skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a medical lab and a large part of my job was double checking that the doc selected the correct macro.

For some stuff a large amount of interpretation is needed, for a simple PCR test it is not needed 99.99% of the time. The possible interpretations have already been entered and the doc selects one based on the result. It could be automated, but against the law since the doc has to do it. There is that 0.01% chance that something else is going on and the doc will pick up on it when seeing other results/patient history and will end up writing additional interpretation or something very different.

However, that result is rarely seen by a patient. It goes back to the treating physician who then reads it and interprets it himself and uses to guide treatment.
It's shocking to me that people who ostensibly know something about software development are comfortable making statements like "it would never be able to leak because Apple can simply write a (bug-free, unexploitable, perfectly secure) set of checks locking it to the device"
A basic income tied to GDP per capita would be interesting. If automation begins pervading every industry, the inherent improvement processes involved would lead to maximally efficient production. A basic income should be tied to the productive power of these systems, as leaving the BI pegged at a certain point could make income inequality much worse than it is now. Capital-holders would begin benefitting tremendously from automation as it improves.

Another thing to ponder is, if certain technological innovations come to pass (ie, an affordable personal-AI system), should the government consider providing those technologies to all of its citizens? The disparity between someone with a personal-AI and someone without would increase exponentially, very quickly. This is simply considering the economic value an AI could provide, in terms of helping with business ideas, self-improvement, secreterial work, etc.

Anyways, massive unemployment is going to occur soon. If governments can't come to terms with providing a universal basic income, I would suggest they begin planning emergency food supply distribution systems immediately. The first thing that people will begin missing is food, and if a government can provide sustenance to needy populations, it would buy itself some time before civil unrest spread throughout the country. http://livescience.com/52724-can-strategic-games-prevent-foo...
A lot of people seem to have an inbred, genetic, knee-jerk "respect" for hierarchy, ostensibly known as "authority".

But -nothing- was ever handed to the masses - protest is always necessary to redress imbalances due to those in power unfairly taking advantage whenever they can. "They" always have and probably will always do so, due to fundamental principles in human psychology.

Yes, the writer was petulant and could be doing some things to improve her situation, but the basic fact of Yelp being badly managed and wasteful is still valid. SF is as expensive as London, and not as nice to live in. $25k a year before taxes? In the Bay Area? Yikes.

But employee churn is sometimes more profitable than trying to retain good employees, especially for low level jobs like CSRs. The attitude of CEOs etc is essentially that employees are just another resource to be exploited, and "free food" etc is a smokescreen to cover up this fact. This is Capitalism 101 (run amok) and you can easily see it throughout history.

Americans seem to be slowly redeveloping a sense of 'class consciousness' of the type back in the late 1800s to early 1900s, due to the growing levels of inequality and the resulting 'bad behavior' of so many at the upper end of the income range. This is a good thing, really, and accounts in part for Bernie Sanders' surprising ... "competitiveness" in the presidential race. People are starting to get fed up and so I think the Internet will see more and more of these over time.
Pre-IPO Investments in a Down Market
For anyone struggling with creating Let's Encrypt certificates (or just as lazy as I am), try out https://gethttpsforfree.com/ .
There are a lot of jobs that humans can inherently perform better than robots for the next few decades at least: taking care of the elderly, hospice care, community development, physical therapy, etc. Humans are wired to trust and engage with our own species over any machines that could be developed any time soon.

Populations in most countries likely to own robotic technology are aging fast and there will be even more demand for such jobs. In fact, a lot of demand already exists, only that the costs are too high for middle-class elders or patients to afford the services regularly. (See: expansion of nursing care in lower-cost countries like Thailand, but most people would prefer to stay in their own country if they have the choice.)

Moreover, aptitudes the tasks required often match with those present in lower-wage workers in the service sectors. We need to retrain them for these higher-valued jobs. As a big plus, the jobs above often feel more meaningful than scanning items at cashier, delivering packages, or waiting table.

There is evidence that being unemployed is not good for people's psyche and well-being in the long run. Demand for meaningful, high-valued services still exists and we ought to retrain workers for these jobs instead. Pay for these jobs should be higher and hours reasonable--more redistribution could be utilized to accomplish these.

I believe earning one's living through work leads to a more meaningful existence. Demand for human work still exists for several decades to come. We need better social infrastructure to retrain workers at risk from technological unemployment and fully support them (including with good pay) during retraining.

Technology has the potential to let us be human, free us from menial jobs, and focus on what we do best--if we develop the socioeconomic system to complement it and help with the transition.
Not really funny, more like fake articles to get pagerank that tries to pass as a satire.
here are some related links:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/qtw5LdCrHJQ/uDhLZslb...
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/38a55639d603823efcf2d2fdf5...
Living Tiny in Sub Zero Temps
There are probably many people who are too uptight even for octocat, it is a weak criticism, especially when it can be disabled.
I think you're attributing some sort of negative towards the wealthy that I don't hold.

