skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It can't be too much longer now.

That's really unclear. Users' behavior regarding their own personal data and their claims of privacy expectations seem to deviate pretty significantly.

I once nearly sold a company loyalty card to a guy at a bookstore buying a forearm-length stack of books on "Privacy in the digital age." We got as far as the part where I was asking him for his address and date of birth before he politely declined.

I've heard the issue most pithily described as "People, when asked, will consistently give two answers: (a) they would like more of their personal information kept private, and (b) yes, they would be happy to fill out the deeply-detailed shopper demographic survey in the mall for a Snickers bar."
Why couldn't the arrangement be that a repeat "guest" is paid for 10 or 20% less each time they stay? (To be strictly fair, that structure should apply to parole officers, half-way houses, and other providers working to rehabilitate release prisoners.)

I've given this 30s of thought so I'm more than happy to be shown to be very wrong about this idea.
This is where you can tell them to go fork themselves ;)

Thank you for taking your time and knowledge to provide some open-source tools! There's a lot of users out there that silently appreciate it.
>We shouldn't put up with violations of our personal liberty for no-cost software

This is exactly what we've been torpedoing towards since Google Docs came out and people didn't have to pay for Acrobat Reader to see PDFs. Unfortunately from free services where the user is the product, and free apps with in-app purchases on mobile, the general public has been conditioned to never spend a dime, privacy be damned. We did it to ourselves.
Once we're no longer burning gasoline, oil may no longer be the cheapest carbon feedstock (presently the economies of scale in refining make chemical plant oil cheaper). Maybe instead we will be pulling the carbon out of the air like plants do, or using plants to pull the carbon out of the air.
I for one am super in favor of the top-down approach of teaching. Amused because it's similar to how a song is written, or a painting is done: big broad strokes, working forward to then fill in the subject and details
I saw Force Awakens via IBM as well, and I got a cool light saber toy!

https://twitter.com/chaoticmass/status/677708888083439616

I did look at the BlueMix platform, and it seemed like a big mix of various APIs I could tap into. Some of them looked neat, but I never had a reason to really use any of them.
If they pick a font, even an open source one, it could encourage people to copy them. Or be making some (very minor) statement about open source.

By developing their own font, they don't set preference for any organization, group, or business.
Sounds like a great way to end up in exactly the situation where you have to deal with this issue but have no way to enact change…
No, I meant highest. For example: If your target rail is 12V, use a minimum of 16V rated capacitor, but prefer a 25V rated capacitor over 16V.

This application note has a very detailed explanation of Aluminum capacitor reliability (page 12): http://www.cde.com/resources/catalogs/AEappGUIDE.pdf
Access to internet must be recognized as a constitutional right, and people in prison should be able to freely use normal video calls and other messaging apps, independently from in person meetings.
Ah I see. I meant that landlords would have to buyout of rent control with a one time payment not get paid.
Ethics is about humans in general, while Free Software primarily cares about the freedoms of software tinkerers. Most people won't magically feel more free or more ethical when their Wifi card stops working because something or someone wanted to exclude "non-free" drivers.

Free Software ideology (yes, it is one) also won't tell you how to make the lives of those people better who - for whatever good or bad reason - can't tinker themselves out of their problems. Which is mostly everyone. In that sense, teaching them about Free Software instead of about ethics is a similarly bad idea as wanting to teach people Christianity instead of ethics. Christian and Free Software culture give you some start when it comes to ethics, but can't replace ethical considerations themselves.
> Those who want a visual interface to drag sliders around, instanly see how things would look

Oh, do you by any chance mean on-canvas preview available for almost every filter since GIMP 2.10.0 released a year ago? With that split preview slider? :)
Oh yeah, absolutely! No question that it's still an issue: the vast majority of my peers had great experiences with their PI's, but I'd say 10-20% were less happy at times. Even within my department, we all knew of at least a few professors who should be avoided as advisers because of how they treated their students. So if that's anything close to a representative sample, a problem for 10-20% of people is a big problem that needs to be addressed, but that still leaves 80-90% of people pretty happy.
This is why we're allowed to own guns, and are directed to use them under these circumstances.

The problem is, you have all been raised to be cowards.
And yet Pidgin is the go to client for people, especially on Windows.

When I got a MacOS machine up and running, I installed Adium (top result still if you go around looking for a MacOS XMPP client), also a dead project.

On Android, the top XMPP client does not support OMEMO and the new hotness XMPP client does not support OTP!

I have a legacy client on Android and Pidgin half hacked together with random plugins on my Windows boxes and I forget what in the world MacOS is running because I have it turned off half the time because the more clients I have connected the more problems I have and holy crap this is why Slack is a great product.

