skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "muh Russia" agitprop which keeps Americans distracted from their own nations crimes is already humming along at a feverish pitch - so the standards for evidence are going to have to be pretty high for this one.

I, for one, hope that Americans pay attention to the IAEA, and especially to the recent corruption of the OPCW, when it comes to this story developing further.

The stakes are too high, and too many people stand to profit from the conflict that is being fomented between these two powerful nations.
Nobody is giving me money, I consider this to be lost income, therefore everyone is doing me damage. /s
­>if chromium team loose sight of how non-obscure the requirement to block ads easily is to all users today, this may be the start of a different phase.

I don't think you realize how many tech illiterate people don't block ads.
Perfectly fair. It sounds as if you might have liked the early days of Lyft. Personally I never used them then because the whole fist bump, faux friend, thing was totally offputting.

On the rare occasions I use Uber or Lyft today, I’m polite and friendly/chatty enough depending on the circumstances but someone’s doing a job for me and I don’t owe them anything beyond basic politeness.
I came here to say exactly this. I can't believe that FAMILY PLANS are still not a thing yet.. So disappointed.
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well they don’t have to be... tokens are just code running on the blockchain, so you can apply anything you like to them... you can block a transfer until the recipient is in a whitelisted KYC list so that real world identities are known, and then you have your ledger

worried that loses the “trustless” of blockchain? hash the KYC entry and store it on chain so you make certain that the off-chain real world ownership information hasn’t been tampered with
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You only need to set it up once per network, instead of once per browser, and it is capable of filtering (most) ads even on closed platforms (e.g. apps on non-rooted phones).

The downside is that it is much less granular and harder to set up exceptions.
Man, that's really disappointing to read. I'm a fan of North Face gear. With that said, this will definitely push me towards their competitors like Patagonia and Arcteryx.

No doubt that there will be some sort of apology incoming from the CEO, but in reality the damage has been done.
I'm curious about this line of reasoning and I'd love to patch a hole in my intuition here. Why does the rotational period imply tide-locking?
I recently stayed at a hotel built with this quality. Everything was rusty, from the door hinges to the windows, to the front gate. There were cracks in the foundation that shot up the walls.

I asked the manager when they opened and he told me they had been open for less than a year. The building was less than 3 years old.
This is why, as all economists agree, measurements of economic growth are completely arbitrary and the economy hasn't changed in any meaningful way that can be called "growth" since the middle ages.

... Oh, wait, or maybe growth actually can be expressed as a quantifiable concept?

In this case, the author chooses energy as an objective measurement, because all economic transactions must consume energy in order to occur.
Tom Murphy's website occasionally comes up in futurist circles. His general point that unbounded exponential growth is impossible is obviously correct, but I find his condescending attitude tiresome and he often exaggerates the apparent validity of his pessimism through questionable arguments.

For example, he first insists that the conversation about energy consumption be confined to Earth and ignore space exploration, which is reasonably sensible because of the large energy cost of space travel. He moves from there to a thermodynamic bound on energy dissipation from Earth into space via black-body radiation. This argument is self-contradictory: if we were producing so much energy that it were able to heat the atmosphere (>1000x today), we would certainly have enough energy to fly into space. (The linked article "Why not space?" contains no math and few real arguments: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/why-not-space/ )

Also, this paragraph is relatively good evidence he didn't talk to a real economist:

>But if energy became arbitrarily cheap, someone could buy all of it, and suddenly the activities that comprise the economy would grind to a halt. Food would stop arriving at the plate without energy for purchase, so people would pay attention to this. Someone would be willing to pay more for it. Everyone would. There will be a floor to how low energy prices can go as a fraction of GDP.

None of this hemming and hawing about infinity answers the real question: is it possible for the global economy to grow until nobody has to live in mud-huts without air conditioning? The answer is almost certainly yes.
Ah, a kindred spirit. I too despise Angular’s static-OOP, inversion of control dependency injection framework aspect.

I’m working on two huge projects using AngularJS, but would just as soon do the next with Vue. Hopefully Typescript doesn’t infect that project badly.

Google as an organization seems to have decided that C++ / Java is the one true paradigm for all work.
The AdAge video is completely infuriating — it has this completely triumphalist tone celebrating the "cleverness" of the marketing campaign. As if it were a "hack" rather than an unethical and distasteful idea unbefitting an ad agency. North Face would do well to part with Leo Burnett Tailor Made.
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I can appreciate the frustration.

I imagine some atheists may be frustrated to be told that they're not as nice (charitable) because of their rationality.

In any case, to your question 'who cares why someone is charitable?' I'd suggest that it's important if your definition of charity is something along the lines of a voluntary offer of assistance.

