skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> nudge users toward some mutually beneficial state

How do you agree on that ? Because that's currently missing in most selling processes that use manipulation - that's exactly why manipulation is used in the first place.
He’s an outlaw for having stolen highly sensitive classified info much of which was unrelated to domestic surveillance. He doused gasoline and lit a match over a good portion of our secret military ops.
If demand existed SpaceX said they would make larger fairings.
haha not trying to define what being a man is! But, if you've ever used a cologne, you might find we're a cheaper, better, easier, all-encompassing solution =)
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'Fallout Shelter' studio sues 'Westworld' publishers for cloning iPhone game
If you would like some help, feel free to email the address in my profile. A current client of mine is a software company which provides an e-commerce store builder used by thousands of entrepreneurs and online marketers. Performance is my top focus for them.
I've found fake vanilla extract to be indistinguishable in all cooking, and far cheaper. I'm far more worried about the world's coffee supplies. :/
Wow “chip guy” is understatement of the year. I just looked up vathys.ai from your profile. Very excited to see what comes from that! My personal focus is in embedded computing (Arduino/Pi), and seeing all of these amazing AI-focused chip startups makes me really excited for the days once SBCs can handle heavy-duty machine learning - THEN we’ll get to see the future we were promised in the 90’s!
It's been posted before: http://www.bzarg.com/p/how-to-pronounce-hexadecimal/
> Ubuntu and Gnome handles doubled resolution just fine, much like the retina MacBooks.

Not if you have a secondary monitor that doesn't need doubled, e.g. laptop built-in 4k with a 1920x1080 external. As far as I know this is an X problem.
People praise Slack search so much but I've found it to be just awful. Maybe it's because my Slack organization has tens of thousands of people in it with thousands of channels, but if I don't know the person who said the thing, it's going to be impossible to find.

A simple "only search in channels I am a member of and don't have muted" would go a long way towards making Slack search better. As is, I wouldn't call Slack search great or even good as I often hear from other people. I would just merely say that Slack does have search, just as a statement of fact. And then I would change the subject.
Migrant suggest some sort of ongoing movement. "Migrant labour" is people who move back and forth chasing work, often inside a single country. An expatriate is someone living in a semi-permanent state outside their home country.

I'd describe someone moving from one part of the US to another on a seasonal basis, someone chasing farm work, as a migrant. I'd call a canadian working for a period of year at a US firm an expatriate. The former is under a continual state of movement that the later is not.
The advantage Apple had was owning the hardware, you don't need fractional scaling if you don't offer any hardware with fractional scaling.

Windows has been getting better but it's still not brilliant, even with resolution independent frameworks like WPF there are a ton of issues.

Ubuntu/Gnome was completely broken for me when I tried it last year. KDE was the best of the desktops but still not as good as MacOS.
A very good point, we're never going to try to price compete with Tide (although our 16oz is concentrated and holds 32 loads). It's a large, and quickly growing market. Consider the size of the premium cologne market- we're just a better, cheaper, all-encompassing solution!
Ahh yes, price dumping, one of the big forces behind "disruption" see: Uber, Lyft, any number of startups growing by losing money, and one of the main anti-competitive forces the government has no desire in addressing. Don't have billions in investor money to lose? You can't play.

edit. bring on the downvotes bootlickers, "valid strategy" my ass
Many scientists and academics immigrated to the US because of its values: it was a free country and a multicultural country where immigrants are welcomed. The knowledge drain moved smart people to a free country to build a knowledge economy. (Economists too: the Bretton Woods system was built in part by smart people who fled the autocratic or fascist countries). That system of free exchange between stable democracies with social safety nets kept peace in the world for 50 years.

Not sure this brain drain has equal intentions for rule of law and democratic societies.
When a language says ARM like that, they mean the ARM that runs your phone. Not the ARMs that run your Fitbit.
While this is an important decision, Chief Roberts' time to prove his balance and foresight as a justice was with Citizens United. His court's legacy died with that decision. If it weren't for the archaic archival privacy rules around Justice Sutter's dissent after his retirement we would all be able to read an insider's proclamation of the court's mockery and decline of the institution.
Illinois law is tough on citizens who "eavesdrop."

The fact that Illinois traditionally has some of the most corrupt politicians (and, some might argue, school officials) in the country has absolutely no correlation to tough laws on recording conversations, I'm sure.
And how long before 5G hits most of their markets?
>If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? But the evidence is to the contrary.

This article makes its point from the book "Zoned Out" (2005.) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the argument is that zoning policies make suburban sprawl, not free markets. They argue that if zoning restrictions were lifted and development responded to free market forces, higher density housing would result and more people would prefer that to sprawl.

I think that might be true - moderately. You might get a relative increase of higher-density housing.

