skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Reddit has a common frontpage (two, actually: /popular and /all) and user-customizable list of subreddits.

> algorithms based on your personal taste,

only for recommending subs to try

> geolocation

only for recommending subs to try

> forced email

no it does not

> shadow banning

extremely rare, and per-sub, not reddit-wide

> banning of politically incorrect subreddits

extremely rare; most of why Reddit is publicly despised is because it allows politically incorrect subreddits.
This is as much about Coltrane as it is about Lateef, which makes this story even more fascinating. It's a shame that it ends so abruptly.

Lateef was successful with many things, but I enjoy his performances from the 60s best.
When Lateef joined Cannonball Adderley's quintet at that time, Cannonball said that it wasn't really justified to call it a sextet now, because Lateef played so many instruments so well, that he should really count as more than one member.
Of course you get better results with 1.

Here is why: if you go with (2), then (1) is still done: by the crap firmware in your printer or its driver. It scans at high resolution and then downsamples in some way over which you have no control. It might not even be done with floating-point math.

1. is a somewhat like getting the raw image from a camera: a higher quality source for your own processing.
You can also check out Ben Golub's own article on the Storj blog:

"Great team. Huge opportunity. Solving an enormous problem: Why I’m joining Storj Labs"

https://blog.storj.io/post/171794380463/great-team-huge-oppo...
The moment Google announces it's not going to update Android anymore everyone will start developing for Fuchsia with Dart, Go, or whatever.

Also, considering Chrome OS has an Android layer in there why wouldn't fuchsia be able to do the same thing? It should be more than enough as a temporary solution.
I think the following quote from Braveheart is awesome. The whole movie seems designed to turn the audience into William Wallace worshipers, except for this line, which causes an attentive viewer to stop and think:

"Admire this man, this William Wallace. Uncompromising men are easy to admire. He has courage, so does a dog. But it is exactly the ability to compromise that makes a man noble."
How Much Scent Is Too Much?–Victorian Advice for Ladies and Gentlemen
Gonna put down that cell phone with its brain-altering radio waves? While you're at it, going to move out to Green Bank so you don't get Wi-Fi'd?

Lots of people believe lots of things that have no material backing. This one is no different from any other.

You like your cell phone. I like my Diet Pepsi. The overwhelming odds--both being evidence-of-absence situations because that bad study, of course, is not the only study that applies to artificial sweeteners--are that neither the radio in your cell phone or the sucralose in my Diet Pepsi are going to have much of an impact on either of us.
"propaganda and marketing" are "words", the kind that, as you imply, cannot hurt you.

To say otherwise is "free speech, only if I like it"
The Tonnetz is a torus, unwrapped onto the plane. On the first Wikipedia image (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz) you can see the circles of major- and minor-thirds on the 60˚ lines, whole-tone and semi-tone scales along 30˚ and vertical lines, and the circle of fifths on the horizontals.

Different presentations skew it in different ways, to emphasize different features, but it's very hard to make a diagram like this that isn't topologically equivalent to the Tonnetz.

If you find this sort of stuff interesting, you might also like to check out the writings of Fred Lerdahl and Dmitri Tymoczko, who come at these scale and chord topologies from a more academic perspective.
on iOS anyway, you can enable face id/touch id but specifically disable it from being able to log into the phone with it. You can then use face/touch id for authentication in apps.
Work discipline, or motivation is a bitch
I’m sure Bollywood is giving Hollywood a run for its money with popularity in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Welcome to the Foilies 2018, Recognizing Year's Worst in Government Transparency
This is exactly why I said I think cross-platform is good for Android, even though they don't seem to think it is.
Questionably Legal Practices in Nvidia's Geforce Partner Progam
Resist the ‘quick fix’
A `str` is just an unsized blob of UTF-8 data. It's `&str` that is the (fat) pointer.
What about authentication details held in the "secure enclave", or equivalent? If they can unlock my phone, I think it would be faster and easier to just install their "extra software", rather than the technical difficulties involved in transparently replacing the hardware with a new copy of the same thing.

Especially if I've got a semi-obscure phone in an unpopular color. That's at the level of a targeted attack against an individual.
Can you provide an example? Moscow definitely became much more walkable in the last ~20 years, mostly thanks to the private development as well as state-run infrastructure.
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So don't work down town?
How to find and fix brittle CSS
Heh. I remember getting a 68000 to increment a (32-bit) zero until it was zero again. It took it 8 hours. Nowadays, it's a second (if the compiler doesn't optimize it out completely).

What's that? We're discussing productivity? Oh. Carry on...
Still better than Blogspot. Trust me on this one.
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I agree that you shouldn't be touching locks and threads, typically.

