skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap storage is a vastly easier problem than cheap/sustainable fusion, though.

I actually agree that space based solar power may make more sense than fusion, though. The path for space based solar power is through well-understood engineering. The path for fusion (while I'm certain it's possible) lies through less-well-understood plasma physics.

Cheap storage is much easier than either problem, IMHO. We've already pretty much solved it to the extent needed for civilization, it's just not as cheap as our existing sources of industrial energy. But we're very close.

If you actually spent significant time looking at what fusion and space based solar power require, then cheap storage looks much easier.
But zero people in the history of the web has deliberately “liked” anything while knowing the privacy implications.

Liking and logging in with google should show a similar warning as an untrusted or malicious site and then send the cookies
and it really sucks. just wipe the slate clean with the user base and an msn message relaunch would be very popular.
This isn't so much about competition. It is about unfair competition. One side has rules and regulations they need to abide by. Many are simply there to make things fair (like meters). Some are safety (not mentioned, but requiring a different class of drivers license). Some are things that obviously should be changed (car models, for example, or the medallion system). Some things are probably a mixture of safety and ridiculousness (special car colors help folks know it isn't just some person acting like a cab, but ridiculous in the manner that there are other ways to do such things).

Not everyone gains by having lower fares if you need to get to work during a busy hour, as mentioned in the article. Surge pricing and weird pricing schemes makes it difficult to plan when money is tight.

And they do mention that Uber drivers aren't exactly better off. "not as good of a living" is one thing. Poverty and homelessness is quite another, and seems to be happening on both sides of this.

Want competition? Fine. Make sure folks are playing by the same rules and regulations.
And yet Oracle ships an S3 compatibility API: https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/Object/Tas...
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Does anyone know how well the iPad announced today compares to the current $329 iPad (without Pencil support)?

I've never owned an iPad before, but think it's time I jumped on the consumption device bandwagon.
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>nobody seems to unit-test Javascript where I am

That is an engineering culture thing. I work on a small JS project (node.js server + React FE) that has >95% unit test code coverage. It isn't even difficult to do - it is just not a major part of a lot of front-end teams culture.
> But overall, would you have been better or worse off if society just made fewer psych diagnoses and you never had the right or the wrong ones, but people just helped you work directly on your traits?

I don't think it's worth speculating on the past, on whether one approach would have been generally better than the other. Hindsight is 20/20, right?

I do believe in one aspect of the argument, and that is one of empathy. If you see someone struggling with something, or they are exhibiting a "trait" that you think isn't normal, then finding a way to help them is a worthy goal.

I think the problem here is trying to understand and define what is "normal" and what "traits" are worth looking out for. This is where things start to devolve in philosophical disagreements. As other commenters have said in the thread, there is a difference between being socially shy, having extreme social anxiety, and being autistic. Even in the realm of the autism spectrum you have different issues and presentations to address. When is something actually a problem? How do you identify the problem, and then how do you address that problem?

I don't think it's as black and white as we want to believe. I think labels and diagnosis can help, and they can hurt. The most important thing is to be aware, and to have empathy and compassion for others.
It's a worst case estimate of what may happen as the fallout of this fiasco.
There were rumors of Zuck wanting to run for president.

Somehow, I think after this, it is ( I hope ) unthinkable.
Counterfactuals are difficult, but surely you'd agree that the Triangle Trade was important to the economies that actually ended up leading the Industrial Revolution.

Although I have not read it, I think Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery is an influential work well known for forcefully arguing for a link between the eponymous phenomena (of course not everyone agrees with its claims).
This is much appreciated....:-)
I should like to note that in the case of the comp.sys.amiga.* news groups, that these were first established Jan 8, 1991. The first posts in the mbox archive for comp.sys.amiga.programmer, however, are from May 31, 1994. It looks like the first three years might be missing, at least for this group. I haven't yet checked the other amiga groups yet.
While I understand your point, your argument has very little foundation. You are basically saying: "Everything works very well and if a judge decides something you should respect that, as he has good reason to judge it his way".

One thing I have a particular problem with is that even judges from the same country seem to come to different results on the same case. I know its not unusual but that underlines my point that just because some judge came to some verdict, it isn't necessarily true.

And if 'the system as it exists in the US today is actually working quite well', why does a company like Google with a lot of smart people will have to pay a fine which probably will be as valuable as the whole Java platform? In a system that actually works well, the smart people would have seen what was going to happen and different judges would come to the same result.

