skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this is a good application for secret-sharing (a way to take a secret and split it into n pieces, of which k are required to reconstruct it).

One wouldn't necessarily want to split a secret amonst one's family (because families can feud), or even put the shares into the hands of people all belonging to one legal jurisdiction (because the odds of even a good government going evil within one's lifetime are uncomfortably high). But one could, say, pick three family members, three friends and three colleagues, distributed over the world, and then split the secret amongst the subgroups {family 1, friend 1, colleague 1}, {family 2, friend 2, colleague 2} & {family 3, friend 3, colleague 3} such that two members of each subgroup must agree to recreate the subgroup secret, and two subgroups must agree to share the actual secret. Assuming a reasonable amount of independence between the individuals, this should be okay.

In practice, this would probably have to involve sending each person an annual notice with his share, as well as detailed notes on how to recreate the appropriate secrets and information on the others who have received a share. And of course one would need to think hard about how difficult it would be for a second or third party to suborn the system (in the example above, all that's needed is for two family members and two friends in the same subgroups to live in the same oppressive legal jurisdiction: one subpoena later it's all over).
I completely understand the upside. I am, however, assuming a situation where both parties do not want to have a child, right then. The original scenario was, implicitly, casual sex. (Original scenario: "her: do you have protection? him: um, sure. I'm taking that, uh, that pill thing.") We can be more charitable and assume that scenario could play out a few months into dating. In such situations, not wanting a pregnancy is generally taken as a given. The entire discussion - birth control - even assumes that pregnancy, at the moment, is not wanted. So I'm confused why you're bring up the value of having children (which I do not deny) in a discussion about the incentives for men and women in avoiding unwanted pregnancy.

Perhaps your confusion is that I stated "There is no incentive for man to impregnate a woman", and you interpreted that as a universal statement. It was not. It was a direct response to the question for a man's motives in the given scenario, which assumes unwanted pregnancy.
> In recent decades, the majority of new drugs brought to market have been of little real therapeutic benefit.

If drug companies are trying to charge ridiculous high prices for drugs with "little therapeutic benefit", wouldn't it be easier just to not buy those drugs than to re-work the patent system?
You are right, there are a lot of repitition. But you will see that what comes up as "Grandson" may come up as "Maybe not a good idea" in the "Best Guess" description.

I basically ranked each item from 0 (don't show) to 10 (Best match) for each relationship. So the more you scroll down, you may start seeing some meh results for that particular relationship.

Because every person is unique I have a hard time completely dismissing something (rank as 0) for a particular relationship.

I have plans to add a lot more products. When the total product count reaches more than 300, I think this problem of seeing duplicate results will reduce by a good margin.

Thanks for the feedback! :)
First you should ask the presidents and politicians of the world to give up their guns and their security guards' guns. Then you might have a case to be made to the citizens.

While attempting to do that you might realize that you in fact do live in a world where might-makes-right and that the "democratically-enacted rule of law" paradise they sold you through your TV is just that.

You might also realize that you are wrong in thinking that the US government is made up largely of people like you, neither wealthy nor well-connected. This is the epitome of naivete, to think US politicians aren't wealthy and their careers aren't a game of who-knows-who.
Thank you for your concern, but those answers would be fine. I'm thinking of buying some adword ads and this article called the process to mind. Rarely is as good as never for my purposes, and clicking an ad that they didn't know was an ad is also a non-vote.
So you consider the behaviour to be normal?

Depending on how you define "normal".
If you mean acting like everyone else, then absolutely not.
My goal was to be incongruous.

If you mean acting calmly and naturally, then yes. I wasn't nervous because I knew that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I wasn't doing anything that would get me in trouble.

We might fail to notice someone else stealing because our attention is elsewhere whilst with people in that demographic our attention will be much more tightly focussed; according to our records this has never happened however.

If you are watching the young males, how can you be sure? What kind of inventory shrinkage do you have?

In your opinion is it wrong for us to behave in this way?

We all have our biases. Whether or not it's wrong is debatable but if you miss a shoplifter because you were focusing your attention on the wrong person, that is your fault.
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This is great work. If you're interested in this check out this very low-barrier video [1] for a paper published (not even a month ago) by a group in our institute. It describes interesting techniques that they've used.

[1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k5pvkCwub4
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I wouldn't.

