skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven't seen it, this interesting report from NPR draws connections between changes in welfare programs that saw their rolls diminish, with a commensurate increase in the rolls of disability programs.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

This was published in 2013 and it has stuck with me since then. I feel like we can now draw the line further, into the opioid epidemic today.

It seems like we kicked people off welfare and their only option was disability, where they had legal access to opioids and an incentive to get and take them--to manage pain, yes, but also to embody their disabled status.

Did we cause our own crisis through bad policy choices?
Not saying um & ah allows you to feign complete ignorance. These days that’s a huge bonus. Especially in academia,I’m finding its best to pretend to be a complete fool than to say um & expose your cards. If you say um people respond “Yes do you have something to say? “ Now you are forced to actually speak up & say what you were really thinking, which in this day & age of excessive PC especially in academia can get you into tight situations really fast. Its so much better to say nothing & play dead.
This is called "The White L" and "The Black Butterfly", and it's kind of ridiculous how accurate it is.

Anything surrounding Charles St by a few blocks is prosperous and safe, extending into and around Fed Hill, and going east on Pratt St. Frequently-running free buses, light rail, lots of police presence, tourism, a vibrant array of small businesses, and everyone you see is white.

Go outside of those narrow corridors and suddenly it's all liquor stores, boarded up houses, chronically late for-pay buses, and everyone you see is black. If it were the deep south we'd say it was a shocking display of segregation.

https://www.citypaper.com/bcpnews-two-baltimores-the-white-l... https://www.colorlines.com/articles/read-brilliant-breakdown... http://thebaltimorechop.com/2015/04/05/on-the-myth-of-baltim...
> There was a time when commercial chat services supported XMPP because it was felt to be the right thing to do.

There was also a time when services supported RSS for similar reasons.

Sadly the web became dominated by a few big players who want to make everything their own walled gardens to keep competition out.
Let’s Stop with the Whiteboard Interviews Please
Many of my "no email" contacts are hobby-related and not tech workers. Some of them are retired, previously used work-provided email, and have no interest in setting up their own accounts (I honestly have no idea how they survive). At least one of the tech folks who doesn't "use" email simply doesn't check their private email with any regularity, and doesn't use their work email for non-business contacts (neither do I for that matter).
Good for you. Also, the opioid epidemic is a real thing. I'm not sure what the point of this counterpoint is supposed to be.
> 1000 messages per day

Most people should get more than thousand emails everyday if they sign up for any service anywhere with that email address.
TL;DR: assuming circular, coplanar orbits, for any planet A, the sun is on average closer to that planet than any other planet B, because planet B spends a lot of time on the other side of the sun from planet A, and given the way orbital rates work out the closer a planet is to the sun, the lower its average distance is to any planet farther out than it.

In other words, Mercury is on average closer to Neptune than, say, Saturn is, and indeed Mercury is on average closer to every planet than any other planet is.

This is both somewhat surprising (I'd have thought that there would be a symmetry here - that the average distance between Neptune and Saturn would be the same as the average distance between Neptune and the Sun), and also (I think) uninformative.

The way orbital dynamicists think about "close" orbits is in terms of delta-V, which is to say, how big a change in velocity does it take to change one orbit to a different one. Or, in more concrete terms, how much fuel would it take for a spacecraft to travel from a body in one orbit to a body in a different orbit. That's a completely different way to think about closeness than the OP 's metric.

Spaceflight is non-Euclidean like that.

The OP's metric would be helpful for estimating average time-of-flight communications delay, but over distances like this I don't think that averages are that informative. The total variation is quite large; basically it varies as |r1|-|r2| to |r1|+|r2|. For Earth-Mars that's from 4.5 to 20 minutes. Not sure knowing the "average" distance is all that helpful there.

For Mars-Neptune it's 4 hours to 4.4 hours, and for Earth-Neptune it's 4 to 4.3 hours. Even though the distance is much greater, the orbital radius of the outer planets is so large that the variation as the inner planet goes around the sun is almost in the noise.

Takeaway: for comms delay to the the outer planets, just calculate the time-of-flight distance to the sun.
Similar observations. However, I have not tried to use IMAP or Import function. For IMAP, you need to use another software which does the encryption and communication with the server one one side and provides IMAP server to your application on the other side. So, it is an artifact of security application and not because they can not do straight IMAP. Overall, I am happy though..
What happens if there is no customs check at any of those locations?

i.e. each party says "you do it, I won't", and it ends up that no one did?
How did crime rates move in cities not using broken window theory policing?
Inequality has to a symptom of something deeper. It is simply unreasonable to think that my neighbor being 100x as wealthy as me could inspire me to a life of crime. Inequality is just as much a symptom of health as it is sickness in the system - everyone is equal if there is no wealth and everybody is eating dirt.

