skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most devastating aspects of colonialism in Africa was the soil depletion caused by short-sighted colonial planters who planted resource-hungry cash crops. There are large tracts of land in various parts of Africa that once were extremely agriculturally productive but because of this depletion are quite barren. This has had cascading consequences for long-term development in Africa, and has been a non-trivial factor in exacerbating poverty and famine.

I mention this because climate change, while it might not have an outsized immediate effect on the countries that control the most guns/wealth, it could have major immediate consequences for populations with food insecurity, and therefore long-term consequences for populations that we currently consider food-secure. This extends to violent conflict as well.
interesting video's.. surprising to see the second anti missile, missile suddenly curving around and bombing its own side.

May be they need to team up with uber? :-P
But you'll be ok because you have Bitcoin!
The Awesome Public Datasets Github repo [1] also constitutes a good effort at organizing all of the open data out there that people can play around with.

[1] https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
OpenEMR 5.0.0-4
Aren’t you then deciding that people should be car-less? (presuming you have a car - clearly many of us do), and that car sits idle most of the time in a parking lot, isn’t that the same thing?

So are you (and all of us) then acting immoral by not letting a car-less person use our car?

I think your understanding of morality is deeply flawed.
On the other hand, if we thought more critically, we'd realize both of those things are possible. In Europe people do have free education. We waste more food than we have hungry people. 1+1=2 ;)

Lots of people tell you not to dream big. It's ok to do it and to believe it's achievable.
While it is going to cost money of course, this is exactly what we are building into our product. But instead of using centralized servers that know your private keys, we are building it on decentralized hosting (IPFS) and we never know your private keys. Take a look, https://www.textile.photos/
Very true. Which is why I'm still waiting for what happened to all the lower level safety systems, presumably driven by lighting invariant LIDAR or RADAR systems, in the Uber situation.

The article kind of mentions:
"cyclist detection from 3D point cloud is much harder task than cyclist detection from an image"

The system didn't need to know that it was a "cyclist". There was something there, in its path. Stop.
Would a hybrid system using an electric generator to recharge the batteries be more efficient given the advantages of electric vehicles, such as regenerative braking?
Let's stipulate that excel gives you all the chart-formatting crap you need. Is that a reason to pull in a million rows, which is what GP is about? Surely a chart with a million things displayed is going to be awful, no matter how well formatted. A simple shell script could save these users hours of work, every time they touch this godawful sheet. Actual analytics tools would be even better.
Perhaps you should first start off by answering in what world is it legal for shady OEM's and middlemen to pre-install proprietary Google Play Services on devices that weren't certified by Google.
Which is how you don't find better solutions.
Hardly any enterprise software companies don’t discount for volume licensing. This is a standard business model, not some sinister Microsoft plot.
Fedex has 14,500 trucks [0]. That will put tesla's at .13% of the fleet which sounds just like they are buying some to test the economic viability of them. I would hardly use this as a sign "that the main things preventing total EV takeover are lack of good products on the market and production capacity".

[0]: https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/fedex-statistics/
FedEx could be delivering my packages by horse as far as I'm concerned so long as they arrive on time
Of course, it was a reference to a viral video a few years back with the same title. A joke, if you will.
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> You probably know Belkin for its various lines of accessories, peripherals, and assorted consumer electronics; Linksys, surely the most recognizable router brand, is a subsidiary.

Apparently Cisco sold Linksys to Belkin in 2013. That's news to me.
Very odd. If you drag the zip onto your laptop and the drop event listener doesn't pick up on it, your browser would likely just "download" the zip you dropped. Which explains what you see I'm guessing. What I'm not sure about is why the JS doesn't pick up on the drop event and process the file. Do you have any settings that would block JS? What browser are you using?
> the phone functions perfectly

I guarantee it doesn't.
My kind of guy right here! I would love to do this. In my industry incentives were kind of challenging to work with (you can get in trouble with regulators for false advertising if you dont dutifully fulfill and audit yourself, discounting the product may be too much risk than business is willing to take on, etc). I will soon be changing industries and can't wait to bring back incentives :)
I know (with lots love)! That's why I haven't built it.
It's also why I don't think it has been built yet and why in my frustration this evening I sort of let loose.
This is why I won't buy food products from China. This includes almost any store brand or even name brand apple juice or juice blend that you'll find in the supermarket.
I'll summarize based on what Microsoft charges:

1. more than the competition - gouging! Those bastards!

2. same as the competition - collusion! Those bastards!

