skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just leave a mess and walk away

You make it sound like the people of Louisville are now in a worse position than before Google Fiber came, and that they've somehow left the community in a lurch. All that's really going to happen is the subscribers go back to whatever ISP they had previously.

Now if there's evidence that Google Fiber is abandoning a liability for torn up roads, or misrepresented their micro-trenching to the city council that made the deal, that would definitely qualify as "leaving a mess", but I haven't seen evidence of that.
I saw this in the wild yesterday. It's beaten Ublock Origin so far.
It was during last year on the GDC on some weird place near the convention center. Didn't visit any normal starbucks during the trip. Just enjoyed the $14 or so alcoholic drinks.
Biologists answer fundamental question about cell size
This analysis has some merit if you don't jump to the conclusion that it's praise. The presumed reason for the downvotes is the issue of accountability. A President who can't be taken literally isn't viable. Oh and the part about Kerry and Bolton is nonsense. But other than that, it seems like obvious stuff.
Those with self-respect don't last long in murderous Middle Eastern dictatorships. Why would they even want someone like that around?

Of course, one doesn't detect a great deal of self-respect in the upper echelons of power in more "democratic" nations, either.
Eh, maybe for something simple.

In a complex product (as in, most professional settings or large services/web sites) the PHP I've seen is grossly complex, and not intuitive—especially WordPress deployments.

Dev teams have to perform all kinds of gymnastics with the PHP code to get it to do what they want, and it's just a flat out nightmare that I've made sure my boss and colleagues know that I have no desire to work with it.

It always ends up a house of cards and full of vulnerabilities so that something is regularly getting exposed that allows at least editorial access. Security issues that should otherwise be no problem.

God knows how many other vulnerabilities exist. Every single server I've ever had has had bots and crawlers polling for common PHP files in an effort to exploit them, should they exist.

I just don't like having even the chance that my back-end source could, for want of a single character, spill out to a web page upon request.

And then there's performance...

Anyway for simple things, sure. For things that don't require much security, sure. For anything else... it's not for me.
except in reality people max themselves out and would continue to do so without the requirement to work - it's human nature to work as hard as possible for what one loves
Understanding API-Based Platforms: A Guide for Product Managers
PHP's package manager makes it really easy to pull in components a la carte. Similar to OP, I rarely use a large framework like Symfony or Laravel. I have a base application I wrote which I like, and I layer components I trust and whose API fits my preferences as I require them.

Additionally, the PSR project has standardized a lot of APIs (HTTP request/response, logging, cache to name a few), which means if a package conforms to PSR, you get interop out of the box and can quickly swap implementations if needed.
Here's the thing(s):

1. It's not just 1 type of ad. In Little Snitch, I have permitted Spotify to connect to 281 different domain names, most of which are ad-related. That's a lot of companies being allowed to run JS in whatever webview Spotify uses to display ads. I don't listen much on my computer anymore.

2. They keep advertising deals to me - $0.99 for a month, or $9 for 3 months, that I can't subscribe to because they don't let people in Quebec sign up for them, (something related to the consumer protection laws here). These ads are audio, in-app visuals, and even E-mails. This leaves a horrible taste in my mouth, and I've let them know several times, but they never change it. That, combined with the fact that I feel like the $10/month subscription is a tad expensive, make me very reluctant to subscribe again, (I was a subscriber through my mobile phone plane for a long time). At $5/month I'd subscribe instantly. $7-8 I'd probably still do it. $9-10 I can buy 10-12 CDs per year that I own in perpetuity.

I feel like if they did the ads right, (in-house, with non-insulting geotargeting), or offered a subscription price closer to one latté per month, I would have a lot less animosity and be more supportive of this move.
"The friendly bubble is just everywhere… So from a novelty thing, it becomes “oh. that bubble again”.