XMPP has had 20 years to solve these problems, and part of their problems of course is that the base protocol wasn't designed to solve these issues out of the box.

But, from the end user's perspective, Telegram, Signal, What's App, Slack, Discord, and Teams, all "just work"!
I just got a "Your March In Review" email from "Google Maps Timeline." I wasn't surprised by it but I think for other people seeing it presenting you a map with every place your phone has ever been will be very eye opening.
They're hard to find in the UK, too. The smart guys at Teller.io are solving that in the UK:

https://teller.io
If your economy is behind and you want to grow as fast as possible and copying is faster and safer than innovating... why would you not?
Pages don't need a fallback to non-Javascript in 2019. Accessibility technologies now fully support a JS enabled web, with accessibility standards following suit.

That leaves only those who have voluntarily disabled JavaScript (<1% of users), but fortunately those users are typically aware of how to resolve the issue of their own creation.

I've worked on public facing government websites (not 18F). We simply don't support this edge case, and our legal department supports our legal right to do so (in particular in relation to ADA requirements).
Not only did we do it to ourselves, we're mostly enjoying and benefitting from it. The alternative (where all software is pay-to-play) actually shuts out the vast bulk of the world's population that doesn't have chips to play yet.
> You can't have prisons run by for-profit companies and then expect everyone to believe you want low recidivism rates

Sure you can, it's just no one is doing. The private market is very efficient at finding the most efficient way to provide the things they are paid for. In this case they are paid to house people where house has a specific minimum definition. They figure out how to provide that stuff and nothing else.

If instead we paid in a way that encouraged reducing recidivism they would find a way to do that instead. For example today (according to google) the average prissioner costs $30K per year per inmate. let's say we paid $10K per year as a base, but then paid another $10K every year a former prisoner didn't commit a new crime for 5-7 years after they got out. Then these companies would be looking for ways to ensure that people don't reoffend because that means they lose out on the vast majority of their pay. I would expect the greedy selfish private prison companies to start providing lots things that prisoners will need to be successful when they leave for example behavior management strategies, life skills classes, GED programs, diagnosis and treatment for mental illness, even providing free post release things like job placement, or family counseling. All because these are things the will prevent recidivism and get them that sweet yearly payout.

The thing about greedy capitalists, is they are very easy manage, if you are the one paying them. If they are the ones paying you... well we call that corruption.

Really I think the fact we don't see more of this type of pattern suggests that city and states that run prisons care more about punishment than rehabilitation.
Dumb question, but when temperatures in 2050 / 2100 hit 3% over pre-industrial levels, what happens to Norway's climate? Will they, as well as the huge sovereign wealth, also land up in a nice temperate country with green and pleasant meadows.

Just jealous I guess ...
They are completely different situations, not even remotely comparable.
The author is not byte shaving. He states that he is striving for "simplicity," which isn't the same thing.
Ugly scares, indeed.

We did regular high-pot and soak testing. Some of those boxes would give us quite the light show when they went bad. And I mean without a lamp hooked up.
The "core" - ie. Elisp code which is preloaded/included in the final 'emacs' executable (as a memory dump of interpreter state) it's less than 80kloc of Elisp. Emacs ships with ~300kloc of "standard" libraries and applications written in Elisp (keep in mind: it's 300kloc of a high-level, fairly expressive, Lispy language - so it translates into a giant pile of features). Further 400-500kloc of Elisp is from add-on packages available via a built-in package manager. Actually, there's more code available, I just counted the plugins I have installed locally.

IIRC Emacs' C code numbers ~300kloc and includes both bindings to low-level, systems and GUI functionality, some parts of standard Elisp library (writen in C for performance), as well as Elisp virtual machine, byte-compiler and so on. No JIT yet, but at least there's threading support (take that JS :P).

Starting from scratch has many advantages, but it doesn't really work with programs and systems large or complex enough. Otherwise we'd be using a fresh OS every five years instead of working on one of the 5-6 OSes which were all created 30+ years ago.
I sympathize with the premise of your argument but disagree with you conclusion in this case. High quality typefaces are fundamental to any digital product within the government, commercial, and public sectors. In my opinion, this is a great contribution to the commons.
> I have a really hard time grokking their lead-in "Do you expect...?"

This is oriented to general to general users but as a G Suite customer you don't expect your business e-mails are used as input for machine learning since you are paying for the product.
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The thing I think is odd about Bitcoin and it's future is how energy intensive it is to run the network. It is known that bitcoin miners use huge amounts of electricity, which costs money, but you can't yet pay your electric bill with bitcoin, nor can you pay taxes in bitcoin. Just seems a bit unsustainable to me.
I have help multiple roles that could be called "very technical support" - technical enough to understand the guts of a project, troubleshoot, deflect reports that are just user error, report bugs on behalf of users with extra debugging insight, etc... but not technical enough to contribute meaningfully to the source code.

