skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like something akin to a desperation move by a company that's floundering, er, pivoting, er, failing?
http://www.overcomingbias.com/feed + https://ifttt.com/recipes/4447-rss-mail

I made it easy :)
how many social media employees do you think there are? do you think it's a significant number at this scale?
Ya we are looking into a way to better import addresses when the data is formatted like that.
It sounds like you live in an ideal world. I often help different clients in the same day. Website bugfix in the morning, bring up bluetooth in the afternoon. It's hard to say ahead of time how long either task will take.

Am I supposed to look over my commits at the end of the week and guess a weekly amount for each client? That sounds awful for everybody.

Sometimes you can bill weekly, sometimes you need more granularity. (I use hours.)

And, no, I'm not doing it wrong.
Facebook is the only web site on which I can simultaneously (or at least near-simultaneously) look at my college roommate's pictures from Athens while writing a letter to my Grandma and videochatting my long-distance girlfriend.

Facebook, for me, has a monopoly on bidirectional communication.
I'm not sure that has a significant impact on the numbers :)
This has some nice little side effects, like I can use the highlight -> middle-click action to get around JS in the browser that is triggered on copying text.

Not that I'm a fan of the situation, Keepass2/Mono break my routine everyday.
virtualenv and deployment are why I don't recommend python for step 0 beginners

Most people I've talked to at this level, they are so far away from being "technical" that HTML/CSS is already a huge (unavoidable) hurdle and the simplest thing I can imagine is PHP + FTP. If they get on an FTP client that mimics the GUI of a folder system, people get it real quick - they are copying this local file to another folder on the server. To me, the quicker you can get them to deploy something the better. because the first steps are to understand how information is sent to your app, understand that it's your apps job to make sense of that information and return a response.

I also tell them to get a cheap standard shared host, so most of the apache is transparent to them anyways. When they get to the point of needing to customize apache, that's an incremental step from where they have already gotten
Per normal for this area, about 85% is medical. In our area, about 10% of the medical is MVAs.
Are they including Whats App users in that number? Because that would help explain it.
What in the article lead you to that interpretation?
People-- especially non-programming managers-- have become dependent on the trappings of productivity that they've forgotten what actual work looks like. Java culture is full of this nonsense. The business becomes so dependent on a convoluted toolchain that it doesn't need for most purposes.

Web programming is now, too. Look around at job postings for frontend dev positions and you'll see basically just lists of fashionable tools, e.g. "Grunt, Bower, Angular, Phantom, Karma, Jasmine..."
Hmm... so you think it's just pure realpolitik and long-term geostrategic stuff.

It just seems awfully expensive for that. Of course I suppose it's possible that they actually thought it would be easy and that the Iraqis would just cheer us as we rolled in.
Yes, I meant OCaml looks better, in light of all the javascript traps.
Following that logic, it wasn't even newsworthy for Reuters to post the article at all right? I mean who cares, it's just emotive BS. I mean it's not like humans respond to stories about humans, and become motivated by their actions, selfless heroic etc. Better to just have news in the form of graphs of incidences with no names associated so we can keep track of it.
This could have applications in free space quantum encryption links. Signals sent in quantum communications must be at the level of single photons to ensure security. Traditionally, high repetition rates are used to overcome loss. i.e. If you have a 1 in a million chance of getting a single photon through, then trying a million times a second lets you get one photon through per second, on average. Increasing the transmission of a long free-space link could increase the maximum distance at which the link will be usable. This may be especially useful for satellite-to-ground links in less than perfect atmospheric conditions. Very cool research!
That's not how Facebook Pages work - a Page isn't an account you log into, it's something your main Facebook account can have admin rights to (and a Page can have multiple administrators). I have admin rights on a few Facebook Pages but I only count as a single active user, and I don't have to log out of my Gregor account to administer them.

Historically, some brands did create full Facebook accounts, but Facebook now discourages that and as far as I know most brands are using Pages now. For a while Zuck's dog, Beast, was a notable exception (he had a Facebook account long after that was discouraged) but it looks like he's just got a Page now.

(I used to work at Facebook.)
War is a proven way to empty the national treasury into the pockets of contractors. That's good if you're a contractor but it's a net loss for the rest of us.
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I've just published my app and I would love to have more feedback on it. I got the idea when I was busy moving around several projects during my last semester. And I always don't know which project I should work on next. Even worse, whenever I'm busy with something, I no longer have time to "read book", "go jogging" etc. That's when I thought it would be great if there is an app that keeps track of all the tasks that you want to do and habits that you want to make.

And here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVr0k9Hax0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bits.app

As an indie developer, I've only tested the app on several samsung devices as well as Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 so any feedback and remarks would be appreciated!
Including a Cult of Personality, in too many cases.