I have no issue with the rich.

I have a problem with the lack of negotiating power that the poor have.

The subsidy comment is intended to illustrate that it's not as simple as 'take money from the rich and give to the poor'. At the moment we have the reverse - the rich are able to give less because the market is not free - the poor are coerced into providing their services for a lower amount because they own nothing.
The FBI sent a letter to Martin Luther King suggesting that he kill himself. So yeah, the FBI does have a history of sketchy shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#History
Let's say my basic income is $1000. All my expenses are paid every month, and I have $100 disposable income. I can work 10 hours at $10/hour, and all of a sudden my total income goes up 10%, my disposable income goes up 100%. Work 40 hours my income goes up 40%, and disposable income goes up 400%. And so on.

Not to mention, it'll encourage going to school or starting a business as basic needs can be met in the event of failure.

The point at which earning extra money no longer brings utility/happiness is well beyond the income of most poor people...
Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
Keyak: a candidate for the authenticated encryption standard
The request they submitted to Apple was clearly written by competent people. They knew exactly what and why they wanted to do, how Apple can help and why only Apple can help.
> because we're clinging to the idea that a person shouldn't eat unless they perform labour

I don't understand this way of phrasing the argument. Do people really "cling" to this idea? It sounds equivalent to saying "we're still clinging to the idea that a person shouldn't be in good physical shape unless they exercise and eat well." I don't think many people cling to these ideas in an ethical sense, as if it would be immoral to be healthy without exercising or wealthy without working [0]. The ideas are just reflections of the actual state of the world, even though it might suck. I'd certainly rather be healthy without exercising and wealthy without working, but I don't expect or demand a forceful restructuring of society to satisfy my wishes.

[0] Actually, now that I think of it, many people even in this thread do condemn people who become wealthy without working. It's perhaps somewhat ironic.
Muscle bodybuilders
I wnna knw about body builders
There is always pent-up demand for a previously-expensive service to become free.
We are overreacting to a tabloid article on a tabloid writer. It's comical how people are prone to outrage.
Well yea because a dimension is infinitely divisiable.
so a dimension can hold infinite dimensions within it.

like i.e numbers.
damn dude. i did not put two-n-two together. That is a really good album! :D
Do it! They're a couple of quid each, so well worth experimenting with.
Just curious - which one?

I started out teaching "Welcome to the Internet" classes once a week, and then was the first tech support guy at ioNet / Internet Oklahoma.

Worked my way up to assistant sysadmin before I moved to Austin to be a sysadmin for Texas.net. April 95 to September 96.
Where do you observe this? From working around cops, or from reading the news/HN?

Of course, all jobs attract the kind of people who enjoy the work.
Apple, Americans, and Security vs. FBI
Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin with pretty much all 3rd party filters enabled, and only have 19 requests blocked. Would you mind sharing what tools you're using?
Congrats on the biz Mike, hope you're doing well :)
Disconnect plugin grabbed most of them for me.
Not only it isn't immoral, it is highly moral and the best you personally can do for them.

I was born in the Soviet Union. It has fallen because of Western tourists coming there, providing the real evidence of the world from the other side of the curtain. Soviet government welcomed foreign tourists, as they were genuinely concerned about what Western countries are thinking about the USSR (for some reason; BTW, Russia is still very sensitive to this). But soon, Soviet people started to think of unthinkable questions, such as "why all these tourists from purposedly struggling capitalist countries are so well fed and well dressed?".

North Korea's government is making the same mistake.
(or have no need for it)
Why Scrum Is the Wrong Way to Build Software
I think a lot of people struggle with bad handwriting, and this sort of thing used to be taken a lot more seriously.
See all of this hero's videos, they're awesome. I really hope he continues sharing his effort to re-explore the barehands approach at making a living. :)
I'll plug my own client [1], which is also completely manual for those who don't want to go all in on the magic automation just yet. It also has DNS verification, which is probably more convenient in most cases.

[1] https://github.com/veeti/manuale
Does anyone know what Sourceforge Accelerator is?
More than a few places no longer have direct links to any files, but include this inline: https://sourceforge.net/accelerator/js?partner_id=

wgetting things that don't have the accel keys seems to sometimes 3xx-redirect to a html page instead of allowing a direct download too. Anyone beeng seeing this lately?
Prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
FBI fight with Apple is a big farce to get inside your phone
Plants are, by definition, not prey.

