skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data is very much consistent with the bridge work hypothesis. The website indicates a series of bridges are being replaced. Starting 9/28/15 with Tilton Ave. and proceeding northward to Monte Diablo Ave then Santa Inez Ave.
As an old-skool Mac user, it never really occurs to me to lift my finger while the menu is open.
In Santiago, Chile, the public transportation system uses Mifare Classic cards, and few apps that (ilegally) refilled the cards appeared a while ago.

The solution given by the government was to block the cards that were used with fraudulent refills on a weekly basis, but there is always the possibility of changing the ID or purchasing blank cards.

Of course the system was chosen years after the vulnerabilities were discovered, too.

My guess is that the only way to stop this is to replace all the scanners, which will be far more expensive than losing a few thousand paying customers per day.
seconded, any reading material would be awesome
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Part of the problem is that the R&D has not been done. Under the Myth of Nuclear Safety, Japan has absolutely neglected to do research into designing and building robots that can handle high levels of radiation (if people are working on robots that can handle hazardous environments inside a reactor, that might inadvertently communicate the idea that nuclear power is dangerous).
As the guy who posts on those threads, I am curious as to why you think so and would appreciate any feedback on the same.
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> Except some hosts told me that Booking.com is a rip off, plus it doesn't handle their accounting like Airbnb does.

Well, Booking.com (or any other similar site) offers hosts the reach they may otherwise miss.

It is also good if there are many such sites hosts could use as it would then presumably make situation more favorable for them. This is also why I mentioned Booking.com at all, as I do not see and I do not want to see the world in black/white (airbnb/hotel).

Having competition also (usually) helps to keep things more honest.

> From the user's point of view, Booking.com is a horrible cluttered web site with 1990'ish approaches to design, usability and online marketing.

I actually do not mind their design approach.

It is actually quite usable, even better as airbnb as they show the total amount upfront for the search period and not just the pay for a night in what, to be honest, I have no interest in. There are many other small differences that make Booking.com interface more usable for me.

Of course it comes down to personal preferences and this is only my personal opinion.
https://sci-hub.io/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02120.x
Thanks, I've been having trouble finding a good place to start (looking) as well.
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Yes, I used to mainly work with Java, but now mainly Python. I was wondering if "best language going" had considered these two languages.
I use both sites quite a lot and at least 25% of the time Booking.com will say that they're taking payment at time of booking only for me to arrive at the hotel and find out that the payment has not been taken.

For business travel this creates the annoying situation where I have to cover the cost of accommodation from my personal account and submit an expenses request.

I have also had booking.com take the payment but there has been a break down in communication with the hotel and they have not received it or have not been informed and I've had to pay twice. Then spend time afterwards playing pass-the-buck as booking.com tells me it is the hotel who owes me the refund and the hotel telling me it is booking.com

I've never had these payment woes with AirBnB.
The Department of Education issue isn't one of funding, but one of Federalism and returning control of schools to state and local governments. It's about decentralization, not getting rid or even reducing funding for education. If you think about how much money the DoE spends that doesn't actually get to a school, the proposal doesn't sound crazy as people make it out to be.

The following numbers are just for illustration but if you think of the DoE with a billion dollars and some percentage of that pays for the DoE. Then that percentage is education money that is going to pay DC bureaucrats rather than being delivered directly to the states. Each state already has a Department of Education, thus the benefit of the federal DoE is often redundant. The DoE doesn't create curricula, the DoE doesn't hire teachers, the DoE doesn't do anything that State departments aren't already equipped to do.

So yes, abolish the DoE and let the states do what they are already doing.

If we want to improve education, that happens at the state and school board level. A school in urban Detroit has much different needs than a school in suburban Austin, yet a blanket DoE directive doesn't necessarily respond well to dramatic variations between states and localities. Highly centralized control is less efficient than more granular control given the huge variations among communities and states.

The problem with American education is cultural. Comparing a Chinese parent with a south Chicago parent reveals huge discrepancies. I taught in both China and Korea and they provide a fraction of the per student funding than they do in DC Public Schools. They're using old desks, the students are required to clean the school, technology is very limited, teachers are paid less -- yet they kick American ass in things like math and science. After school in China is spent studying -- for hours. Parents have zero tolerance for failure. Schools paddle rogue students. Embarrassment is a very big deal. Yet what happens to the south Chicago kid that goes home after school and spends his time studying: he's ostracized, even being accused of 'acting white.' There's your problem. A culture that puts the Kardashians on a pedestal and parents who are disengaged and teacher unions that put seniority above results. You also have the issue that university schools of education are frequently the refuge of academic rejects. This is incendiary, I know, but have a look at the academic standards required for education majors compared to pretty much any other major. There are exceptions, but they prove the rule. Funding isn't a problem -- it's a scapegoat. If you want proof of that, compare per student funding and academic achievement per dollar spent: there's little correlation.
Back in the 90's when everybody installed those wacky click counters on their page, it all seemed so innocent...
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Same situation here. This is beyond "disappointment".
Total bait.
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It's a great question. I also would love to unearth an intelligent community where discourse isn't limited to growth hacking, jQuery plugins, and startup pivoting. HN is the closet I get, but people here tend not to take intellectual risks and experiment with creating new thought paradigms.

