skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Underground is cheaper and/or more reliable when compared to the national rail network many use to commute into London. Ridiculously so. I think that contrast helps those in London value the Underground. Also the reason many choose to still live where there's a tube line.

It's also worth noting buses are much cheaper than the tube and quite accessible compared to a lot of places, though much slower.
Sorry you feel that way ... wasn't my intent!
Maybe no filesystem, only block storage?
I find listening to the 'music with repetitive structures' of Philip Glass very focusing and motivational.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ySGfGr7JsU
The Roman's build all the roads, if you dislike the Roman's just yield any traffic.
Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters
MIRI pretty much demolished this here https://intelligence.org/2017/01/13/response-to-ceglowski-on...
Where does most of the maintenance of the RPA come from? Is it UI changes, edge cases in state (e.g. need to re-login), or other things?
I build automated consumer lending software. Certain clients of ours use it specifically for sub prime lending.

Take that as you will.
When I was buying a ticket to Europe for study abroad I was checking these sites, in the end I used the first one, but all were helpful:

* http://www.momondo.com/

* https://www.kayak.com/flights

* https://www.cheapoair.com/

* https://www.google.com/flights/ ($$$)

* https://www.hipmunk.com/ ($$$)

* http://kiwi.com/

* https://www.skyscanner.net/

The ones with the dollars signs were the most expensive. These sites are not all equal some are more reputable than others, etc.
And also making it very difficult to post a story and change it later. This is why I'm skeptical about needing higher transaction volume to support supply chain use cases. The supply records a record, immutable(like a git commit log), and posts the resulting hash every hour-is to the public chain. The information recorded remains confidential, but the posted public hash can be used to prove during an audit that the log didn't change. The confidential log can have extremely high transaction volumes, because its internal.
Developing PWA using Angular 7
Another story of a big corporation using the courts to screw over an individual. I have no doubt he was trying to steal from the company, but he was caught, convicted and went to jail, what more do they want? For him to spend the rest of his life in jail for being as greedy and unethical as his former employer? The hypocrisy is incredible.

Also, it's amazing how fast the wheels of justice move when a large financial company has been wronged, no?
> emacs... text editor... doesn't try to be more than that

Enter meme about emacs OS.

My big issue with emacs is that it isn't installed by default everywhere, whereas at least vi is pretty nearly everywhere (except windows). Vi is pretty good, vim is better, and emacs is a different beast altogether.

However, I'm considering switching to emacs because it's not just an editor. I think org mode is awesome, and I'm playing with it using evil mode so I get the best of both worlds. I've seen awesome renderers hacked into it (LaTeX, PDF, HTML, etc), and pretty much every emacs user gloats about the crazy features that they've thrown in (e g. web browser).

People seem to use emacs because it's more than an editor, and people seem to use vim because it's just an editor. Yes, you can do crazy stuff in vim as well, but people in general seem to prefer simpler configs in vim and more crazy configs in emacs.

Yes, emacs doesn't try to be an IDE like Visual Studio, but it also tries to be more than a simple text editor like nano or vim.
I don't know man, my mom has called me a "computer genius" since I was 15. I'd imagine getting a PhD in math is equivalent is the same idea to business journalists, but 'prodigy' level and working in private industry with a bunch of MBAs instead of pushing out papers in academia.
I think the problem is prodigy has two general connotations. If one reads the definition/s of the word both are there.

1. It means just means highly talented.

2. Some who accomplishes/performs something rare/unusual/novel.

I tend to go with number two as well, but for instance if you look at the etymology its roots are more in the first definition.[1]

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/prodigy
+1 I am in the exact same boat. Very glad that I bought their lifetime subscription. It absolutely works for me. And I do not really care if they made it by hand or AI or accident - it serves the purpose I want it to.
Hey! Any plans for python anytime soon?
I hear you. My $0.25 ... I bet the expert authors of many music theory books would be capable of thinking in mathematical terms but (now I'm guessing) there is likely some undeserved "ew, yuck, math!" culture in the arts so rather than turn off their audience, they avoid talking about the quantitative underpinnings of why things sound the way they do.

Two more enjoyable books on the math and physics of music (though, again, probably not far enough up the tree of abstraction for chords):

"The Science of Musical Sound" by Pierce (lovely little book, not too deep though, quite coffee tableable)

"Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics" by Benade (old book, considered a classic, reads like a science text)

Good luck!
What difference does an adblocker really make?
Don't know about despair, but if you're talking about so called "activity of small steps", you might lose if the government does enough big steps often enough to more than negate your activity. I.e. you're trying for months to get a specific regulation passed, and while that regulation gets watered down to have enough holes those in power exploit all available opportunities, reducing the quality of life of electorate, so you end up in arguably worse situation than when you started.

