skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and navigating the bureaucratic machine for getting a permit is, by official D.C. guidelines, estimated to take at least 6 months

The March for Science, which originated largely from a Reddit thread, happened in 4 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science

The Women's March was organized in 2.5 months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March

edit: In the "update" post, the blogger of the allegation basically ignores the explanations for the confusion and goes with the conspiracy. At that point, I think it's reasonable for Politifact to say the blogger is acting in bad faith:

> Given the different dates he’s given for when Metro PD received the permit application and when Metro PD issued the permit, we have no reason to believe Officer Scott Earhardt. In all probability, his first email of March 28 to Dammegard’s contact is most likely the truthful one — that D.C. Metropolitan Police Department received an application for a permit for March For Our Lives “several months” before the March. That in turn implies that, contrary to how the March had been presented to the American people, the Parkland school shooting is not the inspiration for March For Our Lives and may even have been planned and contrived.

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2018/04/05/parklathe-curiou...
I’m no zen monk but I do this on a very surface level, detaching myself from my current emotions and trying to observe them going by. I’ve found it useful in controlling anger and anxiety. Does it solve it? No. But I do find it useful and it doesn’t take that much effort or practice to get some value out of it.
Keep in mind that a lot of evolutionary advances come from crossover, not just mutation.
Next steps: AdWords in email suggestions. “M” expands to “Meet you at Starbucks (TM)”.
Lol OK fine. :)

Look, I'm kind of at the level of the layman trying to decipher a Numberphile video. You guys are trying to distill it down for me, and I'm desperately trying to grasp at it. But hey, at some point I may grab hold.

I thought I was serviceable in bash/builtins, then I post this and realize just how much I don't know. But hey that just means there's that much more to know and learn.
The tide is shifting, I thought Microsoft would never endorser Linux, but here we are with at least two three version of Microsoft Linux.
Ask 20 "experts" on what it is and you get 20 different answers. :P
I assume the reason this is being abstracted behind a VM where the app must bring not just a userspace but its own kernel is because Chrome OS is about to become Fuchsia, and the only vestige of Linux on the future Chrome OS devices will be in a VM for niche applications.

Hooray.

This isn't more Linux, this is a compatibility step towards less Linux being spun as something else.
On Linux, I believe what you’re looking for is CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW but that’ll also depend on your particular hardware and its security.

On iOS, I’m not sure it matters for the reason you mentioned: at least on my devices I don’t see hotplug events until the device has been unlocked once.
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I really doubt that's actually happening. For a long time there was a Vine forum, and the culture was definitely about reviewing as honestly as possible. I'd posted many positive but also many negative reviews before being selected for Vine.

It also seems like there are many more products needing reviews than reviewers. I've never worried about being negative.

And finally, the item is definitely not free:

* Amazon displays the tax value of each item we're offered for review, and reports it to the IRS if we choose it. So literally, the product is taxable income.

* Some items, like books, take a lot more time and effort, compared to their monetary value. But all items require time.

* Some items have collateral costs. Just a couple of examples: I once reviewed an AC/DC converter for the car which blew a fuse when I tried it out. That cost me a trip to the repair shop. Another time I reviewed a floor lamp which arrived destroyed in the box and left my living room speckled in glass shards and styrofoam pieces.

tldr; To me, it's a contractual relationship that I'll continue doing as long as it makes sense to me.
Then Google is free to give me an alternative device for development.

With the emulator broken, and the Nexus 5X unsupported, I am unable to assure that my apps work on Android P, and therefore I have no idea at all if they’ll crash or not.

But if they’ll crash, Google will punish me by downranking my score. A punishment for something I can’t do shit about.

It’s absolute madness.
From what I've read, enterprises certainly love iOS for security. And for better or worse, LEA provides well-reported test cases. So it's not that Apple wants to protect criminals, it's that criminals are canaries.

Indeed, the whole "going dark" vs privacy debate mostly misses the point.[0]

> The heightened tension produced by the introduction of encryption by default into an environment where terrorism has magnified the need for efficient law enforcement access (surveillance) supported by a newly-expanded CALEA framework is often framed as a contest between privacy and security. It is, however, more accurately framed as a security issue on both sides, one side which integrates traditional privacy concerns with the growing focus upon cybersecurity ... The cybersecurity and, incidentally, pro-privacy position rejects exceptional access as a dangerous fiction that would, among other things, create new attack surfaces, rendering networks more vulnerable to every form of predation, from financial crime and IP theft to cyber espionage, ultimately generating unacceptable risks to our national and economic security.

0) https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
They did not lose their minds. They had them stolen.
Freedom from the human condition is not a goal I want to pursue. It sounds self-negating
You know the experience where you're reading something, only to discover that your eyes are just scanning the page while your mind wanders? During that time, you're thinking about something without knowing that you're thinking about it. This mode occurs all day long, and not only while you're reading.