For me, work-life balance is not a numbers game - it is a question of whether or not I can step away from work to do activities with my family, pursue hobbies or personal projects,etc. If I get sick, does my boss say, "Get better fast and get back here.", or does he say, "Get better, and let us know when you are ready to come back." If I take an afternoon off to go to my daughter's track meet, is that frowned upon, or does my team say, "Great, let us know how she did!"

If the company truly cares only about getting the work done, and truly lets you live your life as long as the work is getting done, then you have balance.
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Yeah, I guess I think it makes more sense for the browser manufacturers to be the people to whom I delegate that responsibility. I already trust them not to run malware on my computer and to accurately display the SSL state of a connection.

I just think it's odd that any CA can turn around and make any other random CA fully blessed. It seems like it completely circumvents the browser manufacturers including root CAs at all.

Totally agreed re: maintaining your own list of CAs. I mostly do go through the system CA list and disabling any from foreign governments I don't ever plan on trusting, but that's mostly feel-good and not actual security.
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Mobile just sucks to search for things on. It's far easier to move to desktop.
You have to have some context in order for the argument against government owning copyrights to make sense.

1. Copyright was created in order to encourage the creation of things that might not otherwise be created were copyright not to exist; books, magazines, etc that without copyright nobody would have incentive to produce as anyone could just COPY it without investing the time to create it first

2. Copyright is thus a legal construct for ensuring that the people who did some creative or laborious act had SOME way of getting paid, namely rationing it economically

3. The government has already paid for the work to be done through taxes and this power is basically absolute; if you disagree try and not pay taxes and see how long you stay out of prison

4. Charging people for things the government does may or may not be more economically efficient, it really depends on the cost associated with the infrastructure to accept payments and ration out the goods versus the cost of simply publishing for free, in recent times it's gotten cheaper to publish and cheaper to accept money

5. The idea that the government has any right to ration information as opposed to physical goods is a tough sell because once the information is created and the marginal cost of replicating it is zero or very close to, what is the charging mechanism for?

I totally get why it might be better to ration roads or schools or whatever; they're tangible things and there's not an infinite amount of them. But everyone in the US can have a copy of the map for effectively free once it's been created so there's not a lot of good argument (at least in my opinion) why it shouldn't be free.
Timing could be automated with a webcam and CV to just watch for any motion near the markers. With a recording of each run, you could push ghosted runs through the projector like racing games.
Informed consent. Tell every corpus being lobbed eighty stories in the air what the risks are, and let them make their own decisions.
> I'm also alarmed at the number of European countries using this software...

Why? A number of EU countries have set up front companies to re-sell their spy agencies skills in mass surveillance to assorted dictators and despots. They need a test-bed for development and the local population is the obvious choice. What they are reselling is always the previous generation while they use the new, more advanced and intrusive version locally.

It's all about protecting the children and keeping us safe from terrorists. It's not about mass surveillance. Honest. And look at the money made by exporting our technology!
mobile is really for convenience, i.e. I need make a call, need find a location on the go, need do some photo/IM/social-update once a while, as a to-do-list and calendar, read some news on it, maybe traffic and weather, or even read a book to kill time outside, but that's about it. If I need search something else, or read something seriously, I still prefer my PC/laptop. When thinking about this, I indeed rarely search on the mobile.
I think part of the problem is mobile UI. If someone doesn't have the Google search bar widget or the search app on their phone(android) then they have to pull up the Chrome/FF to search. Pulling up a browser app will reload the last page you were on last time. So then you need to either wait for the tab to load before entering your search term OR you open a new tab to search. This is all very clunky and inconvenient.
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Amazon has to find a better spokesperson for public tussle, better in this case would be someone who is not already labeled.

Why would you trust anyone else more? They'd be doing the same exact job for Amazon as Carney is (even if it differs slightly in the implementation). It's just deliciously transparent when they hire Carney to do it.

Any other person would be bullshit artist too, Carney is just known for delivering bullshit. If someone sees a name on Amazon's PR mouthpiece and doesn't immediately drop their evaluation of that person's statements to Carney's level, they're simply being tricked.
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This is really cool! Any chance of seeing it open sourced?
I don't buy the "dark ages" thing. Even if 99.99% of the digital data about you disappears, you'll still leave a much, much bigger footprint than even your recent ancestors did. I know a lot about my parents, a few bits and pieces about my grandparents, and nothing further back except a name and maybe a photo.
> (I'm grateful my natural inclination has proved out to be a good use of time, but now I don't even feel guilty about it, which is nice.)

Are you sure you are not just experiencing confirmation bias?

