skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you know that precise documentation of the exact role of Palantir in the drone attacks could lead you to jail? Palantir works in Yemen, works with all the agencies involved in drone attacks, has the perfect tools to find a phone to lock a hellfire on according to the quite lax US definition of "terrorist", and is always bragging about its role in the US wars abroad. So yes, every time I hear about Palantir, I suppose they were involved in the bombing of a wedding or of an EMT crew in a far away country, if they did not want to be associated with that, they can cut all their ties with the US wars on brown people, or publicly declare that they are just managing the meals and cleaning supplies.
No one objects to IRC servers scanning when you connect. This isn't a trust issue. If you sent packets to a free service, you have no rigts over whatever trace you left behind.
Its a shame. I have his ray tracing book and would still buy this as a pdf because I enjoy his writing.
Careful though. There is a lot of pseudoscience and quackery around candida and yeast.
> * Is anyone aware of evidence of the extent of click fraud on Facebook? I see a lot of discussion about it but not a lot of data.

This probably counts more as an anecdote than as data, but at my last startup we bought about $100,000 of Facebook advertising and never saw click fraud (we tracked downstream behavior and revenue very carefully). Far and away Facebook provided the best traffic compared to any other paid channel.
Maybe given that Google is emulating Berkshire Hathaway[1] they could adopt Buffett's approach to taking questions which was for many years to avoid it 364 days of the year and then have one multi hour open question session at the annual meeting. He's changed a bit recently in giving more interviews but in earlier years the annual meeting was largely it. It seemed quite smart in that he could be open while being free from being bugged by journalists 99.5% of the time.

[1] http://qz.com/527596/eric-schmidt-explains-how-alphabet-will...
combinate use with CA may be feasible
But remember, living off the dole also means not contributing anything back to society. These people could be doing something of value, but are incentivized not to.
> Talk about non-intuitive UI

On the contrary, this is non-intrusive and discoverable. The user isn't presented with a dense interface and too many choices, but if he does want to do more advanced interactions he will find a way to learn about it.
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Our original plan was to support something like this. We don't have this feature right now, but will consider adding it in the future. It is mainly a UI problem.
Neighborhood or block-level repeaters are a big challenge. Landlords can be very difficult to reach, and very risk averse.

Cell carriers generally solve this problem by paying building owners tens of thousands of dollars a year.
who will be user of the service?
The "truly needy" is a subjective concept. Determining who should get more money from the government is always going to be a judgment call necessitating the presumption that we're not all equal. Most people who oppose welfare, corporate welfare, or their implementations do so because they perceive the recipients are not "truly needy". UBI is the only just and democratic way to provide welfare.
Interestingly. Our (minimal) traffic to github shifted transit carriers when this outage happened.

Between 2016-01-28 00:39:47+00 and 2016-01-28 00:43:26+00 there was a flurry of BGP updates that caused that.

I'm not sure on the exact timing of the outage, this could either be a symptom or a cause.
It is illegal to make or sell or own radio hardware capable of operating on that spectrum, or modify other hardware to work on that spectrum, or hint to your users how they might modify your product to work on that spectrum, unless you are a licensee or have permission from one. Even Motorola can't take its new basebands out of RF-isolated testing facilities before FCC approval.

Theoretically calls are encrypted, however security researches have shown vulnerabilities due to old/incorrectly applied primitives. Not sure exactly which protocol versions this applies to. Stingray might just have asked nicely for the keys.

Commercial IMSI-catchers (made with the cooperation of carriers?) do exist, and there are some hobbyist proofs of concept. It is very hard to get caught doing passive receiving.

Transmit in a way that catches the eyes of carrier network engineers, though, and the federal government will come knocking with criminal charges.

FCC makes exceptions to most things for official purposes. For example, government installations can be licensed to operate cell phone jammers
"Economists liken money to votes for demand in a decentralized allocation scheme."

No we don't. "Vote with yer dollers" is a political talking point.
Agree with you about the fines.

Everyone has a slightly different demand elasticity for certain goods. To use myself as an example, I would buy the same amount of coffee if the price doubled tomorrow, but someone else may choose to cut back on their coffee consumption.
They are taking the data from the scans and building a nice easy to use searchable signature database for script kiddie hackers. At the very least, it's impolite.
They claim that it's because they can't patent their inventions and are instead relying on trade secrets. Revealing their trade secrets wouldn't make them trade secrets anymore.
Clear was just fine for web browsing but way too slow for streaming video. That was what did it in.
The "10M teeth/yr" statistic, assuming it's even accurate, doesn't seem like that much to me. Most people have four wisdom teeth. That seems to imply that less than half the people in USA have gotten this procedure. (It also makes one wonder why TFA didn't work a little harder to get current/relevant/accurate statistics.)

