skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>linked with evidence

The evidence boils down to a unnamed source that ESR trusts... unsourced hearsay. Pretty thin indeed!

I think commenter Anonymous4982 says it the best: "My advice: stick to writing about tech, ’cause you make yourself look like a fool when you write about politics." There might be more along those lines but it is pretty painful reading the comments on that post.
Likely legal as long as it isn't possible to identify the body from the photo.
To me, it says a government can not mandate the use of open source software:

"No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory."

Or am I misinterpreting that? Does this preclude a government from requiring the use of open source software in some cases? IANAL, but I don't think it precludes government USE of OSS, but I think it means they can not have an open source requirement in a bidding process.

On another note, what IS the purpose of this language in TPP if not a direct attack on open source software?
Asking for a friend: Is there any portable, viable laser device that could be shoulder fired (backpack powered?) with enough energy to actually drill a hole in one of these from afar? If talking jamming frequencies (illegal) then why not just up the ante and go with a precision weapon? Zap N Crash!
La electrosensibilidad,en directo en el próximo programa de la salud del hábitat
>But treating them as anything other than stumbling steps that help you refine your understanding of the problem or as dead ends is as unscientific as it gets.

Which isn't at all what I'm suggesting.

I'm arguing against the idea that applying the scientific method and getting a false positive makes the effort unscientific.

So yes, it is both untrue and fallacious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Dzd9iaXX4
I'd still rather take an aspirin than eat willow bark though. Acetylsalicylic acid has less side effects than salicylic acid and made it safer!

Isolating salicylic acid from willow bark and then a century later synthesizing acetylsalicylic from salicylic acid were all major achievements in medicine. It wasn't some sort of evil scheme.

I'm also guessing synthesizing acetylsalicylic in a lab is better than growing willow trees in almost every way. Less resource intensive, more environmentally friendly, cheaper, easier to scale, and faster production.

The "natural is always better" (for varying definitions or "natural", of course!) argument is silly.

"heavy refinement, solvents, chemical processes" are all just scare words. They don't mean anything useful. I can use those words to accurately describe cooking my dinner.
Uber drivers can hold more than one job doing exactly the same thing. They are free to pick up rides or not on whatever schedule they want. They bring their own equipment to the job.

They've always seemed to meet the definition of contractor to me (I know a certain court in California disagrees).

* edit: Having just now read the article, it seems like Uber has some sort of minimum hour requirement, which would definitely change the equation quite a bit.
I think the article did a terrible disservice to the critics: there's lots of hot air in the article but little devoted to the meat of the critics complaints. Meanwhile, Linus' simple rebuttal is given full time, and seems completely reasonable. It wasn't until I read this post that I felt that the Linux maintainers may be doing some things wrong.
You need to attempt independent replications of every published claim going forward.

Taking this opportunity to plug an open source application that I work on, for cataloging and verifying independent replications, called Curate Science: https://www.curatescience.org/
You might be able to bring a drone in using accelerometers only. Given an assumed measurement error and integration time for the sensor you could calculate how far you'd need to be from the prison before the error in position becomes a problem. So jamming doesn't really buy you anything if you can program a flight path.
Most taxi drivers were already independent contractors / self-employed. Uber didn't bring anything new in this matter.
Those look 5 pictures, not 1,900. I'm not going to draw a conclusion based on a tiny subset of the results.

Also, "ability to draw a person" certainly isn't any kind of indicator of intelligence, emotional development, etc. The kids who weren't watching TV had to be doing something... which probably included practicing drawing!

There may be negative emotional effects to screens, but there certainly is a positive effect on intelligence. I'd know about 1/10 of what I know now if I hadn't discovered Wikipedia when I was 14.
tldr?
And for a more modern take, just look at the magazines in the supermarket checkout line at any time in the past several decades. You've got the more "classic" tabloids with the equivalent of clickbait headlines about actors and entertainers. You've got the women's and men's mags telling you why you're not screwing enough or dressing/exercising/eating the right way. Then you have the more self-aware stuff like Weekly World News and The Enquirer with their UFOs and CIA abductions and Elvis sightings.

I find these "clickbait" stories to be the natural evolution of the same type of sensationalism that's been used to sell papers and magazines or get you to stick around for the full story at 11.
China artist comes out as French
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It is not a one size fits all solution to be solved by tech. The distinction between employee/contractor is a legal distinction and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

For example, if you engage an independent contractor in CA, State law mandates certain provisions to be included in the agreement. Moreover, if these independent contractor provisions not included in the agreement then there is a presumption of employer/employee relationship.

