skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm a customer of B.A.A.S.)

It helps with the follow through, because you'll let someone besides yourself down if you don't. Besides that, they help you plan and keep things sustainable. When you send goals that are poorly defined, they help you convert them into actionable ones.

Ultimately, you decide priority on these matters, but it helps to have that second mind that actively thinks with you.
There is also some feedback in the Reddit thread [1] and it is mixed, though someone claims, that got full refund.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/promethease/comments/9866da/dante_l...
I dropped my camera in crude oil…and it survived
It’s Time to Close Safe Harbor
Sure. That sounds great. Where’s the evidence?
You can pause updates for 35 days and I have not seen any ads yet in my win10 pro. Restarting a Laptop/Desktop every 35 days is not too bad.
Binaryedge Black Friday deal
at 88 years old he makes every decision about organizations that OS sponsors. Highly doubt it.
I've been self medicating with modafinil for a while now and it does wonders. I don't use it daily and usually only take half a dose for a day and it has truly made a night and day change in my productivity. Even when I don't use it as I now know the "mindset" I need to be in to get things done, or at least I try.
"Oh yeah and I bought a $299 dock with it, I'm so happy"

That's my #1 complaint with the new macbooks. They are expensive enough already, and I hate having to buy dongles/docks as well.

I just hope my 2015 rMBP doesn't die on me for a while
In most cases, yes. Most shared hosting providers will execute all PHP files as a default, although it's quite doable to block access using rewrite rules or custom access controls.

Problem is that the majority of WordPress users lack the know-how to do it on their own, as well as the will to pay for someone else to do it for them.

Web hosts aren't interested because supporting it would be a nightmare due to the millions of possible plugin/theme combinations.
We scan the entire internet space and create real-time threat intelligence streams and reports that show what is exposed on the internet. Our objective is to help you answer questions like:
- What services is your organization exposing?
- How many IOT devices are accessible?
- How many services/databases are miss-configured?
- What DataLeaks have affected a specific e-Mail?
In all likelyhood this is a “submarine” article crafted by a PR firm like Definers for a hit job on Facebook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511963

There are plenty of short sellers who would benefit from FB’s plummeting stock. In reality, FB’s DAU/MAU are largely unchanged. The stories that young people “deleted Facebook” were downright falsehood. There is simply no viable competition for Facebook in market right now like what Yahoo had in terms of Google.
For whatever reason installing via apt or maybe IO in general is slow. AFAIK they are working on it.

But CPU intensive tasks should be be similar to host system.
> When his doctor prescribed a CPAP, the company that supplied his device, At Home Medical, told him he needed to rent the device for $104 a month for 15 months. The company told him the cost of the CPAP was $2,400.

Levy said he wouldn’t have worried about the cost if his insurance had paid it. But Levy’s plan required him to reach a $5,000 deductible before his insurance plan paid a dime. So Levy looked online and discovered the machine actually cost about $500.

Levy said he called At Home Medical to ask if he could avoid the rental fee and pay $500 up front for the machine, and a company representative said no.

This looks an awful lot like fraud. Remarkably, the mark-up disclosure and best-pricing rules required to fix this could be largely copy-pasted from the securities industry.
No, they use Amadeus.
Amadeus is a wonderful mainframe program that perfectly and with 100% accuracy faithfully models how you'd book a train ticket in France in the fifties.

What more could we want?
I'm still sitting on my Macbook pro 2012 (non-retina). I have postponed upgrading to new macbook for the last 2 years (16gb ram, 2x250GB SDD in raid-0) During that time I easily replaced battery, replaced broken LCD, replaced broken hdd. However I'm slowly considering moving to Thinkpad P1 because I don't see any macbook that would be suitable for me.

The biggest concert is I'm an iOS developer. I consider to move to programming either Android or cross-platform with Qt framework. Then either jailbreak my iphone XS and compile code on it (iphone XS is more powerfull than my macbook i7) or go virtual machine or hackintosh road just to do app sideloading while testing or real iphone devices. Or switch even to android device.

I really like Thinkpad P1 that it gives lots of room for future upgrades with 2x ram slots and 2x m.2 ssd slots so I don't need to max out my rams or ssd now.

The final straw for me on new macbooks is that they soldered SSD and even removed backup port. I'm contracting so I'm loosing money if I have to wait 2 weeks for repairs. Besides I often work from developing countries in south east asia - where you would have to wait even longer instead of picking up off-the-shelf ram or ssd. Keyboard reliability issue also scares me a lot in new macbooks.
"git commit -a" will skip staging entirely if that's what you'd like to do. Should "-a" have been the default? Maybe, but that doesn't mean that you can't use it.

