skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I now see that as a possible reading. I read it only as a statement of uncertainty.

s/could/would/ would have eliminated the ambiguous reading.
I wish we had something more like The Rooney Rule and less of this kind of discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
Complete list of mistakes in the design of CSS:

1. CSS
The service is "best provided by people who have experience doing that thing", be they employees or contractors. There's no value to any one of the three parties (Homejoy, customer, contractor) in the cleaner being an "employee". It's not bad/good; it's just not a factor in this situation. Do I care, as a homeowner, that the person coming from Homejoy is an employee or a contractor? It's likely that I prefer them to be an employee but, if the price is right, I could care less...
> say that they would never date an asian guy

as an asian guy, let me just say that quite frankly, the solution to this is to 1. be attractive, and 2. don't be unattractive. lift weights, dress well, have cool hobbies, make money.

girls say a lot of things due to social pressure but when the chips are on the table you can't negotiate attraction. it's subconscious.
trivially easy to access == clicking a link and reading expected article.

hyperbole == most things which contain the word 'trivially'.

I'd bet a dollar most of us have better things to do than find a way around a paywall.
Reversible computing...
Wordpress Vulnerability Scanner
Either they've fixed it or I'm not seeing the problem - I get a bunch of pages that include ballykelly and vulcan. Forcing "ballykelly" didn't seem to make any difference.
I couldn't bring myself to go as far as letting a dog lick a wound, but these days the Mayo Clinic is advising against using disinfectants like iodine or alcohol; just make sure it's clean and apply a sterile bandage. Rationale: disinfectants do kill bacteria, but applied to an open wound they also kill white blood cells; apparently it's a net negative.
VR Tour of Gale Crater on Mars with Three.js (how-to in Comments)
Where, exactly, are we storing power in the TWh-scale? The terrible availability[1] of wind and solar is going to require a heroic amount of storage, which isn't going to be "simple". It will probably have serious environmental impact as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Real_world_cap...
XKEYSCORE is not a watchlisting system, but an NSA system. Watchlisting is not conducted by the NSA -- it's conducted by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) and the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC).

I have no idea about the events you're talking about. That said, XKEYSCORE isn't a flagging system at all, but more like conducting a google search. So, bad input always equals bad output.
And the "how we made the sausage" post:
http://graphics.latimes.com/mars-gale-crater-how-we-did-it/
> Example from today's AMA is FFTF's claim that CISA "exempts itself from FOIA", making it impossible to challenge in court: they're referring to Sec 4 (d) (4) (b), which exempts from FOIA individual shared indicators, which of course must be the case, because indicators are things like compromised account names and passwords. That's all the law exempts from disclosure.

Nope. The bill clearly defines "cyber threat indicators" to include the entire content of whatever these companies disclose to the government. The things that make up "cyber threat indicators" go on for an entire page, and it's an "or" list rather than an "and" list. For Facebook, it would probably be something like a particular Facebook post that tripped their "threat" trigger, plus all the info that Facebook has about that user account (maybe every post that account ever made), including IP addresses that posted to that account and everything else.

And yes, every single thing "shared" with the government (I'm reminded of "the sharing economy" with this usage) is entirely exempt from FOIA disclosure, as the CISA bill clearly says. And of course no cause of action shall lie in any court, so there's no help there either. So no, there will never be any way to review the scope or magnitude of this "sharing", apart from whatever information (truthful or not) the government deigns to share.

Your description of CISA is the one that is straight up dishonest.
You can think of them like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde if you like.

Both share an innate conviction that nuclear war can be successfully waged. Buck thinks that it'll only "muss our hair a little bit", and argues against calling the Premier because that will end their chances for a preemptive attack. Ripper said the same in his message to the War Room - that Communism can be wiped out with a pre-emptive strike and that we will prevail in our Purity of Essence. He tells Mandrake that he has faith that the generals will do the rational thing and launch.

Both Buck and Ripper display paranoia of the "Rooskies". Buck opposes letting the Russian Ambassador into the War Room, continually agitates against any trust in the Russians, and goes so far as to plant a tiny camera on the Ambassador to try and get him ejected for "taking pictures of the big board!". Ripper, of course, has devolved into outright schizophrenia over the International Communist Conspiracy and the world at large. The Redcoats are coming, Mandrake!

I realize those are very common themes that Cold War generals might exhibit. However, they are fundamentally very similar characters who really only differ in their motivations by degree and sanity. In a sense, Ripper asks us what would happen if Buck went off the deep end.

At that time, a head of the SAC (like Power) very much had the power to start World War III before anyone could even stop him, just as Ripper did.
Apparently hardware would be under their "More Personal Computing" Segment: https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Ear...