Steps can't be too small, and in practice that could mean they have to be pretty large. Here the opposite approach - attacking root causes - can become more productive.
At this point, the ability to deliver ads is the definition of internet control.
This is not exactly the same in my mind as the original link, however it's great in its own way! It's a very cool analysis.

Thank you for the link
I worked as a sysadmin in a startup which developed ContentID contender (video recognition). Fun fact: half of the IT department was using torrents with no regrets.

edit: wording.
When you say "you thought" do you mean you were somehow tricked by higher ups?
coup in brazil was the cut the head of BRIC. brazil was the most moderate, that had any chance of upsetting US powers in europe and americas. now it's russia or china vs the world under the US.
Yes! This is great and certainly seems to have a long list of really interesting articles.

Thank you so much.
I only regret experiencing poor leadership styles (but am also thankful to see them.) The product is a result of the team led by leadership so any and all of the factors in there ultimately lead to what is built.

Reading the other posters though I can see that there are some unethical products being built where you can impact someone else negatively.
Even well done steak is not guaranteed to be free of food borne illness. You really need to know two variables - temperature and time, and one objective - kill rate. Time is the reason that it is safer to eat a sous vide rare pork chop than a grilled rare pork chop.
> The last sentence shows that they, Nature, are seriously suggesting that there is something wrong with defining sex based on observable sexual characteristics

No. They are suggesting that there is something wrong with defining it based on just one particular observable characteristic.

There are numerous characteristics in humans that come in two forms or varieties, one generally associated with males and one generally with females. Many people end up with some characteristics of the form generally associated with males and with some characteristics generally associated with females.

For example, there is a response in the hypothalamus to the pheromone androstadienone that is different in males and females, and can be recognized on an MRI scan.

Another example is how "male" and "female" brains perform visual and spatial memory tasks, such as imagining how a shape would look when rotated. Males generally are better at this than females, and brain scans show that when doing this task males are using different parts of the brain than females use--male brains approach this task differently than do female brains.

Some people with male genitals have female androstadienone response and female visual and spatial processing, and some people with female genitals have male androstadienone response and male visual and spatial processing. In particular, studies have found that transgender people are often this way, with their brain having the responses of the gender they identify as rather than the gender their genitals suggest.
I bought a physical copy of this book through Lulu about a year ago; it presents some really neat algorithms and ideas. Unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to apply any of them to any real problems. That said, they seem like the kind of algorithms that, by having them in your back-pocket, would allow you to solve seemingly unsolvable problems.

I've been thinking about applying some of the algorithms to procedural content generation for a toy game that I've been working on. Specifically tweaking knobs and evaluating quality.
This is happening, because Project Treble still requires OEMs to ship updates and in one year after its introduction, Oreo got a meager 10% when Android P was announced and OEMs were still shipping Nougat with updates to Oreo, which doesn't require Project Treble compliance in such cases.

Google is finally facing the issue that regular consumers aren't caring to update anymore, specially now that devices are quite usable for several years.

So if they want to bring new OS versions into the market they really have to force OEMs to do it.

Hence the new GSI concept, finally adding update clauses to the Play Store usage agreement, and now upstreaming kernel changes.
I too got a lifetime sub from HN but my response is meh. I haven't used it in almost a year now.

I find Youtube more effective (I've found my sweet spot near 150BPM trance which gets me into the zone rather quickly if nobody interrupts me). Also I think the problem is while repetitive music works great with programming you have to find different music for each day.
The US is culturally and constitutionally more robust against tyrannical government, but at the expense of undermining the possibility for effective government.

This doesn't necessarily mean we can't have effective social services, though -- it's just that they would not be government agencies. Planned Parenthood, which often functions in the face of considerable government opposition, is a great example of an effective and dependable public service. So is the National Rifle Association, which is primarily concerned with maintaining ranges and training programs for police and military as well as civilian use. They aren't businesses but they aren't part of the government either.

Huntington discusses the medieval structure as one of a "harmony of government and society". Perhaps in the US we are trying too hard to get our government to do things it was not meant to do. It doesn't mean there is nothing to do.

Found a copy of Huntington's essay online: http://pscourses.ucsd.edu/ps200b/Huntington%20Political%20Mo...
I think this is not giving enough thought on the topic of population growth. I believe in most rich/advanced countries population is declining, unless they have a lot of immigration, United States for example. Hans Rosling has some studies on this, his studies say that the world population won’t exceed 11 billion.

Also, people are having less sex than before. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex... which obviously is going to affect population growth.

Although, this could change if somehow we manage to live considerably longer lives. Then population would grow again. Which is the main promise of Scythe by Neal Shusterman.

