skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether a class action is the right approach seems debatable to me.

If parties possibly damaged by the externality are entitled to shares of any profit derived from that externality, it acts as an incentive for the company to derive profits in others ways. Rather than a class action that, as you correctly point out, merely gives victims compensation for damage done, it could be better to give potential victims some form of corporate governance.

This is all very hypothetical. The chances that an organization couldn't find some political maneuvers to dodge really paying for damages they cause are low. It would be like whack-a-mole. If you incentivize the company to steer away from ocean-raising pollution by letting potential coastal victims have some control, well then they'll just find some other group to extract profits from via unnoticed or unpunished victimization.

I'm not sure society wins by engaging in this game of whack-a-mole. The company keeps everyone distracted, the barriers for establishing class action results are high, it's inefficient for us to spend that much time and money on legal routes, and in the meantime, many bad actors simply get away with it and continue to extract profits and consumption opportunities at the expense of others.

This is one reason why I prefer to think about direct actions I can do that demonstrably help. Giving to Against Malaria definitely helps someone. Getting all wrapped up in long-term political advocacy for changing the entire framework in which publicly traded companies operate, so as to prevent them from extracting profits via unfair victimization ... that seems like a politics-is-the-mindkiller situation, which will probably do nothing but burn me out and prevent me from doing other things that actually could have helped.

Don't get me wrong. It's depressing that it's like this and doesn't bode well for moving towards a more egalitarian society (which I think would be better). But nonetheless it's just the world we live in, litany of Gendlin, yada yada yada.
It's pretty bright line that no warrant is required under current law.

Like it or not, since the 1980s it has been the law that from "public airspace" police can use any visual technology to look at the outside of your property. Right or wrong, it's pretty settled law that if the public can fly somewhere then law enforcement can also fly there without a warrant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley

Ciraolo is another case where police, without a warrant, intentionally flew over a backyard that was enclosed by a fence. In that case, the police found marijuana plants growing. The court upheld the conviction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Ciraolo

The interesting question is what about infrared and other "through the wall" technologies that give an indication as to what's inside a structure. In Kyllo, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 (with Scalia writing the majority opinion) that using a thermal imaging camera to investigate heat emitted from the wall of a house was a "search" that required a warrant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
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That's an overly generous interpretation. For a long time, hydrocodone with APAP was scheduled less than pure hydrocodone. This is similar to denatured alcohol - designed to kill people that try to go around the law.

I highly doubt the acetaminophen in vicodin is to limit abuse. Some of the pills I've seen are 750/5mg. Even a moderate addiction of 100mg a could easily kill you at that rate (that's 15g of acetaminophen). Though if you had no choice, a simple cold water extraction will eliminate enough of the acetaminophen to make it safe.

While not quite as evil as all the deaths and stripping of civil liberties the "drug war" has caused, this is a pretty obviously wicked thing to do (while still ineffective).
I misunderstood, sorry, I thought you meant the pt should have the "agency" to decide how to take their painkillers.

I don't have the data to back this up, but I don't think the DEA is the primary impetus for drug testing patients. What I surmise is that most likely, a double-blind academic study was done, just like how they establish every other standard treatment protocol. Likely, they determined that drug-testing patients significantly reduces the incidence of OD and abuse, i.e. reduces morbidity and mortality. Being scientists, they adopt the technique that works.

There is a big difference between treating a one-time injury and writing a prescription for 20 pills, versus someone with a pinched spinal cord that's never going to get better, that gets a permanent supply. For the latter, you go to a pain specialist. IIRC GP's dont even get involved with that.

> that should be no more dangerous than any other medicine

an NSAID "should be no more dangerous" than an opiate ? Please tell me you are aware that unrelated molecules will have dramatically different pharmacological effects on a human body.

If a doctor gives you access to a deadly product, one that could kill you if you go over by merely a single pill, and doesn't do everything they possibly can, then a jury, medical board, or (in rare cases) the cops might have a case for malpractice or patient endangerment. Anyway, I dont have any more fuel to back this argument up, but I wish your friend the best, pain-free life!
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/could-you-charge-a-smartwatch-b...

This guy did some napkin calculations which show this kind of energy generation can barely keep up with the energy needs of a smart watch, let alone any kind of phone.
If I understand correctly, it takes the domains and includes them in an exclusion query on every search. So it does work on an algorithm level.