This. Exactly this. It's just like banner ad blindness. Sure, it'll work in the first year or so, but after that, people will start to turn blind to it.
Because the Amazon music subscription you get through prime is terrible.
A major part of the reason the VA fails is that it is legally bound to provide coverage for people all over the country, with a center within X miles of every person that needs it, while only getting funding to cover roughly one percent of the population.

Singler payer healthcare works a lot better if everyone is covered because then resources can be allocated more efficiently.
OP here. While my division was in an investment bank, we were a prop desk that was eventually spun out of the bank, so we did have a "hedge-fund" vibe. I think what you're saying is spot on. The level of manual effort required to keep an automated system competitive and functional is often grossly underestimated by amateur traders.
I think this is the part that people miss when discussing the nuclear attacks. It’s purpose was not tactical or military. It was a political purpose.
The thing is, from the 60's through the fall of the wall, you can say what you want, but I distinctly remember everyone MUCH preferring German Marks to any other European currency. (Probably the Swiss Franc was on par with it, you get the idea. No one wanted Lira, and, at times, even Pounds and French Francs were out of favor.) Germany, or Germany and France, were usually the driving force behind most European initiatives during that time.

Not only then, but still today. (If not even more today.) I remember the late unpleasantness with the PIIGs, and believe it or not, there was a little while there where people would try to determine where a Euro note came from...

and they wouldn't take it unless it was from Germany.

The Germans may not be vocal about dominating Europe, but they definitely dominate Europe. And they have in many ways for a long time. At least since the 60's.
Interested? Most definitely.
> Why should spotify have any say on what software you use on your computer?

They don't, clearly, as there are people who are running software they would prefer people don't run.

What they do have a say on is whether you get to have a Spotify account, and they can base that on whether or not you're seeing the ads their software uses for revenue.

You of course have the option to pay for the service, which results in the ads being removed from the service.

I say all this as someone who doesn't use Spotify at all.
When you have too many people living in the past, you get the mess San Francisco is in with NIMBYs blocking market rate housing projects, declaring rundown laundromats as “historical landmarks” and fights over shadows.
> otherwise it's a bit hard to take it seriously.

This is the wrong attitude. You should realize that you may not be able to do all possible or necessary measures to protections all at once. That doesn't mean you should avoid doing some of them, and the article talks about that.

So, in other words, if you didn't do step 0, let it not stop you from doing other steps.
T1 can’t be reversed.
Your images indicate a confusion of deep-v vs displacement hulls; whereas what the intention is a displacement vs planing hull.

Merchant vessels, and historic sailboats (pictured), even the WWII troop carriers were displacement hulls. Traditional navy sail ships carried additional stones as ballast to create stability. Mono-hull sail boats use a deep weighted keel to increase stability. On a displacement hull, the deep-vee design increases stability when compared to a flat bottomed boat, and has more space for ballast (at a low center of gravity)

Planing Hulls are more commonly used for recreation or speed, and are often those those that have a "deep-v" bow. Planing hulls are designed to lift mostly out of the water, while the deep-vee is across the beam and facilitates cutting through rough water.

A deep-v displacement hull is great for crossing rough oceans, or keeping a boat stable as cannons are firing, but not a great choice for fuel efficiency or landing on beaches as a flat bottomed displacement boat.

A planing hull is great when you have a modern gasoline engine and plan to be going > 15mph. A deep-vee allows that to come down through a wave, cut through the wave and lift back up. [Salinity would have very little effect on the stability of a planing hull as its stability is mostly provided by speed, though, launching or sitting would be unstable with it's half "flat" hull]

About deadrise
https://www.tropicalboating.com/2010/04/deep-v-shallow-v-or-...

