skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm playing a bit of devil's advocate given that I don't like Keurig coffee much, your numbers are so far off that you're being kind of unfair. It takes about 35 seconds to brew an eight-ounce cup of coffee, not ten seconds (or three!), and AFAIK only uses about 1.5 bars of pressure, hardly enough to "destroy the bean." This isn't that far off from the speed and pressure that an Aeropress brews with, and it's really a fairly comparable method.

"But (nearly) everybody loves the Aeropress! It can't be comparable!"

I'd argue the Keurig's weak spot is not the brewing methodology, it's the coffee itself. The K-Cups are sealed with nitrogen and do their best to stay fresh, but no matter how many tricks you use to try and preserve the flavor of coffee that was ground three months before you brew it, it's going to take a massive quality hit -- and y weren't starting with beans that would bowl a coffee snob over in the first place. When I actually used the correct amount of fresh ground coffee from a good roaster, though, it produced a surprisingly good cup of coffee. And I've cut open a K-Cup and brewed the coffee within using a French Press; what came out tasted, well, a lot like what you'd expect out of a Keurig, just s slightly grittier.

(Then the pump broke and I bought a Chemex and lived happily ever after. The end.)
Do you mind sharing the script this with us? I currently have a NAS that I backup to and a couple external drives that the NAS backs up to (the most important backups). This is all painfully manual and I may write my own script sometime.
PG - This is great to hear. Was in the middle of watching it with my wife (and co-founder). It's one of the most passionate and important conferences I have ever seen.
If only I had known about this before I moved all my music storage to iTunes Match.
Missing from the lineup: Tesla
RFC 7159 (JSON)
Lawsuit: Sprint charged US gov’t $21 million too much for spying expenses
Update: my $2,000 a month business
Now rooms have a lifespan of 90 minutes. Also I'm thinking of a get more minutes button.

Thanks for your feedback ;-)
This looks awesome, and I've been wanting a library like this for some time. Only thing is that I'd need a C/C++ version. Is there one out there like that?
And research in the humanities is even cheaper and you see how well their doing.
Profit is another good one.
Education.

I think a good target would be to diminish the effects of propaganda. That could be hard to do, actually - for example, Putin supporters point out many things done by and in USA as examples of what is supposedly "normal", and USA doesn't have nothing like stellar record lately - be it in human rights, surveillance, invasions etc.

But education looks very important - especially if your goal not only to "fix the Ukrainian invasion problem", but also prepare for life after Putin - be it in two months or twenty years.
Buildroot project reports progress, releases update
Did you find Rseek? http://www.rseek.org/
Sure, resources were misallocated. But we're now six years into this, it's been a largely jobless recovery, infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes, and those misallocated resources are now sitting idle.

If you forget about money for a second, it seems like there are a lot of jobs that need doing, and a lot of resources that are idle.

Bridges need to be built, highways need to be paved, kids need teachers and tutors, and we're firing cops and firefighters like never before.

Why can't we match up some of those jobs that need doing with the people, trucks, and factories that are idle?

Why isn't the free market doing a better job re-allocating those resources to more productive uses?
Loved your article - inspiring and I can definitely see your point! Sharing my personal experience I left academia a year ago (leaving a promising neuroinformatics career) to what it seems crazy starting my own company! I now make at Lear ten times more money that what I used to make, I work only half weekends, I can sleep at night without the
Need of drinking alcohol before bed ( yes it was necessary with the stress of publications) and I enjoy my friends and family! I don't know if company will go well but I know
I am now happy! Very well done to you and good luck x
I would rather enable new businesses which would currently be uneconomical, in part due to labor costs. In particular, reward by profit share would be much more viable; workers could afford to gamble with their labor the way investors gamble with their capital.

Moreover, minimum wage only affects bargaining if there is solidarity and consistency across the entire workforce; as soon as it's possible to send the labor to China for 20 cents an hour, the benefit collapses (and meanwhile, we burn vast quantities of oil shipping goods around the world, mostly so that employers can end-run around the costs of Western employment standards).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to minimum wage. I just think that basic income accomplishes the same human rights goals, while also allowing the market to price labor more accurately and take more risks, thereby benefiting the whole ecosystem.
Clarification of analogy: if a doodle link gets posted to an internet forum (as happened with my example page), it will get spammed, but trollbait pages are irrelevant -- pages which are generated for their intended purpose do not run into that problem by virtue of obscurity.
http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/
The the leaked IRC chat logs [1] the leaker stated he was Serbian, not Russian. Is there additional information available?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x93tf/some_irc_cha...
Amongst other things, I think they're finally reverting the half-baked patch in 4.0 that broke various resamplers. Wonder which of the changes will cause me problems this time around...
I think the use of loans depends a great deal on the location and microfinance program in question.