3. less than the competition - locking people in! Those bastards!
Damn, I didn't know Foxconn was the 4th larges IT company with 726k employees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio...
It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
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>This is supposed to be a straitjacket that prevents everyone except Amazon from deviating from Google's Master Plan.

Chinese OEM's that sell smartphones in China without Google Play Services would disagree.
Nobody got fired for choosing IBM. Still just as true as it was easy back when.
Facebook is known for being a little more profligate with their spending, especially for senior and up. On the other hand, they will fire you faster. I have heard that Netflix is even more in that direction, if "excitement" is something you desire in the domain of "whether you will be employed tomorrow or not."
This is the man who wrote "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...), one of my all-time favorites.

Of course he's joking.
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Hi everyone! Matthew, an admin of OpenEMR, here.

This imaging release this took _many_ nights and weekends, but the small project team really worked well, even across multiple time zones and cultures!

Hope you enjoy reading about the solution and I would like to mention that the software is used by many low-resource healthcare facilities around the world. Our team of volunteers could do even more for these folks with donations on our Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/openemr

If you want to join our global team of volunteers, you are welcome! We take everyone... designers, programmers, clinicians, tech writers, etc. Contact is in my profile.
foxconn makes routers for all the vendors I think, e.g. dlink.netgear,belkin...now Belkin might push its competitors away from Foxconn's assembly lines
> Given that it killed someone in such a violent and (at least in retrospect) predictable way, I would certainly hope that it failed to conform to "basic design standards".

Why, some of them are built so the front kid doesn't fall off at all!

The front fell off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

well what sort of standards are these oil tankers built to?
oh, very rigorous maritime engineering standards
what sort of things?
well the front's not supposed to fall off for a start
what other things?
well there are regulations governing the materials that they can be made of
what materials?
well cardboard's out
and?
no cardboard derivatives
like paper?
no paper, no string, no cello tape
rubber?
no, rubber's out, umm, they have to have a steering wheel, theres a minimum crew requirement
whats the minimum crew?
oh, 1 i suppose
It's hard to say, but likely no. Radar Relay is a decentralized exchange. Coinbase is a centralized exchange. They're competing for mostly different sets of folks. If Coinbase actually releases ERC20 token trading, it would have more of an impact on exchanges such as Kraken, Binance, and Pol.
Are you top talent, though? Facebook recruiters email everyone with a pulse, and some without.
I stopped buying linksys products a long time ago. Moved on to Netgear and Asus.

But, doesn't Foxconn already manufacture a bunch of American products?
I’m rather hoping that the cpu cache hierarchy will one day be as programmable is the GPU local, shared, global memory.
I thought IPFS required someone to pin/host the content in order for it to stay alive. So if it's private how many people are likely to host it?

Or am I missing a detail?
Esorun Set to Release One Unique Qi Car Mount
I find the cognitive load required for me to socialize "normally" to be extremely exhausting after a couple hours. I try to, like George Costanza from Seinfeld, go out on a high note. That is, leave social situations while they are still going well.
I'd ask what each team member is passionate about. Then ask them what they feel they need a manager to do in order to help them do more of that.
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A distinction without a difference.

By their own words the Obama Campaign ingested the whole social graph because the single person they targeted could bring in the information of all their friends:

Facebook 2012 election had the ability

for people to opt in the Obama campaign

like rocked this right we got people to

opt in and the privacy policies at that

time on Facebook were that if they opted

in they could tell us who all their

friends were

[...]

but we were actually able

to ingest the entire social network

social network of the US that's on

Facebook which is most people most

people where this gets complicated is

that freaks Facebook out right so they

shut off the feature well the

Republicans never built an app to do

that so the data is out there you can't

take it back right so the Democrats have

this information so when they look at a

voter file and someone comes to them

they can immediately be like oh here are

all the other people that they know and

here are people that they can help us

persuade because they're really good

friends with this person the Republicans

do not have that information and will

not get that information

https://youtu.be/g0c-OSVQcAA?t=19m15s
The post mentions that it's also back in some cases on 10.13.3 - which is probably why this post came back up
What jurisdictions are those? I was thinking maybe China but it doesn't look like it from apple.com/cn. In the EU there was just a "memorandum of understanding" between manufacturers (under threat of legislation if they didn't sort things out themselves) and Apple feel they fulfill it since their charging cable has USB-A at one end.
You do realise that Google does all this and more. Why is Facebook suddenly any more evil?

Google knows where you live, Google knows what you did in that location, Google knows much more.

Why do people get upset when Facebook obviously is doing the same? They all are.

Google knows everything Facebook knows and more, and they are BUILT on selling that information to advertisers.
>"I'm buying FB call options."

