skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...I'm confused by this article.

'Many more, 34 percent, said they didn't find the Internet relevant to them (...). Thirty-two percent said the Web was too difficult to use, according to Pew.'

'By contrast, there are real structural challenges (poverty and inequality) that are keeping younger, less socially mobile populations from becoming America's next great inventors or scientists or civil servants'

So 2/3rds of the responses say the problem is either that the web isn't relevant to them, or that it's too hard to use, but it's -poverty and inequality- that are the problem?

Then elsewhere, "Mostly they're poorer, older and undereducated, according to the Pew Research Center's latest figures." but then the article says "And it's not merely a matter of waiting for old fuddy-duddies who don't "get it" to die off: As the data show, older people have been among the quickest to adopt the Internet among the disconnected population." Doesn't that latter bit seem to imply that the 'older' part of the former will be solved with time? Or that the 'older' part isn't a problem at all? And what about that "younger, less socially mobile populations" bit they referenced (prior paragraph)?

I am trying to make sense of both 'why (I) should care' (is it that these people are wrong, and that the internet really -is- relevant to them, and/or that they just need better training on how to use it? The article also says 'But these remaining holdouts are likely to be the hardest to reach, because you can't just throw money at them', but the way to solve both those issues, and the remaining adjectives the Pew Research Center quote references ('poorer' and 'undereducated') is by education and addressing poverty, which requires throwing money at the problem), -and- what to do about it, and I'm not really finding it in the article.

Note, I'm -not- saying that this isn't a problem, or that I can't come up with reasons why it would be. I'm just saying that the article seems to be saying "37M Americans aren't online. That's a problem", and nothing more. Not why that's a problem, not who it affects and why(well, they cite survey responses, then seem to posit their own reasons that run counter to the survey), not how it affects society at large (or me individually, beyond the possibility that some of these people would become great if only they used the internet, something that they just take for granted), and not what to do about it.
Yes, it's true that Armstrong didn't get admit doping because by of the retesting of old samples. It all unraveled with Landis. But Armstrong is a good example of how people will eventually get caught. In 2005, L'Équipe reported that 6 of his urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France that had been frozen had tested positive for EPO. But since it was part of a research project and had not been properly controlled it couldn't be used against Armstrong. It did add fuel to the speculation that he used drugs.
some more info:

http://www.boxouse.com/

Luke is YC

Here's a 28min video of him and Heather showing off the project back in October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqunEuw61k

heard about this a few months ago and I find it pretty cool. if only the laws were more favourable...
I'm sure you're joking, but here's a blast from the past (I'd forgotten about it, anyway): you can set `image.animation_mode` to `none` in Firefox for that.
Maybe it's time tech companies let their engineers globally work remotely from comfortable places, instead of parking them into metal boxes and sweetening the deal with catered lunches.
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well, he closed his practice, so does it really matter what the reviews say, positive or negative?
Problem with shipping containers is that they should be decontaminated and sanded down prior to living use - the contents get gassed, leak out dangerous stuff and old insulation materials may prove dangerous, same for the paint.
That's the big question. How many services are only accessible via the internet? The government does a good job of trying to ensure 100% coverage, but private businesses certainly don't. For instance, can you apply for a job at McDonald's without an email address?
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No it doesn't. This is some bizarre myth that keeps being perpetuated.[0]

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Does-uBlock-block-ads...
Importing enum values into global/function/module local namespace has always been a PITA for javascript environments. Any suggestion on how to do this cleanly?
And it's not like there isn't precedent. I remember a couple years ago when Google showed off gene mapping at I/O (Urs' demo to visualize how easy it was to scale GCP From 1 to 10 to 1000 to 100000 cores), and now they've partnered with the Broad Institute to apply this more generally.

http://www.broadinstitute.org/google
So a play on words with the word "nigger" would be ok by you?

"...never any ill will or desire to humiliate anybody" - this is the sort of very flimsy faux-naivity that I come to expect in these debates - especially on technical forums with a very literal-thinking crowd.

"He could make 10 jokes about the English/Scotts/Welsh and nobody would bat an eyelash."

Context. You cannot ignore context as much as you try. In the modern day, the English, Scots and Welsh are not typically discriminated against for their racial "traits". Certainly not in any serious way.

