skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VoIP uses E911. Usually you pre-register your address with the VoIP service. But services with dedicated apps may pass along your GPS location today, I'm not too sure there.
The biggest threat to Silicon Valley isn't what you think it is
You and your daughter will end up as people that can contribute something great to the society; most of the ones skipping the homework without innate talent not, and they will complain about how unfairly are they treated because they are smart.

One of my piano teachers was forced to practice through tears as a kid because they saw the talent she had. She went on to becoming a world famous child prodigy playing grade 8 pieces by sight-reading with unbelievable ease.

Work is required if you want to achieve something. You just need to find the right balance, and it's neither "no work" nor "work all the time".
Ya, it's the usual HN comment section crap. Everybody's an expert.
Great write-up! Even as someone on the inside of one of those companies I learned a lot.
We need to figure out a way to categorize research topics, fields of science, and conclusions by how firm we consider the results to be.

I listen to absolutely nothing of what comes out of the field of nutrition science. I am aware that this may make me some number of shades less healthy, but the savings in time is well-worth it.

I consider all nutrition studies to not be science, in the same way that I consider a kid pulling ants apart with tweezers to be not science. The information gleaned is of no practical value. What little there is that is of worth ends up getting baked into laws and regulation, so again, I don't have to worry about it. (e.g. mercury is bad for you.)

I may be interested in somebody's self-experimentation results. Tim Ferriss wrote about the slow-carb diet, I gave it a shot, and lost weight with it. I similarly lost weight with the intermittent fasting diet. Do I care about the relative health effects vs. the so-called Standard American Diet? No. All I can see, all I care about is whether it makes me lose my excess fat.

The human body is too complex for any nutrition study to approach a causative standard of rigor. It's impossible to control for all the variables.
Car owners can modify vehicle software: U.S. copyright authorities
Thanks, first time submitting, I didn't spot those ones.
> It was a goofy problem turned up to the power of the Internet thanks to intractable problems.

still trying to figure out what the author is trying to say here
Joomla SQL Injection Flaw Exploited Hours After Disclosure
I think you're completely missing the point...the original title on HN did not have any of that information - it just said "Intel x86 considered harmful (new paper)". No context that it was a survey paper - initial impressions was that it was just another clickbait inflammatory article link.

The moderators rightfully changed it, which makes my criticism addressed & outdated.
Nepal's Third Gender Passport Blazes Trails
Which is not what the poster above was saying at all. Public schooling is a necessity because not everyone can afford to homeschool or hire a personal tutor for their children. That point is not under dispute.

However denying parents the input of their far superior knowledge regarding the workload their child has as well as implying (intended or not) that the homework situation does not need improvement is denying the very real problem that kids are stressed and overworked. Some as early as kindergarten.

One perfect valid grass roots solution to this is for parents to push back against the school. And unless schools start changing it's the only solution available to parents of those stressed and overworked children.
Gonna point out that I drink coffee every day and going without it cold turkey also doesn't affect me. I don't suffer any withdrawal symptoms.

> I don't eat any sweets at all (natural sugars come from the fruits I eat)

Yes, but the average apple, banana, or orange has a lot of sugar content. Many fruits are also acidic and will mess your teeth up a lot worse than a bit of coffee stain will.
Sketch 3.4 is released
Here's How Long It Would Take for Vampires to Annihilate Humanity
Turning the iPhone 6s into a Digital Scale
“It’s absurd that we have to spend so much time, every three years, filing and defending these petitions to the copyright office. Technologists, artists, and fans should not have to get permission from the government—and rely on the contradictory and often nonsensical rulings—before investigating whether their car is lying to them or using their phone however they want,” said EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry. “But despite this ridiculous system, we are glad for our victories here, and that basic rights to modify, research, and tinker have been protected.”
One thing we would actually want, here, though, is a setup where you can rent out your computer (i.e. as an IaaS provider), without being capable of monitoring the renter. In that kind of setup, the tenant does not want you to own "all the keys to your machine"—or, at least, they want to have some way to verify that you have disabled/discarded those keys.
HDF5 is great, but has anyone developed a native Java version? The official version has a Java binding with a nonintuitive interface. And, it requires a lot of prerequisite installations which makes it a bit difficult to deploy.

But, I may be completely missing the best practices though.
An option if you'd like to try this yourself, at home:
https://shuhaowu.com/blog/network_emulation_on_your_router.h...

(Previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224547 )
How to Install Magento on Amazon EC2 in 8 Minutes
Probably scraping websites like Hacker News or Github on a daily basis and see what new things are surfacing. For example, what are the projects on Github that are getting new followers faster, or what words appear often on the front page of Hacker News now, but not six months ago?
St Louis Fed on why half of 25-year-olds are living with their parents
What were you eating that gave you sinus problems?
80 people probably won't lose their jobs. Some will be reassigned, some retire, others will leave, etc. However, you can probably achieve a significant cost saving. Put together something compelling, i.e. take 5-10 reports put together by people and 5-10 by your software. Ask management to pick the files put together by the team. Show your software is just as accurate.