We would need a very good reason to spend the resources to go colonize other planets.
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Yep, and I quit.
i worked on an ad campaign for an international company and was instructed by my client to mislead customers and hide important information.
i quit the job at TBWA advertising and switched to the startup world.

i’m not getting paid the same, but my conscience sleeps well enough.
I wasn't positing faster than light travel, but rather a medium allowing a ftl transfer of information.
Presumably the number of damned lies and statistics were much higher.
I've never found the fancy features in IDEs to be worth it. Compared to vim/emacs, they're:

- slow
- visually distracting
- lightweight in text manipulation
- built around seldom use features

I rarely need a debugger or type information, yet the entire interface bends over backwards to include those features. In fact, I feel that IDEs encourage more complicated code structure because it makes dealing with them reasonable.

The only time I use an IDE is when:

- the build process is too complicated (mobile, .NET or Java, game engines)
- I'm unfamiliar with the platform
- everyone else is using it, so I'd have to maintain the CLI build process myself
- I need a fancy debugger

That being said, I've only fired up an IDE a couple times in the last year or so, so vim has been more than capable at solving my problems.
IPTV like what Centurylink Prism offers is a really good experience. Extremely fast channel switching, live previews of the last couple channels you were on, and a decent UI made for a good experience.

I have yet to find another IPTV provider that offers tthe first two features mentioned, despite it being possible with ddecade old technology running WinCE (in Centurylink's case).
Same argument can be applied by believers to God. If we can't comprehend something, then we should be careful when talking about it.

"That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent" ~ Wittgenstein
Does Eventbrite pay Andrew Godwin to work on Django? He's certainly a prolific contributor but I'm not sure if his Django work is officially sponsored by them.
Seattle has no such issues, as the voters directly voter for initiatives that come directly from property taxes. The governor and Olympia have very little say in what Seattle area builds, which is a good thing.

Contrast that with NY state, where the state legislature and governor can interfere with MTA affairs. Cuomo is a huge part of the problem.
I saw an ea meme the other day:

Buy a bubbletea, get the ingame content: Straw and bubbles.

That's not a knock on the developers or content quality though. It's a knock on the business model. You guys make beautiful things.
It's always been that way. Seriously, the most valuable skill the internet has helped me foster is my bullshit o-meter. The actual problem that I see first hand is most people dont have that skill exercised at all. They've been living in small enough groups that they have high levels of trust between the members. That has been projected onto the rest of the internet, they are far to trusting and perform zero research before they start repeating what they've read or heard. And were not punishing that action, your reputation for information quality should go down if you repeat clearly false information.
Oh. Sorry, that wasn't impressive. For South Bay, maybe.
Windows User Account Control (UAC) Bypass by Mocking Trusted Directories
You couldn't be knifemaker.
Lightly scanned the article. I dont criticize bitcoin for being imperfect, but for being useless as it is today.

Moving dirty money, or escaping capital controls is great, but still a very limited use case. Its really impractical to do any mundane thing. I.e. replacing credit cards and buying your coffee would be a massive human landmark event. But its not close to that, and there's no clear path to that.

So why would you spend 6k to hold this piece of land today, when that buys you a 3% secure yield or a many other investments with greater returns.
Does anybody know offhand what the graph next to Premise 3 illustrates?
What you claim is indeed so very sad, but I wouldn't gnash teeth or loose any sleep over it.
Why does any criticism of Apple devices generally devolves into "but Android does it too", I expected better than fanboy-ism from the HN crowd.

The OP's comment was that any mobile devices these days, both Android and iOS are locked down black boxes. It wasn't specifically criticizing just Apple.
Unless your on AT&T for internet, its likely poor peering between your ISP and AT&T. Those "tier 1" networks like AT&T tend to only freely peer with other tier 1 networks (usually other massive Telcos) and a handful of tier 2 networks, resulting in congested peering points and significant unnecessary latency.
Azure SQL Hyperscale service
Which has what to do with Franklin, exactly?
Well if we berate Whatsapp where do we stop? Whatsapp is just an enabler. If there was only IRC to communicate I am sure fake news could use that channel as well.
Because Nature is claiming that science is not science. That should concern everyone.

The fact is that anatomy predicts gender over 99% of the time.

https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1064937624329048064

https://www.playboy.com/read/the-difference-between-sex-and-...
Germany’s Merck forges JV with Thiel’s Palantir to harness data to attack cancer
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There's an obvious possibility that people ignore because it's not very sexy: maybe life is common, but sending messages clearly over interstellar distances is pointless and extremely expensive.