At Zidisha, we don't restrict the purpose of loans (other than requiring that it be legal and ethical). The vast majority of applications nevertheless feature small businesses. This may be because the applicants are simply telling the lenders what they think the lenders want to hear, but the business uses of the loans have usually been confirmed when our volunteers visit the borrowers. (See this blog kept by an intern in Kenya last year for some good examples http://talkingstorykenya.wordpress.com/.)

When funds have not been used for revenue-generating purposes, this is usually due to an unplanned contingency, such as a health emergency in the family or a time of financial scarcity coinciding with school tuitions falling due.

I personally would not object to more loans being used for purposes such as tuition or home improvements, but understand that it is often too risky for individuals without regular sources of income to use debt to finance assets that do not generate revenue.
U.S. government, Sprint to fight in court over wiretap expenses
The logically correct answer is that the police department should not have signed the contract due to a legal inability to keep up their end of the bargain. You can offer someone a contract in which they promise to pay you ten million dollars, but when they subsequently fail to pay up it isn't really a defense that they never had ten million dollars, nor any realistic expectation of having it. That doesn't mean they should just sign anyway, it means they should not sign. This is also the correct response to silverstorm's sibling post... the failure occurred at the signing, not in court. By then the police department had already lost.

The police department should be legally compelled to tell the judge about this, then they should be held in breach of contract. This will not happen, of course, and our trust in our institutions and our belief that our society is based on anything other than raw power will take another fully-rationally-justified blow.
Thoughts on Flash - Apple (2010)
Practiced.
Creating logs in Android applications
Perhaps considering interns?
Because competition drives innovation. We wouldn't have Chrome today if nobody had bothered competing against IE. We wouldn't have Google if nobody thought they could do better than Altavista.
Hi bliti, we do not have any plans to offer lending services in the US. Not because Americans are less deserving, but simply because it is not our area of expertise or focus.

If you would like to lend to entrepreneurs in the US, I would recommend checking out Kiva Zip, which does lend to Americans as well as Kenyans. https://zip.kiva.org/
There's a lot of quite good ones. Cauldron[1] works on Mac OS X, Linux and PC. There's also a list of apps available here[2].

[1]: https://cauldron-app.herokuapp.com/

[2]: https://directory.app.net/
So, about the same as siri then.
Fickle voters.
Does anyone else find math like trig and calculus dramatically easier to comprehend than stuff like combinatorics?
Last time Microsoft started packaging tools you would think would be built in they got sued, can't blame them if they're once bitten and twice shy.
Why is he even thinking of school at age 4?

And how can you know if the great experiments of science are important for his schooling if you haven't tested them with him? I think there are many ways to learn about engineering and science. Looking at historical experiments is just one of them. Perhaps your son will enjoys other things better (like building Lego models)?

I hope you can have some fun together.

What ways of exploring science would you enjoy?

Maybe he doesn't like engineering, but likes biology? There are so many things in the world...
No, Apple gave up and implemented a compatibility UUID system to try and reduce crashes (since any Xcode crash is going to be reported to Apple and Xcode engineers have to figure out what happened, which means Xcode engineers get bug reports triggered by unsupported third-party plugins).

The existence of the compatibility UUID does not mean that Apple has blessed plugins. They're just trying to reduce their support load, and reduce their users' crashes at the same time.
Massive new AIRSHIP to enter commercial service at cardington (UK)
If the rightful owner of the phone consented, I don't see how the police could need a warrant unless it was necessary to win the cooperation of the carrier.
A modern electric kettle + small cup-sized drip cone / french press?

Modern electric kettles are awesome, they're insulated so can keep the water at the perfect temperature for ages... most have a "90degC" setting that's right for coffee. They're perfectly suited to cup-at-a-time usage (and often have a form-factor designed for dispensing into a cup without lifting the kettle).

I use a drip-cone on top of my cup, and love it... :]

[Offhand, this seems like such a simple task that complex and expensive solutions like the Keurig seem a bit silly, unless they yield clearly superior results—which the Keurig apparently doesn't....]
Curious why you need a C/C++ version?
I've talked to the CrashPlan folks recently, and they have been working on native clients for a while now. They wouldn't tell me a release date of course, but it's in the works :)
You're exactly right, I was sloppy in my phrasing. Greater efficiency creates opportunities for wealth creation.
> The thing achieves performance everybody else dreams of.

Citation needed? In experience (implementing simpler ML algorithms across Q, Python, and Matlab), the performance of non-trivial programs (using multiple operators together) is middling at best, even for an interpreted array language-- and orders of magnitude slower than an optimized native implementation.
I'm not sure I follow.