What you do then is you leverage the heck out of this opportunity to increase your salary. If you can save the company $4M in annual staff expenses, ask (read: demand) for a one time $2m bonus and a $500k increase in salary. Get this stuff in writing. Make sure they can't screw you over and "steal" your system if they don't want to give you a decent bonus. This has value.

Don't talk about money before proving it actually works.
> I love CC, but CC-BY-NC-ND is VERY different from CC-BY. Both OA? Maybe, under a fairly narrow definition of access;

CC-BY-NC-ND is just fine, and it seems entirely reasonable to call it “open access”. By far the most important thing the public can do with scientific papers is read them.

Obviously it can sometimes be nice to allow translations to other languages, interpretations in other media, bundling of collections of papers, reuse of the figures in other people’s works, copy/pasting the text into Wikipedia, or whatever.

But if folks need to get separate dispensation from the author/publisher for such additional uses, I have no problem with that.
A guy tried to sweep leaves with a drone
They should also try using older/slower phones that are representative of those areas. I remember that I had an LG L7 which was barely usable at all even freshly reset.
only 32% of non-participants gave consent for their children to be evaluated. Nuff said.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, taken in context your post is like a non sequitur in the thread.

The overwhelming consensus is that a caloric surplus causes obesity (surprise! eating more than you burn causes you to gain weight) and that obesity is associated with a number of negative health effects.

Nutrition is not in the 'dark ages', it's moving faster than ever. I also never brought up any weird nutrition life hacks, my statement was just that sugar is unfairly demonized when we should be pointing the finger at overconsumption.

I think it's fair to say that you don't have to 'wait for science' to be settled on this issue. Consistent overconsumption of food is definitely "not good for you"
Will this have any effect on the John Deer issue?
It seems to me that in the long run, organizations that don't pay tax will dominate organizations that pay it. On long time horizons, the difference is massive.
i've seen my health care plan go from $300 to $400 to $560 for the last 3 years. for this coming year, i'm seeing quotes for $700. These were platinum PPO's for single male in 30s.
And yet, most of the population won't end up making a living from their sporting accomplishments. However, they will get a job based on what they learned (or didn't learn) in school.
Swift and statically typed JSON
Regulations are often extremely complex and cover deep technical minutia.

There are 535 congresspeople. Counting staffers and organizations like CRS and you're looking at single-digit thousands of people to form the whole body of expertise around US lawmaking. They can reasonably be expected to pass general laws, but they have neither the staff nor expertise to work out the NOTAM that gives the exact 3D coordinates of every no-fly zone in the country, the ppm and molecular makeup of contaminants allowed in factory water runoff, the labeling rules for prescription painkillers, and a million other details that are needed to effectively manage 320MM people.

If you shifted the burden for getting those details right from agencies to congress, you'd just have to have a vastly larger congressional apparatus, and then you'd be decoupling rule making from enforcement (which isn't always a terrible idea, but would be incredibly difficult to change now.)

There's plenty of disagreement to be had over what should and shouldn't be regulated, but a system where the regulations are made by experts, who are responsible for enforcing those rules, and not totally subject to the political will of current congress isn't a bad idea.
This is a really interesting article, and it's nice to see a lengthy discussion of treating sites like Reddit, Facebook, etc as a kind of digital nation-state.

But one point in particular bothered me (and perhaps I'm misreading it):

> It’s incumbent on anyone creating a new network of any kind not just to avoid using it yourself for criminal purposes, but to design it so that it’s not useful for criminal purposes.

Isn't a network, by definition, useful for criminal purposes? Perhaps the author means not more useful for criminal purposes than for legal ones, but what exactly might that mean? And by whose laws are we describing criminality?

I also think this argument is tremendously problematic, maybe even self-defeating, in the context of encryption. If we, as the author proposes, were to have a network designed from the beginning to be capable of eventual decentralization [1], doesn't that imply heavy use of cryptography? I can't imagine a digital network where you can create privacy (and therefore agency) any other way.

And yet clearly, government entities like the FBI are publicly railing against encryption as a useful tool for terrorists and criminals. Plenty of people, myself included, find this policy debate to be frighteningly under-informed, but if your goal is to avoid government attention to maximize the chances for success, it's not our opinion that matters, it's the FBI's. So I think think this kind of friction is unavoidable, implying the smart money is on people who can cleverly minimize its impact.

[1] On a related note, I'm working on exactly this problem, at a protocol level. If you're curious, check out our documentation repo https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse
Someone else here (a medical doctor) has commented before along the lines of "It's OK for healthy people to eat sugar. It's when you're unhealthy (i.e. metabolic syndrome) that you should avoid it."

