skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People very very infrequently watch the same movie/tv show twice.

While probably true now, this will change over time. Most people I know (mid/low 20s) use netflix as a replacement for the radio - putting on The Office / parks and rec just as background noise while doing other things. Those shows have been on repeat in my house everyday for a few years.
Are you suggesting Fox was committed to neutrality up until last year?
I think we also need to discuss how long all these phones were on sale. Sure, if you bought a brand new iPhone in Sep 2013, you're still getting updates.

But if you bought the iPhone 5c (which was sold by Apple until August 2015), you're out of luck -- it is no longer supported by iOS 11.

I don't know how long other companies sell their models, but Apple typically sells every iPhone model for 3 years.

For customers it's not as important how long a model is supported after it was released, but rather how long it is supported after you buy it!
Good Choice, Bad Judgment: How Choice Under Uncertainty Generates Overoptimism
Anyone aware of good, thorough, (online) material to learn C++ template programming?
> Reminds me very much of what Eckhart Tolle says. “You are not your personal history. You are not your story.”

If not that, then what? Your aspirations? Your beliefs? Your intentions?
If it's not doing silly things like using Javascript to load static content, wget can do recursive crawls.
Extrajudicial killings are cool, as long as they are profitable for the Bay Area because the one thing the Bay Area is missing is.. money? Jesus..
> “It’s been a crazier two years than I would have thought,” Mr. Thiel said in his new Midtown Manhattan apartment, which is so far up in the clouds that it literally looks down on Trump Tower.

This guy lives in such privilege, I think he forgets that his actions have real life consequences. Like helping Trump into power has made life difficult for thousands of Dreamers, refugees, etc... and a ton of other obstacles I don't really have room to record here.

To him it's just a thought experiment. If it doesn't work out, he moves on, neglecting all the lives he made worse.

Highly hypocritical of him to say he "warned" against bad things when he helped create it.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against privileged/smart people, but this dude just has some really whack ideas on how to improve society.
saying "we did terrible things in the past" does not excuse us from the responsibility to, present tense, refuse to become complicit in ongoing atrocities.
Exchanges of the types prohibited by existing securities laws are not prohibited merely because they haven't proven to be socially beneficial, but because they have proven to be massively harmful.

The idea that cryptocurrency as a subject of trading changes that in any way is a claim which requires some substantial basis before it would warrant an exception to the general rules written into law.
There is a comment I remember from slashdot a million years ago after yet another gmail design. I'm paraphrasing, but was something along the lines of, when is Google going to stop redesigning things and just position all the UI elements randomly every time you open gmail?

I'm starting to feel similarly about major Android release.

Just for example, why move the clock? Why? After almost a decade of looking at the upper right, I'm going to have to hunt for it every time I need it.
> That is because it is illegal. 17 U.S.C. § 109(b).

It seems one could start a private non-profit library whose purpose is teaching about music history that rents CDs and promotes musical performances. I could call it "Musicbuster" perhaps. I'm assuming no one has done this because there isn't really a market for it? Or is that not a clear and easily exploited loophole in law?
> The clearest contrast is between a house and a factory. If you own a factory, you have economic power

The idea that landlords don't have economic power is pretty amusing from the perspective of Chinese communism, where "landlord" was about as bad as it gets as a term of abuse.
Also hampered by Google's refusal to support Chrome extensions on Android and IOS. What's their motivation for this policy?
Also, it's really difficult to define the one, right way of correcting for vehicle expenses. Some people would even work for free if it just gave them access to a high status car (live off savings while pretending to have "made it", as proven by the car). Others would be fine with any old beater, or a bike.
There's a bunch of feature toggles libraries out there for pretty much every web language you can think of. Doing it statically is pretty easy, you can rewrite a similar library in a day or two. One Ruby[0] and Python[1] example below, but there are tons.

What you don't get out of those libraries alone is a couple things. One is a metrics pipeline if you want to actually A/B test and gather metrics on the success of different features. That's a hard problem because A/B metrics collection pipelines are something pretty much something everybody reinvents from scratch right now to fit their combination of language/logging tool/cloud host/data warehouse/BI tools/whatever.

The other big one is the managed configuration deployment - a UI that you can toggle features on and translate those to appropriately flipped toggles in all of your clients (mobile, web backend, web frontend, whatever). That's a pretty big task to do and requires a hosted service one way or another. Flipper (below) looks like it integrates into a rails service and so has a UI, which is kinda neat (first time I've noticed an OSS solution that does that part - looks like theres a number of options that do this now), but you'd still need to reinvent tooling for mobile apps and such with it.