Derogatory racial terms are not ok.
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Could you point to me something in that VM that cannot be equivalently implemented in C FFI for Lua?
To be clear, I think this guy is complete scum, and he should go immediately to jail. That being said, I think Yelp should removes reviews of a business from people who have clearly never used the business' services. The purpose of the site is to review the performance of the business -- not pass judgement on the owners' unrelated activities. In this case, reviews should about the dentistry provided. While this case is well-known, trending, and the actions of the owner quite clearly repugnant, if they don't generally cull such reviews then the ratings will become untrusted as people will wonder whether or not the business' ratings are the result of actual experiences or based on completely unrelated factors.
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It's not that 'nothing changes' in Tolkien, but that nothing changes for the better.
Just wanted to thank you. I never heard of the C+= saga - you made my day!
Hardware: Closer to autonomous functions. Require no thought, you just do it. Example: Saying "Thank you" reflexively when someone does something kind.

Software: Have to mentally process the situation. Did this person do something kind? Is there a response I should give? Oh! "Thank you!"
Will you accuse Google, Mozilla of the same?

Google, Mozilla disable Flash over security concerns http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-mozilla-disable-flas...

Even this Flash proponent admits, "Jobs was slightly ahead of his time" in You don't have to be a villain to say Flash must die* http://www.macworld.com/article/2948131/software-web/you-don...

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Banning Flash has been a boon to HTML5 uptake.

YouTube Switches to the HTML5 Player in Chrome http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/05/youtube-switches-to...

RIP Flash: Why HTML5 will finally take over video and the Web this year
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/04/19/rip-flash-html5-will-tak...

How Adobe Is Moving on From Flash to Embrace HTML5 http://www.cio.com/article/2376661/internet/how-adobe-is-mov...

In other words Apple has helped HTML5. Intentionally crippling the iOS web browser? What usaphp said.

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As to Maps, Google pushed themselves out: Apple ditched Google Maps over turn-by-turn navigation spat http://news.yahoo.com/apple-ditched-google-maps-over-turn-tu...
Video quality is a bit too good though :)
Doubling time: 10 years * log(2)/log(247) ~ 15 months

x20 ought to take about five years and a half.
Yup, Selenium has been around since 2004, and is now the basis of the W3C standard [1] for browser automation. Most browser vendors now officially support the spec. (Disclosure: I started the Selenium project. AMA.)

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/webdriver-spec.html
> It’s based on an ideological belief that one “race” is somehow better than another “race”.

I would actually think that the belief is, or at least used to be, scientific. Note that this is not a statement about the truth value of the claim, but the claim itself was or used to be posed in a way that referred to certain broadly quantifiable phenomena such as intelligence. That in itself is hardly "ideological". "Intelligence is good for a proper society", now that is ideological.

> tumblr.com

Oh my...
Computers might not care if text is white on white, but humans do. So just because the text is in the DOM doesn't necessarily mean it'll get indexed. It's definitely in Google's interest to fight against techniques like these. They already mitigate against things like keyword spam, etc.
> it says the ad was displayed/clicked on a webpage

Where exactly does it say this?
I've fought this battle for a long time. It seems for most it's just a way to speak of their grievances against a company they don't like. It's just pointing their finger at the company saying they obviously are an evil corporation because they choose to take advantage of stupidly written tax laws that are totally legal yet I choose to define them as something only bad people do. Despite the fact they likely use similar "loopholes" in their own taxes and justify it in some way.
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Stop opressing trans-autistics.
"older people have been among the _quickest to adopt_ the Internet among the disconnected population" ..means the opposite..
That's sort of a nitpick on the analogy I think. There might not be much of a hardware/software distinction in the brain but there is a distinction between processes that are not conscious, that seemingly take place automatically and effortlessly, and processes that are conscious, that seem to be effortful, deliberate, that require focus. I think that's the distinction that the analogy is going for -- the emulation going on is patching up some failures to do automatic effortless work by doing deliberate, focused, effortful work.
Or, you know, open more satellite offices (that do real work) in lower-cost areas.
The title thing is funny, if you look at the URL it's a more accurate title.

Power consumption of the worlds most popular websites calculated on different browsers – Chrome vs Safari vs Firefox

vs

http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which-browser-is-the-most-ener...

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Title aside, very interesting article I'd like to see what factors play into these huge disparities of battery life loss between the different browsers.
I completely agree with you, there is lots of comedy that I dislike and that I choose to live without.

Still, implying that Amazon is ok with "racial slurs" is not quite the same than saying that Amazon is ok with "bad comedy".

I'm pretty sure some of the existing Amazon Prime original productions will fall into my personal "bad comedy" category already.
Not FUD at all, "pure" or otherwise. Here's why:

- Cars travel defined roadways having mandated brush clearance zones that diminish the likelihood of a vehicle crash/fire propagating into uncleared country. A fiery crash is very likely to be noticed and reported immediately, with no uncertainty about its location. Fire responders will be quickly dispatched to the correct location. The road on which the crash occurred will very likely give responders good access for their suppression work. If evacuation is needed, it's easier to direct evacuees to routes that will be most effective in getting them out of danger.

