skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to say what you said.

Insurance companies will force the change. Starting, as you pointed out, with trucking.

The trucking industry will be forced to automate. As soon as it is demonstrable that automated trucks are far safer - and faster, as they need no breaks - then trucking companies will be forced to automate or die.

Passenger cars will follow thereafter. People will maintain the right to drive their own cars, but only at prohibitively high insurance rates.

When humans are no longer responsible for piloting the vehicle, it no longer makes sense to sell the vehicle to them, as there is no need to assign the risk to one individual. Instead, rented / leased vehicles will be much cheaper, and timesharing / ridesharing will be much more feasible.
> Yes, it's MTP with my current phone and linux installation. Is there a problem with this?

For the longest time MTP & Linux was terribly painful, verging on unusable, while mass storage worked perfectly. It bit when I upgraded my Nexus phone and discovered I couldn't get to the files stored on it.

Fortunately, all seems to work well now.
best counter "proof" that he isn't satoshi is the source code. compare this html5-masterpiece to the first bitcoin.org website: http://web.archive.org/web/20090131115053/http://bitcoin.org...

I doubt the real satoshi would have started to learn sophisticated html in the past 7 years
NATS – What beautiful protocol
NTPsec dodges 8 of 11 CVEs because we’d pre-hardened the code
Good point, thanks for adding this!

Still, I think it's sad that none of the three large cloud providers have IPv6 support.

Digital Ocean, OVH and a few other has it though. Still, most are with one of the big three.
The Last Phone Call
Will definitely check those out. Already bought the book. I like the writing style. Definitely easier to read than my college text books.
What do you do now?
I've had this same thing happen.

Not only do I have countless files gone, if you let the subscription lapse... You don't get your music back and it wasn't there when I renewed.

Also, the cellular providers have to love how much of my own music I'm downloading over their costly data services.
Justin.tv should've never closed down

It was quite nice with functionality and steaming from your mobile

It could've continued to coexist with twitch
Scala Test-State
> Imagine the same site with pirated high quality scientific books. (There are some, but in darker corners of the Internet).

Library genesis isn't that dark of a corner these days.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

http://golibgen.io/
Video: How plastic toys are painted
High-quality software is a documented way to reduce costs. The evidence is filling books, while there is none that shows that low quality leads anywhere.
Even when a client has a budget, if they won't give you a retainer check, they're not serious about starting right now...and maybe not serious about paying you at all.
A perfect example of regulating your competitors out of business.
Related teams tend to sit close to each other in any case, so this is a worst case scenario. Which isn’t really that bad anyways. It’s good exercise and a rectangular building holding 14,000 people would also require a lot of walking. Sure, it could be many, many rectangular buildings which everyone else does, which would require even more walking. Not to mentain there’s a huge benefit in productivity for 14,000 people to all get abundant natural sunlight, which is available to only a fraction of the people in a standard campus. Vitamin D is deficient in many people and engineers typically don’t get out much. I’d say it’s a win-win for everyone. Finally, the campus is pretty compact, leading to a ton of open space, which, combined with natural light, will likely lead to greater productivity and also be a great attraction to new employees who value the look and feel of their work environment very highly.
iTunes is the driving reason behind why I got rid of my iDevices.

First of all using iTunes for Windows has a way of making its users feel like something of an afterthought.

Secondly I was always scared to sync my devices. Is this the day it tries to undo my jailbreak? Is this the day that deleting a playlist actually removes all the songs from my device? Is this the day that it removes an app I depend on because Apple decided to kick it out of the app store?

Somewhat relatedly I never felt comfortable plugging my iPhone into my secondary computer. The whole process of authorization and syncing is just horribly opaque.

It's some of the most opaque software I've ever had the displeasure of using. How they managed to fuck up a file copy[1] so badly is beyond me.

Android isn't without it's own faults, but at least it feels like it's own independent device, with its own copy of my library. I don't want a complicated sync mechanism: I want to put this new album onto my phone.

[1]: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dop
>>Should publisher's work be free? I think not.

What exact work these publishers are doing? How much are they demanding for that? Who is funding the research? Who is doing the work?