Don't get me wrong, there are some tremendously bright people here who I learn a lot from. but the Reddit-esque social dynamics (ie, karma, hivemind,) tend to put safety pads on anything remotely radical or risky discussed here. Quora can actually have some pretty interesting content, but, again, there's similar reputation management going on that prevents discourse from elevating to being somewhat interesting and important.
Scala code will generally have a slightly lower LoC than Ruby IMO. Maybe 20% overall typically. And the lines will be longer.

Ruby forces new lines for many expressions that Scala doesn't. (Think class with accessors vs a typical case class.) as things get more advanced, Scala allows you to express things that can be very difficult or awkward in Ruby. Like function composition, currying, pattern matching.

There's not really a case where a Ruby program will typically be shorter than a Scala program (well, excluding imports since there's no shared global namespace in Scala), even if you're avoiding typelevel style programming.
Oh, citation fishing ;)
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DEv/debug time is expensive, and there are options for python - http://quant-econ.net/py/need_for_speed.html
This study does not surprise me. All four of my grandparents were educators for their entire career. And as a result, my parents decided to unschool my brothers and I.

In trying to be as objective and self-aware as possible, it is clear to us that the homeschoolers/unschoolers we built a community with are vastly better prepared for adulthood, regardless of level of general intelligence. There is a reason the acceptance rate at Stanford is ~27% for homeschoolers vs. 5% for those who went to school. [1]

Regardless of the pursuit, it seems like our friends who went to school the whole time are stuck in this weird immature pergatory where they can't make decisions or stick to things.

For the most part, the unschooler/homeschoolers are similar demographics, and from all different "walks of life", and yet invariably omit this issue of accepting adulthood.

Our thesis was always that school spoon feeds you, and you have to learn the pain of learning independently to be successful and learn a real growth mindset. But who knows. It is a complicated issue.

[1]: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1011320109.html?FMT=AI&pubn...
I would rather ask that how do I know that they actually do not keep this information and actually properly destroy it.
I'm criticizing the approach of starting the analysis in a vacuum and coming up with a hypothesis that fits the abstract pattern, when simple domain knowledge (from looking at a website, or a Caltrain station notice board) would have put them on the "right track" from the start.

What the authors did falls into the trap of a very stereotypical criticism of data science and doesn't do data science any favors.
Completely disabled Flash in my main browser over decade ago.
Could you provide a link to the report you're referring to please?
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>Notably, I think there is a bit of a genre trap, where this kind of mind-warp game is stuck playing out in certain stories.

My thoughts as well. The trap you mention is typically a linear environment with a solid-yet-comical (or whimsical) narrative, ala Portal. That allows the featured game mechanic to be introduced at an optimal pace, effectively realizing more milage out of it. It's also the safer and more conservative route.

As a little thought experiment, I wondered how the perspective mechanic in tMoST would work in a completely different genre, and I figured it'd be pretty entertaining in say—an agent-based MMO simulator. I mean, just imagine watching a bunch of simulation agents wander about the map, trying feverishly hard to properly size objects to their liking. That seems as if it would at least be amusing. Bonus points for proper physics so they can accidentally crush each other with giant, oversized objects.
Why the identity? Insurance pays.
That reminds me a lot of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I

Would be great to make one similar combining the two concepts in regards to sharing phone data.
A typeo costs hackers nearly $1B, but still got away with $81M
There's a major question in ecology of how we feel about our "anthropocentric" civilization. For many environmentally conscious thinkers it seems like a world without humans would be preferable.
Reminds me of Surveillance Camera Man:

https://www.youtube.com/user/SurveillantCameraMan
In another thread on visual programming, I said color-coded tools were a problem, and here's one that's _entirely_ color coded. For me, on this screen, the light and dark yellow and greens are hard to distinguish, and the light blue and magenta. I suppose one could write the programs using only the numeric codes, but that would make a not-visual tool.
"It reads like papers often do when they are written in LaTeX. Reject."