The "baby" is the ability to recognize the tens of thousands of thoughts you are thinking every day without knowing that you are. This can offer tremendous insight into your mood and personality (and how to change them if you wish).
I heard about this years ago, but just telling friends this last week... of course they were incredulous. So thanks for the incredible link!
English, an API with over 1.5 billion clients in the wild
20 years from now we'll probably have something else that takes its place.

Considering mindfulness meditation has been around for millenia, I kind of doubt it's going away. You seem to be very pessimistic of mindfulness meditation. Have you given it a chance? It really has helped a lot of people.
This is a great comment and I agree almost completely. However, I think it’s very profound— it says something about the incredible power and versatility of cellular building blocks.
Indeed, all neural nets that use matrix multiplication. Out just so happens to be all the main types right now.
I had an undergraduate English professor who told the lecture hall one day how he had had one of his sons circumcised and not the other.
Their product seems to be simpler to install and directed to specific software and workload. It's really amazing to get 10% more TPS by just running a background process.

Maybe they should present themselves as "fire and forget TPS optimizer"
I don't consider Plato to be an idiot but his model of the solar system was entirely without merit. It dug a very deep hole for astronomy, leading to centuries of wasted effort despite the existence of Aristarchus's more accurate model.
xprivacy is the single reason I continue to root my phone :|
No, it certainly is not. That only means that one's knowledge is limited, not that the things you have knowledge of are inherently subjective.

The fact that two people disagree about something does not automatically imply that they are both wrong, only that at least one of them is.
> A metal body is heavy

You are thinking of cast iron, probably.
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you think twitter is a pioneer of internet companies? it took them 12 years to turn a profit.
Very simple-to-use product. There's almost no friction and you get 10% extra TPS. They'll make a lot of money.
You don’t trust Twitter’s story but you trust Twitter software engineers more than others?

I trust Twitter’s story about the plain text logging but don’t trust their software engineers more than others.
If I ever have more money then I know what to do with, I would love to bankroll some of these legal battles pro bono like Peter Thiel so that when someone sends a frivolous cease and desist they end up regretting it.
Well, Orwell fought with the POUM, who were Socialists but twith Anarchist leanings so I don't think you can really say he was "impartial".

Having said that I fully concur with your recommendation of Homage to Catalonia. Amazing book about a pretty amazing time.
Papa johns was (is?) paying for mapquest purely for the privilege of calling up the noc every few days when their servers crashed. At least it felt like that when I worked in the noc.
What I saw of this looked pretty neat... until the web page crashed Safari (on iPad).
> Since then, I've been very skeptical of the notion of buying chromebooks as cheap and lightweight mobile working tools.

You have to be careful about which processor powers your Chromebook if you want to do non chrome os things. The processors from the mainstream core line (Haswell, Skylake) etc do pretty well, although they're usually fairly low clocked. The chromebooks with Atom or ARM processors usually have a harder time booting other things, and the ARM linux ecosystem is a lot trickier than the x86-64 ecosystem.

Avoiding Atom processors is harder than it looks, because Intel keeps changing the branding, probably to confuse users.
It seems unlikely that the brain-to-text rendering method has no effect on what is written.

My phone-thumb-typing voice is different to my laptop voice is different to my handwritten voice. I can’t prove this but I believe it is true.

And of course this new development is actually proposing phrases. This seems really new.
I don't understand why you would dismiss someone's vague claim of feeling better so quickly. Your day to day subjective experience matters a lot. If a lot of people can follow a particular regimen and they say it improves their subjective experience, perhaps it has some value? I don't understand why we dismiss things just because the science hasn't caught up yet.
The thing is, a paywall isn’t going to work out for most publishers either, because they’re not worth the money. Most “content” out there is marginal at best, deceptive clickbait at worst. Putting up a paywall is more likely to just end in people calling that bluff.

I for one, wouldn’t pay $20 for a month of Bloomberg, never mind $40. I won’t really miss them either. If Buzzfeed puts up a paywall... ok that’s fine, good even! Of course this assumes that people don’t just rapidly figure out ways to pirate content, and they will. Try to track me, I’ll use uMatrix. Try to paywall me, and I’ll remember how little you’re worth. The NYT and FT can paywall, and a few others are worth the money... most aren’t. How many sites would you be willing to pay for rather than just forget exist in a week?

