skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of asking the usual talking points ("Where do you work?/What do you do for work?" "Where are you from?"), try to ask _around_ them. So instead of asking someone what they do for work, try asking them what their day was like and then probing into their emotions (Was it good? What made it good? Was it bad? What made it bad?). We are shaped by our habitat and our work life, so people will naturally divulge those details if you ask _around_ enough while providing more "honest" answers.

Also, good conversations to most people are usually ones where they get to spend a lot of time talking about themselves. So one easy way to maintain a conversation is asking more questions that will get them talking about themselves.

Also, some people just don't like talking or are not in the mood to talk. While I love talking and meeting new people, I HATE doing it in confined places that I can't easily exit from (planes, car rides) or while I'm working out (gym, biking). Something I'm not good at (that I am trying to improve on) is telling people that I'm not in the mood for talking in a nice way, so often times, I come across as a dick in those situations when people try to talk to me. Picking up on queues that insinuate "I don't want to talk" (looking at phone, sitting with body turned away from you, looking everywhere else but the conversation, one- or two-word responses) and respecting that is also important.

Good luck!
Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins
Sounds great, but I see nothing on your site telling me why I should trust you with my banking credentials.
> Nginx gives you the ability to tweak functionality, but it's not as dynamic or as easy out of the box.

NginX supports Lua and Javascript embedded and out of the box on many distributions.
Your list is missing "pro-democracy advocates", "Muslims", "Christians", "Jews", "atheists", "women who want an abortion", "people trying to escape an abusive relationship", "people with interesting medical conditions", etc, depending on location.

Please don't pretend that both "only criminals have something to hide" and "criminals are by definition bad people" are true statements. Neither is true.
Yeah sure you rather have a list. Why not have it return a list of answers for every question that had a definite answer like this then?
Options are better.
All its going to take for the next paradigm shift will be for voice assistants and batteries to get better, and for google glass-like devices get so good that they match the feature set of smartphones and standalone VR systems and also become so small that they fit in a regular looking pair of sunglasses.

I'm not sure how long it will take, but it honestly seems inevitable.

Maybe it won't be glasses, but it will almost certainly be something we wear instead of a thing that we carry around forever.
I contract at WF and AFAIK absolutely nothing has changed regarding inventory ordering. It's still the same people using the same systems.
Comma2k19 – A dataset of over 33 hours of commute in California's 280 highway
Perfection is the enemy of good...

A picture would probably go 80% of the way there for most folks.
Didn't Amazon tell it's customers, that Alexa constantly records locally, but only sends the words after the "Alexa" magic, including 6 seconds before and 6 seconds after it, to the servers?
I'd suggest finding social environments where you can engage with people in a common activity. Sports (team, or individual but with common practice sessions), trivia, reading groups, etc. These can give you an opportunity to engage with people more but have a directed focus to it.

You may still dislike the people, but with your interaction focused on a mutually interesting topic you may have better success at dealing with those you dislike, as well as finding those you do like. I'd recommend staying away from highly competitive groups (Magic tournaments and the like), because that level of competitive play is often detrimental to other social interaction with the people. Good adult rec leagues are competitive enough to be fun, but most people know they're not pros so they still take a more relaxed attitude.

When you do start finding people you like spending time with, take the lead on initiating social engagements. Especially if they're not all from the same social circles. Invite several people that you like more out to dinner and a movie, or a Friday night at the bar, or a game night potluck. You may still feel a bit of an outsider, but it'll increase your opportunities for communicating and engaging with people and gives you control over the situation (which can make it more tolerable if you're an extreme introvert).
You mention songs in another of your posts. Jaynes also had something interesting to say about singing. If I remember correctly, Jaynes argues that singing is produced by the same side of the brain that produced the "voices of the Gods" (and also, the voices in schizophrenic patients), and not the same side that produces speech. To him it's no surprise the ancient forms of storytelling were actually songs.

Again, I must add the disclaimer that I don't know whether Jaynes was correct. I suspect he wasn't. But he built such a fascinating house of cards with his theory...
Precisely. Much of what is described as theories of consciousness describe the mechanics of consciousness, but not the topology of it. It is like describing how the parts of a machine interact, when we don't know what the parts actually are made of, or how they are shaped, or how they function or if they even exist.
Saf thing is, some current officers are thinking “oh nice. Lets find ways if exploiting this opportunity, by finding security issues on these devices, paying these corporations to allow us to sneak in their devices it any other means necessary to use these amazing machines.”
I have no idea why people aren't more concerned. I think the desire to avoid sounding "apocalyptic" has led to people not emphasizing the expected damage if we keep using CO2.

Anyone with a child born this year can expect that child to live past 2100. A future grandchild will live well past 2100. Even most people reading this can probably expect to live past 2050.