Obviously the distinction is not limited to what is in the agreement, but also the practical relationship, including, but not limited to things like: control; payment of taxes; setting of hours; providing tools; etc... Unfortunately, most people will simply look to federal or IRS rules, but that is not enough, again each state/jurisdiction will have distinctions that if not complied with will result in unfavorable rulings on the issue.
I continue to think patents are hilariously bad at promoting innovation. Many people try to justify them. But I wonder if in the counterfactual world where we never had patents economists are advocating for this type of government-granted monopoly.

I honestly think banishing them would make everything, including pharmaceutical research, faster and more competitive. However, I think synthetic biology and genetic engineering may be moving too fast, so perhaps the patent breaks will give us some time to build institutions that can cope. Then I again, this quote might have some truth to it:

Germ-line engineering posses ethical dilemmas of such complexity that it is imperative we create genetically-engineered supergenius babies to tackle them.
Not if they can be updated from one place like in case of mobiles.
Some context would be great, laws differ from country to country.
Facebook is blocking all mention of Tsu.co on every platform
The material used to build an instrument is not very important for the sound, at least for wind instruments. See http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/0708/roncone-0708.html for instance.

Some professional French horn players playing with a mouthpiece on a garden hose :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOpWKgLzxQ4
> turn down customers they don't want

Actually, they can't. If you reject more than a certain percentage of customers, Uber bans you from the platform.

Some Uber drivers have taken to getting around this by accepting the request and then fraudulently cancelling with "rider requested cancel" as the reason.

When Uber started cracking down on that, a bunch of entitled fraudsters threw a fit and claimed Uber was using "intimidation tactics": http://therideshareguy.com/uber-deactivated-a-bunch-of-drive...

That was the moment when I learned how many drivers are actively out to screw over everyone else: both Uber and the customers. So whenever I see Uber drivers protesting or threatening legal action, I laugh at them.
They are actually very common depending on what you are doing. For instance, if you are looking for public image datasets for face recognition you would find that the file format is being used a lot.
I refuse to oblige this clickbait. The headline is so blatantly (click me! please! I need attention!)

Seriously though, Software Engineers will maintain the status of engineers whether they like it or not. And that's because it is real engineering work. Licensed or not that doesn't matter one bit.
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Such a regime isn't reliably possible. A backdoor for an individual is a backdoor for a nation.
Slack's glitch page
Agreed, It would take another international effort to reduce copyright term again - and it'll be tough enough to even get one country to consider it themselves
Jack White famously plays/played a plastic guitar, and got, in my opinion, pretty excellent tones out of it, but (a) you're asking about "acoustics," which don't apply in the same way with an electric guitar, and (b) his tone is/was produced almost entirely by his amps and pedals.
LLVM is about on par with the GCC. You just keep moving variables around it decides the moons of Jupiter are properly positioned to vectorize your code.

System intrinsics are always your best bet, just really annoying.
> We apologize for the delayed reply. We track these issues via our internal bug system, and only reply to the reporter once the bug is resolved internally. We generally ignore messages asking for updates, as we receive a high volume of these (even for non-issues).

This rationalization is illogical, which usually means someone is in conflict. From a logical standpoint, externally, it could be they are fixing something OR don't know about it OR don't care.

Given the conflicting rationalization, I'd say they didn't know about it and then made up an excuse instead of owning it.
So, you'd rather pay an inefficient government more taxes to oppress you inefficiently.

I look forward to hearing more of these libertarian ideas.
> is it customary to note that such quotes are translated in German language news?

No.

(But that's ok, because it's unsurprising that foreign politicians don't speak in german.)

(Additions and deletions are often marked with [foo] and [...], just as in english news.)
I would love to get a 100/100 symmetrical here in Thornton, CO for a reasonable price. Maybe after this vote, in the next some odd years we'll get something. I had to drop Comcast because their signal kept spiking too much, 6 techs over the course of a year could not figure it out. Went with century link and only have a 40/5 connection, but at least it's stable and I can work from home.

Does GSCBN cover entire Glenwood Springs? I've been meaning to move to that town for a long time now, and this is just icing on a cake :)
This is very intriguing. I think a platform with a business model that effectively remunerates users is what it will take to kill facebook.
The third one is true of any job in the US as far as I know.
I love doing a good job. Sometimes nobody tells me whether I am or not.
Some jurisdictions may consider them to be "public records".
Thanks, I had not heard that distinction in terms before. I suppose it would be good to have, but I would not assume people are using them in that way.
At least in the US, most employees can do the latter two. Turning down customers will probably get you fired though, which is pretty much the same as will happen with Uber.
The are the owner of the code that they wrote that depends on the GPL code... so they might not own all of the code, but they presumably own some of the code. And that's usually the most interesting bits that one might need (when modifying a device, for example).