For actual prey, effective movement is an evolutionary advantage; even if there are other useful adaptations as well.
Cool. Listening to the Audible clip of "Perdido Street Station". Sounds the nicest of the suggestions so far :)
Wow, some definite parallels.
LG Nexus 5X Unlocked Smartphone – Black 32GB (US Warranty)
Why on earth not?
4th largest counting certificates that are either on Certificate Transparency Log servers or in censys' data set.

CT logs are populated by CAs sending their certificates to log servers. Only a few CAs (including Let's Encrypt) do this consistently at the moment, since it's only mandatory for EV certs (for now), and CAs generally move rather slowly. Certificates encountered by Googlebot during web crawling also get pushed to their log servers. Censys probably does something similar.

It's possible that there's a large number of certificates issued only for internal systems that would not end up on CT log servers and that are not accessible by public crawlers, so the numbers are probably not painting a full picture. It is, however, as close as you can get to the full picture unless every CA is willing to release their internal numbers.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086
Yes it's better than drugs or guns, but that guy still tried to trick him :\
Google Lowered Taxes by $2.4B Using European Subsidiaries
There were free options. I think the biggest benefits to Let's Encrypt are the EFF's clout and the simplicity.
In the UK, the EU is a topic like vaccines, evolution or climate change is in other countries. A decades long torrent of anti-EU propaganda has left people adrift from any bedrock of facts to begin a discussion.
Nice article! We just launched parkOmator for Apple Watch that is basically side project of our company and your post is very helpful!
I've seen those used for all the things I could use a glass disc for.

None of these things are of any use if the user can't read, or hasn't sustained itself, biologically, for whatever its digestion period is ...
>Sears literally shuttered the catalog operation right before ecommerce was a thing.

The catalog operation hadn't been a big part of sears in a long time--maybe decades. Amazon's success didn't result from having the bide idea to be "the everything store." It was executing on it--and, by the way, making losses along the way that shareholders would likely never have tolerated in a mature retail chain. I'm not convinced that Sears had any particular unfair advantage as a retailer to dominate in ecommerce just because they had once been known for their catalog.

>stats and excel driven management

I think you can be pretty certain that any successful retailer is highly number-driven from picking sites to handling supply chains.
Fists and shoes are deadly weapons. They're far deadlier than movies have let you think. Very few people are actually unarmed.
I'm not particularly a fan of Scalia, but I recently watched an interview with him (Piers Morgan, 2013) where I think he explained his approach eloquently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7sN2jqpNs

Still, I think the "coincidence" of rulings that happen to agree with personal beliefs is hard to ignore. But this isn't limited to Scalia at all, but seems to be a "feature" of (almost?) all human psychology. I thought this New Yorker story captured it well:

Yet, if a textual interpretation can be so altered by a
single vote as to mean exactly the opposite of what it had
officially been thought to mean, then surely it seems less
like a disinterested interpretation than like a
passionately held opinion trying to pass as a disinterested
interpretation. If four English professors, readers of “The
Pickwick Papers,” held that Mr. Pickwick was meant to be
the embodiment of intrinsic evil, and four others that he
was the embodiment of bourgeois benevolence, we would not
say that the solution was to add a ninth English professor.
We would say that they were making incompatible readings of
the same text because of strong and irreconcilable
differences in values and beliefs and expectations. We
would recognize that the difference must lie less in the
words of the text than in the mind of the reader. (To be
sure, English professors sometimes do argue in this way—but
that is why David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury write comic
novels about them.) A form of reasoning that can produce
such directly opposed results certainly looks like a kind
of rationale-seeking in the guise of reasoning.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/lessons-for-the-...
What if each observer hold its scale as a state (like a ear mark), so the thing is observer independent. Sounds like a universe to me.
Honest question: If the county reset the password, couldn't they reset it again and gain access?
Uber competitor says its drivers will own the company
On links to court filings
I doubt that most applications of the 555 are driving relays and lamps, it probably is mainly used to generate timing signals. But that's besides the point, the low power versions can function with low voltages, allowing to power the chip with a single 1.5V battery, which would be impossible with the standard version, so it's far from pointless.
> We have reached Peak TED.
> That’s TED. But we may not have hit the peak yet.

We can have it both ways, it seems. Peak means there is a decline coming. The article closes on a note that suggests otherwise.
>How do you figure out that you need to look at nanosctructures inside a chunk of glass (or whatever) and that there's a message in there stored in a certain encoding?

I've asked myself this question numerous times, mostly while staring at the arcane crystalline structures available in meteorites, wondering if in fact there's some way that some parts of the universe aren't, indeed, just a message being left in the sand by a higher power.
Why? It's people following a forensics script/program which looks for Windows partitions. There aren't a huge number of people who understand this kind of thing and most of them are able to work at places where they're paid much better than the FBI.
Yep. Those links were nostalgia for me, 'cos I remember first using the 555 when I was a kid building projects from Elektor and ETI ...
You can get sub-€100/year wildcard certs on gandi.net (free the first year for their own domains I think?), which shouldn't be a problem for a business expense.
There is no purpose to parking on these roads except to visit the local residences. The college is the closest non-residence to these neighborhoods and even that is a hike; students only parked there out of desperation and then walked a long way.