But I think sprawl just represents a long tail of real preferences among the population. It may be relative price, it may be having a yard, it may be the suburban school districts, it can be all kinds of things. And yeah, if people had control, the suburbs wouldn't sprawl forever. It would be just their nice suburban neighborhood and everybody else could be jammed into the city.
Put your investment hat on.
Frey has comps with dollar shave club ($1bn exit) Clorox ($CLX) and are focused on one of the fastest growing consumer segments - men’s home and body care. If YC was just a tech accelerator, sure this would be odd. However they’re expanding their focus, and if Frey lads get it right, they have a captive customer base where they can produce a whole army of new products as first movers in an “emerging” market. Just looks at spend in Asian men’s body care markets/consumer spending.
Yes please.

I have Contact dermatitis, and there are irritants that trigger a negative reaction with my skin in several common soaps and detergents. It would be very valuable for me to know what compounds are in soaps and detergents so I can identify what specific compounds trigger a reaction by monitoring my exposure and symptoms. Right now the best I can do is say "I've had symptoms while using products [product array] so I should avoid them." This makes trying new products risky. I would much rather know what are in different soaps so I can begin to tract the exact irritants. This would enable me to try different products. Medicines and food require very detailed ingredient lists. It's absurd that products like laundry detergents, soaps, and shampoos that come into close contact with skin do not, because they are important for health and are absorbed by the body.
I was referring to the Friedman thing. While he was stupid enough to frame his rule as an absolute (thus it has been violated), the reality is that McDonalds is in 119 countries and the number of wars between those countries over the past 50 years can be counted using your fingers.

That was just an example, though. My main point is that the peoples and nations of the world, given the opportunity, overwhelmingly prefer to pursue relationships of peaceful mutual benefit, rather than military threat. The purpose of a military is merely to preserve or restore that opportunity.

The notion that trade has a negative correlation with war is a well-accepted concept in international relations, and one of the reasons national governments exert themselves to grow international economic relationships.
See some of our above comments! Not trying to define masculinity, but if you've ever used cologne, you might find you love us- a cheaper, better, more all-encompassing solution =)
You are thinking of Silk Road.
It's one thing to say that people in positions of power, on average, have not directly experienced the harassment or abuse that minorities or people belonging to marginalized groups have. That's fair and may account for some level of ignorance on their part. It is another to say that they _do not care about these things_ specifically because they are a member of a certain class/race/gender/whatever.

It's an important distinction as it sets the parameters by which we engage in conversation and debate. If you begin the conversation by accusing the other side of being inherently bigoted then there is no civil or useful exchange of ideas to be had. It puts the other side in a defensive posture from the get go and only leads to more tribal group-think.
No, I just plucked a figure out of my backside.
IRC is a protocol.
> although our 16oz is concentrated and holds 32 loads

I'm sure you're aware Tide is concentrated and suitable for far more loads than they claim on the bottle. You do definitely have the honest angle going for you on that bit though.
eLua is dead though. Shot itself by trying to be a C replacement. If an embedded Lang for embedded micro has system headers to allow you to stay in the embedded Lang - it’s not going anywhere.
It's really not a fine line. Narcotic dissemination is a major problem and there are justifiable reasons for tracking them, but I don't believe that tracking forces an individual to justify a decision between their doctor and themselves to the gov't. The justices did say there could be justifiable reasons limitations on abortions as well, just that it is very difficult to enumerate because politicians are not doctors.
Maybe he meant you don't end up with a number with infinite digits?

10/4 = 2.5

vs.

10/3 = 3.33333...
All good, sorry if we're being too harsh it's just a bit hard to grasp where you're coming from when staring from the outside.
It's not just you, I read it about a year ago after all these years of hearing its praises. Clearly it was pioneering work that influenced many science fiction movies/books/games, but it was an atrocious read. There isn't many books where I've had to force myself to as you put it, slog my way to the end. I also thought Snowcrash was awful though, with that terrible third person narrative and amateur writing style.
Oh man. The description of how IRC has impacted his life really hits me. I've been using IRC since I was in middle school, I've made and lost friends there, I've learned to program, I've helped others, I've grown as a person. It pains me to watch it fade as we move to platforms like reddit or discord.

https://xkcd.com/1782/
I think like this too. Would only like to add that I believe a type parameter is *variant in relation to a function/method, not just by itself. That's why some people say "appears in a covariant position " and so on.
Wait, so equity share dictates consensus? In my 20 years of working in startups, I haven't seen a relationship between share ownership and board control (other than chairman) and the company executives.

If all the shareholders are employees and the CEO has a minority share and the other employees have a majority, then they can force the CEO out fairly easily. That kept things civil, in our case.