A lot of very high-octane code has been written by devs who eschew social contact (any distractions, really) for the duration of the push, so I suppose it just depends.

I have a hard time believing that any "study" can really tease out optimum productivity for all cases.
I'm getting blocked visiting the site... weird.

> Your page is blocked due to a security policy that prohibits access to category
> Remote Proxies.
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HN seems to be looking at niche browsers with their own rendering engines today (NetSurf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417807, Dillo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417007), so I felt bringing up Arachne made sense.
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Depends on the context. But in order to get OTC options you are going to need to be doing some sort of massive deal (AFAIK never done OTC derivatives trading) or it needs to be some sort of esoteric option contract. You wouldn't do this as part of a normal equity/option hedge or trade. You also would almost certainly be paying a higher price for the privilege than you would on an exchange.

Buying a "normal" option contract on an equity is almost certainly not an OTC deal and is instead exchange traded. Those exchanges are very efficient like the equities exchanges are so options are priced competitively (thanks to options traders).
Did you consider replacing the battery? (beside the battery not aging very well, I'm still happy with the N5 performance).
For me it helped to switch from on-site to remote.

People tell me "what" they want and "when" they need it and I can decide "how" I get it done.

I had to switch from "8h office/online a day" to "being availble for questions at reasonable hours", because no one sees or cares when I'm online.
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Ugh. So we're going to expand the bureaucracy to support this for the purpose of stopping a handful of bad actors that are going to be impossible to identify anyways.

Fantastic. Simply fantastic.
I agree with almost everything you're saying, with one clarification:

> If you go the insurance way of the US and try to let market forces rule

Market forces do not rule in the US. If you want an example of healthcare in which market forces rule, look at India. In India, there is massive disparity in terms of equality of access to care. But on the other hand, costs are entirely transparent (unlike the US), and the quality of care that one has access to given sufficient money is comparable to the quality of care in the US.

The US is actually much more like socialized medicine than people realize, due to the fact that we have two monopsonic systems[0] that we force private insurers to subsidize. It's the worst of both worlds.

That said, I agree that it's not clear that a single monopsonic system would be any better, for all the reasons you mention. I don't think there is a solution. Our actual demand and expectations for quality healthcare has risen dramatically over the last century, and our technology has not kept up (to the extent that, we are able to afford the top care for some people, but it is just not physically or economically possible to extend that to everyone right now, no matter how we structure the market).

[0] If the phrase 'two monopsonic systems' sounds like an oxymoron to you, just think about how we refer to Comcast and Time Warner Cable as monopolies - they are, because their markets are completely segmented and do not overlap.
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I use httpie all the time, and it's great.

One thing has always bugged me, maybe someone knows how to fix it.

This command works fine:

$ http example.com

And http symlinks to the right binary:

$ which http
/usr/local/bin/http

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/
...
lrwxr-xr-x 1 taylor admin 31 Jun 25 2014 http -> ../Cellar/httpie/0.8.0/bin/http
...

But man shows a different executable:

$ man http

...
NAME
http - Client-side implementation of the HTTP/1.1 protocol
...
> If drug companies are trying to charge ridiculous high prices for drugs with "little therapeutic benefit", wouldn't it be easier just to not buy those drugs than to re-work the patent system?

But that would involve physicians making recommendations in the best interests of their patients, and patients making decisions for themselves, and we certainly can't have that!

I recall a surgeon friend of mine complaining about the decisions made by the physician overseeing his child's care, and how hard it was to stand by and see the wrong thing done. He's internalised the model of 'doctor knows best' so much that even where his child was concerned he couldn't overcome that conditioning!

This has analogies, I think, to the ideas of software users who don't develop or people who rely on the police to protect them.
i'm a pretty heavy curl user so i gave it a try. My humble verdict is that there is not enough benefit for the change in interface, to make it worth using. Now if it had a compatibility mode for curl cmd parameters and format, then that might be something i could use.
Ha! I had an Android phone for years and never used the search bar.

And yet, it's the most prominent feature in view whenever you see a "glamour shot" of a new Android device. It's a Google OS, so of course it's got to have a prominent search bar! But I never once used it—I suppose reinforcing the findings of this article. The ugliness (both visually and metaphorically) of a big Google search bar on the home screen of my phone is one reason I dropped Android.
To be clear, I am massively excited to use Let's Encrypt and plan on setting up SSL for the first time ever when it launches. I am legit broke so I can't afford to pay a lot of money for someone to have an automated process of:

gpg --gen-key

I was responding to parent, that announcing trust is a werid quirk of the CA model. TBH, that is correct, but I find it more bizarre Let's Encrypt has to be "trusted" by an unknown company that no one really knows anything about. That is the bit I find weirdest.
I think the real issue here is that a significant number of Android users in particular aren't really "smartphone" users, they are phone customers who get a smartphone for free.

