skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rigid shoes are not strictly “better”. Arguably they are in many ways worse, stunting development of small stabilizer muscles throughout the foot and lower leg (through disuse), reducing flexibility and dexterity, encouraging poor posture, and leading to various kinds of injuries especially among runners (heel-striking when running puts a lot of repetitive shock on all of the hard tissues from the heel up through the hip, even when wearing very padded shoes). Shoes with even slightly raised heels in particular lead to reduced ankle flexibility, which impairs squatting and jumping (this is compounded by a lifetime of sitting on European-style chairs for hours every day). They also tend to not be very foot-shaped, causing blisters and cramping people’s toes inward: adults in rigid-shoe-wearing places end up with really weird shaped feet, bunions, etc., sometimes requiring surgery to fix. I suspect that many mobility problems among the elderly are caused or exacerbated by a lifetime of wearing rigid shoes. Maybe less importantly, they lead to much louder footfalls.

Their main advantages are (a) they are more waterproof, (b) they are more durable (especially on hard rough surfaces canvas or thin leather shoes wear out quite quickly), (c) they offer some protection against sharp objects that you otherwise have to pay more attention not to step on.
> primarily designed by and for western-european men, and using the music they liked

What is the point of this sentence? Any value this may have as a technical or art piece is lost by the random attack on the creators and their race.

I'm not even convinced that it is true. I was under the impression that they chose music specifically that was difficult to compress well.
Care to share a link so we can take a look?
Are people really that confused about the difference between fundamental natural uncertainty, and the measurement problem?
>To take the example of height again, just because someone is short doesn't mean they won't look taller with high heels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbMv0UkAswI&feature=youtu.be...
You should be able to disable it though - it's effectively the same as uninstalling it.
It's not the lethality of the weapon, but the police response that's the problem.

In most (northern) European countries the response to somebody brandishing a knife would be to set up a perimeter around that person, rather than directly engage them. Only as a last resort would you resort to violence. Instead you try to tire them out.

By comparison, the American police response would be to immediately subdue the person with any force necessary.
vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds

Oh no, children saying rude things? So long civilization, it was good while it lasted.

If we're talking about the Dutch police, they actually seem to do a pretty great job with patience and professionalism from what I remember when I lived there (for about 2 years).
London’s top-rated restaurant – and it doesn’t exist
Increasing Rust's Reach: Matt Gathu Interview (wget, Rust Nairobi, and More)
The majority in this thread are not willing or able to put 'fake news' in correct context with propaganda and censorship. I even see a comment basically saying that freedom of expression in the West will eventually be like it is (not) in China and suggesting that is probably for the best anyway.

So I believe that apathy or this lack of/incorrect context will have very significant consequences.

I just hope that people will research the long and ongoing history of censorship and propaganda and try to see the correct connection with "fake news" and the suggestions for suppressing it.
No surprise there
Why in the hell do you need "the element of surprise" unless your goal going in is "shoot the shit out of somebody?"

If you are genuinely trying to deescalate a situation, you need to talk to the people involved. If we're genuinely that worried about people getting shot, why aren't we rolling "Officer Robot" up to the front door to say hello?

Even if there IS a hostage situation, these SWAT events demonstrate that the hostage is probably in more danger from the SWAT team than the hostage taker.

"Element of surprise" implies shoot first, ask questions later. And that NEEDS to change.
> All I did recently was to reset the OS because it felt very sluggish on iOS 11 and after the reset it got a lot better.

Apparently general sluggishness is not caused by the battery, but by some rogue iOS system process (which a reset fixes).

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl...

if "everything" is slow on your iPhone, it’s probably not this issue related to older batteries. A full backup and restore is a pain in the ass, but it’s worth trying. There are clearly some bugs in iOS 11 that triggered such problems in far too many devices.

http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea...

Ever since iOS 11 came out I had experienced a significant performance issue on my iPhone 6S. Animations and transitions were slow, app loading was noticeably and unbearably slower than iOS 10 and my battery was draining faster. Many rumours swirled that others were experiencing this but not all. […]

Then several weeks ago a Reddit conversation started spreading online that presented possible evidence Apple was reducing the performance of their iOS and possibly laptops when the battery life was sufficiently degraded. That day I decided to test the theory by getting my battery replaced at the Apple Store.

[…] After I confirmed with her that I was not using it that heavily and the battery setting statistics also didn’t show an application using a large percentage of the battery she suggested a rogue system process that somehow persisted through upgrades and restarts.

She also let me know that my battery was at 83% health and that Apple won’t even do a replacement unless it’s below 80%.

So I went home and immediately did a local backup, wipe and restore. And voila! Performance issues were gone.
>I guess it was totally usual back then to expect a letter asking for a random for a nobleman to war.