Well, how do you think the unhealthy people got that way in the first place? Yes, healthy people can deal with moderate or immoderate sugar intake better than people with metabolic syndrome. But at the margin you are probably degrading your health anyway.
Not all VCs are equally (in)competent. I've always felt that one of the root causes of the ~2000 dot-com bubble was a proliferation of incompetent VCs chasing the glut of investment capital. Things seem roughly the same these days, or maybe even worse, since the eventual-rationality of the public markets can't come into play if there's no IPO.
Hi Max,

I can definitely now see why you would interpret what I wrote as being malicious or mocking. I'd just like to let you know that it definitely wasn't meant to be, and that I'm incredibly sorry that it came off that way. I did not intend to offend you; I was just trying to explain why I made the choices I made.
Only $900? My partner and I are both under the age of 50 had to pay over $1200/mo this year for a personal plan with BCBS without ridiculous deductibles. This was an increase from ~$1100/mo from just 6 mos ago.
Voted!
Since I appreciate seeing someone else's schedule, figured I would post ours. I have 6 and 8yo. and we live quite close to school.

10.5 - sleep
0.75 - morning routine (teeth, dress, find lost things)
7 - school
0.5 - transit
2.75 - free time
0.5 - dinner
0.5 - evening routine (pjs,teeth, don't take bath every day)
0.5 - workbooks & parent tutoring or school homework
0.5 - independent reading of chapter books
0.5 - stories read to them

By time they get to workbooks, they are quite tired. But they are used to being tutored in small doses so they get through it. At this point, all structured activities outside of school are on the weekend (e.g. girl scouts, soccer). Also, ideally they would go to bed 1/2 hr earlier.

Because we personally tutor our kids, I'm sure we will resent an increased homework burden as they get older, especially as we are able to tutor to a relatively high level for most subjects. Unfortunately the school does not coordinate with us on the learning objectives, so we more or less rely on Common Core standards to know what's expected.
People are being tracked for trading advantage and that is not at all illegal?
But that's what the GP was referring to. "Personal electronic storage" is increasingly becoming an extension of our mind. It may be cellphones today, but the era of implantable media may not be far off.

In fact... for a pretty reasonable sum, I could build a sub-dermal implant beneath the skull with many GBytes of storage that is wirelessly powered and supports USB-like data rates. (See profile.) So this isn't an academic argument.

In reality, I think you could make a pretty reasonable case that my lab notebooks (whether paper or electronic) are just a "more accurate version of my wetware memories." I'm not sure I understand why this "brain extension" isn't afforded more protections accordingly.

I appreciate that this notion wasn't explicitly spelled out in the constitution -- these advances are REALLY new from a historical perspective. But I would wager: The laws will likely need to change.
I feel like we've seen this before. Young startup, visionary founder, boat loads of money, then after lots of money burned, outright lies, false claims, or at the very least vaporware.
This piece is awesomely detailed, but if you're looking for a higher-level recap, we wrote up the a16z podcast on the same topic: http://www.volleythat.com/a16z-podcast/2015/10/18/a16z-podca...
Rethinking the 17th-Century English Surgeon
Unpatched browser weaknesses can be exploited to track millions of Web users
Add thermal/noise insulation now = $-efficient-comfort/quiet for the life of the structure.
The ones on the business plan
In what way does a smoothie remove fiber from fruit?
I'm not a lawyer, but the EFF mentions tractors in their press release:

> We are pleased that analysts will now be able to examine the software in the cars we drive without facing legal threats from car manufacturers, and that the Librarian has acted to promote competition in the vehicle aftermarket and protect the long tradition of vehicle owners tinkering with their cars and tractors.
In unrelated news, Facebook employees have begun to organize "Work from home Tuesdays".
So, what you're saying is that the law is intentionally written to be overly broad to support arbitrary punishment by those in power of those they dislike for reasons other than what is prohibited on the face of the law. And that's okay, because you trust those in power to dislike the same people you dislike.
I think homework is necessary for some subjects, like math and physics, because practice is where the learning comes from IMHO. In other subjects, homework is anachronistic. I think we should extend the school day like Japan, and build homework and social networks into the school setting.
Or competition between family members.
Scientists Discover how to Build Molecules Made of Pure Light
How snacking more can help your health
"Vaccinations are effective at preventing disease, with minimal side effects."

"Hours of homework (after 7 hours of school) is 'proper education'."

Are you really claiming that those two statements have a remotely similar body of evidence supporting them?
Oh, didn't know the origin story; I only thought they just like it over there. D3 is absolutely awesome!
They're smart about it:

> When a Facebook employee logs into the app any Tuesday morning, they'll see a prompt at the top of their News Feed asking whether they want to try out the slower connection for an hour.
I live in southeast Alaska, so this is a day's catch once in a while. We try to keep a steady stock of smoked fish in the freezer and in the fridge.

