skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We separate plenty of human concepts from evolution and nature already. Choosing not to do so here seems arbitrary.

And I wasn't so much casting a moral judgement on the selfishness of the act. I was just pointing it out as a selfish act as in, it is done primarily for you and your genes whether you realise or not. You are no different than any other mammal in this regard.

(I'm referring to the collective 'you' here, not you specifically.)

That's just life and evolution. I'm not admonishing anyone for it, but I can't accept the idea that having children is somehow an altruistic act done to spread the concept of happiness when the rest of the natural world and mounds of empirical data on the study of evolution and biology screams otherwise.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

You are a mammal. You will mate and reproduce to ensure the survival of your own genes. Those are your instinctual drives. This also strokes the ego if you're successful. You get to see little versions of the your own genetics populating the world.

Some of us choose not to participate in this willingly, others will delude themselves into thinking they are somehow separate from the rest of nature in terms of their biological drives.
Ignoring the "go to bed" and "wake up" advice, one could be a night owl and still be healthier for following the rest of the advice.

I myself used to be much more of a night owl- bed before 11:30 was just not going to happen. My wife is not. When we moved in together, I wanted to match her schedule. I started doing most of the things on this list and it worked for me. I went to bed last night at 10 and got up at 5:30 so I could go to the gym. Me of 10 years ago would have said that was impossible.
It does complain about them on the first launch (when the setup screen tries to sign you in for synchronization), but works perfectly after that. I was a bit surprised too. Now, my Chrome installation has been moved between 5 devices (via Titanium Backup) and still works.

The only big inconvenience is getting bookmarks to PC. There is XML file in /data/data/com.android.chrome called Bookmarks (by the way, Chrome seems to be the only Google app in com.android namespace). I just use regex to select the lines with URLs.
Now that's combining the worst of all worlds - now I need to speak (which is inconvenient by itself) to mute phone, thinking of proper speech in advance, and it also takes more time than typing. And I don't get "instant" response benefit of a phone call. No ability to send any data longer than few characters (no links, no data sets). Disruptive in the office. And if it was sent via anything non-phone then it is highly possible that quality would be garbage.
There's also a wide variety of possible implementations of a notification service, and not all of them will necessarily be as power efficient as what Telegram-FOSS does.
Thing is with the keyboard, they've had several opportunities to fix it but it would be very expensive to do so, would require the machine being almost entirely re-engineered because the design hinges so much on that specific keyboard clearance.

It's clear now that they're unwilling redesign their machine ahead of schedule and are happy to ship a below standard and still very expensive device for the 3-4 years spec'd out for this design rather than swallow the cost a redesign would take.

They know Mac users will live with it, what choice do they have?
Actually, the state doesn't seem to enter into the equation at all, that's a red herring. State gets (ticket_sales - prize_money), sure. This amount is predetermined by the rules (usually "X% goes to state, 100-X% goes to prize pool). From here, the only changes happen in the way that the prize pool is distributed to winners: part goes to jackpot, part goes to smaller prizes; if jackpot too large, recalculate with a larger part going to smaller prizes. The amount that state is paid out is never influenced by this.

Example:

In round 1, state sells tickets for 100 ($, $thousand, $billion, doesn't matter). 50% goes to state, 20% goes to jackpot, 30% goes to smaller prizes. State gets 50, jackpot is 20, prizes of 30 are paid out.

Round 2: sell 100, get 50, jackpot 20+20 (from last round), prizes of 30 are paid out.

Round 3: sell 100, get 50, jackpot 40+20, prizes of 30 are paid out.

Round 4: sell 100, get 50, jackpot 60+20, prizes of 30 are paid out.

Round 5: sell 100, get 50, jackpot 80+20=100, recalculation triggers, new jackpot 0, prizes of 30+100 are paid out.

Round 6: sell 100, get 50, jackpot 0+20, prizes of 30 are paid out.

Note that in every round, the amount that state receives is independent of the relationship between jackpot and other prizes.
I think your tendons would explode from forces of acceleration at some fraction well below 120mph.
But we're all OK with that.