Even if it's not always wreathed around individuals, the role has been mythologized to an unhealthy, even a ridiculous extent which has allowed many CEOs to ignore consequences and accountability.

But my suspicion is that in the general case, all systems tend towards aristocracy and oligarchy, no matter how they dress on the outside, and that every system evolves its own Theory of Social Privilege to legitimise and promote certain kinds of relationships and transactions and prevent others.
If those are really under GPL, nothing should stop you from converting them into a kmod using the kernel 802.11 architecture and pushing them upstream. I'd imagine that since it hasn't happened yet there is something else at work impeding it.
It's hard to comment on the specific likelihood, but a few general observations:

1. Ebola transmits via bodily fluids (blood, mucus). Plus, Ebola does not establish a chronic infection in a host. Pathogens with those characteristics usually don't spread that fast / wide.

2. Past observations support 1) - transmission in airplanes has never been observed AFAIK.

3. Infected people can transmit the virus while having a fever, and through later stages of disease. This means you can identify potentially contagious people quickly, which helps control efforts.

4. Having said that, there are lots of things we don't know about Ebola, and it's always best to plan for the worst.

The diseases that keep me up at night are those that spread via airborne or vector transmission & have lots of asymptomatic carriers. Ebola has neither of those. Nevertheless, as far as Ebola outbreaks go, this one is the worst yet and correspondingly worrying.
In my view, a world without statistics would be like a world without 32. Somebody would eventually fill the hole. Would that be a world without probability? Without randomness? Sets?
Because people are complaining, not everyone seems to be understanding that they ought to download the beginners pack.
It's hard to answer this easily in a holistic fashion without getting really abstract. Is there a particular part you're wondering about?
Ever heard of Florence Nightingale?
I understood it that he just wants the one SSID and let his devices connect to the appropriate one. But his Linux system will always try the 2.4ghz first, so he ends up creating something like "mywifi24" and "mywifi5".

Personally, I would prefer doing the two separate names so I can know what I'm connecting to. Being a radio guy, I see it as two separate bands, two separate physical radios. I don't see a point in trying to give them the same name.

Of course, for my home environment, I'm pretty much using just 2.4, and I give all my access points the same SSID so I can "roam" between them. I suppose someone could want to be able to roam between 2.4 and 5ghz (I tend to use 5ghz for backhaul).
In case you weren't aware, the author of that post, Robin Hanson, is indeed an economist. So I imagine he is well aware of the principal-agent problem.
Cell phones slowing down service in restaurants
Maybe you should try looking at pages 37-42 which defines 13 different categories of suspected terrorists. I fail to see why you don't think this is relevant.

The section that talks about how people should be removed from the list is short (less than a page), and basically says "we should look into it if someone complains". There is no mention of court procedures [...]

That's because this is administrative guidance. The executive branch isn't part of the judicial branch. Agencies don't make rules about court procedure, the judiciary does. You're conflating two completely separate branches of government.

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Let me give you a super-quick civics lesson on US government, just so we're on the same page.

The Legislative branch consists of the House & Senate, aka Congress. The main thing it does is produce Statutory Law.

The Executive branch is headed by the President and includes all the various agencies of government. Agencies which are tasked by Congress with carrying out various tasks are required to promulgate rules and establish internal procedures (such as guidance in the implementation of the rules) for their own governance. These rules and procedures make up Administrative Law.

The Judicial branch resolves controversies between other branches of government, between the states and the federal government, and so on. Court decisions can cite statutory law, administrative law (if the case involves the operations of a government agency), common law (loosely, a set of legal traditions), and precedent established by higher courts. New precedents are sometimes referred to as judicial law.

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Now, statutory law might define which matters fall within the purview of the courts, and there's a great deal of judicial law addressing how legal disputes should proceed through the courts, but I wouldn't expect to find such things discussed in an agency guidance document. Obviously I'm only describing the very tip of the legal iceberg here, but there seem to be some very basic misconceptions in this thread about how the government functions.
I think that was posted to HN earlier and it seemed a bit underwhelming.

If server-sharing is not of value to someone, what else is in this release? That page doesn't say very much.

This seems to have more:

https://owncloud.com/get-public-cloud-flexibility-files-self...
The paper goes into more detail.

Basically, if you shoot a pulsed laser of sufficiently high power, you can generate a phenomenon where the laser's interaction with air will basically cause it to self focus - resulting in a filament of plasma that traces out a length several times longer than the normal distance of the laser to double in cross section area.

By using this effect to generate waveguides, the paper specifically singles out utility in two situations (laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and LIDAR), focusing heavily on the first. In laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, you shoot a laser at a remote target, basically blowing it up, and reading the spectrum it gives off as it blows up. It is sensing this spectrum that the paper demonstrates the technique on. By providing the return signal with a waveguide, it is in theory possible to get a much better signal, at further distances.