There’s always piracy lurking in the background, waiting for companies to be venal or stupid enough to make the hassle of pirating less onerous than the legal option.
There’s a certain empathy that is hard to have unless you’ve gone through it. People without kids have a tendency to underestimate both how challenging child rearing can be and also how totally different kids can be. That ends up with people giving parenting advice as if there’s a single right answer when there’s no such thing. It’s why I said people with only one child fall into the same trap. Often they think that the way their kid was is how all kids are. But kids can be so amazingly different, and it’s hard to truly understand that unless you have a couple kids yourself and you can experience it firsthand. I don’t claim to know all about parenting, but I’ve experienced enough to know that I can’t give any other parent the right answer for how to raise their kid.
No, let's make it fun. "How can I help you?" "Get off the phone you damn bot!" "Why I oughta...<modem sounds>"
Well, I'm not sure if it was meant to be helpful, but I would like a "list", or better yet, a search engine, that excludes all sites with javascript. If there is no such widely used search engine, then sites without scripting can't thrive.

I've never been an ideological seeker of "organic, all natural" type foods, because the criteria tend to seem arbitrary and unscientific, but I've come to see the label as useful because the other stuff is increasingly adulterated with garbage I don't want.
Apt-get got there first. Debian does a pretty good job of trying to make upgrades work (which isn't really an apt thing, plenty of apt based distributions don't actually care to make upgrades work).

It's been a while, but my understanding is redhat figured out dependency resolution too, though.
>I also really hope that hardware tokens like a yubikey are not required for every site or app. I'd like to be able to keep private keys on my phone or laptop for some things

Web Authentication supports this with what's called "platform authenticators" - some kind of TPM/secure enclave etc. built into the computer (most likely a laptop/phone), possibly integrated with a fingerprint scanner. The expectation is that sites will let you register more than one credential (like many (most?) do for U2F), so you can have a keyring device for initial logins on new computers (or for logging in on a friend's computer) and then use a platform credential on each for most daily use. Intel's built-in U2F thing is something to this effect, and might be compatible.

It's also theoretically possible that a phone could expose its platform authenticator to other computers via Bluetooth/NFC/USB, but that's still hypothetical at this point.
Why did I get so many emails from sites regarding Privacy Policy changes today?
Prokaryotes and single celled eukaryotes are very, very different. Like a billion years of evolutionary history different, 4-5 orders of magnitude in size different, different chromosomal structure different, and lots of complex cellular machinery different.
All of my favorite games ever are the 2D-era RPGs that I didn't play when I was young: Fallout 2, Chrono Trigger, Zelda Link to the Past. While CT and Zelda are relatively polished, Fallout 2 stands out as a piece of programming crap: buggy and crashes every so often, contents were cut left and right -- but boy, do I love that game. I feel like 30% of the contents were cut in the final version.

Thankfully that game has an incredible amount of people who love it, and it must be known to most people who play Fallout 2 by now: the "recommended" way to play Fallout 2 was to install the Restoration Patch. It restores all the cut contents back, and makes the game feel way more completed. Fallout 2 RP is one of the best examples of community patches I have seen.
Here is a completely standalone (no server required) and self-contained (no dependencies) FIDO U2F test:

https://github.com/rongarret/u2f-test
>But it is really more easily navigable by people who are savvy.

Not really. I know plenty of 7-8 figure sellers that have the exact same issues all day long.

Hell, pharmapacks, biggest amazon seller by number of feedback, publicly talked about the same issues in their inc profile 2 years ago https://www.inc.com/magazine/201603/burt-helm/pharmapacks-am...

>But Vagenas's desk is constantly cluttered with products that have caused problems. Each day, the Seller Support group takes down one or more Pharmapacks listings without warning because of customer complaints.

They're savvy, yes, but they have a ton of issues just like every other big seller.
Linux the kernel is used by various different operating systems.
This is awesome, and could be a fun project for introductory students. It gives practice with:

- Extracting digits from numbers (easily done with a few function calls in Python, or some math)

- Calculating frequency of a known set of items in a sequence

- Some application of simple mathematical formulas[1]

I wouldn't mind trying this at some point...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Statistical_te...
This is a list of what you can do for application security with Nginx (mostly with open source tools):
https://github.com/wallarm/awesome-nginx-security

My talk from Nginx conference:
https://www.nginx.com/blog/build-application-security-shield...

Important note. Care about vulnerabilities. Not about attacks. Buy Burp license. Run appsec training for all of your developers; it's easy while you're small.

Disclaimer: I am a co-founder of Wallarm mentioned in preso.
Standalone (no-server, no dependencies) test code for FIDO U2F tokens
If you think about it, conversation is just a loosely defined API with an extremely high degree of tolerance for poorly formed input.
My guess is that their voiceover guy had an exclusivity agreement with the other company.