There's nothing wrong with upvoting a fun little article that gives you goosebumps every now and again.
i think it’s a principle thing. for 90% of people, they’ll use it with default settings. seems like OP doesn’t want to support the usage of those default services in general (say, google search default?), so supporting a product that implicitly advances their usage is unattractive.
Yup, hate how Curse of Monkey Island is almost always forgotten when talking about the series because Gilbert wasn't involved. The game is incredibly beautiful, voice talent flawless and impeccably casted. I wish they had created other adventure games with that iteration of the SCUMM engine.
I pay 90/month for 150. Seems like a major compromise
If we look at Gartner's Analytics & BI magic quadrant from Feb 2019 (https://www.qlik.com/us/-/media/B0DCF50C816448EEAC8981B02387...) it becomes clear that Tableau(Salesforce) & PowerBI(Microsoft) are the driving force in the area.

The move to buy Tableau likely comes from an interest in enhancing cross-compatibility between Salesforce+Tableau, the ability to provide a more robust service offering that can compete with Microsoft (e.g. If you buy our CRM solution, we will give you Tableau for a 25% discount) and a concern that another big player would have come in and taken Tableau.
Rank the enemies since op avoided that.

Since things are not black and white, it should be reasonable to differentiate between Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
There’s more info here:

https://www.victoryvertical.com/
Anarchism was a 19th c. socialist movement, and anarcho-communism was one of its main strains, if not the biggest. Given its origins, it shouldn't be a surprise that anarchism is collectivist.

Anarcho-communism is contrasted by anarcho-syndicalism, which argued for unions/industries being the organizing principle rather than communes/towns.
But it does belong as bugfix in a 3.0.x version (minor version). Both security and reliability fixes are important.
Thanks! The blog outlines our journey for the last 8 months. We ended up sending more than 250Billion+ messages over a Live Cricketing tournament in India. (VIVO IPL 2019)
It seems to be described in this Rust RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2116-allo...
If they are going to go that route it requires a written offer. I haven't checked but would be surprised if they had that.
> The formal semantics of programming languages maps expressions in programming languages to mathematical expressions.

Which mathematical expressions do memcpy, fork, and putchar map to?
How the CIA Is Working to Ethically Deploy Artificial Intelligence
Salesforce currently has a P/E ratio of 104. The headline might as well read "Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B in Monopoly money."

This deal makes a lot of sense for Salesforce. They should be (and are) on an acquisition spree.

But if I had stock options (or any kind of locked-up equity) in Salesforce, I'd be worried right now. Someone is going to be left holding the bag.
What if malloc fails at that point because some other application (we're in a preemptive multitasking OS) decided to gobble up all RAM?
Or they may just value personal data differently than you.
And also icecat with tor https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
My dad was a welder. I can speak confidently on the subject. I am a software engineer with a long academic career (PhD). I have lived in both worlds. I even weld as a hobby and used to work in his shop off and on.

For the most part, welding as a career sucks big time. It is a dirty, nasty, disgusting business and working as a welder can't possibly pay you enough to really ever get ahead unless you open your own business of some kind and have employees or something like that. It fucking blows compared to an office job writing software.

Even if you can tolerate the horrible working conditions--my dad had to crawl down pipes inside power plants barely big enough to fit into and weld internal seams. He also had to climb into ridiculously high places dragging heavy gear and spend hours up there welding in 100 degree heat of course wearing long-sleeves and heavy clothing. It was a living hell. He did this usually for about $25/hr (1980s, early 1990s).