As for using this technique to help transmit other lasers? I dunno if it makes sense or not. I kind of expect (speculating out of my ass here), at the crazy interactions that let you create the self-focusing/propagation effect also makes it difficult to encode a signal into the laser, so it still might make sense to use this technique to guide a lower power, normally modulated laser signal... maybe.
Having just reversed and bypassed licensing (my trial had run out and I was waiting for them to send me my license key having just purchased it) my first piece of software (ILSpy decompiling a DLL and recompiling) I think I'll give this a crack. I've created hacks for games which required a little bit of reversing with Cheat Engine's disassembler in the past, so I think this'll definitely be a challenge!
I tried ownCloud out very recently and was astonished at the simple things you couldn't do. For example, via the 'sharing' function, you only can share to an image, wrapped in HTML, or via direct download. I just want to... share it without that, like imgur.com/exampleimage.png

The other was the inability, to sort. This confused me as, I thought the latest things are supposed to be at the top or bottom, with a clear way to choose some sorting option.

(perhaps with the above, I'm simply blind to the easy answers?)

Hopefully this version is better. I definitely agree with another commenter saying this could become very large one day, but not at the current rate -- way too much unnecessary complexities in the project.

I however, haven't had much experience with smaller open source projects so I'm not sure if that a good vision, with a good team sticking to that could turn it into a great piece of software.
This would not eliminate the effort involved in service/vendor selection, negotiation on terms etc.

The invoicing and payment processing part is small compared to the other costs and risks of doing a deal.
More deeply entrenching the idea that sacrificing selfish pursuits for the betterment of the human race is a noble ideal is for more constructive than emotive clap trap.
Start here: http://highscalability.com/blog/category/facebook
All of which is to be expected, to a certain extent. Certain categories of goods -- especially games and entertainment -- have always had broad userbases or fanbases with very small, but fanatical "hardcore" segments. Only in recent years have companies have been able to address the segments so effectively. In the old days, you had low-tech segmentation strategies, like Collector's Edition DVDs, or value-added merchandise, or mailing lists, or fan clubs. These days, you can offer in-app purchases, expansions, or slightly different price points based on different release windows and platforms. On the surface, these tactics seem exploitative. In practice, not all of it has to be. Certain value-added stuff is not for everybody. Clearly. It's for the tiny percentage (anywhere from a fractional percentage to roughly 8%, in most cases) who is willing to pay for a lot more. The thing is, there's an ethical way and a less-ethical way to a) figure out who those people are, and b) offer them more. The ethical way involves giving people the choice to be hardcore or not to be. It involves offering a hardcore value-add that in no way detracts from the experience the casual fans enjoy. That's what Radiohead did. It's what some mobile gaming companies do, and what other mobile gaming companies do not.

IAP in gaming has been a fraught subject, and rightfully so. That's largely because certain gaming companies have realized the potential for IAP vis-a-vis the natural segments of hardcore gamers, and have attempted to IAP-gate the basic gameplay. Rather than offer a standard product to everyone, and a hardcore product to the hardcore, they try to hook everyone into playing at a "hardcore" level -- and sell IAP accordingly. This stinks, frankly. A lot of companies have picked a lot of low-hanging fruit with this model, but the model is already creating backlash. Unfortunately, it's not going away anytime soon. It's so damned lucrative.

I would almost call that strategy a pay-ladder, rather than a true segmentation. You get everyone onto the ladder, and you make people pay to climb it. It's exploitative. It's also very effective. (For now.)

We should distinguish this strategy from a less exploitative segmentation, like what Radiohead did with "In Rainbows," and what a lot of artists and performers are attempting to do with their own albums, books, or shows. Radiohead didn't force anyone onto a pay-ladder. Radiohead gave people legitimate choice, and the $81 box set was a choice that people who really wanted it could opt into. Both strategies arrive at a segmentation of the userbase; Radiohead's strategy arrives at that segmentation through a more positive and consumer-friendly method.

Segmentation, in and of itself, is not evil. It's just smart business strategy. How you set up the segmentation, and how you enforce it, delineate the boundaries between ethical and unethical.
Right here: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Atheros_AR5B22

This thing works. I just buy them in bulk. I can get one for $13 off ebay. Any device I run Linux on, I replace whatever half size mpcie card it has with one. I don't fuck with the realtek or broadcom chips I get, because ath9k is all-open, no proprietary firmware, works out of the box. Drivers are in any kernel since the 3 series started, the bluetooth is just a generic HCI bluetooth adapter over PCI, shows up as a usb device and works with bluez no problem.

My best speeds on 5ghz with one of these has been around 20MB/s. Across my house I usually get around 8 - 10 MB/s. I think these chips are supposed to get much higher average throughput, but it works well enough I don't care. Works under Debian, Suse, Fedora, Arch, Mint, Mageia, even Slackware.