In other words you're anticipating the share price to decline further. This sort of supports the OPs first assertion.
An Android ID is 64-bit hex string set at first boot and regenerated every time a factory reset is performed.

...and likely quite easy to set to any value you want on the "unoficially open" Mediatek platforms. This is the little-known secret amongst the Chinese Android community --- cheap and featureful devices with no locked bootloaders or other anti-user crap, easy "unbrickable" recovery, and plenty of leaked documentation from the hardware level up. Roughly equivalent to a PC, in that while a lot of them come with preloaded software you might not want, it's also not hard to remove that and customise to your heart's content, and join in the community of others doing the same.

I give it at most a month before this block is cracked. Unless there's some insanely crazy DRM-esque things Google is doing, it doesn't seem so difficult to bypass; and even then, the Android hacking community is full of people who love a challenge. See the constant cat-and-mouse game of detecting and hiding root, for example.
There was a post today, by one of the KDE developers who has been involved with the postmarketOS crew in getting mainline kernel support, i.e 4.16 and not with whatever fork Android ships on, for an off-the-shelf device (Nexus 5)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16678400
I believe the superchargers use on-site batteries to buffer demand to the grid. Perhaps the local battery was depleted, so they backed off charge rates to avoid hitting the grid too hard.
These are like two different problems, though probably compounding. Allowing vehicle charging while moving is an interesting problem, regardless of where the power comes from (well, it’s way easier if it’s attsched to the truck).
pretty much all of them except for some high end gears such as cisco routers...
Well, physics, safety, and energy efficiency play a huge role there as well.
In my case, half the time I don't know how to handle the exception usefully, and the other half of the time hard failure is the better option. But that's mostly for data analysis.
You mean something like Verified Boot? Pixel devices have always had this and it's part of AOSP. It also has rollback protection.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/avb/+/mas...

https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/
theredpill promotes violence? I've lurked long enough to wonder why people say that. I'm sure you can cherry pick some comments but to say the sub promotes violence? It just doesn't stand up to real life. Most of the subs that people say horrible things about I go seek out to find out the real story and find out the mods might have their work cut out for them but they work hard to stay in the community guidelines. A thankless task for sure.
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That was a lovely story. It really resonated with me. Thanks for sharing!
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726k is 4th ?
> It is not possible for all people to have all freedoms. My freedom to go where I want is limited by your freedom to decide who comes on your property.

See, this is the sort of contradiction inherent in the "positive rights" worldview. Positive "rights" are always in conflict, which is very convenient when you're looking for an excuse to pick and choose which rights other people have and not very useful as a framework for a stable society.

Negative rights, on the other hand, never conflict; there is really only one fundamental right, which is self-ownership: the exclusive right to decide how yourself, and by extension your property, will be used. The only actions are out of bounds are those which would infringe on others' rights of self-ownership. From this you can infer other rights like the freedom of speech, freedom of association, the right to privacy, and the right not to be enslaved against your will, and together with others you can cooperate to provide each other with things which, while desirable, are not rights, such as food, shelter, defense, gainful employment, and healthcare.

> Meanwhile, large numbers of people are currently being forced into slavery - 20.9 million, by one estimate.

And I agree that this is wrong. The key difference is that these people were forced into slavery—it wasn't their choice. Obviously it's not a very attractive option under any circumstance, but one can easily imagine situations where the alternative might be worse. If you need what someone else can provide, and have nothing else of sufficient value to barter for it, giving up your freedom might be a price you'd be willing to pay. No one else should presume to take that option from you.

> Restricting the rights of some small number of hypothetical would-be slaves in order to protect the rights of large numbers of real people in forced bondage is clearly a worthwhile tradeoff.

Putting aside the fact that it isn't your right which you're trading away, and consequently that this isn't your decision to make, it doesn't actually protect anyone. A person who was coerced into such a situation could simply say so, forcing the other party to prove that they had agreed to it in exchange for some form of consideration.
Only 30% of USA power comes from coal, and it’s much lower on the west coast than elsewhere.
> This is still vulnerable on current versions of macOS 10.13.3 when encrypted an ALREADY EXISTING unencrypted APFS volume

Only partially.
Nearly every article that attempts to explain the movement of a stock price is sensationalist. There are occasional times when there is a clear cause and effect, but usually there are a million different things going on and trying to tie it back to a single cause is hopeless.

I notice that they are careful to phrase it in a way that does not explicitly describe cause and effect. Here, the headline merely states that one thing happened, then another. Any causality is inferred by the reader. But of course the reader will infer causality, and the writers know it, and cultivate it.
That's pretty bad. It's been known for decades on other Unix systems that you shouldn't pass passwords by command line parameter, or even support doing so. I guess no-one told Apple.
I would think if a series hybrid were more efficient than a conventional mechanical drive and transmission, it would already have been adopted. Trucking companies will spend money even for small gains in fuel efficiency because they drive so many miles.

