skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that we never had a regulated internet monopoly.

The government made AT&T and Dominion Virgina Power run telephone and powerlines to everyone, but in exchange there was legally no competition.

Now the government wants competition, but that means there is nobody on the hook to subsidize this guys internet connection.

It is probably more efficient to just install LTE instead. Running fiber to every farm house is a waste of money.
Wow, this is... yeah, this is pretty much how I use LinkedIn too.

I'm going to go see what's involved in deleting my LinkedIn profile, I think. Github should be my resume anyway.
Apple Recruiting Automotive Experts to Work in 'Top-Secret Research Lab'
Too bad; I've enjoyed running my free CS/programming Helpout [1].

Besides the decline in user growth that Google mentions, here are the major problems I saw while using it:

* hosting a free Helpout meant dealing with constant no-shows [2]. I started charging $1/hour and then refunding it to folks who showed up.

* attendees of free Helpouts were rarely prepared

* the scheduling system was very limited (especially compared to Google Calendar)

That said, when everything worked, it was an amazing experience.

[1] https://helpouts.google.com/103350848301234480355/ls/a344f06...

[2] https://simon.codes/2013/11/07/google-helpouts-first-impress...
I just tested Firefox 37 (Developer Edition) and Firefox 38 (Nightly).

The multi-process "Electrolysis" support in 38 is great. Several tabs with flash plugin work fine now, without slowing down the whole browser. Though, I still see only one main process for all web sites (there is a child process "plugin-container"), that's a bit disappointing. IE 9+, Chrome and Safari 7+ spawn a new process for every x sites - a child process with little permissions (a technique known as "sandbox"). Maybe we have to wait a little longer for Mozilla's Rust based Servo engine.
I've dealt with vendors in other situations who felt they had a right to free and open access to the Mother Ship, even when they were competing with it. You can't get around that mindset. The only reason to be angry is when the Mothership makes explicit promises that it backs away from. And given how many platforms bring things in to control the user experience (even AirBnB is taking more ownership of the total experience) this shouldn't come as a surprise to the small players.
I actually couldn't tell if it was intended to be a joke, a trolling, or perhaps the rantings of a lunatic. Putting in stuff like "federated bodies of the internet" and the "empire of LinkedIn" makes it seem like it's supposed to be a gag.

If this site is supposed to be serious, they should perhaps remove the superfluous text and add some actual information about what LinkedIn is doing (aside from just linking to the image of the terms of service notification).

--EDIT-- I see that this is a re-wording of FDR's infamy speech which explains the text. I still can't tell if it's a joke or not though.
That is what they are tackling, the scalable aspects. Their goal is to get to thousands of equivalent acres and they are looking at the places where the system runs into scaling issues. I don't know if they will be successful but they have a heck of a start.

In one of those interesting coincidences there is a well funded and ready market for intermediate versions from the marijuana folks as well. There are a number of venture firms putting money in that space.

When my wife did the solar panel installation boot camp (back in 2001) (a week of training followed by work on a job site installing panels) roughly half the students were there from pot farms as well.
And just yesterday I had to switch from Firefox to Chrome. Based in the UK and the latest Firefox searches google.com instead of google.co.uk Never had this problem before and seems it cannot be fixed.

Even tried a fresh install of Firefox but no dice. I love Firefox but getting the wrong search results is a deal breaker for me.

Any ideas?
Chrome has been making some pretty awesome improvements to the dev console as well as performance related to HTML5 on desktop and mobile.

Our game http://www.FreeRiderHD.com has always performed best on mobile and desktop through Chrome.

That being said the most recent stable build of Chrome desktop is constantly triggering 'Aw Snap' crashes without any crash data where the issue does not appear to exist in previous or future beta builds. Not just limited to our game as I have been experiencing crashes on Facebook and Twitter as well.
The single content process is an interim step until electrolysis development is further along.
In other words, it is a both/and :).
So, what is the misinformation, and the corrected information?
Yes, I'm aware. I do intend to be working on improved weather forecasting all century long. Forecasting the weather in a time of continent-scale drought is a different ballgame entirely, compared to weather forecasting today.
@mariusz79 (I see what you did there ;-))

That makes little sense to me, if the point was to use the applicants ability lean how to use a new technology as a screening filter then I don't see how using irc fits that requirement.

Although I'm opposed to the idea of using irc as a screen, since I know that there are people who don't use it but are technical, I'm not suggesting that most technical people don't know what irc is. Just that it's kind of useless to use a known technology to test the ability to learn new technology, especially amongst developers.
How is that? The only thing I've ever gotten from them is a shitty user experience, overabundance of dark UI patterns, and recruiter spam.
Does anyone big not do that, in practice? Are there big time-insensitive fundamentals traders who will rest an order outside the spread for hours or days until it gets hit? (in practice if you wanted to do that maybe you'd just only trade in the day-open auction, where there's no maker-taker?) I understand that it's theoretically an option, just interested to know whether people do that in practice.
Guessing that someone isn't happy that their lead generation app just lost its data input?