It's not an abstract issue that will affect future generations. It will affect us and our direct descendants.
==I can't remember the last time I had a routine flight between nearby cities delayed. ==

My brother-in-law had a flight from Chicago to Cincinnati (1h and 15min flight time) cancelled on Friday. Shorter flights don't gain as much altitude and tend to use smaller planes so they are more impacted by weather.

More broadly, through November, flights have been on-time 78.7% of the time in 2018 [1]. Keep in mind that on-time can still be as much as 15 minutes late.

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/reso...
You can also put

ENV['VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER'] = <provider>

In your Vagrantfile to force a specific provider to always be used for that Vagrantfile.
If you hire an expert to set up your ga referrer spam doesn't get through, its super easy to filter before hand.
> There is no practical way of knowing when Alexa has heard a keyword and recorded content around it.

I know this isn't the kind of certainty you're looking for, but Google Home and Alexa both allow you to enable audio cues for when they start and stop recording. I find this helpful from an accessibility perspective, but the privacy-conscious may also appreciate the indicator.
The word is pretty much analogy and counter analogy.

See this wikipedia article that discusses it in the context of logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy
Decent-code – A concise guide to writing better code
at least they are doing something with QNX
On Discouragement Attacks in Ethereum
> What I find a lot of people miss when comparing Slack to IRC, is that not everyone using Slack is a developer.

I know plenty of non-technical people who chatted on IRC who were not developers. They just used the mIRC client on windows to do that. They also managed to configure their email and news clients to send and read email and browse usenet.

I simply don't understand where the idea of needing a technical background came from for using something like IRC.
PowerDVD is CyberLink, you're probably thinking WinDVD (which apparently is still getting new updates).
I would suggest trying Shortcuts, because Shortcuts are so phenominally easy to create, share, and modify that it blows my mind.

It took me all of 3 minutes to create a Shortcut that lets me message my wife with my ETA at my house when I say "hey siri coming home" (or use the Siri activation in my car) and then "yes" when she asks for confirmation to send it. Takes my current location, finds the route to my house, grabs the time, and plops it into a custom message that I typed up that's sent to my wife's iPhone.
Isn't Elsevier just borrowing credibility from scientists and institutions, I mean, they could all self publish, because it is still their names that lend credibility to these reports, data and papers, not this aggregator/publisher?
Ninjs: News in JSON
Point 2: Although you’re right about the application processor side of your phone, you cannot disable a significant amount of tracking functionality built into the baseband/modem. Your cell carrier or ISP can track you the same way that Google could on an Android device. On the other hand, iPhone basebands usually don’t have DMA, while other phone manufacturers allow the modem to access application processor RAM.

The iPhone has a lot less tracking built in and has much better privacy controls than Android with Google Play Services, but there are still some avenues for different companies to track you and to have a lot of control over your device.
Researcher disclosed a Windows zero-day for the third time in a few months
Okay, I'm in. Funny, I've been active in rocketry (NewSpace and amateur experimental) the entire time they've been around and this is the first time hearing about them. I guess they're not building much in the way of hardware yet. Still, it's been over 20 years, surely they'd have built something significant in all that time.

Edit: researching the group a bit, it seems they are generally more int performance art than actually building hardware.
Journalism is collaborative more often than you likely think.
When OSM got started, the idea was to use GPS track data almost exclusively, or at least for the finer resolution stuff. The satellite imagery available freely at the time wasn't that good anyway.

But cleaning a bunch of GPS tracks can be a real mess. Many GPS tracks don't include the error/accuracy measurements and just pretend to be infinitely-small points scattered in the general vicinity of what might be a road. I think people tend to overestimate how accurate their satnav or phone's GPS is, because in most uses it's "locked" to a road or other map feature.

Anyway, not an intractable problem by any means, but preprocessing and cleaning GPS data to derive the actual terrain can be quite difficult. Paying somebody to click repeatedly on a satellite image might be temptingly easier.
> will likely never be directly supported by the main linux distribution vendors

Zfs is front and center for lxd on Ubuntu - and about as "supported" as can be?

I just can't wait for crypto support to really land in open zfs - would make it even easier to use for external drives (now encryption needs separate support, geli on bsd, dm-crypt/luks on Linux). And using zfs as a volume manager would make things in general easier and less complicated.
Daaamn... these are photos. Took me a minute to realize that!

Extraordinary work.
I did the same for my bachelors but we basically pushed a cart with a wifi sampler around the building and built a machine learning model in matlab based on the signal strength to access points.

