skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to be sceptical of Bellingcat.

Information on funding: https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/879036821954539520

Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh responded to attacks by Bellingcat here: https://www.alternet.org/media/seymour-hersh-syria-bombshell
There needs to be a very large, very prominent warning on every transaction:

"ONLY SEND MONEY TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW."

"IF YOU SEND MONEY TO A SCAMMER, ZELLE WILL NOT HELP YOU GET YOUR MONEY BACK."

Zelle is not PayPal.

There is no dispute resolution service if the seller on Craigslist doesn't deliver and stops responding to your messages.

Don't use Zelle to send money to strangers.
> which is 14 foot-lamberts (a measure of luminance in cinema). In comparison, the LED screen has a peak brightness level around 300 nits (a measurement of brightness)

in case anyone is wondering:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=300+nits%2F14+footlamb...

more than 6 times the brightness per unit area
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Also people are already switching, Facebook degraded itself to a event calender and a lot of social activity wandered off to more closed environments like chat groups which get popular again due to media enabled chats (telegram, Wechat or also Slack and Discord)

IMO trying to replace Facebook is the wrong direction. Seems most people totally forgot that we actually should not care what our ex girlfriends neighbour is eating today and can't imagine a world without a central social network.

IMO we already have more than enough badly done MySpace clones. It's time we put our egos aside and move on
It is not just a solvent. You can use ethanol in hand sanitizer, but isopropanol is what you need for sarin. That's why it's on the precursor lists, but at a low level in recognition of its industrial uses.
They definitely appeal to IT teams which is a very different sales pitch than you would see for most enterprise CMS products, but rest assured the actual product is very user-friendly. The content entry UI is very straightforward and has easy to use hooks to live preview like any other CMS.

I spent a lot of years working in tech consulting and did a lot of CMS integrations. We desperately wanted to push clients to Contentful and away from ornery beasts like AEM, but Adobe can sell AEM by saying it's part of the "marketing cloud" and that it's magic power is in user engagement and analytics and whatever other marketingspeak lies. Contentful was the developer favorite, but it was hard to convince businesses it was in their best interests even though it totally was.
> a lack of diversity certainly signals that something is going on.

Various things can cause gender imbalance. For example, more men than women are colorblind, but the numbers themselves should not be enough to call those colorblind men sexist, reasoning that if women are underrepresented in this group, there certainly must be some sexism that drives them away.

Even if you would compile a list of sexist quotes by colorblind men, or a list of stories by colorblind women how they faced sexism in their life, it still would not be a proof that the greater numbers of colorblind men are caused by sexism.

If we accept this reasoning for color blindness, why not e.g. for autism? It seems like many IT guys are (some of them more, some of them less) somewhat inside the autistic spectrum. Spending your childhood playing with toys, as opposed to social activities with other people, seems like something that half-autists would do, and also like something that can contribute a lot to being good at IT stuff.

> A while ago i read a very thought-provoking book entitled "Unlocking the Clubhouse"

I am going to read this book, to see the other side of the story. But that will take some time. Meanwhile, I looked at some reviews of the book.

The reviews mention stuff like "male CS students are obsessed with computers from early childhood", "boys form friendships around computers and teach each other", "girls see their fathers more interested in computers than their mothers", "boys spend more time playing computer games" -- which is coincidentally also what we would expect to see if there was a statistical biological difference between the sexes. (I am not saying this proves the difference, only that it does not disprove it.) They mention that women that dropped out of CS said that they were "not that much interested in programming", but of course the authors of the book know better, and those poor girls simply don't understand themselves. The recommendations for schools to keep more women in CS include stuff like not focusing on CS too much.

I will give this book a chance, but I suspect it will turn out to be only convincing for those people who are already convinced.
> Why would you want to move from such a place to NYC or SFO?

For the career or business opportunities, I imagine.
Sounds like they sure can go outside. The written issue seems to be that the school is keeping them on a cell tower tether. That is weird. Are underground parking lots also banned if they are off school property? No cell coverage, likely higher probability of injury/robbery etc.

I wonder if "safety" is a dog whistle for something else. Or will the admin reverse its decision if every student gets a satellite phone, or goes with a team of professional trained guides?
Yup you are right. I did not mean to say "New York City" in the second case, I meant to just say "New York" the state, in which 2.8M people voted for Trump.
There is a contradiction when saying that cryptocurrencies are great for criminal endeavors but useless in the real world - because, clearly, the black market is part of the real world. Illegal things are not necessarily immoral things - sometimes the reverse is true.