It's true that many people who have had their wisdom teeth pulled didn't need that. It's also the case that many people who didn't have them pulled while they were young, have lived to regret that.

Most dentists would be happy to never pull another wisdom tooth. However, they've taken an oath to provide a standard of care, and they can't refer every wisdom tooth case to expensive oral surgeons. (Well, I think some dentists do refer every one of these out, but that's a threat to patient retention.)

USA simultaneously has too many and not enough dentists. Too many, because there are lots of unnecessary procedures done. Not enough, because many poor people don't go to the dentist until they're in severe pain, and at that point they need many teeth pulled. Those who live long enough eventually need all their teeth pulled anyway...
Which studies in particular?
A penalty that doesn't knock down one of the largest sites on the internet can still be a big deal to everyone else.

I assume different departments run calendar and search.
Well, "major surgery" is the term used in the article, and his wisdom teeth were asymptomatic. I guess you're right, it is relatively minor surgery. However, complications can sometimes occur, and that isn't really worth the risk IMO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679
One of my neighbours a few doors down actually has an original DeLorean. He only gets it out on the road 3 or 4 times a summer and is constantly working on it although fixing it up is more of a hobby for him than anything else so I don't think he considers that to be a negative.

It is quite exciting to see it go.

Unfortunately the doors locked in the open position last summer which took him quite a bit of fiddling to get fixed. I suppose that was better than having it locked with users inside though.
> The first time I was aware of Larry as a person was in early 2014 when I saw a replay of him on stage at the 2013 Google I/O event. I immediately got an impression of him as being a truly saintly figure, with his gentle, soft-spoken demeanor.

I don't have any strong opinions on Page as a person, but if you decide that someone saintly based purely on their stage presence, you are in serious danger of getting taken for a ride by any charismatic jerk who crosses your path.
It's interesting to see this, particularly given Krugman's history. His graduate advisor was William Nordhaus, who'd written a strong (and among the more reputable) criticism of Limits to Growth, published in 1972. Krugman's written on that, as well as Gordon's earlier published paper on economic growth.

The technological argument's a strong one, and many others have pointed it out. Vaclav Smil suggests the single decade of the 1880s was the most profoundly inventive in history (though fire, speech, ag, and writing are strong contenders for influence). Robert Ayres has several papers on technological waves, there's W. Brian Arthur of Stanford / Santa Fe Institute (itself a fascinating research centre), and Kevin Kelley's What Technology Wants.

Krugman mentioned one of the futurist books of the 1960s. There was rather a burst of them, going back a decade or so. Charles Galton Darwin's The Next Million Years (1952), Harrison Brown, et al's more modest The Next Hundred Years (1957), Meadows et al, Limits to Growth, Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, Richard Meier's Science and Economic Development (1955, 1965). Some agreement, some disagreement, and interesting insights, as with all technical debugging processes, on what they got right and what was wrong.

I've been in and around the tech world for over four decades, and have come to an appreciation of what is possible (the world in a tablet on my lap with full-day battery capacity and WiFi Internet -- though many of those publications require SciHub or BooksXX to access), and what isn't -- 2001's Discover, T.A. Heppenheimer's colonies in space, and the solar powersats they were to have built, lunar colonies, mass drivers, and even simply high speed rail networks within North America, have all failed rather spectacularly to emerge.

Venture Capital and high-tech startups have proved spectacularly incapable of addressing (or even identifying) Big Problems. It's questionable whether they can even address funding for necessary technical infrastructure development on the free software foundations from which they're built (a VC is exploring that possibility now).

More troubling for me, many of the models we use to understand, or attempt to predict, our reality strike me as quite flawed. Economics itself not the least among them.
I see, thanks. Bayesian is a word that keeps popping up time after time. I'll definitely start learning Linear algebra then.

Feature selection, data cleaning and backtesting. I see, well you are trying to get a computer to understand and learn from data, so it's only natural that you would have to have a good command over it to design a system like that.
Nonsense. The Chrome Web Store is full of shady new tab pages and ad injectors. Google is just now finally trying to police it.
Have you written a blog post about that /proc/ trick? sounds like an interesting read
Thanks, I'll give it a gander. I've used Khan Academy before, but I didn't take a liking to it really. I'll give it another go!
You sound just like a PBS infomercial. Where do I get your book and sign up for your newsletter.
I can agree with that, and I hope that's what bko meant, but I've seen enough people (on HN and elsewhere) complaining specifically about the existence of the governmental monopoly on force that I wonder.
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That's an archaic and half-valid use, so stretching it to apply to a company makes it pretty much invalid.

