showed only a fraction of users used ALSA. It turned out to be a combination of misinterpretation of collected data (installed libpulse does not mean not using ALSA) and a complete ignorance of the real world (most linux distros disable telemetry because privacy, people using ALSA are often the same that take extra measures to protect their privacy hence disabling mozilla spying mechanisms).

As a consequence mozilla pushed hard for package maintainers to enable telemetry in linux distros and sadly most did, see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233687
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285195
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285201
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/firefox.git/commit/?...

Compare to this from 7 years ago:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667577

The fun part was when mozilla people started patronizing users for protecting their privacy and told them that it's their fault if ALSA got dropped and that they should relinquish their privacy instead or they will be ignored:

Second, continuing to opt out of telemetry will just make problems
like this worse. As was stated in this thread, one of the
justifications for removing ALSA support was that the telemetry
numbers showed a very little ALSA usage. If more ALSA users had
telemetry enabled, perhaps the outcome would have been different.

In any case, running without telemetry means not having a say in
data-driven decisions about what configurations Mozilla should
support. It's OK to disable telemetry (that's why it's
user-controllable), but both users and distros that make decisions on
users' behalf should to take into account that if don't let Firefox
send info about your system config to Mozilla, your system config is
invisible to Mozilla's decision making about what to support.

source: Rationalising Linux audio backend support - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/j...

There was no course correction here, ALSA is still out despite the issue being entirely to mozilla implementation and not ALSA abilities, despite this being an edge case for linux netflix users with a specific 5.1 setup and despite someone coming forward to offer to fix and maintain their broken code.

Did I mention that they failed to mention this change in release notes, that firefox displayed a message inviting people to click a link to learn why their browser suddenly lost the ability to play sound but the link was broken and that this was an ESR release?

So when I read some mozilla marketing PR about them pretending to champion user privacy, I'm nonplussed at best.
Looks like a much bigger upgrade than the last two "Creator's Editions"
It seems to really struggle with single storey extensions and garages in my area, even when they're nearly as large as the main house floorpan and the Google car drove right past them. I think there's probably human intelligence as well as higher resolution imagery in getting those cathedral and space needle details right...

And it doesn't have any buildings at all in my friends' neighbourhood, because it was fields when their aerial images were taken under construction when their StreetView cars passed through 4 or so years ago. OpenStreetMap has accurate buildings. Apple Maps doesn't, but you've got a complete street layout and can overlay its more recent aerial imagery to see the buildings. Google Maps has no buildings, no aerial imagery from the last seven or more years, gets the street layout wrong and mislabels some of the few streets it actually shows. It's fun taking a 3D drive through the first roads when they were still lined by bare earth and areas about to start construction, but I got lost using their map...

Any mapping service's "moat" depends more on whether it's remotely adequate for the areas an individual cares most about than its ability to superbly render famous features of priority US cities.
I don't follow your examples. How is workout-equipment:gym like uber:taxi-firm?

> non-progressive

I'm not sure what you mean by progress, exactly, but policy simplicity is progress IMHO.
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> he went to work at Apple Maps

??? He writes a lot of this article like he's trying to guess from press and outside observation what Apple is doing / planning. If he was JUST working there, wouldn't he know all this? Should his 'outside observations' be considered to be him fitting outside information to what he already knows?
I'm not saying it wasn't fraud. I'm saying that the argument has no place here when we're talking about a GOP-lead attempt to effectively destroy the internet as we know it. Any attempt to shift the debate towards 'both parties are bad' is the definition of Whataboutism and an attempt to avoid the actual topic at hand.
Vivaldi is much more than a reskin of Chrome though. It has customisable UI (with color themes), vertical tabs, tree style tabs, tiled tabs, tab stacks, mouse gestures, tab hibernation, session saving for later, reader mode (and a bunch of others) builtin, speed dial, custom history page, web panels (a docked website on the side of the browser). Haven't used Chrome in a while though so not sure if some of those have been added there.

Cons are that it's slower (not that noticeable for me anymore since latest stable) and doesn't have sync (is coming in next version).
Sabotaging their network just to throttle just doesn't make sense. Nobody is going to pay for a white-list only internet. That is fear mongering by the pro-NN side.
Exploring problems in the ChestXray14 dataset and results derived from it.
I remember using the Internet Junkbuster[1] and Privoxy[2] to block ads in the browser long before ABP. The novelty was embedding the functionality directly in the browser through the extensions.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19980210082938/http://internet.j...

[2] http://www.privoxy.org/
I will never forget the feeling of awe when I entered that hanger and saw the butt end of the Saturn V. It is really is something that needs to be seen to be appreciated.