We should at no point compare unstable, 1st generation bubbly tokens with fiat cash at it exists today. We are fast entering an era of the cashless society: every transaction, every purchase ever done stored for the duration of your lifetime and up for grabs for the tax-man, law enforcement, any interested agency and any future repressive regime. Financial privacy is quickly becoming illegal and synonymous with money laundry.

Crypto is certainly a nice thing I would hope to exist in this brave new world.
Or to riff on this idea further: You make the concept of a node's "relative stability" part of the load-balancer logic the same way that "relative idleness" is a factor.

Then if all 100/100 nodes get taken down by some shared problem, the system simply degenerates into picking the idle-est of the 100.
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It's needed for binary sarin. This info is readily available.
I know RemoteOK very well :)

I know people don't care whether it is serverless or not. But that's not the point. The point is reducing cost.

Why should I pay for services I don't use?

Why should I write the same code twice (once for server & once for serverless)?
Although a lot of that would be same but I still need to write a lot of config to run serverless.

Why should I worry about Scaling?
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Absolutely, but only once you've tracked down the unexpected bug.
Target ads but do not sell personal data and have thought out a nice architecture so your data stays at Google. They use a call back for the ad so a third party site does not get any data. Also why ad blockers work.
Hopefully they won't sell too many of these before they can build Rec. 2100 screens with HDR and much larger color gamut. MicroLED tech would be nice, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2100
Intersting idea, but I feel you'll have a difficult time with that price tag.
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The scrambler's actually a separate block, usually immediately before or shortly after the encoder. It's common in wireless modems, which I'm more familiar with, but it seems like it's rare in wireline PHYs. Ethernet apparently uses an 8b10b encoding to maintain a similar number of 0s and 1s.

I can't speak on entropy, but turbo codes use an internal interleaver and the codewords can be quite long, so a short repetitive input sequence turns into a very random looking output sequence. As you mentioned though, two identical input sequences would still map to identical output sequences.
This was true until Verne's 'Paris in the Twentieth Century' was published. It changed everything.

It was Verne's lost novel, written in 1863, published 1994. It was not published because his publisher thought it was too unbelievable and would not sell.

It's a dystopian and dark novel describing a technological civilization in 1960's. It predicts cultural and technological details correct constantly. It's one of the most accurate sci-fi novels ever written. Television, gasoline powered cars, automated systems, suburban sprawls, financial industry, fax machines, synthesizer, subways, women in a working force, skyscrapers, weapons of mass destruction, mass education, ...
Thank you. This is what I've been telling people forever. Blockchain technology is revolutionary for a very specific and narrow set of use cases, and outside of that it ranges from a crappy solution to completely irrelevant.
How could we fix programming?
It may have something to do with getting back and cleaning up the reusable containers afterwards.

I remember that in Germany my school had a system to sell little glas milk bottles, and they were reused. Milk is still sold in glass bottles sometimes, but these bottles are just recycled.
Email and the associated protocols are a painful nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would build a platform based on a broken protocol.
I bought a Datarover from eBay on a whim a few years ago.

The device itself is a brick but Magic Cap is a delight: well designed, intuitive and fun in a way modern systems are not.

If the backlight hadn’t fizzled out I’d be using it regularly as an over-engineered landline.
why would I want to go watch a TV screen at the cinema?
It's an analogy that captures the essence of the problem framed in a way most people can understand it: with biometrics there is no shared secret, just a high entropy, non-revocable and very public UID.

Yes, public in a different model, with a different set of threats, but that's irrelevant to what the analogy is trying to convey.

It's a human trait to evaluate and disseminate new concepts though existing concepts. Everything is unique, if you want to refine or disprove the analogy it's not enough to call it wrong repeatedly, you need to accept that specific frame of reference is suggestive to those who chose it, and formulate your arguments from that perspective.
It would seem, based on the numbers, that you are the exception here. Just look at how being precluded from Google’s services and apps can be a death sentence for some companies: One of the biggest reasons Windows Phone failed was that Google chose to ignore the platform. Google is perhaps the most pervasive tech company to date and it is nearly impossible to escape for the average user.
Oh, like in Twenty20 cricket?
Wow, yeah, that tech scene sounds very similar to what is north of the Columbia River in the Portland area, basically HP (failing forward at an astounding pace) and a bunch of sketchy "tech" companies that aren't great places to work.

Its livable, but not where I'd go out of my way to get a job at.
It's really not. It's actually a surprisingly livable and automobile traffic-free city for being literally the largest in the world. (Obviously the train system plays a huge role in that.)
I've had problems with all of these online cash transfer "apps", so much so that I don't trust any of them. Venmo flagged my account and required me to "call them up" to "fix" things (yeah no).