Would be hilarious if it weren't so true.

I had a student once who was 'encouraged to resubmit after having the manuscript checked for language by a native speaker'. Except that he was British and just happened to be working at a Spanish university for a local project. LOL. He's a very clear writer too, certainly top 10% in clarity of scientific writing. It just shows that it's a crap shoot to get your papers accepted.
Not entirely. The companies that must collect presumably have better security safeguards than those just wanting it just because it's easy or customary.

I have a client that must collect and store drivers license copies for 2 years by state law. The system encrypts with GnuPG, such that only an offline private key stored on a crypto smart card can decrypt, and the encrypted image into a cloud storage bucket with an expiration date. Unless they get a spoliation order because the police come knocking no one ever sees the data. After 2 years, the file auto deletes and a record is left indicating that the record was "deleted in the ordinary course of business." The company does not really want to do all of this, but its required by law and good infosec practices.

Handling data breach material is expensive.
There is also, of course, the classic resubmission letter:

http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Sample.shtml

> Enclosed is our latest version of Ms #85-02-22-RRRRR, that is, the re-re-re-revised revision of our paper. Choke on it. We have again rewritten the entire manuscript from start to finish. We even changed the goddamn running head! Hopefully we have suffered enough by now to satisfy even you and your bloodthirsty reviewers

...

> We hope that you will be pleased with this revision and will finally recognize how urgently deserving of publication this work is. If not, then you are an unscrupulous, depraved monster with no shred of human decency. You ought to be in a cage. May whatever heritage you come from be the butt of the next round of ethnic jokes. If you do accept it, however, we wish to thank you for your patience and wisdom throughout this process and to express our appreciation of your scholarly insights. To repay you, we would be happy to review some manuscripts for you; please send us the next manuscript that any of these reviewers submits to your journal.
Sysops of BBSes used to watch their users while they were online. When the BBS only had one line this was easy (and often you couldn't do anything else BUT watch them.)

So, to say that analysing user behaviour is new is probably an overstatement, at least in the BBS example.
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That was my exact same first thought as well.
Yes, but teacher unions and Democrats hate that. The idea of free market competition is contrary to every bone in their bodies. That could lead to actual accountability. Currently the US school system is the Lada, free markets could turn it into a Honda.
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I've been using Linux for years so I've probably just forgotten. After I switched away from the emulator, going back to using the control button for copy/paste/etc. left me feeling disoriented briefly. Those old habits really come back quickly.
I thought part of the reason they ask for zipcode is that it is for verification purposes if you use a credit card to pay
Besides all of that:
As already said BMW only needs to give you the source code if you are a car owner. If the car owner then puts the source code online it's fine.
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> No, agency model gave LESS revenue to publishers
Why would publishers ask for an agency model if it earned them less money?

This is the the difference between you and me, I have read a lot about the case. You don't know anything about it. You don't know that with the wholesale model, publishers earned more from ebooks than with the agency model. And you don't know why they prefer to earn leass with the new model. Please, read about the case before posting uninformed thing like you have being doing in all your posts.

> Your last sentence above, "Because if a majority of publishers" runs together. Perhaps I misunderstood what you said

Yes, you have misunderstood, and it was very lear,. All the publishers together were able to force the other stores to the agency model with the threatening of pulling the books

> The difference between us is, for you, Apple is guilty, period

No, the difference is that different courts have found guilty Apple, period.

You're the one saying that all the courts are wrong without any evidence of it, just because you don't like the outcome.
Obviously OP meant it is easier to get higher class rank/valedictorian at poor noncompetitive schools than at rich competitive schools. Many colleges use class rank when deciding admittance.
All you have to do to gain control over a middle eastern country is claim that there are terrorists there or that the leader of the country is a tyrant. Seems to have worked beautifully in the past without question.
When you read a review like that, you can only imagine the journal editor having an almost unconscious faceplam reaction before removing the name from the pool of potential reviewers.
> Some of us just do not like to have all our movements scrutinized, even by 1st parties -- I personally consider this a healthy stance, I just do not like to be treated as a product.

And that is your choice and I can respect that, but please, don't be one of those entitled people who complain about a website completely blocking you for blocking their stuff.