However, I think you can get pretty far these days with just the built-in Java class library, using features like Futures (CompletableFuture), ExecutorService, ForkJoinPool, and BlockingQueue and such. Before CompletableFuture there was Guava's ListenableFuture. Synchronized methods are also useful in certain situations. I've built several fairly sophisticated concurrent applications using these primitives and felt they worked out reasonably well. I find that BlockingQueues with thread-pool-backed ExecutorServices provide a model that's fairly robust while being simple to reason about and monitor.
>I am TOTALLY ok with TSA reading my last text messages before I go on a flight.

That's cool, and I respect that. But I am NOT OK with the TSA performing such a search of my devices. (Unless they have a warrant. Then I'm fine with it. It's really that I'm a stickler about this old document called the "Constitution")

Are you willing to stand up for MY right for my (electronic) papers and effects to be secure from unreasonable searches? If not, are there other parts of the Constitution you would be willing to jettison?

(For what it's worth, this is a genuine question not just a complaint. There are parts of the Constitution that I would prefer to change -- just not this particular one.)
I didn't say it would be bad to split things up because of the investment in iTunes since 2001 -- I said it would be hard.

I've seen folks confuse iTunes Store with App Store and Apple Store. The split needs to be gradual, with clear on-boarding, since Apple still makes millions from sales on iTunes.

They're investing heavily in cloud services, so I bet there's a multi-year roadmap for splitting iTunes up, each backed by cloud sync and with a unique UI/UX.

News, TV and Music are all split, Texture will likely fall under News.
That is the argument but actually any lipped shape can give this guarantee. Even historically manhole and utility covers had to be somewhat flush to the ground and so they've always had to be lipped for this.

You can see lots of utility covers that are hinged, square, or other options, but all are lipped for safety. While a circular profile makes the lipping easier, it doesn't seem to influence many utility covers.
Microservices, Service Mesh, and CI/CD Pipelines: Making It All Work Together
Boston/Cambridge is one of the most walkable cities in North America–it's much closer to the European model than the typical North American city.

I still don't get what the grandparent is on about though. I live in Boston, and it's pretty great. I feel free to live my life the way I want here, as opposed to being forced into owning a car and drive it everywhere.
If you don't need fancy features, I would ditch GlassWire for something like https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
> Users prefer 3-5 videos and so instructors should design courses like that. Instructors that simply upload a classroom lecture are not appropriately transitioning their material for online use. This satisfies your being able to flip from topic to topic.

In my personal experience, it really doesn't. Breaking something into segments can make things a bit easier, but it still leads to a lot of wasteful time if there's a minute and a half of useful information within an 8 minutes block. You can't scan through it the way you can with a book, and it's much more difficult to review a difficult piece of information you just received (it's easy to re-read a sentence slowly, whereas rewind a video to the beginning of the last sentence is more cumbersome and you're going to be watching it at the same speed).

Text also tends to be much more succinct, where as lectures are often repetitive and meandering.

I think the assumption that multiple video segments solves the problem is instructive. Might not a large part of the problem be instructors saying "We've done X, which has solved Y issue" instead of saying "We've done X, let's look at whether or not it has solved Y issue"? I appreciate the fact that people are attempting to solve these issues, but if there's no differentiation between attempting to solve something and successfully solving something than it shouldn't be a surprise

> I will end the Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that students are not the best at assessing what they know and that a professional instructor has a better idea of what "knowing" something means.

This is a pretty big assumption, and one that I don't think is accurate (based on personal experience, and my experience talking with both students and professors). The best way I've found to test one's ability is to actually apply it to a task, where it usually becomes quickly clear to the individual where the holes in their understanding are.
Depends on the sugar alcohol. Quite a few of them draw water out of the colon and result in... let's call them "unpleasant bowel movements".

Xylitol and erythritol are the only ones I'd consider consuming regularly, and they will be uncomfortable until you develop a tolerance for them.

I have never heard of anyone that has ever experienced constipation resulting from sugar alcohols. It has always emphatically (and sometimes noisily) been the antipode to that condition.
> It is until it starts to leak.

It doesn't really leak, not until the honeypot gets shut down and the denizens are forced to hangout elsewhere.
I don't have a driver's license, and phone with Uber on it is still in my pocket. Am I free?
It has been very interesting to see a lot of hardware/firmware based vulnerabilities coming out recently, although they have been around for a while.