The Vasa (Swedish Ship) is a great example of poor initial stability, center of gravity understanding, and how a deeper keel (with more stones) OR removing higher mounted cannons in briney water could have changed things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)#Causes_of_sinking
It sounds like they're only suspending free accounts for adblockers. At the same time, I don't mind spotify tracking how I use the application. It generates valuable data for their product managers to improve the overall experience. If there's evidence spotify is using this data to track users across the internet, then there's problem.
It's up for me
We got from "total fabrication" to "resource management" pretty quickly...
You mean they're not allowed to complain about it on the internet?
I thought the idea was to reduce pointless busy work and increase actual productive work for people that wanted to. The overall outcome being increased net productivity. I have no idea how you would measure that though as I imagine there would be less people interested in working overall.
It isn't, the proposed benefit of a basic income is that it does less to discourage finding jobs than traditional welfare where you lose benefits when you find a job. How many of the people with a UBI got jobs compared to people without a UBI would very much be a question of interest.
Yes, many of them follow the path of least resistance, but not all of them. Even the usual researcher from the middle of the herd votes against publishers with the reading behaviors.
When the definition is unclear like this I would say companies tend to over-report what they're reasonably certain probably isn't a breach and under-report things in the grey area that probably are a breach.

We can be reasonably certain the regulators won't want to be bothered with every account statement misdelivery but they haven't specifically told us. Self-reporting this is low risk and demonstrates an effort at complying with the regulation. It also has the added "benefit" (from the corporation's perspective) of demonstrating to the regulator how onerous and unreasonable the compliance obligations will be for their office if they don't make an effort to set "reasonable" compliance and reporting standards (again, from the corporation's perspective).

But the contractor who "misplaced" the flashdrive of customer data? Well we haven't been told that's a breach because we don't know that it's "lost." It certainly feels like something a regulator would care about more than a misdelivered account statement but they haven't specifically told us they care about this scenario yet. That's a risky thing to self-report because there will probably be consequences and we have no idea what the consequences are because it hasn't come up for anyone else yet either. In that case it's low(er) risk not to report it and hang our hat on the ambiguity of the new regulation in the very unlikely event the regulator even gets wind of the breach. The strategy is to ask for forgiveness for our ignorance of the scope rather than clarification.

It's not right, but that's how it works.

Source: Corporate attorney/Former Chief Info Security Officer at an investment bank. I quit over their handling of a particularly egregious PII breach.
Scotland (still part of the uk for now) has proportional representation rather than first past the post. This can help avoid the wasted vote idea.
So hundreds of people who could live in those condos will instead have to commute from further out, or pay more for an alternative apartment, or not be able to pursue their New York dreams at all. Why is that something we romanticise?
Did Google Fiber agree to do the road maintenance going forward? Sounds like the city council was probably the group that decided to shoulder the risk of damaged roads.

If Google Fiber misrepresented their microtrenching then that would certainly be fraud and they would be liable for damages.
Interesting...! I have some "hints" of some of these symptoms (including fatigue), but believe I still fall within the normal range. I'm 5'5", and I think my wingspan is slightly over 5'6". Thanks for the awareness.
I like spotify, I pay for a family subscription which gives us an account each for my partner and I, plus a bunch of spare accounts for things like Sonos and Alexa to use. Never hear an ad because I pay for the service.

If they did start shooting ads at me, I'd cancel in a flash, same goes for Netflix etc.
Zero evidence, sure. But a pattern of behavior that is deeply, deeply troubling and suspicious.

As others have pointed out, he tweet-taunted Bezos a few weeks ago in a way that seems rather connected to this recent revelation.

Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski wrote an op-ed (in the Post!!) about having been threatened with blackmail by AMI, seemingly in direct connection to the White House's desires. Ronan Farrow came forward yesterday to say that AMI tried something similar with him.

Sure, Trump may have nothing to do with it. But you and I aren't courts of law; we're people, and we're allowed to look at the evidence and come to our own conclusions.

If your conclusion is that this is an "era ... which blames Trump for every thing that goes wrong with no evidence whatsoever" then you're just doing a bad job of evaluating evidence.
You mean diabetes type 2.