I still don't see how the State would be involved here though...
if(miles_driven < 10,000) { fake emissions; }
Five hours with Edward Snowden
Well, I think the recent 'Favorites' to 'Like' change is a bad omen with structural and community reverberations that will be felt over time. It's a gut instinct, but when 'established' brands and formats like Twitter or Reddit jiggle with the cords, there's backlash - deserved or not. It's the danger of making a tool for 'mobs of people' if you're okay with calling a user base that.

The "between a rock & hard place" I see happening is that the need to add new people tends to, well, bring out some bitterness from previous devotees. I saw it happen first-hand with Half-Life Deathmatch. Every patch that made significant changes (ex: tweaked splash damage, amount tau cannon could pierce walls, etc) seemed to favor getting more users to play the game, which did kind of breed a hostility from the 'old guard' to pillage, plunder, and destroy all the newcomers with abandon. After all, the changes were to make it easier, the learning curve smaller, and those who had made it to the next level(s) felt sold-out. It was a microcosm, and probably isn't too relevant, but it's about the best example I can think of that I witnessed first-hand.

I'm sure a lot of people had the thought or joke in mind, but changing the 'Star' to a 'Heart' might be pretty awkward if the company ever has to tweet out an announcement of a round of layoffs. These are minor edits, sure...but remember when Coca-Cola changed the recipe? That didn't go over so well.
I don't think this is actually true. There are plenty of high-level effects that are very robust and reproducible: attentional cueing, perceptual masking, inhibition of return, saccadic adaptation, hyperbolic discounting, etc.

I think your hypothesis conflates a few notions, for instance hierarchical organization and study design. I think the relevant factor in your comparison is not the level of analysis, but the measure. "Early life event X" is likely to be measured by a survey, while studying neuronal populations is in the realm of electrophysiology.
The Crown Estate net profit for the Treasury is around £250m a year - which is pocket money in the national budget.

15% of the profit goes back to the monarch.

Incidentally, the Queen still "advises" the Prime Minister in weekly meetings.
> I think that having different conceptual kinds of strings be distinct types would eliminate a lot of bugs. I'm not aware of any language or standard library that does this, though.

Foundation seems like the obvious one? NSURL vs. NSString?
Protopiper: physically sketching room-sized objects at actual scale
How Apple TV turned me into a game developer
There is a decent contract template ("Killer Contract") here (https://gist.github.com/malarkey/4031110) which is a good start to base things off. It's nice and succinct and avoids the lawyer-speak which I particularly dislike.
Sure GUIs can be bad (just like clis). But GUIs can be good, which is pretty much impossible with command lines. You have wizards that take you step by step; you have tabbed control panels with profiles you can save for next time (just like scripts) e.g. Beyond Compare. Everything can be labeled in front of you, reminding you what's possible and grouped sensibly. All impossible with command line tools.
Facebook Bans Links to Competing Social Network
When neuroscience involves predicting behavior and/or mental state, it usually falls under the umbrella of "cognitive neuroscience", which in turn is a way of saying "psychology that's not soft as all hell".

The boundaries are fuzzy, and you'll find people with psych, medical, neuro, math, CS and philosophy degrees in experimental cogsci labs.
All the Twitter accounts I'd ever want to follow have fairly infrequent status updates so I just add them to my RSS reader and follow them that way instead of having to interact with Twitter's website or application in any way.
> Don't we have enough cross platform dev kits anyways?

Absolutely not. Right now the choices are very, very small for the platforms you'd actually want to use. React-native, before Flutter, was the only one (that I know of at least) that uses real, native components but uses a different language for orchestrating them.

Beyond that everything else is either "shove html in a web view" or the xamarin approach which, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is closer to the approach of QT in that it renders all its own controls.

We need more options in the first camp, the one where real native components are used but can use a common language across the mobile operating systems.

I only wish react-native and this supported Windows Phone. It's such an awesome OS but no one will ever use it because of the lack of apps :(
> It takes about 3 seconds to Google the article title

Assuming Google will fix it all is an incorrect assumption. Assuming 3 seconds is an incorrect assumption. But let's roll with that:

3600 / 3 = 1200 viewers.

So it takes 1200 viewers to waste 1 hour of time assuming all other resource consumption is zero cost.

> far less than it takes to write incessant complaints about people charging for content.

Bitching about efficiency in this case is the height of irony. Bitching about bitching has always been an exercise in futility. Do it right the first time.
Original Paper: Gradient-based 2D-to-3D Conversion for Soccer Video

https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~pdidyk/papers/2D-to-3D/2D-to-...
More to the point is how "replication" is defined. This quote covers it: "Note that the 36% figure comes from a definition of replication that mimics the definition used by regulatory agencies: results are considered replicated if a p-value < 0.05 was reached in both the original study and the replicated one."

If you read the post where that quote comes from [1] they make a number of points about how a better and more rigorous definition of replicated is needed, because p-value alone doesn't tell the whole story.

