skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like that, in my experience at least. I can do amazing things in 6 weeks, but it involves eating, breathing, and sleeping the system/problem/project. It turns out there are 1000 hours in 6 weeks (including sleep time), and if you have the problem loaded into your brain as its 'default mode network', then it takes over and you can get massive cross-functional efficiencies (including dreaming up solutions in your sleep). Working the equivalent for 2 hours/day would take years and does not generate anywhere close to the kind of energy or output that the parent is referring to.
The analog loophole. If I can access the resources from my local device. The odds are I can get a copy of it without the protections on it.
> [...] the actual change can happen on the "client servers" at any point within next 20 minutes. [...] What if you want to switch over your web servers at a specific moment?

You don't. Configuration management is a wrong operation mode for
a synchronous change. Still, you could order all your Puppet agents to run
their scheduled operation now instead of leaving it waiting for its time.
Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia
OptiML: The Nitty Gritty
Interesting, I've been looking for a small computer that would make a good HTPC, and I thought the Skull Canyon NUC might be a good choice. I sort of assumed that that form factor would always be fanless.
> I have yet to meet anyone who has changed their opinion on the legality of ICOs as a result of the SEC statements

Sure, but there is a difference between “I had a different interpretation of the law when I issued securities” and “I blatantly violated SEC guidance.” The latter is easier to prosecute and litigate.
A newcomer could be bigger. Lots of money looking for high margin businesses to operate in.
This of course assumed you installed it directly from Github as that is the code you reviewed. Otherwise, yes, that is a valid concern.
> Bill Gates will go down as the person who saved more human lives in a systematic and deliberate way than any other human in history

There's nothing special about doing it in a systematic and deliberate way. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor taught the Chinese to practice agriculture. In terms of contribution to human life, this would dwarf anything Bill Gates could ever accomplish.

In reality, of course, agriculture arose in an unorganized way, but does that make it less significant?
There's no question its going to pop - the question is when. It could be tomorrow, or it could be 5 years from now. Certainly central banks are going to do everything in their power to prop up the markets with continued equity and bond purchasing to delay the inevitable as long as possible - which will make the pop that much louder when it does come to pass.

Free markets are based on price discovery. Central bank purchasing destroys price discovery by artificially creating demand. Its simply a matter of basic logic. Either central banks end their purchasing and demand falls to its organic level, or they continue to accelerate their purchases and increase the artificial disparity. In addition, as the share of markets owned by central banks increases the liquidity of markets decreases, meaning that when there is a crash those running for the exit will find the door much smaller.
> it's based on a kind of maths called "promise theory"

Promise theory is not math, despite its name. It doesn't predict anything, it
doesn't explain any phenomena. It's an architectural approach. Brilliant, led
to a really great software (CFEngine), but it's not "maths".
for instance, just found today that GitHub code reviews require the Referer header to allow PR comments. Without the Referer header, GH returns `422 Unprocessable Entity`
blessed are the cheesemakers
EFF to New York Appellate Court: No Warrantless Searches of Devices at Border
New in Firefox 61: Developer Edition
Does turning the phone off actually turn the baseband off though?

How could we possibly tell?
I'm guessing s/he meant IZat: https://www.qualcomm.com/products/izat
Missing, among possibly others, coremetrics tracking tags (cm_mmc)
Do you think twofactorauth.org would be willing to list the regional Amazon websites separately so that your extension can pick them up automatically?
I think the ACLU did a report a while back and Cricket Wireless was the best largeish cell phone provider.

Provider comparison: https://privacysos.org/blog/how-long-does-my-phone-company-s...

Study details: https://privacysos.org/blog/att-stores-either-five-or-twenty...
Salesforce-hosted data can be largely exempted from GDPR because Article 17 allows for the retention of customer billing and accounting data (which are often stored in Salesforce CRM and ERP back office system).
I catch myself often wanting to behave more eccentric, but then somehow societal laws keep pulling me back. I wish I had the guts (like Steve had) to be blunt to anyone
I wouldn’t even call it arbitrage. There is usually some gain in the difference in price with an arbitrage
Amazon makes weird non-GAAP claims. In terms of GAAP, Amazon had negative free cash flow of $4.2 billion in Q1.
There's a key flaw in the wording that might lead to confusion if trying to explain this to someone new to investing.

Amazon stopped making /losses/ rather quickly. They /invested/ in the health of their business and future opportunities instead of delivering profits to outside investors.

Arguably, a better structure for incorporation does exactly that; it provides benefits to it's employees and the community it serves.
It's always been an arms race and nations and companies have always strategically opened themselves up to acquire knowledge.