I've used google pay the most, but I've sent money with google pay that never reached the destination bank (the destination bank said it was "google's fault", whatever we canceled the transactions).

I've sent money to an associate's email address with google pay and then a few days later she told me someone had withdrawn $999 dollars from her account associated with google pay. Her bank did get her money back after some days. yikes.

Banks should not be "moving fast" to "catch up". They should be providing a trustable experience. I have zelle available with my bank, but no way am I experimenting until it's been stressed out.
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It's always been this way. People didn't go west because they had a good life on the east coast.
how much of the internet was dedicated to porn and funny pictures?
> He acts as if everyone has a game console or that people should pay $300+ for a console for each of their TVs instead of buying a > $50 streaming stick.

Sigh. Again, no.
> Summa Technologiae--last time I checked it didn't have an English translation. Has anyone here read it?

I've read it in German but it's been a while. It's one of those books where the exact words weren't known at the time, but all the ideas were present - you can reasonably argue at least Internet, VR and more are in there.

Also some wonderful to read ideas about the future that are applicable to the present.

If you can - it's worth a read.
Huh? A plumber or electrician can earn more than that even in rural areas, I wouldn't consider $60k to be upper middle class.
It's five days of play, during normal day-time hours. It's like a festival that you go to.
Fair enough, so they put some marketing stuff as expenses and might have some visibility in the real world, but it also says in the same document:

Historically, we have been able to generate significant media coverage of our company and our vehicles, and we believe we will continue to do so. To date, for vehicle sales, media coverage and word of mouth have been the primary drivers of our sales leads and have helped us achieve sales without traditional advertising and at relatively low marketing costs.
Nor is it particularly high rise outside of the center, it’s surprisingly sprawl-like as well.
How do we know there isn't a selfish mining ring owning and subtly biasing Ethereum?

I want a good answer to this question before I put money back in. Because tbqf, it's very easy to raise capital on buzzwords. Especially if you're so we'll suited to money laundering.
It seems to be a massive attack against Google... so people gets scared and then do a massive-viral claim on social media and every where while these "Telus people" are LOL at Google and at us... and by the way... this is happening in Australia too :(
Won't you inherit all the encoding trouble this article goes on about? As well as the problems with integer precision? And get a bunch of new ones with special characters in keys...

I'm sure you _could_ specify a nice sexpr format. I'm not sure the specification would be simple though. And just saying "use sexprs" leaves you with all the problems you have when you say "use json".
Like they say, time is money.
Venmo is the same way. A friend of mine accepted payment for a piece of hardware through Venmo. My friend handed over the hardware in person to the buyer once the payment was "in" my friend's wallet and he had initiated the cash out, but before the money had actually cleared into his bank account.

Once he and the buyer parted ways, the payment was canceled due to a claim of fraud by the card's owner, and my friend's Venmo account was suspended because had used it for commercial purposes and not just sending money between friends.

Apparently, even if you already have the money cleared in your bank account, Venmo has the ability to charge it back once a fraud claim is initiated. Apparently this is very common on the platform.
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This is what I tell people when we get to this topic. I like to ask 'where do you communicate with other people'

And most people agree to spend a lot more time in Telegram or even just Whatsapp. If you ask gamers also add Discord, and Slack for a lot of professionals.

Most people I talk to barely use Facebook but accepted it as defacto standard, which probably explains why they can't think about 'replacing' it when in reality it already happened.
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Juicero was ridiculous even if only because the machine was ridiculously overengineered. They should have used two steel rollers, I bet the machine could be made for $20. Instead they made an absurd contraption that crushes the bag between two plates.
That little vignette was actually perfect.

Mind blown.
That's how the early CMS's like Vignette worked and they evolved to solutions like WP and Drupal which are better for the web publishing use case - easier to maintain, develop, and capable of real-time UGC and publishing (real-time is crucial for SEO in commercial publishing).

Static site generators are simply a file-system caching layer. Drupal used to have one of those and it was a terrible idea as the number of page variants on a commercial site very quickly hits file-system limitations and performance is appalling. Better to use a proper CDN for a similar result but with massively reduced latency due to content being served from the edge.
The dairy industry is about the worst industry to start anything. I've seen it up close in Germany, where some milk farmers still want to expand or set up new farms, despite lamenting about the poor price of milk. The farmers seem to have some kind of myopia where all they see is milk farming, and damn if the market needs it.

And it's going to get worst. Pretty soon we will discover that you don't need a whole cow to make some milk. Substitutes for milk components are already in use everywhere, but it shouldn't be that difficult to produce "authentic" milk proteins and other components using synthetic biology.

