skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical science has come a long way in just the past century and a half. Not many stop to appreciate how far we have come and IMO how far we need to go. We still are unable to properly diagnose and treat most of the prevalent mental illnesses.
huh, I was wondering if everybody else noticed the standard nerd sniping pattern on HN.
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Today that's called "The State Development Capitalism Model" as opposed to the market-led capitalism model in "The Washington Consensus" and I think it has a lot to recommend it. But the hand-off to a first world economy and governance style is really really tricky (see the "middle income trap").
This is an awesome low-tech hack idea, but my sense is that if they can't distinguish a t-shirt from a road sign, there will have been other far more serious computerviz problems.
I wonder how well this works with complex problems. Since many new cars run on computers, how to mobile technicians have the equipment needed to diagnose and fix those kinds of issues I wonder?

This would be great for things like getting your brakes replaced.

Also, I wonder how they handle waste disposal of fluids?
Very interesting. Reminds me of a similar project from Fabrice Bellard, using a VGA card to broadcast a DVB-T digital television signal:

http://bellard.org/dvbt/
As a Libertarian who believes in the Singularity and that the workplace will be displaced by AI I think basic income and the Geolibertarian, Agrarian Justice, Georgism style basic income is the only one that will work and that doesn't violate the principle of liberty and respect for personal property.

With Internet based education, society has the potential to make education virtually free since the cost of distribution is essentially zero. It's only when people need access to special equipment or more hands on lab style education where facilities and mentors will be needed.

There is still the problem of gentrification though as basic income will be the same everywhere but certain cities will be much more expensive than others. This will lead to skilled labor concentrating in geographic locations.
I did something similar back in the day using CRT monitors that displayed the right image at the right time to produce desired radio waves. The range was very limited, however, and lots of background noise but you could certainly hear the music that was playing if you tuned your radio and brought it real close to the monitor.
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How can I test if my servers are vulnerable ?
Also elasticmail.com, so far it looks like we'll implement sparkpost and elasticmail for redundancy.
In the case where there are three classes of food buyers

non-fresh non-organic (can only purchase from restaurants, or convenience stores/gas stations)

Fresh non-organic (has access to some fresh produce, but is not able to choose organic produce)

Fresh organic (has full choice)

The difference between the first two is extremely important and has a large effect on nutrition and percentage of income spent on food, while the difference between the second two has some benefit on nutrition and might benefit society as a whole.

Living without access to fresh produce really sucks. I thankfully had a car when I lived in a food desert, but it still affected how frequently I ate home cooked meals.
I did not know about this instead, and the first time I knew about it I would not believe my friend telling me. I had to try.
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So the public key encryption equivalent of referring to TBL as "Web Developer" :)
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Poor Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman always seem to have gone out of their way to acknowledge his contribution to public key encryption, but it looks like the ACM overlooked it.
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Both gave speeches about the history of their research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTGqP0nxX08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJuuUxCaaY

Merkle had a huge influence also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle
It's only coercive when you adopt some backwards conception of what coercion means. (E.g., The rapist claims they are being coerced because they can't do whatever they please with other peoples' bodies.)

I'll agree that there are many ways in which the status quo contains injustice as it relates to claims of ownership, but that's entirely different than calling the system of private property coercive. I also don't think there is one objective standard for what confers just and unjust title (i.e., I think this is an emergent social convention rather than some clearly definable concept), but that again is an entirely different topic.
The linked article [1] is actually far more worrying than Slate's concerns about bored 12-year-olds. If a $60 setup can do a rather precise spoof of lidar readings, we are open to scenarios such as:

- Causing the car to collide with other vehicles. E.g. getting into a fender bender to avoid the illusion of an impending frontal collision.

- Causing the car to stop where it shouldn't. E.g. imagine armed robbers or kidnappers waiting on a deserted stretch of the road with a lidar spoofing device.

- Causing the car to run people over. E.g. spoofing away a pedestrian on a crosswalk.

What's even worse is that all of these attacks would be difficult if not impossible to detect or track down. With zero risk you can acquire valid insurance claims, put victims in positions where they're easily robbed or kidnapped, or cause your enemies to be run over.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...
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Well it is suppose to be a representative democracy.
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Perhaps someone out there on the planet is familiar with the noise, compared to a random neighbor describing it as "buzzing".
Haha yes it's a learning phase for us. We are a team of 3 who spent last ~10 years programming backends in C/C++. So we are learning Web Technologies and fairly known frontend issues are new to us.
It's kind of pathological to take a story about Brazil doing something wrong and twist it into yet another indictment of the United States. There are other countries in the world, you know.
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Well, first, it's an opinion, not a mathematical proof.

And secondly, just because you can't see the link between the two doesn't mean there's no link. Perhaps put it this way: 50 years ago, some people thought that highly processed foods were the quality food of the future. Over time it became apparent that quality food was considered to be 'back-to-basics', original and fresh stuff. Now there is a new trend of highly processing food that some think will be the quality food of the future.