[1] http://simplystatistics.org/2015/10/20/we-need-a-statistical...
I take exception to that. I am "British people" and consider the proposals outrageous.

The only ray of hope is the reasonable test but that can only be decided in court. That makes this very poor legislation and hopefully struck down in The Lords on that basis if not for any other reason.
The frequency with which teens can 'multitask' with media now is higher than previous generations. However, the ability to truly multitask (parallel processing analogy) seems weak. For example: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9525679...
Doesn't UBER also:

1. Finance cars for their drivers;
2. Provide the legal interpretation of federal/state/county/local laws and regulations to its drivers;
3. Provide the actual tools (except the car) to complete the work;
4. Provide training for drivers;
5. Pay bonuses to drive specific hours and/or in specific locations/jurisdictions

All things that most companies can't do with independent contractors?
> I heard Apple rejects apps built with third-party frameworks, is that true?

Where did this rumor come from?
Here's the background image in full resolution, it's quite nice :-)

https://slack.global.ssl.fastly.net/66f9/img/404/marrakesh-m...
Does she use email today? That was an esoteric practice only twenty years ago. If the need arises, steganography will evolve to become similarly easy to use.
i was asking about britain
I very much doubt that will work. People will just install ad blockers instead. You'd be surprised what lengths many people will go to in order to avoid spending even $1. It isn't poor people either: in my experience the well-off who have time on their hands because they aren't busy living hand-to-mouth are more likely to spend a pile of their time instead of giving you that $.
great video but not sure this applies if you are in britain right?
Product First
Nope, it definitely carries a lot of meaning still. Many younger members of the japanese work force (those are the only people I can claim to have talked about this kind of thing to), have a pretty clear perception of what makes a "black company":

- Unreasonable hours

- Distinct social pressure to not leave before your boss

- Non-optional drinking after work

- Absurd drinking rituals (ex. when you cheers, your cup must be below the more senior employees, a senior employee's cup near you should never be less than 80%)

- Threat of being randomly reassigned to a distant town if you get on someone's nerves

- list goes on...
Burn baby burn.
Did they really used Comic Sans?.. With that yellow discount star sign?.. What. the. hell.
Do you think that Uber will even agree to those terms?
Economists are the modern equivalent to the oracles at Delphi. They speak in gibberish and the priesthood (politicians) make the interpretations which coincidentally happen to favour themselves and their friends.
Many common opioid formulations contain acetaminophen (paracetamol) in large amounts. If addiction develops, the acetaminophen will be the thing that kills you, via fulminant hepatic failure.
And yet there is mention of machine code and turing machines in there. TFA is not going to explain what software is to a lay person. It does offer some help for those trying to craft such an explanation though.
In the Rust standard library, we have String, str, OsString, Path, and PathBuf, off the top of my head, with external crates implementing things like URLs, ropes, and others.

That said, I completely feel what this blog post is saying: strings are _hard_, especially if you're not just doing ASCII.
But if you read the articles recently published on this in the past week or so, they go on to state that in certain circumstances the content or web page detail would be investigable. So this means it is still "full take" to put it in Snowden terms. They are not just storing meta data, they are storing everything and only allowing the meta data to be "freely" searched.

And Theresa May's analogy with itemised phone bills is completely ridiculous. Web domain logging is not the same.

[edited] added 2nd para.
that's what I used to do, when google reader was still around.

Twitter also removed direct RSS support for tweet feeds, and I did't like the hassle of having a third party in between.

It'd be really awesome if there was a tweet-ish open standard that anyone could implement, ala email or RSS (but supporting encrypted/password protected feeds). I feel like Google would be the perfect company to do it, but they decided they don't want to pander the nerds, and instead force G+ down our throats. (G+ I like. I just don't like how no one else is there)
Watch: Men with jetpacks fly above Dubai in daunting Emirates stunt
I have no reason to believe that the pediatrician hand picked specifically 5 drawings of each set that were not representative of the overall result.

> The kids who weren't watching TV had to be doing something

Yes, like talk to people, play with their hands, run outside, draw, etc.
Drawings are actually a great indicator of a kid's development.

> there certainly is a positive effect on intelligence. I'd know about 1/10 of what I know now if I hadn't discovered Wikipedia when I was 14.

Intelligence is not general culture. "knowing things" is not the same as being intelligent. Plus, using screens when you are 14 is not the same as when you are 2 or even 5.
Pong Owner's Manual (1976)
How I Learned to Embrace Negative Feedback
Coincidentally, this is also a good measure of the lock-in facebook has. If no one hears about this it means facebook has achieved a certain level of control of the amount of information people get— they have in that case truly invested successfully in 'virtual reality'.
I'm very amused by the recent trend of redefining "disclaimer" to mean "advertisement."