They don't break it down per-product, but the whole segment was $9.1B revenue out of $20.4B for the quarter. And the only hint we get about this product specifically is:

"Devices revenue decreased $1.8 billion or 49%, mainly due to lower revenue from phones, driven by the shift in strategy for the phone business, as well as lower Surface revenue. Phones revenue decreased $1.5 billion or 58%, as we sold 5.8 million Lumia phones and 25.5 million other non-Lumia phones in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, compared with 9.3 million and 42.9 million sold, respectively, in the prior year. Surface revenue decreased $236 million or 26%, primarily driven by the release of Surface Pro 3 in June 2014."
> He [Snowden] downloaded what was effectively the brochure stand you see in the lobby of a cheap hotel

The NSA and other government security organizations say that the information he leaked was very damaging. The NSA also changed their security procedures in response.

All of that could be for show, but I haven't seen evidence that it is.
Photo of Iceberg That Sank Titanic for Sale: Is It Real?
A Tour of My Junkcode Directory (2004) [pdf]
Dianne Feinstein again? Wasn't she Really angry some time ago when it was revealed the NSA spied on Congress? Does privacy apply only to Congress and not to ordinary citizens?

Ms. Feinstein peaked before the computer was invented. It is time this 82-year-old was retired and we get in charge someone who understands technology. How does this woman keep getting elected?
According to a chart in this press release[0], fresh water was being pumped through Unit 1 for ~10 hours prior to the first explosion, during which time none of the "active fuel" was submerged. I'm not a professional but it seems like a lot of that water would have evaporated and could have been oxidizing the cladding the whole time, if it was hot enough. I wouldn't discount the rest of your theory too quickly.

[0]http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/im...
What you should be really afraid of is 50 year olds without risk aversion. Like the decision-makers at banks, politicians who will never personally go to war or the welfare line, etc.
They may or may not. I don't know. But there is a means of requesting a specific person, and they obviously take it seriously enough to send notifications.

But it's not good customer service to notify your client that their request can't be accommodated when it's too late for them to do anything about it. If the notice was prior to the cancellation-fee period, then sure, charge the fee if canceled within 24-hours. But if you give me late notice, at least allow me to late-cancel in return.
This is exactly the issue.

The products have gotten bloated, slow, unusable on older devices, and the quality of the actual service has gotten worse, too.

This is just... impossible to use.

Google already is the new Microsoft, and Chrome the new IE. With this, they’re also losing any other reputation they had left.

Google products once used to be about the tiniest and fastest solution, working everywhere, and using the least possible resources, without any bullshit features.
>free broadband if I take out a phone package //

Monthly phone has been about £18-22 per month for a few years, whilst broadband has been <£5 per month. Once you have the phone they're in profit, the cost of sending you a router has to be a few quid, paid for in the first month. I don't know what wholesale bandwidth costs but I can't imagine they can lose. They want you on broadband with them so that you don't move to another provider, it locks you in to their phone for 2 years [standard contract period in UK at the moment] securing them a profit.

Once you have the broadband they heavily push their TV packages.

Yes it's a race to the bottom but for POTS with broadband everything beyond your home socket to their servers is the same as with any other standard provider AFAICT.

They don't appear to do that much for their av.package x ~4.3 Million customers per month gross income; there should be considerable competition at the low end for what is essential a commodity.

WRT the review, I wouldn't use an ISP for my email provision but that's based primarily on lock-in; the company have https for their account pages and such (the Thawte cert is dated April 2014 FWIW).
Can't remember exactly which courses, but there were some which dropped off your lowest assignment grade. Of course one could argue that it isn't really about the assignment, but still psychologically, I felt that was a good compromise between maintaining the balance between flexibility and continuity.
Are Innovation Ecosystems the Same as Biological Ecosystems?
I remember scanning the story about that leak and not being able to figure out what was new about it, so I didn't share it. I guess the NYT reporters didn't see a whole lot either?
8 Spaces to Promote Your Real Estate Website
The rare exception to Betteridge's law. Note this is not me editorializing but the article's conclusion.
Alex Clare – Three Hearts (Lyrics)
There's probably a touch of that. But the adult supervision (LeMay) was pretty touched himself. People were numbers, and they were more than willing, eager even to kill millions.
...except that your strawman there isn't even close to what philh actually said.
> The theory that deflation is bad for an economy doesn't say "but only when that economy is over a certain size". It is an absolute theory that claims to apply everywhere.

But having an economy that uses currency X, but does much of its trade in currency Y, changes the dynamic compared to considering an economy in isolation, doesn't it?

> But you don't really need data to convince yourself that the 2%-inflation-is-best theory is nonsense. Basic common sense should be good enough. The entire thing rests on the assumption that there's a class of investments that people would refuse to invest in if left to their own devices, but which suddenly become attractive only if their savings are shrivelled by a few percent a year. Such a class of investments certainly does exist: they're called bad investments!