It's tiring to keep getting suggestions of how to change diet when my body absolutely needs insulin from an external source. Further, while people may be able to reverse type 2, they still need insulin until they actually get there. So research into insulin delivery is relevant to all diabetics.

Also there are many ways of reducing carbohydrate intake. The diet you write about is just one of many ways to do that. Why single it out?
Then pay for the plan! That's the point!

Pardon my language, but it's a fucked up point to say pay a service money if you don't want their software to conduct clandestine operations on a device that probably contains all sorts of sensitive and private data that NOBODY has claim to but you, and the people you've expressly desired to share it with.

That's the point it would seem to me reading these comments; I realize paying gets rid of the ads, but it's pretty messed up to sit back and think that you're ostensibly paying for "good behavior" from Spotify w/rt to ad tech and what that technology enables on our devices.

It's easy to say pay or don't use the service, why isn't as easy to say "Spotify, don't be dicks with your ad technology on MY phone"?

If I pay a kid $.25 for lemonade, I'm paying for lemonade. If he says "hey, enjoy a free sample of my lemonade while I tell you how I made it", that's a fair trade-off. It is NOT a fair trade-off for his dad to spike my lemonade with a sedative so I'll want to sit down and give his kid an opening to blabber about his recipe while winking and saying "should paid us that quarter, chump".
I'm a fan of Patrick Collison's blog: https://patrickcollison.com/

And I use my personal site (https://www.mdolon.com/) for sharing projects and writing, the design is based on a free Jekyll theme that I've customized. You're welcome to build on it if you'd like: https://github.com/mdolon/mdolon.github.io/
I have a weak spot with articles, i, a native speaker, have to think for long about "teller" is it "der Teller" or "das Teller". One is my local dialect the other standard German. I know which one to use by imagining how my old neighbor would talk.

Another gem is that in my local dialect the word for foot (Fuß) has an extended meaning and denotes the body part of foot and leg. There basically is not a separate word for leg (well there is but it's standard German not dialect). The standard German word for leg is "bein". Now Bein has a common ancestor with a similar word in English "bone", and indeed the dialectal version of Bein in my dialect is the word for bone. (To me that indicates that the word has made a meaning change in standard German).

Now if I don't think hard (or if I am tired) I will call my leg "foot" in English, which confuses everyone.
> The bill ... will not allow participating institutions and providers to offer private care for covered services
Elsevier publishes about 17-18% of the world’s research. It’s a lot, but they hardly have a chokehold.
It is Douglas Adams, from Life, the Universe, and Everything.
'Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block 'Sponsored' posts, oh my.'

Wondering what else is going on here, other calls etc
I agree, I block every ad I possibly can but if I actually benefit from using a service and they provide a (reasonably priced) paid option I'll gladly subscribe. I want the ad-driven model to die but how is it possible if the alternatives don't manage to make as much money?
Cleaning plastic from the ocean using the flow of ocean currents (2017)
Again: a sense of duty, it's considered part of their job. They can certainly choose not to do it, or not to do it for paywalled journals. However, when I suggest that, I often get the reply that that's not fair to those who submit to those journals - often early-career researchers whose career could be greatly helped by publishing there.

And again, I can't fault them for that.

(I assume you meant to say "don't benefit"?)
The ACA is loosely based on the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation’s 1990s-era alternative to ‘Hillarycare.’

Medicare for All, definitionally, offers single-payer access. The Heritage Foundation was trying to prevent exactly that.

Also, I can tell you’ve never spoken to Congresswoman Jayapal, because she doesn’t make vague or noncommittal statements (source: I’m a constituent and have been to several of her constituent coffee events.)
I don't know if his site is getting a hug of death but it took almost 50sec (16sec DOMContentLoaded) to be completely finished loading. It's a beautiful site though.
I don't she meant to suggest that improper cooling led to the warehouse burning down.