This website is nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction that tries to rally readers by crafting a context that makes it sound as if LinkedIn's changes are not in the interest of the user.

Yes, I would like open access to the API, but I'd gladly trade that if it helps reduce the volume of spam sales/recruitment inquiries I receive.

The partnership integration route may have extra hoops to jump through, but it doesn't concern someone like myself who's anticipating LinkedIn integration with our product; our intent is not what LinkedIn is trying to curb.
I just read up on that, and looks like they did just pass a law that they can't ask you on the initial application, but then can weed you out later. IMO that's a horrible law that will end up costing businesses a lot of money, and not help felons get a job at all. If I run a business and I have a policy of not hiring felons, I should be able to weed them out in the initial application phase.
It still seems inherently sequential or loop-based and generative/reactive to me. My own favorite parts of time-based works of art are when a transformation happens that is surprising in the moment, but satisfying when you realize how inevitable it was in hindsight, or a development that simultaneously communicates planning and restraint. Composers have been able to wring so much creativity and artistry out of an extremely standard set of symphonic instruments for centuries - when I compare the playfulness of the Turkish March in Beethoven's 9th, or the drawn-out and crashing inevitableness of the big moment in the 1st movement of Sibelius' 5th symphony, or the freakishly satisfying conclusion of Respighi's Pines of Rome, it kind of encompasses what music actually means to me, and it seems we are a very long way away from algorithmic composition being able to reach that kind of artistry.
Yeah. The site had no information on it.

But I wonder, is LinkedIn really "the" way to connect professionally? My personal bit of anecdotal experience is that it isn't for me. I was on LinkedIn for maybe 15 years? I accepted everyone on LinkedIn (I was not discriminating at all). And in that 15 years, I never found one job through it. Right now in Seattle (where I've been for 10 years), I go through my "people I drink beer with" network.

What I'd love to see is a network that would introduce me to people in other cities. I want to move to NYC, but I know no one there. So I don't know the good vs. bad neighborhoods, companies to stay away from (you know there is a list), etc.
To extend and correct your analogy, if you accuse your neighbor of stealing your vase, I would hope the cops spend some time investigating whether a) there was actually a vase to begin with and b) he actually took it, before they haul him off to prison.

Determining whether or not a crime has actually occurred is usually an essential part of a criminal investigation.
Chrome sucks, Firefox kind of sucks, and Safari is good but it lacks extensions.

Are we going to go back to the days of no great browser options? Please no.
Also, check out http://colour-science.org/

It has python implementations of a ton of colorspaces and transforms. Also some cool support for spectral data.
Also, come to think of it, the proper term for this is "abstract concept" not "mental process".
Try the Firefox developer edition. I personally find it better than Chrome dev tools.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
That was my problem with it too.
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"Patriot is binary-compatible with Git ..."

sudo cp /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/patriot

... of course that is likely not enough, as all the porcelain still says "git". ;)
I feel like the author recently learned the word "shibboleth" and just wanted an excuse to use it as many times as possible in an article.
Huh. In Silicon Valley it is already more common to have EV chargers with dedicated parking than it is to have dedicated management spaces.
OP here. So the FDR verbage is not popular.

Anyone willing to help write better text? Please email contact@stopusinglinkedin.com and we'll get it swapped out.

Apologies for the intro copy faux pas.
Archiving and Aggregating “Alternative” Scholarly Content: DOIs for Blogs
I downvoted you, as someone who spent years hanging around on IRC large parts of my free time, and who based on your comment questions how much experience you have with IRC.

For a while, it was my main source of social interaction overall. 20 years ago I used to pick up women on IRC - most of my dates for years came that way.

At the same time, while certainly there are women and minorities on IRC, I've seen few environments that could turn incredibly ugly and sexist and bigoted so quickly, or that could wear women in particular down so quickly and drive them away. It at least used to take an incredibly thick skin to be a woman on IRC.

In fact, back in the day, one of the most effective way of picking up women on IRC, was to simply set yourself apart from what they quickly became used to, by making fun of the endless stream of horny teenage boys anyone with a somewhat female-sounding nick used to have to deal with, no matter what channels they were on.

The extent certainly does vary by network, and channel, but watching over the shoulder of a woman using IRC anywhere without very strict policies and very specific audiences can be very enlightening unless they hide their gender. And many do.
First with a therapist but then self-applied. I think I needed an external "benchmark" to calibrate against and gain some structure from first.
This doesn't always work. Right now, on both Firefox and Chrome, I can only use one account.

On Firefox I click the user icon, choose my work account and my personal account loads.