- A drone isn't constrained to defined roads. Compared to the car crash scenario, when a drone crashes away from roads and ignites vegetation, more time will pass before the fire is noticed - reported - located - and fire suppression resources put on site. Away from roads, this means airborne fire suppression and that adds at least 30 minutes to the response loop, even when (as now) there are airborne assets on alert. So an off-road ignition is almost guaranteed to have a longer incident response time than a car crash. Same is true of other off-road fire events like careless hiker cigarette toss, camping fires, etc. Directing evacuees which way to go becomes more difficult.

- Favorable firestorm circumstances: even small fires can combine with topography to generate fast up-slope winds that, while local, are very effective in broadcasting burning material that ignites locations remote from the original burn.

Summarizing, if a drone crash starts an initially unobserved fire in an uncertain location that's tough to access, there's a larger chance that it will become a danger to the local rural population than one started by a car crash.
The magic of Sikuli is its use of the OpenCV library under the hood (and Tesseract for OCR). You could skip the Sikuli part and just use OpenCV and Tesseract directly. (Not easy, but theoretically possible.)
The article is pretty scary, actually. It totally misses the main issue with Wifi Sense: I may want to share my wifi password with my friend Joe, but not all of his acquaintances. And it's only a checkbox away for it to be shared almost publicly (some people have thousands of contacts!).

There is this issue not mentionned in the article: in a lot of countries, the owner of the internet connection is legally responsible for whatever happens with their connection. Not only in north corea, also in countries like France. Will Microsoft take responsability if someone uses my internet link for illegal activities? Nope, because there will be no way to prove it's not me doing it.

There are so many red flags with Wi-fi Sense, it's like Microsoft wants to perpetuate its tradition of pointless features involving security issues. Why Ars Technica published such a misleading article if beyond understanding.
Good point. Also, I can't imagine it's safe to be running that camp stove in an enclosed space either.
If it's trying to prevent you from doing bank transfers while inebriated, I'd say it's working as intended.
>And now that I program, I do so very differently than most people, but there are times when I'm in my stride (for example, pitching to investors or juggling the pieces of managing a team) where I feel at home. Like no one can touch me.

Be careful with that -- Adult ADHD is often accompanied with delusions of grandeur. I say this from personal experience: I'll have a great idea and think it's the most awesome thing in the world, and my friends are kind of "meh". A few days later, I look back on it and say "What was I thinking?" ADHD can give you a false sense of security / accomplishment in the moment, so always be sure to get someone else to check your work. You may come up with some elegant, awesome hack to fix something... only to find there was an API in a library you already use that does the exact same thing and you just missed it in the documentation because you were so "hyperfocused" (another hallmark of adult ADHD) on fixing the problem.

That said, it can also be a great asset: an ADHD person who is in one of these "zones" can be incredibly inspirational to a team. Irrational confidence isn't always a bad thing if you're staring down a tough deadline and need to motivate your team. Just be careful you're not making an idiot out of yourself too often :)
I see how the mind and body could be seen as a state machine, since there's a strong connection that flows both ways, but there's really only so much that the mind can do to change the body. Try thinking yourself strong enough to lift a horse... So I think the analogy works in the rough, but can actually be taken further. We have parts of our mind/body "stack" that are able to operate and change on all time scales and levels of persistence.

You can change your body (to a degree) through surgery or slow habit - (hardware / firmware); you can change your prevailing mood, knowledge, and skills through slow habit (again, only to a degree) - firmware; there seems to be a level of chemical mood or emotion that changes on the time scale of minutes or hours - disk persistence; you can change what you're thinking about and your current state of mind in a minute or so - memory; and you can react to your immediate objects of focus very quickly - cache.
With something like GS regulators would have been able to say "Wait, you're doing lots of securitisation? That's not a good idea, is it?"

It's not always the specific regulatory details that matter, so much as the culture they create.

As long as GS was taken seriously, the culture remained "If you're a bank, don't do really stupid shit just because you think you can make a quick buck."

Once it started being eroded the culture became "Wheee!" - and unsurprisingly everything exploded and the wheels came off.

IMO anyone who would argue for less regulation after that isn't living at an address in the reliable side of town.

The important arguments have to do with quality of oversight and the culture of people who will consistently try to be as irresponsible as they can be if they're not regulated.