You could try to convince people to use the word that way, but at present it's just not done. Companies are 'it' or you can talk about the people that make up the company as 'they'.
I think paying in taxes almost half of the inheritance is good enough. We just need to ensure there are no exemptions or loopholes.
I thought LTE did it in.
NASA had a plan in the early 70s to have humans on the surface of Mars by 1990. When Nixon canceled the Apollo and Saturn five missions, all that early planning went into the trashbin.
> experience building their Aereo antenna infrastructure

I thought the extent of their antenna technology was just a board with a bunch of token antenna element that gave the illusion that each subscriber was using a dedicated antenna.
To be fair, sites without ads are a better experience than sites with ads.
Because smart cards are hardware devices on the client, and nothing in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript gives you access to the client's USB ports.
Does anyone else get a "webpage screenshot - this extension has been automatically disabled" pop up every time they start chrome on OSX?

I get that it's now spyware, but just remove the extension already, not just disabling it each time. It doesn't show in chrome://extensions either.
Like they say fools are always so sure! But its really hard to say how things turn out. I remember reading back in school how Amazon was so over prized and how it was doomed to fail (during late 90s). We all know how it turned out.

It could just be survivor bias. But the thing is - its hard to predict the future and to be certain of any prediction is profoundly inane.

PS: NOM to author. I really like David and I used to have the same opinion of FB at that time.
... or you're in a different timezone. It's 11am on the 28th where I am.
I had two of mine taken out when I was in the Air Force. I was 21 years old and this was around 1991 or so. I /was/ put under (demoral + valium IV drip). My jaw is rather small (I have always had tight teeth, which makes flossing even a chore now), so they had to chip jaw fragments out of the way for the extractions. There simply was nowhere for new teeth to go.

In any case, I remember coming out of anesthesia and the doctor leaning over me, his bloody gloves now removed, and asking me how I was feeling. I was about to respond when, after a moment's pause to catch my breath, I suddenly awoke to a very large male nurse giving me chest compressions. The doctor yelled, "He's back! He's back!" and he made the man stop. I groggily looked about and noticed a female nurse cowering in the corner. She was sobbing uncontrollably and soon ran out of the room (maybe not the best nurse, but I guess she had never 'lost' someone before). I asked, fuzzy mouthed, what happened?

Apparently they pulled my IV out too soon and my forced dehydration and starvation made me faint once the fluids stopped. One of the possible side effects of fainting is a loss of heart beat. They told me "I had been dead" (which was inaccurate) "for about 90 seconds." What they meant was my heart had stopped beating for that long.

People always ask, so I'm obliged to say:
I saw no tunnel of light or flashing of my life before my eyes. It was simply total sleep-like darkness with absolutely no concept of time passing. It was as if I had made a long hard blink, and been told later 90 seconds had elapsed. For all I knew, two seconds had passed, much like a deep solid sleep: It's not until you look at the clock that you know how much time has passed.

I had the other two wisdom teeth taken out at a dental school in Dallas. That was whole other ordeal. But I didn't "die" that time, at least.
So you're basing a pretty huge assertion on a tiny and non-random sample?
My son has to take antibiotics continuously because of an autoimmune reactions to strep (called PANDAS).

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/pandas/index.sh...

Symptoms from the above link:

Presence of obsessive-compulsive disorder and/or a tic disorder
Pediatric onset of symptoms (age 3 years to puberty)
Episodic course of symptom severity (see information below)
Association with group A Beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection (a positive throat culture for strep or history of scarlet fever)
Association with neurological abnormalities (physical hyperactivity, or unusual, jerky movements that are not in the child’s control)
Very abrupt onset or worsening of symptoms
Everything should be A-OK now. If not, hit up github.com/contact :)
CRISPR is just one of the recent trends in genetic research that gives me hope for the future. You make valid points about its difficulty, but I see that as an area of science in which humanity is just barely starting to scratch the surface.
This might have the unintended consequence of causing people to go numb to the "false positive"
Well, no, not really. You will only replace/update the elements that you need to which is pretty much what vdom boils down to. It's just tedious, is all.
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Google the examples, then use google cache
There's only one substantial class of people who would knowingly live near extreme pollution: people who can't afford to move away

Conversely, people who can afford to will use every resource at their disposal to prevent polluters from coming into their communities. NIMBYists get a lot of hate, but can you really blame them?
Only if you do something like:

ml.Lock()
v := m["key"] // maybe m is something like map[string]*MyValue
ml.Unlock()
v.foo = "bar" // m["key"].foo is now bar, because m["key"] both point to the same object
No one's claiming it has any practical use case, this is really just a toy.

Though, one use case might be to have a 3D environment where in-game menus are made with the DOM. Maybe in a virtual reality thing, or a rotating cube interface: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11229/is-this-rotating...
More like an unlisted phone number. The addresses weren't published in any deliberate way, but they were still visible on the "caller ID" when they connected to another system.
The tool is used to manage some our smart card applets. And since it web-based, we don't need to give the copy of the tool to other people.