These publishers are just mean middlemen who are trying to extract as much money as they can/want from both the authors and the readers. Now is the time to get rid of them.
The US is a nation of immigrants. As it stands now, H1-B is one of the few paths for technically-educated people to get lawful work and eventual permanent residence and citizenship in the US.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sponsoring an H1-B for a talented and qualified person who wants to live in the US. There's room, and there are jobs, and complaining about immigrants is just stupid.

That said, the H1-B gives companies way too much leverage over their workers. In a "restructuring" of my former employer (aka entering the drain-spiral) , the NYC office was closed and most people were offered the "opportunity" to relocate to Sacramento, or take severance. Not a single person relocated.... except the lone H1-B, who had a new baby and didn't feel like he had any choice because he could lose his visa otherwise. That kind of coercive force is a sign of a broken power dynamic, due to a broken law.
Is this a log from some command line tool? If yes, what is it?
Don't speak for most people. Most people know nothing about Bitcoin just yet. Can you be more specific about where the financial experiment of Bitcoin has gone wrong and why?
Some of the arguments I've read against publishers are along the lines that they take papers that were funded with public money, and thus in theory are in the public domain, yet they charge an arm and a leg for that information while at the same time preventing anyone else from distributing the free versions.

So how is it that they are entitled to be payed for something they didn't create or even own for that matter? Maybe if they did actually offered an added value service, then the freebie version would be inferior and would be no need to block them from being distributed, since people would just pick their own enhanced (curated?) versions.

As far as I understand it, Elsevier should only have a say on content they actually own the copyright for, which could be a lot of papers, but if I understand correctly SciHub was publishing papers that were funded with public money, is it not? or are they also hosting papers for which the copyright is actually owned by someone else?
Link to archived version of full May 3rd post
https://web.archive.org/web/20160504045648/http://www.drcrai...
Doesn't sound like it, after reading the article.
At what price?

When autonomous cars are ubiquitous, the price of insuring your thrill ride will be roughly equivalent to the hourly price of an amusement park.
The reason is that he's "too weak", supposedly. The real reason is that he isn't Satoshi.
Can you post a link to that please? When I search around starting with the Wikipedia [1] entry, I don't find a description of what you are describing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_spring
Django Builder
Ok guys, time to weigh in. Of course we aren't trying to claim that all brain processing reduces to Bayes. Our claim is that we experience the statistical likelihood of our beliefs about our input data (from sense organs or from long-term memory retrieval) as a sense of confidence. If that sense is actually generated by a heuristic computation rather than a neural implementation of Bayes rule is almost irrelevant, because the end product looks identical to Bayes in the ways that matter for use of a confidence variable in computation. We work through the mathematics of how statistical confidence should appear in different projections of decision data here:

http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/01/01/017400.abstr...

(To appear in http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/neco in the next month or so)

By necessity, we had to study decisions that could be replicated in a lab, so no mass-killings of cows. That being said, the brain is constantly faced with a statistical analysis problem - to figure out what's really happening outside of itself. A Bayesian machine is much more useful to assign a classification to sense data and compute its likelihood, than to determine whether your elders are correct when they insist that God is going to cause a plague in 2 years if we don't burn some bovines. Point being, the brain can construct and switch between (occasionally hilarious) decision making strategies depending on context - especially in the murkier, information-impoverished realm of social decision making.

Dealing with sense and memory data is a problem common to all animals, and evolution has had millions of generations to reject suboptimal processors. Processing language and abstract symbols to reinforce tribal social cohesion or implement a political agenda is a different category of decision that is newer in evolutionary terms, and definitely buggier. I hope this helps clear what we are and aren't claiming!

As an aside (since this is the right crowd!) we open-sourced the circuit design files, firmware and APIs for the real-time stimulus generator we used here:

https://github.com/sanworks/PulsePal

with documentation here:

https://sites.google.com/site/pulsepalwiki/home

and here:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneng.2014.00...