And that something as 'simple' as a single method interface doesn't require any creativity is just wrong. I am sure there are a lot of famous creator quotes about that, the first I was able to find is from Steve Jobs:

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [1]

In the case of Golang that would translate to: It is much harder to build a universal single method interface for all kinds of write operations opposed to specific write methods for different use-cases.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/445279-simple-can-be-harder...
In my experience the big hurdle is getting your device certified, not licensing issues. That's not really an IP issue however, it's just that uncertified devices might misbehave and create issues for other users.
Mark Zuckerberg has decided to testify before Congress
Not they belong to the companies and some of them are available under FRAND licensing.

For the rest there is the 3GPP patent platform.
There's no conspiracy: huge political ad campaigns were purchased in rubles sent from Russian bank accounts. Moreover:

* Monthly meetings with Yuri Milner after he invests $200 million dollars of Gazprom money in facebook after the 2008 crash.

* Facebook assigning liaisons to work at the Trump campaign offices - side by side, if not directly with, Cambridge Analytica. Kushner implies it's directly with them.

“We found that Facebook and digital targeting were the most effective ways to reach the audiences. After the primary, we started ramping up because we knew that doing a national campaign is different than doing a primary campaign. That was when we formalized the system because we had to ramp up for digital fundraising. We brought in Cambridge Analytica. I called some of my friends from Silicon Valley who were some of the best digital marketers in the world. And I asked them how to scale this stuff."

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-40852227/the-digital-gur...
At that price, I'll buy one, and I'm several dozen years removed from school.
Cold fusion would happen without plasma involved, i.e. room temperature. Fusion happens with plasma: at least 1000s celcius. The plasma is one of the primary reasons fusion is hard (the magnets are there precisely because of it).

That's the allure of CF, pity it's impossible.
Float-in-the-air 3D displays/images are in the labs already! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01125-y
Fission also throws out a lot of energy, and the plus side is it's much easier to get to work (which is also the drawback...).

...and that's a good point. After working on fusion for a while, fission certainly looks attractive! I mean, it just works! And for all the hemming and hawing about safety, it's actually remarkably safe (in real terms) compared to just about any other energy source.
>This sentence reads to me like "It's not that professionals can't effectively use other peoples first hand experience , it's that they can't effectively use other peoples first hand experience".

It was reinforcing the point you were disagreeing with. They can make use of it, but not efficient use of it.

>They don't need to know exactly what's going on. It's impossible for anyone to ever know exactly what is going on in another person's mind. Psychology as a profession is completely useless if that's the bar for it being useful.

To use anecdotes: I've seen assistance from friend's and loved ones, who've experienced first-hand the illness, to have a more profound effect on the quality-of-life and recovery of the person suffering, than the average medical professional (psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, etc. ranked in their own groups). There are some astounding medical professionals out there that will definitely be very helpful in getting someone "back on track," but in my experience, they're never covered under your average joe's insurance. That leaves the bulk of available professionals' quality to be lack-luster, and arguably, a waste of time -- even detrimental in some specific cases.

The bar for doctor involvement and vested interest is nearing the ground, in the U.S.A. Unless surgery or extremely specialized treatment is needed (chemotherapy, gene therapy, etc.), you'll almost always get better care doing the research and treatment yourself.

>I apologize if my response comes off as aggressive, but I strongly believe that propagating the idea that mental health professionals can't really help people is dangerous for those that would benefit from their help.

And I believe if you don't first become aware of shortcomings, you'll never be able to fix problems. And mental health treatment, as an industry, has a lot of problems.
Yes, creating liability traps might undermine Craigslist entirely.

Imagine if a similar liability were created around regulating job postings or apartment rentals, where Craigslist derives its revenue.
Ok. My estimate is that your estimate is too high :-)
What you're saying is correct, except you keep saying "wallet" where you mean "address". A wallet is a collection of addresses.
>Google has started to make it right with the switch to openJDK and Desugar, but in a lot of ways it’s too little very late.

What functional changes accompanied Google's switch to OpenJDK? Doesn't Android still use its own incompatible VM?
> I don't understand why the default behavior isn't to isolate every website from every other website? Why is least privacy the default?

Default privacy settings are tough to manage.

Some people want privacy, and will accept broken websites if it keeps their data and online movement private.

Other people just want their usual websites to work, don't understand or care to think about privacy, and if some random content farm looks busted in Firefox, will just switch to another browser.