For the use case you described it would work. You could also simply use the search operator site:airbnb.com
What are you talking about? The text-based R interpreter has exactly the same graphical capabilities as R Studio.
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On the other hand, it's a potential opportunity for the EFF to collect some in the wild.
And that worked in the 18th century, but how high would the tariffs have to be to make it economically feasible to manufacture an iPhone in the US? How much would that iPhone cost? I wouldn't be surprised if the answer put iPhones beyond the reach of the vast majority of Americans.

I don't doubt that new wide-ranging tariffs would increase American manufacturing (although we still make a lot of stuff in the US as it is), but I wonder if it wouldn't also lead to a measurable reduction in the American standard of living.
> When I asked my bank (ING in the Netherlands) how I could e-mail them with a question, they stated that e-mail is no longer an option (not even via a web-form), and that I would have to use Twitter direct messages, Facebook, or a web-based chat-page for any digital communication with them.

Wow, that's pretty ignorant to say the least.
Google has dealt with web spam by replacing it with their own ads. Search for "credit card" or "divorce lawyer". Everything above the fold is a Google ad. Air travel searches bring up Google's own travel info. No amount of SEO can compete with that.

(I still offer Ad Limiter if you'd like to trim Google's in-house search result content down to a manageable level.)
... and just yesterday I deleted facebook messenger because it drained my battery before 11am. (android)
Why wouldn't the same be true for Go? Because the search space of good moves is larger?
So your implication here is that the New York Times was excited help out a competitor? And so they got a prominent tech writer, one who has written for a variety of publications over the years, to write a puff piece because he'll just write anything for money?
I wondered that, too. Apparently it was just on loan. If you want to use a laser cutter, join TechShop. They have lots of them.
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So this is just another way to blow up your dex method count?
> -- try reading some non-trivial Rust code that uses generics - it's just as incomprehensible and unmaintainable as C++.

That's not entirely that surprising due to the types of problems Rust tries to solve.
I can tell you we did design them because I worked on the hardware as part of the R&D team.
We designed the PCBs & software, as we did for the C1.
Not all addicts are in need of help. And many addicts really do enjoy being high or otherwise find opiates help them through life, work, etc. and do not want to quit. And out of those that do want to quit, I'd bet a large amount of it is due to the high prices the legal scheme enforces. With reasonable prices, the biggest issue with being an opiate user disappears.
If they can do it, there's no need for further work. Or, perhaps, they could read a book they enjoy instead.

Until a couple of years ago, the British government recommendation for children aged 5-7 was 1 hour a week, which includes simply reading. There's now no official guidance, schools decide themselves, but I don't think it's changed.
I think in many US cities, you can call 311 for city services, which include reporting potholes.
Microsoft is trying really hard to get me to like them again. It's starting to work.
>I pay ~$0.50/day for the peace of mind that I can call the police from any major room in my house,

You know you can cancel your phone service and still call 911 in many states (including the most populous ones)?
Did you really just link a campaign position from Donald Trump of all people as evidence against globalization? Do you have any evidence of an actual shift away from globalization? Trump can talk himself to death, but that doesn't mean that we are actually doing anything to reduce our reliance on China or any other country.
I think the problem is that Google puts too much faith in algorithms. A lot of math guys do this; they write an algorithm and are very slow to accept it when the algorithm isn't all-encompassing or totally representative. They need to give more emphasis to human tweaks and consensus, even when their algorithm is trying to figure out consensus, as PageRank does.

I'd like to see a hybrid of the high-speed algorithmic scanning of the pages that we see now combined with an army of human reviewers, including super-reviewers who are recognized industry experts, who periodically rate indexed content based on quality. Backlinks and other derived consensus measurements should be given far less weight and a combined algorithmic and human quality rating should be of at least equal importance.