It gets worse. Oh it get so much fucking worse: The people he had to work with were the most miserable lot on the planet. Drunks, druggies, wife beaters, guys with 20 DUI arrests, biker trash. These were his co-workers and constant companions. If you're the average of the 10 people who spend the most time around, he was doomed! Guys would go out to lunch and drink then come back and operate heavy machinery. OSHA? GTFO! They laughed at safety. No time for that on clock! People got hurt, went on Worker's Comp. I have dozens of stories from back then and I doubt it is any better today. Do you like unions? Because welders have to be in unions more often than not. Unions are just another power structure to lord over people with--the drunks run the unions. It's ugly business. They give the best jobs (foreman) to their buddies. Everyone else is SOL. Only 10 slots at a job in town? Guess you're working out of town this year. And so on.

Find any other job than welding for a living.
One thing I had always heard about Mnesia is that it was prone to split brain with the occurrence of network partitions. Is that still a concern?
The GPL requires that all code with the software under the license to also comply with the GPL, which includes libraries. Therefore, it's simply not possible (legally) to use non-GPL compatible libraries with GPL software. A lot of open-source licenses are compatible, such as the MIT or BSD license, but proprietary licenses are not obviously.
I do and I've never seen that option
As someone who lost two people to ALS (and who risk loosing more) I strongly hope a cure would be found soon.

Alas the proposal of this article is misleading: Models describe what we think that we know about some phenomena. But as they say, all models are wrong.

Scientists spent many years (from 1993 to 2008) on ALS animal models based on SOD1, before switching to TDP-43. SOD1, not only is a gene when 95% of cases are sporadic, but it is a quite rare gene in ALS (2% of all cases).
TDP-43 aggregations was shown, as early a 2009, to be a consequence of stressed cells [3], not a cause of ALS, so why making two dozens animal models after artificial diseases which we know are NOT what is killing people?

Astonishingly scientists were and still are using mice to model ALS. There are around 50 ALS mice models today. But the prefrontal cortex (PFC), is much less developed in rodents than in primates. Rodents lack the direct cortico–motor neuron projections[0] that support fine control of forelimb movements. Many of the drugs used to treat CNS disorders exert their effects via neurotransmitter and neuromodulatory systems, and many of these systems differ between primates and rodents.

You may find surprizing that there are thousand patents about how "to cure ALS" when no drugs are efficacious. Some biotechs are manipulating patients in order to bypass FDA [1]. Invest your money carefully in ALS research! The snake oil industry is working at full speed.

Prize4Life spent lot of money during a decade and then they stopped [2], they understood the problem is not that more money is needed, the problem is that ALS research is not focused, on contrary it is fragmented.

What we need is large pharmaceutical companies working to deliver an imperfect drug in the short term. ALS organizations received a lot of money after the "Ice bucket challenge", but it was mismanaged. We do not need more research, we need commitment to help people. An imperfect solution is much better than some elusive quest after "solving ALS".

Here is a concrete proposal, inspired by the recent, acclaimed and cynically priced Zolgesma by Novartis (and it has a wide market, as it would help in 1/3 of Alzheimer cases as well):

http://padiracinnovation.org/News/2019/05/a-plea-for-a-gene-...

[0] Lemon, R.N. Descending pathways in motor control.
Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 195–218 (2008).

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/07/als-advocates-protest-fd...

[2] http://prize4life.org/

[3] Eran Perlson and Erika Holzbaur, 2009
Thank you for this. Listening now. Really good stuff. This is the kind of electronic music that is right up my alley. Straddles the line between ambient and lyrical, abstract and structured. Seems like it would also be really great to use as work music, especially for coding.
Rate Prediction with TensorFlow Bidirectional RNN
> tactical piano

That'll be next to be advertised on some of the cable-TV channels, right up there with tactical flashlights and tactical sunglasses!
This. Your data is already a currency. By visiting and consuming content you’re effectively paying for that content with whatever data they’re collecting.

Maybe this transaction needs to be somehow more explicit?
If I had a Thinkpad I wouldn't care about the trackpad. The biggest annoyance of my 2015 Macbook pro is the lack of trackpoint.
LogicBlox – Datalog REPL
Sure. We have already launched the Unicast functionality in Beta and are monitoring it closely. We will be sharing the Unicast post as well soon.
They provide no alternative "written offer". On the website, they directly point to GitHub for the source code offer: https://telegram.org/apps#source-code
Same here, my wife drinks drinks a lot probably.