Before that, maybe we don't need a calve from every cow, improving at least that part of the animal welfare issue.

And even a "disruptor" with cow-less milk may fail quickly, as consumers don't like change and milk is so damn cheap anyway.
Sounds like the university doesn’t want the liability. Students can just do things anyway, so long as it’s not under the university’s purview. Annoying, but not that bad.
I don't know accounting stuff so I can't say, but I wonder if they stopped every and all activities except building and delivering cars and fired all personnel not involved in those, would they stay afloat?
World-class theatre/opera, bands make a stop here on their tours, wide variety of restaurants, communities for some of my more specialised hobbies and interests. There are certainly costs, but big cities can offer a depth and variety of experiences that smaller ones can't.
software engineer salary somewhere else is usually more like 20-25% less rather than 50% less -- someone making 140k in SF might make 110k-120k in places like Boise or Denver. They'll pay 5k less in taxes (both due to lower total income and lower state tax rates). So saving 18k in housing costs puts them at least in a comparable disposable-income range.

For people in lower-paying careers, the lower housing costs elsewhere almost always dwarf the pay differences. For higher-paying careers, the pay differences are the dominant factor. Mid-range software engineer salary is actually pretty close to the dividing line, which makes it particularly important to evaluate the specific numbers yourself.
Its completely a UX issue, but it seems reasonable to me. I agree itS not surprising behavior given the docs, but I believe it should be added.

Its been a while since i used Requests, but iirc response.ok is basically syntax sugar; but it seems to me that in most valid usecases where you'd like this sugar (over being explicit in your actions), is when you'd like to verify the communications was correct. And malformed http is not correct. I imagine if you implemented a wrapper ok2, of correctness check + response.ok, you'd see 90% of response.ok become ok2

It seems to me to be a sensible check (validate that the http message meets the standard), that should exist in any http library at request's level. And response.ok seems like a wasted api slot, if its not meeting the full needs of its sugaring
Can’t be NJ, it’s 1 hr from NY and 6 hours from Boston. Maybe near Hartford?
Sounds like the university is using their power of the purse in a shitty overbearing way. Fortunately, college students are adults, and they can just form their own unofficial organization and do what they want, particularly since it's a perfectly legal set of activities.
> A way to fork/MR across Gitlab/Github instances

I think ActivityPub would be a good fit for federation across GitLab instances and would have a real chance to displace Github for open-source projects, if implemented right.
We already do (in a multitude of ways) when we sleep. There's research that indicates that sleep is used to clear away neurotoxic waste.[0][1] The role of deposits of tau and beta-amyloid proteins in Alzheimer's[2] and aging are also of particular interest. Other papers supporting the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis suggest that sleep is when synaptic strength is renormalized.[3][4] Basically, memories are reinforced (the signal) in relation to existing knowledge while daily noise is effectively pruned (among other processes).

The analogy is flawed, but the brain already has some pretty intricate garbage control methods. As we learn more about them, it'll open up new paths for clinical treatments for a host of problems.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24136970

1. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sle...

2. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/alzheimer-s-protein-m...

3. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6324/507

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921176/
While Bitcoin is making the whole industry redundant.
> never by any stretch of the imagination have any feelings at all.

How do you know for sure? Just because we cannot directly ask animals doesn't mean humans are the only animals who have feelings.
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>because those gosh darn overbearing regulators in Fremont wanted his employees to stop being severely injured. That's your basic right-wing migrant in a nutshell.

Lazy strawman
I read about efforts to discover compounds using random methods back in the 90s, and have been trying to research it lately, to see if the "shake and bake" method is still a thing. Can anyone point me to relevant research? I was surprised by estimates given about the number of possible compounds, so many that there would not be enough time in the universe to make and test them all, even limiting the primary elements to a dozen or so. I guess there are a multitude of ways that the same atoms can fit together. I've tried to find research on computer simulations. Apparently, only rough predictions can be made. My searches have been pretty fruitless, though, and I'd welcome help.
As for the compression and resulting discrepancy of length: if you are doing transparent HTTP compression, you are supposed to send Transfer-Encoding: gzip (which implies chunked mode and that Content-Length shoul not be present and should be ignored by UA). Content-Encoding: gzip means that the resource itself is gzip compressed (which means that the UA should decompress it for displaying to user, but should save it to disk compressed, IE and Safari gets this wrong)
college football, of course, is completely safe in all respects!
I never thought I'd get to see someone advertising software with a fight club quote. That certainly scores some sympathy points in my book! :)
We used Tito [1] to put on Longhorn PHP [2], and we were very happy with it! They're still small enough that they respond very quickly to requests for changes / fixes as well.

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