It would have worked waaaay better if we had some sort of surveying equipment to accurately capture each few steps of the cart.
Grid+ aims to make it easy to use crypto to pay for energy, then everything
Even if you do this, on a standard Android device, there is still Google Play Services installed, which has every permission available on your device. You have to install a fresh custom ROM like LineageOS without GApps to avoid this.
The issue was (and probably still is) that MS Word paginates footnotes improperly. They can't change it because it will break backwards compatibility. This handed the legal market to WP. And because you can't reliably import/export the documents and get pagination to work, you often have legal firms using Word to do the initial preparation and then hand it over to a legal secretary to type the whole thing into WP -- which will be the document that is submitted to the court.
Should we? Heck, I'm feeling real nostalgic. Lets go back to land lines and 56K dial up modems while we are at it.

The real question is who is this guy and why should we even consider what he says seriously? And why is this so heavily upvoted?
> I don't know about sea level rise prediction accuracy

We have no way of knowing because no predictions were made for periods of time prior to now, so we have nothing to compare with the data.

The dire predictions of rapid rise in the future are based on the future predictions of climate models being correct, but the models are already known to over-predict future warming.

https://judithcurry.com/2018/11/27/special-report-on-sea-lev...

> temperature "hindcasts" hold up pretty well

But temperature forecasts don't. Hindcasts aren't predictions.

https://judithcurry.com/2015/12/17/climate-models-versus-cli...
When it comes to Illinois, saying "The governor" is not enough. Which governor?

3 of the last 7 governors spent time in prison.
>that's what actually happens.

Oh no, a wild true believer suddenly appears.

JK :)
Wow, it's like a weird combination of Albert Speer and Japanese forms.
I disagree. I think it is kept out because it violates your 4th amendment rights, and if enough judges saw that violation at least one would remember their civic duty.
This is something I've wanted to mention for ages. A lot of modern web development seems to be about what's 'fun' for the developers rather than what works best for the company or user, and you can see it in the framework/tech obsession present in many companies and organisations. A lot of the time they don't need all React/Angular/Vue/Docker/Serverless/blockchain/whatever, they just need a simple CRUD system that lets them input content and have it shown to the user in plain HTML/CSS. But that's not 'fun', it doesn't get them respect on Twitter or at conferences (or on Hacker News) and makes it hard to hire programmers for, so hey, let's overengineer everything and pretend our blog is freaking Google.

Still, over engineering sites and products because you want work to be 'fun' isn't exactly exclusive to web developers. Quite a few game designers have similar issues in that field, and I suspect there's a bit of a clash in ideals between creators and audiences overall. It's rare you find a creator of any kind who just wants to do the same thing over and over and works solely for the money, and that's the cause behind all these issues.
I loved PSP under Jasc, after I think XII after the Corel buyout, I gave up on the product... Paint.Net or Gimp (painfully) give me the little utility I usually need. I really do miss PSP, but I think 9 was the last really good version, and I don't have a key or media for it anymore.

It sounds like it's gotten a little worse.
I think you give Siri too much of the benefit of the doubt when you say that Siri understands your request. You may be correct, but maybe Siri just looks for a location like "McDonalds" and most of the time just shows you a list? It's easier when you're ignoring the rest of the sentence as if it has no relevance to improving your response.

It's very hard for us to discuss Siri's internal state; by contrast it's easier to discuss Google's observable performance, which is to semantically differentiate between these two requests.

You can just ask Google, "Nearby McDonalds" and you'll get a list. "Go to the nearest McDonalds" and you get navigation.
I don't understand this comment chain, replies, patterns of downvotes at all.

Nothing, anywhere, indicates that Project Mu has anything to do with "other OSes" on Surface devices. And the grandparent comment is a direct implication that Project Mu would/will be critical to Linux on Surface.

This isn't to say that this is not neat, from what I've heard about TianoCore and the codebase, but linking this to Linux on Surface seems completely invented and just a weird comment given that it already works pretty well, minus missing drivers that will still be missing even with an OSS UEFI core.
"Staff Software Engineer" is typically the level above senior, and below principal. It's not commonly used at smaller companies. I agree about the ordering/ranking.
> There was no indication that something we’d been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.

In the early 90s, early web and internet, I knew people who protected their IRL identities from the net. "Flying under the radar."

I thought they were somewhere between paranoid and "excitable."

We should probably not ignore crazy people as hard as we do.
Yes, agreed. In built-up areas it's not like roads move very often.

I wonder if someone couldn't do "deltas" of satellite imagery to produce some sort of heatmap of how quickly various areas are changing. That would give you an idea of what areas are 'safe' to map based on satellite imagery, and what areas are changing too quickly and need to be mapped some other way.

