skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weatherspark.

It's still around but a mere shadow of its former (flash-based) glory. Using every other weather site is agony.
Not to mention "fringe" websites that still contain much useful information, are occasionally found in search engines, and more frequently in bookmarked site lists... gov/mil/corp have plenty of resources to add new TLS versions, but just not always the willingness to, and that isn't so bad since "adding willingness" is not impossible; it's really the "small players" out there which will be most affected, those who have personally maintained sites or even sites abandoned on servers for a long time.

Fortunately most of those sites still use "not secure" plain HTTP (I wonder if they're going to remove that too!?), but this feels to me like yet another sad sacrifice of freedom for security, and in this case it's almost --- but not quite --- book-burning. The Internet used to be a much more diverse and interesting place, if perhaps more dangerous; but in encouraging the dominance of this "safe and secure" censorship, sites run by large corporations and centralisation of power into them and the CAs that essentially act as access gatekeepers, I feel like we've lost a lot of what made the Internet a really unique and fun (including the risk) experience.

I think an appropriate real-world analogy is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum_clearance
I don't speak German but I've always had the impression they love mashing words together to make super long but informative words.
Dope. I want one! And not just as a companion - I want the ability to disconnect from all the BS attention seekers on my phone.

Last year I tried to use the only "dumb phone" I could find, which was a flip phone. It was so useless because I couldn't text effectively, had a worthless camera, and I felt embarrassed when I tried to make calls with it.

I like the idea and will definitely be checking it out when it drops.
I'd prefer that world too, but it's tough to change hundreds of years of culture.

The point is that it's not going back to gendered. It always is. The sexism in that word is much more subtle now, but it has not gone away.
Agreed, feedly is half the product. It was great.
Stopping. Remembering to eat. Having to stop to sleep. But eventually you get used to the interruptions.
In most cases, they technically already resold your ticket due to overbooking; it makes their lives easier since they don't have to boot someone from the flight, you voluntarily booted yourself. In fact, not only did you boot yourself, you forefeited however much the segment cost you, and any future segments on the ticket. That's why it's so absolutely preposterous that United is threatening to do this. They likely are making money off each person who skips segments, they just don't like it happening because it messes up their ticketing and flight operations models if this starts happening widespread.
Uber's economics team is its secret weapon – Quartz
It’s fun to see the same style applied to the Seahawks - he hired Pete Carroll to run the team the way he wants with the resources he needs. Without Paul Allen as the owner, our home team doesn’t win the 2013 Super Bowl.

The team has had its fair share of problems too, but they’re always entertaining.
amen, I'm still limping along with it on Windows 10 but nothing else compares at all for managing your original photos. (I also use Google photos but that is a recompressed jpeg copy of your original)
Yes, that's a thing they do in German. Instead of post office it would be postoffice. Instead of train station it would be trainstation. (Only in German, obviously.)

Not exactly what's being described above though.
Pay 99c and count the responses.
Tenacity and determination I find are big parts of being a software engineer in general, much less a founder.

I mean who else gets a bug in their code and spend the next eight hours scouring documentation and fiddling with their code until it's fixed?

I think it's that plus a vision and the ability to step outside comfort zones to tackle problems way outside your normal scope of work.
> I can't even talk to other people about it because everybody's noses are in their phones everywhere. Is that weird?

I try to make it a point to ignore my phone while I'm eating lunch with people. I do wish others would do the same. Sometimes, it does require politely asking them to put their phone away and just spend lunch with me (typically just with friends, not everyone).

However, I think it annoys me more that it's becoming harder and harder to find restaurants that don't have 5+ TVs in your face no matter which way you turn.
The gearslutz.com community may be able to help. There are many enthusiasts and threads on emulation and soundbanks.

Also, for fun, Herbie Hancock explaining a CMI to David Letterman. Around 4:50 if the link acts up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQgZmu4hZ0&feature=youtu.be...
Mary Janes, the candy.
- glitch (the game)
- Ubuntu Linux with Unity
- Posterous
- Ducksboard
Canadians who are honest about using marijuana could be banned from the U.S
Google Reader, QuarkXPress 3.2, Lotus Improv.
I'm gonna say Reader was like a dysfunctional relationship for me, once they shut it down and I had to move on (currently using newsblur.com) I saw how good an actively devoped RSS app could be
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This looks really cool! How do you feel you currently compare to Artemis, the longstanding party in the genre? I have always been excited about these sorts of things, but don't have enough IRL friends usually that can tolerate this level of nerd, so haven't really tried this sort of thing. ;)
Taptu (rss reader app)

Google news and weather app (not the horrible new Google news app with all those annoying animations)

Flagship/higher-end phones with a headphone jack
Xkcd: Modified Bayes' Theorem
The Lenovo consolation prize does little to fulfill my want for a modernized classic IBM ThinkPad.

