skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By their statements, Republicans like Ryan say they want to save health care and social security for all. But by their actions, they just want to kill those things. As far as I see, they never work on the replacements. Like the dozens of votes to kill Obama care. Please also spend time on doing the new thing. You control the house, senate, and white house. You can pass legislation now. Just negotiate with 8 democrats in the senate and you can pass anything. But they don't, because they don't really want to replace these things.
Repo of banned plugin https://github.com/revolucaodosbytes/ahoy-chrome

How to install plugins in Chrome without going through app store https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-install-chrome-extensions...
"Later I learned that taurine transpoters can also transport GABA and I suspect that this might have something to do with it"

Can you clarify this? Phenibut affects GABA but above you said, taurine transporters can also transport GABA so I am not sure what you mean. Are you saying that Phenibut might hijack the taurine transporters so they cannot be used for Taurine? I have taken Zolpidem (which affects GABA) for sleep off and on for long periods but I am pretty sure I had this strain even when off it for 6 months or so so not super hopeful. Do I need to supplement Taurine then or is there some test for it in the retina you can have done? If it's permanent as you say that's not hopeful.

However once again, and I know you said it was weirdly spcific, but since this only happens on LED backlit displays I find it hard to believe it's something like that since that should affect other visual things.
Sounds extremely similar to the M&M test.
Potentially - it could almost be used, a la Blade Runner, as a test for psychopathic tendencies. Of course, right now the bot has no consciousness, so turning it off is clearly not sadistic, but ignoring pleas for help in other contexts clearly is.
Meat per se is awesome, many people living on only meat are quite slim, but sadly man Americans idea of meat is actually fried breaded corn with condiment levels of meat mixed in.

Even "chicken nuggets" are < 40% meat. They should really be called bread nuggets or something.

> high fat and high carb foods.

> and since meat is as cheap or cheaper than vegetables

I take issue lumping a lot of these things. Vegetables are not a significant source of calories in almost any diet by their nature, except vegetables like corn, potatoes, etc, which are definitely not helping Americans.

Americans do not need starchy vegetables. They need eggs, meat (real meat!), cheese, quality yogurt like skyr, butter. Calorie dense, fatty food. Not bread and corn and rice, no matter the vegetables its paired with. If they ate well in the first place, whatever veggies they pair it with are rounding errors and I think a huge canard in dietary discussions.
Who is this argument trying to kid? Gab is a white supremacist message board. I just reloaded the site 3 times, and got alt-right memes on all 3 loads. The only reason anyone is having a hard time seeing this now is that Gab is dying, and half the posts are innocuous bot content they inject to make it look like the site has activity. Like I said across the thread: even the white supremacists are giving up on the place.

Are you really maintaining a Gab account? Why? You could also wear a swastika armband on the same premise: "I'm demonstrating my right to wear what I want, without being coerced by society". Sure, man. But also you're a dude wearing a swastika armband. Reconsider.
I'm sorry those guys don't know how to build a working system...
I really disagree with the thesis of this article, namely, that the decreasing number of humanities majors at elite schools is reflective of overall cultural decline.

It's not because of cultural decline, it's because there's been a leveling of the playing field wherein competition has gotten a lot fiercer on two fronts: it's generally harder to get into elite colleges, and top-tier employers look at a broader range of schools than they used to. Put another way, being born into a wealthy family, attending Suburb Country Day and then spending a few years at boarding school is less of a tailwind for getting into Harvard than it used to be; and also, going to Harvard is less of a tailwind for getting a top-tier job than it used to be. So, the applicant pool to Harvard is less wealthy and more scrappy and pragmatic; and also, students once at Harvard make more practical decisions with regard to what they choose to study.

To give an example of an industry I know firsthand, as a (relatively) recent Goldman IBD alum I can tell you that there's been a profound shift in analyst recruiting over the last couple decades. 20 years ago, NESCAC alumni with humanities degrees were like half the analyst class and state school grads (other than Wharton) were an endangered species. Today the senior partner in your group might have a history degree from Williams, but few if any of the analysts do.

This is reflective of increased competition, not disenlightenment. And it's a good thing. The state school finance majors are better investment bankers and deserve the opportunity more.
Two Years with Emacs as a CEO (and Now CTO)
Housing construction in Seattle suburbs at historic lows; Seattle sets records
That's a clever idea... not sure I would have ever thought of that. I need a better tinfoil hat.
Again: this was flagged, but Patrick isn't trying to be inflammatory. I think it's pretty reasonable to suggest that about Torba.
Someone else could do it. After all, Electron wasn't started by Google.
TL;DR: Avoid hiring people/companies that seem delusional ("no problem at all!") or defeatist ("that's impossible") when asked to bid on a challenging (impossible?) task.
I think you mean "piqued".
Np. I didn't take it as an insult. And I know what you meant -- I've seen the cool work that's come out of teams working at game shops.