So I want to go back to the days of a manually curated web index, combined with the technology needed to make that span out over billions of web pages.
It works worldwide, the only reason I'm concentrating on the UK at the moment is because of my high touch sales process. I'd love to chat more (email in my profile) and I'd appreciate any connections you can make. I'd also be happy to pay you a referral fee.
What kind of time range are you talking about here? AFAIK there's no human limit to opiate tolerance - patients can often just take more (over time).
Wow, take this idea further with how google lets an AI "dream" with fish and pigs onto normal everyday scenes, you could allow the AI to visually interpret a game scene in real time but train it with domain-specific imagery so it's more fantastic. In other words, you get a scarier Dracula or cooler looking hero because its from the "imagination". We always say reading a book is more amazing because you imagine it to be so. Why not with AI doing the imagining for us?
That post reminds me very much of the story "The Twonky" by Lewis Padgett.

http://my.fit.edu/~rosiene/twonky.pdf
I find the fact that streams and functional interfaces are not backwards compatible almost a deal breaker. Using Java 8 streams makes so many things easier that once you start using it, there's no going back. Now you're not going to be able to use it in production till 2019.
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Pure speculation: Google was the first to build very high density server farms. As such, they had various proprietary designs and approaches, and became heavily invested.

And then it took them a while to decide that leveraging the open source ecosystem would be better than maintaining those various proprietary elements.
I'm planning to watch the AGA coverage later, after watching the DeepMind coverage live. I found the DeepMind pair a bit underwhelming. Redmond was excellent at playing through some variations, but they did get very distracted at times, and away from what was actually happening. His co-host was playing a little too strong on the 'I'm so nervous' line, I felt. So I didn't spot the significance of the bottom right pivotal moves. Thanks for the recommendation, I'm looking forward to the AGA coverage even more now.
I did not know that, but I will certainly check into it. Thank you.
I completely agree. Former and current opiate addicts I've met have told me that when contaminated pills are all you've got to stave off withdrawal, the risk from Tylenol poisoning doesn't really even cross your mind.

Adding risk (whether it's the risk of liver failure or prison time) to addiction behaviors doesn't do a damn thing, because addiction is a disease that fundamentally destroys our ability to make rational cost-benefit decisions when our drug or behavior of choice is concerned.
Kratom can solve this problem, but the FDA won't have it.
As somebody with no dog in this fight, I cannot help but wonder if there's a correlation between PageRank and the rise of referring to text on a page as "Content", rather than, well, "An Article".
Why save it at all when in RStudio you can skip that step. Doesn't have anything to do with a mouse either because you still write and execute all the code with the keyboard. This all seems very out of left field.
This might be very heavy handed, but could you build something that added rel="nofollow" to all links on user pages until trust is verified?
I would like that but for GTK3, instead of the 2↑↑2th glossy/plain/OSX theme clone .
Lots of comments from people who have no experience with chronic pain aghast that doctors would fulfill patient "demands" for painkillers instead of treating the underlying cause.

Pain is self-report, so all a doctor can do is prescribe based on patient demand. Maybe they can't identify an underlying cause, or maybe the treatment (ex: back surgery) is too risky.

Spine surgery that might not work and can leave you with say, loss of bladder control? I'd take the pill every time, and if my doctor didn't just hand it over, I'd find another doctor.
I loved the active/passive mode feature of FTP back before getting broadband. I had an FTP client that would put one server in active mode and one server in passive mode and transfer files directly between them with only status messages going down my 9600 baud connection.
Not supported. Probably never will.
> Using drones for this kind of thing actually makes a lot of sense, although not a $20 million militarized Predator.

The later might make some sense, though, as part of training for the drone operators. Spotting a small disturbance in the surface of a street such as a pothole could require similar skills to spotting a small disturbance in the surface of a street due to someone having buried a timed or remote-control explosive there.

Similar considerations could apply to many other uses of military drones in civilian operations. Using a military drone to find a missing hiker in a state park, for example, would involve similar skills to using a drone to find a missing military pilot shot down in hostile territory.

In fact, aside from actually shooting guns or missiles at people or dropping bombs, I'd expect that for most skills that a military drone pilot needs for their military missions there are civilian situations where those same skills are useful, and for which using their skills in those civilian situations would improve their ability to do their military missions.

As long as proper safeguards are in place to make sure that they are not put to use in ways that violate our rights, and these civilian uses have a military justification (such as providing cheap or convenient training for the drone operators), I'm open to considering allowing these uses.
Stock up while you can. However some states have unbanned it, and others yet are not voting their bans into legislation. There's hope yet, but it will be a hard fight, particularly with the FDA.
I'm talking about RStudio being a much better tool for data visualisation.