There are a significant number of users who need feature phones, get the Mega Droid Ultra XVII for $0 and use it as a phone exclusively. When these users "graduate" to do more stuff, they light up features. Your mom figured out how to text, grandpa discovered Facebook, etc. It's not a computer to them.

Then you have weirdos like me who are immersed in the phone all of the time. I frequently (as in dozens of times a day) do research and other web searchy things on my iPhone, and either consume stuff I find on the phone or handoff to my Macbook. I know a couple of people who take it even further with apple watch and alerting.
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If you don't mind sharing, what kind of phone is it and how much did you pay? I have a 1st gen Moto X which is now over two years old and the tasks you mention feel pretty much instantaneous. I know that the Moto X was a high end phone when it came out but I bought it used last summer for $100 and I imagine that the specs were comparable to inexpensive new phones at the time.
For me (and as many have mentioned):

- Browsing on the phone is kinda slow. Mostly unworkable unless you have a fairly new phone.

- Even if you do have a newish phone with decent horsepower, most pages are unreadable due to all of the ads. Stuff crashes or just freaks out and I give up or go to my desktop/laptop. AdBlockers make a huge difference.
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My fiance is applying to grad programs and a professor she'd like to work with is at Tulane. We think she has a good chance of getting into this program so I've been reading up on what its like to work there as a software developer.

I know a decent bit about the history of the place but I'd love to hear some testimonials if you have any. Please be honest.
I always associate "LE" with "Lawful Evil", but maybe I'm a nerd
In a mobile only world where your critical business runs only via mobile app do CA based SSLs even matter? Why not use your own CA with your own certificates and don't have to trust any CA?
A fundamental fair system is not possible exactly for the reasons I am pointing out.

You don't want to get cancer in Denmark because they don't have the best medicine and treatments and you don't want to get cancer in the US without an insurance to pay for those best treatments and even then it's hard.

Or put another way. You can claim that Denmark is one of the most fair systems IF you ignore the fact that they aren't providing it's citizens with the best and most effective treatments available. Thats not more fair. Thats just another system.
Suitability and Salary shouldn't matter for the most part. I'd go with some form of:
WLB=Total work hours per day + Amount of Vacation+Ability to work from home + Office Environment + Is work spread out over the year or focused on one time of year + Can you take a few hours to see a doctor during work + Predictability of schedule.

Edit: Not necessarily a formula, but what I consider important.
>it's obviously worth 50¢ to save almost anyone

almost?
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OP's was definitely more of a marketing tip; also brokenness may hurt your Google juice.
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The more important reason why Carney is being used is that he is trusted by journalists and/or has had an important job and reputation that preceded him. As such he will be given certain leeway and the benefit of the doubt that won't extend to others (with less of a pedigree). This isn't about what the tech press thinks (or what even an Amazon customer thinks) it's about what other important decision makers (who follow the journalists that are impressed by Carney think). Separately, when does any PR hack speak the truth (if you want to call it that).
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Saying yes/no also sets expectations for the rest of your office/company.
> Sure the work got done eventually but the atmosphere was super lax with little or no oversight.

What's the problem with this? If the work is getting done, and meets quality standards, do all employees need oversight? Does a lax work environment immediately imply that the work done there is poor?
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Wouldn't they just need to verify control of the domain, instead of a single host on the domain? If I control example.com, it's fair to believe I can control all hosts on the domain.
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The Manifesto if vague enough that you can pull anything out of it, is not really a set of concrete standards. Generally, I think it's not good to break processes when individuals feel it is appropriate, because you then have no common reliable basis for expectations. It's good to have processes that are followed consistently but which are owned by the team and which the team together is free to modify and define exceptions to -- and where everyone is free to call a halt to have the team consider the need to address a process issue in the context of a current work item. At least that's my view, is also seems a fairly common approach in the Lean literature, which seems to be based on the same values as Agile, by be stronger on on concrete, high-level framework methodology. The Agile literature seems to jump from the Manifesto to lots of low-level processes and practices without as much attention to high-level approaches which really make concrete how to effectively empower people in teams, and manage the choice and adaptation of low-level processes in a way which really reflects the Manifesto's values.