So that's how random number generation worked in the days before computers! :p
Everything Amazon’s Alexa learned to do in 2017
Agreed, I wouldn’t care whatsoever about your certification if I was hiring, you’re already employed as a digital designer, if you’re interested in moving into front end dev then look for an opportunity to move to that in your company.
But why do I try to convince you, at the end of 2018 BTC is at 100K, you missed another opportunity and you come again here and tell us the same FUD.

I don't have strong opinions either way on this entire thread but I find the back and forth extremely entertaining (although the repetitive nature of both of your arguments I wish would be replaced by more creative replies at times). But I will point out that, at the end (almost the very end) of 2017, it's not even 20,000 -- BTC is at 13,000.
I note the fake replies are quite limited & repetitive. It would be extremely interesting to see if deep Q learning could be used to develop more realistic replies. "rewards" would simply be getting more (and faster) responses.
David: If you are reading this, your site has very annoying "smooth scroll" that breaks scrolling for all mac users and also breaks the "back" shortcut on mac trackpads. Would recommend removing this: https://www.davidsopas.com/wp-content/themes/blg/framework/j...
Apple makes $29 battery replacements available immediately for iPhone 6 and up
Creating Microservices in Golang – Part 5 of 10 – Message Broker with Go-Micro
This is one of the best: https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/mbvnmrbc/
> It also happens that the Facebook app is pre installed on Samsung devices and cant be removed.

It can be disabled, which is as good as removed. Now if Samsungs own apps could be disabled, I would be happier.
who's we? and looking at the website I think it used NLP to analyse review text and they state in about us that they check grammar and correlation so you could have a legitimate review with wrong grammar marked as spam.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... HackerNews: The Political Platform:

Step 1.) Vote for Obama

Step 2.) "OMG CIVIL RIGHTS ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED"

Step 3.) Support his continuation and acceleration of the Bush Era bank bailouts and War on Terror

Step 4.) Accuse everyone who disagrees with this policy a racist for 8 years straight

Step 5.) Watch as banks spend that bailout money on investments overseas because you're too irresponsible with credit, thus maintaining LIBOR while decoupling it from Keynesian virtuous cycles

Step 6.) Get super upset when nationalist movements appear because, honestly, how are flyover states with no tech skills even alive, amirite? I bet they have below 100 Reddit karma, too.

Step 7.) Deploy endless volumes of Jon Stewart-tier sarcasm when BitCoin suddenly appears and mock libertarians because we all know mocking people who support and expand a vehicle for capital flight is a super fucking brilliant idea.

Step 8.) Call everyone in the last two steps not only racists, but super duper ultra triple meanie racists for the remainder of Obama's term.

Step 9.) Aggressively support anti-1% narratives for Twitter cred reasons (as long as you can still afford that Juicero) while writing code that solidifies their position

Step 10.) Act startled when a bunch of people who didn't get benefits from repealing Glass-Stegall or get a six-figure salary paycheck for creating dog walker apps suddenly rise up and elect a grand master troll as president because fuck your system and your "intelligence"

Step 11.) Call everyone who isn't you a classification of racist that escapes measurement because the number to describe its intensity hasn't been invented yet.

Step 12.) Wonder why the surveillance systems you've programmed under Obama are now being deployed against you.

Step 13.) Flag, downvote, and ban anything and anyone that reminds you of your direct complicity in this evolution of wealth transfer.
You think a length two repeat in the most significant bits will hide from statistical tests? That doesn’t sound plausible to me. Can you show a good RNG for which this mutation passes tests?
As others have said, police in the US are trained to shoot for center mass, and even then they don't have a great track record for accuracy. I don't have the statistics in front of me, but the book 'On Combat' describes several cases where police empty their clips and mainly hit air. Adrenaline is a bitch, but most cops also have (in)famously little actual weapons training and a more robust regimen would undoubtedly help - including but not limited to helping them not discharge their weapons in the first place.
Actually no, because 'those people' are the set of 'people who have chosen to label others as anti police' and a singular opinion isn't the same as a collective identity.

Admittedly people who hold that opinion might adhere to a 'conservative identity' but the gp was specifically describing people who engaged in categorical dismissal of of political proposal, so it's legitimate to say they can't be reasoned with because categorical dismissals are an example of a genetic fallacy.
Crowd of stiffs is stiff. Got it.
> If nature hasn't figured out how to do it any different, given the time she has had, neither are we.

Not following the logic here at all. What does an economy have to do with an ecosystem? What is "nature"? Are there Apex predator bacteria? How does an Apex preditor map to an economic actor?