Maybe the energy cost of transmitting a signal that can be clearly heard over interstellar distances -- mixed with the time/distance barriers of interstellar travel and communication -- makes it kind of pointless outside of novelty. (Not to mention any communication would happen on the scale of rise and fall of civilizations -- how do you even have a coherent conversation across hundreds of years?). I mean maybe most societies that form just don't have the energy and willpower to colonize outside their solar system. They might also be like us where dominant civilisations and philosophy’s rise and fall every few years — meaning not enough stability for a 50000 year long conversation

Perhaps the universe is silent simply because there's no reason to speak up.
Same here. Two BIG questions - Where was my info disclosed and for how long. Nobody at Amazon knows. They know there was a problem and they fixed it. We're supposed to believe that's it? Like me saying, "By the way, I smashed your car but don't worry I got it fixed." Wouldn't you have questions that easily could be answered by me? Not only does it suggest information cover-up, Amazon is telling me to be like the other good sheep and let it go. While I realize most people don't care about their privacy anymore, I do and want answers to some simple questions that Scamazon refuses to answer.
I received mine at 12:42AM EST, weird looking email I gotta say, really thought it was spam.
> not Apple, but the others

Why Amazon ?
Many of them never actually developed for Android as such.

Official NDK APIs are ISO C and C++ standard libraries, a couple of portable libraries like zlib and Android specific APIs.

As of Android 7, any application that tries to link to on-device libraries or do calls that aren't whitelisted just gets killed.

Yes one might successfully do Linux specific calls, but given they aren't part of the stable Android NDK API, any OEM is free to bork those attemps.

In practice, being based on Linux doesn't mean anything for app developers.

Only for those doing system space development, which are Google and the OEMs, noone else.
Reading through the article, they seem to geoeuve they are entitled to own people at a pretty basic level. Their argument basically comes down to 'we paid you now you can never use that knowledge anywhere else.' it's not physical ownership it's cognitive ownership and frankly the courts seem I'll preppared to make such a differentiation.

To add...the deference in courts and the public is generally towards assertions by powerful people as truth. Even when we know they have no basis, the deference remains and frames inferences and interpretation.

Example:

>But they knew, from the tight security in the office and the imposing nondisclosure agreements they were asked to sign, that their work was extremely valuable

It must be valuable because it's secured. I'm not saying it's not, but assuming it is simply because a corporation that acts in this way tries to secure it is nonsense. It's allowing them to author a narrative simply because you assume they act in good faith.
I wouldn't say "demolishes". A lot more like challenges his arguments with many, many words.
Automated customer service – story by John Scalzi
Because the justice system assumes good faith by all parties...
Yes, gartner is an evil creature of the corporate idiocy world. Instead of getting someone in your company that knows about an area, idiot bosses consult the gartner oracle to make choices. I've worked at several tech companies that overobsess on gartner, because they believe (apparently truely), that gartner love can really help your product.
KKR, Bain Create $20M Fund for Toys ‘R’ Us Workers
The Link Between Polygamy and War
I think in tech it is hard to see how the product you build is going to be used sometimes. If I work on something in AWS say EMR which enables the "evil corp" to analyze data and influence election outcome. But the same platform can be used by CERN to further their research work.

OTOH if I work for Shell or Dow I am pretty clear who I am working for.
It was to escape Edison’s patents. No one was going to go all the way to CA to enforce them. Im sure Wikipedia has a page.
Awareness of dapps and what they have gained huge traction in the blockchain developer community, especially on Ethereum and EOS. Ever since EOS launched its mainnet in June, the so-called "Game of Thrones” of the blockchain has kicked-off officially. Ethereum, the most established blockchain, EOS, the operating system designed for dapps, and high-speed blockchains including NEO, Stee, and TRON, are aggressively expanding their dapp landscape. As the facilitator and enabler of dapps, Dapp.com produced the “Dapp.com Q3 Market Report,” to recap what happened and where we are with dapps, especially regarding Ethereum and EOS.
I just forwarded this to their spoof-whatever@amazon.com and I got a reply of:

Thank you for writing to Amazon.com to bring this to our attention.

Your message has been forwarded to our security department, and we will investigate the situation. Please note that you may not receive a personal response.

In all likelihood, the message you received was not sent to you by Amazon.com. We strongly advise that you not send any information about yourself back to this individual (especially your credit card number or any personal information).

<omited for npc-based text (just repeats it self)>

Thank you again for taking the time to notify us of this situation.
Samsung to put its voice assistant Bixby in all devices by 2020
This is a very good short term option, that I hope others have been working on. My personal actions have been to encourage my family member to stop using social media, point them to top quality content producers like Joe Rogan & redlettermedia. And most importantly, I help them to calm down, the information available is exhausting, but the world around us isn't changing that fast, I remind them to use that as a reference, talk to people I person, get involved in local politics, take a nature walk, life is short.
I'm in the same area and am paying thousands per year just for basic home owners (no earthquake). Earthquake bids I've seen were thousands more with 15% deductibles (hundreds of thousands of dollars). Who is your insurance provider?
Oh no, I'm not referring to the employees there -- moreso the quality of content and how it's literally one large circlejerk of a corporate echo chamber with at least ten nines of noise