skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always surprised by the confusion of well meaning, intelligent, creative but obviously naive hobbyists trying to understand the justice or logic when they are threatened by lawyers backed by organisations with lots of money.

Here's a wakeup call: Justice has nothing to do with any of this, and the only logic behind it is the golden rule, i.e that those who have the gold make the rules. This is nothing new. Satisfying greed of the powerful by invoking terror on the less powerful is a very common occurrence throughout human history. The only things that change in different times and places are the implementations of this rule.

Sorry to be so cynical about this, and I'd be delighted if you prove me wrong. It's ironic how patents today exist to mostly serve the exact opposite of their original intent.
Spacemacs is absolutely amazing. I've done the rounds with emacs - trying it vanilla and rolling my own config, or using the various pre-made configuration packages (prelude, emacs-live, starter-kit, etc), sometimes with evil, sometimes without, and nothing has ever come close to what they've pulled off with spacemacs.
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Go has some weird syntactic sugar including where a method invocation is rewritten by the compiler to pass in a value or a pointer depending on what the callee wants(!?!). And yet Go code is still littered with:

if err != nil {

... rather than some simple, compile-time validated sugar to pass the error value up the call chain. Yes, I've read the justification documents. No, they still don't make a very convincing argument.
Minimum wage works because it improves some workers' negotiation positions so that they can capture more of their job's economic surplus

That's great, if the job has enough economic benefit to the employer to cover minimum wage. Once upon a time, it was common for early teens to get their feet wet in the job market by e.g. sweeping a gas station parking lot or washing windows. These were activities that provided some marginal value to the employer, but not enough to cover the current minimum wage. Those jobs don't exist any more.

Instead, kids have to convince an employer that they can provide a much larger return, but with no work history. They also have no way to gradually "ramp up" into the work force. My older kids struggled to get started in the workforce as a result.
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There is: a browser switch/standard: "ask ad-providers to personalize ads" / "use generic ads". Getting anyone to honour that is going to be a big problem though. So we have to implement that on the client side, by privacy protecting measures. (Not sure how at the moment.)
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This is great if humanity can live on lettuce and tomatoes (both a small part of the taco filling last time I was at Taco Bell).

When they get alternatives to grains, pulses, meats and milk then real advancement in food production will being made.
That this system is working elsewhere is evidence that it could work in the USA as well.
It's improved now, but after the financial crisis most high streets had a lot of empty shops. A lot of businesses went bust and the landlords raised the prices of the remaining tenants which forced more out. In poorer parts of the country it's still the case. Even the Starbucks in my hometown shut down!
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Interesting, even so was it a net win?

It looks like tuntuntun is pretty basic, my thought was OpenVPN with null encryption over MPTCP. But the combination would obviously have a lot more overhead than that.
There is nothing that says a company should only pay it's employees on terms it can only strictly control.

If you don't want to pay someone for 4 hours of commute per day, maybe dedicate some time to locating a closer place for them to live and paying for a move. Like you said: there are other ways to deal with it.
That was a time before modern communications technology made it very easy for knowledge of higher standards to spread naturally, and a time of much less dangerous advertising. Advertisers today literally use brain scanners to design adverts that manipulate people most effectively. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromarketing
And advertisers have the ability to test and refine their ads far beyond what advertisers of Roosevelt's time could do, using tracking that would be considered stalker behaviour if an individual did it. If advertising reverted to 1930s level there'd be much less need to defend yourself from it.
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Well if they are anything like dogs, and given their posture they looked rather safe. However if you spook them (in any way), things could go wrong fast. I've seen quite a few dogs that look more like flip-flops then dogs. Hell these wolves behaved better then a lot of dogs I've seen!

(However still don't recommend it though ;)
You shouldn't be trusting hotspots anyway. No real change from the status quo.
"No, the real difference is that trailers depreciate over time, while houses (and property) appreciate."

It is a myth that houses always appreciate. Real estate bubbles have occurred over and over again, dating back to ancient times.
We've conflated "engineer" to an absurd degree in the software industry. Engineering deals in a lot of hard math problem solving - as in, that's utterly vital to it.