Now, if you want to exclude certain files from a commit I will freely admit this is a pain. The easiest way, especially if you have loads of untracked files you don't want to commit, is to do:

% git commit -a && git reset HEAD~ <file> && git commit --amend

Which is pretty awful, I will admit. I had an alias to do this a while ago (without the need to amend the commit) but it wasn't great fun.

However staging is still a useful concept, and "gl commit" as far as I can tell doesn't really allow me to do something I do quite often ("git add -p" to add partial hunks of a change to staging for a commit). I recognise that I'm probably in the vast minority (outside of the kernel community) when it comes to my Git usage, but staging is definitely quite important for some Git usecases.
I actually live in the Midwest and have never in my life come across anything resembling a "cult-like" perspective of Chicago.
I wonder how much of the problem is simply in the name.
Or not. Why begrudge another’s bliss?
You've never had something that you really wanted to do, learn, or get better at that you've never followed through with?
Yes it has force touch trackpad
American regime is truly terrible. I boycott all the American for years, and wonder how many people are doing the same in 2018.
I don't get it. Isn't everything or almost everything being built in china nowadays? If you don't trust them, build in house.
If we had AI that was as much smarter than us than we are than, say, dolphins or chimpanzees... assuming that physical limits kept that gap from widening, would you see that as this disastrous singularity?

See, I always thought of the singularity, at least the hard takeoff as this idea that we'd come up with an ai that could make smarter copies of itself. Without any physical limits, that AI would get to the point where it was essentially infinitely smarter and infinitely more powerful than us.

I personally see that as fundamentally different from the difference between humans and the higher animals. I mean, that's a big difference, sure, but it's certainly finite.
Oh man ... I remember the time that I was thinking seriously about doing Plymouth theme of HAL9000. The idea was having a little window showing dmesg at boot, and random HAL900 stuff on the other fake screens.
> Lighter would be nice.

It's already beyond the point of where "lighter would be nice". Now "lighter" only means "we'll take all the capabilities you care about and all the ports you need away".

I wish Apple stopped with their obsession on "lighter and thinner".
> there are plenty of short sellers who would benefit from FB’s plummeting stock

This is a weird meme that’s cropped up in tech circles over the past few years. It’s misleading and incorrect.

No short selling fund sells short and then secretly seeds negative PR pieces. If you’re short, your argument is always strengthened by disclosing you put your money behind your words. Short sellers hire private investigators, commission research and occasionally take out ads against companies. They do not put out hit pieces—it is too inefficient and expensive.
Have you heard of the “Eight Great Eminent Officials” of CCP? Their descendants summoned a meeting early this year to criticize Xi and Xi “had to” show up. There are rumors that the someone from the committee threatened to replace Xi in the next term.

Xi is quite powerful but Chinese politics have a much “deeper water” than you thought
The book (and film) is specifically talking about absent fathers. The next line is "Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?"

It's pretty much the theme of the film: Masculinity as a desperate absence and conversely a desperate danger, in all it's facets from the comedic ("In death a member of Project Mayhem has a name") to the bathetic ("remaining men together") to the deeply sinister and violent. In a time when it is culturally deracinated and absent from so many men's childhoods.
Shady doesn't mean breaking the contract. Moving to legal action for being a single day late is very power-trippy and being power-trippy is shady.
If you consider a gap of roughly 700 years to be "lining up well", then sure.

But from a more conventional perspective, the epic of Gilgamesh is much, much, much older than the Rigveda.
I used to run my own mail server but moved to FastMail about five years ago (after a short stint with Google Apps).

I haven’t looked back.
I don't know if Ikea has some rule to not talk about copying, but I would assume that to be the case also here: that they're actually imitating some relatively well known photo.
All 2015 macbook pros (13", 15", with or without dedicated gpu) support 1 or 2 4K 60Hz displays on using a displayport 1.2 compatible monitor
The Stasi didn't try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them
Its actually illegal for companies to contact me unless I already have business with them.

Why Americans don't value their privacy or enjoy being harassed by sales people is beyond me.
There's a good chance it'll be something novel we can't even imagine right now. Remember, as static as the social media world seems, every few years seems to bring at least one major service that comes out of nowhere. See Instagram, Snapchat, and arguably messaging apps like WhatsApp, Slack and Discord.

That saud, I'd guessing that any successful social media app then would be:

1. Mostly private, because the over arching fears of survelliance and spying and a lack of privacy do seem to be getting to people, as does the media's tendency to take random jokes/comments and blow them out of proportion.

I think that's why Discord has caught on so much with young people now. Because stuff like Reddit being public meant their communities ended up coming under fire for every little controversy, and they constantly had teachers/employers/media folk looking there for things that could get them in trouble/cause drama. So invite only and private is likely a big part of any future platform's setup.

