skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine if ABC/CBS/NBC actively went to political parties and sold them on buying their way into the scripts of the top prime-time sitcoms to shape the opinion of viewers.

That wouldn't happen, because on the one hand no amount of money from the Republicans would persuade ABC/CBS/NBC to support them, and on the other hand they're quite glad to provide free support to the Democrats. The situation is reverse with Fox 'News,' of course.

This isn't for any nefarious reason: it's just that pretty much everyone associated with mass media believes that the Republicans are evil and the Democrats are good. There's no amount of money which could persuade me to claim that all murder should be legal; likewise, there's no need to pay me to say that murder should be illegal. The situation is the same for the vast majority of showrunners & news anchors: they really are doing what they believe is right.
Both will suck ass.

If the snow cover isn't very thick (just a couple of inches on top of road) a thin tire will cut through it better to get to the road.

There is likely ice under that snow so you need studded tires like these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ca/en/schwalbe-marathon-w...

Note they come in various widths: down to 35mm (commuting road bike size) to 2 inches (MTB).

I would take these in the 40mm width over the other sizes for commuting in the snow.
>Fantasy is just as good as reality when it comes to T-Rex coloration

The perception of realism would still matter.

Just use test audiences to see what people believe looks the most real.
Like the 'appearance in creative works' section points out, it's a popular inspiration for stories and games with a bit of an anarchistic streak. Gibson's Bridge trilogy and Shadowrun: Hong Kong used it in their settings, and you can see why. It's a natural fit for Cyberpunk; heck, it was more or less a manifestation of the genre.

But ... it didn't actually work all that well, did it? It was a huge slum, which plenty of cities have. It was just unique in its small urban footprint.
"It’s an absolute threat to national sovereignty"

It's not a threat to anything but speculators bank accounts.

Nobody is using BTC as a currency.
> > it is a pain to manage Jenkins itself with code

> This is not true, all the configuration is scriptable via groovy scripts. [...] There is an effort to support this better[1] by jenkins team

The link you gave confirms it by saying managing Jenkins code "require you know Jenkins internals, and are confident in writing groovy scripts". Neither GUI's (like the one shown in your link) nor procedural languages (like Apache Groovy, still procedural even though its collection API is crippled for Jenkins pipelines) are very good for configuring software. Nor is an unreadable declarative language (like XML).

A readable declarative language (like YAML, as shown in your link) is the solution. Languages like Groovy were an over-reaction against unreadable XML in the Java ecosystem. The correct solution is to switch from an unreadable to a readable declarative language for configuring software.
Because the guy works on computers for a living.
Plenty of gay people oppose too marriage too. The most powerful gay couple Dolce and Gabbana for instance.
If you want to see this in action, just visit the CCC event. People regularly manage to DoS (or just overload, I don't know) even the DHCP servers. So at some point all you will get from the network is a little wooden peg with a number. :)
At most companies I've seen, in a single team, two people doing the same thing with a similar amount of experience can have a difference of pay of double.
To those who've read the article: is the performance limit lifted when the device is put on a charger?
Enemy AI is most certainly the perfectly wrong place to apply ML due to the wide range of possible inputs (scenarios) and being in the utterly wrong complexity class (I mean, it's ostensibly doable with an RNN, but definitely not worth it).

GOAP is still pretty much the end-all of game AI, but it can be pretty tricky to work with.
I was referring to that (my old serial number did show up as eligible but I had it replaced before that).

Apparently all phones suffer from that problem but the batch we referred to seem to be especially bad. The software update just seems to have mitigated the effects of iPhones which were mostly ok but shut down occasionally (and the effected ones which shut down almost every week when it was at 70% and about once or twice a day at 20-30%).
Mentioning the name of the app you're hacking isn't clickbaity
Thanks for sharing this infographic. Today is the first time I've ever heard about Kowloon Walled City. I was immediately intrigued, because it looks like something out of science fiction. It reminds me of just how breathtakingly diverse the human experience can be.
Man, I’m not sure BeOS was ever on the same technical footing as NeXT, but those BeBox machines were magical. I remember getting to play with one a little—an Internet acquaintance I met through IRC had one, was home on college break, and my fragile little mind was totally blown.

I remember watching the fractal generator render the Mandelbrot set and top out both CPU LED bars. In my naïveté I figured that software everywhere would soon be making use of multiple processors, increasing performance linearly, and with no effort.

I guess we all have lots of cores now, but writing software to use them all is still a PIA.

Those felt like magical times, with one juggernaut (Windows) and a sense that any of the new computing platforms could upend everything. Nowadays, I feel less of that excitement in spite of being able to credibly choose between Linux, Mac, Windows. Maybe that’s more a function of my age than anything else. Or maybe the hegemony of mediocre web apps has just delivered us into another period of bland sameness.
Bussed out: How America moves its homeless
If only you could just pull the old battery out and put a new one in.
I think your concerns are valid but on the other hand; Twitter is already an echo chamber. People make it to even worse echo chambers.