This is as lazy naturalist fallacy as it gets.
I can't speak to the specifics of your project, but 128-bit symmetric crypto on 8-bit microcontrollers is perfectly possible, at a low power budget and with relatively small code and RAM usage.
The victim was an unrelated third party.
For opiates, the reason is often being prescribed them for pain.
I recently built an ebike like the OP to commute. Up to now I would bike commute sometimes and ride my non-ebike or take transit for most non-work trips, but for work commuting there was too much extra friction -- too far, too much to carry (I work in construction) -- to bike consistently. However I enjoy biking and it's a great way to commute in my car-congested city (if I solved the friction problem).

The extra watts of the ebike removes the friction.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... HackerNews: The Political Platform:

Step 1.) Vote for Obama

Step 2.) "OMG CIVIL RIGHTS ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED"

Step 3.) Support his continuation and acceleration of the Bush Era bank bailouts and War on Terror

Step 4.) Accuse everyone who disagrees with this policy a racist for 8 years straight

Step 5.) Watch as banks spend that bailout money on investments overseas because you're too irresponsible with credit, thus maintaining LIBOR while decoupling it from Keynesian virtuous cycles

Step 6.) Get super upset when nationalist movements appear because, honestly, how are flyover states with no tech skills even alive, amirite? I bet they have below 100 Reddit karma, too.

Step 7.) Deploy endless volumes of Jon Stewart-tier sarcasm when BitCoin suddenly appears and mock libertarians because we all know mocking people who support and expand a vehicle for capital flight is a super fucking brilliant idea.

Step 8.) Call everyone in the last two steps not only racists, but super duper ultra triple meanie racists for the remainder of Obama's term.

Step 9.) Aggressively support anti-1% narratives for Twitter cred reasons (as long as you can still afford that Juicero) while writing code that solidifies their position

Step 10.) Act startled when a bunch of people who didn't get benefits from repealing Glass-Stegall or get a six-figure salary paycheck for creating dog walker apps suddenly rise up and elect a grand master troll as president because fuck your system and your "intelligence"

Step 11.) Call everyone who isn't you a classification of racist that escapes measurement because the number to describe its intensity hasn't been invented yet.

Step 12.) Wonder why the surveillance systems you've programmed under Obama are now being deployed against you.

Step 13.) Flag, downvote, intimidate, and ban anything and anyone that reminds you of your direct complicity in this evolution of wealth transfer.
Great idea! Wasting spammers time is one of the very few ways of making them effectively lose money.
Still the project needs some pseudo randomization in order to fool basic research. Some of the messages I read contained the sentence "I am a bit busy now, but I am definitely interested. When can we talk?". If one searches for that sentence in quotes Google returns four pages of references to Spamnesty. A slightly more clever spammer would sense the trap in minutes.
I'm not aware of any program capable of add some entropy to a sentence maintaining its semantics and readability (save for insertion of random errors), but one could use a translator in different languages. Say English->German->Russian->Spanish->Polish->Danish->English, then send the resulting string as a reply. The above string for example becomes: "Now I'm a bit busy, but I'm definitely interested. When can we speak?" which (almost) fools the search. Almost because the 1st page still contains a couple references to Spamnesty due to the above sentences strong similarity, but they're well buried together with other completely unrelated stuff.

BTW, pairing this with a personal assistant stripped of any access to personal information/property/devices (such as an hypothetical open source cloudless one) and instructed to ask for details on every possible part of the offer, one could make the perfect weapon against phone telemarketers as well.
I’d avoid perscription drugs for my kids if possible. For me, ADD was a kind of personality trait that affected how I looked at and reacted to the world. It had pros and cons. Adderall helped me deal with the cons when the time was right. I wouldnt try to take that away from my children. Also knowing what I know I could probably be a better parent to children with ADD.
FYI, 2014.
Focus/Productive: Mindful Bells for the distracted
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... HackerNews: The Political Platform:

Step 1.) Vote for Obama

Step 2.) "OMG CIVIL RIGHTS ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED"

Step 3.) Support his continuation and acceleration of the Bush Era bank bailouts and War on Terror

Step 4.) Accuse everyone who disagrees with this policy a racist for 8 years straight

Step 5.) Watch as banks spend that bailout money on investments overseas because you're too irresponsible with credit, thus maintaining LIBOR while decoupling it from Keynesian virtuous cycles

Step 6.) Get super upset when nationalist movements appear because, honestly, how are flyover states with no tech skills even alive, amirite? I bet they have below 100 Reddit karma, too.

Step 7.) Deploy endless volumes of Jon Stewart-tier sarcasm when BitCoin suddenly appears and mock libertarians because we all know mocking people who support and expand a vehicle for capital flight is a super fucking brilliant idea.

Step 8.) Call everyone in the last two steps not only racists, but super duper ultra triple meanie racists for the remainder of Obama's term.

