jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Legal jurisdiction is a separate matter than the specific text of laws. The "this applies to non-European companies" things just means that if you fall under the jurisdiction of European courts, you can't absolve yourself of responsibility of complying with this law simply by being a foreign-registered company.

On the other hand, if you never fall under European jurisdiction in the first place, you're free to ignore them, just as you can ignore Thai laws against insulting their king. One very important thing to note is that setting foot in European soil will expose you to their jurisdiction, so you've significantly limited your freedom of movement, but if GDPR compliance is a bigger deal than that then "just never go to Europe" can be a viable strategy.
Well, that times article actually does point out that building seawalls and other barriers is the way to protect the areas that will be below sea level, so Lomborg and the Times seems to share a lot of common ground on this.

> I think that this comes down to a difference between you and Lomborg's perception of how large groups of people solve problems. It's top-down/central planning vs. distributed.

No. I don't care whether there's a top-down or bottom up solution.

My point talking about taxes and land was actually about the importance of the media in informing people about the problem. I only mentioned taxes and eminent domain because that's how large capital project usually work. If there's a bottom up way that will get the job done better, I'm all for it.

Point is, the media is still important for informing people. If they don't understand what's going on they won't have any reason to do anything. No matter how it's done, it's going to require large amounts of resources and people aren't going to expend them without a reason.

> I understand this perspective is dissatisfying...

I wouldn't say dissatisfying. It's just a meaningless approach. We have been and continue to work to eliminate poverty and I fully agree we should keep doing so. Great.

Now let's move on: how will we deal with the rising water levels around the globe? If it's build barriers, then how will that work? E.g., what will it cost? Who will do it? When do they need to start? Are there alternatives that may be cheaper or better?
This doesn't really even seem like much of a disclosure to be had. The system is mostly open without authentication, and what little auth exists is behind a trivial-to-break password.

I mean hell, the main "hack" is looking at the API calls.
Zillow lists possibly 4 homes for sale. (It says 5 but I think one is a duplicate.) As well as the tower which others mentioned, apparently there also a condo called Whittier Manor.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/whittier-ak_rb/
With 400k page views what does your Adsense look like?
Yeah - but it doesn't unless you it quite a good bit of it. And of course it's super yummy. It would of course be better if it was just labeled as escolar (as it is at my local sushi joint)
Then when you want to actually do an activity like a deathmatch you have to wait for matchmaking and then the loading - takes forever. Once you are finally in a match it's okay but as soon as the match ends you have to wait for the world to load again and then queue again which takes bloody forever. Spend 2hrs playing the game and have only a few matches, more time spent looking at loading screens than actually playing anything.
Some experience from dealing with this recently: Unless you have a very large design team and long timelines, it's best to start with an existing design system and tweak it. Adjust it to your liking, get buy-in, and then agree to keep it locked in place except for minor adjustments. Save the big goals for a V2 design to be launched at a later date.

A design system is only as valuable as the time it saves. If the design team spends months perfecting a design system and associated sandbox demo before they can even get to the core design work, it's unlikely that it's actually helping deliver the product on time.

It's also dangerous to let the design system become a moving target, where the design language changes from week to week. Each change will burn developer time integrating the changes, which will inevitably turn into multiple sprints dedicated to creating a theming system for your products, none of which really moves the product forward.

In a true startup environment, if you can't get the design system 90% complete in the first week or two, it's at risk of becoming more of a liability than a benefit.
Further, it's impossible to know which hedge fund will beat the market. Using their past performance is not reliable over the long term.
Google+ anyone?
But distributing it without a license from the copyright holder is.
> Apple no longer respects when the user wants to update,

What do you mean by this? I’ve never seen anything forcing me to update.

> I'm kinda surprised that more people don't talk about the 50 gig download that xCode requires. Kinda insane for a glorified text editor.

A glorified text editor which also includes

- A machine learning model builder

- Two complete visual UI builders

- A 3D game asset previewer

- Simulators for 4 different classes of hardware device.

- Instruments - an absurdly full featured profiling and debugging system.

And those are just some of the more obvious features.

You can argue that you’d like a glorified text editor instead of XCode, but it’s weird to say that’s what XCode is.
No, Swiss Franks do not pay dividends, that's why nobody is betting on the fact that Swiss Franks would be worth more in the future. Somehow owners of Bitcoin insist that it doesn't follow this simple rule and that it should net a return.

>At some point I will hope someone (perhaps someone in Switzerland) will exchange something I want for those pieces of paper.

The amount of businesses accepting Bitcoin as a means of payment is very small. The incentives to do so are almost nonexistent. Everyone is converting it back to a valuable currency, this is why the price of Bitcoin is highly volatile. There is no minimum demand for the currency. There is no economic system that is dependent on Bitcoin being less volatile.

