skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that a world of coders who would be mulling over the code due to interest and spare time would likely find critical issues and shine light onto them, making it a PR issue for those companies. If those companies ever get around to offering bounties for issues relating to safety or security, even easier to get an army of eyes on the code.
Personally I think the real opportunity is building the tech to enable these local stores that you mention. Selling tech is much more scalable and higher margin and you take advantage of the existing delivery networks + customer relationships.

You would still have to eat costs for a few years, but long term I think those are the teams that will build the really significant companies.
prisoners get out of prison one day

Unfortunately the people who favour punishment prisons are likely to counter by saying that people should never get out of prison; or, if they do, they should be banned from living next to ''decent'' people (this is the effect of things like offender registry laws).
Well, to be fair, it wouldn't be all that complex if we just had one standard instead of many many many to learn. I don't find OAuth2 as implemented by most all that complex, and I didn't really find OAuth1 all that bad either.

The web UI for persona, on the other hand...

Who on earth thought it was a good idea to have a two step for username THEN password!?
Yes, they have had a few issues this week. I believe they are doing some hardware migration.

Could be worse right? Back in SVN and CVS days, you only had a partial copy of the repository. At least you can do some commits/merges/branches offline.

But in reality, it's a pain, especially when you need changes from another developer. So what do I do when my git host is down? I come on Hacker News to see what other people are saying about it.
Use github?
On a Mac you (used to?) get a non-ascii space when you hit the space bar while holding Alt or something like that. Easy to fat-finger it in any case and looks the same in most text editors. It's a great source of fun for novice Mac-using programmers to find out why the compiler complains.
Maybe it's just cultural. I don't see why risk taking favors men millions of years ago.
Exactly.

"Wow, we now have a good decentralized versioning system. What to do with that?... I know! Let's put all the sources on a single, centralized host!"
As you suggest, looking past the code quality / implementation choices I believe the idea if solid and it is a creative use of IPFS to attempt to 'solve' a real world problem, I'm excited to see more projects like this.
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I see your point, although I'd find it too limiting to impose that on myself. Speaking of GSM data links, I seem to be the only person worried about the "eCall" mandate: all cars in the EU will be required to phone home with their location in the event of a crash. That requires a GPS+GSM device in the car.
With this post I wanted to show novelty is important in patents. I actually had a wide field to choose from though, for instance I seriously considered the following patents:

- Patent US3480010 - an anti-snore device that consisted of a "neckband [that] contains a microphone, a transistor amplifier, a high voltage-producing transformer, a supply battery, a relay and a pair of spaced electrodes [which] are in contact with the sleepers skin" [1]

- Patent US20130239604 - Promotion of peace, love and understanding through the global proliferation of snowpeople system method and apparatus [2]

- UK patent GB1047735 - "Arrangements for the transfer of fresh water from one location on the earth's surface to another at a different latitude, for the purpose of irrigation, with pumping energy derived from the effect of the earth's rotation about the polar axis" [3], or in layman's terms it was basically a plan to position giantpeashooters in the Antarctic pointed at Australia's deserts which would fire snowballs to irrigate them

- Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing. Can't add anything to this really, that's precisely the patent that was granted. [4]

- Patent US6025810 - Hyper-light-speed antenna (probably THE most novel of all the patents granted by the U.S. Patent Office, because it specified a transmission method capable of "sending the signal at a speed faster than light.") [5]

- Patent US6612440 - from the abstract: "A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully." [6]

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References:

1. http://www.google.com/patents/US3480010

2. http://www.google.com/patents/US20130239604

3. http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...

4. http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227

5. http://www.google.com/patents/US6025810

6. http://www.google.com/patents/US6612440
I also found that very odd.

After all it's just a text file that can be edited and re-deployed rapidly. It's not like a library that needs to be compiled or linked or forcing re-compilation of other dependent software.