It's also completely orthogonal to the types of problems Web 2.0-type companies work on - there isn't a 1:1 ability to translate the people going to work in one area to another.
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Just bear in mind that from what we know the German and British governments were all in with the NSA and do even more surveillance on their own citizens than the U.S. does (both, by the way, also using terrorism as the pretext - IRA and Bahder Meinhoff respectively). The U.S. is by far not the worst actor in this arena.
Who would clean airports? Do you really think that there would simply not exist any people who would do this kind of work for pay?
This is awesome! I kind of don't want to push it to be mainstream to be shutdown... :P much selfish, very excite this site
The one in Oregon is the real one, according to Matt Groening.
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But we are free in America..
Same here. I actually moved from a 13" Retina MacBook Pro to a Surface Pro 3. Can do everything and love it.
I think there are a few causes for concern regarding this paper:

1. Rejuvenation Research isn't a widely-recognized biology journal. If this is the first time memories have been recovered from a cryopreserved organism, this should be in a top journal as it's great news.

2. The article was accepted on the day it was received[ref 1]. This doesn't inspire confidence in the strength of the associated peer review as such minimal review is unusual in biology. Indeed, the average review time for the journal is about 4 weeks[ref 2] (which itself is a short time).

3. This is pretty concerning - the key protocol used in the paper hasn't been published (see reference 14 in the PDF). While it's described in passing in this paper, there's no way to assess the full protocol.

4. There's a juxtaposition between the authors' new technique and an established protocol for freezing C. elegans. However, the authors only freeze C. elegans for 30 minutes in their protocol whereas they freeze organisms in the established protocol testing group for 2 weeks. There seem to be appropriate controls but this difference in protocol is stated very unclearly.

References

1. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/rej.2014.1636

2. http://www.liebertpub.com/DContent/Files/FastFacts/FastFacts...
But it seems likes the data set used was that of top 200 news sites. Its my experience that media sites have around 60% of the http requests made to third parties and hence the reduction you see in load time
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This is hand-waving.
Unfortunately, SourceTree is still horrible on Windows. I've written them couple of times, but no feedback. Guess Atlassian doesn't care.

Haven't found a good alternative on Windows for a Git GUI tool that comes with Git-Flow.
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Intelligence is compensated by having higher social status. Nobody is going to ask their barista for a heart transplant.
«The crops are fertilized and irrigated by deep-blue tanks of living tilapia, swimming around just out of sight.» Here comes your meat, sort of.
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You could have a lot more people in those places if their water use were more efficient.

This is the kind of thing that markets can actually solve pretty well, as they allow people to adjust their usage to prices. Naturally, prices must be in tune with actual costs.
Is that really done to any real extent? The majority of users will have a standard configuration anyway.
""hydrophonics"? "aquaphonics"? might you not want "-ponics"? as opposed to something associated with sound? [shrug]"

Yes, that was a brain fart :)
Aldiko on Android shows it properly. It only breaks on lines that are wider than the screen.
What are the potential returns to "winning a market" that has no IP protections, no barriers to entry, and a host of substitutes? I would argue that the industry characteristics suggest that any winners in this market will have low margins and few profits. I suspect you are right about the current supply/demand mix for investments driving unrealistic optimism on the part of VCs.
The answer you are looking for is higher taxes on the owners of trailer parks to fund universal education, not higher rents on the people who live in trailer parks.
The danger is in treating a wild animal like a domestic animal. Domestic animals have gone through thousands of generations of selection bias - if they attack a human, they are euthanized. Even today, a lot of dog handlers I know have the rule of two - a dog gets one chance, but if they bite a human (without being commanded to, of course) a second time, euthanized.

Wild Animals have gone through a little of that (any animal that attacks a human is hunted down and killed), but nowhere near as much as domestic animals. But the thing is, Wolves look a lot like dogs, so we expect them to potentially have the same behavior patterns - which is just not the case.

One other thing - the guy coming out (I presume he was Inuit, but his accent actually sounded spanish), was acting totally alpha, and the wolves responded well to that. The guy with the camera was practically inviting the wolves to see if they could dominate him. That scene could have ended up really, really horribly.
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Ha, I hope I didn't sound like I rejected being 'old' or ageist. I too grew up[1] to be very fond of people of any age and love their perspective and experiences (or lack thereof)[2]. Nor to take away people opportunity to enjoy their closed ones. But I've seen many times broken lives out of misunderstandings that weren't related to biology or aging. When you're almost unable to relate to your family or couldn't build one, you have other things to improve rather than aging.

[1] although very late, maybe on average it's a coming of age thing.

[2] being into computer and technology, I think we have a special relationship to fads, newness, communication and history that makes us (at least I) interested in others in weird ways. How people managed to solve problems or live in a different context, what was the same, what really changed for them as a human.
> The whole point of ads is to convince people to buy things that they may otherwise not.

Is it? Or is it to make people aware of product existing? It's a subtle difference.