Step 9.) Aggressively support anti-1% narratives for Twitter cred reasons (as long as you can still afford that Juicero) while writing code that solidifies their position

Step 10.) Act startled when a bunch of people who didn't get benefits from repealing Glass-Stegall or get a six-figure salary paycheck for creating dog walker apps suddenly rise up and elect a grand master troll as president because fuck your system and your "intelligence"

Step 11.) Call everyone who isn't you a classification of racist that escapes measurement because the number to describe its intensity hasn't been invented yet.

Step 12.) Wonder why the surveillance systems you've programmed under Obama are now being deployed against you.

Step 13.) Flag, downvote, harrass, and ban anything and anyone that reminds you of your direct complicity in this evolution of wealth transfer.
San Francisco’s Skyline, Now Inescapably Transformed by Tech
The neutrinos arrived 3 hours before the photons.
Thats 1/500,000,000 difference.

Plenty of things could have slowed the photons.
But isn't it a bit sad to send files to some cloud-storage or email server farm, probably half-way around the world, just to share between machines which are on the very same LAN?
Not all mac users - it is working just fine for me. (Chrome 63.0.3239.84, High Sierra)
No I've never been a soldier but I know a USAF graduate who spent I think 6 month long tour in Iraq. And he did mention being in mortar attack a few times. But it didn't last years. And I agree with what you said about even older/higher ranked people being in danger. But the point is how long has war been going on? And how many of US soldiers are actually in combat zone.

But for US cops, any chance encounter on the street can be deadly. And that lasts for their entire career.

I have trouble with agreeing with someone who says that a cop should be ready to give up life during their whole career of 30 + years.
What's the most absurd/invasive thing that tech platforms do
> countries will ban companies that don't comply

Not really. China and Russia are the only countries in the world with the political will to ban a company like Facebook or Google where the market actually matters.

The US gov has no legal authority to ban anything. If you fold to them it is just because you are weak and scared or greedy for whatever the are offering you.
Thanks for this, this one is very relevant to industry(or at least to mine). The amount of software designs and programs that don't actually fit the technical/business problems from the get go is astounding.
Papers I've Read in 2017
Nate Silver himself admited that his early Trump "probabilities" were just gut numbers with nothing scientific behind them:

"Unlike virtually every other forecast we publish at FiveThirtyEight — including the primary and caucus projections I just mentioned — our early estimates of Trump’s chances weren’t based on a statistical model. Instead, they were what we “subjective odds” — which is to say, educated guesses. In other words, we were basically acting like pundits, but attaching numbers to our estimates."

"When Trump came around, I’d turn out to be the overconfident expert, making pretty much exactly the mistakes I’d accused my critics of four years earlier."

"There’s a danger in hindsight bias, and in overcorrecting after an unexpected event such as Trump’s nomination."

Unexpected event. Hmm, I think someone wrote a book on that, and called them black swans...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pund...
This mirrored my experience joining a company when my prior PHP usage was also custom code. I struggled for about a month with the current workflow of writing code, pushing it live to a hidden test area, and then getting feedback from the changes I made. Fortunately, vagrant was newish and I learned of the site https://puphpet.com/.

I set out on a mission to recreate the production environment as closely and as primitively as possible. Instead of the full 16gb legacy database for instance, I only dumped the structure and added rudimentary test data. Now my primary workflow involved local, manual testing but the feedback loop was orders of a magnitude faster than waiting for subversion changes to get deployed. Recreating the production environment 1:1 was wrought with large annoying challenges.

Barring full conversion there's various techniques that required less effort. Using scratch scripts and running the local server in phpstorm helps but stripping code down to run locally can be cumbersome. Another option I took was getting lightweight functions working in an environment like http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/ and slowly integrating them into local scratch scripts or production.

Fortunately, the future at the company involved selling Laravel as a viable option, which makes everything so much easier. I'm a big proponent of frameworks or packages over custom code or NiH as they often soften edge cases or work around quirks in the language.
> They have to approach the situation prepared for the worst case scenario.

That's not a true premise in the vast majority of cases that involve SWAT raids.
Or maybe improve it rather than discard an entire industry. S
I never mentioned open source software. I meant software made by other companies that don't lock you into their platform such as Google.
Ya I've done some bits in my current company but they have sister companies that will be leveraged more and more going forward and extrapolating this it leads me to think that my job may be going the way of the dodo... Anyway, thank yu all for your feedback, I'll need to show my better half that others have said what i have been thinking, and identify some things to get involved with.

Thanks again, and although a little early, Happy New Year!

Best,
Ill
Same. In concept it seems really easy. Immutable data, events, two stacks, push pop. But in practice it's never that easy.

Unless you base entire systems' designs around making undo/redo easy, but then it feels like you're making a lot more work for yourself elsewhere.