Their fix to the problem after all was just to edit the self same stylesheet and re-deploy!
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The Zeno effect is basically due to disruption of the quantum state. You measure repeatedly in some basis and this basically pins the state down (in this basis representation) even though it would not stay in this state if you did not interact with it.
Maybe I'm a bit tired but read first "Patent US5443036 - Method of exorcising a cat". Well, either way it's funny ;)
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So I'm trying to compile a list of useful services worth subscribing to and I would like to hear what people actually find useful.
As for differentiation of goods in Soviet Union it went as:
- made in USSR: hard to buy
- made in USSR for export: takes a bribe to buy
- made in Soviet block countries (DDR, Czechoslovakia): requires bribe and connections
- made in Western countries: you better be high-profile member of a communist party
That source was Megan McArdle, who is a libertarian partisan. It's trying to discredit the complainants. The actual court case had an expert who looked at the code and found bugs where the possibility of unintended acceleration could come about. I'm not saying it's not true about the ages of the complainants, but it's certainly trying to present a particular interpretation of unknown events.
Your position of never is not correct.

Formspring failed extremely fast.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-a...

It was one of the fastest growing services in Web history, and unraveled just as fast.

The existing service was completely shut down. The homepage is now some kind of funnel for another service.

And an example that wasn't market based: Megaupload. 180 million users, killed overnight.
No data. But anecdotally it's pretty high in Germany.

Eg Harry Potter has been a hit just as big as in Britain, but most people read it in the German translation.
> I love the way they spin the "did not test on Windows, the most popular desktop OS" fail to "isn't System so cool and retor, isn't it awesome?". That takes a fair amount of chutzpah and a serious inability for stuff like this to faze you.

I don't understand. Why should this faze anyone? The website still worked, no harm was done. It barely registers as a bug!
We've had 3-4 months without a new dev release though, after it had picked some steam.
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First, you're criticising fiscal stimulus in general, not helicopter drops in the original sense. Second, creating inflation is very beneficial when current inflation is below target. That's the point. Third, inflation harms holders of money, not those that have no money. It thus incentivizes spending and investment, which is why we have above-zero inflationary targets. Yes, hyperinflation is bad - which is why helicopter drops have to be used in moderation. But then again, that's true of almost anything in politics and life in general, so I don't see why that's relevant.
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> EDIT: To expand - it is useless to speculate on psychology in an evolutionary context, because we have precisely 0 observation supported models of what anything was like many thousands of years ago. We do however have plenty of evidence that a lot of modern narrative was constructed to suit the current gender roles.

Really? I thought that anthropologists studied remote tribe in e.g. the Amazon basin in order to gather exactly this type of data?
> Who on earth thought it was a good idea to have a two step for username THEN password!?

I haven't used Persona, but maybe this is because not all users use passwords? Sometimes you use AD authentication, or token generators, or ...
I've had to use &nbsp; a couple of times in order to get a proper indentation. I know there's <PRE> and <CODE>, but they aren't allowed on every blog, so I had to improvise.
If a man gets a woman pregnant and then the male takes risks then even if the risk results in death he still has offspring on the way, if the woman dies while pregnant then not so - could that be a reason?
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> In the end, people are not willing to give out disk space for free, therefore Filecoin will exist.

Disk space is one parameter of the equation though. Bandwidth and uptime should be considered too in order to estimate the effective amount of resources a node adds to the network.
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Nuclear wasn't the only way. We built the A-10 Warthog specifically to counter the tank problem and it filled its role brilliantly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thun...
This is still happening as of today:

ps aux | grep foo

zsh: command not found: grep

It happens to me at least every other day.
I suspect the author (and possibly everyone in their office) is younger than this font. What was that discussion we were having the other day about ahistoricity? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412284
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That is conventional policy, yes, which is why helicopter drops are so exciting: unconditional and equal transfer to flesh-and-blood citizens create much-needed inflation without disproportionately favoring the rich.
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Patent US6025810 (Hyper-light-speed antenna):

"A method to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves which comprises generating opposing magnetic fields having a plane of maximum force running perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the magnetic field; generating a heat source along an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the magnetic field; generating an accelerator parallel to and in close proximity to the heat source, thereby creating an input and output port; and generating a communications signal into the input and output port, thereby sending the signal at a speed faster than light."