Aside from picking a sensible default, Firefox also offers to educate users where it makes sense. For example, when you open a new private browsing window in Firefox, the tracking protection section includes a "See how it works" button that takes you to a tour-style walkthrough of how tracking protection works.
Cryptocurrency: hi, im a distributed, permanent record of all the transactions you make.
Dark web: ooh look, anonymity!
The proof is in the pudding. Prior to the introduction of Android, embedded Linux in consumer electronics was awful and many devices often selected Windows Embedded, QNX, etc. I worked on embedded Windows in automotive devices and know first hand how a) horrible it was (slow, buggy, insecure) and b) how horrible to Linux replacements were that tried to rig up a half functioning platform.

Most small companies do not have the skills to take vanilla Linux userspace, or even Debian or Ubuntu, and build out a polished mobile platform that they can shove into a thermostat or watch. The only semi-popular Linux attempts that succeeded in volume were HTML based like WebOS, which again, simply used a fork of an off the shelf complete platform mostly built by a corporation (e.g. WebKit)

You can argue all you want, but evidence suggests otherwise. Someone building a sealed, firmware for a device today that doesn't permit third party apps, still chooses AOSP as a base more often than not, and the reason they do so, is because there is huge value in the platform. Whether you like the design or not, whether you think it is bloated or not, people think that using AOSP to bootstrap their HW lowers their time to market or costs. And for those people, they are receiving value.
I believe they (select committees) can compel witnesses within the UK so visiting the UK might be a problem.

Its never been done recently - though god knows what old laws are still on the books that could be applied.
Yes, I wanted to type that. Women are not muses nor perfect, they are people and artist will be shocked that they fart, get angry, sweat and disagree with him. The artist made mistake when he lost contact with reality and replaced real human by unreal vision. This story has nothing with how women are like and everything with young man being lied to.

I care less about his painting then about women who will become target of his wrath when he gets confronted with reality. And even he would be happier if he never went the illusion way.

Plenty of productive men are not like the artist in that story.
For testing self driving cars on real streets though there's not really a big need for local developers if the company is setup well at all it can do it 99% remotely with just a barebones support staff onsite for installing the new software and sorting out integration issues which can also be done at their headquarters on engineering samples on their test tracks.
Afaik there are several certified GNU/Linux derivatives.
This is just my opinion, but I think the answer starts with first replacing authentication mechanisms, thus allowing any group of people to try different social apps, forums and chat servers using their common auth.

In my Utopian world, small groups of technical people would host OpenLDAP servers and replicas. They would front end them with some open source SAML2/OAuth providers. That would allow them as a small group to have forums, chat servers, blogs, email, etc...

Their circle of non technical friends could then utilize all the services the technical folks share the support of. If the LDAP master drops out, someone else promotes their replica to master.

Why all this? No nation state back doors and potentially less risk if people reuse passwords, since this group can also host email.
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Sounds pretty good. Charging less than the actual cost of a trip is just anti-competitive, so everyone here should be against that. Unionized and minimum wage guaranteed drivers sounds good to me, as I fail to see any reason why the drivers shouldn't be making at least minimum wage.
The article offers facts and editorializing. I don't see much issue.
A lot of folks are definitely hitting on the note about not having a keyboard being a major ding, especially considering they're trying to compete at the same price point a Chromebooks. But as someone whose worked with classroom deployment of tech, what makes Google so amazing is not just the form factor, but how easy it is to manage and deploy multiple devices. Google makes it easy to create and manage accounts, push apps out, restrict with all sorts of granularity, and none of it is tied to a device. It seems from today's event that Apple is just starting to develop that functionality, but they have a ways to catch up before they get there.

And I haven't even gotten to how useful the G Suite of apps are as well as Google Classroom.

I highly doubt today's event will do much if anything to change the tech landscape of the classroom. I would love to see Microsoft throw into the ring, though, and am surprised they haven't stepped up.
Apple is already serious competition against Chromebooks in education. I know of no school district near me which uses Chromebooks, but a few that use iPads.

Plus, it's easier to add a keyboard to an iPad than to remove it from the Chromebook (and replace with touchscreen).
Its really interesting how Microsoft changed their JVM into .net, with a nearly identical library API but so slightly different (often Upper case methods instead of lower case).

Would be an interesting idea if Google could compile JVM bytecode apps to run on .net VM. Of course JSV8 engine would be better, but is more difficult.
It's science.

Land-based plants evolved when CO2 levels were much higher than today. [1] In fact levels have been steadily declining from 3000 ppm 150 million years ago; the current, holocene rise is a relatively minor bump. [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692178/

[2] http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/pghosh/content/Publication...
I'm not even sure it's about like/dislike. Trump winning the election was a huge surprise, even to some Trump supporters. Many people are looking for a reason to "explain" the election of Trump. It makes stories about Russian meddling much easier to believe and experience outrage over.