The Swiss government creates minimum demand for the currency through taxation. The people living in Switzerland decide to adopt the currency and thus there is an economic system that needs the Swiss Frank to roughly maintain its value. Heck, small amounts of inflation are necessary because a currency that is generating a return is highly undesirable as a means of payment. Since it's losing value over time you are discouraged from using it as a store of value. The existence of an economy that is constantly exchanging currency for goods is thus ensured.

>On the other hand the Swiss Government could decide to make the money almost worthless, practically overnight (India did this with Rupees), by removing the main purpose of having the notes.

Yes and the beauty is that everyone would consider the currency worthless. With Bitcoin there would be extremists clinging to the belief that it would retain its value.
I was imagining how this would be possible, this very afternoon. Looking forward to trying it.
> A consumer chip is a lot more likely to be permanently damaged by a "silver bullet" cosmic ray, though.

How much more likely? Are the odds all that high over the mission duration?
>With 3taps and Swartz, it's pretty clear that the defendants knew they were kicked off the site and tried to access the, anyway.

I don't know. It seems like you could still make the argument, e.g. if your account gets disabled but nobody tells you why, you might have to assume something you did wasn't allowed, but why would you assume that to mean you can never create another account even if you behave differently in the future? And if you can do that then how are you supposed to know what specific subset of the things you did are the ones you aren't supposed to do again? So there was the argument in the Swartz case that, for example, getting kicked off for downloading too quickly just means they want you to slow down rather than stop because they don't want you to degrade performance for others. And the fact that we have to argue about it is the problem.

Also, I think the OP was really referring to Auernheimer more than these others anyway, which gets more to the heart of the issue. He obviously intended to change the number at the end of the URL. The problem is that we don't know whether doing that is classified by the law as unauthorized access, but unless the courts are willing to throw out the statute or adopt a narrow interpretation, he still gets convicted for doing the thing he intended to do, not because he intended to violate the law, but because the judge decided after the fact that the thing he intended to do was a violation of the law. That seems extremely problematic because the judge is doing the clarification on what the law means ex post facto but then still subjecting the defendant's prior conduct to that new ruling, but that's the situation the statute leaves courts in unless they're willing to throw it out as a result of that.
It would be if the thesis is that the CPI is systematically manipulated to suppress inflation.
I run a hobby .net core website on a $5 digital ocean instance and it runs fast as hell. You definitively don't need to spend $30. I'm using a PG database but it looks like maybe it would even be possible to run SQL server on a 2GB instance.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...

You just have to bite the bullet and learn a few linux admin tasks like setting up nginx, supervisor, file permissions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy...
I bought a celestron labs one, it was on sale at a place that was closing down, so no real planning in it. Its great. There's a guy called the microbe hunter that has a youtube channel and goes into all the things to look for on buying a microscope - https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrobehunterMicroscopy/featured
I was privileged to see the Shoemaker-Levy comet impact with Jupiter through the Lick 36” Refractor[0] on Mt. Hamilton. I still recall the large black spot on Jupiter from an earlier fragment, and a scintillating final piece of the comet yet to meet its fate, hovering a quarter-radius off the surface. Not something you see every day, but there is definitely magic to seeing it real-time.

[0] https://www.ucolick.org/public/telescopes/36-inch.html
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/rails-on-docker
Lifetime:
http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Squinting at the graph, for 2008=100, in 2016 CPI was ~108 and BPP was ~109. (Couldn't find a newer graph with a quick look.)
It’s odd to see security issues at a company revealed by a whistleblower instead of a breach. Usually I’d expect if an insider working in security notices problems, that’s good for their career because it’s their job to find and fix that stuff. Obviously if it doesn’t work that way at Amazon, that’s a huge problem.
performance. that's the issue.

the Alibaba Cloud article is nice..but we are really comparing this with Elastic
And how does this solve the problem of information security?
> That's... a pretty terrible assumption

Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately it doesn't make it any less prevalent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301
Offtopic follows:

One thing that sucks about JS currently is the fact that you have to do Array.prototype.map.call(a, ...) instead of a.map, and even then you don't have a guarantee that the correct function will execute. I know in ECMAScript 5 you can freeze properties of an object, but unless prototypes of basic methods come frozen, it's not ideal.
In that case I definitely agree. I thought it was +/- 2 hours or something. Anything over, let's say 45-50 hours per week, is terrible in my opinion.
1. This explanation seems to ignore the timestamps that are stored along with the hotspots/towers data. What do the timestamps represent? The time when the cache was downloaded onto the phone?

2. Speculatively, the way this seems to work is, that the phone identifies a tower, say, with ID12345. It then looks up the crowdsourced database for the tower with this ID, and queries it for all towers/hotspots within X miles radius. The result of the query is logged into the consolidated.db file, along with the current timestamp.