Just because everyone has an equal share doesn't mean the CEO needs to build consensus.

Again, you are right, to a degree, but even if all employee founders were fired, they could band together, in the situation being discussed, and toss the CEO. That changes the psychology of the situation.
I was taught basic counting, addition, and subtraction using a finger-abacus system called Chisanbop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop

Now I'm plagued by off-by-one errors in my mental math, particularly when it comes to intervals. If you ask me how many days there are between now and Christmas, I will be uncertain about the answer unless I individually count them all off on my fingers.
Losing communication is a pain, you'd have a couple of weeks of pain while you moved to using email or IRC or phone or whatever.

What happens if AWS gets hacked by Russia? Or use your stuff for their own purposes? How many people -- especially startups -- throw all their eggs in the AWS basket, rather than building a system that runs across multiple VPSes from multiple providers.
I would question the double standard-ness of anyone objecting to military space launches.

GPS, for example, is a DoD program, operated by the USAF. Are they going to stop using GPS in protest?
Again, not sure why this is getting downvoted. He was a publicist with a terrible secret that, when exposed, led to the destruction of his reputation, his business, and ultimately very likely contributed to his death.
Mmmmmhh craft beers... But hey, if you are a guy that appreciates your scent then give us a go! You will not be disappointed! Thank you for your opinion :)
California housing about 100 immigrant children separated from parents at border
It would be surprising if they have not been using machine learning for a long time.
Facebook has somehow figured out that one of my profiles is directly tied to some of my credit card activity.

I wasn't being entirely careful about locking things down. And now I get some extremely specific ads, relating to a 30 day rolling window of recent purchases.

I'm trying to think of the best ways to poison and destroy this linkage, that was established some time after September. It may indeed be true that I just have to totally disconnect.

On some level, this is regrettable, only because Facebook absolutely monopolizes access to the updates some people choose to publicize for themselves, since those people know no other way to broadcast important information.

Mostly, these people are not geeks with technical fetishes. They don't have the slightest inkling about packets, ports, sockets, protocols. They don't understand that an iPhone does have a root file system. So facebook is it, and no distributed immitation cheese or diet margarine will replace their coca-cola brand social media.

What to do?
I don't know of any systematic studies, but the balance of available evidence is that warrant approval rates are very high:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/08/10/...
But they won't "encode" HEVC. They are only offering AVC, VP9 and very likely AV1. With any 4K or 2K+ content only available in VP9 / AV1.

The battle between AV1 and HEVC is not set. And so is the battle between HEIF and AVIF. HEVC have the upper hand right now. But that doesn't mean it has already won. iPhone does allow auto convert to Jpeg for compatibility reason.

So if you cant guarantee HEVC licensing issues revolved, and not having Google on board, HEIC will just be another internal format being used by Apple and Apple only. No Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Android support. ( Although Microsoft seems to be on board )
> I think you are missing the reason people got upset. ... They provide an option in the channel mgmt UI to turn off ads, and they changed their minds without any warning. Had they given blender a month or 2 to change this setting, I expect people would have been less upset.

Less upset likely, but still upset. My interpretation of most the comments I saw is that the immediacy spurred them to post their feelings, but their feelings seemed heavily weighted towards being upset by Google taking any action at all.

I think people are too caught up in it being a big company and an open source project. Really, it's just two parties, and if you can't substitute other examples and come to the same conclusion, there needs to be an examination of specifically what makes it different, and whether that's valid. If I colocated a server and had fairly cheap bandwidth costs and agreed to host someone's videos for free, if I then decided a year later that this is costing me far too much, how much time am I required to give that person before disabling the serving of the videos? Every moment they are still up costs me real money, and the other party has paid nothing, ever. I can be nice and give them some time, but my niceness costs me money. Should I feel bad for disabling hosting immediately? Presumably, if it was really important, they have a backup method for serving and weren't basing everything on some ad-hoc free service, right?

I would feel perfectly fine disabling hosting immediately for them. Why should I expect differently of Youtube?

> If it's such a problem for them, then why do they offer the option to disable ads in the first place?

Maybe for 99.999% of channels exposure and bandwidth aren't large enough to really matter, but they want to police that 0.001% and either move them towards being profitable (or closer to break-even), or get them off the platform? The correct way to handle a subgroup that small (or smaller even) may well be to change their behavior or get rid of them. The overhead of making special accounts types and keeping track of any special behavior they require as development goes on and any bugs that might produce could very well outweigh the benefits of that account type existing.

The truth is, there's no reason to expect Youtube will, or should continue any behavior they do today tomorrow, much less a year or more in the future, unless you're paying them on some contract which ensures this.
Sorry but this is true. Content is controlled by what are likely deterministic algorithms fed from the actions of end users. Users therefore can and do “own” the content.
I wonder if he actually tried it. I always thought the same about PR's for internal process, until I actually tried it. It made working with feature branches much more convenient.