He could live in a jurisdiction that enforces non-compete agreements, or he could have been currently employed by the competitor with a full-employment clause in it.
I've looked into Buddhism generally and come to the conclusion that, while it provides about as useful a framework for living well as Stoicism, it's a more complete religious system than I'm interested in. I don't want to treat Buddhism like a buffet and then call myself a Buddhist. Stoic physics, for a contrasting example, are taken literally by no one and can be safely left out of the daily practice of Stoicism (though pneuma and logos are often useful as metaphors).
I had the general impression B-52s were some of the largest airplanes as well, but when I looked up the stats on Wikipedia it turned out they are quite a bit smaller than large passenger/cargo jets today.
Could you please tell me how I am supposed to disable this app? https://i.k8r.eu/q-NmHw Or this? https://i.k8r.eu/3K7idw

I can’t even disable this Google bloatware on a stock phone (Nexus 5X)
> You are excited that google is going to continue to monitor and spy on their users?

No of course not. I'd rather they didn't spy on anyone.

> Why should everyone adhere to your "wellbeing"?

I don't want everyone to adhere to my definition of wellbeing. I am simply happy that Google are developing tools that I believe will help me personally. This has nothing to do with my expectations for everyone else.

> Are you incapable of just going to sleep? Do you really need a cronjob to shutdown your laptop?

Yes.

> Why do you assume that your lack of self control projects to everyone else?

I don't.

> Instead of looking to google or tech companies, why don't you develop self-control? Do you leave your TV on and then complain that broadcasters aren't coming to your home and turning it off for you?

Believe me I've tried. I meditate, I see a therapist, I get help from my social group, I have hobbies and relationships to occupy me. That doesn't mean I am not also addicted technology.

> People like you scare me because you have a tyrannical mindset. The "everyone must be like me or they should all be forced to be like me" mindset.

This is such a bizarre conclusion to me. Firstly, I don't really care what Google provide for anyone but me. I think this is exciting because I think I will find it useful. I haven't said anything about how I think it will cure societies ills or anything regarding how it will affect anyone but myself. Secondly, you realise that up until now Google's algorithms are tuned very specifically to increase the time you spend using their products. They use all kinds of psychological tricks to bypass your normal self control. The best thing Google could do for me is to stop using these tricks but unfortunately, that would probably cost them a lot of money. Instead, here they are providing help for people like me who need it while not changing the experience of their services for the rest. I don't see why it's tyrannical to want the services I choose to use to have the features I want in them.
Have you found good alternatives? The friction of typing in credit card/shipping details on various websites (with sometimes questionable security) has kept me on Amazon. Shopify and Stripe are moving in the right direction with their "Remember Me" option that works across stores.
> If you want to do WiFi Geolocation, you now need to use Google Play Services.

This was always using Google's proprietary data, even in the G1 days. They split it out into Play Services, so Chinese phones using another provider would be possible.

> If you want to use background notifications, you now need to use Google Play Services.

Background notifications weren't even possible on the G1 when it launched. When background notifications were first made available, they used a Google service and were never part of AOSP for that reason. Chinese phones use other push services inside the firewall.

> If you want to use shared library of openssl, you now need to use Google Play Services.

This is because Google now updates that library for security. If someone else updates the shared library (because you're in China, for example), you can call that version. Or you can just bundle the library in your app.

> By now you can’t access the stepcounter, or movement data.

None of those existed on the G1 and are simply sensor fusion implementations on the open sensor APIs.

> Hell, you can’t even use the latest OpenGL without proprietary libraries.

Yes, you can. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/opengl

You need to understand the difference between the platform and the services that Google provides on top of it.
It's exhausting just keeping up with the thoughts that I do know about. I'm perfectly happy to let my autonomous systems keep doing their autonomous things and only demanding my attention when something requires higher-level intervention, just as they've evolved to do.
You can install GalliumOS [1] on a Chromebook for a full Debian-based Linux experience. I dual boot mine for certain apps I can't run under ChromeOS, but I'll be perfectly happy to stay in Chrome land once this Linux app thing gets pushed out to my chrmebook. For the most part, I'm doing heavy lifting on other machines I remote log into (graphical or shell). I've got LXC and KVM scripts [2] to spin up virtual Windows, MacOS, or Linux machines as dev environments on any Linux host, and then connect using ssh, x2go, or Chrome Remote Desktop. With this setup, I can comfortably do without a beefy laptop, and don't need to worry about taking proprietary/sensitive data through an airport.

[1] https://galliumos.org/

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/virtual-builders
'Broken' should be read as people not having great relationships and mental health as once people used to have; families falling apart, couples divorcing, more single-parent families, less people marrying, much higher depression rates, high suicide rates, people reporting not having any friends, lots more people shutting in. Note that I am talking about several modern societies at once, Asian and Western societies.
Social networks have already violated the spirit of GDPR