When Germany was trying to catch up to the industrialised UK, they send business people to the UK to copy the layout of factory floors to reimplement them at home. For the longest time, Japan only allowed trade under restrictive conditions to maximise exposure to foreign technologies while minimising the impact of foreigners in Japan. It's a story as old as history and I honestly don't get why people are upset about it.

It's even beneficial for the ecosystem overall because it helps transmitting knowledge and technology from advanced to disadvantaged regions, which in turn accelerates production and development.
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You are pretending that there aren't circumstances that have an observed relation to systematic deviations from median election results that people can observe to understand that a wave election is more likely to happen in a particular election.
I'm not a foreigner and I think the comment you're responding to is spot on.

Are we just supposed to pretend that all issues are equal? People aren't going to die because the nets aren't neutral. People are going to die based on our health care policy, whether we go to war, whether we can prevent nuclear proliferation.

The author of the comment you call patronizing made no statement on whether or not he's happy that people are involved in the political process. I know I'm happy about it, but I also think single issue voting on net neutrality is stupid. These views are not linked.

In summary, net neutrality is important but there are more important issues in America at the moment. It's not patronizing to point that out.
While Linux-libre is the default for Guix there are no limitations in place that would keep you from using vanilla Linux. In fact, Guix makes it extremely easy to build custom packages, and that includes custom kernel packages.

You can augment the package collection that comes with Guix with a simple environment variable, so the insistence on software libre on the side of the project should not represent a technical hurdle.
As much as this story is fascinating, "her" impact is actually non-existent. The cells of the HeLa line come from a routine biopsy; she had no knowledge and no part whatsoever in anything that was possible thanks to the cells line that was taken from her.
> But for the other platforms, autotools definitely can do what you ask

Ugg... autotools. Yeah, lets use what feel like build tools created way back in the 60's or something. Sure they "work" for some value of "work" but oh boy are they ugly and nasty. Good luck hiring anybody under the age of 40 who is gonna be willing to work on such a clunky old tool.

There is a reason why the world is moving to build systems that replace the Make toolchain.
Republicans are reprehensible? By your logic we can never make any progress unless citizens vote for a platform perfectly aligned with their own values. That degenerates to everyone voting for themselves.

IMO absolutist stances like this miss the entire point of politics which is to strike compromise in the face of disperate ideologies. Sure the two party system is broken, but the way to make progress is to focus on relevant issues one at a time instead of the entire platform.
Downloading a webpage and returning a snippet of it via API isn't greyhat work, just like building a search engine isn't greyhat work. Processing public websites is white hat work, and very common too! If a business wants to restrict access, they can take down their website.
I have never treated "C/C++" as the name of a single language. I always read it as "C and/or C++".
There's still a bit of bash hiding in the git commands if I remember correctly. That wouldn't be trivial to compile.
This is such a stupid and uninsightful analysis. You can tell just by the terms they use.

A company that isn't profitable isn't necessarily "losing money". Sure the amount of cash on hand can be declining, but if the business is building long-term assets such as a consumer brand, recurring transactions, differentiating IP, etc., that's hardly bad business management.

In order to really understand this you have to look company-by-company at what's really going on with the financials. If someone wants to give away for 75 cents something that costs a dollar, sure, that's a fast lane to bankruptcy. But there are tons of other cases, including aggressive new customer expansion, trying to create winner-take-all network effects, development of core IP, etc. that really will create long-term benefits for their owners.

Using "profit" as a metric is such bullshit. Ask Amazon. They focused on creating as much free cash flow as they could for two decades, and look where they are now. Why someone would insist a company earn an accounting profit, or even worse, pay cash dividends, in an environment with a sub-2% fed funds rate and near-zero returns on cash to investors is silly. I would much rather have a company with 10-15% return on equity "lose my money" than hand it back as relatively useless cash.

tl;dr read Ks and Qs, this stuff isn't amenable to sound bites.
That's like saying, "If we didn't invent the internet, we would have never had privacy issues". OK, so if we didn't rely on containers - would hadoop have had a perfect set of packages for every distribution? Let's say that the packages for Arch linux were broken. What next?

That's the whole problem with the article. It takes a problem (building Hadoop was bad), correlates it to a completely different tool (because we have docker, hadoop build scripts are bad), and goes on to rant about everything else.
Three data points:

Fed Balance Sheet https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
Fed Balance Sheet hasn't been reduced in any meaningful way.

Bank credit: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTBKCR
Bank's have themselves continued increasing the money supply.

Worldwide debt: https://www.iif.com/publication/global-debt-monitor/global-d...
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It is ok for net neutrality to be someone's number 1 issue as long as they recognize that they are likely viewing issues from a position of tremendous privilege.
The mathematician who made the quote I mentioned said that quantum mechanics was just <some branch of mathematics that I’ve forgotten> in dimension 1. I don’t know what quantumn field theory is. If it is a branch of physics then it’s not the theory the mathematician I referred to mentioned. Some mathematicians view mathematics as superior to physics and are dismissive about physics. They tend to believe that since they mastered mathematics then learning physics is easy.
It's not reinvested capital. It's highly leveraged funny money from a decade of ZIRP.