(emphasis mine)

http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6025810
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I saw that when it first came out, but I have come to think that under the noise of age-related accidents, there are a few incidents that cannot be explained away, possibly including the one that this article leads with. It is also possible that younger drivers generally reacted faster to problems and were able to avoid serious accidents (IIRC, some of the less ambiguous crashes did occur to younger drivers.)

Ultimately, Toyota was heavily penalized for fielding safety-critical software that it could not show was acceptably safe, which is a reasonable and desirable outcome, IMHO.
You can do this e.g. with photon polarization. Measuring here is very simple since it is achieved by sending your light through a linear polarizer.

If you send light through a chiral medium, the orientation of the polarization would normally rotate. However if you measure the polarization often enough (by putting enough polar filters that are all oriented in the same direction in between), this rotation will not occur.
This experiment is rather simple since you only need a standard optical bench and not any low temperature setup.
In Chrome, probably [1]. Other browsers don't seem to be as strict.

[1]https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-...
> Who on earth thought it was a good idea to have a two step for username THEN password!?

Google, as of a while ago.

Persona at least had a good reason for it, with not all users needing to enter a password.
See also: ComponentOne

Customer: So I'm using FancyWidget4...

ComponentOne: We no longer own FancyWidget4, we sold that to FancyWidgetCo.

Customer: Hi FancyWidgetCo, I'm using FancyWidget4

FancyWidgetCo: FancyWidget? That's not even a product anymore, we have a product called SuperWidget!
It might be just me, but this article doesn't do the trick for me.

The trick: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

It just lists people and their accomplishments. Nothing about how they accomplished cool stuff. No analysis why stuff they did is meaninful.

You could ofcourse follow the links to find out what they have really done. Frontpage of wikipedia let's you do that to cool people too.
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But the investors want to make money, and that only comes when a judgement is reached. I can envisage the financial imperative putting a time limit on the investor/lawyer contract.
Life has lasting consequences. Bikes, skateboarding, and all the dumb shit kids do. A little blood never hurt. And I would not be the person I know and love today without some scars (both emotional and physical), head injuries , kitchen mishaps, etc.
I've never seen more police than in Berlin. In Norway I can go for months without seeing police. In Berlin they were everywhere with guns and body armor. So, yeah, not underfunded at all, as far as I can see.
Nowadays most modern browsers will revert to the punycode ("xn--") if there is any chance of confusion, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
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But stack accesses are generally perfectly predicted, meaning that your loads from stack get executed and the data loaded into those extra registers long before your code needs to use those values.
Or en-dashes instead of double hypens for command line flags... I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.
Still, you might not be able to tell whether or not a file is legal.
One has to have some sort of "trust network" on top of this.
No one using DBeaver?
>"Over-estimated" how?

Kennedy's missile gap, for one.

The existence of a threat does not mean that it cannot be over-estimated.
If the right framework can be agreed for keeping cases free of vested interest and bias, I see benefits in this mechanism.

One possible upside is that David-vs-Goliath cases as described here would be the ones most attractive to investors. The more obvious the injustice, the less risky the investment.
Yeah, more research needed. I also came across another 2013 "Fungus may cause symptoms of Parkinson's disease" article I found interesting.

They "found that a compound emitted by mold, called 1-octen-3-ol but more commonly known as mushroom alcohol" "attacked two genes involved in the creation of dopamine"

And speculate I think that could be related to the drop of in dopamine production in Parkinsons.

It would be interesting to try some such "volatile organic compounds emitted by fungi" with the lady who can smell Parkinson's to see it the smell was similar.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/268848.php

Also a 1990 article suggesting it's "the fungus, called Nocardia asteroides." I guess nothing much happening since 1990 suggests that didn't work out.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-17/news/mn-286_1_nocardi...
Plaintiffs have zero interest in lengthening cases and neither do litigation funders. Litigation funders are paying the attorney's fees and ending the case more quickly reduces how much they have to invest. Reaching a resolution quickly also reduces how long they have to wait to get a recovery.
I had something similar happen in the wild to me.