If "inequality" is a euphemism for social stratification it should be called as such, or a pithy word found. Not being able to access wealth through hard work is a huge problem.
The UK had trade deals with various countries (including those within the EU) as part of being a member of the EU. It has also built up a lot of infrastructure on the facilitated access to the EU this gave. This covers things like:
1. just in time transport of parts for car manufacture (and other things like florests getting flowers from the EU overnight) that are tariff free;
2. just in time transport of food and medicine (including radioactive materials for x-rays);
3. access to the EU air space for flights going to/from the UK;
4. seamless trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (including roads, houses, and farms that span the border).

In addition to this, a large amount of regulation comes from the EU, along with 40-60 years worth of continued integration and interdependence.

We are now ending that overnight. This needs adequate planning and prepration to ensure that things don't fall over. Things like border checks on both sides and agreements to make sure that things such as access to EU air space continue to run smoothly.

It is problematic because of the scale of the task and the lack of information/transparency from the government. So you have things like banks and aerospace companies moving offices to the EU to try and retain access to the EU on which they depend.

There are things like having to store information on EU citizens within the EU. This was fine when the UK was a part of the EU, but with Brexit that changes, so EU citizen data needs to be stored on servers in an EU country like the Republic of Ireland.
Yet there are no consequences to avoid when people 'spout off outside their area of competency' and claim everyone is equal.

Look at e.g. Damore's memo. It was relevant and cited peer reviewed research in support of its claims. Whether those claims were true is another matter, but they were "scientifically supported" by any sensible standard. Yet he was fired, while all the people claiming the exact opposite, even when they did not cite any research, and just as much "outside their areas of competency", were not.

In that sense, you're very much correct - if you say something sufficiently unpopular, no matter how well scientifically supported, science won't act as a get-out-of-jail-free card, and won't save you from the backlash. At best it might provide a Nobel prize you can sell for cash when things get dire.
A lot of the comments here are missing the real issue here which is that while you may not agree with the content of ZeroHedge this sets an eery precedent for future Facebook policing of what is & isn't allowed on its network.
I think people over estimate that possibility. I (and many people I know) got addicted because the same guy who deals one drug, deals other drugs. In my case I was buying cocaine to party and have sex and it turned out my drug dealer had heroin and offered me some one time for free.

Because drugs are illegal, they are lumped to together, one guy who sells one might/probably sell the other. This is also why people call weed a "gateway" drug, because the dealer might have some MDMA or coke on them as well.

If we just made all drugs illegal, I think we would eliminate this "gateway" effect.

The can see evidence of this grouping effect in the mafia. They sell untaxed cigarettes, stolen goods, drugs, etc. What is the commonality between all of these things? The fact they are illegal of course!
It’s really really hard to coordinate contractors in short time increments. I did a consulting project with a measurement company (measures sqft of homes) and their model is stressed coordinating and moving around in 1 market at near max utilization. I helped them scale into 2 additional markets and it’s just massive headaches. To the point I was thankful I generally work on software and can operate with way higher margins. 15% margin on 3-$100 services a year. Makes it really really hard to grow business, pay well, make mistakes (you’re always going too and with such a small margin they hurt way more). Happy to talk more in private if it’d be helpful. I am watching them hurt bad right now trying to add market 4/5. They’re at about 750k run rate
Based on some quick searches & napkin math, WhatsApp appears to be currently in use by a little over 5% of the U.S. population.
The UK can unilaterally retract Article 50.

There is a vote to block a no deal Brexit tomorrow, which is expected to pass.
To me it's clear that this is in it's early phases, and as it's only available on Pixel devices and not to the general public I think it's safe to say this is part of it's testing.

However, as you said, if this is always a requirement then it doesn't affect privacy at all, which to me would be a real shame but this is Google after all. We just have to wait and see for now.
SeatGeek Delivery Time Predictions with Quantile Regression and TensorFlow
so instead of sending the gpg encrypted file directly to the recipient via email it is stored in ipfs. I fail to see the use-case for this.

when you exchange gpg encrypted secrets the knowledge that there is a secret will be limited to the recipient, myself and any potentially malicious provider that snoops the mime-headers. while email has no forward secrecy and leaks metadata, I like that this method doesn't leak metadata (but you still have the problem of contacting the recipient out of band to let them know about the ipfs link. also exposing to the world that you've placed a secret on a public ledger could already be a battle half lost.

with the blockchain the file will be there for eternity, and will remain encrypted only until the cipher gets eventually broken. your plausible deniability is not only gone but depending what the file contains, your secret will be one day out in the open. (and likely within 5-10 years not 100-150 years)

so in comparison to sending the email over an anonymous email account[1] that you access via tor (and by encrypting the whole content outside the mail-user-agent ... e.g. the way it is described in the article by running gpg --encrypt ...) the proposed method will add 2 additional attack-vectors because of this blockchain.