I mainly use it to test if features meet their functional description before merging, but also reviewing the code at the same time does help to spot subtle misunderstandings in the requirements.

I also disagree that it would hold back development of inexperienced members of the team. Having the structure with PRs allows them to work on things that they otherwise may not have been trusted with yet to work on at all.
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As a routine user of IRC: This scares – nay, terrifies – me.

London Trust Media is colossal. They seem to have control over freenode and Snoonet, two networks basically unchallenged in their niche. Snoonet hasn't been doing so well since Discord, but that's another story. They also seem to own Private Internet Access. If a player becomes too big, they'll change the rules of the game. Just look at the state of Internet advertising: A few corporations probably know a lot more about most better than you wish they did.

Re "IRC University": Practically every non-trivial network has its own software stack of some sort. Trying to teach people every kind of IRCd/services combination is more or less doomed to fail. Mainly because people usually just don't want to know.

Re "IRC Ventures": There's no money to be made on IRC, at least in its current form. Slack, Discord, etc. gained traction because IRC is fundamentally inaccessible. It does not meet any of the common needs of today: server-side storage of history, mobile-friendly data usage and session management, built-in uploading, profiles and profile pictures, first class support for emoji. Though whether addressing them is correct is another story. However, these would all need to be addressed to try and make IRC competitive on any kind of market. The IRCv3 team, which does have a decently broad amount of adoption, has had issues pushing through much more trivial issues. Hell, we don't even have everybody on the same page about TLS – QuakeNet and UnderNet are still plaintext only. QuakeNet undeniably intentionally so[1].

Mark me highly skeptical of this undertaking.

[1] https://www.quakenet.org/articles/99-trust-is-not-transitive...

EDIT: Seems I misunderstood some points, see also neatnosleep's response to this comment.
Meh. I'm still waiting for the triumphant return of the pets.com puppet.
If the car was expected to have software that was foolproof, why hire and pay a driver at all?
For anyone wondering, yes, this is basically a Koch Foundation editorial.
Many gulf countries don’t grant permanent residency or citizenship even if one is born there to legal migrants. So they are expats
Parity is one solution.

"Total surveillance is the perfection of democracy."

> The true horror of technological omniscience is that it shall force us for once to live according to our own rules. For the first time in history we shall have to do without hypocrisy and privilege. The new equilibrium will not involve tilting at the windmills of ubiquitous sensors and processing power but rather learning what explicit rules we can actually live by, finding, in effect, the real shape of human society.

Parity of information is the difference between Star Trek and North Korea.
Read the book for the first time last year. I heard from some people that it hadn't aged too well—that it should be viewed as more of a precursor to things like Snowcrash—but I really loved it. In particular, the language used to describe drug states and events in cyberspace (such as the Kuang virus) was just so vivid and disorienting. (Or I guess "hypnagogic", to use a Gibsonian word.) A less talented author would have made it feel rote and computery, whereas this cyberspace felt more like a collective fever dream. And what brilliant world-building! Every page had something strange, intense, and new, from "the long pulse of Zion dub" to resuscitated memories of dead men to the beehive of the Tessier-Ashpool compound. Few works are able to create that all-encompassing sense of weirdness, where every strange thing builds on the previous one while somehow keeping the reader focused on the story. (Last book to successfully do that to me was the Saga series.)

It was fascinating to realize just how much of our culture is indebted to Neuromancer. So many games and movies use scenes or characters taken wholesale from the pages.

Now if only somebody would do a TV adaptation of the original!

(As an aside: after finishing the book, I really enjoyed this artist's take on the characters. It was uncannily close to what I was already picturing in my head: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Qo4Z8)
And you refusing to accept my reframing as valid intentionally digs this hole deeper. This is a perpetual problem where one group feels unheard, unserved, left out, etc and then they complain about that and then are told their complaints aren't valid because they said them in a not nice enough fashion or something.

Both sides need to give a little here if we aren't going to remain stuck on such topics. And expecting all that giving to come from women, people of color, and other underprivileged groups is merely entrenching white male privilege in a really ugly, toxic manner.
If you are going down the unequal route, I recommend an approach like this. We used a spreadsheet with weighted buckets. This forced us to define the weights as well as our respective contributions and overall made the process transparent.
I wonder if there is a case to be made here that there is implied consent by working in a building that monitors its occupants. The article says that the "public areas" are video recorded, so staff know that they will be recorded throughout the day. Also, does the school need consent on file for all students as well?
Supreme Court ruling heralds the end of USA inter-state sales tax exemptions