2. Probably more image/video based than text based. We're seeing a move away from text in general nowadays with stuff like YouTube and Twitch being mainstream, and the likes of Instagram/Snapchat/Pinterest just make that even clearer.

But it's hard to tell really. Could honestly be anything.
Giving one language the same name as another language from which it doesn't descend isn't really a good reason to claim that the earlier language is "still" spoken.
Some company have back offices that they've spent considerably more on. Airline companies for instance may have a tool that lets the person at the gate check who that person is, what their deal is, etc. And then GDPR happened and the bill to ensure that every rule is followed to the letter and suddenly 2M€ isn't that bad after all...
In all likelihood, since this is The Economist - you're wrong.
The author of this piece seems to not or realise, or conveniently ignore, that the very services which he derides for exploiting content-creators wouldn't exist without the Safe Harbor provision in the first place.

Under which, these creators would never have had a platform to distribute their content, or would be beholden to the traditional film and music distributors.

I don't really get much point to this, other than 'we could be making more money, its unfair we're not.'
> You say this like it's obviously a bad idea. Why?
I think the article he cites answers this question.
In what ways is your new 13 a big step up? Performance? Battery? Screen? I know that with the smaller bezel it's overall more compact than an older 13, but it's still bigger and heavier.

Let's hope that new Macbook arrives next year...
Nooo don't make it lighter! I want it heavier! Put more batteries or cooling in it!
> Were you under the impression that IKEA's flimsy materials and construction were some quaint design choices unrelated to cost?

The interesting thing about IKEA is that while the materials are cheap, they are also build to last. You can disassemble IKEA stuff and reassemble it without breaking it too much and they know that because their customer support is amazing. I carried boatloads of things back and replaced them because they were no fit.

If IKEA would build just flimsy thing they could not afford that level of customer support because everybody would just replace the broken parts. They don't break nearly as often as you would believe.
i totally agree, but living in the world of mostly ascii-limited code this looks exotic, weird and refreshing. and cool
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Things that attempt to rewrite links and inline css and javascript are doomed to fail. Many sites do wierd javascript shenanigans, and without a million special cases, you'll never make it work reliably. Just try archiving your facebook news feed and let me know how it goes.

Instead, archivists should try to record the exact data sent between the server and a real browser, and then save that in a cache. Then, when viewing the archive, use the same browser and replay the same data, and you should see the exact same thing! With small tweaks to make everything deterministic (disallow true randomness in javascript, set the date and time back to the archiving date so SSL certs are still valid), this method can never 'bit rot'.

When technology moves on, and you can no longer run the browser and proxy, you wrap it all up in a virtual machine, and run it like that. Virtual machines have successfully preserved games consoles data nearly perfectly for ~40 years now, which is far better than pretty much any other approach.
I wonder how often that middle manager looks back and regrets the move. Or how often he/she doesn't.

It might be the reality that those people in society who ruin 9/10 lives are amorally oblivious, and stay that way through long, comfortable lives of their own.
I used ClearCase 3 years ago and this is spot on. ClearCase is little better than keeping revision history manually by zipping old versions of files. I sometimes wonder what kind of insane mind came up with its workflow.

First of all, to checkout a branch, you don't simply select its name. You need to write a freaking configuration file to tell CC what you want to checkout. And it is entirely possible to accidentally write that configuration file in such a way that you'll have half of repository checked out from one version of code, while the other half is checked out from another version of code.

Then there is history of changes. Or in case of ClearCase: histories of changes. Because there are many, in fact as many as there are files. Yes, each file has its own history of changes, completely independent from other files. So if you make a commit which changes 10 files, CC will create separate commit for each of those 10 files, each with the same commit message. Needless to say, browsing history with same commit messages repeated tens or hundred of times, is quite an adventure.

Oh, and because of that, it is not possible to simply checkout some old version of code. If you are lucky, you will have put labels on all files of needed version of code, so then you can checkout that label. Otherwise the only option is to checkout based on dates of commits, and hope that your provided date won't actually cut any commit in half.
I am using PVC liners "Stop Flats 2" that go inside the tire. Due to broken glass everywhere I went flat often before, but never since. It is a compromise, makes the wheel heavier but it is cheap and won't affect feeling much.
A video overview:

"... two hundred million of these mounds covering an area similar to the UK. This means that 10 km^3 (about 4000 great pyramids of Giza) of soil have been excavated, making this the greatest known example of ecosystem engineering by an insect..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlS48mptbM

And the paper:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
Ah, right, I misread the original comment. Thank you for the correction.
One theory is that the brain has evolved specific "modules" that are specialized to certain tasks (i.e. detecting cheaters in social scenarios) and we perform much better when we can rely on these brain-ASICs than when we have to use our general-purpose higher reasoning faculties.