On Mastodon you have a choice. You can be on an instance that does echochamber and safespace the discussion or you pick one that doesn't. Or make your own.
Since the article doesn't go into a whole lot of technical detail about the shading technique, here's the pixar whitepaper describing it: https://graphics.pixar.com/library/BumpRoughness/paper.pdf
How do you know he read your article?
Most states have keep right laws[1]. Some are definitely stronger than others, but these laws aren't enforced as frequently, though I wish they were.

[1] http://www.mit.edu/%7Ejfc/right.html

tldr: If someone behind you is going faster and you are in the left lane, move right.
You mean the operators of web front-ends which provide access to the exchange? I suppose that's possible. But I don't know how long that will even be the main way that people access them.
Moana, Complacency, and the Enduring Appeal of Steady-State Economics
I think most of the people who understand the basic principles of how computers (and many languages) work wouldn’t be surprised by any of the „gotcha” described in this article. It seems to be written for people who just started working with golang without any or little knowledge about information technology.
"Bitcoin doesn't lend itself to any of those Keynesian tricks."

A) Monetary policy is not 'Keynesian' - and it's a handy thing, which is why everyone does it, and nobody has a perfectly hard currency.

B) BTC is not a currency, it's perfect rigidity - ironically - is what attracted many speculators in the first place, killing it's usefulness as a currency.
Sure, Obj-C was esoteric, but also well-designed and impressively ahead of its time. Witness that a minor evolution of the same tech went on to form the foundation of iOS.

Even now, with Apple trying to transition to Swift, it's unclear to me that's an overall win. The combination of C plus message-passing was inspired.

So basically I agree Cocoa was better tech than Carbon. Carbon was popular with devs 'cuz that's what they were used to, and that's what their existing apps were written in...it was a great stop-gap measure, but wouldn't have provided nearly as good a foundation for the future (in my opinion).
It is an issue for the rest of us, though.

From: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-fewer-employers-offe...

>Nationwide, 83.8 percent of workers in 2015 had jobs that offered insurance

In other words, 16.2% of workers have jobs that don't offer insurance. That's 3 in 20.
HN has spent the better part of a decade repeatedly telling me these things are both worthless, so I'm sure this is fine.
yes please !
buylist_keywords = ['blockchain', 'snake oil', 'tulip']
This is an area that was explored some years ago, but ultimately determined to have civil rights pitfalls. Crime reporting is only as good (or biased) as the humans that report and input the crime data. Therefore, crime "training" data for AI systems can be very biased and it might only magnify those biases more so using AI - a sort of self-perpetuating negative feedback loop.

Having worked in law enforcement at various levels (state and federal) in a prior professional life, I can attest to the differences in what gets reported and how based upon who was working or supervising and where they were assigned. Humans are simply not reliable reporters for this kind of data. No matter how hard we try to make the reports plain and standardized our biases, one way or another, will always seep in.
You can see something similar in Caracas, Venezuela, where people live in unfinished skyscrapers. There's no lifts nor official electricity and there are grocery shops every nth floor with prices growing as everything is delivered on foot.
#4 can also be fixed with:

for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
i := i // Creates a *new* `i`
defer func() { … something with i … }
go func() { … something with i … }
}
“Older vehicles” ...lol. You mean after 15 years+ and 250k? Oh yes, you can also replace the parts on the open market.

Generally speaking, outside of Tesla,
vehicle lifespan has tripled in the last 2 decades.
> So you admit that you want to go out drinking and this is the only reason you want the trains to run all night?

I guess that's a way you could interpret my comment, if you read only the first paragraph and ignore the sentence that literally comes next.
There’s no company. There’s a W3C-approved standard (two of them, actually - OStatus and ActivityPub), a guy who spent a year or two writing a user-friendly client for them, a Github project with a growing number of contributors, a bunch of other people hosting servers, and an assortment of Patreon campaigns to pay for continued development and to help pay the bills for the servers that aren’t being run out of someone's deep pocket. And enough people deciding that they are fed up with Twitter for there to be enough of a community to make it worthwhile.

Corporate-owned social media that tries to pay its development and hosting costs by putting as many ads in front of your eyeballs is unhealthy. The fact that this is pretty much all we've had for the past decade or two makes it easy to assume this means all social media is unhealthy.
Or you could use the gccgo runtime from C: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/golib
credit card / student debt is a huge issue across the board in the US. Frankly you can live just about anywhere in the US on 100k if you have no debt. I read somewhere a while back that 67% of americans have less than $1000 in their checking account. That just blew my mind. But they're all walking around with iPhones and shiny new cars.