But we pay through the nose for crappy fruit and vegetables!
I agree that 1 - 2 hours of homework may be excessive. However, 10, 20, or even 30 minutes seems reasonable to me, assuming that it reinforces what is being taught in school.
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> She went on to becoming a world famous child prodigy playing grade 8 pieces by sight-reading with unbelievable ease.

...and did that get her anywhere as an adult?

It seems to me that so many people are excited when their children are ahead of the curve, doing "adult"-level things at a young age—and just assume they'll stay ahead forever, forging on beyond the norm, rather than reverting to the mean.
I don't understand what you mean by 'If macronutrient balance is the problem, then you still want to stop adding sugar'. We're talking about analysis of study methodology.

Do you mean that having too many carbs is detrimental to health? Because you can have an increased carbohydrate intake without increasing sugar consumption.
Aggregate data. So it's supposedly anonymized.
Lustig just doesn't give up. He has already been crushed by Alan Aragon five years ago.

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-...
This is my favourite vendor email I have ever received:

The datacenter (Toronto) will be performing emergency maintenance at 3:30 pm EDT today afternoon due to raccoon in the electric system.
I'd be shocked if I learned they didn't steal this idea from Google.

<edit> Not sure why downvoted. Google has had hobbled networks like this for a long time, for exactly the same reason.
Excellent development!
Annotated paper about Carl Anderson’s discovery of the positron
A second reply, because this is about the movie Groundhog Day and not the topic at hand.

Something that really bugs me about most people's references to the movie is that they grossly miss the point. When most people reference it they refer to something about their dull repetitive life, or being stuck in a rut. But that's not what happens in the movie.

He literally experiences the same thing for hundreds of days to hundreds of years (depending on interpretation). But something happens, he realizes the numerous opportunities present in this same, repeated, "uneventful" day. Sure, the daily grind of wake, commute, work, commute, dinner, TV, sleep, repeat is dull and repetitive. But unlike Phil, we don't have an infinite number of times to do this before we learn our lesson and change our approach. We get 100 years on the outside, 60 productive years for most of us. Even if you're doing the same thing each day, how do you spend the rest of your time? If it's living for the weekend, that's 5 evenings a week you've wasted. Fill it with time with family, friends, learning, hobbies, something. Become the best person you can be, because one day the repetition will end.

What will you have to show for it? Will you have just worked yourself to death and memorized every line of Star Wars, or will you be making ice sculptures with a chainsaw?
>A healthy economy will, in most cases, exhibit inflation.

A healthy economy will exhibit monetary inflation as it grows. But there's no reason for it to exhibit price inflation.

>The government has to print more money to keep up, otherwise it will fall short of people's needs.

That's a circular argument. It's not like people in a deflationary environment don't have any money - they have less money, but that money is worth more.

>There's a huge benefit. We want to encourage economic activity over inactivity.

Sure. I'm just not convinced getting people to go into debt really does that. Oh, it does in the short run. But once your debts start to pile up not only do you have to pay for the things you've already purchased, but you have to pay interest. If, instead of borrowing money, you'd just bought things as you could afford them, you would end up spending more.

>Money borrowed is money invested.

No, money borrowed is money spent. Sometimes that's investment. Sometimes it's not. If I borrow money to buy a bed made in China, that's not helping the US economy very much.

The idea deflation is bad for an economy doesn't hold up to historical scrutiny. The US grew strongly in the 19th century (far more strongly than today), and during that time it experienced long periods of growth accompanied by low deflation. People still have to buy food, pay the rent, buy clothes, etc even when the currency is deflating.
There is a pretty wide gulf between no homework, ever, and the kinds of loads being placed on some kids. You talk about "a few" words a week. My friend's kids (I have none) end up staying up until 1am, forgoing family and friend time, just to keep up with the work demands. We invited a family to do something with us - the response was that they might be able to do something in 6 or so months due to the kids schedule. And no, this wasn't a blow off, it was an honest assessment of the demands on their kids. It is just barking mad.
You think there is no value in participating in sports outside of the direct results of "sporting accomplishments"?
Was anyone super annoyed by the gigantic unnecessary top menu that moves with you as you scroll?
Then I see another problem - people using the word "slavery" to describe various periods in history when what they mean is the "American-style black on cotton plantations type of slavery". Slaves in history had various amounts of rights and, particularly in Ancient Egypt, Israel and Rome, there were much closer to employees than many think today. The American version of slavery seems to be more of a historical aberration.
Funny how in America they classify Arab people or more accurately native Arabic speakers as white when it is actually not accurate at all and it just shows how ridiculous these designations or labels are.

At least, let them get their racial terms or classifications right before they could start muddying the water hype up racial tensions between communities.
How do you handle strings on hdf5, on an efficient and portable way? I didnt find any convincing answers.