Ath10k makes me mad, since they are now shipping firmware blobs. Again. And they were doing so well.

I trust these chips so much when I'm doing IT supports and trying to advocate Linux to customers, I have been able to join every wifi network I've thrown the thing at, from ancient wireless-a routers to wireless AC ASUS routers with 2GB throughput.

Point is, different vendors have different quality. The ath drivers have been great for me, but I've only ever bought this specific chip because of the value proposition.
"Raid" has the implication of harassment, which is against rule 13.i. I recall one streamer getting into trouble for telling users to raid a competitor's stream.

The beneficial aspect of the raid isn't immediately clear.
> Does it comply with HIPPA?

If they can't be arsed to spell-check "HIPAA", I'm not entirely convinced that I should be trusting them to maintain HIPAA compliance if I decide to send them drives that potentially contain patient data.

That is, unless they're instead shouting about complying with sand crabs, though I'm still concerned in either case.

> The easiest way to destroy your hard drive.

You mean other than nuking it with DBAN or shred and then taking a hammer to it and/or burning it in a fire?

> Same methods, machines and processes used by banks and recommended by the NSA

Yeah, because banks and the NSA are obviously bastions of trustworthiness. </sarcasm>

> Place the sealed box in any UPS dropbox or schedule a free pick-up.

This seems to be a rather significant point of potential failure. While I certainly like UPS better than the USPS (or - God forbid - FedEx), I'm not inclined to go with this approach rather than take drives to a local data destruction facility and/or destroy them myself.

If you're going to send me a box, it had damn well better be one with a good locking mechanism and some measure of tamper resistance and/or evidence. Even that's not surefire, but it's sure as hell better than "here's a cardboard box; trust us, it's secure enough".

The idea's cute and creative, but when it comes to things like EHRs and such that require absolute confidentiality and security to a degree that would make top-notch military agencies and veteran cryptonerds blush, neither "cute" nor "creative" are good selling points.
In pointing out that "merit" can be freely defined, this piece shows that meritocracies are, in fact, arbitrary. If there's a key line, it seems to be this one:

"This is about who these people believe open source is for, and by extension, their own self-identity. Indeed, when people are challenged to explain themselves, you get nonsense and cognitive dissonance. People are being openly hypocritical, with no apparent awareness. The closer they get to confronting the truth, the more likely they are to break down in anger and confusion."

What's worth noting is that this pattern - of a previously secure group finding itself set upon by "outsiders" wanting in - is repeated in many spheres. Typically, the combination of limited self-awareness, egregious hypocrisy, and a flood of blinding, reflexive anger does not work out well for the group of people who display it.

At the same time, dis-empowering gatekeepers who behave like this tends to be a major boon for the fields they previously dominated without challenge.
The watchlist and the no-fly list are two different things, notwithstanding the degree to which they may overlap.
I don't recall Beast ever having anything but a Page - in fact, I remember that Zuck mentioning in a Q&A that he was using Beast to get a better feeling about what it's like to run a Page.
Yeah, OwnCloud 6 was slow (not painfully slow, but annoyingly sluggish) even on my average-grade personal VPS. They say that v7 features speed improvements, so I will definitely give it a shot.

I don't read anything about hotlinks though. The ultimate reason why I don't use OwnCloud, besides the sluggishness (which is hopefully fixed), is the missing hotlink feature. I want to send people links to actual files, not to pointless gateway pages.
People forget that the Iraq was supposed to be a quick get-in, get-out job.

That's why they never went in with overwhelming force but instead the lighter, cheaper force. History has of course shown that it was a dreadful decision.
You can also fund supplies directly to a local NGO that's responding here:

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-stop-the-ebola-epi...
In essence, this is quite a simple matter. Here's Theory of the Firm 101 for you:

In the real world, pure free market economies are inefficient. (If you think otherwise, you've never tried to co-ordinate a complex project with multiple independent contractors.)

In the real world, pure bureaucracies are inefficient. (Think North Korea, or the old Soviet Union.)

But they are inefficient in different ways. It turns out that we can improve efficiency if we have islands of bureaucracy (firms) in a sea of free market competition. And, since these firms get to keep some of that efficiency gain for themselves, that's what happens: one way or another, people organize themselves into firms, and reap the benefits.
The article mentioned microseconds... so not long, but possibly long enough, if you could keep the pulses going and not cancel each other out, but it sounds like this technique still has a long way to go. And carrying data may not be the ultimate end-point of this particular technique.
In particularly large and decentralized organizations some of these more costly transactions do exist. I routinely prepare invoices for services we provide other departments and their accounting staff (yes we each have our own accounting staff x.x) cut an [electronic] check to my account.