If you're coerced into providing assistance -- either by promises of eternal happiness, or threats of eternal suffering -- then it's not so much charity as taxation, or perhaps a promise of remuneration.
Submitted a clarifying description: https://github.com/metafizzy/zdog-docs/issues/4

> Zdog is a pseudo-3D Vector Art engine. You define your geometry using 3D splines and blobs, which render as 2D SVG shapes for any arbitrary perspective.

> For nerds—this simple translation is made possible by assuming an orthographic projection (where drawing 3D splines becomes trivially reducible to flat 2D splines—not so with perspective projection). More obvious, the occlusion-culling is achieved with a trivial drawing order or by hiding entire 2D primitives when appropriate.
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Have you tried hitting Ctrl+Shift+N to restore the previously closed windows?

These will behave differently: (1) "Quitting" Firefox will multiple windows open. (2) Using your WM to close both Firefox windows. The latter will cause only the last-closed window to be restored, but you can pop the others off the stack too with Ctrl+Shift+N.
Are you aware of Widevine being Alphabet/Google property?
Ace editor does this too - possibly because large documents might not all actually be in the DOM.
It's unfortunately a reality for us down under though - so it's not beyond the realm of imagination
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Scale and impact -- banning people from international tic-tac-toe monopoly is not a big deal, unless participation is socially or otherwise required.
> The meteor strike wiped out the dinosaurs, but not all life. Mars currently has no life. The strong implication is that, Earth post meteor strike would still be far, far, far more habitable for humans than Mars ever will be.

Sure, but nobody today is researching the technology to survive a post-dinosaur-meteor earth. If it gets developed at all that's due to our space programs and our desire to survive on the Moon and Mars. So unless we go there we won't survive the aftermath of that theoretical meteor.
Development has stopped on the Safari extension due to the kneecapping of its capabilities in Mojave. Maybe the upcoming Chrome change will spark renewed interest in getting it to work to the extent possible.
> the big ol' meteor that hit us some 60 million years ago helped not only kill off a bunch of that life to create oil

Most fossil fuels come from plankton and algae sediments deposited over millions of years, not from one big meteor impact.
Let’s also talk about how terrible their clothes are, from material to construction, and mainly exist as some kind of pyramid sandwich-board scheme to sell more clothes rather than protect wearers from the elements.
Its not about press freedom, its about impunity from war crimes. The free press is being attacked by the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex, because it has a lot to lose when people wake up from the agitprop funk and start investigating the crimes of their state, again.

Basically, whatever the circumstances regarding Assange - who is now essentially a dead agent who can no longer be trusted - the most important thing that must happen, is for there to be more leaks, with real evidence, so that the war crimes investigations can begin.

The US and its coalition partners have been getting away with murder. Press freedoms of the participating states have never been in worse shape - so now its time for the whistle-blowing to step up a notch.
Haven't been there in a while.. shockingly hard to read.
I almost always pool when using Uber/Lyft, and this filters people I wouldn't want as co-riders out too.
What about this?: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/08/10/2120248/dropbox-is...
Not unless the physical economy is growing at about the same rate as the virtual one. Or else how is that extra power generation capacity being added?
Ask HN: Wikipedia for screen readers?
It's the Christian holidays and my glasses broke. I have a tough time reading the search engines, and using the iOS screen reader spends about half of the time saying "1. 2. Citation needed."

Is there a website that strips Wikipedia links of the brackets, images, and possibly hyperlinks?

Perhaps my best option would be to format the pages manually and upload them, which is not ideal but can get me through the next few days.
Some revolving door systems (not the ones you mean, probably) actually improve a lot on the classic turnstiles or gates.

They allow one authorized person to pass from one side through but sensors on both sides can easily detect if another person is trying to piggy back from the other side of the door. And there's no way over or around them. In higher security environments where unauthorized persons getting on the other side of the door is already an unacceptable risk they can also allow security personnel to trap someone in the door (rotate only 90 degrees).

And as far as usability and efficiency goes, they can allow traffic both ways at the same time (as long as both people are authorized).
Funny that now someone can update the North Face wiki entry with the "Wikipedia Incident" paragraph...hahahah death by a thousand cuts?
Edit: lol already live [1][2]

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face#Controversies
puh-lez. I was "deactivated as a rider" LONG before this system was in place.

My (probable) offense: asking support why I couldn't use a discount code from slickdeals.
If I can demonstrate that the results of my "crazy" homeschooling is commensurate with (or surpasses) those of public schools, then what difference does it make. Yes, public school teachers have skills. Do those skills apply directly to the homeschool setting? Is there a difference between attempting to teach the one or two or so offspring compared to a classroom of strangers? Are parents incapable of attaining the necessary skills through any means besides university?