And then, after walking quite a distance down the length of the rocket, realising they’ve left out the middle stage because it doesn’t fit in the vast building it is in. I laughed in disbelief.
I wonder what would happen if everyone advocating against these individual things put all of those fights on hold and spent every bit of lobbying effort into campaign finance reform.
What if a legend is also a villain?
You mean "confirm". This website does not do anything to make the product seem not vapourware, and within the context of their entire activity, it can be taken as an evidence for the product being vapourware - after all, if it actually existed, they could've shown someone something.
And look at how well those did!
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STV itself merely refers to the voting system. If by "multi-winner" you mean multimember districts, that's still very susceptible to gerrymandering. Anything involving districting is, you can still split up populations so they have weaker representation, even under proportional systems, by making their representation much weaker in many districts and overly strong in a few.

I think Germany has a good solution where there's single-winner districts along with a proportional list. I also think giving authority of redistricting to an authority that can't directly benefit from it could also work.
Things are much different in Columbus now, also you can't run from ignorant people. They exist everywhere, even in SV.
It feels like a "X is the year of the Linux desktop!" comment to make, but I'm more and more convinced that the web is will be a very viable mobile app platform soon. Progressive Web App APIs are solving a lot of the homescreen/notification/other native functionalities, and performance is always getting better.

One day there might be an opportunity for a web-focused phone OS (what Firefox OS was trying to be, essentially), but... not quite yet.
Didn't know. But you're right !
cf https://www.nealstephenson.com/magic-leap.html
Then build something better instead of shitting on others
It's just Cocoa on macOS. Cocoa Touch is iOS (and tvOS and watchOS) and encompasses UIKit.
I always thought the Wolfram language was a good step toward "Software 2.0". It's a shame the language isn't open source.
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Do Bed and Breakfasts usually operate under contracts with larger corporate entities that set service standards and reap a share of the profits? I'd assume most are small, family run businesses.
Good thing you will likely be districted in a way that prevents your vote from mattering for the rest of your life, and your donations are paltry in comparison to corporate ones.
ish. You can generate a map image of it, and combine that with other data and that only requires attribution
The initial BCH trading on GDAX was pitiful. They shut it down really quickly.

https://cryptowat.ch/gdax/bchusd/1m
Interesting! Does anyone know how much less efficient this is in practice?
As much as Canada’s own legislation is shaped by US events, I hope you don’t sit on that hill long- you should be offline gathering metaphorical water buckets.
I saw it on brian d foy's website first, around 2010.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150227080722/http://www.master... is about the module Modulino which allows scripts to use these tricks.

DrDobbs had it 2004: http://www.drdobbs.com/scripts-as-modules/184416165
Currently it is illegal to sue a company for personal harm that results from a data breach.

We could start by repealing that nonsense.
> I don't see any reason why Google can't add OpenStreetMap as an additional data source in some or all areas (right in the spirit of the article).

The OSM licence requires that if you merge another database with it, you need to release the other database under the same licence as OSM.

I can't see Google doing that.
You've got to meet people where they are. Someone who is familiar with how git works is going to find the git GUI client way too limiting to seriously consider using it, whatever verb they use for the push function.
And rank-and-file employees.

I hate Uber's shitty stunts as much as you do, but lets have some empathy for regular folks who work there.
Precisely.
People thinking this is to create one UI for both platforms are missing the point.

Just like you can have an app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, all with their own UI to a more or less degree, you will now be able toinclude a macOS build as well.
Yeah, it's yet another instance of people going "how hard can it possibly be?" and finding out the answer is "oh, pretty hard..."
That depends. If your quality if life is measured by nights out, it's true. However if I look back at my life my most satisfying and memorable happenings were either the ones I has to wait and long for, and the ones happened completely randomly - both completely irrelevant to going out or not on weekdays. Your life will not be less if you go out less - go out when you have a reason, a concert, a band playing, a movie you actually want to see, and not for the sake of going out.