There wasn't even a parking crisis for local residents. The homes there have multicar garages and driveways. They simply didn't like people parking on "their" street. The streets are wide and the parking space is ample.

They've effectively banned visitor parking in the entire neighborhood. And for families with teenagers and multiple cars, they've got to shuffle cars or keep permits updated for no benefit of any kind.
I found this article very confusing. While the wage is very low ($19000) the overall issue is the cost of rent. I could understand if the letter was directed to her landlord. Cost of utilities, travel and food would all be liveable for a year if the rent was halved by a room mate or rent control. It doesn't make sense to get mad at the company providing you with most of what you need to survive.

Also surely you know before deciding on the Bay Area that you're going to have either a min acceptable salary or a max acceptable rent. Saying yes to two things that don't add up is a recipe for a cycle of self inflicted misery.
To be clear, I meant other reasons than having a persistent sexual attraction towards children. Those other reasons can be: wanting to see physical abuse, seeing how abuse happens, finding a thrill in seeing something illegal, trying to see what gets you aroused, and many other reasons.

The Dutch rapporteur for sexual abuse summarized that it is estimated that about 20% of the people caught for possessing child pornography are actual pedophiles, meaning people with a persistent sexual attraction towards children: http://www.nationaalrapporteur.nl/Images/nationaal-rapporteu...
Ebay and PayPal. The secret service doesn't like it when foreigners steal from Americans (their main job is to protect the currency, protecting the President is an add on).
> That's why I said most likely, the immigration from the EU isn't an actual problem, not as far as the "problematic" immigration into the UK goes.

Perhaps, but I'm not worrying about actual problems here, but rather public perception.
Network effect, basically.

Everyone is on Twitter, therefore everyone is on Twitter.
Interestingly, perhaps ironically in this context, is that the original HOSTS.TXT was the "internet scale" solute of the time in that it powered names for the entire network: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
Thank you for your feedback!

Video is encoded in HLS and we use Bitdash player that falls back to native players on Android & IOS etc. http://developer.dash-player.com/supported-formats-devices

I agree that the main challenge for us is to get substantial time commitments from the users to create a quality video and post. Most people are not that vocal, but some are - specifically politicians and celebrities.

Twitter started with 140 characters and eventually had to remove the restriction - so not sure if limiting the video length would be helpful. Alternatively, I think 20 sec preview/trailer of the video would be useful in filtering out uninteresting videos.

I see some merit in doing video only based debates & discussions - reduces the chances of abuse & troll via anonymous and coward text comments. More often, useful comments are lost in sea of useless and irrelevant comments.
Tell HN: Please Stop Submitting “An Open Letter to My CEO”
It was discussed yesterday, yet there are still tons of submissions being made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086

The CEO did reply to it, and that might be the end of it: https://twitter.com/jeremys/status/701091286325985280

Medium links apparently do not play well with the HN dupe detector since they append an unique identifier at the end of the URL.
The Win32 documentation is sometimes best treated as historical fiction with an unreliable narrator. This is why Wine has a massive suite of test cases.
No there were not. Free options meant untrusted certificates or short-lived certificates that could not be renewed.

LE made SSL free, trusted and long-term. You could have made it twice as hard to do the initial setup and people would have jumped at the opportunity regardless.
I used to use Wossl and StartSSL before for lots of little personal projects. I recently switched everything over to LE. I am looking forward to switching other projects to it too, such as ones for clients where we had to pay for wildcard certs in the past. Not having to mark the calendar to renew certs every year is going to be really nice.

Incidentally, does anyone have a good way to integrate LE with EC2's load balancers?
It's future, in 100 years from now, all food, all energy and most of other services/products will be made without any human interaction. While everything will be produced without wasting any resources (full automation, recycling etc), there is no reason why food and energy should not be free. To work will be a choice not requirement.
this is a super cool write up of something plenty of us neglect. I wasn't expecting the excellent interactive explorer at the bottom! Click on the component diagram and see the component highlighted in the actual image!
Other than Amazon Certificate Manager as moatra mentions (which I don't think let's you export the certificate), I don't think there is currently an option for free wildcard certificates.

As an alternative you could incorporate provisioning of a Let's Encrypt certificate for the new subdomain into your deployment process since the process is designed to be automated.
From a different perspective: As a student, I can confidently say that I do not think your prices are too low (from the demand side).