3. I don't know about the 100 miles number, but for me, in an urban setting, it certainly seems to be accurate upto approximately a mile or so, that together with the timestamp, gives a reasonably accurate picture of where I've been, and when.
Yes, as MTW mentioned above as well. It might be less risky up to the point that your business is actually successful. Then apparently, it is significantly more risky.
Kernel changes easy on Windows and hard on Linux? Can you explain a little more? I would have guessed Windows would fall in the impossible category and Linux would be relatively easy.
> Once they really do reach the $80/barrel level

Or once oil reaches $300/barrel
Well firstly the number of PCs figure is an estimate so there could be significant error there.

A fair number of machines still sell with Vista (some with XP-or-Vista) and many are sold blank with the end user putting Linux on or a hooky copy of Windows.

Obviously some people will be putting Linux on the new machines, even though very few ship with the alternate OS (most Linux users buy a machine with no OS and install their preferred Linux arrangement).

But I suspect a massive part of the discrepancy is people reusing old Windows licenses with newer PCs, particularly in corporate environments where the company will have bought X user licenses which are valid no matter what the user uses them on: so when the new machine is bought the company standard build is installed (and the license transferred in any asset tracking system the organisation has) before the old machine is binned.

Some of these reused licenses will be windows 7 ones, though the majority will be XP or Vista as many companies are sill stuck on Vista or XP for their standard desktop OS builds (one large financial company I could mention only completed their move away from NT, to XP, in 2006 - I doubt they'll be using 7 any time soon!).
This isn't mentioned anywhere /near/ often enough- no one is going to be repurposing wetlands for this.
This is my own home office... not much at the moment https://showcash.io/eab0452a-df53-4f0e-aaf1-60bdb789990d/vie...
I try to keep a watchful eye on the 404s reported by nginx and the 500s generated by the rest of my stack. Gives you an idea of which exploits people are trying to use against you. And how frequent or big of a target you are to them.
Don't be disingenuous. I've been reading the TSA stories; the TSA is a political topic that happens to bait me very effectively. These discussions are not about the impact of the TSA on startups.
Sounds like a Black Mirror episode
So glad that someone appreciates all the time we spent on UX. We're still tweaking things and trying to make it even better. We're getting most of the music data from Last.fm's excellent API.
Depends on the kind of work... If I'm working out the math on a new design for a robot, I prefer to be completely alone (in an individual office, or simply working from home). Later, when I'm building the robot and just tightening bolts (no major thinking required), I prefer to be around others in an open area.
A hybrid planning approach IS a national grid approach.

A state grid can draw from the national grid when required. The draw can also be preplanned and game dayed before actual disasters.
Since that seems to be resonating for you, I think you owe it to yourself to at least test the hypothesis before deciding not to do your original plan. I'm just repeating here what quantumite already said, but I wanted to comment from personal experience. I dropped out of mathematics when, around the time my first kid was born, I suddenly started to feel like my brain was paralyzed and unable to think mathematically anymore. I remember blankly staring at textbook pages for hours, unable to do any exercises at all. I didn't talk to anyone about it at the time, just concluded that I had lost all my ability, and suffered in silence.

Only years later did it occur to me that it might have simply been burnout, and with the right kind of coaching I might have been able to continue. So that's the other bit I'd suggest, besides just taking a rest: find some people who can advise you about this and who you have a good connection with personally. Don't just go through it on your own. Something that may not be obvious to you at all might be the first thing to occur to a more experienced person with your best interests at heart, and it might turn out to be a big deal. You don't need to deprive yourself of help.
The 747 is one of the most famous planes. It’s the jumbo jet
Downvoted because you've been asked for examples 3 times now and you only rant further in response. How is anybody else supposed to know what you mean? Guess correctly?

Would you rather puts instead of echo?
:set +t
The lack of expected operator precedence kept many technical non-programmers away from Lisp and Smalltalk.

I've heard the opposite; where did you hear this?
This post is from 2008. Am I missing something?
I'll see if I can write that up - It'll take more time than I have right now. In essence, people tend to think of moving through a space like "robot positions" as moving through ordinary space: "I can see where I'm going - I'll go that way." Unfortunately, in higher dimensions that doesn't work, and you have to develop an awareness of where the holes are so you can go round them.

I'll write that up and submit it.
I'm perfectly happy claiming lots of things which have been hotly debated in (politico-)-philosophical circles for a long time. And so, I imagine, are most people, including (politico)-philosophers themselves. That everyone doesn't agree with me on everything doesn't lose me sleep.
So... what happens if an employee gets sick or has personal issues that lead to less than stellar performance? Termination?
Further there is a ton, literally 1000s of hours of video and 1000s of images. Most are fake but many (including in the op report) remain unexplained.