And I hope I'm wrong, but I get the feeling they (and community managers) are working without the full support of their management to fix the problem. E.g. bandaid the broken bone
Succinct for Apache Spark: Enabling Fast Queries on Compressed RDDs
The greater SF and greater Seattle areas face similar challenges: the cities themselves are not doing as well as they could regarding legalizing new housing supply, but their suburbs and surrounding areas are doing even worse—and this contributes to the affordable housing crisis. State-level action is needed.
Yep. Dropbox is going to lose some customers.
Maybe it won't be too many (compared to Windows/Mac), but the customers they will lose will be their most technical.
The take away is that the two parties need to be able to work together to solve the problem at hand.

In your example, that sounds like a client that the business might not want to deal with. That's a good thing to know.
A million people probably have at least 10x more relatives and friends on the outside. Ways of breaching the great firewall are well known even within China. Shouldn't there be...numerous reports of missing persons if this is the case?
Again, hard to argue against wild speculation. The train is being built within our current reality and people's desires are part of that reality. Arguably, the freedom that cars provide is an incredibly powerful and beneficial thing for the happiness of Americans.
Having approximately zero math skills is a huge detriment across a wide range of jobs. The specific STEM program may not be that useful after collage, but the overlap is going to help when crunching numbers in Excel.

By comparison while most jobs need basic proficiency reading and understanding a written language, that's also part of a STEM degree.
That's really interesting! Thanks for sharing.

There's actually been several HTML UI projects that "break compatibility with the web" in varying degrees, with some breaking almost completely (eg, Sciter and libRocket) for the sake of simplicity and performance.

The goal of Ultralight was to see if we could strike a balance between modern HTML5 compatibility (eg, actually being able to render the Alexa Top 50) and reducing size and complexity for use in an embedded use-case.

I think we've struck a good balance so far but can go much farther. We plan to support much more of the web platform while still remaining small by use of shared modules (eg, for WebAudio/Video) so users can pick and choose how big of a distributable they want based on feature support.

As an aside, I took 2 years off just to explore if this was possible, partly funded by my previous work on Awesomium. This project is the result of that research and development.
What do you think are the chances that Dropbox “just works” on a file system on which it isn’t regularly tested but which nominally has the right feature set? I’d go with “not good”. :-)
Onedrive handles Git repos on Windows fine. It does balk sometimes if you feed it large repos, but most often it works fine.
https://www.oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/research/photovoltaics/ultrasin...
If humanist degrees don’t pay, perhaps the supply exceeds the demand for this knowledge.
I take your point that they use different mechanisms to provide access to files which are not fully interchangeable. With that said, I think many people probably don't really care or have a need for offline access, since nowadays people almost always have connectivity. Given this I would say in many (maybe most?) instances Keybase could replace Dropbox in practice.

Also, when you consider that being offline for an extended period of time means that your files are not being synced, then the purpose of Dropbox is somewhat defeated. Basically Dropbox can't sync without connectivity and if you have connectivity then you would have access to the Keybase "file store" anyway.
The shell scripting trap
Not sure what I said that elicited a negative reaction but it's worth noting I didn't imply they were porting to Linux, they explicitly mention it on the page.
Forestry Dev here. Getting this working was a blast.

VuePress is so easy to use it's ridiculous. Starting a new site is as simple as running `vuepress dev` on an empty directory. If you're building a simple docs site, it's the quickest option I've seen.

Definitely looking forward to seeing how VuePress evolves.
Microsoft's undersea datacenter has live webcams now
Maybe you’ve never been to a depressed area, but the reason veggies cost more in small stores is because of lack of turnover. Junk food can stay on the shelves for weeks to months. Veggies don’t last more than a few days and anything that isn’t purchased has to be thrown out. That cost of food waste is part of the price of the veggies at the small markets.
I don't think you necessarily have to ask a stock test question here either. Maybe for a banquet/convention facility it makes sense, if you don't have any particularly tricky requests at the time of booking.

For a software project, your project is probably the tricky thing already. The Orange Juice test there is I just told you want I need, did you put any thought into how you might solve it, what the steps would be, how that would translate into cost, and can you communicate that to the client. Or, did you just throw out a basic number, with no details and no real thought behind it. Asking clarifying questions, or showing an example of something close to the solution is a good sign too.
You could use something on the server side like AWStats.
Sorry, but I don’t feel a lot of sympathy for when clickbait is turned against journalists and their editors. 90% of the time, when I read an article with a headline like that, the article itself is horrible too. Just because something is longer and more equivocating doesn’t mean it magically becomes thought-out and nuanced; sorry journalists.
The website I work at has an advertising partner cache bids and creatives, could these in theory be hijacked?
Scientists rethink evolution after taking a closer look at Earth's first animals
Application Safety / Correctness Can't Be Offloaded to Istio or Any Service Mesh
And sometimes that's feeling like an invincible lifting machine, other times it's the fear or getting pinned under a quarter ton of iron in front of a whole gym.
Interesting. Mine's quite far down on the list at < 1.
I just submitted my app for review two days ago. Still no reaction. Any experience how long it takes till I get an approval/rejection?
Well, technically, with grave quotes, you can talk shell native with Ruby or Python as well.
> A million people probably have at least 10x more relatives and friends on the outside. Ways of breaching the great firewall are well known even within China. Shouldn't there be...numerous reports of missing persons if this is the case?