Different vectors have different advantages but I wonder if there will be a push towards more hardware based anti-malware/vulnerability detection devices.
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So the universe is not a closed system?
Bayesian-posterior imagination and applications
I guess they didn't read Riley v California[1]. In the opinion of the SCOTUS:

> Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans “the privacies of life". The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought. Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple -- get a warrant.

Given that the SCOTUS unanimously ruled searching a phone without a warrant is unconstitutional incident to an arrest, the same requirement must also hold for Terry stops and simple safety inspections.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California
At some point go whitelist or raise thresholds very high (like, on twitter, only people you follow, or blue checks, show up in your timeline if abuse is detected, as a very rough pass. Could easily do something far better.)
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You will eventually get scurvy if you don’t get any vitamin C in your diet. I also hate to think what a zero fiber diet will do to your intestines.
No. There are degrees of "worseness": we have a priority queue of issues that must be addressed given spare time and resources.

In that context: and individual's right to privacy and to be left alone is much much more important than any organization getting tax exempt status.
This is the way things should work. But, there was a widely reported case recently where a man accused of possessing child pornography has been held in jail for a long time [0]. From what I can tell, he's been in jail for contempt of court for nearly 2 and a half years!

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/man-jailed-indef...
I agree. The story is that Kubernetes has 'won' but I still love the simplicity of Docker Swarm. And I would definitely recommend anyone to start with it and maybe later, if you have hundreds or thousands of nodes, migrate to k8s.
HN works very poorly, and worse by the year. I've been using HN since 2009, I've been on a wide variety of discussion platforms going back to usenet, HN has had its moment in the sun and that has largely passed.

Voting on HN barely has an effect, and I suspect that the average votes per comment on HN has gone way down year over year. People just don't vote on posts as often as you'd think, not anymore. A related problem is that commentary doesn't go on for very long. In the usenet days you could have a good thread that would last for months and months that would continue to spawn good and interesting commentary, a flash in the pan thread might only last a few days. On HN the window of commentary for a post is rarely more than a day and typically only a matter of hours. It's just people strafing comments into the void and then disengaging. Long comments typically don't get read, and don't get upvoted, don't get commented on, etc, for example.
Totalitarian/authoritarian is hard, otherwise it should be the dominant nation structure on this planet.

Widespread democracy is very new, take away the last few decades and see. So you have a few decades of some sort of democracy versus millennia of totalitarian rule.
Somebody is scratching his head now.
We should incentivize them to have the correct worldview. E.g. if you’re a CEO you should make sure that your workforce holds the correct opinions by reminding them that they can be fired on the grounds of being a bad “cultural fit”.
What's the latest case law on this? I thought it was still unsettled, and there were a lot of confusing edge cases. E.g. https://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/smartphone-passwords-const...
Manuscript Monday: Documents as vectors of authority
Depends on who you are, whose border, and which direction.

If you're an American returning from abroad, my understanding is the most they can do is detain you (briefly) and confiscate your electronic devices for a limited period of time. Americans can't be denied re-entry to the US. So go ahead and refuse as a political statement, the worst that could happen is you'll miss your connection and you'll have to use a temporary phone for a bit.

But if you're a foreign citizen, it's probably best to swallow your pride and comply.
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Be careful with even homemade smoothies. Part of satiety is the speed of consumption, closely-linked to convenience of imbibing.

In other words, it is easy to drink too much smoothie because drinking is far easier and faster than preparing and eating raw fruits. Our hormonal systems are not geared to the speed of eating/drinking that our technological capabilities deliver. With processed foods it is easy to overrun actual caloric needs before your hormonal systems realize it has happened, our satiety mechanisms are fooled, and before you know it, you're way over your reasonable caloric budget.

If you engage your children in preparing, then eating raw fruit as-is, and reserve smoothies as a dessert-treat, then that establishes a timeframe their hormonal systems can easily accommodate. Even the youngest with minimal manual dexterity can "help" wash and/or dry fruits, and be an assistant by picking up fruits from the colander and placing on a cutting board for you.

It takes far more time, but personally that is my choice (YMMV), since I advocate a slow parenting movement similar to the slow food movement, because when you direct time and attention to a child, they flourish.
People thrived despite supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago: study – Axios
I'm trying to find the article now, but I recall reading that in the USA it's a lawful order to have you unlock your phone with a thumbprint, but not to unlock with a PIN code. God knows why.

Here: https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/31/judge-rules-suspect-...

Unsure about federal application, actually. We as country need to get our shit together regarding device privacy. You should need a warrant to look at a phone, laptop, whatever, with or without a password. The security of the device should be meaningless.