Of course 3D printing food won't be anything more than a toy. It requires expensive equipment with a lot of maintenance, specific training, and can only be used with a limited subsection of foods (basically anything you can put into a piping bag, which also has to be stiff enough to support it's own weight). The idea of this spreading to the massed public is just ludicrous; who is going to be making the family dinner with a 3D printer? And keep on doing that regularly, once the novelty wears off?

A toy for high-end restaurants does not a food revolution make.
> The basic foundation of liberty is the ability to own private property.

I think you're perfectly allowed to define liberty that way, but there are plenty of people who wouldn't call that liberty.
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/19/156923573/when-hyphen-boy-meet...
No one said that you have to build an entire parallel infrastructure. You simply find a section with a lot of traffic and duplicate that. It could be a long-haul section or it could connect a port to a train, for example. 68% of all freight is carried by trucks. The United States is big. Find somewhere where is makes financial sense.

http://selectusa.commerce.gov/industry-snapshots/logistics-a...

The automation technology can be further developed in a "real system". At some point it'll be ready for public roads.
I had this! It was amazing but IIRC it came with a disclaimer that you may need to re-align your drive heads afterwards.
From my point of view, React brings two important ideas to web app development:

1. The virtual DOM. When I'm writing jQuery-based code, I have to write both a component template and code that updates the DOM in response to input; when I'm writing code for a virtual DOM, the component template is sufficient to update the DOM and I don't have to write that extra code, so there are fewer chances for bugs to creep in.

2. HTML-like syntax embedded in Javascript (JSX). I didn't like this at first until I configured Sublime Text to highlight embedded HTML correctly. Embedded HTML has pros and cons, but I think it's a net positive.

React projects also typically include new tech like ES2015, webpack, hot code reloading, and Redux with its time-traveling debugger. You can build your own stack that uses a virtual DOM library, embedded HTML, ES2015, and so on, but it's helpful to start with a common stack that many people understand. That's why React is interesting.
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Great point - a small note though, for those of us who don't like using other people's hosted services and have some of our own infrastructure to host - use Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Spiceworks, Munin, PRTG, etc. Lots of nice options. I know everyone loves cloud services these days, but I feel absolutely no temptation to put any of my business infrastructure in other people's hands when I don't absolutely have to.

I use a combinations of Zabbix and a very agressive Smokeping mesh deployed with docker (10 pings per minute from all separate DCs all other DCs) to monitor our worldwide nodes and be able to account for routing problems on the backbone rather than our nodes themselves. Very handy tool, particularly if you work with latency sensitive applications. I've been surprised some of the datacenters we use appear not to have access to similar...
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The two sides can both fall under the the "problem solving" category. An expanded definition of algorithms could include designing APIs. But in my example I was referring to algorithms as rigorously mathematical problems with a proof based solution. Choosing if I need a synchronous or asynchronous file read function does not fall into this category.
Humans are horrible at guessing what others on the road will do. That guy up ahead, following 1.7 car lengths behind the other going 70mph... I have no idea what he will do.

Maybe a bee just stung his genitals, and he's going to careen off the overpass into traffic below. Or he's just another idiot, ready to dart into the other lane at 70mph, with even less distance behind and ahead of him than the 1.7 car lengths.

I can guess the category of actions he will certainly perform (general bad driving, stupid shit, etc.), but I have no psychic powers to know what he will do specifically.

And as for his reactions to driving conditions... for me to simulate those in my head, and come up with something plausible takes more time than it will take him to do it for real by which time it will be too late (and has probably sapped me of the brain power I needed to react myself).

It's a peculiar set of biases, confirmation and other, that let's morons say something like what you quoted.
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> Ending Prohibition was the opposite of a "massive policy," as are some other popular deregulations (airlines, electromagnetic spectrum, encryption to name a few). This is the federal government deciding to stop doing something. It's not the case that anyone is arguing "the federal gov't never makes a good decision."

Both establishing and ending prohibition were decisions made by the states collectively as overseers of the federal government, not decisions by the federal government; that's how the Constitutional Amendment process works.

> Popular government-led programs are usually local or laissez-faire in nature.

Social Security and Medicare seem notable counterexamples, neither is local, and neither is laissez-faire.

> Or food stamps, which are relatively simple to execute. Or Social Security. The latter two have the feature that it's the individual's choice of how to spend the money.

In both cases, I would say they aren't laissez-faire because of the fairly complex regulations determining who gets how much money; and, for food stamps, it also is not true that "it's the individual's choice of how to spend the money", as there are regulations as to what can and cannot be purchased with SNAP benefits.
According to Steven Levy's 'Hackers'[0] it was Steve Dompier's Altair, it was a radio not a speaker, and the tune was the Beatles' Fool on the Hill.