I think you're missing the basis for the 2%-inflation-is-best theory. Let's start with this: When is deflation bad? Deflation is bad when it's sustained enough that your salary goes down, and you owe money. And if there are enough people in that circumstance, it's bad for the economy as a whole, because a bunch of people default on their debts, which tends to cause a depression. A mild deflation that doesn't lead to lower wages, on the other hand, is probably good for the economy as a whole.

But here's the thing: When deflation is bad for the economy, it tends to be really bad. The central bank would prefer to avoid that situation. 2% inflation leaves them a bit of room before they run into that circumstance, so that they can try to maneuver to avoid it.
> If the price of everything else suddenly dropped 10%, then cutting everyone's wages 10% would make them exactly as well off as they were previously...

Only if they had no debt.
Is this not a ridiculous thing for an application to check for? That the library it's using detected that it contains a bug?
The NYT is establishment central. Of course it underplayed it.
I suggest this review, published in Cell from 2014:
"Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867414... (Open access)

and this series Kevin Mitchell: http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2013/01/the-trouble-with-epige... (The Trouble with Epigenetics)
Landauer's principle
Negligence in this incident is a civil issue, not criminal.
They chose to show the cortisol data from the last paper[1] as a schematic...strange choice. Compare Fig 1F in this new one to Fig 1 from the previous work. The unexplained difference between control groups from the two papers is bigger than the effect they see due to injecting micro RNAs.

[1] http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/21/9003.abstract
U of California policy extends free access to all articles by UC employees
Thank you for doing such great work. The New Yorker is one of the few publications I pay for in print and will continue to do so for quite a while. You guys do ads right, and your site isn't bloated.
I think it would be offensive for employers to tell their employees how to vote. Employees are adults, and are perfectly capable of voting in their own best interests (which might not coincide with their employer's best interests).

I imagine that most CEOs would have the good sense to ignore Conway's advice.

For those, like me, who had never even heard of Conway, here's some info on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Conway
So do the math. How much does it cost in today's dollars to guard it for 600 yeaes?
Chase Announces Chase Pay, Its Own Digital Wallet
> The most personal thing he knows about me is my dog’s name, and I know even less about him. So why isn’t he comfortable around me?

For me that would be exactly why I am uncomfortable with someone I work and spend time with every day.
Please use care when dealing with the girls in your life. I know plenty of girls who want to build robots out of the pink legos. Or treat clothing with rules remarkably similar to programming. Please avoid preaching to these girls that they have to throw a ball or play action games to avoid limiting their career choices.

I've met a number of people who espouse views similar to yours. You believe you're sticking up for girls, but all the kids hear is that girly stuff is 'bad' and boy stuff is 'good'. Someday you might know a girl who really just wants to take care of babies. Do you think she is entitled to have that view? How would she take comments like yours? Will she think that because her goals are 'bad' that she is 'bad'. How would a boy who wants to take care of babies react when everyone sees baby toys as lesser? Do you think they will feel free to be more feminine? Or pressured to conform even further. You're reinforcing what you believe you oppose.
This is some scary thinking. "You're either with us or against us."

I'm all for fighting sexism in tech, but I'm not interested in being an ideological robot.

> If you doubt the reliability of someone, do it privately. Don't comment at all. As it is, I can only assume that you actively oppose the growing movement to try and solve this problem.

You are advocating for HN to cease being a discussion forum and to become an instrument of political propaganda. No thanks.
Whoa! Thank you for posting that. Looks like my Apple ][e is getting a bath!
EC2Run Command for Remote Instance Management
It will be pointless because it is going to happen.

American: Home of the safe and the surveilled.
This is what I'm looking at:

> Our scientific disclosure allows you, as the consumer, to decide whether the variance or problems meet your personal standard in your buying decision.

> The Clear List is a comprehensive list of high-quality, safe, and accurate products. This list only includes products with a Clear Score of 95 or above. A score of 95 or above means that there were no hygienic issues, and no substitutions found in our molecular tests. There could be slight discrepancies in the observed nutritional information vs. the nutritional content on the label, but nothing that could be harmful or intentionally mislabeled.

I see nothing on the page that quantifies taste or other aesthetic qualities, which is how you seem to have interpreted the test?
On-chip zero-index metamaterials
Time zone management for email marketing
ControlPlane – Context Sensitive Computing for OS X
It is terribly fascinating what they can infer from the smallest of objects. I remember reading about the Viking settlements on Greenland and how archaeologists were able to deduce that Greenland Vikings did not eat fish because of the lack of fishbones found in refuse sites.

