skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth getting over LiquidText's initial weirdness. I downloaded it and then didn't use it for half a year, but when I gave it a go with some PDFs I was reading, I was hooked.

Grabbing parts of a book out into the workspace is easy, and then you can quickly review your workspace of highlights and notes later for a refresher. Also, viewing two places in a single PDF is as easy as tapping and holding on two highlights in the workspace.
Benefits of Fasting
My point is that unexpected hazards when people break regulations is a problem. Because people will break regulations.
I work full-time with salary at an insurance company here in Las Vegas, NV, 9 am to 4 pm with 1 hour lunch. As a .NET software engineer, I lucked out :)
Orange actually reported this bug to urllib. The ticket in the HN link is actually a DUP of Orange's original finding
This is definitely true for attractive females employed in Japan's myriad sex businesses. We don't have a decent rail system where I am so it's most noticeable in the airport: you constantly see women in facemasks, wearing baggy velour jumpsuits that don't <i>completely</i> conceal their physique. High probability they are gravure models who came to shoot a beach/tropical video, or they worked in the sex clubs for a bit. The facemask definitely helps maintain anonymity when they are out in public and don't want to be accosted by creepy fans.
Read and if possible contribute to an Open Source project you are using everyday.
Which reads "New iPad air and iPad mini"
It shouldn't be a surprise why programming languages are easier to learn. The grammer is highly regular and the vocabulary is absolutely tiny. Even complex computer languages are toys compared to any spoken language. Plus with computer languages you have a machine that can tell you if you're doing it right at your beck and call all day long. No need to bother a real life person to practice.
Yeah, DeepSpeech has been notably more accurate from our testing, Kaldi seems to be built and maintained as a research project. From what I've heard, running it at notable scale can be a pain.
Making AI more like accounting rather than Dr. Wildhair's lab is why factor tables could be a better alternative to neural nets: https://github.com/RowColz/AI

(Don't get me wrong, I like the wild-hair-professor look. But eventually AI will need more regimentation and discipline.)
I am using a 5$/month linode server. 1 vcpu, half a gig of ram, 20 gig space. Good enough for some node-js dev. Not enough for haskell unfortunately.
What is your use case that would make minimizing dependencies to this extreme a valuable activity?
It seems that some of the same arguments for mandatory vaccination of people also apply to mandatory upgrades for Windows. E.g. if an exploit is rarely open it would be more rarely attacked, thus giving the herd of Windows computers a kind of immunity, somewhat protecting computers that for whatever reason, can't be upgraded.

Is it therefore reasonable to legally mandate updates or anti virus software for popular operating systems?

Also, since operating system customizations have the potential to defeat such protection, is that valid grounds to ban unapproved changes?
Flat Earth Supporters Now Plan an Antarctica Expedition to the Edge of the World
You could apply the same to a lot of software products and websites that constantly change their design without really improving.
He mentioned a third party GUI wrapper on top of the CLI.
But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about available vaccines and none of them cause blindness. And the rates of death are far higher than 1%. The probabilities involved are ridiculously in favor of vaccination. Literally the exact opposite of what you claim.

Making up completely ridiculous examples to just justify anti-vaxxer idiocy should stay on Facebook.
Ah, I usually automatically pass on closed source solutions (hence my dislike for datomic).

TY for the link to abcdatalog though!
I dislike this as a user, but like it as a security professional. It is critical to data loss prevention (sending SSNs to a HTTPS site could be hidden otherwise) but is rarely done well.

The ability to degrade encryption cipher suites and inability of most of these boxes to invalidate certificates results in lower security for most users. I have seen sites with expired certs be passed to users since the interception replaces the site's cert with the root cert. This means the browser ends up trusting this cert and showing content that would normally be blocked. This is an interesting mess we have gotten ourselves into. Also interesting when taken in light of the BITS/ Andrew Kennedy comments on TLS 1.3 that directly impacts this ability.
I'm definitely of mixed minds on this.

The fact that IA's WBM is a public rather than private archive helps their case, IMO. Though I don't necessarily agree in unlimited rights to mass-record all public data, doing so transparently beats private data brokers.

Google's own messaging on this has been largely abysmal as well. Don't get me started.
>Many of the injured went to a window to see the spectacle in the sky, not realizing that the shock wave was about to shatter the window in their face.

Same thing happened in the Halifax explosion.
Civil rights office wants to limit access to emotional-support animals
The new 3310 has really bad UX. I bought it for a relative and was very surprised by its non-intuitive menus, settings and navigation.

I was expecting a UI/UX building on the decades of patterns used in most "feature phones" but this seems to be some from-scratch reinvention which did not hit the mark for me.
Per their FAQ[0], this doesn't apply to every member station. It's also notably cheaper than other streaming options ($5/mo or $60/yr minimum donation) for ad-free content.