I also think that regen braking in semis would be trickier because a lot of the braking happens on the trailer wheels so you would need to fit all the trailers with regenerative braking equipment.
Wow, I never realized that it's effectively impossible to tell if an Android device has a custom ROM intentionally set up to not look like a custom ROM.

Just like root, that's the whole point --- to run an OS that's otherwise completely compatible with the apps and everything else, but is customised in the way you want it.
I came across a monitor with an EDID that was out of the spec for what constitutes a valid EDID, and it actually exposed a bug in the linux i915 driver, I had all this corrupted output.

While the patch was getting merged, I was able to dump the EDID, edit it to be within spec, and then was able to actually flash it BACK to the monitor by using nothing other than this program on github [1], and the HDMI port on a Dell E6430.

I was amazed that was possible to write an EDID from simply connecting to the port, didn't need to open anything up, was able to do it without any special equipment, etc.. I never realized how complicated some of these display protocols can be, but part of it is just i2c, and I guess the hardware is not very restrictive on how that i2c controller can be used outside of display purposes.

Someone with a Raspberry Pi could go around a college campus and wreak havoc if they wanted. Goes to show you that you should not trust any public peripheral, not ever. That's especially important in the age of USB-C and mobile devices where charging and data are put on the same port.

[1]: https://github.com/bulletmark/edid-rw
Hence the "pretty much". Clearly Japan has numerous numerous social issues, but other than that they're doing much better than we are over there.
ranked by revenue. By employee count, it is the largest
The author has a clarification, but even before reading that, I didn't think the author was mocking Linux at all, just the person who tried to use the Linux repo has an example of a high-volume project.

Linux itself is both better and more important than any repo on which I'm likely to ever work, but their centralized points of control mean that I've worked on multiple repos with a higher commit-rate. It's not a great example of stress-testing an SCM product.
Whatever Facebook once aspired to be? That vision, the “social graph connecting everything and everyone” vision that justifies the $500B valuation, is dead. The social graph will decay without new data, and it quickly loses relevance as the data becomes stale. Is there commercial value in knowing what someone “liked” 15 years ago? Because that’s the future of Facebook.

Watch, Facebook will be the new Yahoo! Enough successful products to keep them alive, but with its vision destroyed and it’s mandate revoked, it will be a shadow of its former self. Influencers have already started moving away.

That company has a market value somewhere greater than zero but certainly less than even Facebook’s current market cap. The question is not “will it drop?” but “how low will it go?”
Foxconn is Taiwanese like Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, MediaTek, D-Link, and HTC. Both Asus and D-Link are major router makers as well.

Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
>"The list is limited to companies with annual revenues exceeding US$50 billion."
>Mastodon doesn't technically require it

That's a serious issue. If plaintext is allowed, then expect getting people to downgrade to plaintext will be trivial, because "it just works".

It's a serious mistake, but a well understood one by today. Mastodon is relatively new, and they should have known better than to do this.
Please don't link to mac4n6, it serves malware on some page loads. The article author is aware of it but apparently doesn't have the ability to fix the issue
Esoqi– The Unique Hand-Free Car Mount with Qi Fast Charging
Esorun Launches An Indiegogo Campaign For The Qi Car Mount
Fast Charging, No Hands, Car Mount

March 27, 2018: the world of mobile car mounts has just gotten a lot better. Esorun has come up with a very interesting solution, the patented Esoqi smart car mount. Using infrared technology, this mount is able to sense the size and proximity of all smartphones with sure-lock grip and release technology. It allows for hands-free, fast Qi wireless charging, and functionality.
Those that have tried car mounts in the past will find that this is an option that works far easier than most. Imagine using a smartphone without using your hands, safely, without worry while driving.
Its top features include infrared-sensors that locate phones and secure without help, anti-slip grip for incredibly stable hold on bumpy streets, dash, windshield, & air vent attachments, and Qi charging.
With the launch of an Indiegogo Campaign, the company is aiming to get funding to bring this innovative concept to the masses. This car mount has many features going for it, and it is unlike anything that is in the marketplace today. The Indiegogo Campaign aims to raise funds to help with the production, and distribution of this solution to the general public as swiftly as possible.
Esoqi car mounts are available for as low as $29 (non-wireless charging) on Indiegogo.

eMail: press@getesoqi.com
Web: http://getesoqi.com
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