On Chrome I click the user icon, choose my personal account and my work account loads.

It's so fucking frustrating. I've cleared cookies, cache and history completely and the problem just comes back later that day.
I don't understand why one would use a single web browser for everything. I don't have any evidence to prove its effectiveness, but the following combination has been pretty good for me and I've used it for years:

Firefox with NoScript/Ghostery for e-commerce and article/blog reading. I have a selection of unblocked websites.

Vanilla Safari for banking.

Vanilla Chrome for anything that would require a lot of unblocking in FF.

This means that at any time I can have three browsers opened with multiple tabs each. I never seem to have any problem.
You can't buy or sell stocks without trading with someone else. HFTs give you a lower price when you do that (otherwise people wouldn't trade with them). To the extent that they're redistributing wealth, they're redistributing what would have previously gone to a traditional market-maker, partly to themselves and partly to the person making the order.

I mean, if a supermarket sells strawberries for cheaper than your local greengrocer, is that "a non-negligible amount of money for a service with questionable value"? It seems to me that the onus there isn't on the supermarket to show that strawberries are worth the price.
I know Linkedin isn't perfect, but it does have one single use case fulfilled for me - the ability to have just enough of a connection to ex-coworkers, so that in the future if our paths ever do have reason to cross again, it is easy to make that happen.

These aren't people I want to be on other social media with - they are purely coworkers who might be worth contacting again. And there are other ways to keep in touch... but for this particular use, Linkedin is a good option.

And because that is my primary purpose for having an account, I have no problems with API usage that is more restricted. I don't want an ecosystem built up around linkedin's data. I don't see any potential for that to improve my life.
I'm actually partially responsible for this. I actually designed that product at LinkedIn.

There are some people who need to stay anonymous for various reasons including lawyers, M&A people, etc. The setting for how you show up in other people's who viewed your profile is controlled by the individual user. It is a privacy thing.

The messaging when upgrading used to be much more clear - you would get to see more people who viewed you as opposed to just the last few - not de-anonymize people. They seem to have made it more ambiguous since I left.
Build Newsletter: Open Source, PaaS, Big Data for Developers – February 2015
I'm so sick of people obsessing over "bloat" on desktop programs. All the most "bloated" programs (like, say, Visual Studio, or Word, or Emacs, or whatever other example you care to name) also happen to be the most useful, because, hey, it turns out you use some fraction of those "unnecessary" features.

"Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. If that's what you need, you've got options..." -- jwz
Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds to Create Life on Earth
I had the exact same reaction. Why would an extension automatically open multiple tabs? That sounds pretty malware-ish.
Argentina's President Fernandez Charged in Probe of Alleged Cover-Up
Better integration doesn't mean spam (LinkedIn already has that feature in spades). It means allowing apps to leverage your work connections to provide better tools for you to use.
Yes, thank you. This proposal is a terrible one because it'll result in the government consolidating more power.
Okay, so as someone who is ramping up on C where would I go to learn all these common patterns? I could start going through github repos and start reading code but this seems very inefficient and I might pick up something that is actually a bad technique.
No, it is not a false choice.
You can disable the "open all the tabs I had open last time" behavior in the settings, though. Is Firefox more clairvoyant about what you want (e.g., startup with arguments does not load prior tabs, but normal startup does)?
Tim Cook Speaks at the Cybersecurity Summit
I have been peppering eero's "Questions" link for the past few days, and have gotten a lot of information, and have been suitably impressed enough to pre-order.

1. In the Mesh, all units using the same MAC address and Channel. This means no actual "hand-off" needs to be made from the perspective of the client device, even as you move about the covered area. It sounds like Antenna Diversity on Steroids.... There will need to be multi-path-rx consolidation done within the mesh, and some decision making which eero (and which antenna on the specific eero) to send device bound packets to.

2. According to another response I got, however the mesh is currently formed, it's day-to-day operation can be supported both wirelessly or hard-wired (cat5). I am guessing (hoping) this means that a giga-switch could be installed between eeros, and I will be able to use my previously installed pulled cat5 cabling to reach from my Router in the basement to my top AP two floors up.... the guy indicated that wire based mesh will still be faster (at least from a latency perspective) than a fully wireless based mesh. I intend to have a hybrid wired-wireless mesh unless it proves to be too much hype.

3. I did not get a definitive answer (I don't think) about the usefulness of the 2 gigaports on each eero. They are both WAN/LAN auto-sensing, but was hoping to learn that they could both could be used as LAN ports at the same time.... Maybe they can, maybe they can't, but at least one can be a LAN.