She implied that DC are built underwater/in mountains (true) often (false) because electronics get hot (true...ish). And then drew the conclusion that this is one of the reasons the warehouse is cold (false) on top of the obvious one:

> The temperature was to protect the cold food, I was told.
This is actually something I have been predicting for PHP for a while. Frameworks are beneficial when languages don’t have built in support for the core needs of your task, so those needs a built into the framework and abstracted away.

With both PHP and JS this isn’t the case, which is why you see SO many frameworks for them: all of the parts are already there so the frameworks are mostly just rearranging things. Ruby, Python, Go, etc are general purpose so the frameworks provide a lot more support.

PHP’s biggest hang up for years was lack of name spacing for good module support so EVERY framework had their own version of every core feature you’d need abstracted around its framework naming schema. Can you imagine every framework writing their own database drivers...because that was happening.

As soon as Composer was released it was only going to be a matter of time before the ecosystem started to clean itself up from 9 different ways to install shared code.

Glad to see it’s happening.
I’m skeptical. I live and work in SF and frequent fancy coffee shops. I have never seen $10 plus prices for basic espresso-based drinks, although $4-6 isn’t uncommon. A $10 coffee must of had some other markup applied or been a specialty drink.

I’m not saying SF isn’t expensive. It’s not difficult to find cocktails in the $15-25 range, for instance.
I don't have particularly long legs. I usually need a higher chair to have the correct desk height, and then also need a foot rest, lol.
You know, to this day, if someone came to me and said "we want to run a site for five years on an LTS Linux distro release on a fairly weak machine, with auto-updates to system packages but no other maintenance intended. We're not gonna bother with monitoring or whatever. It's mostly static but it'll have a small dynamic component, say 500 LOC worth, maybe. If we ever have to manually touch this thing aside from maybe bouncing it once or so a year we'll consider that a failure. What should we use?" I'd probably say... Apache and PHP.

Sometimes I'm in the middle of messing with the Lovecraftian horror that is the modern JS stack or screwing with extracting what I need from whatever awful request object someone cooked up or any number of other things that aren't accomplishing anything of business value and I wonder whether maybe somewhere we veered way in the wrong direction, as an industry.
> Yes, I know how to shield myself; nobody else in my family does.

Another thing is that we should both educate those who don't know how to shield themselves - and make it easier to be protected. The latter is related to network protocols and processes and to client (and server) software.

Can we simplify Internet?
Serious question: Do you trust the government to "efficiently allocate resources"?
https://philosopher.life/

I'm uploading my mind into my wiki, and so, of course, I like my wiki in general.
I fear you are conflating two things: Hack is the language (type system, syntax) while HHVM is the runtime (which can run Hack code, and could PHP until very recently). Your answer on the speed pertains to HHVM.
And if the approach is “I won’t use services that want to use 3rd-party-RCE-style ads”, it makes sense to me. But the folks who are blocking ads are taking Spotify’s offer (pay us, let us run our ads, or don’t use our service, pick 1) and trying to shoehorn a 4th option that Spotify doesn’t offer: get the content w/o Spotify getting paid.

To tell Spotify “I’d use your service if you added an option where the ads didn’t give 3rd parties the ability to run JS on my system” is different from “I picked your current ad-supported option and then prevented the ads from running”.
Airships are also less energy efficient, as was pointed out by von Karmen and Gabrielli in 1950.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/helium-hokum...
Oh, really? I thought I read an article about how the product had been discontinued. I stand corrected.
I should add, given sibling comments here--I wish they'd actually asked about this as a part of the study. What we're _supposing_ people would do with all that extra time feels like a values-based conversation, which won't get any of us anywhere. (I, for one, would kick back and do not a whole lot for 4-6 weeks, get bored, and start building something--but that's one datum.)

Rather than us positing and projecting values, I'd love to see some data around this (though obviously I would love it somewhat less if it proved my optimistic viewpoint wrong).
I still think some kind of Medicare-for-all legislation or "Trumpcare" is Donald Trump's ultimate goal for his presidency. "I am going to take care of everybody... Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now."