And for the record, I love uBlock and your work. I use it myself, but I use it in blacklist mode only. Which I feel is the best way to do it. Block the shady sites, don't hurt the ones who just want to get a little analytics.
You can optionally choose to share play lists for sure, I'm not sure if they still do but spotify by default shows everyone what you are listening unless you put it into some private mode (a tad less creepy)
Try KeeperRL:
http://keeperrl.com/

Started getting some attention in the roguelike world but it's really not a traditional roguelike... just an awesome Dungeon Keeper-esque game.
If you're really this worried then you should probably be spoofing your request headers and hiding your IP behind a VPN, because those will reveal a lot more about you than what most 1st party trackers will.
You write "Do it on your application servers back end", but then the parent comment actually argues specifically for "self-hosted Piwik and other such internal analytics tools". So, I'm now confused: do you actually agree with it? or disagree? or what? was there something edited in the parent comment in the meantime? did I miss something?
Yes, I wish it would do a lot more but I use it to:

- Set timers
- Set alarms
- Call people
- Create calendar events

now mostly on the watch where it kind of is the only sensible interface for input. Although very slow.
Check out War for the Overworld, the unofficial successor to Dungeon Keeper. They even brought in the original narrator!
You'll nearly always get a better deal from cash payments to a place you've already stayed at. In fact, plenty will offer you discounts if you come back when they're not expecting to be full even if you didn't use a booking site or travel agent to find them first time around.

Booking.com have a "lowest price guarantee" for online bookings (and from personal experience, do actually honour it), so it's the hosts that bear the costs if Booking.com's commission is higher than other booking portals or agents. Presumably they generate enough bookings for the hosts to find being on there worthwhile though.
this one is also good (philosophical)

The writing and data presentation are so bad that I had to leave work and go home early and then spend time to wonder what life is about
Not abandonware it seems http://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper (5$)
I'm a frequent library user, and this may be fine for certain types of collections (where you look for very specific books) but is terrible for general use, as you are removing the ability to search by topic.
I sometimes can't tell if people are joking or stupid. The following quote, for example, has to be a joke:

"The reported mean of 7.7 is misleading because it appears that close to half of your participants are scoring below that mean"
I think you make a good point. There is an argument to be made against ad blocking, but it can't be made honestly if they are also requiring tracking technology to also be turned on.
This concept of "your data as if it is theirs" is strange to me. Deciding who owns what information is difficult and not so obvious. I once heard a man on the radio saying that he "owned his face" meaning his likeness. Celebrities own their likenesses in that they can block people from using their likenesses to imply endorsement, but they can't block photographers from publishing a photo taken in a public area.

Ownership is much more nuanced than you're making it seem. It depends on where and how the data was collected and further, how the data is used.

Take car ownership. The department of motor vehicles tracks who owns what car, including non-dealership title transfers. That information gets sold to companies like Experian. Anyone can buy it (https://www.autocount.com/). So a company like Yelp, who knows where you live (you do like restaurant reviews from "current location", right?) can cross-reference that with AutoCount data to figure out what car you own. Is that weird? Sure. Is that wrong? Maybe. But it's been going on from before the internet, so I don't understand what's so different now.
I guess that's just a demo for https://www.scaleway.com/ ? But the network speed is much higher? Also ominously the Scaleway pricing thingies all say "preview". Preview of what?

I don't get the point of this.
"Should" is a word I'm uncomfortable with. Define your goals, and I can provide an answer.

If you want to re-establish the wild ecology of ~4000 years ago? You need to get the people out. Modern human habitation & agriculture claims a right to every last square meter of land, and even the supposedly reserved natural areas are often cut & planted as if they were pseudo- lumber factories.

If this is your goal, irradiating wide swathes of land is a good start; There are few simpler or more reliable mechanisms to force sustained evacuation and shunning of an area for the centuries or millennia necessary to re-establish, for example, old-growth forest. Some legal regime might buy you a few decades, but don't kid yourself about the longevity and commitment of a particular political system.

The changes in species composition associated with the climate, then with megafauna, and later with the Columbian exchange & globalization, are going to pose some durable problems if you want it to look exactly the same, but you can form a complex ecology with most of the same niches filled with at least similar creatures.
Making a photocopy of an ID is in my opinion not a finest example of the 21st century technology.

One option to have a proof of identity without an actual in person visit is to use a trusted third party (what has verified the person in person). This could be a state (if it provides such service) or a private institution (a Bank for example).

Otherwise you can use old and proved method of trust. I understand that of course for a service like airbnb this might not be enough and this is also the reason why I probably would not use them in the future.
My catholic highschool vehemetly denied condoms work, scared everyone about anything contraceptive, lied and manipulated about a lot of various other things too.
Point was "Listen to your betters, sheeple"
It was a truly traumatic experience, considering it only reinforced my hate for self-proclaimed-"authority"
Imagine how fun it is right now to live, surrounded by lying sacks of shit right and left
(obviously not all,but disheartening amount)
PS. Yes,I am angry. Very much so