[0] Which it turns out is online at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/729/pg729.html
You don't even need humans for safety features to become a problem: Every day, I drive on a road that goes through the German woods. The road is barely wide enough for two average-sized cars to pass each other. If one car is wider than average, then one of the cars has to go off the road onto the dirt-and-stones shoulder.

The speed limit there is 60km/h. Nearly all the humans drive 80. If you drive 60 there, you will cause a queue to form behind you, because there is so much traffic on that 5km stretch of road.

The reason why I consider this to be such a good example is because there is no solution here for self-driving cars that will work in the real world.

If you just put self-driving cars as they are on that road, then you'll convert it into a giant traffic jam.

Of course, the only _logical_ way forward would be to widen that road so that it can actually sustain its traffic load, but that is not a real-world solution.

Because a) The local levels of government are too broke to fix all the roads like this even on a time scale of decades (!) and b) the road was built on the private property of local nobility in the 1920s (for weird historical reasons) and they have refused to give up the land for the road to be widened on at least one occasion in the past.

Now, this is Germany, possibly the most orderly car-nation on the planet. What about Italy? Or India? Or South Africa?

Self-driving vehicles will become ubiquitous on the Autobahns and in rectangular American cities. I would be very surprised if there were still many human truck drivers doing cross-Europe tours 30 years from now. But human-driven cars will not disappear in the lifetime of anybody reading this, simply because outside of a few well-planned environments, you have to bend the rules to maintain traffic flow.
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> It's just too easy to give away your personal information on the internet and this needs to be fixed.

More faux-outrage nonsense. Nothing needs to be fixed, the author just needs to read and actually understand what they're doing before blindly clicking "OK" to any dialog box that pops up with Google's logo.
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How does piping it out of a tube turn mashed potato into potato foam?
Also relevant: Whitfield Diffie's 1988 paper, "The First Ten Years of Public-Key Cryptography"[1].

[1] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1988/diffie.pdf
What do you consider rights to locations?

The scenario being described requires people who want to use the land to purchase rights to the land. They can use the land but they don't own the land -- it's more like renting.

Any improvements upon the land are theirs 100% though.

Not sure if you read Paine's arguments but here are the important points.

1) Mankind inherited the earth and in the beginning wandered the earth as hunter and gathers. Nobody owned the land -- everyone had equal claim to it and could use it for their sustenance.

2) Governments formed and claimed monopolies on the land. They took "ownership" of the land without compensation to the original owners (everyone). This constitutes the use of force and violates the principle of non-aggression.

3) In order to make it fair, compensation must be given to the original owner. This makes it a fair transaction and is what Thomas Paine is proposing.
I don't think I'd ever ask these algorithm questions in an interview. Much better to sit down with a candidate and do some pair programmer. Add some unit tests to some code, add some small new features. Can they grok an existing code base easily. Do they understand why we are writing unit tests. Etc..
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Generating music via radio interference goes way, way back. The IBM 1401 (1960's era) could do this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI
It could also play music on the line printer by banging out the right sequence of characters. http://mail.computerhistory.org/pipermail/1401_software/2009...

Strangely, the 1401 radio music was later set to orchestra and released as a CD by an Icelandic composer: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7408766
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Article discussing the data with this tl;dr quote:

"Earth Nullschool — the site that produces the above satellite data has listed a final confirmation. The measure used to interpret atmospheric data was in the process of being re-calibrated and produced a stronger than typical signal. In other words, high CO readings for this region were a glitch"
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We did this on the zx81 too. I think there was a game that used an AM radio for sound. It was certainly written up in the contemporary computer magazines.

I guess this will be rediscovered every time someone happens to figure out timing loops while they have a radio nearby.
I assumed the "es6" row header refers to the engine's native implementation of the feature. In which case it should grey out "destructuring" under Node 4.2.6. But they don't, it's listed as "10x slower". What am I missing?
> the bigger problem here lies with how Google makes this possible: At all

Sorry but it is MY information and I should be able to do with it as I please. If Google removes the ability to extract it all to a third party then you're locked into Google forever. Removing the ability because some people aren't responsible isn't a good argument.
>When you say "native" when talking about a cross-platform toolkit, you're implying the toolkit was first designed to run on that platform and then ported to others.

No, you're just implying (as the parent did) that the platform (KDE) had picked and stuck to the toolkit (Qt) as its basis, unlike Wx which has multiple.
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There are (few) people who do this today. They find angel-level companies as a contractor, get paid in stock + a little bit of cash upfront and do about 10 companies a year. It's the employee equivalent of angel investing. SV law firms do a form of this too.

I can't do something like that due to immigration, but I envy the flexibility.
There are lots of coherent cases against Social Security. For instance, there are far better ways to achieve the desired ends of providing a social safety net. My favorite would be eliminating all other forms of welfare and adopting a basic income.