Archaeology feels like a low-tech version of the machine that rebuilds the fifth element in the movie of the same name, from just a fragment.
"Scientists can now 'squeeze' light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times faster" [1]

[1] http://qz.com/532580/scientists-have-found-a-way-to-make-lig...
Other new organizations hyped the fact that 90% of those killed were "unintended targets." But that's exactly what you'd expect when targeting officers in an insurgency. They are going to be surrounded by foot-soldiers.

It's certainly possible that among that 90% are too many civilians, but the leaks didn't provide any evidence of that.
> Everyone is scared of deflation, but is completely comfortable with the rapid drop in the price of electronic goods over the last few decades.

Those are two absolutely different things. One stems from production, transportation, and financial improvements across the board, the other comes because fewer people want to buy anything.

> The traditional theories that warn against deflation are concerned about consumers delaying spending in the hope of waiting for even cheaper prices. This delay theoretically forces the economy to grind to a halt.

It's not so much about consumers delaying spending. It's what happens further up the chain. If the holders of wealth that seed the economy figure out that it's better for them to hold on to their assets rather than invest them, then people lose jobs. We need them to keep investing their money.

Deflation also penalizes debt holders. The dollars you spend to pay back your mortgage are worth more than the dollars you make now. Since most Americans hold more debt than assets, deflation hurts common people more than it helps.
I mean...the point is that even the 'subconscious' is socially trained. In an environment where every 'People's Sexiest Man Alive' is white 30 years running (fine, Denzel got a token shoutout), where your only Asians in movies are comic relief or simply straight up belittled, there is a very real Eurocentric training.

And what constitutes a cool hobby? If attraction is subconscious (or love at first sight?), what does it matter if I play semi-pro badminton vs semi-pro lacrosse?

There is much more at work than 'being attractive' when that standard of beauty's defined by forces way outside your control.
One issue and I see others have caught on as well. Is that
Nukes (and this thing) need to be located close by a source of cooling water to dump the waste heat+. And they require mines to provide fuel. All that is a hidden foot print. Gas and coal fired plants have the same issues. There is the plant itself and then there is all the hidden infrastructure needed to support it. At least the solar thermal plants just need cooling water. The PV plants don't even need that.

+ high quality heat aka hot salt -> thermodynamic machine -> high quality shaft power + low quality waste heat.
Right. The person said "taxis". And the limo market is tiny compared to the Uber opportunity.
Eh?

I don't think "a traditional disaster" means what you think it means.

The Cerro Grande Fire destroyed about 420 homes and caused ~$1 billion in damages but no one died. The Bel Air Fire destroyed 484 homes but again left no fatalities. Tropical Storm Fay hit Texas and nine counties in Texas were declared disaster areas, but again, no fatalities.
One problem with deflation is that it means wages go down too. Even if price levels go down (which, as you said, should spur demand), lower wages cause consumers to hoard money, which causes the value of money to go up, which causes more hoarding, which causes prices to go down, etc...

It's not called a deflationary spiral for nothing.

There are many reasons why inflation is a good thing - wages go up (people like that), the value of investments goes up (people like that), and while it doesn't always correlate to inflation, the money supply needs to increase over time as the population increases, otherwise you'll have some major demographic issues...
That's not what "trivial" means. Trivial means the simplest possible example, which in almost every web framework involves passing input as received to the DB driver without knowing its contents and without escaping/sanitizing it.

Only by using frameworks and DB drivers correctly (RTFM) is one able to accurately avoid SQLi. I would argue that "using software correctly" is by no means trivial and rarely happens in most systems that have less than NASA quality safeguards.

I would agree that most modern frameworks which are adopted by at least a few hundred developers tend to use best practices and a "security by default" mindset, but that's far from saying that "avoiding SQLi is trivial".
GiveWell: carbs-obesity hypothesis doesn't fit the evidence
You went full Marxism never go full Marxism. You also seem to have a chip on your shoulder. This isn't a structural racism. You want that; try being Philippino in Japan or Chinese in Indonesia/Malaysia. You live in the US. It's getting sad.

You want a middle eastern lead role? Plenty of middle eastern movies for you to choose from.
Start here https://twitter.com/kurdomed/status/658782447153381377
After you are familiar with the shell tools, it takes seconds to write something like this, not minutes.
Ask HN: What do you look for when searching for a house/condo?
Hi HN-ers,

We're looking to build a Zillow-type company in Canada and are looking to understand how consumers shop for houses/condos. I believe that the actual process takes place early on and there isn't a need for a real estate agent when you're just browsing.

I'd love to validate my assumption with you guys so I would love to hear how you guys shopped for your house/condo and what things did you consider?

Cheers.
Founders it's not 1990. Stop treating your employees like it is