I was just making an offhand remark about how R&D gigs in industry for math/cs might be 'easier' to come by because their salary doesn't necessarily compete with lab costs.
After my Ph.D., I went to a startup doing biofuels (Joule Unlimited), and then came back to academia to do a postdoc, and again it was difficult to decide between industry and academia. In the end, I chose to stay in academia because many of my goals in biotech will require a lot of fundamental research before they are able to attract angel/venture funding.

As a new assistant professor (as of two months ago), I do have to apply for lots of grants, but in the end, the funding is not so bleak that it's hopeless (got our first grant last week). It does however require me to pick and choose only the most promising projects that can produce results in the near-ish term (2-3 years) and apply technologies we are developing for the larger end-goals to problems in human health and disease. I think that's a fair tradeoff for now. I think we will be able to do the longer-term projects more slowly on the side as well as interface with startups and companies to attack commercial problems where it makes sense.

The problems we face today are because we hit a steady-state in funding, rather than continuing to grow as we've done over previous decades. One can argue we should continue to grow, but at some point we are going to hit a steady-state again and the situation will be the same. There are many interesting proposals on how best to reach a better structure for steady-state funding, but in the end, hard decisions like the one the OP made are going to continue being just that; hard decisions. I think the positive of the whole thing is that there are other options that grad students/post-docs can now consider in biology that aren't a tenure-track position, and that overall is a good thing.
I get that, but let's say I'm fishing_for_compliments44 and I generate my link.

I think go to facebook and say "Hey guys! Let me know what you think! [my link]". Now pseudo_friend21 clicks the link and see's they can say whatever they want.

"You're fat and stupid, go die in a fire" - dead_mom_1991

"Take your mom's advice, please!" - boyfriends_sister13

"Hey guys, don't be so hard on her... she IS mentally retarded after all! lol" - long_time_friend19

So now a single user has launched 3 personal attacks that will cause this person a good bit of personal anguish when they stir up those emotions.

1. your mom is dead, let's be reminded of that

2. let's start a fight with your love interest, because his
sister is mean

3. I haven't talked to that friend in a while... but NOW I know how they fell about me.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, if pseudo_friend21 sends the link posted to mortal_enemy18 then the proverbial shit will hit the proverbial fan.

edit: good rule to remember when building systems like this.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Man, you're spot on. I've felt that the way math is taught now is akin to spending 10 years on 'if', 'for', 'while', and 'switch' statements (and being able to evaluate them perfectly without a compiler).
This could definitely be a planned move on the part of HTC. I hadn't even heard of the phone until now. Mission accomplished HTC marketing.
I think that this article misses one main point about Jessica Livingston: that she is different from other women; she said so herself. Not all women have the same type of personality. That is not a bad thing. "With a female founder it’s the second sentence out of her mouth. As if to say “PS - don’t take me seriously”" This is the point in which the author goes too far. Jessica knows that everyone at YC values her word. How many times has pg said that he often looks to Jessica about funding a group? For someone with a different personality, that statement might be more accurate, but I highly doubt it is for Jessica Livingston. In conclusion, everyone is different. Men are different from other men and women are different from other women. Do not assume that a statement means something because of the gender of the person saying it without taking into account the personality of the person.
They want it to, but unless it does today, it's not an "equivalent" yet. It's splitting hairs but the choice of that word implies they're equal in a way that "Microsoft's answer to Siri" or "alternative to Siri" does not. It's an implicit assessment of its relative capability.
Oh bloody fucking hell, Cook told shareholder activists to piss off because a CEO's job is to tell shareholder activists to piss off. Rarely is it so easy as in Cook's case where the activists were total wingnuts, had no business case since Apple's investment in renewable energy is almost certain to payoff over the long term, and presented a massively unpopular position. They got the microphone because their pitch had homerun written all over it.

In Google's case, their officers are responsible for optimizing the mix of objective search results with revenue producing search results. That optimum can be described as just good enough not to drive too many queries away while maximizing clicks to their customers. There's no legal requirement or demand from shareholders for a wall.

And indeed the very idea of tailoring search results to an individual's past browsing history is always going to push sites that share data with Google to the top of the results page.

TANSTAAFL.
Does it work in phones? It's not working in mine...
For me, the far more likely case would be 500GB, kept for a year. Even with 1000 hours (more than a month!!) for a restore, I'd still have to pay $125. CrashPlan lets me do this for free, and allows me arbitrary access to my backed up data to boot. It just seems like a better deal, unless you're really worried about data corruption in the cloud.
See my example reply above.
Reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story about the military officer test that asks "How do you dig up a ditch?" where most candidates answer with detailed instructions about how dig it, when the "correct" answer is something like "I say, 'Private, dig me a ditch!'"

The point being that, at that level, it's more important to know how to deploy your soldiers toward a goal as opposed to the low-level details of every individual task.
Will they unhappy with @evleaks?
I can't think of any reason you would back up to AWS if you already have an offsite backup solution, unless you don't think your offsite backup location is reliable enough.
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions"

I think this old proverb is appropriate here. What seems acceptable today can and will be used to persecute dissent. That is the nature of humans as we exist today.
Wonderful. Either my WeMos will start working better or ...