There are numerous reports of missing persons:

Former inmates of China’s Muslim ‘reeducation’ camps tell of brainwashing, torture (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inm...)

‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/07/why-uighur-musl...)

After U.S.-Based Reporters Exposed Abuses, China Seized Their Relatives (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang...)

Especially consider this account:

China’s mass indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution (https://apnews.com/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b):

> At first, Bekali did not want the AP to publish his account for fear that his sister and mother in China would be detained and sent to re-education.

> But on March 10, back in China, the police took his sister, Adila Bekali. A week later, on March 19, they took his mother, Amina Sadik. And on April 24, his father, Ebrayem.

> Bekali changed his mind and said he wanted to tell his story, no matter the consequences.

> “Things have already come this far,” he said. “I have nothing left to lose.”
Also "National Emergency" without end and without oversight. The National Emergencies Act [0] allows the President to declare emergency powers, but it must be renewed annually, and he must give a report to Congress on how much has spent on the emergency and the status.

Bush declared a national emergency after 9/11, and renewed it every year. Obama did the same. Trump the same. No reports to Congress. Congress has never asked for a report. Nothing but "the threat continues". [1]

More recently Trump used it as a way to force retired Air Force pilots back into active duty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act
[1] https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/14/perm...
The situation in Xinjiang is different than in China proper: it's so poor and remote that there isn't a lot of internet access to begin with, and the state security apparatus is much more intense. Foreign journalists aren't even allowed in Xinjiang at all. Repressing news like this is probably well within the abilities of the government there.
Not everything can be readily explained by trotting out free market dogma.
Steal £30 off enough people, though - RFID/NFC has been demonstrated to have a range of several meters under some conditions, so just stick your equipment in a bag and wander through a shopping centre. Probably pickup a dozen or so. I understand those who buy RF-shielded wallets all too well.
That's what I was thinking too. Westerners visit Xinjiang province with cameras. If 1m people disappeared, I'm sure someone would come up to a Westerner to tell their story.

40,000 people were disappeared en masse in Chile by Pinochet. That story made it out very quickly, and only a few photographs exist of it
I like how I was down-voted for simply stating that it is common sense. You're agreeing with me! I didn't say the article was bad... haha.
"State school grads (other than Wharton)"

Can't tell if ignorance or top-tier trolling.
It’s hard to have a sense of scale at these numbers.

This camp would be the size of a pretty big town.
Bigger than Boston or Antwerp for instance.
North Carolina was doing the banning, not the website. AKA, it was a government sanction...

North Carolina was also banning convicts' access to multiple websites, so it was more of an internet ban.

(It helps to read the entire case.)
>The parent comment was referring to the usage of sizeof().

Ah ok, makes more sense in re-reading now. I was lazy and went off of a child comment.

>Also, the fact that they cast the result of malloc makes me think they were using a C++ compiler, which will complain that there's no cast.

Definitely could be that.
Why have jail for any crimes then too, right? Criminals won't think well of the justice system if we have jail, so they'll commit more crimes to spite us. Right?

Be serious. Deterrence may or may not always work, but it works enough of the time. Even when it doesn't work, the alternative (leaving them alone) almost certainly wouldn't work either. People who do these awful things don't need new grievances -- all the old ones will suffice for them.
But that is my point: that is how people get to statistics like 80% of American men are overweight. Like the poster above, I am 6'. So I am kind of tall and broad shouldered, due to genetics. If I weigh 185 I am overweight, although I think at that weight I look reasonably trim. Working out eventually makes me weigh more, because muscle weighs more. I have seen papers where people say 'Overweight' people (as defined by BMI) actually have longer life spans than normal BMI people. Keep in mind, some people get to normal BMI via chemotherapy. It is only at Obese and very Obeses that you see negative effects.

For the biggest group of American men, this article is implying that they are unhealthy, when the facts are that they are actually healthy.