If it were reasonable to achieve "doctor" level results of medical care without being a doctor, then I would agree with you. The evidence shows otherwise. If I were getting poor results with my kids, they'd be back in public school.
> This seems like a generational thing but I have never met someone my age or younger that thinks that 3/5 or a 'C' is average.

I think it's related to school grading systems. anything less than an 'A' means you did something wrong.

I remember when I had my first professional performance review, my manager asked us all to fill out the form ourselves and then discuss the difference between our ratings and his rating of us during the review itself. fresh out of undergrad, I gave myself mostly 5/5s and a couple 4/5s where I thought I needed improvement. I was momentarily shocked when I saw he had given me mostly 3s and a few 4s. he chuckled and explained that the company had very high expectations for software devs and that I wouldn't be getting any 5/5s in my first six months on the job unless I happened to be steve wozniak in the body of a 22 year old.
In NY, 99% of gas stations sell gas with ethanol in the standard amount, but there are a few which (claim to) sell non-ethanol gas, so it must not be a legal requirement. However, I haven't tested it, so I'm not sure. I did monitor my gas mileage, and some tanks were way higher than others, so I wonder if the "non-ethanol" gas sometimes has ethanol and sometimes doesn't.
Come on, you have to be pretty fucking naive to assume any large publicly traded corporation is going to to be honest with users or employees.
Here you can see some of the images they uploaded: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_North_Face_W...

There are at least two ongoing community discussions about the incident:

- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...
That job posting is more than just a rails dev.

> lead the development of...Our Java, Swift, and React Native-based mobile apps

> - Experience with building application backends in Ruby

> - Experience with React and Redux

> - Interest in machine learning and other next-gen technologies.

That job posting doesn't know what it wants.
I would completely disagree with your summary of our discussion.
This triggered a memory from my second "real" job.

We had a secure building with glass entry turnstyles. In my second week, a suited important-looking person was standing behind the gates at 8:20AM (we started at 8:30AM). It was busy and everyone was ignoring him (that seemed odd).

The suited guy picked me from the line of drones going through the turnstyles and asked if he could jump in behind me (he didn't even mention if he worked for the company).

I was still doing the HR training program stuff (the general wear deodorant, don't plug in flash drives from outside, don't ask for teamviewer, etc stuff) and the last thing we did the day before was end on the tailgating policy.

I told the suited guy that I couldn't let him in due to company policy. He smiled and said "all good" and went back to the corner.

He ended up being the head of logistics. Apparently, he liked to scope out the new hires and "test" their compliance. He tried this with 5 or 6 of the new hires and only managed to get let in once. The lady that let him in wasn't fired, but she did get a warning.
UI in javascript = still to this day it can take 2-3 seconds when opening new tabs or going fullscreen. Plus they released a statement about "observing" Google adblock decisions instead of going hard in with "we will not deprecate webrequest usability in our fork".
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> It's one of the few parts of my stack that I interact with every day I don't occasionally want to hunt down the creators of.

Reactive Extensions was definitely one of those pieces of stacks.
As someone who did an undergrad degree in Mathematics, I can tell you that you're not really doing any worse than math. Is there really some undergrad level math barrier to understanding Einstein's theory of relativity? I don't know if you'd be able to contribute to computation psychiatry with a math degree either. You'll have a hard time getting into any heavy-cs field with just a math undergrad. You might learn some skills and ways to think mathematically but it's not gonna help you in the real world - lol. After all, my math college counselors would ask me, "Ok, so, what do you want to do with your math degree? Grad school or actuary?" (And those were the only options they presented)

Most of my time in undergrad was spent memorizing theorems. Probably not much different than neuroscience. It's really no different than many classes. A lot of bullshit memorization because you need to remember a bunch of one-off shit to solve a lot of problems. Theorems are the jeopardy trivia of math degrees. You know how psychological thriller movies have subtle hints through them that things are not what they seem? It's like, you'd be able to guess what's gonna happen next if you picked up on that super subtle clue 2 hours ago. Most math exams and homework are that. Hope you remember that stupid theorem from 15 chapters ago that was subtly referenced and never mentioned again!

> Now consider an alternative path, I majored in mathematics, joined a quantitative hedge fund

Very unlikely unless ivy league, strong connections, and were working hard outside of your math classes. Job prospects for math majors are grim. You don't learn employable skills in many math degrees. (Speaking mostly of undergrad degrees)
Again, “Perl6” was already taken as a name.