We've been fortunate to pay off our student loans and made the conscious decision when we first got married that if we didn't have the cash, we weren't going to borrow cash from our future selves to pay for it (with credit cards.) This by far has been the best decision we've ever made.

We have a reasonable amount of money in the bank (no matter the number it's never enough) and the only debt we owe is the mortgage on the house.

Student loans are a bigger issue for the up & coming generations. 17 year old american kids are not equipped to understand the implications of taking on $80,000+ in loans for a college education. We've put money away for the kids' college, but it won't be enough to cover their entire education unless they go to a public university. It's crazy to think that most parents don't steer their kids towards well-paying university majors. The worst case scenario happens far too often, for example: a kid majors in a generic degree like "communications" or "english" in exchange for $80,000 and their first job (if they're lucky to get one in their field!) pays them a pittance.
You're drawing a distinction without difference. You can phrase basically any rule that discriminates against a subgroup as a rule on the larger group that only affects the subgroup. For example, I don't think anyone would say, "It isn't discrimination against women to forbid all people from doing something without a Y chromosome." The fact that the phrasing doesn't say "women" doesn't make it not discrimination, because it specifically targets attributes of women.
Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones
I think the people in the panama papers would disagree.
> This is the problem with cyber security

This is why I think cryptocurrency is a terrible idea. Even if nobody ever finds a problem with the system itself (unlikely on an infinite timescale), every bank will get hacked at some point, and with no rollbacks it will eventually end in disaster.
My question would be - how are you supposed to know when to replace the battery? You can judge your battery capacity fairly decently yourself - if the phone used to be at 40% after a day of hard use and now it barely makes it to bedtime you know its degraded. Measuring relative performance of the phone would be very difficult to gauge yourself. Granted, in both situations you could have other issues (unknown apps running etc), but if you aren't changing anything about your phone for the most part you'll know when the battery is not doing as good as it has. You then know to replace it.

Even if this isn't planned obsolescence, it is tangential to it. They know they are putting a new phone out every year or so, and they are hedging their bets that people will move to it so this decision makes total sense for them financially. It feels underhanded even if not fraudulent, they made a decision that is better for them than you. God forbid you have to charge your phone during the day?
> They both have the ability to be controversial, but you're ignoring the context and assuming that they can both be the same level of controversial.

No, I'm not ignoring any context. I'm asserting that they can both be the same level of nonviolent. Just as I haven't made a comparison about lifestyles, I also haven't made a comparison about how controversial the beliefs about those lifestyles are. At this point the discussion is just getting pedantic.
>> It would be nice if we could magically divorce people's work from their stance, but their stance will affect how they treat their peers and juniors-

This isn't necessarily true. People have for years been able to divorce personal or politic beliefs from their work and not let them impact their professional life.
IRS considers it an asset not money.
> Typically there is an unsolved batch of crimes, they tag random people with them at will, then execute the supposed criminals by the hundreds to wipe away all the unsolved crimes.

Sometimes it's just that a high-ranking Party official needs a new liver...
Bindgen – Rust tool for generating C bindings
What the Net Neutrality Repeal Means for Advertising, Ecommerce and Agencies
This isn't the whole story, though. Part of the reasons US healthcare costs are so high is that the majority of all medical research is done in the US.

America needs to do a hell of a lot better on this front - universal healthcare should be a basic human right! - but it doesn't immediately solve the issue.
In a state like NYC where you have one large population center that overwhelms the rest of the state the only time that the dominant population center does not get its way is when its way is so abhorrent to the rest of the state that they are unified against it and even that doesn't happen often.

NY safe is a great example how far the influence of NYC goes in state government and it wound up getting done despite practically the entire rest of the state being opposed to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Green-Star-Map-05-Feb-14....

NYC blaming NY for it's problems is an incredibly out of touch with reality attitude. If something NYC wants isn't getting done at the state level it's probably because NYC's goals do not line up with those of its own elected representation, not because the rest of the state is standing in your way.
2017 Most amazing tweets according to Bill Gates
As long as the methodological flaws are someone else's problem (the user/consumer), we don't need to take responsibility for building the tools that facilitate those methodological flaws, right?
"Government does not need this ability,"

Extremely debatable, given the fact that every nation on planet earth basically uses monetary policy.

A rational policy whereby currency is exchanged for other assets at a rate using benchmarks is preferable to a strict currency.

A better economic policy might even allow almost anyone to exchange assets for currency. Then the market can decide how much is in circulation (though arguably that is already happening, just the levers are in the hands of a body, not a distributed group).
That's the thing, with lithium ion batteries, spontaneously combustion is a real worry.