That job is just as exhausting and unrewarding as any support role. There's no fucking way I would do it for free on open source software that wasn't my own creation.
EDIT: Unless it was a definite path to being a core contributor to a project I was very passionate about.
It is matter of runtime and not a particular language.

Foremost mutable nature of JavaScript makes it usually heavly optimized for performance with low level in-place memory changes. These are hard to track and aggregate without some OS/HW level snapshoting support.

Next challenge is recording state of external dependencies: DOM, WebGL, events and other APIs - each would need some change tracking/snapshoting/resuming capabilities.

Recording complete low level app state changes with fine granularity would need lot of fast memory. A dedicated diffing algorithm could make it even usable on developer machine. However I think the current focus of runtime implementors is end-user performance.

Some sort of parial-TTD tradeoff is implemented in JavaScript famework/libraries level: Redux, Vuex, Elm etc.
They efficently track high-level application state changes but on very small scale. The allowed changes are explicitly defined by developer and they are usually grouped into transactions/actions/scopes. Such update granularity together with reactive stateless code allows simple and cheap tracking of changes under framework control. Naturally that falls short when outside effects are involved.
You have the option `--url-handler` so the video can be fed to your favorite media player.
Depends on paint sheen (try doing that with flat finish paint - just gonna smear it all over)
Just installed it; love it. Will save me time by avoiding the need to switch from terminal to browser to use ddg [and sidesteps the less-than-optimal UI of Lynx, which I still use pretty frequently but dislike for search].

Big up!
Opensource is not volunteers. I would say the most successfull opensource projects are driven by people who get their paycheck for developing them. Look at Linux, Kubernetes, mariadb ... They represent multi milion dollar investments by small, big and huge companies. People doing mainstream opensource as their side task do not exist.
Just because some people choose to exclude themselves from the dating market doesn't mean that the market doesn't exist. Everyone has standards of exclusivity when dating, even if they are only excluding the people who are very very physically unattractive, mentally unattractive, least capable, unintelligent, boring, etc. Not everyone uses the same exact standard to judge everyone else's attractiveness. For example, women on average tend to be less focused on physical attractiveness. But even when a woman is attracted to someone physically unattractive, that person usually has some time of other factor of attractiveness, such as status or personality, which other women find attractive as well. There are exceptions but the fact that those exceptions are so few and far between only proves the rule.
What shocks me about this is... Monzo to me (a regular user of about a year) is just a normal bank card without a branch and with a basic app.

Are established banks so incredibly ossified they can’t keep up with that?
It's one reason why I liked write.as a lot and started writing some stuff on there. Their CSS is really nice and simple.
If anyone wants to get a PhD in this topic, let me know :)
Totally possible I misread it, agreed about the density and ripple, though due to failure mode I’ve always derated them 50% in designs where I’ll derate niobium or (admittedly expensive) polymer 20% to mitigate the risk of thermal runaway.
Note taking app like Google Keep, but comes with Calendar
"Those of us who used such programs, either from GNU or from other, similarly freely licensed software, knew that we were using high-quality code."

I don't know whether to call this nonsense, lies, or both. I'll go for both. In the real UNIX(R) circles, GNU is notorious for being horribly hacked-together software. For example GNU tar implements decompression, or GNU grep implements recursive searching, something handled by find(1) and xargs(1) on a real UNIX, the modular way. GNU always implemented tools within tools, breaking modularity and teaching an entire generation how to use a UNIX-like system wrong, according to the "works on my machine!" principle. Now we have an entire generation which grew up on GNU, brainwashed into oblivion thinking GNU is the pinnacle of high quality software. I'm disgusted to no end.

If you want high quality software, go for one of the illumos-based distributions, which is a true, SVR 4.0 open source UNIX, written by engineers with formal education in computer science instead of amateurs who think they know how UNIX is supposed to work. There's really no replacement for the real thing.
100 entities: 71% of industrial greenhouse gases.

25 entities: 52% of industrial greenhouse gases since the start of the industrial revolution.
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom (1994)
After living in the US since 2000 I believe that a majority of the US population believes in the punishment aspect of prison and thinks it's OK to make prison life as miserable as possible. There is not much thought about rehabilitation and I have heard lines like "Why do we have to pay for job training for them if I have to pay for college?" even from very liberal people. Punishing people as hard as possible is deeply entrenched in the american psyche.
No, there is no contradiction. We just don’t agree on what level of battery wear and tear we find acceptable. I had a phone that was affected. Batteries are a wear item, and they are replaceable. It was after a long service life and I was fine with the whole thing, including the throttling, except the unforgivable part, which was that they didn’t tell me they were throttling.
No one said it was. It's a fear that men don't as often have (to the same degree) - that doesn't make it any more, _or any less_, urgent.
Do you honestly think that slave owners simply gave up after slavery became illegal in the US? No, they simply found new and ingenuitive ways of exploiting people. Winning a battle is seldom ever winning the war.
So this is like the first chapter in a great mystery story... where can one find chapter 2?
I ain't racing to 60. I'm racing to ~120-140 and seeing how long those Teslas can hang with a machine that's optimized to go fast and far
We're sort of making up this whole online spaces thing as we go. Whether you love them or hate them, the decisions Google made are arbitrary and were done behind closed doors by a very small number of people.