The best thing UFO advocates could do would be to pre-emptively debunk stuff, classify and label the fake stuff as fake or explainable by simpler causes, abandons old inconclusory evidence, and promote the small proportion of genuinely inexplicable phenomena that remain. I used to be very interested in UFO stuff but have completely given up looking at websites and so on because ther is too much shit to wade through. Lowish evidentiary standards were somewhat tolerable when the resources required to organize and study it were so much greater - there was a limit to what any one author could do. But with the internet, forums, worldwide mapping software, open-source image-processing tools and what-all else, UFO classification should be many many times better than it is, just as most scientific endeavors have benefited from digital technology. Instad there are forums like Godlikeproductions and prisonplanet that are mostly populated by gullible and/or mentally ill people.

If you want this issue taken seriously, then treat it seriously - use standards of evidence, consider things in their social context (eg many UFO reports were classified because of cold war paranoia and the desire to maintain a strategic military advantage), winnow out the wheat from the chaff, and invite people to falsify rather than endorse difficult cases. As you pointed out elsewhere, many people have trouble processing complex scientific information like climate change and so are reflexively skeptical about it. Well, that's the environment you're stuck with too, and UFO research has a long way to go before it can even start to be taken seriously as a topic of scientific inquiry by the general public.

Even looking at relatively well-curated sites like http://www.ufoevidence.org/ the front page still has 'Featured!' cases from 1959, 1974 that are nothing but reports of a single eyewitness. Mysterious? Sure, but of zero evidentiary value a half-century later, and therefore a waste of time. UFO advocates' collective inability to let go of such nostalgia cases tells us more about their psychology than about any physical phenomenon.
Maybe the difference of opinion largely comes down to whether you think the second sentence of your comment "sounds right". It seems false to me, but it must seem true to you, since you wrote it. I would be very interested in seeing an analysis of data relating a measure of how many "non-novel" answers are being given to how many difficult questions are being answered.
First time I've actually sort of understood eigenvectors.
Linear algebra was actually the class that made me hate math, after years of loving it in secondary education. Not everyone has the benefit of a good teacher, and the tools that exist now don't help you to self-learn much.
This is very exciting. While Google might have strayed from their original "Don't be evil" mantra a little bit, I couldn't think of a better partner for SpaceX to work with on this. Not only does Google have the drive and deep pockets, they've got the incentive. If this works out as well as everyone is hoping, not only will it upset the internet industry, I can see this having benefits for the telco/cell carrier industry as well. With cheap, fast internet available worldwide, nobody is going to pay $30 for a 2GB cap on their mobile phones.
That got me too. I searched Uni and the 2nd entry had it no where in all the (currently) visible columns. I thought I was going crazy.
Okay thanks. I only read the article, not the slide deck.

Hopefully "high performance culture" isn't a synonym for "sweatshop".
Shouldn't any group of people who will walk over you just because you project some image be considered a bad crowd?

If someone is running with a bad crowd, then (as you point out) #2 is the problem. If they aren't, then #3 shouldn't be a concern anyways.
Just as a single data counterpoint, my recruiting experience with Netflix was below par. It may have been the way that I was approached (from a friend who was also an engineer) . However, the 'process' took over 3 months to get nowhere. After many re-schedulings and me having to restart the process myself, I just gave up. Never heard from them after I had given up, either.
SRI is pretty cool. They recently commercialized some of their work, a mobile project called SIRI that just got bought by apple for $150 million.
In summary, YouTube's "content ID" system attempts to match uploaded videos against a large database of registered copyrighted content. If it finds a match, it applies a policy that was defined by the copyright holder.

The system handles the full volume of uploaded video content (equivalent to "100 years of video per day"). Even more impressive is the fact that it can successfully identify multiple copyrighted portions of a video (think mashups).
The current Westinghouse has basically nothing to do with the old Westinghouse. The current iteration (at least since 1998) is a spin-off of CBS that just licenses the brand out to other companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporati...
Most of the Madoff money didn't "vanish", it never existed in the first place. He just made up numbers and sent them out on account statements. That money didn't go anywhere since it wasn't actually money to begin with.
The first assumption in that article is wrong, the video is sent at the camera resolution (VGA) not the screen resolution. That's not only wrong, it's kinda stupid so maybe we shouldn't listen to him on the rest either.
This issue will be fixed when Froyo comes out for it, Froyo includes front facing camera support in the sdk. HTC released this hardware knowing that the software would have to catch up.
Sure; I was reacting to the specific concept of a "non-Unicode-squiggle", implying that the character has no known mechanism for encoding it (i.e. it's not simply an SJIS squiggle) and would likely have to be submitted as a custom bitmap/vector path. That's a good place to draw the line.