[0]: https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/5000692392-w...
Gaël Giraud, chief economist of the national French agency for development, says that the only economic simulation that reliably tracked actual data for nearly 50 years is World3. He often says that usually, building a model predicting 18 months in the future is a sure way to get the Nobel, but this one is in a class of its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World3

Here are some scientists' papers and opinions:

https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/publications/research-pap...

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/09/discovering-limits-to-gro...
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/cassandra-and-l...
The Evolution of Trust [Interactive]
Was that insurance for the cargo, the ship itself, or the lives of the crew?
The reason why apple doesn't want it is because it would cannibalize iPad sales. The reason why I don't want it is because it would either jack up the price of the macbook, or result in other components being worse to keep the price point the same.
You might consider a WiPhone a few months from now once we're shipping them:
(project preview link) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/338898127?re...

It's intended to be hackable. The base phone is pure WiFi, but there will probably be an LTE add-on.
Your comment suggests that Apple would offer touchscreen MacBooks if they invested more focus onto macOS. Their comments disprove your hypothesis.

Apple has outright dismissed touchscreen MacBooks as inappropriate for their customers, as recently as mid-2018. This implies not only that they focused on macOS devices with respect to touchscreens, but then decided they were a bad idea, and further decided to share that with the press.

https://www.wired.com/story/wwdc-2018-federighi-ios-apps-on-...
The "push" to show anti-vaxers as idiots is probably not a coordinated effort. Standard human behavior explains the wave of anti anti-vax (and anti-flat earth) memes, news stories, and social media posts already. These are both unpopular outgroups that people can make fun of with little to no social repercussion. Many people use the "bullying" (for lack of a better word) of outgroups as a way to make themselves feel superior and to fit in with the larger in-group. If someone is paying for the effort, they are wasting their money.
I just wrote out what the distinction is. One kind of restaurant has every seating planned out weeks in advance and may be driven into an unprofitable night by a single no-show; the other has reservations available on much less notice and can metabolize a no-show without altering the overall economics of the restaurant. It is the case that all the former restaurants happen to be prix fixe fine dining restaurants. It is not the case that all prix fixe fine dining restaurants are in the former category.

I can get a same-day table at Momotaro or Kai Zan in Chicago. I can also pre-pay for an omakase seating at Kyoten. Stipulate that they're places of comparable quality. Momotaro and Kai Zan are traditional restaurants. Kyoten is a 9-seat omakase-only restaurant that does two seatings a night. Momotaro and Kai Zan are on OpenTable; Kyoten, for obvious reasons, won't be.

Things sucked for restaurants before Tock, and suck somewhat less now, so the fact that restaurants sucked it up and ate the costs of no-shows before Tock existed is not a persuasive argument.

Because you've made a moral argument out of it, I'm going to keep pointing out that Tock hosts a la carte restaurants just like OpenTable, and, for obvious reasons, doesn't demand prepayment for them.
One thing I found very valuable in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a quick shortcut to telling if a field is doing "normal science" or not. If students are taught with textbooks distilling the field's important insights in a readable form then it probably is. The originator of an important idea is rarely the most skilled at expressing it to newcomers, but if your field can't tell if a rephrasing of an idea is still true or if it is more concerned with the prestige of the founders than the amassing of truth then it will tend to use original texts.
Can confirm, dealing with code in a foreign language is not easy. A few years ago I had to re-implement from behavior in our application that had been baked into the firmware of our old printers, since the new ones were supposed to be off-the-shelf. We had the source code for the old printers, so no problem, right? Except the company that made them was French, so every comment was in French, and all the identifiers were not just French, but French abbreviations and acronyms mixed together. I could run the comments through Google translate and get a good enough idea, but there was almost nothing I could do about the identifiers, except occasionally get lucky and guess based on cognates. Can't imagine how it would have gone if the language was less similar, like any of the Asian languages.

Thankfully, I didn't really need to refer to the source code often, since I could just work out the finer points of the behaviors I needed to mimic by printing messages that hit all the corner cases.
The real odd thing here is that `work_mem` (and to a lesser degree `maintenance_work_mem`) is still low enough out of the box that a script got written to highlight that it's too low. Increasing it is the first step one probably ought to look into when installing Postgres.
The river isn't necessarily going to reach the 45' point that CNS requires for shutdown - it might, but no guarantee.

FCNS shut down due to budgetary concerns - its operational costs were too high to justify keeping it open. The flood was just the last of a long series of issues they had down there.
One of my friends who has lived in Japan a while (10+yrs, speaks fluent Japanese) said he did it once. In his mind, he was just trying to conform to local customs. He said people looked at him like he had Ebola. I guess their thought process was "normally foreigners don't wear masks when sick, so a foreigner with a mask must be DEATHLY ILL and CONTAGIOUS".