I don't own a TV anymore, but when I'm visiting relatives, I do watch it a bit on a rare occasion.

My first impression is that every show is hopelessly interspersed with frequent commercials. I don't understand why they put up with it. I am the master of my attention span, not the advertisers or the broadcaster. If I'm too frequently interrupted, I lose interest and find something else to do. Traditional TV has become a non-option to me, not the least because I don't want to arrange my life after the TV scheme.

My second impression is.. why the hell are they spamming me with their commercials? Yes, I DO know about the f* product, I already DO have a favorite brand, and a commercial is not going to make me switch.

But sometimes, extremely rarely, I do learn about a new product (through any kind of ad -- TV or web) that may interest me and then I look for more information or just buy it to test it if it's something cheap (like, e.g., a new coke edition).
There's Neonflames: http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/
Good semantic point, but you get my message. I really wish we would find ways to enlighten people of any level and not rely on 'genius' and talent.
This sounds like what Cisco does with their spin-in process.

They invest $100MM in a new company in exchange for a majority ownership stake, and retain the right to purchase the remaining shares for a previously agreed-upon price based on performance targets.

More info here: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-cisco-showered-three-men-...
It's not just about affordability, it's also about education. Plain rice, flour and the like are much cheaper per calorie/nutrient than junk food, and healthier, but many people simply don't know how to cook. I know families in Asia, for instance, who while being almost an order of magnitude poorer than the American poverty line are still a lot healthier, because they know how to prepare their own food from staples.
Yeah...it's a known issue, but a solution is apparently in the works? (low priority though.)
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need." -Tyler Durden
I logged in to say the same thing. Indeed!
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Safari doesn't. They advertise that they do but the policy is riddled with heuristic exemptions added in as they tried to fix broken websites. This (IMO dishonest) behaviour is what led to the Murdoch-driven blowup about Google and ad tracking a few years ago - Google was using one of these workarounds when the user had opted in to ad tracking and it ended up disabling more of the safari cookie blocking logic than they expected. This undocumented behaviour then became Google's fault somehow, although really Safari was just not doing what it claimed it would do.
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Thanks. I'm editing some of our new books right now, but I might just play Plants vs. Zombies instead.
The original authors spent exactly zero hours on designing and implementing the improvements. Why should they get anything? They work for satisfaction and money provided by apple and other companies sponsoring the project.

By your reasoning, when somebody makes money on anything, everybody in the whole production chain should get a cut. Obviously, that's not how economy in general works.
Big whoop. I'm not here to enumerate all the pros and cons of the policy.
The technology has been around since the seventies when a whole wave of stories were published about how the future of farming would be in skyscrapers. I am reminded of pg's classic essay, suits are back.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Historically these greenhouses depended on being able to sell a higher quality product during winter months than produce imported from California, Florida and Mexico. The technology is better and now that more people are interested in organic there's an audience that will pay higher prices than the supermarket year around. But it is a small audience, these greenhouses will never feed large numbers of people.
> C isn't really crazy on the generic/meta-programming compared to C++, it seems.

C was already the Go of its generation(Mesa, Algol 68, CLU,PL/I, PL/M) so, yeah.
Is that take-home pay after a taxes? Is the left column the gross wage, or the cost of employment to the employer? Eitherway in Belgium you'd keep barely half of that. Seems like the Swedes get the better deal.
In my experience, both styles can be remarkably clear and both can be impossibly obtuse.
Poor people aren't robots. They can and do see adverts for things that they don't then buy.

Additionally ad targeting means they might see adverts for things they could afford and that's t be relevant to their life instead of things meant for rich westerners.

The whole mental confusion between advertising and privacy in the technical and media community is really irritating. What's the alternative to advertising? Direct payments. And how do you do those? Credit cards. And what do credit cards have on them? Your legal name and your physical address. And how do they work? You provide those details to the seller.

Good luck using Tor or even incognito mode on a an without adverts.
is that not amazon sending cookies?

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=5160028011

i don't how that is google tracking you individually. can you please elaborate?
Uh yeah,

The plan sounds wildly implausible because of the immense expense involved. A modern house today costs crudely about 295K to build. To build housing for 35,000 would start at about 10 billion but would probably be several times that for the other amenities. Add to that the fact that, because this won't be a city, everything will be built by companies from out of town, further increasing the costs.

Just as much, unoccupied dwellings and infrastructure require maintenance, sometimes more maintenance than occupied areas since cars driving on streets is what stops grass (or tumble-weeds) from growing, etc.