Lenovo has become so bad that Linux-oriented shops have started pivoting to Dells.
The U.S. society, obviously. The prestige of Harvard is derived from its reputation as being the institution that forges American business and political leaders.
Right. You have absolutely no idea.
Did they actually support tls 1.1 though?
His tanks are definitely capable of shooting at least blank rounds. They do it weekly at the museum. I would not be surprised if they can shoot the actual live munition without issues if you can get hands on it.
Google Reader

I loved the simplicity and the usability aspects of it. I use Feedly these days. But, I hope reader was around.
Anybody from Germany want to ship me some Red Bull Cola?
HyperCard.

It's been decades and I've still never found a better way to make simple GUI applications.
I really like reading 2600. Some articles get kinda... biased, but I think they do a decent job of striking a balance.

It's nice reading about tech-related things that aren't just blockchain or Facebook. The particularly fun ones are just little side projects someone writes about for a few paragraphs/pages. No real major point or grand purpose. Just a neat thing they did.
I think you're just making stuff up. Have fun!
SageTV. You could hook up an HD cable box and record shows to a PC or server with a simple, intuitive interface for later viewing. Basically turned your PC or home server into an infinite PVR. It was wonderful. Google purchased and shuttered them a few years back. For a while I tried a regular pvr + Slingbox, but found it to be such garbage that I basically just stopped watching most sports rather than deal with the hassle of trying to use it. (For anything besides sports the streaming options work alright now.)
> Except that almost nobody who hits a kid on the highway did it on purpose, and everyone who commits sexual assualt does it entirely on purpose.

This statement needs qualification. The majority of cases of sexual assault that my undergrad unversity's Title IX office handled consisted of cases where the accused believes sex was consensual. Such as not knowing that the accuser had taken drugs beforehand, the accuser claims to have withdrawn consent partway through but the accused reported that consent was never revoked, etc.

Granted, it could be possible that the types of sexual assault accusations that are reported to the Title IX office aren't the same types of assault reported to the police.
If you are in a relatively high position of power/OK with potentially losing your job, publicly calling someone out, even your boss, for something like this is risky but the right thing to do.

Even small stuff like calling BS on the sort of comments that happen when only guys are around (we've all heard them).

The implicit consent of everyone around these kinds of people is what lets this stuff continue (along with everything else of course).
I miss Boundary.

Their traffic flow monitoring with per second granularity was utterly amazing. It had almost no overhead, it gave the equivalent of netflow data for instances in EC2, way before AWS gave VPC flow logs. It was incredible.

Alas their sales team were incredibly difficult to deal with, managing to both seem to not know how or what they were selling, whilst at the same time being incredibly heavy handed, escalating to my VP over a minor delay in contract signing and causing trouble to the point I had to almost beg my VP not to tear up the contract because of their actions.

As a result of what I perceive to be the sales org's failure, the company was forced to pivot into a generic monitoring product, which lost its identity and got borged by BMC.

There's nothing like boundary on the market today, if there was I'd be lining up to buy it.
Complete Guide to Know the Stem Cell Characteristics That Determine Cell Fate
Punchfork. Much better for recipe discovery than other sites I've found. It was integrated into DuckDuckGo, too!
Wikileaks published AWS DC addresses
You're exposed to it all the time, but it's so common that we just don't notice. And that's kind of the whole problem.
He always amazed me because he never gave up even when he had cancer. He kept on going and that took a lot of guts.

Steve Jobs was that way when he had cancer, kept on going until he passed on.
Scientists have identified intrinsic cellular properties that affect the fate of neural stem cells, which may affect the type of brain cells that are differentiated from neural stem cells, such as neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, etc. Related research may help researchers develop new methods to predict or control the fate of stem cells, therefore, it can be better applied to human transplantation therapy.
Neural stem cells often exhibit different fates due to the expression of different carbohydrate patterns on the cell surface. And these carbohydrate molecules promote the potential properties of neural stem cell membranes and ultimately determine their cell fate. Stem cells can be applied for a variety of human diseases, but it is difficult for researchers to determine what cell types these stem cells will transform into when they are transplanted into the patient's body. When the researchers transplanted the same number of stem cells into the body of two patients respectively, if the stem cells differentiated into neurons in one of the patients and differentiated into astrocytes in another patient's body, then the final treatment of these two patients will be significantly different. Based on current research results, researchers can predict the differentiation endpoint of neural stem cells and their possible cell fate, which may enhance the success rate of stem cell transplantation therapy for many types of diseases.
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In the research published in 2008, the researchers discovered a new method that can take advantage of the potential characteristics of cells to identify and classify neural stem cells with different fates. The researchers claim that the difference in cell surface carbohydrate may be the reason why these bacteria have different potential properties. And then researchers examined several pathways that add carbohydrate molecules to the cell surface, and found that one pathway can help make neurons, while another pathway can help make astrocytes. By stimulating the neural stem cell pathway and altering the cell potential properties, the researchers were able to create more astrocytes and fewer neuronal cells, which suggesting that the carbohydrate molecules on the cell surface can control the fate of neural stem cells.
Its my believe that its impossible to build the killer EMR, or at least, nobody has approached that.