He said the reactions he received that day were so bad he'd never wear one again.

I've worn them while on bikes in Hanoi. The air pollution is terrible there. Nobody seemed surprised/concerned, just as no one reacted to my wearing a helmet. It's just PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). Safety first.
I believe this is a public perception problem. The reason that a troubling number of people no longer believe in science isn't that scientific method is flawed or that people don't believe in scientific method. The bigger concern is the way that scientific studies are mounted, paid for by interested parties that have conflicts of interest to produce results favourable to a desired outcome and then they're presented as science instead of politics.

When one can't trust the information they're looking at without having to dig into the political backing of the study and the results and without having to wonder which outliers have been trimmed to further hammer home the point of the stakeholders, we're no longer looking at science, we're looking at propaganda.

So the problem isn't science. The problem is the manner in which science is being subverted for financial gain. That's not science.

This is why science is losing credibility and authority outside of scientific circles.

If you want credibility and authority, you have to not only act with integrity, you have to be seen to be acting with integrity. It does't matter how honest your study or how objective your results, if people look at your study and see that it was funded by Monsanto and makes Monsanto look good, it looks like Monsanto paid for a study to make Monsanto look good and therefore it's biased and can be ignored.

This is life. If you want to be seen as having integrity, you have to act with integrity. And when people who were already distrusting of the way science is presented in the media are being told that they can't trust the media by authority figures, as ridiculous as those authority figures may be, eventually people stop listening until the furor abates.
Chances are, they're doing what HBO, Showtime, et al. have already done -- they're offering their content on multiple storefronts, as well as their own. It's relatively hard to get a customer to add their credit card to your page, but Apple, Amazon, Google, etc., already have your payment info and eyeballs.
10x Hiroshima is still solidly sub-megaton. We dropped a lot of megaton bombs on the middle of nowhere before atmospheric testing was banned.
Hardware-wise Samsung's OLED tablets are nice, especially for reading, but it's hard to justify spending a lot on one given the weak software.

I think that the Lenovo Tab 4 8 is a decent tablet, much better than the Amazon Fires both in terms of hardware, and also because it supports Google Play. But when you're spending only about $120 there are compromises: you notice the slowness when rendering webpages and scrolling, and the screen is pretty low PPI. On the plus side the Lenovo tablets have built-in FM radios, which is kind of neat.

For smallish tablets where blown-up phone apps (which is all you usually get) aren't so bad, Android is ok. Functional, even if iPads really do have much better apps across the board. Recent versions have made it much harder for apps to access USB OTG drives, which is sort of a bummer, as I used to have Wikipedia offline on a USB stick and now the app I used to access it can't.
Agreed, but the article itself from that issue is titled "The New Scarlet Letter"[1]. The statement from Wikipedia seems to conflate the cover line with the article itself.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1715...
To me OP comes off as a curmudgeon that won't learn how to do this more efficiently in software. There's no reason why they couldn't do it faster and more accurately in software.
1. Make lots of mistakes.

2. Experience pain in the form of late, buggy software and angry clients.

3. Read books and work on side projects. (Martin Fowler’s were my favorite).

4. Repeat for 5-10 years with hopefully ever-decreasing amounts of 1 and 2.

You probably think I'm kidding...
I don't think 2006 is valid, because the charts themselves go to 2016
Bank declines are 10-20% of total card volume, depending on industry.
Probably something about how it's a gendered term. You know how some people are
I agree.

It would make sense that if you're going to make first contact.... you want to meet those folks on the most similar or relatable terms.

Humans read body language a lot and such. It would probabbly facilitate a lot of communication to emulate human behaviors and etc to get started. Reduce tensions, communicate better, etc.
No doubt that's what 'so-called hacker' was meant to convey, but the issue in later decades has been to look for recorded usages.

Since Shapiro now agrees, it seems like the TMRC non-malicious usage of "hacker" has won.
What's funny (sad?) is that I don't drive much. I work from home and I rarely leave by car. And I drive a slow, lumbering vehicle so I tend to drive pretty slow. I've had 2 tickets in over 20 years of driving, and those were both really minor infractions, and no tickets in the last 10 or so years. I would save money getting one of these devices installed.

But there is no way I would opt in for even MORE surveillance. I won't even let my wife install the google or amazon home automation devices. I hate what the internet has become.
I've been using the same Nokia 301 since 2013, and I've been content with it, but it's not sold any more so I don't know how much it's worth recommending it. Some notable problems I've had—and there might be similar problems with other non-smart-phones, which is why I think it's worth mentioning them—are:

· It has some size limit (I'm not sure what) on the attachments it can feasibly receive from other phones, and the default photo size for iPhones is larger than that, which means if a family member texts me a photo, I often can't download it. This isn't a big problem for me, because I tell them to email me instead, but it's still present.