As far as I know, there's no conclusive evidence for reasoning modules, but there do seem to be analogous modules in our visual processing system.
Banks employ lobbyists and hand out more than pizzas to politicians?
Oh my, this is funny. Chinese consumes one third of the worlds luxury commodities.
While I agree that this is slightly worrying, in mitigation they are using BGI for the sequencing, and BGI are known to be extraordinarily busy right now. Our lab sent off 150 genomes to be sequenced by them, and they delayed by quite a few months. Hopefully that should be sorted out soon. The data we got back was very good quality.
One of the reasons I stopped using WhatsApp and Instagram is that they got acquired by FB...
https://www.digistore24.com/redir/85671/SimonV/
Religion is as much a societal construct as any other value or system, such as exploitative corporate systems that heavily incentivize this kind of behavior.
That is true and a good point. But when you think about it, with a large enough budget you could create hardware backdoors in microprocessors in the manufacturing plant without the chip designer ever knowing about it.

Then you're in a weird world, where a flagship smartphone has backdoors created by Samsung, Google, three different governments and the weird guy that worked with the chip design in team #7.
Facebook jumped the shark when they started trying to encourage private individuals to “create engagement” and pay to boost their posts. If internal marketing jargon is leaking into your UX, you clearly have serious problems with how your staff are being incentivised.

Facebook could have become an engine that allowed society to maximise human capital and but they sacrificed all that potential at the altar of growth hacking and bleeding advertisers dry.
>even court cases against the government

I mean, that was basically the extent of it though. There has been little-to-no actual systemic change.
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> I wonder if the architects/engineers considered the possibility that there would be 3 people standing on every single step of this staircase

I find it interesting that you assume they did not. The job of a structural engineer is to ensure exactly that.
Yes, but this setup with Deutsche Telekom will end in 2019 and does not accept new customers.
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How to Integrate Payment Gateway for Android Application?
When you get something without asking is the best way to survive relationship, Thanks for sharing.
Can Drupal Be Used for Enterprise Websites?
> Per mile travelled, (modern) elevators are literally the safest form of transit ever developed by our species.

Aeroplanes are at 0.05 deaths per billion km. There are around 30 deaths due to elevators in the US each year. So for elevators to be safer people would need to be traveling 600 billion km in elevators each year. The population of the US is around 300 million, so each person would need to average 1000km a year, or around 3km a day.

Even people in tall skyscrapers probably don't hit that number on too many days.
Rule of PPs: The longer the document the less protection it offers.
> The mounds, which are easily visible on Google Earth
Everything in Linux worked out of the box for me. I only had to click a checkbox saying I wanted to use Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Meanwhile, installing Windows is a pain in the ass. I had to go to Realtek's site on a separate machine to get ethernet drivers before I could even use the internet. Then I had to go to Nvidia's site to get the GPU driver. Rinse and repeat for various exes on various sites for everything you need. Package management is a joke, so good luck installing all the software you need since you're about to go on a scavenger hunt through somewhat questionable download sites. Then spend hours trying to disable all the spying and forced updates, only for your settings to get reset in the next big release.
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Snowden's stuff is about how Gov sources your data. That is a good start, but is only one part of the problem.

We need another Snowden to leak how corporations source, aggregate and store your data. A whistleblower from inside Google/Facebook/AdTech/CDNs.
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> I used a few Linux versions last year and none could do the switch window feature without breaking (alt tab on Windows).

This is Windows specific and completely idiotic IMHO. Just like on macOS you can switch windows belonging to a single application with a certain key combination (in Gnome it's Alt + the key left to the 1 key).

Of course it's a hassle to fix some driver issues, although this has drastically improved over the last 10 years. These days it's usually more firmware that leaves you hanging.

But at least I don't have to jump through a ton of hoops to get the most basic development software installed. Unless you do Windows specific development or you're forced by your corporate environment I don't really see any advantages to Windows.
Google still uses code search widely internally. It's one of their greatest internal-only productivity boosts. The fact it has knowledge of includes and cross-references and function prototypes and templates is amazing...

You can still use it as an outsider to search Chromium:

https://cs.chromium.org/
Can an Exploding Meteor have wiped out Dead Sea communities?
The genotyping technology used by 23andMe and similar efforts is a genotyping array chip. These are only capable of detecting common variants. This is great for calculating ethnicity and common traits, and even maybe some moderately rare conditions (such as the most common BRCA1 variants), but is completely incapable of detecting variants that cause rare conditions. Rare conditions can only be caused by rare variants. Whole genome sequencing can detect most of these rare variants.
The latter, though sometimes you need to follow a few links, and some of them are broken. But there is a proof. Somewhere :-)
Most of the google video tech got moved over to youtube anyway.