I don't write the tool, but maybe I can convince my supervisor to rewrite it into desktop app :)
It is interesting to think how technology can make it easier / more efficient though.
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An insightful read. May be the author should add facebook to the list of things to avoid.
> Except that most of Americans between 16-22 (the oldest FB audience) have quit.

That's an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence. You don't have any.

As someone who's actually in that demographic I can tell you it's patently false. Facebook continues to be the hub of social networking, particularly on college campuses. If you're having an event of any sort, Facebook is the place you announce it. Messenger is becoming the dominant messaging platform for most people I know.

If you're going to make extraordinarily bold claims, it'd be good to offer some actual evidence. Or at least put your money where your mouth is by taking a large short position.
You may have something installed on your computer which keeps on reinstalling it into Chrome.
Interesting thing about this release is baked in support for Http/2.

On the client side, http/2 is awesome for services like spiders that support it because the memory usage and performance is a lot better.

And you don't even have to do anything to take advantage other than upgrade to go 1.6
On the bright side, that could be the first day of the rest of your life!

How about it? Ready to shake things up and get a fresh start?
I worked at Aereo back when it closed down, I can assure you the individual antennas were real, and were really used to tune and stream your videos.
Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP
Our office is in Sydney. It's not as expensive as you make out. You do not need to rent in a CBD high-rise. Whilst some VPS are expensive you can shop around. We use AWS & Google hosting - only about 10% more than USA. You have to shop around for good prices for internet access. Most mobile phone plans provide ample access at reasonable cost. Home ADSL is around $70 / mth for unlimited access.

Most phone boxes provide free WiFi as do MacDonalds, StarBucks, etc. But with 4G & LTE on your phone, you generally don't bother.
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Money and human resource are what make up a company. They give that, and they put their name behind it in support. What else could they do?
It's technically possible for Chrome to have this problem on other operating systems as well, but in practice their telemetry shows the vast majority of malware which installs things into Chrome is on Windows.
This kind of stuff always annoys me. One of the interesting things would be a 'home designed' cell system based on using unlicensed spectrum in the TV white spaces. Then you could build a system where a phone only answered a tower which sent out an ident frame which was cryptographically signed by a trusted key. And the response would be encrypted with that trusted key as well so only the cell tower could decrypt it. That and an VOIP back haul network and you're closer.

Its on my list of projects to look at with SDR, but sadly I am no Fabrice Ballard (who no doubt has already built such a system as a proof of concept and then tossed it away)
These are rules for being a Medicare participating provider and the consequence of violating them is that you can't bill Medicare. I want to see one example of an individual doing time or even paying a fine for failing a CMS condition.

There are providers who don't bill Medicare, don't undergo CMS surveys, and don't follow the COPs. You guys are going overboard in calling it "the law."
In 1988 when I had them removed (well 4 of 5, but that's another story) they did is assembly line style. They scheduled all the kids needing it done and did them at once since the doctor traveled in. I woke up on a gurney in the hallway.
Given how YouTube's tagging system eventually ended up working , and twitters current one I suspect tags won't function like you envision #reply #hn #hackers #yc #apple #eatingdinner
I concluded that the all time no. 1 master Go Seigen's secret is 1. learn from all masters; 2. keep inventing/innovating. Most experts do 1 well, and are pretty much stuck there. Few are good at 2. I doubt if computers can invent/innovate.
On the upside, they gained lots of Twitter followers...
This is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to 1.7 and new SSA (which was cut from 1.6). (see branch dev.ssa and the proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1szwabPJJc4J-igUZU4ZKprOr...).

It should give a nice speed increase and binary size decrease in your programs for free!
"otherSEXpect"
On reflection, self-driving cars might be a bad example; considering that "truck driver" is the most widely held occupation in America, it's logical to infer that a ton of people are going to lose their jobs when automated trucking comes about. What makes me hopeful is that it's an example of robotics enriching the standard of life across the board. I can't help but feel it's inevitable that advances in that area will fuel learning that drives robotic innovation in other areas.

Sure, it could lead to America (and the world as a whole) turning into a dismal hellhole of widening economic disparity between the haves and the have-nots. However, given the fact that humans are terrible at predicting so much as the weather in ten days, I can't help but retain a sense of optimism just out of lack of a productive alternative in mindset.
The "majorness" of the surgery depends on the individual person's teeth. Mine were impacted and they had to cut through bone and remove them in pieces. So I had a long recovery time, it was a couple weeks or so before I was able to open my mouth more than a few centimeters. However some people just go to the dentist (not even oral surgeon!) and get them out under local anesthesia.
I started working remotely recently. One of the first things I did was to go out and buy a portable 4g router+connection (searched for a deal, wasn't disappointed). This alone has made my remote working experience incredibly good.

Why not dongle? Because within buildings some areas the 4g signal is much better than others. So keeping router in one place and working from multiple places within the same building has been awesome.
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