And this isn't really a "tech" problem at this point. The "real" economy is full of huge companies that are barely making any money, but are racking up debt and revenue. This article goes into how the same thing is playing out in the agriculture sector.

http://archive.dailywealth.com/3602/the-real-trouble-with-bi...
> I’ve wasted enough time tinkering with gulp, grunt and webpack to sympathize

And yet, those tools fill a need that would be very hard to replicate with the toolchains that came before it. Good luck doing half of what gulp / webpack do from, say, a Makefile.
Agree.

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OP has a legacy mindset, essentially the only time I talk to a company about their API is when it returns bad data, or is non-functional. Outside of that, I might interact with an account manager at onboarding (due to some companies forcing you to deal with one), and if the API is heavily used, I may reach out and ask 'em if they can go cheaper, while shopping around with other companies offering APIs for said purpose.
In what way is this "straight up trolling."?

High rents, largely caused by a chronic undersupply of housing, absolutely does make it so that less wealthy residents have to spend an inordinate portion of their income to remain in certain metros. And I have seen lots of housing obstructionism pushed under the guise of environmentalism.
Unfortunately, or not, GA makes it very easy to work around this. By default, it will do its UTM parsing serverside these days based on the page URL the webmaster sends to it.

So all I have to do as a webmaster is start using `?aaa_source=foo&aaa_medium=bob`

Then I do `ga(‘send’, ‘pageview’, location.pathname.replace(/aaa/g, ‘utm’)`

A more robust implementation would have to modify the web request to GA itself, assuming the goal is to destroy that data.

EDIT: Upon looking at the actual implementation (`chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest`), the points above should be addressable: the key is to strip out potentially URL-encoded utm values in the requets sent to GA [1], which may be either in the query string or the (beacon) POST payload shipped to google-analytics.com).

i.e. `google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&dp={url-encoded-path-with-utm-values}` should be purged as well.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Isn’t it true that commutative algebra is contained within set theory? Aren’t all the objects sets?
But Rust programs can run anywhere JS can now with web assembly, while the reverse isn't true. JS can only run where there is VM for it.
We are starting up a new web project. I have worked with typed languages my whole career so I am not really fond of JavaScript. We are mostly C# guys so Typescript feels very familiar. What do people think of TypeScript? Is it a good alternative to JavaScript? Our first tests look really good but I wonder if there are any downfalls.
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Very similar concept as the scam Bitair (and many others of course) - https://bitair.io/
I like this idea, it's definitely missing a few major sites though. google.com, facebook.com for example.
Am I the only one that's disappointed that I can't actually buy pied piper coin?
It's like how there's Starbucks coffee shops in Paris and Taco Bell in Mexico.
Qualcomm IZat location services
Lyft Launches Military Ride-Hailing Program at Camp Pendleton
If you find this article interesting look into "The Influential Mind" by Tali Sharot. It was on FT's shortlist for Best of 2017.

The parallel is how the brain is wired, and how that effects perception / belief.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627792653
Is this a joke? What does it mean for a phone to be "native blockchain"? I'm really surprised to see HTC cashing in on the blockchain hype like this.
I mean, that's not exactly an either or thing... For the average voter with a family and career you have:

* Two parties

* Candidates to choose from in those parties with slightly different platforms trying to capture appeal based on big-ticket trending issues

* No one person you could possibly agree with on all things unless you are voting for a hardliner and blindly drink the party koolaid

So I mean really, if your vote is all you can offer and you have no hope of getting someone from your preferred party elected, the next best thing is to try to support your preferred candidate.

I mean, so there are two games going on here. The biggest lie is that politicians have convinced the public that they are in the same fight to get their party in control. Except really you have:

* Politicians trying to get their party in control and stay elected

* Citizens trying to get things they care about addressed, improved, whatev

It's the whole "We won't vote for Hillary 'cause Democrats even though we don't like Trump" problem, but it goes both ways..
Bannon and Cambridge Analytica planned suppression of black voters
>>> This dude owns company that builds an array of products around identifying your users, storing as much information about them as possible

I get where youre coming from and Salesforce does it's share of this, but they aren't Google or Facebook deriving most of their profit from user data.

Their app is used mainly to drive and automate business process in a system that can serve the entire organization. A lot of business (the run the business part) run a very high percentage of their business on Salesforce - including some of the biggest companies in the world.

They make their money from subscriptions, the appExchange, and services.