Regulation is a means to that end, not an end in itself.
Container Solutions also has a reference cheat sheet for security issues: http://container-solutions.com/content/uploads/2015/06/15.06...
The name of the curve you are looking for is a "logistic curve"
Business is closed and the comments don't have anything to do with the business itself. While I don't condone him killing the lion, I have no issue with them deleting the comments.
I think this is correct for Yelp to do. It is brigade-voting / spam. Similarly, if a bunch of folks from Fox News saw something about Y Combinator controversially and started dumping things in the threads I'd expect it'd be deleted.
That seems to be more of a storage data centre. And if Wikipedia's figure of 60 megawatts is correct, it's well in the ballpark of a datacenter for Google or Facebook.
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"Of the next six adults you meet, chances are one of them has never sent an e-mail."

This is a misleading way to restate the title of the article. It's misleading because this statement is not actually equivalent to "1/6 of Americans don't use the web" and actually obfuscates what might be an interesting topic - how internet usage is distributed geographically. I suspect that given a person has read this article on WaPo's website, nearly everyone that person ever meets is likely to be a user of the Internet.

Perhaps the author could have explored the dichotomy between places where Internet usage is essentially a daily necessity, and where it is functionally irrelevant. But I guess that might not fit the standard narrative for this sort of piece.

--edited to fix typos
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Your description of dyslexia is fascinating. Thank you for sharing that. I can't say it enough; I absolutely love reading that kind of personal account of people whose minds function in a unique way.

Children who have these 'conditions' should really
learn how to capitalize on their unique abilities
instead of being told that and treated like they are
mentally disabled.

Sometimes I'm glad that ADHD wasn't a recognized thing when I was in school. If I'd been told that there was something wrong with me, would I have worked so hard to overcome those shortcomings and come up with alternate coping tools? In a way, it was good training for "real life" because real life sure doesn't care if you have a learning or behavioral disability.

On the other hand, god damn. I sure spent a lot of time thinking I was "lazy, stupid, or crazy." That... that was not fun.

I totally agree with you. We should recognize those differences in kids and focus on finding their other gifts, while helping them to find alternate strategies to do the necessary things in life that can't be avoided. Like, even if your kid has dyslexia he's going to have to file taxes and read warning labels someday.
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Couldn't they just... not want to use the internet?

I intentionally didn't use the internet for a few years after college. I found it too distracting, and just had too much I wanted to do in the real world to waste my time.

I got a lot more done in my spare time, read real books, and had a lot more friends that I saw much more regularly than I do now.
I don't know the details in the case of this new drug, but in the last few years there has been a lot of collaboration between drug manufacturers and anti-doping testers. For example, when CERA was introduced, the manufacturer worked closely with WADA to develop tests before the drug even hit the market. Here's an article from that time - I assume a similar collaboration was at work with this new drug:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/manufacturer-helped-wada-wit...
Yes, you can. http://i.imgur.com/JpbjPCX.png

Try clicking Crew Position here and then Submitting the autofilled code. You see the above image.
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According to the Texas bar association, for a huge number of poor people (at least, the ones that come to them to try to get free services to help with mediation and guardianship of relatives), their only device to access the Internet is a smartphone.
The logistic curve is asymptotic.
If by "why not", you mean physical possibility, maybe because the UK is not going to become tropical again any time soon?
I always thought a Rock Star Developer was a developer who plays in a rock band during his free time. I never got why employers were so adamant in hiring them.
They will eventually, working from the extreme cases on in as price drops, but for the foreseeable future, Si is king.
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Yelp's statement[1]:

"Media-fueled reviews typically violate our content guidelines. One of these deals with relevance. For example, reviews aren’t the place for rants about a business’s employment practices, political ideologies, extraordinary circumstances, or other matters that don’t address the core of the consumer experience."

Agree with their decision. Just because he's a heartless poacher doesn't mean he is a horrible dentist. Plus, there are a dozen or so others who work at the practice. If he goes to jail, this type of social media vigilante justice only harms the innocent.

This reminds me somewhat of reddit's DIY investigation into the Boston marathon bombings. The justice system works well but is slow. Social media vigilante justice is fast but not fair.

[1]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yelp-pulls-reviews-of-lion-...
I edited my comment to include that, thanks!
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What crime would you send him to jail for? You can't jail people for being "scum". That isn't rule of law.
Why shouldn't they?

This is the shitty, mob mentality that needs to stop.
Most likely, that refers to the homeless.

It makes sense: homeless people have no residence, so nowhere to keep a PC, but a budget smartphone and a low-end data plan isn't terribly expensive, and it's a useful investment, because having any kind of Internet connection at all is instrumental to getting a job and thus staying afloat and possibly making enough to get out of homelessness.