I miss spending time with her but she it seems wants her bottle more.
I see [pdf] there already.

How is "is an education" inappropriate?
I’m advocating for improving that efficiency if it is indeed improvable (my intuition says it is by a large margin.)

What I’m saying is that the notion of ‘fairness’ should have little relevance to improving this side of things.
Thanks for a very interesting and well presented collection. The suggested uses section is thoughtful. I was wondering if it might be possible to add some info on the original motivation/intent/application of the typeface. This is to see if it can help suggest a typeface's "natural" use.
minus 5% for 'administration' which is outrageous. Its a fixed cost to administer the lottery. Should not be a percentage.

And is anybody calculating the taxes on the prize, which also goes to fed/state?
Trade Ethereum tokens directly from your digital wallet with AirSwap
Remember when Opera had a free version with an ad on it? Ah those days...

Hopefully Mozilla will not go down that path. I certainly don't think so with all they are doing in respect to privacy.
It keeps connection to Google, but at least does not send your location and does not help Google with personalizing ads. I'm also not logged into Google account.

When all I needed of my phone was web browser + YouTube playlists + FB Messenger, lack of Play Services did not seem to be big deal.
There's a wide variety in the quality of responses to bug reports too.

Last year I stumbled across a bug which could result in a leak of personal data (specifically, private messages). So I did the good-samaritan thing and reported it, opening with "I don't want a bug bounty for this" (it was a pretty trivial bug, just a high impact one).

What I got back was a wall-of-text missive about how it wasn't on the OWASP TOP10, wasn't eligible for a bug bounty anyway, and finished with a personal attack. I didn't even reply to it.

I haven't bothered submitting anything else, not on Hackerone, not anywhere.
Outside of the US, "liberal" politicians and political parties almost always belong to the center right part of the countries political spectrum.
I agree. I have a 65'' and 4K is not a huge improvement over 1080p at 10 feet.

For 8K to make any sense you'd need a 100'' at least which is massive and prohibitive.

IMO HDR is a much bigger improvement than 4K.
"Britain and France have been among the most vocal proponents of proposals to tax big"

This is kind of surprising in case of Britain. As long as I remember both Cayman islands and City of London, two of the best known tax havens, are British territories so Britain could prevent tax evasion easily.

When it comes to "taxing" those pesky Facebooks and Netflix globally, I am not sure I understand justification for this.

Companies pay taxes because they use resources and services provided in a given country (roads and other infrastructure, police protection, courts, etc.). Facebook does not use any resources in, say, Belgium, so why it should be taxed there?

If a company located in US, like Facebook, avoids paying taxes there (strange that someone who pretends to be rather left leaning person like FB owner escapes taxes, but that's a different story) it is the US problem, not a global problem and they should sort this out somehow - for instance make FB to pay directly for services/resources provided by the state, maybe in the global economy corporate tax does not make much sense any more? I can imagine that Facebook has some fake office on Caymans, but I hardly believe they would relocate there data centers and employees to avoid taxes, so making tax proportional to number of employees in the given jurisdiction, size of the office, used electricity, etc. might make sense.
Interesting quote from your article:

> The paper's authors ... said it was likely that people with late body clocks were being harmed by having to adjust their habits to a "morning lark world". Scientists say that about 40% to 70% of a person's circadian rhythm, or body clock, is genetic. Part of it you don't have any control over.

In other words, the "night owls" might have health problems because of the effort and stress of trying to keep their body clock in sync with the rest of the world. If they could live a 25 or 26 hour day, they might be just as fit as the 24-hour "morning larks".
You're still missing my point. Why can't people walk one flight of stairs instead of three, two up and one down? Have you literally never looked through the bars on the Muni level or on the stairs?
As if that's bad enough, even the correspondence you have with your spouse/gf on the outside has to be carefully worded, lest it be too titillating.