It would also give you a way of automatically flagging stale data on the vector map; if something hasn't been updated in 12 months and you know from imagery that the area is under heavy development, those map features are probably not trustworthy anymore.
I think OpenOffice, Google Docs and Appple’s suite would beg to differ. I don’t think I’ve seen an install in two decades.
(Caveat: I’m the CEO of Tyk)

Tyk offers a more “batteries included” approach to Kong, and so doesn’t rely on external plugin authors to extend the ecosystem. 100% of our dev team are constantly working on our open source components and we like to keep it that way.

Because of that, Tyk isn’t “open core” like Kong is, there’s no lock-in or levers to get you to buy our value-adds like our Management Dashboard GUI or our Multi-Data-Center clustering add-on - you should be able to do all API Management without having to pay us a penny.

A simple example is OpenID connect support, this is a Kong enterprise plugin, with Tyk that comes as part of the normal gateway.

In terms of performance Tyk and Kong are pretty close now (Tyk pre 2.6 was slower) but we believe we now have parity, especially when switching on things like analytics, auth and rate limiting.

Tyk works very well in k8s though we don’t have a helm chart yet (coming soon).

You can also deploy Tyk as pure SaaS (fully managed), hybrid cloud (we handle back-end and control plane, you install gateways local to services) and full on-prem (install anywhere: K8s, AWS, GCP, Azure - even on Arm servers). We’re unique in that regard.

Tyk has always been separated into control-plane and operations-level components (our gatewaybis very small), so we don’t see that as something new to crow about. If you use our Dashboard, it moves the configuration and data layer out of the gateways and moves it centrally. If you use our MDCB system (enterprise) you can extend that capability across clusters in different clouds to get really targeted, distributed API governance.

There’s a bunch of other things that are different too, but they are more functional.
@moderators should probably be marked [2013]
I didn't really understand exactly how it works from the linked page.
I think you're perhaps mixing two bad decisions into one. One is the decision relating to Android "read call log" permissions – this involves Michael LeBeau and Yul Kwon. The other is Justin Osofsky asking Mark Zuckerberg about shutting off Vine's Friends API access – for this, Zuckerberg personally gave the go-ahead. "Yup, go for it."

All from here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-documents-show-fac...
> Certainly not the CEI's (Competitive Enterprise Institute) who distributed your figure.

The CEI is only one of many places that "distribute" this figure. As you can see from the lower left of the figure, it was actually made by John Christy, a climate scientists who showed it in testimony before the US House of Representatives in 2015. A good discussion of the chart and what it means is given in the Judith Curry article I linked to in another post upthread.
It's where programs go to die. Corel today is what Computer Associates was twenty years ago.
The problem with that is that different people will give a different quantitative value. Something low for you would be medium for me, and something else that is medium for you would be low for me. It's not a partial ordering.
You have more adam curtis to discover
https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-lov...
"The majority of Google developers are using it now," Chris Capossela, Microsoft's chief marketing officer, said.

I doubt that.
Just Devil's Advocate here, but you're essentially saying that people affirmatively agreed to something that they didn't understand in a contract of adhesion.

I mean, that's kind of a tough thing to hang our hats on if the idea is to take Facebook down. From congress the best you could hope for there is for companies to be required to use "more clear" language when writing up consumer agreements in the future. Which would be a nightmare requirement in and of itself, so it would likely never happen.
I know it tends to be more preference, but even on the 2018 MacBook Pros I find the keyboards terrible. Dust and spill resistant sure, slightly improved tactile response yes, but unlike my 2015 MacBook Pro my fingers seem to get strained and sore from the butterfly keyboards. I like travel in my keys.
Corel Painter has its niche among digital artists - it's still one of the higher end digital painting programs that simulates real life mediums (acrylic, oil, watercolor) remarkably well.

There's really no iPad equivalent to Corel Painter, but Corel registered the procreate.com domain to redirect to their Painter product page (Procreate (procreate.art) by the Australian company Savage is one of the strongest digital art applications on the iPad).

Corel has also recently purchased Gravit Designer, which presumably will stand as their main digital design app that competes with Sketch and Adobe XD.
The majority is actually using a browser based IDE.
As a white male, in Kentucky of all places... I've never once thought or heard, aloud or in confidence, a complaint about losing 'dominant group status.'. The closest would be probably immigrants taking jobs, but I think that's more related to wages and unemployment than anything else.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I can't imagine anything close to a majority of whites feel that way.
For those interested in the olfactory world, there is this beautiful novel „Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by Patrick Süskind. I read it as a teenager and it changed my world. Unfortunately, the title already suggests that the English translation may not be as good as the original in German.
Yet another podcast episode about Jack Parsons from Something True. Highly recommended.

https://www.idlethumbs.net/somethingtrue/episodes/babylon
> Anyone with a child born this year can expect that child to live past 2100.

Overall life expectancy at birth is not greater than 81 in the US, though it is at 81 for females.