I work for a "major search engine" that does a lot of advertising & marketing stuff. To get the most out of it, we need customers to implement some javascript on their ecommerce sites.

As is often the case, javascript code that needs to get implemented on an ecommerce site often gets copy-pasted or emailed around a lot internally within a customer before it reaches the right person who can add it to the site's pages.

In this example somewhere along the way, a normal javascript snippet got all of the semi-colons changed from ; to ;.

In case you've not already spotted it, ; is not a ; but is actually "Greek Question Mark" (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/037e/index.htm).

It was very confusing why Chrome was moaning about a semi-colon an illegal token. I had a genuine "Am I going mad? Seriously?" moment before I realised what was happening.
This is possible today with firmware rootkits.
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Thats for sure. I just tried to `pip install git+https` a package, and when that failed, I initially thought it was a problem with the `setup.py` file, but upon reading the error, pip could not access bitbucket.org.
The Commodore 64 (or some other machine from my childhood) would generate a non-ASCII space if you held down control (or shift maybe) when pressing it. To this day I'm careful about that. I didn't know it was still a possible problem.
It's akin to the originally Marxist notion of "heightening the contradictions".

http://acceleratethecontradictions.blogspot.com/2010/04/acce...

The theory is that some system is inherently bad or broken but people in general don't quite realize it, so if it gets worse it will be more obviously bad and then they'll then actually deal with it. Although sometimes this kind of behavior does happen (for example, someone choosing to go to a doctor only after an illness takes a serious turn for the worse), it seems like a risky theory of social change.

Maybe the powers or institutions you oppose are more entrenched or more adaptable than you expect, or maybe the public is less sympathetic to your analysis of the situation than you expect, or less motivated or more defeatist.
"Young people can't save for their retirement on their own, because they don't
have enough money. Let's force them to, then the resources will magically
appear."

Looks like a sound plan.
>> We have taken all necessary measures to secure the website

It is probably wrong to read too much into the wording. But it is jarring when a company of this size presents their website as if it is external to the rest of their operations.
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And spending that money to fund litigation seems like a very strong kind of speech

Not to me.

Compare to Citizens United, which was about government censorship of core political speech, a video pertaining to a current candidate for office (or even a book, per the government's arguments). It's well established that "commercial speech", e.g. advertisements for products, can be subject to severe regulation (e.g. tobacco and alcohol) that's anathema to political speech.

And this sure sounds more like commercial than political speech; heck, think of all the laws, rules and regulations that pertain to what you can "say" in a lawsuit, in your written pleadings, oral arguments, etc. Even talking to the public about it can be constrained.
Outsourcing really just is the last step before automation.
The major trend to look for is always cost of production where labour being the number one cost.

In order for products to keep getting cheaper the cost has to come down. This trend doesn't stop just because we outsource it to China or Brazil or India and so even they become too expensive.

Unless economist start factoring in technology as one of the key economic factors rather than treating it as they do now – an externality – we will still argue about whether too much government or too little government is going to save us all.

And the politicians wont do anything because they don't see it projected in the forecasts the economist give them.

In the meantime robots are going to slowly but surely put most of us out of a job in almost all the industries we know of right now.

Or put another way – it's the technology stupid.

These three graphs paint a picture that says a lot.

http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/d...

https://plot.ly/~BethS/8/job-growth-by-decade-in-the-united-...

https://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/trends-in-u...
"There is often a significant “pop” on a company’s first day of trading as a public company, with double-digit percentage gains in the share price. But the gains are based on the IPO price that gets determined the night before the first day of trading — the price where the stock opens is often much higher."
That site does not work for me. I paste into the input field and it automatically turns into %F0%9F%90%88.

Compare with https://codepoints.net/ instead.

Edit: great, HN is broken too.