4. I have not really received an answer on how "customizable" the QoS settings are. I have a lot of "critical bandwidth" devices (tivos, game consoles, VOIP) and I would like "massagable" QoS settings, by port and by fixed IP or MAC.
> I left Firefox mainly because it was measurably slower than Chrome at the time (and not by a small margin)

I have no idea what your experience was, of course. Many people said this for years while Firefox consistently won or tied in objective comparisons.

Having dealt with end-user complaints for years, I've learned to doubt reports that rely on subjective perceptions of things like 'speed'. Sometimes the new, cool thing feels faster. Perhaps Firefox should pump in some fake engine noise.
I have two, but only if you count DSL as one and DSL speeds do not begin to rival what the cable company offers. Cable wants 66 for what I have now and DSL is 49 for less than a third.

Do I really have a choice when one of them is so unappealing?
Uh, IRC? Really? Now I know the 90s are back.

Let me know if you have a position open for a Gopher developer.
It's not bad, and Apache Spark adds SQL on top of some other nosql DBs, but they are still hard to use.

Cassandra for example: you can't just put a secondary index on a table to enable sorting on it. There are secondary indexes, but they aren't useful for that (they don't perform well on high cardinality data).

Want a different sort? Make a new table. And duplicate the data, since there are no JOINs.

I find this really cumbersome.
Maybe... Technically it's not their study, it's the study of the company running the trial. That isn't public information.

Now, one could argue that all clinical and pre-clinical data used for the drug approval process should be public information. That is a very complicated argument (and I actually come down on the "public" side, but it would take a long time to explain).
> This isn't data about you.

It's espionage by a government against its citizens. It is about us.
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I have seen my battery life improve from 3 hours while using Chrome to 5 hours while browsing the same content using Safari on my MacBook pro.
One downside I've experienced with Safari is that it does not reclaim the memory a tab uses after it is closed, which leads to a crash once a day.
They also recently put in some search restrictions, which for a very different set of reasons, makes me not like what they are doing.
Is the FBI really expected to put their investigation on hold while they first investigate the reporter?

Yes, the very first thing you should do if investigating a reported crime is find out if the report is reliable.
What's your LTE situation look like? Also, how do you like your neighbors? It might be worth someone's while to run fiber out there if they could guarantee they'd have 100% uptake to those other houses.
This is a great quote, and really relevant to the issue at hand.

We're technically free to roam about and talk to whoever we want, but our steps are tracked (obsessively) and our communications are kept on the record (indefinitely).

By the logic of this quote, the US is not a free country. I tend to agree.
Blergh, almost half of my screen real estate is taken up by the top bar. I bet somebody got a bonus for that, as Raymond would say.
This article is full of whiny nonsense. Sounds like one of those rants you hear from those who think they are savvy because they can install apps on their phone. Chrome eats batteries for lunch, but it's still super fast and stable, and I use quite a few 'useful' addons.
So, I should only help the bottom 1% and not help the bottom 2% - 5%?
Fair point. You get the right to stand on the shoulders of giants, but you have no right to prevent others from standing on your shoulders as long as you are on the shoulders of giants.
I imagine this has something to do with the sandboxing in Chrome that prevents one tab from causing the entire browser to crash, no?
Before my eyes reached the domain name, I thought "is this a bunnie article?" Is anyone else doing [publicly available online articles on] investigative research on electronics like this?
I switched from Firefox to Chrome right around Firefox 3.6. I have an average of around 20 tabs open at any given moment, and I tend to go around a week or two between reboots.

Other than the occasional tab crashing and quickly reloading (and by "occasional", I mean maybe once every couple of months or so), I've never had an issue with Chrome. It just works.
>Chrome doesn't run Adobe Flash

Yeah, it does. Pepper Flash is just Flash repackaged to use Chrome's new plug-in architecture; it is still written by Adobe. (Although perhaps Chrome does deserve the blame for some crashes related to how it integrates with the browser.)
I've heard that, on modern cpus, with the first 100 or so primes cached, for all but the most performance sensitive applications, MR can be run with sufficient accuracy that there's a greater likelihood that a stray neutron will flip a bit in the cpu at the time of computing MR than that MR will produce an incorrect result. Or something like that. Is it true than MR can be tuned to be as useful as a non-probabilistic test?
I am attending and am looking forward to the startup track.
> Superfluous RAM use hurts battery life a lot

Do you have a reference for why this should be? A quick search yields results suggesting only the opposite (for instance, https://superuser.com/questions/738848/does-more-ram-usage-c...).
I enjoyed this article's technical depth on the communicative aspects of social networks. In school I was taught about an effect of democracy, where in the larger a community grows, the content becomes the lowest common denominator and diluted to fit the masses. Niche content absconds to areas that are less visible and become filtered out. One of the reasons a community like reddit continues to thrive is that the niche content is separated into filtered areas of distinct denominators. Moreover, it's also why big subreddits tend to fail and break off into smaller pieces.
Why not just always open Incognito windows?