There are many reasons for it, just as making software to manage restaurants has been an impossible one. The use cases are operationally extremely different in all cases.
Nothing. So far the details of what SendGrid will look like with the acquisition is yet to be determined, but it's pretty obvious that SendGrid will be SendGrid. If anything, you'll probably be able to integrate with SMS and voice send and receive at a discounted price.
This pathway is active in transplanted cells and developing brain cells, so when the brain is formed during body development, the pathway may control neural stem cells to form astrocytes and neurons. At present, researchers are testing whether this pathway can alter the behavior of transplanted cells or the way in which the developing brain is formed. The researchers focused on the internal "machines" of cells that first added carbohydrate molecules to observe the molecular mechanisms underlying the process.

Researchers have discovered that specific proteins on the cell surface may be altered by this pathway, which can help elucidate how carbohydrate molecules tell stem cells to differentiate into specific types of brain cells. For further study, researchers are expected to find more specific methods to improve the efficiency of stem cell transplantation for the treatment of body damage and various diseases through more in-depth research.
If you are in a relatively high position of power/OK with potentially losing your job, publicly calling someone out, even your boss, for something like this is risky but the right thing to do.

I don't really think so. I think there are better ways to handle this.
Yes, it was a very good point but I wasn’t allowed to reply to his/her post.
That's true of just about any technological innovation though. Even look at recent examples with space, self-driving cars, etc. I'd posture that we are currently somewhere in the Trough of Disillusionment [0] and that it'll another year or two before there's more mass use/adoption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
The problem isn't the "correctness" of current authentication systems. In the US an SSN is already correct for the person to who (whom?) it is assigned. Tax payer IDs in other countries behave similarly.

Essentially biometrics represent the same kind of thing, although possibly less secure as you definitely cannot hide your biometrics from other people.

The problem with existing IDs, and biometrics especially, is that they cannot be changed (biometrics definitely can't be, at least not without surgery). Part of the problem (and what makes it particularly powerful in the US) is that there are a number of widely spread IDs where simply knowing the number/id is sufficient evidence that you are that person (still bizarre after more than a decade here). In the event of compromise (if it becomes a powerful, that is pretty much guaranteed) you /must/ be able to change it. In the US you are ostensibly able to change your SSN, but if you do you get royally screwed for a very long time...
Crashplan for home. Still haven't found another unlimited plan with linux client.
This is true for say Google employees but not true for Harvard. 90% of the value of a Harvard degree is the knowledge that it is exclusive.
An Indian college friend of mine did this too, changing his name from Ankit to Andy (and simplifying the spelling of his last name) before applying to grad schools.
> Safety first, full stop, no exceptions.

And here you are, cutting-edg hospitals running 2012 versions of modern software, and paying millions of dollars for the privilege.

The direction has to be exactly the opposite, by giving the patient increasingly more control over his own health.
Nope, I’m just disillusioned that everyone is as open as college you to new ideas and that we can simply go reach the people who don’t want to be reached.

I suspect that the fact that you were taking chemistry in college means you were already in a very different state to receive new ideas compared with your average TV news viewer who is currently skeptical of climate change, and that difference is really important.

I’m not saying let’s throw up our hands, but people like Gore and Billy Nye are trying outreach, and it isn’t because they are bad at articulating ideas that this is still a problem.
You didn't mention it in your budget; presumably therefore, she has none.

You did mention health insurance, however.
It takes a lot of effort to unlearn an accent, but it's not terribly hard to learn a fake one to speak in different contexts. My mom does this. Her work accent is usually not very southern, unless she's exclusively around other southerners with accents, but even then her "public southern" accent is nothing like her accent with our family in appalachia. I'm glad my resting accent is relatively neutral. Even in the south, having a thick accent can make you a bully magnet.
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Synology has been getting wierd, also, with privacy. A few updates ago, my private fileserver asked me to agree to a privacy terms of service. I'm considering airgapping it and ending updates.
Its really strange how much punishment doctors seem to receive and how much they're willing to take. The hours alone would be laughable in any other industry.
I am not convinced that life on the planet will survive. We could very well turn into Venus. Maybe we did already. In previous cataclysmic events, life was spread en masse to low earth orbit, to return after the fires died down and the earth cooled off. We have no such seed bank in orbit now.
I've never attended, but a co-worker of mine attended and made a hex based equivalent of a Sokoban game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban. It was pretty fun to play, I'd probably recommend the game jam based on that alone.