Yeah, just like that, all over again.
It would seem, by your logic, that it is actually impossible for scientists to voice concern about anything, because once they do so, they can no longer be called scientists, only advocates. If that's the case, then I simply disagree with your logic. If it isn't, and you see some egregious bias-having somewhere in the scientists' statements or qualifications, feel free to point it out. If you can do so without the overt hostility, even better.
They will add the usual to the company wikipedia page: "Wikipedia articles got manipulated for commercial promotion... etc." And link to the articles.
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> To the developer: before pulling the plug I strongly suggest trying a subscription model.

You're suggesting that the developer begin asking for a subscription for an app they already bought with the understanding that it was a one-time fee?

This does not sound to me like a recipe for happy customers, regardless of whether or not it's reasonable.

(You _might_ have more success releasing a "Happy Scale 2" and pushing all future updates there. This has the significant advantage of not making users feel forced to buy something new.)
He's not the guy behind the startup in the OP, he's just a guy doing homeschooling sharing his own personal experience. He's saying that at one point they went to Paris, which is a very educational think to do. That's homeschooling. Then they also studied Viking stuff. Maybe it was even in Norway at Viking sites? That sort of thing. A reasonable response to what do you do that Khan Academy doesn't which was the question asked of him.
I am really curious why would they even try this type of stunt? Like what were they trying to prove?
It's important for co-riders, in the case that you ever use pool. Co-riders won't be matched directly based on their ratings, but they'll be indirectly matched based on the algorithms that match riders to drivers based on rating.
That seems very misleading. Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't even support ecryptfs (as far as I know, certainly it isn't the default), and it was not recommended for years prior because it's not a very solid protection (for many reasons).

If you use ext4 + luks encryption I believe Dropbox works fine.

Standard disclaimer, I work at Dropbox, but I have absolutely nothing to do with product. Opinions are my own etc etc
FWIW I am trying to interpret, and presenting my case, in good faith.

I don't accept the claim that religious activity makes everyone involved (at least on the believers' side) happier. In almost all cases there's no control to compare to - you have to compare different people, rather than the same person(s) with & without religion, and then you're back to the causality question.

The question of charity I've responded to in a sibling thread.
It’s not the average that matters - it’s the number of 1-stars or rides where the passenger felt the driver was highly unacceptable.
A driver might be perfectly safe and polite to a majority of customers, but a danger to vulnerable people or different groups of people. It would be good, for example, the app to overweight low ratings from young women - with almost no tolerance for 1-star ratings from that group.

It would also be good if the ride share companies share details of the most scary drivers who have been ousted, so that they don’t get two or three shots.
In Stripe's case, the docs are all rendered server side and are viewable without Javascript.

I'm not sure if you can hook into the native CTRL + F search tool and see what a user typed (my gut says no way there's an API for that), so I guess Stripe just wanted to track as much information as possible on what people are searching for, even if it makes the user experience a lot worse.
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That non-DRM content is delivered by a different infrastructure that is designed for speed, so that the user has a quick experience, but that system isn't designed for full length content.
> I'm not saying we don't have evidence for what happened in prehistoric times. As you said, that's hard. But the above is the outline of Mckenna's theory, taken from wikipedia. My point, is that he makes a number of claims as to the effects of psilocybin - see above - and none of those claims of what the drug can do are backed up by evidence.

So, what you're saying is that it's state-of-the-art work in the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology.
Wikimedia is right. We should be angry. And I am. I'll never buy anything North Face as a result of this.
Ctrl + G certainly is hookable[0], folks just rarely know that it's an alias for 'find'. If you REALLY want the browser's search, in Chrome, you can use the mouse to open the menu and choose "Find". You could also use any keyboard shortcut that focuses the URL bar (so keyboard events are no longer sent to the page) and press Ctrl-f then.

0: In Google Sheets, for example, Ctrl-g opens the JS-driven find bar, or, if it's already open, advances the match.
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As with many of the other commentors here, I wonder how many programmers truly believe these things. Maybe as recently as the 90s or 2000s. Maybe developers who are fresh out of school.

But we've had search engines as a major part of our lives for about two decades now. Most of us use one at least daily. We're familiar with the complexities of search engines and how they differ from simply searching a document for an exact string or even a regular expression. Many programmers like me work with tools like analytics and log aggregators that expose the complexities of search to us in a way that's more intimate than the veneers of Google and Amazon.

Maybe I'm just lucky in that my experiences have dispelled these notions of search being easy or simple. But I hope I'm not alone.

Also, there's a disparity between what search is and what your users expect. Technically, I could make a really simplistic "search engine" that amounts to a SQL LIKE query. It may not be good or what users might expect coming from Google/Amazon/etc, but it would be a search engine. (Oops. Looks like my pedant hat slipped back on when I wasn't looking.)
What happens when someone steals someones private keys and transfers the tokens to their account?

What happens when someone loses their private keys? The asset by US law is tied to them as a person, not a bearer instrument like a private key.