I'm not criticizing the article which is a good explanation on how to encrypt a file with gpg and then upload it with ipfs but I fail to see any use-case that this might be valid for irl (what threat model will this help me with?)

[1] half arsed un-endorsed solution that can also easily get you owned because giving blanked advise is impossible, forward secrecy with gpg/mime/email doesn't exist, all technology is shit, people like to brag, and even the ones not bragging might be easily targeted on other side channels etc ...
Not as far as I can tell. Mozilla also has (or had, I forget whether it's still a thing or not) a built-in WebRTC client they called "Hello", but that was a different thing.
In a browser, the server serving the JS has an opportunity to access the keys.
Radicle, a peer-to-peer stack for project collaboration
EMET is available for Windows 7. Windows 10 telemetry is a non-starter. Windows 7 telemetry updates can be removed/blacklisted. Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (closest equivalent to Windows 7) is not available to individuals.

Web browsing can be moved to a Linux VM with non-persistent OS.
> HTML innovation

not strictly HTML, but there's a lot of interesting goodies coming down the wire:

https://css-houdini.rocks

https://ishoudinireadyyet.com
I'm not sure what you're saying here.

Your arguments seem to also apply to humans, and clearly humans have figured out how to be intelligent in this universe.

Or maybe you're saying that brains are taking advantage of something at the quantum level? Computers are unable to efficiently simulate quantum effects, so AGI is too difficult to be feasible?

I admit that's possible, but it's a strong claim and I don't see why it's more likely than the idea that brains are very well structured neural networks which we're slowly making better and better approximations of.
Read my comment below. The maintenance side is the massive headache and really painful. Happy to advise as I can on learnings from consulting I’ve done in space.
Slack is so bloated and annoying to use, unlike IM services back in the heyday.
Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
Note that a byproduct of ethanol production is distillers grains[1] which are used as an animal feed. Also worth noting that the percentage of corn used for direct human consumption has stayed at around 10-20% before, during, and after the ramp up in ethanol production:

Ethanol + animal feed chart: https://i.imgur.com/1QqPTje.png

Ethanol production chart: https://i.imgur.com/3wwzkIi.png

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains
While I might hope for more I don't expect a company to make decision any other way.
memcached is multi threaded and I've never had an issue with it.
Yeah, just like boarding schools, except for the part where they've got the majority of the population in them, not just the students, and except for the part where they can't leave.
It is hard to argue against using JS. I tried that no-js approach as much as possible in the past, and hated it. Using React for front-end development and keeping bundle sizes small through good build processes is amazing. I genuinely enjoy building web front-ends now because of it, where as before I avoided it like the plague.
IMO, you’re probably better off with Google or to a lesser extent Microsoft, as their model is about selling ads based on your information, and hoarding your data for competitive advantage.

I assume that your cellular carrier and cable company are monetizing any bit of data they can capture and selling it for pennies to all sorts of parties.
TIL of Lysenkoism. Wow. That's a powerful example right there.
The difference is in where someone's primary goal lies. I'd bet that the majority of engineers in The Valley wish the tech industry was less monopolized, more open, and had better privacy standards. Just look at the sentiment of your average HN comment section. But those engineers also want to have jobs doing what they like and to make a living, and while they could arguably do more to put their ideals into action, they aren't the driving force behind unbounded growth and corporate conquest; they just get paid by it. Engineers can certainly become capitalists when power goes to their head - just look at Mark Zuckerberg - but I don't think most of them are in it primarily for the amassing of wealth and power.
You can take this a step further by using um & ah and then explaining your lunch plans instead of whatever they were talking about.
This whole debacle is really about whether submitting to a publication on Medium counts as giving the publication rights to your work (at least to display/post it), or whether they merely curate work elsewhere.

Personally I'd say HackerNoon probably shouldn't even need to ask here, since by submitting their work to the publication users have indicated they want HackerNoon to have the right to feature it on their domain. After all, if Hacker News moved to 'hackernews.com', they wouldn't need to mass mail the entire userbase asking for permission to carry over comments, and the same would go for many other sites. Wikis don't ask every time they move hosting/domain name, nor do most forums, social networks, multi author blogs, etc.

The way Medium has responded reminds me a bit of Proboards and their attitude towards migrations away; that users have agreed to sign up with the service rather than the individual forum and that the forum owner doesn't have rights to the content itself.

I'd disagree with and so would a lot of people, but there are technically arguments both ways.

Either way, it all really comes down to A: who you think the users are dealing with when it comes to publications on third party platforms, and B: whether a publication or sub site on such a service gets a license to take its content elsewhere later on.
...and how does that make her unqualified? Because you don't like Mitch McConnell? Does McConnell have some connection to Boeing I'm unaware of? Because otherwise I don't see how it's a relevant fact, at least not in this case.
They do need an excuse, however most likely it will be "to further improve our models with more data", which could certainly be true, much to all of our distaste.