[0]: https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper
[1]: https://github.com/disqus/gutter
For DE:

Spiegel Online (not the real Spiegel, but they obviously share many articles with the mothership): http://www.spiegel.de/international/

Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/english/index
Can you offer suggestions on alternative methods you'd prefer to see?
You could argue that there was no new information in the DAO guidance, too, but it did sharpen the public perception of the SEC's position. I think this warning is doing the same.

Also, ICOs and exchanges are different beasts, both subject to SEC jurisdiction. This is about regulation of and enforcement against exchanges, not ICOs.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I listen to and enjoy "The Daily" as well. However, I dislike the "human interest" stories. I would prefer it to be an unemotional summary of the previous days news.

I'm not a robot and I don't hate humans. ;-) However, I feel like those kind of stories can trick you into making illogical decisions. I.e. "think of the children" argument for some new policy. It is a trend in news that I dislike. I think they are trying to make the news more engaging but I think it is leading to poorer decision making.
The cost to sequence has been dropping very rapidly, though. Illumina's 'desktop' scanner claims to be as cheap as $25/sample[1] (and that would be high compared to doing higher volumes on the bigger machines). I would expect there to be hard limit for the reagents etc. but it wouldn't blow my mind if it isn't in the $5-$10 range.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2018/01/08/illumi...
I think the value in knowing upfront is you just avoid getting attached to begin with and you go bond with someone who doesn't introduce such big scary questions to the relationship. It is much easier to walk away before you get attached, no hard feelings. It is only when you fall in love first, have already invested substantial time into the relationship and then find out you both carry genes for something horrifying that it winds up being an agonizing question.
Do you mean an actual commitment or an expressed commitment? They had the latter, but very much not the former, to the extent that the latter had been a source of jokes for many years.
Wikipedia itself is an excellent source of information particularly on long-developing stories.

This is a point I first realised in 2004 immediately following the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Indonesia and the Indian Ocean. As traditional media outlets struggled (some more successfully than others) to both present the current status and new developments, Wikipedia offered a digest of the best current state of knowledge, and, via its changelogs, what had been recently changed (generally: added, occasionally removed).

This is a pattern that's followed through, say, the 2010 Tohoku quake + tsunami + nuclear core meltdown, several long-running financial and business stories, Russian campaign interference, the Oroville Dam crisis, etc. Pretty much any story that runs more than 1-3 days and has complex elements.

I'm very well aware that Wikipedia is not perfect, is subject to influence, and is not itself a primary source. There is the odd outlet or journalist which exceeds Wikipedia (Brad Plumer, formerly of Vox and now of The New York Times, for example, has the best article I've seen, hands, down, on Oroville, though that was and remains a one-point-in-time effort, Wikipedia continues to update its article. Plumer, is, by the way, and absolutely excellent journalist, and as before, I am not his mother....).

Wikimedia's expansion into journalism is a fascinating development.
Good job! Ruby has always been a wonderful language from the get-go, and its influence on developers and software development are everywhere. The only thing anyone could really complain about was the performance (and the GIL, maybe variable scope, garbage collection and what have the Romans ever done for us, etc) so it’s time for the New Wave of cheaply-prototyped unicorns, minotaurs and sphinxes...
Getting Started with Redux and Redux Saga Using Redux-Box
Like many people here I used Turbo Pascal extensively from version 2 up to version 5 for windows. Had to switch to VB Classic unfortunately because that's what the company decided to use.

I tried Lazarus/FPC recently to do some programming exercises and was pleased to see that I could still remember enough to get started but I didn't pursue it very far due to lack of time. Does anyone know of any document that sets out a good argument for picking it up again, for using valuable time on it? For instance: why should I use FPC instead of Python, Bash, C, etc.
This is just pathetic. You buy a piece of hardware that could trivially keep working for 5-8 years, and it becomes actively dangerous to use, not just for the owner but to everyone else (think botnets), after 3 years because the vendor stops giving security updates for its software? This should be illegal.
Nature paper suggests we stop growing new neurons in our early teens
In general if you buy android, you basically should never expect any support or upgrades what so ever. If there is an update, count yourself lucky.
"there were unsourced media reports that said Mr. Trump wanted to put him on the Supreme Court. But now even photo ops are rare."

This is where I stopped reading. This article is poorly disguised political hackery. It takes very little evidence to suggest the silliest notion about your political enemies these days.
Why can't font files be compressed, as that would just be using a dictionary which I believe that GZip already does.
> “The ability to speak and not have every word you say get distorted, to have wrong ideas and then be able to correct them — these notions were powerfully undercut by Gawker.”

That's called reporting. The chief difference between Gawker and the New York Times is that Gawker took far greater risks for its size than the Grey Lady.

Thiel isn't even particularly unique – other billionaires (e.g. Sir James Goldsmith) have tried to kneecap publications they viewed as too disrespectful.
How to build muscle as age tears it down
> the nuclear excavation of Panama

This has been considered in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
Not print media, but I find that the English language documentaries and news from DW are generally well balanced. They're certainly a lot closer to the CBC than they are to fox, msnbc, NBC, etc.
Unfortunate reality is that Cairo project doesn't want to be helped.