As for me, I'm grateful that I have the resources to push back should this ever happen to me, jailtime or included. That's a luxury probably very few Americans can realistically afford (seeing as they can just throw you in jail for 48 hours).
Last summer Coca Cola Zero Sugar was awesome last summer.

At that point I preferred it to even Pepsi Max.

Then later last year it went back to very ordinary IMO.
Since the dawn of social media, as an anthropologist, I find the way it has evolved to be incredibly fascinating.

The original point of social media was to bring people together and build communities. Now, more than a decade removed from it's inception, it is doing the exact opposite. It's tearing people's communities apart, making people more polarized, and driving huge wedges into the very foundation of this country.

And yet, with all the privacy concerns, people continue to use it more and more, seemingly unaware of the consequences of doing so. It's like a train wreck you see coming a mile away. Yet you continue to stare, thinking or hoping its going to get better.
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Android uses Gradle as its default build system. It gets extremely slow on large applications like Uber, Facebook, Nest, Snapchat, etc. The enterprise customers all complain to the Android tools team about it, and they throw a ton of work into trying to speed it up. And it gets more and more complicated.

Meanwhile, Uber (their marquee Gradle customer) just switched to Buck -- I don't think Google even knows this yet.

The build system in Android is a huge pain point for the dev stack. It's a big part of why things like React Native are gaining traction.

Your comparison to iOS is basically invalid/irrelevant, because iOS doesn't have the same legacy packaging issues (APK) as Android has. Android's build is actually quite complicated, more so due to the device proliferation, and it's getting worse over time.

Hope that helps. I'd be happy to answer more detailed questions about why it's so bad, since I've worked on it extensively in the past.
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Yeah, let’s get government regulation over things that decide the various elections. There’s no way this could possibly backfire. /s
Bank International Settlements Published Report: Central Bank Digital Currencies
Intro/TL;DR: https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d174.htm

Central bank digital currencies March 2018 Report submitted by a Working Group established by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the Markets Committee. The group was chaired by Klaus Löber (European Central Bank) and Aerdt Houben (Netherlands Bank). Central banks must carefully weigh the implications for financial stability and monetary policy of issuing digital currencies, according to a report from the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the Markets Committee. The report considers a wholesale CBDC (for use in financial markets), and a general purpose CBDC (for use by the general public) and their implications for payments, monetary policy and financial stability. It finds that wholesale CBDCs might be useful for payments but more work is needed to assess the full potential. Although a CBDC would not alter the basic mechanics of monetary policy implementation, its transmission could be affected. A general purpose CBDC could have wide-ranging implications for banks and the financial system. Commercial banks' reliance on customer deposits may become less stable, as deposits could more easily take flight to the central bank in times of stress. Besides consequences for financial stability, effects on the efficiency of financial intermediation need to be carefully considered. The report concludes that each jurisdiction considering the launch of a CBDC should carefully and thoroughly consider the implications before making any decision.

Full Report: https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d174.pdf
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Dumb question: These would apply to US Citizens returning from abroad than for a foreigner visiting the US, yes?
Your mental and physical health is more important than the money you would leave on the table imo.

With that being said, like many comments here, I'd use cost-benefit analysis to reevaluate if you should stay or not.

Sometimes progress isn't a straight line pointing up north, so there are more factors where joining a new and different team gives you much more energy and boost to be at a better spot in your career than you would otherwise for staying with your current team.
It's a virtual home owners association in my experience.
Only if you have the money to pay for Uber every time you need a gallon of milk.
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> Lyft provided this stat shot, which also includes some highlight numbers on its performance thus far in 2018.

Where's the data for this?

> with a particularly strong Q4 during which its revenue outpaced Uber’s by 2.75x

How much revenue did Lyft pull in? Or Uber? This article isn't very good.
> How about getting the Apple Store people to use their skills on the media store?

Because the media store is a legacy product with declining revenue that is already being split into different apps (TV, Apple Music, soon News).

I'm sure it's less about team skills and more about availability. Apple clearly has ambitious plans for its services.

I will say, though, that I've seen so many folks confuse iTunes Store and Apple Store. Merging the two would be smart -- a central place to buy things (digital or physical).
I believe you are correct. If I pay for something that suggests I am the customer and not the product.
"For a long time, the air pollution control authorities in China didn't have enough authority to make much happen...That changed in 2015"

That was my point, whatever is needed (new laws or enforcement of existing ones) is done in a heartbeat. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/27...
Whole disk encryption should really be standard. No point deleting data if it's encrypted. At that point it's more clear-cut in becoming whether you surrender a key or not, no gray zones.
That sounds promising since it does disprove my earlier line of argument. That said, there is more work to be done to show equivalence.