We have to wait and see. I'm sure we all look forward to a completely offline solution.
Well I have 2TB of videos. I am sure I will never watch or never will have time to watch again or delete it. But addiction to the habit of downloading and saving it. Only one time I deleted 500GB of videos just shift delete and was free for 10 months. Then it's what the heck let me checkout if there is any new hot pornstar or same girls. Well in a period of 10 months girls completely change. At the moment it's 2TB. Dont know why I am having it, don't want to delete it either.

I have quit watching porn then and then like 2-6 months for the same reason nothing new to watch. But mostly the content of videos I watch is changing originally when I started it was PRIVATE productions now it's a amateur videos or scripted videos with some funny dialogue or scenes. I am also sort of looking at the interiors of the bunglows, carpets, rooms, bed covers and some times way they had designed the apartment.

Not sure about impotency but what I saw is, if I masturbate next 2-3 days my gym performance is not good and I feel bad. If I don't do it(watch porn or mastrubate) for 2-4 weeks I am lifting good. So it's all diet I think.

Always wonder how much those male porn stars jizz like are they for real. Looking at BTS scenes brings some confidence as that 20mins scene sometimes has been shot for two days.

Sometimes question in the head pops up how long can last 3-5-10mins without any breaks or I am just lucky with no complaints. Porn sometimes stresses me out as well. Sometimes you go address bar, fingers automatically type porn site name. And in office you have to act like you are slow in typing, actually I am fast but automode might be dangerous, so another stress.

Mostly porn eats time. If you have anything you want to achieve cut it out.

So it's mostly on and off. Don't know what to do with those videos. Seriously....
That is the ideal qualification if you are trying to stop unbounded self-serving expansion of bloated bureaucracies.

A government agency that has less work to do does not shrink, and one that has completed its job does not just disappear. Organizations find excuses to exist. They are self-perpetuating, always seeking new justification for their continued parasitic existence.
love it or hate it, the stock price and investor sentiment is crucial to a listed company. tsla can actually go under.
There are hundreds of millions of Windows 7 installations globally. There will be strong incentives to protect installations that cannot be upgraded to Windows 10, due to custom enterprise software or other constraints. Windows XP received many security fixes, some even appeared after the end of extended support. Global business realities can lead to policy changes. Worst case, customers can firewall Windows 7 business apps from public networks, and run Linux on another monitor.
I can't understand whether you're saying Homebrew does it right or not on multiuser systems.

I have a lot of trouble with Homebrew on multiuser Mac systems. Running `brew install ...` or `brew update` as anyone but the user who originally installed Homebrew almost always fails because of permission errors (or it successfully installs, but then causes permission errors in the future for the user who installed Homebrew). Whenever I need to use Homebrew commands now, I use `sudo -iu otheruser` to switch to the user account who first installed Homebrew in order to avoid the permissions issues. I'm really baffled that Homebrew doesn't support the multiuser system case. Is it so rare to share a system nowadays? I've had this issue on multiple Macs and fresh installs, so I don't think this is some fluke bug.
Why on earth would anyone want a chemical free farm? That just decreases yield and increases risk, contributing to increased price.
FWIW Google Translate (including the "translate from picture" feature) is an example of a product that has had offline option for quite some time. You have to tell it to download for each language pair IIRC.
The "better tools" is a common theme, but I suspect this is just a matter of switching being costly, in any direction. There are weird bugs in Chrome's devtools as well, such as misrepresenting headers sent - try to find the Authorization header for HTTP Basic Auth. When I see stuff like that, I wonder what else may be off.
Many charged in $25M nationwide college admissions cheating scam
> mandate that Boeing Co implement design changes by April that have been in the works for months

I assume that just before this announcement the FAA had a phone call with Boeing confirming the will have the fix ready by April. This way the FAA gets to looks tough without harming Boeing in any way.
> If we just made all drugs illegal, I think we would eliminate this "gateway" effect.

Did you mean to write the opposite of this?
Do you mind sharing any Crash Report IDs from your Firefox's about:crashes page? They should point to the crash stack trace, which might be fixable or at least suggest a workaround.
Yes true. The strongarming tactics of MS aren't referenced. While it brings up some interesting points, the entirety paints the common revisionist view that MS was crushed by Google on search alone, with no other mitigating factors. A fairy tale of sorts. Google would not have risen to anything if MS continued with it's anti-competitive and anti-trust practices that was the goto MS strategy for competition into the early 2000. It was baked into the MS culture. and common knowledge, maligned on message boards long after it had ceased. Under enacted US justice dept scrutiny, MS was forced to compete more fairly with superior talent and lower margins (aww no more predatory acquisitions). With a giant, inflexible infrastructure and rigid payscales, it was a slow imminent decline.