Had it been Hillary, I don't think there would've been this kind of outrage. She was the "obvious" choice for president. It would be hard to believe a story about Chinese hackers since she didn't need that kind of help anyway. If it did come out that there was some kind of foreign influence, it would've been much easier to downplay it as negligible since the election of Hillary wouldn't have been much a surprise.
I feel like this probably is intended to apply in criminal cases and not civil. (And a copyright case like this would certainly be civil, and not criminal)

In the US, it at least seems that something similar does, in so far as we require a unanimous vote by the jury to convict someone in a criminal trial, but a simple majority for a civil.
That's not what the article is saying, it's saying that the gig economy is all about transferring all the power from Labour to capital, about making the balance even more skewed in the wrong direction. You can't operate a meritocracy if there is no opertunnity to improve, if you are just an interchangeable unit. You can't improve if the system forces you beyond what is humanly possible to be above average, and where average is pined at the upper limit of performance
I find it peculiar that you would quote the police department saying the crash was "unavoidable" when I'm unable to find such distinct phrasing used in any news articles. The most damning phrasing is: "it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway".
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Just an FYI (if you want something to watch and haven't heard about it already) https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-grpc is in the works by the same folks building tokio and hyper etc.

But yep, definitely not production ready as the README clearly states :)
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( hire a finance advisory firm )

but, in broad strokes:
1/3 on fixed interest rates investments ( bonds, probably )
1/3 on real state ( preferably on low income areas, small condos, easy to rent )
1/6 on high risk ( crypto currency, penny stocks )
1/6 on high liquidity ( savings account on variable but low interest rate ) for some quick opportunity that might arise.

don´t touch the principal, EVER !
live out of interest.
Yet Qt, .NET, Java, Go, C, C++ are all getting ready for the plugins renaissance.
I wonder if their grandparents also used copious amounts of antibiotics on their animals...
> The software exists as a 90s anachronism to the hubris of dotcom.

The point is that in BigCo environments the norm still is "no one ever got fired for buying IBM and Oracle" and even if that were not true shitloads of enterprise crapware are bound to Oracle's offerings and that alone will secure revenue for Oracle for decades to come. Hell when I look at the average age of stuff in the banking and insurance sector I would not be surprised if Oracle is still going strong in a century.
I've slowly moved most of my mobile experience back to browser (safari) due to storage savings for things like images/music/tv shows. Same with my laptop.

Modern browsers and web apps can mimic computing environments while outsourcing the storage problem. I see the future moving in this direction as well.
Thanks for the explanation and I agree that it won't be as easy to build SD for auto braking systems that change from chassis to chassis, but this is what I think people want. People want to have fail safes from different vendors.
No, I'm pointing out an association seen all across the internet unfortunately. This one was just the final straw for me. Any time someone wants to back-handedly disparage someone's intellect, they love to use words like 'gubment' or some variation. FWIW, I also take issue with the usage of 'Murica' as well as a blanket indicator. You are calling into question a person's intellect when using terminology like that and claiming otherwise is being dishonest to either yourself or everyone else. That being said, I fully understand that some people do actually speak like that due to regional dialects and documenting that in text is fine if that is your actual intent.
You can specify more than one input in a transaction, so that shouldn't be necessary.
Possibly, but 10% is a lot smaller than the 250%-500% rise you experienced.
another thing you can try is https://pandoc.org/
Does anybody knows if API-REST are copyrighted ?
The money they gona make !!
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Further, he uses the statistic that there may be 5X as many Uber on the road as taxis. That's not a problem! That's a solution. Taxis were clearly not addressing the full transportation need, not nearly! Only 20% of potential customers were being served.
I hope you pulled him aside and gently expressed to him how appalled you were. Attitudes change one conversation at a time.
Agreed, my context was browser specific applets. Clearly Java has some moderate success on the desktop.

I do think Sun entertained Java superseding Javascript in the browser - it just didn't work out that way.
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If you want to impress me, go serverless.
Will it be fine? Stock market shaved 10 percent of it's market cap on this. I suppose if you're a $500bn or $450bn company you'll be fine either way... But this is only a week... So time will tell how far the negative press goes with this... And ultimately how many of it's 2bn users actually care.
Sure. But when there’s such a massive movement with no change in fundamentals just because MS said something, you can’t help but wonder. I think these large companies do this pretty often, although rarely with such dramatic effect.