I'll be more than willing to take my chances with a lot of parts on computers/phones/electronics/etc

But the power supply systems are one area I will not buy anything other than OEM or "top of the line" for.

I've fallen asleep with my phone in bed, I have it on a nightstand a foot away from my head most nights, it sits in my pocket for most of the day. That's not something I want to have even a 1% chance of failing when the failure mode is "burst into flames".
Many eastern tibetan monks claim to be 120+ years old. Due to the nature of their lives its very hard to document birth to death. Of course people deny it because its not "on record." likely due to longevity bias that humans naturally have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths
I've made an android app, 2 months ago, to keep track of your coins (Bitcoin & altcoins). I'm still developing the app and new features will come in 2018 ! Don't hesitate to give me your feedbacks. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juniper.wa...
I can't help but find it amusing that you ask if the no-brand batteries are worth your trust. You already paid a premium for a premium device, with a battery that has now shown to have significant limitations over time.

Why wouldn't your first thought be "Hey, maybe Apple doesn't make the best battery for the iphone"? You already know they make a flawed one, maybe someone else makes one that isn't flawed?
A the verge article represents the opinion of the general populace? Please.
They do that all the time:

Al Gore - 30 Rock

Joe Biden/Michelle Obama - Parks and Rec

Newt Gengrich - Murphy Brown

Donna Brazil - Good Wife

etc....
Remember this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790687

To some extent it's still going on. Protests are still happening (and it's really bad) so lately I've been noticing a bunch of - what I think are - shill accounts. Couple of days before I went through some of the posts in news post about the protests and identified several profiles with no personal pictures, no posts, posting in broken Romanian about:

- anti-protests

- anti-EU and basically nationalistic bullshit

- religion and how that will solve everything

- government does nothing wrong and protesters are a bunch of thugs

- links to well-known fake news websites

- inciting violence while appearing to be pro-protest

Groups of accounts such as these are brigading some popular news postings and I don't really find them inside the anti-protester echo rooms.

the accounts look and feel similarly to the spam profiles which were prevalent a few years back having supermodel headshots as profile pictures.

I reported about 12 such profiles and the response from Facebook was that I should block these accounts as a resolution, as they aren't doing anything wrong per Facebook community guidelines and they are legit accounts.

In contrast, 'famous' people who are famously anti-government (and trolls, that's true, like this guy: https://www.facebook.com/macacaur) are getting their accounts disabled every couple of weeks and require photo ID proof to re-enable.
I lived in a town that neighbored another where police presence was about 4 fold compared to the former. You would be stopped while walking down the street in the neighboring town, meanwhile I could look a out my window and watch a few drug deals take place in an afternoon.

The difference? The neighboring town had a couple decades long reputation of being a hotbed for crime.

That reputation would be cemented in an AI system that was trained off of police data.
It is not so that the ledger is encrypted.
I'm not sure if I follow you here, particularly the use of "extremely suspicious", which makes me think that you believe something underhanded is going on. If so, would you just come out and say it? Innuendo doesn't generally promote useful discussion, and it's even harder on an online forum. Was this something you were thinking about when you wrote your initial comment? If that's not the case, please forgive me. I assumed your initial comment was a legitimate question, and answered in good faith.

If they are related (and perhaps they are, I wasn't thinking about the recall when I wrote my comment), do you think it's unreasonable for engineers at Apple to try to prevent unexpected shutdowns? I would think it would be unreasonable not to, once they saw the impact it was having on user experience. And that's besides improving the battery. The amount of engineering that goes on with respect to power and performance management is incredible, and attacking these types of problems from multiple angles is expected, particularly when you're looking to eek out even more performance in something that's already been through years of optimization iterations.
You missed option 3: Replace the battery.
i don't know, i wouldn't call this magazine a joke. I think the quality of the writing is top notch, and the level of the topics is extremely interesting. i don't disagree that what's going on financially is pretty reprehensible, but at the very least i can still attempt to support the writers who probably spent a lot of time writing these awesome pieces by reading their work.
This question occurred to me while reading the article. Thanks for pointing this out.
This seems like a serious limitation. Is the solution just for everyone to run their own instances?
[Mac] Apptorium apps heavily discounted for Christmas
There is the perception that as you get older you don't keep up with new tech and that you work less hard.

So if you are an older person, make a side project with some cutting edge stuff and prove them wrong.
Exactly — dapps are unstoppable, at least with any conventional approaches to internet censorship
While average power draw for a given task for mobile chips has stayed similar or declined over the last few years, peak draw has gone through the roof. It's quite plausible that the iPhone 5's SoC just never drew enough power at peak for this to be an issue.
That's a fair point. I agree that Jenkins will not solve these problem and in fact they come with their own problem anyway. I was argued on the sole point of setting up K8S.

Other than that I agree with you.