I'm not saying this isn't among the most important health issues in the US. I just think you need a more reasonable standard or a lot of people will just throw up their hands.
DoD IT professionals are required to pass this annually.
The grandparent post. After a weekend of CSS you don't even know what you don't know. The complexity isn't the syntax, its the interactions between all of the elements.
Flood myths are different than Tsunami-related myths. Flood myths talk of long-term inundation, of Noah on his ark for weeks. or of land permanently becoming sea. A tsunami-related myth is something more violent and shorter in duration. Some Thunderbird stories from the pacific-northwest, of a great bird under or associated with water, are no doubt are descriptions of tsunamis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(mythology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_and_Whale

"A struggle ensued; the ocean receded and rose again. Many canoes were flung into trees and many people were killed."

Across the pacific, the Japanese have a similar story about a giant catfish causing earthquakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namazu_(Japanese_mythology)
I certainly get it. Zsh and the like offer some really nice functionality missing from standard bash. However that muscle memory is lost. Zsh etc. certainly cool for your own tinker box. Not good when dealing with lots of disparate systems. I don't even like to use a lot of aliases because of this.
Since we're dealing purely in anecdata, I live 4 miles from a job that covers my housing, and I'm far from rich. I could choose to put myself in a different situation, but I chose my current situation and am quite happy.
I don't know what I would do with this yet, but this is certainly a cool feat!
Customize EOS smart contracts using JSON
I think the analogy extends in other ways too: too many chips are bad for you and leave you feeling yucky... Same is true for video consumption? I just think people should be careful. :)
If you work on Wall St and are not a Wharton grad it is your sacred duty to troll them whenever possible.
Also lock down your Facespace account.
Sorry. I'm just going by thousands of years of history.
Parable of the Leopard:

Once upon a time there was a leopard who returned from hunting to find that his cub had been killed.

He went and asked the baboon “Tell me who killed my cub for I must visit terrible vengeance upon them.“

The baboon replied, “It was the elephants”, whereupon the leopard exclaimed “Surely, you lie, it was the goats.”

Immediately afterward, the leopard went out and slaughtered a great many goats to avenge the death of his cub.

———

The tech companies will eloquently criticize the governments of the West concerning human rights secure in the knowledge that no real consequences will come of their criticism. However, the Chinese government is too powerful and the Chinese market too lucrative for tech companies to seriously criticize the Chinese government and risk getting banned in China.
« Whatever problem Google has with the Chrome version of Ahoy!, the same cannot be said of its Firefox variant. The extension is living happily on that platform and no ToS breach has been advised. »

IIRC, Mozilla is also a lot more open about why they took stuff down.
The emotional connection to machines is of particular concern with children, who have not yet developed the sophisticated ability of adults to perceive and manage simulated emotions.

One of my favorite anecdotes:

> Children today will be the first to grow up in constant interaction with these artificially more or less intelligent entities. So what will they make of them? What social category will they slot them into? I put that question to Peter Kahn, a developmental psychologist who studies child-robot interactions at the University of Washington.

> In his lab, Kahn analyzes how children relate to cumbersome robots whose unmistakably electronic voices express very human emotions. I watched a videotape of one of Kahn’s experiments, in which a teenaged boy played a game of “I Spy” with a robot named Robovie. First, Robovie “thought” of an object in the room and the boy had to guess what it was. Then it was Robovie’s turn. The boy tugged on his hair and said, “This object is green.” Robovie slowly turned its bulging eyes and clunky head and entire metallic body to scan the room, but just as it was about to make a guess, a man emerged and announced that Robovie had to go in the closet. (This, not the game, was the point of the exercise.) “That’s not fair,” said Robovie, in its soft, childish, faintly reverberating voice. “I wasn’t given enough chances to. Guess the object. I should be able to finish. This round of the game.” “Come on, Robovie,” the man said brusquely. “You’re just a robot.” “Sorry, Robovie,” said the boy, who looked uncomfortable. “It hurts my feelings that,” said Robovie, “You would want. To put me in. The closet. Everyone else. Is out here.”

> Afterward, Kahn asked the children whether they thought the machine had been treated unjustly. Most thought it had. Moreover, most believed that Robovie was intelligent and had feelings. They knew that they were playing with a robot, but nonetheless experienced Robovie as something like a person.

https://newrepublic.com/article/117242/siris-psychological-e...
I set up a little Ubuntu Core server with Nextcloud for archives and sharing, and Syncthing for slightly cleverer sync of files I'm actively working with. Syncthing is decentralized, and it's designed so you can just pick any folder and sync it between your devices, which makes for a really handy workflow. But I like good having a long-running server in the middle that I can treat as canonical. That way I have one place for backups, my devices can sync with the server over the Internet when they don't have each other, and I can access Syncthing files via Nextcloud.

I was expecting to still be using Dropbox for a while after that, but it's been surprisingly low maintenance after the initial setup, and it has replaced it perfectly for me :) Highly recommended for anyone bothered by this change.
Yeah, strangely you cannot appeal if you haven't yet made it through at least once. At least thats how it appears. We're having the same problem. There is basically no recourse if there is a communication problem and you just need to contact someone to resolve it.