Since we know about previous security issues for firmware updates on WeMo, and since I had awful customer experiences with belkin.com ... Both WeMo and Linksys products are off my "buy" list from now on, until I see some serious improvements. It's a shame, really...
I don't know why the authors didn't make a website for the SCISSOR attack (a.k.a the cookie cutter attack in the paper), which is way more practical and (imho) much cooler than this session resumption thing.

The idea of that attack is similar to what we did in CRIME, but applies to HTTP responses. Basically you inject enough data to split the response into two records and drop the second one. Some browsers would happily accept the truncated response, and change their state. As a result you could remove the Secure flag on the Set-Cookie header, and steal the cookies if the server or the client doesn't support HSTS.
If so, it definitely back fired. And, no, not all publicity is good publicity in my opinion.
This is not about the philosophical debate of luck vs. effort. In my opinion, show-biz vs. academia analogy is not valid (Though there are no Jaden Smith's in academia, I won't use that as a counter-example. Doing so would perpetuate this analogy.). The metrics on which actors are judge are fuzzy and subjective at best, and spurious at worst. Academics, OTOH, (excluding China and a few other offenders) are mostly judged justly- whether in grant applications or in job applications or for tenure.
ALSA didn't get accepted into the kernel until the 2.5 series, so OSS was the default for all the Red Hat Linux releases and even the first Fedora Core release.
> No, there's an incentive for voters to elect politicians who will continue raising the bar

I agree that there is a severe moral hazard here. However, the fact that some citizens currently vote reflexively for lower taxes, while others do not, suggests that a semi-stable equilibrium could be achieved. (This holds even if you look only at middle-class voters with significant tax burdens, rather than just "makers" vs. "takers".)
A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA
And they even had the marketing prowess to use a kid so annoying, inept and clumsy that I couldn't be bothered actually watching the video long enough to learn any real info.

Mission accomplished indeed!
I really want to use this, but I'm having a lot of trouble with the interface. It could just be me or my environment. I don't know.

Are you planning to have a forum somewhere for feedback and support? I suppose I could open an issue on Github, but I'd really rather just ask a question. Enough people seem to be using this that I suspect the problem is on my end.
I think that's just an unfortunate screenshot. It 's an animated spinning circle, so it wont look like that in motion, just for a single frame.
Take Buffett's Billion contest opens today
Doesn't iTunes match support adding new content into iTunes (i.e., to be matched)?

Why would there be an issue here?
Tracking Parity
it becomes more interesting when you start read streaming server request and then pipe into streaming client request.

`yield from` and asyncio makes everything much more simple.
That is more or less what I mean by Haskell having too much syntax. Let me start by saying that I am far from an expert, and I am just expressing a subjective opinion. I would welcome if anyone shows me that I am wrong. Haskell is a brilliant language. Yet I have this personal and completely subjective opinion. When using Haskell, I get the feeling that the different syntax constructs, just don't fit too well conceptually among them.

The language on the whole is far superior to most others. Yet the syntax constructs don't feel to fit elegantly to me. It is not just that purely functional is a completely different paradigm. It is that the actual implementation lacks a global conceptual elegance. I am going to give an actual example: Take pattern matching. That is a nice conceptual idea. You can pattern match in function, and it is great. But then, you can also pattern match in list comprehensions. So patter matching can be combined in two completely different operations. This does not feel elegant, it feels awkward. It is not very obvious where pattern matching can or can not be used. Haskell is full of things like this.

This lack of overall elegance, makes it harder to mentally handle and become agile with the language. It takes more effort, so it feels that the it has a substantial cognitive overload. Maybe this is completely fine, and is required for the benefits of purely functional programming. Or maybe there could be a different, more elegant implementation of a purely functional language.

Or maybe I'm just biased by a lack of extensive experience with dozens of languages. As a fun note, let me add that as a side project, I am currently at work on a programming language, that address these things that I see as problems. It is not a purely functional language that aims to compete with Haskell, but it happens to address the issue of lack of overall elegance, that I am describing here. I currently have a conceptual design for a type system that specifically aims for conceptual elegance within the whole language. Also it happens that this language will be a graphical language, instead of text based. At worst it will be a great learning exercise for me. I hope that it at least end being an interesting curiosity.
Exactly. We have no sink or restroom on our "floor." (It's a floor between the first and second floors of an old warehouse.) They have a Keurig and bring gallon jugs of water. To clean a regular coffee maker would mean walking down the stairs and halfway across the building.
If webcrypto is the answer we are truly fucked.
Am I missing something or is the "web" command non existent?