BTW, I lived in London, public transport is not at all that bad; it's acceptable in Budapest, where I also used it quite a few times. If you can and are willing to afford a taxi, get a taxi, otherwise public transport is fine. (Not in Cambridge, though, there is no public transport in the night.)
real paintball is unbeatable -;) nature always wins
I prefer waiting longer for a cab to be available, than only rich people taking cabs. With uber at a triple rate, I have to wait longer on average for the fare to go down, than to catch a free cab by chance when the fare stays flat.
...except for it already happening in other countries without protections.
What Google Glass does is not AR. It is simply a wearable computer, not an AR device.
That sounds like a terrible idea. You need an Apple device to seriously build iOS apps, so does that mean that Apple users will have trouble using software that is created by people who write their software on other operating systems?
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Oh of course, I exactly agree with this, but I think the gap between beginner and Hendrix being filled by deliberate practice is extremely paralyzing for people. I have learned to have confidence in the process. Once you spend years learning a skill and notice that over time you do actually get better because of that persistence, it's kind of a magic realization. Armed with that mindset, you can start learning a skill like guitar knowing that, no, you probably won't be good in a month, but if I stick with it for a few years I'll probably sound pretty decent.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/726561442636263425
Apple Watch has a crown and a touch screen. iPad Pros have keyboards, pens, and a touch screen. Apple TV has directional and trackpad input. All support voice input. All work fine with basically the same UI toolkit.
Isn't the residual heat from normal decay something like 10% of the reactor output? When you split Uranium you get a lot of byproducts with short half-lives that continue decaying away even when Uranium chain reaction stops. So you've still got 40 MW to deal with, at least until those short-half-lived byproducts finish decaying.
I use MLton and Poly/ML on a daily basis. No problems with them at all.
Ride sharing isn't morally bankrupt when properly delivered and regulated. Uber is morally bankrupt, regardless of the positive impacts they've had.

There are some holes that are simply too deep to be dug out of.
I like mirrors in an elevator if I’m the only one in there.

Otherwise it makes the ride more awkward because I try to avoid locking eyes with someone else through the mirror.
You can't hold a tide back with a broom
And depressingly it won't rollback until tyrannical governments get in power and run amok.

The sheer damage politicians across the world are inflicting on future generations with these privacy laws are very depressing.
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> If you take $10,000 USD in cash and put it in the freezer, in a year it would be worth $9,700 of today’s value.

> Yep you read that right. Holding USD means the cash will be “worth” less next year. This is because of a 3% inflation rate.

USD inflation is effectively dead ATM and has been since at least the early 2000s.
If I'm mugged, I'm not typically carrying my entire life savings.

If my credit card number is compromised, I report that to the bank and the money shows back up in my account in short order.

My money doesn't seem to have been significantly devalued by quantitative easing - inflation stayed at very low levels throughout the process.
They're not light field displays. Current VR is fixed 2D monitors with focal-length adjusters (so a 5cm display 3cm from your eye looks like it's a 5m display 3m away). Light field presents photons in a way your eye can dynamically adjust focus & position within.
I will say that one of the early benefits to bitcoin, low/nonexistent middlemen fees, is not really a thing anymore. Every single time you move across wallets, at current prices no matter how much coin you're moving, you're out the equivalent of $20USD.

Considering that basic BTC opsec is to move your coins around regularly, this is painful unless you have insane amounts of money to throw around.
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I think you're 100% right, and there was even natural experiment confirming this when Uber (and Lyft) left Austin temporarily. Basically the city council wanted rideshare drivers to do City background checks. There was a public referendum, and Uber/Lyft said they'd leave if it passed. Then it passed, and they left. Pretty much overnight there were 3-4 Austin-centric Uber competitors. Riders and drivers just switched apps. Colloquially, people would even still say "get an Uber" while using these other apps.

Eventually this was superceded by a Texas law, and Uber/Lyft came back, but the rideshare apocalypse that was predicted never came to be because there are very few barriers to entry in this market: build a relatively simple app, paste up some fliers or billboards advertising your new company to drivers and riders, and you're in business.

Admittedly, Austin has more ambitious app coders than most other random cities, so it might not be literally overnight like it was here, but it won't take that long for somebody to do the same in the rest of the country/world. On the other hand, those places likely won't lose Lyft at the same time like Austin did, so it may be a wash.
Spolier

Sure there is. You can choose to not enter based on existing terms. You can try to negotiate and be told no. That's how most open contracts work, including contract to hire firms in US Finance.
I honestly don't know a ton about it, but I see it mentioned in the same cool kid crowd of "rubyists" a lot.
Thank you. For curious non-Portuguese speakers:

* The article is from August 22nd 2017.
* It prohibits cash payments for anything (not just electronics) from 3000€ on.
* For non-residents, the limit is expanded to 10000€, or equivalent in a different currency.
"Mobile-first design" often produces really bad results. I could name a lot of sites that do it and their websites are often terrible on a laptop, which is how I use the Internet.
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Hopefully this means the iPad Pro will gain support for trackpads and mouse input.
Probably for "mythical man-month" related reasons. It's far from trivial to manage a large number of relatively small contributions from a large group of diverse developers.