Moreover, what would it be a model of? The lack of residents would also mean everything would be fairly different from an occupied city.

Testing autonomous vehicles sounds reasonable but it's hard to see that or other hypothetical uses needing an entire purposes built city. A "smart grid" test would require a working power grid. Would you have an unoccupied city with a continuously operating power-grid?

If nothing else, this implausible plans makes me think how interdependent and hard-to-simulate a real, working city is.

[1] http://www.fixr.com/costs/build-single-family-house
A way to control the probability of each link would be useful.
What's the alternative for any company? Leaving the US?
uBlock blocks Piwik, self-hosted or not.
I agree- would definitely be interested in reading that!
Does Rikulo UI make you commit to either web or native? For instance, let's say that I wanted to make an app but I'm not sure if I want it to be native or web. Or, better yet, let's say I make a mobile app in Rikulo UI and want to turn it into a web app: how difficult is it?
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dubai was my first thought
I have the same problem, and I've come to accept it. Sometimes I'm very efficient, sometimes not...

Acceptation helps: you won't feel like sh anymore. Acceptation also means "let's go for a walk" is often your best option.

A todo list, the pomodoro technique (google it), relaxation/meditation can help too.

Productive procrastination is also a good way to cope: find a better procrastination, learn something, anything that will make you a better you...

So yes, I account for procrastination in time estimates. I think "nobody" can be 100% productive for 8h a day for some jobs.

EDIT: by definition, time estimate means "how long will I take to achieve X", so including procrastination in it sounds right...
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Looks like e-cigarette packaging to me!
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There's an argument to be made that those good brains that the company lost were necessary to lose; I know myself that a business can hit this point, I've been there myself as an employee when it happened. I'm one of those developers that isn't a fan of big formal-ish companies, so I leave when that happens -- that's not a bad thing, as keeping me there will frustrate me and the business long term. Those processes can be super necessary however, so I don't begrudge places the institute them, unless they do it far too soon of course.
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I agree, advertising is very important for the web. I think adblock is a step too far. If companies cannot generate revenue through advertising then they will need to start charging for their products which would be a negative for most people.

I would like to see Mozilla take the lead on bad advertising. Ads which cripple browser performance and page load speeds. These ads would then be automatically blocked by the browser. It would be similar to when apple decided to disallow flash on ios.

Just as apple encouraged a move away from flash, this would encourage content providers and advertising companies to create lighter, less intrusive ads.

Basically it would look at blocking ads which are known to track, ads which take a long time to serve, ads which prevent the page from loading till the page loaded (this might be difficult) and full ad overlays (again, could be difficult to identify)
I found a full listing here: https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port/blob/master/REA...
Everything's broken for me too, I didn't realize it was the multiprocess thing, but it makes sense. Everything from Lastpass to Vimperator to Ghostery is behaving erratically.

I guess that's why pages have just decided to take four times as long to load.
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There isn't much to fingerprint when you cache a font or javascript library approximately forever. Of course it is a huge data leak to ever let the remote server enumerate fonts, but my ideas is attempting to accommodate the idea that interesting fonts can be used, while the only extra network traffic should be the font down load on first request.

I acknowledge that it isn't perfect. Someone who is really determined could (and will) send HTML with unique URLs for every javasscript/css/whatever, effectively making a cache useless. That takes proactive effort on their part, though, and in the meantime there is a lot of low-hanging-fruit.

For example, currently Google can track those of use that ban google-analytics at the router when we load any non-Google page that requests jquery fron Google's CDN. Limiting that to "about one" load to fill the cache would be easy and help in the short term..
If you add a ?share=1 to the URL, it bypasses the login and shows the full commentary.

Clickable: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Silicon-Valley-think-of-the-...
I did a similar thing to a Mischief decompression algorithm.

http://m1el.github.io/mischief/part-2.html
Extensive discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9587566
>There's nothing "magic" or "unscientific" about preservatives being bad for you. Not all of them, but a hell of a lot are. Chosing between a fruit or a meat with and without preservatives, it's a no brainer which is healthier (unless the latter is rotten to begin with).

Why do we add preservatives? To prevent the food from rotting in the first place, which means that fresh food vs food with preservatives will always be rotting food vs food with preservatives, unless you want the poor to starve.
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It's really impressive that this kind of stuff can now be done in a browser, even if it makes the fans on my i7 rMBP scream :)
What content do you consume that isn't funded through advertising? Unless you don't read any blogs, news websites, use any free services etc.
How long does a hash take on a modern PC?
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