I've been checking Cairo from time to time for a very long time. There was a period of active development because it was used by FireFox and, I think, had at least one dev working on it paid by Intel.

But there's no indication that the project wants your help. See https://www.cairographics.org/ and try to find the part that tells you how to submit a patch. To submit a bug you need to use a mailing list or antiquated bugzilla instance.

Cairo is ostensibly a Gnome-affiliated project as it's used in Gtk. Federico is a big deal in Gnome project.

It's telling that he had to setup up essentially a personal fork of Cairo on gitlab to do any work.

At this point in time, moving the code officially to GitHub (or GitLab) from anongit.freedesktop.org should be a no brainer if your goal is to have contributors.
FWIW, that is the explicit mandate of the SEC. It could be a power grab, but protecting unsophisticated investors is exactly what the SEC is supposed to do.
sure! send the link to support@mathpix.com
Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix
I, for one, applaud FB's decision to keep him on the board. A lot has been said about this already, but it's true that Silicon Valley is an echo chamber that tends to push out dissenting opinions. It's valuable to have someone on the other side that can challenge your views, as painful as it might be and as much as you might disagree.
> It seems one could start a private non-profit library whose purpose is teaching about music history that rents CDs and promotes musical performances. I could call it "Musicbuster" perhaps. I'm assuming no one has done this because there isn't really a market for it?

Even if there is a market for it, the nature of the legal limitation to a non-profit library is that the usual capitalist incentives for serving such a market are removed.
There is hope. Checkout: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/development
Well the products you'd expect from IBM, during that period, have also had a rather controversial use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I really like the product (and may use it!), but the landing page is very confusing. You get to the meat of the issue in your HN comment, but I see very little of that on the landing page.
> I built a platform where I ask myself deep questions https://www.deepthoughtapp.com

Nicely done.

For my reflections of life, I favor "what have you done?" and "what are you willing to do?" questions over "what do you think/believe?"
There is absolutely no proof that it's "massively harmful". It's impossible to quantify all of the positive and negative effects of any type of exchange, let alone to "prove" the effects are net harmful.

>>the general rules written into law.

I'm arguing against the principle that we should ban anything not proven to be socially beneficial.
I'd also add that what we're interested in is not just feature
flags, but the use of feature flags for A/B testing - which translates to a few key differences in how you build and optimize the product.

A few things:

1. More sophisticated targeting; i.e., different types of objects, combinations of attributes, and groups.

2. Airship's pricing model is aligned with customers' incentive to grow. Our architecture emphasizes local computation, so performance and cost scale very well (better than things like MAUs) - savings that we pass onto customers.

3. Airship will integrate with existing analytics tools (like Segment) so you have A/B testing capabilities without doing set up work. You can even set up an A/B test retroactively (after the feature has shipped), because Airship can annotate the events & metrics you already track.

4. Airship focuses on non-engineering teams as well (PM, Data, Growth), and making the dashboard intuitive for those use cases.
I'm interested in a phone like this for members of my family who are constantly replacing their phones purely for "snapiness". Are there off the shelf vendors where you can buy phones without bloatware, with decent upgrade paths? I would so happily pay for this.
That actually is what I found really interesting about the original Uber report. It was within the range of these studies that accounted for as many variables as possible.
Cern has one too: https://home.cern
I don't think that's really valid here - you're asking them for an opinion of their job, not their opinion of you. What they think of their job has nothing to do with how I'll rate them. Heck, I may rate them higher or tip them better if I feel sorry for them not making much money.
Gawker - without permission - publicly aired a tape of an intimate moment from Hulk Hogan. That's borderline if not actually criminal in some jurisdictions. Gawker didn't just "take journalistic risks" - they glorified the pursuit of ratings over truth and accuracy, which cuts the very heart of what's making journalism sick.
Thanks! You can order from Digikey and Newark/Farnell without the extension though it's still a little bit better with it (less steps for Digikey and references are added for Newark/Farnell).

The extension source code is available at: https://github.com/monostable/1clickBOM and it's been extensively reviewed by Mozilla for getting it up on addons.mozilla.org.