Photos too-- if it's too risque or pornographic, it's subject to confiscation.

Considering the lack of conjugal visits, it makes it just that much more difficult to maintain relationships with anyone on the outside.

(Of course, every prison is different, but this was the case in Escondido as recently as a decade ago...)
I don't think so. A "notification service" isn't something that exists solely on the user's device; there's also a server-side component that each remote service that wants to send a push notification has to interact with.

So for Android to support alternate notification services, every app/service that wants to send push notifications would _also_ have to support those alternate services on their backends.
> Their ticker is cool and maybe sales force wants to be DATA on nasdaq.

CRM is a pretty darn good ticker for Salesforce. Why would you change it? It perfectly explains your core business
Sometimes you want to call a function with something else, or are not using an IDE (no argument hinting), and just call the function intuitively. Instead of converting the input, or writing a middle-man, you edit the function to accept it as is. You don't even have to pass values in the right order, the function will figure it out.
This seems especially problematic given that many residential users don't know when something is taking significantly more data.

Eg my sister was surprised by how much of her quota was used by her Amazon fire stick
The argument is that the intangible costs of the current scheme (life under total surveillance) make it desirable to force a direct dollar-value recognition of people's personal data.

A while back I made a similar argument[1]. I argued that some high percentage (e.g. 90%) of revenue from targeted ads should be required to be passed through to viewers of those ads. The possibility of the targeted ad market drying up completely is an acceptable outcome of this policy. Make everyone go back to non-targeted advertising!

[1] https://thelocalyarn.com/article/judicious-change
This has been true for awhile once they forced apps to use API26 or higher (if you want to be listed in the Play store, and really, there is no other place if you want decent exposure.)

I had a similar experience switching from "real background" to using FCM. I understand the battery saving motivation, but the problem is that the performance of the google service is terrible. The response time of my simple notification system was nearly instantaneous, but OK google, I'll play your game. I put together something that used FCM and it can take 15 or 20 MINUTES to get even a "high priority" message from FCM.

Reading the google docs, apparently google will deprioritize notifications that are shown but "not intereacted with" in a timely manner, so that is another source of delay.

I think the crux of the matter is that notifications have multiple purposes: signaling, and advertising, etc. Google hasn't provided a way for an app to declare its use case. So, you get policies to prevent notification spam creeping in and messing with basic app signaling functionality.

In the end, I kept both my "in-house" notifications for use by older Androids, and a kluge that uses FCM in addition, with some hacks to get somewhat better FCM performance. I live with the notification in Oreo+ and just tell users to ignore it (but honestly, I don't think users care that much.)
> The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor. Always be preparing for this scenario.

Especially if you've built a business around a SaaS this is fairly impossible/difficult to do unless you don't embrace the features that set the SaaS apart, in which case, why bother with the SaaS at all.

I'm always an advocate for in-house control of any system that can't be abandoned in a week.
this is the point, if you are already paying (implicitly) for using the different services, make me the one who can control it and give me the choice to opt out if I don't want to do it
Yep interesting times. Valuation models at these levels depend on EPS growth where buybacks reduce number of shares = more earnings per share. The side effect is a ballooning balance sheet. Can that go on indefinitely? Are upper management (typically near retirement age) at all concerned with the long term effects?

Passive investment and Fed also plays part. Joe 401k and systemic index tracking leads to no public awareness of companies financial health. Buy no matter what the largest cap stocks in proportion to size. Fed is completely aware of all this. Interest rates must never rise otherwise everything seizes. December’s reaction was just that.
I lost money. Which would make a successful startup these days :)
https://solid.inrupt.com/

Tim Berners Lee is already working on something similar
I'm still really interested to see if there's any long term blow back for Salesforce from the whole Camping World saga.

Even for people who agree on principle, as a business owner in general I'd be very wary of using software from any 3rd party who's willing to try to influence how I run my own business. It makes me wonder about all of the other companies under that SF umbrella too.
Good directions, everyone should do this.
What regulation forbids timed transfers or unified fares?