Framing the question as "do you expect the online space to be like X" seems much more natural to me than "Google has already decided X", because the latter is likely to lead to far different answers. If we lead the question by defining it with the status quo, then naturally that's the default most people will want to agree with.
If it's not default behavior even less people use it.
We are one big movie away from everyone knowing. Too bad it would be killed before reaching the masses.
DDG Search is a free competitor to Google Search that doesn't track. It's not that Google either tracks their users or charges their users. In addition, there is a whole range of tracking activities and we should have open and informed discussions about if some of them should become illegal, or if companies require simpler disclosures about their privacy policy.
I think it's important to understand that development studios are really just a name and an office building. Games are made by people and people join and leave studios. The Bioware that gave us Baldur's gate, Neverwinter nights, Mass effect, and KotOR isn't the same Bioware as the one that exists today.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I think that the idea of big budget games is demonstrating itself to not be such a good business practice. I feel like more and more AAA games are collapsing under their own weight. I've been playing the total war series since childhood and I actually feel like the widening scope of Rome 2, Attila, and Warhammer have actually made the experience worse. If I look honestly at the games I enjoy most they're actually much more focused and narrow. I'm planning Sekiro: shadows die twice now and it really demonstrates that less is more. The game added a few things, namely stealth and much greater mobility through grappling hook. But it cut out effectively all gear and armor, drastically simplified weapon upgrading to just one incrementing value, eliminated the stats system. Multiplayer was also removed in entirety. It largely cut more content than it added as compared to the Dark Souls series and the game is better for it.
There's no shared resource. It requires risky exploration and investment in extraction. Do you really think the 25m Australians can afford to gamble on hundreds of billions on LNG terminals? One bad investment or a big drop and the whole country is bankrupt.

Currently private sector and foreign business takes the risk. Then Australia gets a share of the profits through royalties and taxes as well as the labour income through employment of workers.
I hold to account whoever has power now. I don't play the "whataboutism" game, because it is unwinnable. There was always someone in the past that has done worse.

What matters is progress.
From their site: "Has an upgrade ever made your system worse? Each time new features are added to Lockdown, automated transaction testing is used to verify that the financials remain rock solid."

There it is, its all about squeezing money from the prisons resources. In this case unfortunately those resources are human beings that have been downgraded to less than human. I could not imagine the mind set it takes to willfully profit on human suffering.
Oh, wow. This is pretty cool. I've got some fairly oddball 5 1/4" disks from the 1980's that I'd like to try to preserve, and this looks like it would do the job. I'll echo what another comment says-- the store URL isn't resolving. I'd love to purchase one of these units.

I thought about using Kryoflux in the past, but their licensing is a complete non-starter for me. I'm not going to purchase hardware and license software that limit what I am allowed to do with it.
Now I'm going crazy over the sockets after looking at the pricing!!! :)
either way:

@media print {
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}
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OK i get the class structure now, Thanx
Canada's consumer banking is a mess compared to the UK. There are no free and instant transfers between accounts, checks are still used and take even longer to clear than they do in the US, and you can't get visa debit cards that will go through the regular visa credit network, which means that (in 2012 at least) it was impossible for me to use my Canadian bank card to make purchases online. Even the USA gets that right.
Don't forget temperatures that can esily go from -20 to 140f, condensation, dust, vibration, chemicals.
Brave New World had auto-generated pop-music which is essentially what modern pop-music is
May be you hadn't come across https://ncase.me/fireflies

If you look at the news.yc discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452832 at least one user had managed to sync LEDs using a similar model.
I think this tacitly article is admitting something I've come to believe, that open source came to concentrate on on the wrong end of the problem.

What I care about is being able to get to my stuff - forever. Open source might help with that if it runs on my computer, and someone out there with the skill to maintain it decides to keep doing so (even most programmers have little hope of actually maintaining most of the software they use). The focus, I believe, should always have been on data formats, interchange, and local storage, not on the source code of programs.

I'd rather live in a world with no open source software and open data formats than the world we seem to be heading into: one running on open technology stacks with all the data sitting on servers somewhere in formats we can only guess at.