If people wish to stick with the command line, I won't dissuade them. I just personally find there are better tools for producing data visualisations with R.
You're way too pessimistic about doing image recognition on NES tiles. NES games don't update the tileset very often during gameplay. They can't--the NES has no framebuffer and a very underpowered CPU, so the VBLANK time is a mad dash to push all per-frame data to the GPU (PPU in NES-speak) by the time the video signal is going to begin. Most games barely slide under this window. Lots of games didn't even try to do dynamic tileset updates and stored tileset data in ROM.

Because of this, you can do a lot of graphics processing up front and cache it on a per-tile basis. The hit rates on that cache are going to be massive.
> Frankly, most people would rather continue to ban drugs than pay for treatment for people who abuse them.

I agree. However, I’m talking not only about treating addiction, but preventing abuse in the first place.

The first line of social support is made up of our friends and families. Outreach and education could foster better attitudes toward mental health and addiction, and reduce the systemic effects of stress and loneliness. Rehab is very late in the game, and it’s much more difficult and costly for everyone involved.
This is my more intro level book: http://r4ds.had.co.nz (it's still a work in progress, but you might find it helpful)
The site won't work if an adblocker is enabled (there's a Javascript error when Google analytics fails to load).
Yeah, I've been wanting to do that for awhile too. I'm not too familiar with GTK themes (other than some pretty basic configuration stuff). Maybe I'll give it a go when I have some free time in the coming weeks.
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are we referring to "the three graces"?

at what point along the spectrum of "abstract" does a boob become SFW?

it's a rectangle with a rectangle inside of it, for fucks sake.
I'm sorry, but I don't see anything in this comment that is responsive to anything I've written or that introduces any new argument for me to respond to.
I used the web before Google too, and I remember them.

Also, I do consider reading about something to be a valid way to learn about things you didn't directly witness, so it's strange that you would discount this.

> There simply was no reason to do so, before Google started ranking pages based on the links.

Webrings were useful for people who found a website interesting and wanted to visit other similar websites. The incentive to be in a webring was that you could get more exposure. Not to mention that the 90s were full of trendy things like this: "under construction" gifs, "valid HTML" buttons, etc. Web rings were one of those "clever" things you could add to a website.
Airbnb is changing it up a notch again
Account was closed a while back. Now I can still log in, but only thing I can do is watch my bill increase and my attached credit card stay attached until they charge it. Online fun!
You nailed it. Of course it's a cover story. It's USA Today - the newspaper they sell at McDonald's.
When did you live here? It's changed quite a bit over the last 5-7 years. There's a real startup scene here now.
So, the problem isn't the use of drones, it's how readily the drones can be equipped with weapons?
The obvious problem is that speed of tactical execution can make up for a lot of strategic thought. The famous example: you can rush a line of siege tanks with zerglings if you can micro them fast enough[0].

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs
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Shhhh. We're still operating in stealth mode. Don't want a huge influx of people yet :P
Google has Waze. Waze has pothole detection.
In Calgary there's a 311 app that let's you take a GPS-tagged photo, attach a note, and open a ticket with the city.
A 850% increase of 0 is still 0. (Not being snarky; that is what your graph and conspicuous omission of y axis labels implies.)
Especially 2) has been hard to do in Go, without playing the game 'till the end.

This is what struck me as especially interesting, as a non-player watching the commentary. The commentators, a 9-dan pro and the editor of a Go publication, were having real problems figuring out what the score was, or who was ahead. When Lee resigned the game, it came as a total surprise to both of them.

Just keeping score in Go appears to be harder than a lot of other games.
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Google Closure Library does this in goog.structs.Set with an interesting generic solution.

A string key for the underlying map is generated based on the data type of the element being added in the set. If you're adding an object into the set, the object is mutated so that it stores a unique ID. The object's unique ID is used to form the string key that will identify this object in the set.

Note how goog.structs.Set.getKey_ is used in the add() method:
https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/v20160125/clo...

This is how the library obtains the unique ID of an object:
https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/v20160125/clo...
"Amazon’s open-platform strategy for the Echo" - what a lie.

As much as I admire Amazon, please don't call things what they aren't. AWS is not an open platform. Echo is not either.
For those who don't know what this is:

http://criu.org

> Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space.
Found this - http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-dividend-yield/table - which I'll use to add a "include-dividends" mode (on by default).
it "works" on my iphone, but the minimum and maximum scales are too close to appreciate what it's capable of. that is, you can't really resize the picture by any significant measure.

i didn't "get it" on my phone but when i switched to my desktop it blew me away.