On a somewhat related note, the games from DigiPen's senior projects are often pretty enjoyable: https://games.digipen.edu/. I'd especially recommend Narbacular Drop (predecessor of Portal, the game got the students hired at Valve), and Empyreal Nocturne (a sort of aerial combat game).
After the three year California drought and not watering the lawn much during it, I just let the grass and wild flowers grow up without mowing the last few years. Lots of different kind of plants, many bees, etc. Pretty cool, although some people comment on how we have let the yard go. I wish I could do a controlled burn at the start of the rainy season.

On the other hand, I recently learned what a carpenter bee is and what they can do to exposed wood structures. This year was the first time I had them boring into the wooden eves of our house. I have mixed feelings when I see them now.
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Clearly you have not seen lotto winners. Or wall street people:) Or the really wealthy. ;)

What your talking about, is upper-middle, lower-high.

Eventually if you make enough cash, you will hit that limit. Sort of the whole "ball-washer" bit by Lewis Black.
Sorry if you were trying to access on mobile.

Many sites, including that one, are eminently viewable using the combination of Firefox and NoScript. I don't do much mobile browsing so I don't know the corresponding technique to use on a phone.
You can watch the Joe Rogan episode on YouTube to see her side of the story in its entirety.

But, regardless of what she gives as the reasons for this particular tweet: no, there is no way that someone should be judged entirely by the contents of a single tweet. A tweet is a very poor summary of one's character or who they really are, especially if the judgement of the author was impaired. Everything that I've seen indicates that Roseanne is actually very liberal, has been for many years, and that she is in no way a racist person.
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Was Boundary agent-based? You'd install something on all your instances, or start from their AMI or something?
From one spammer to another then.
All nationally emblematic products that have now be sent to China for production. (I am Swiss, so when I see a pure "Swiss product" actually made in China, I feel uncomfortable about the marketing trying to highlight the Swissness of a Chinese product especially when they are considered luxury: Bally shoes, Sigg bottles, ...)
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People generally don't attribute failures to software bugs if there is anything else that contributes to failure. The list in particular is missing the loads of accidents caused by bad UI; incidents of "I was just following the GPS's/autopilot's directions" that result in death are missing (such as the KAL 007 airliner incident).
Shameless plug: I've been trying to tackle this front via removal of dependencies[1]. We have been relying on more and more complex and heavy protocols to secure any kind of transport security, just because the browsers do it this way. I don't think TLS is the right approach to all transport security nowadays.

[2] is a comparison of OpenSSL with the various experimental implementations of Disco (tl;dr: 700k LOC vs 1k LOC)

The thing is at https://www.discocrypto.com

(disclaimer: it's quite experimental at the moment)

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpfV2wEWwAADIze.jpg:large

[2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpfD_43XoAANcHe.jpg:large
Tucson, what are you doing?
Sigh safari is the new IE. Making everyone else suffer from nonsensical hacks.

But anyway, if the problem is that the json file is opened in a new tab instead of downloading, can't you just encode it with a non-text media type in the data-uri so the browser doesn't understand it?

E.g, data:application/octet-stream instead of data:image/png which is what you claim works right now
I thought god mucked around on quantum computers, and I think we can all feel a little bit better that god can't seem to write bug free code either.
I’d love to hear a bit more about what you mean. What parts of the model do you consider incorrect, and what would it take to be correct? Are there specific things you read in the book, or are you talking about rendering and/or ray tracing generally? Do you have some specific limitations you’re thinking of?

Honestly curious, since as a graphics person and not a physicist, I’ve been under the impression that most of our “physically based” rendering framework these days can be derived from, explained by, or validated against first principles, and that only some of the reflectance functions we use might be described as “phenomenological” (and we might call those “hacky”). And as @wjakob said, there are certainly optical effects we don’t normally see, and don’t spend time computing.

Is it possible to have phenomenological models that are correct? The word means the model hasn’t been derived from first principles, but it doesn’t mean the model is wrong... right?

Personally, I think of the term “physically correct” within the context of computer graphics history. It’s not a technical term, and its meaning historically is referring to what came before now, and maybe not as much of a strict literal absolute as your interpretation(?). The 80’s and 90’s were full of fabulous graphics tricks that are even less physically correct than what we have now. Video games still have lots of them too.

Calling our newer techniques “physically correct” is perhaps kinda like how we call our TVs now “high definition”, or our colors “high dynamic range”. They’re not “high” in any absolute sense of the word, they’re just higher than before. In 10 or 20 years, what we call “high definition” today is probably going to feel like pretty low definition.