· It lacks many newer emoji characters, which is only a problem if I'm texting people who use a lot of emoji, in which case their messages will have a bunch of mysterious blank boxes at the end.

· It has some kind of problem validating newer SSL certs, so the handful of services that do talk to the internet are at this point broken. I don't use any of them, so it's not a problem for me, but if I did, I'd have been out of luck.

I should also add that dumbphones are a real mixed bag when it comes to security. If I wanted to communicate with someone without eavesdropping, then I'm out of luck with a dumbphone: everything is just not-particularly-secure texting and calling. In my own case, I simply don't think of my phone as being a trusted device: that's what my laptop is for. However, if you really want to be security-conscious with your phone, I think the right thing might be to get an Android phone, install LineageOS on it, don't install any of the Google services, and be very limited in what apps you add.
This is why we take you to the goat-soup-only restaurants.
People were definitely using iPods (and competitors) back in 2005. I remember that for sure. There were a LOT of cheaper MP3 players. It took a bit of technical know-how to rip a CD back then, but it was certainly something I did regularly.

I don't think CD Players were ever super-popular. Walkmen (tapes) were extremely popular, but CDs came out around the time when iPods + clones existed. So most people I knew were listening to music on an MP3 player of some kind.

CDs were used for burning mixed-disks, mostly to give to your friends to share music. Giving CDs to your friends was a "I liked this song, maybe you'll like it too" kinda deal.

As soon as you got a CD from any friend, you'd rip it and put it into your own MP3 player.
Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Dies at 58
If this one makes it clear what is and isn't available if I pay for the service, isn't full of useless "clips" crowding out real content, and lets me filter out stuff that's just Youtube videos, I'll take it over Passport (assuming the "what is available" suffices).

Then again the Amazon Prime app has similar problems so probably it won't be any better.
That looks nice, to bad it's KaiOS... Well no, to bad Google had to go mess with KaiOS. I'm really annoyed that Google Assistant got put into KaiOS.
These crashes are captivating, especially given how astonishingly safe air travel has been in the past decade or so. If I remember correctly 2017 was the safest year in the history of aviation.

And airplanes, particularly modern jets, are fascinating no matter what they're doing. I remember twenty, thirty years ago looking out the towering floor-to-ceiling windows at the airport, marveling at how many different technological fields had to come together to make air travel possible: materials, energy, engineering, radio, logistics, physics, process control, weather prediction, mapping, software development—nowadays even spaceflight and the freakin' theory of relativity come into play where GPS is in use. As a budding geek it was (and still is) catnip.

And then these two MAX jets go down within months of each other. Three hundred and forty six people killed. Three hundred and forty six families shattered, forever. When I think about them, I'm reminded that these weren't just malfunctions to be debugged in my terminal, these were three hundred and forty six tragedies that will ripple out to their friends, families, coworkers, and beyond, for decades to come.

I wonder if we are being hasty in our speculation about the causes. I know we are all intensely curious—that intense curiosity is, I think, a defining feature of the community that frequents this site, and something a lot of us owe our successes to. I notice though a tendency for speculation to evolve into factual claims through repetition, and I wonder if we should be more careful not to allow repetition to take the place of evidence.

Accident investigation is a slow process, and slow processes are frustrating. Information comes in a trickle. It's natural to want to piece together whatever details we have, wherever we can find them. In our hunger to find out what happened, how these 346 people lost their lives, let's not lose sight of the fact that the information we have right now is incomplete.

Let's also not lose sight of the fact that we are talking about people. For the loved ones, this isn't an interesting puzzle; this is a gut-wrenching sorrow. I try to keep that at the center whenever someone asks me what I think about these crashes.

I'm glad the MAX is grounded. And I'm intensely curious about what happened. I try to temper my thoughts on the matter according to the amount and quality of information I have, and the degree of knowledge and experience I've acquired. I don't always succeed. But I can at least rest easy knowing that the investigative team has access to a wealth of information and experience, and that they will make their data and findings public when their work is complete.
AngelList actually does this, they mostly recruit previous founders.
To be fair, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a mess. It's so bad that member stations are defecting.

Los Angeles is a good example. It used to be like most other cities - A single, large PBS flagship and one or two secondary stations. That flagship bolted because CPB can't keep its finances in order and is demanding crazy amounts of money from the member stations.

There are a surprising number of very good public television stations across the country that are not part of PBS/CPB.

I'd be happier with PBS if the programs created with my tax dollars weren't spun off into "independent" companies that then make millions on the intellectual property that my tax dollars created.
Most consumer technology has gotten cheaper over the years. In some cases, a lot cheaper, especially when adjusted for inflation. Compare the price of 55" flat screen TV's, 2009 vs today. Compare the price of a mid-range desktop computer, 1989 vs today, etc.
Liquid Text is one of the cleverest apps I have ever used. And PDF Expert also rules
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