(Source code for Kitspace is on https://github.com/monostable/kitspace by the way.)
The argument in my first post was about remembering your experience exactly, so I think we agree. I am curious, how do you know you are remembering exactly how you felt and why? The 'why' you feel a certain way is itself actually tricky because we often do post hoc rationalizations for why we feel a certain way, so we aren't even always good at explaining why we feel the way we do in the present, let alone in the past.
This is a good rule for interacting with tipped US workers in general: be generous, and tip in cash. Tips are a way for companies to save money by avoiding taxes, and a way for workers to be paid without their employers taking a cut. If you think Uber is paying your driver less than minimum wage, make up the difference in cash. Also, "internet points" in the form of stars cost you nothing, so give your driver five stars unless he was completely incompetent.
> In this specific case, the SEC is advising crypto-based operations calling themselves "exchanges" that this is a word that has a special legal meaning,

Really? I didn't get that reading at all. The discussion of the use of the word "exchange" is under the guidance for investors, not the guidance for trading platforms.

The guidance for trading platforms specifically talks about which assets are being traded and how determining what type of registration is required (national security exchange, ATS, broker-dealer, transfer agent, etc...)

"A number of these platforms provide a mechanism for trading assets that meet the definition of a "security" under the federal securities laws. If a platform offers trading of digital assets that are securities and operates as an "exchange," as defined by the federal securities laws, then the platform must register with the SEC as a national securities exchange or be exempt from registration. "
> because of hype, every big company has to have some sort of blockchain somewhere, for no good reason.

Fortunately that's not actually the case. Amusingly, it's nothing more than hype that every big company is actively using blockchain somewhere. Most of the Fortune 500 could care less from what I've seen of press releases and a couple hundred quarterly reports over the last two years. Blockchain is meaningless to their businesses for now because it's still not being used for anything of consequence to them. There are a few exceptions, most of which are in finance.
Those fortifications are a mixed bag in my opinion. On one hand, they help create area denial for the South China Sea. On the other hand, they are vulnerable and difficult to defend. Probably also a lower stakes target. If the Chinese shot at a foreign plane or ship, I think it would be tempting to attack one of these outposts. Easier and less inflammatory than attacking a mainland air base or port.
I think tvanantwerp's point wasn't that you shouldn't attempt to know yourself, but that you should try to do so in a way that doesn't ascribe labels arbitrarily, such as "morning person" or "evening person". Not all aspects of identity can fit into such boxes. Otherwise, there's quite a risk of reifying the label and thinking that everything the label describes must describe you too.
I've been watching this team for over a year and have been consistently impressed by how fast they're iterating, how thoughtful they are about this problem, and the care they put into doing it right. Rooting for this company!
Wanted to drop in a quick review of Airship (disclaimer: I got to know the founders through the experience of being early users).

We, at Repl.it, started using it for a very risky rewrite of a core part of our product -- the IDE (https://repl.it/site/blog/ide) -- and it helped us roll it out safely, turning it off when we needed to, when we get a user bug report Airship could quickly tell us if that user has the feature on, etc.

Since then we've been using it for virtually every feature release and experiment. We couldn't be happier with how smooth the service is:

- The service is reliable and fast.

- The UI is simple and instant.

- The SDK is simple and easy-to-use.
I am annoyed that my Nexus 6P isn't getting support longer, sure, though there's always LineageOS[1]. I'd say the lack of an SD card slot and user-hostile, hard-to-replace batteries make the 5-8 year lifespan much harder to really imagine, though.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS
lame, if anything he should be warning of the upcoming unemployment wave due largely to new ai and machine learning.
Quick Look: Redux and Redux Saga with Redux-Box
Because each of their actions have exactly the same consequences.
Especially chocolate chip cookies
buy an iphone. Vote with your wallet.
honest question... how can we test that you actually implemented 1-click ordering without having to install an extension?
I bought a subscription of Die Zeit by mistake one year ago. It arrives by post every Thursday and I'm always surprised by the quality of the articles (even if my German isn't that good). Compared to the online counterparts, they are deep and even present several points and vision of the same subject. The best example was a article where they divided the page in two columns, and two different authors explained their points about the immigration crisis.
Sustainable City Guide: Amsterdam
I am not even remotely trying to be clever.
Why is this a surprise? Google's has shown a pattern that they don't care about your Android hardware since they partnered with HTC and released their first branded phone.

- Nexus One / Paperweight Owner
This comment is written as if it says something important, but really doesn't say anything at all.

It would be monumentally newsworthy if there was clear guidance that Bitcoin and Ethereum "weren't securities" (more generally: that businesses that simply deal in Bitcoin were generally outside the purview of securities regulation). But we do not in fact know that right now.

No expert believes that you can look at the list of current enforcement actions and reliably predict the SEC's next actions. They could keep taking out scammers for the next several years, getting practice by picking out the low-hanging fruit. Or, they could at literally any moment come down like a ton of bricks on the industry's most mainstream participants. We simply don't know.

What we do know is that "coin-mediated" finance is enabling thousands of people to launch investment-driven businesses who would previously not have been able to do that before, not because of a lack of technical ability but because the laws made it prohibitively expensive. Those laws have not been repealed. A lot of reasonable people are waiting for the other shoe to drop.