I'm sure they collect data (and some of their marketing/lead generation software I'm sure collects data), but it might be a little much to say that the entire product is built around collecting user data.

On top of that, Salesforce does a TON to portray themselves as an extremely liberal company - from diversity initiatives and minority outreach to widely marketing their charitable contributions. So at least on the surface they are consistent with their messaging.

Not a shill - just sharing what I know from companies where I've worked that used salesforce in one way or another.
I hear both.

I think there is some recording or audio processing anomaly that is causing the upper harmonics to be overrepresented in the recording. Speaker is saying laurel, but the harmonics sound like yanny. Depending on both the listener's level of hearing loss and the quality of the playback device, they may hear the higher or lower tones more clearly.
They need to drive up adoption somehow, right?
I'm talking on a yearly basis, not a quarterly basis. Due to the seasonal nature of their business, I'm sure the quarterly numbers are more choppy. I think the general point, that they've been able to self-finance this enormous growth (save for some certain real estate purchases or acquisitions), stands.
I answered it already. When the spread changes my bot is the first one to the new best bid / ask.
> Are we just supposed to pretend that all issues are equal? People aren't going to die because the nets aren't neutral.

Probably not very many as a first-order effect, no.

> People are going to die based on our health care policy, whether we go to war, whether we can prevent nuclear proliferation.

And a narrow range of corporations with a fairly tight alignment on policy preferences controlling media access affects long term ability of the public to understand thode issues, organize efforts around them, and achieve positive results.

Which is why a lot wide-view activist organizations that aren't particularly focussed on tech issues have made it a priority, when they do normally focus on the issues you have concerns about make it a priority.
> we don't like each other very much

Hi are you a language?
MonoPerfCap: Human Performance Capture from Monocular Video
Analog computing has a lot of yet unrealized potential for machine learning algorithms.

However, currently it does not make sense to build a specialized analog chip to run specific type of ML algorithms, because algorithms are still being actively developed. I don't see GPUs being replaced by ASICs any time soon. And before you point to something like Google's TPU, the line between such ASICs and latest GPUs such as V100 is blurred.
> Our algorithm works by first identifying a set of powernodes (right now, about 1% of the total nodes). Each of these powernodes is then given the ability to "vote" on whether content is trustworthy or not.

Does this not all but ensure that the status quo will be maintained and reinforced? "The 1%" can create a moat to keep unapproved sources out the realm of "trusted" opinion. Hard to imagine any genuinely dissenting outlets gaining any traction that way. Am I misunderstanding things?
It is not because you say to your congressman that you are a one-issue voter that you really are. Elected officials keep lying about their promises, I don't see why this should be a one-way street.
It makes an impact. If it didn’t, the coal companies wouldn’t care about it in the first place.
The unusual economics of electric vehicles create dirt-cheap deals
Also, if you look at the bleak bleak picture of Blue Apron's stock price since IPO, them going bankrupt wouldn't even be close to shocking.
People can easily switch to another social video app, too. Instagram Stories stunted Snap pretty heavily.
You got it exactly right.

What is beautiful with this is that whatever happens next year, the "winning" camps will say that they knew this would happen.

It is a game of Statistics and chance at this point. Both outcomes are possible, but once the outcome is clear, the ones that got it right will dismiss it is based on luck and chance at this point.
The point is that emotional need should not be a factor in deciding whether to take a bet. If everything else makes sense, go for it. Otherwise likely your judgment is clouded.

This is another reason why scratching your own itch is important.
The only reason we need regulations to stop ISPs from banning things is because there isn’t enough competition to make it happen naturally. This is not the case with ports.
> as well as a few European countries who have adopted this scheme.

Do you have examples of which countries that have implemented something similar? I recall reading about this in the past, and I would like to read more about it, but I can't think off the top of my head which countries I might have read about.
I use to glorify traveling around the world. I would dream about it from my corporate job. Then an opportunity arose to travel while working for two months. I did that and had a great time. But then I realized I don’t really care about traveling the world, two months was enough. And so I was lucky I didn’t quit my job and do that. Most likely you need to fix how you currently live, not in a drastic move to another country way, but get a new job, new apartment and new friends.
Taken to its logical full extent you might as well build a SCIF. Intelligence agency standard for facility that can handle air gapped SECRET and Top Secret data. If you look at the office park directly west of fort Meade, MD, some of those have SCIFs inside them. Not cheap.
I was under the impression that i3 were the weaker dies, where for any reason there were some defect on some part if the cache they would disable it and sell it as i3. I don't know if this is true or not, but in any case is there anything to read in the fact that i3 would be released before i5 and i7?
What are some examples of ICOs that are not illegal securities offerings?
Project page:
http://gvv.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/wxu/MonoPerfCap/
It will be removal of competition for their fiat disguised as environmental concern.