This system allowed us to shut off the ongoing audio click streams within 100 microseconds of a decision button press - so we could look backwards in time at the precise evidence stream used to make each choice and confidence report, for clues about what algorithm the brain used to process the streams. The follow-up study (under review) uses this data to evaluate different models of how decision and confidence computations are implemented in real-time.
I think it is worse than that. The paper often appears transparently dishonest in its reporting.
With the advent of the internet, the marginal cost of producing and distributing such content has dropped by orders of magnitude since the 1990's. One would expect in a competitive, healthy economic system, some of this productivity gain would fall to customers in lower prices. This has not happened. While piracy is not the ultimate answer, it may be necessary to force the hand of the businesses and government to restructure. I don't know how/how much publishers should be compensated, but they will not give up their current rent-seeking status unless it is ripped from their cold dead hands. Information production/distribution has become a commodity, and should be priced only to support the value add of peer-review, etc.
Meanwhile should authors be compensated? Yes, As an observation from the corner of science that i inhabit: authorship of 'high quality scientific books' is a 'secondary profession' with most authors having primary commitments to academic positions--which are very much enriched by authorship. I believe authors will continue to be compensated both directly and indirectly, as they are providing most of the value in the product.
Oh yeah. Never allow iTunes to manage your music (there's a checkbox.) In 2010 it wiped out the metadata from about 3000 songs and decided they were all united by unknown. I tried a few autotagging libraries but had to do at least half of it manually.

Sadly I haven't found a decent replacement for it.
What happened was he tried to get in and the one security guard told him he dad to be escorted by an employee, just as the sign said. Hundreds of people do this every day, thinking they will be able to see the campus on the inside. The only people that get escorted out are protestors who storm the lobby.
> He does have skeletons, as every normal person does. I don't think he would want to go after Clinton on that basis.

Do you know of any specifics? I think he probably has a habit of "objectifying women" which for most people would be the death of a candidacy, but I bet Trump can just shrug his shoulders when accused and that will be the end of it. Of course this will incense young liberals, but the general public is well aware that men and women are not identical and sexual innuendo, etc are facts of life and not the end of the world. For example, a lot of regressive liberals would equate being a cocktail waitress at a Trump party as the near equivalent of rape, whereas the waitresses themselves (I'd happily bet $$ on this) are falling over themselves for the next gig as it pays well and is fun. Pure speculation on my part of course.

And yes, completely agree on the John Oliver schtick....maybe its bias but I sense a change in the effectiveness of this approach, people are tired of it.
If Microsoft did not enjoy the tax breaks, it might have settled somewhere else in the first place, and the overall economic activity and tax revenue would be smaller. Everyone else would have to pay more, or be happy with smaller public spending.
>Authorities allege about 8:30 p.m. on the day of the killing, a man called police from the actor’s cellphone, saying that he had just shot his wife to death.

>A handgun was later recovered in the home.
I'd forgotten all about that question! It's like Apple never considered the possibility that you might connect an iPod and a hard drive with different files and want to keep the union of them.

Similarly, the default setting where Apply tries to copy all of your content to a new iPod when you plug it in, in alphabetical order. I have 300Gb of music, you should know that won't succeed.
This. And the way he did it. Why would he run to GQ and BBC instead of simply posting online, as with previous communication.
Apple includes the ability to easily set up an IPv6 only hotspot. Using NAT64 and DNS64.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
> but the blockchain isn't dependent on a gatekeeper

Apart from a tiny group of devs and mining pools engaged in non-stop bickering and infighting
If someone gets scammed by a con-artist, would you blame the victim there too?
I would check out the book "Free to Learn" by Peter Gray - he goes into why "unschooling" or democratic schooling can be effective. It really changed my outlook on education. I had previously read "A Mathemetician's Lament"[0], an essay by Paul Lockhart that made me start to question the value of regular schooling.

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
Yes, certainly we should sympathize with this person who is behaving in a confusing way.

Even if he made a calculated decision to manipulate the news media here, the blame must be shared by the journalists who promoted the story, and to an extent, the portion of the audience that was simply looking for an easy answer and a satisfying resolution.

At the end of the day, the whole lot of us should be responsible for being skeptical enough to prevent a destructive person from turning their personal issues into a global crisis.

Many people stepped up to debunk this story quite readily. It was the mainstream media that was really exacerbating the situation.
How Bill James Used Rafael Palmeiro's Gold Glove to Predict Donald Trump
"I recovered my original music files only by using a backup I made"
Exactly. The economy is so interconnected. Even going to a restaurant (workers after all have to also eat) they are funding an additional local business, which in turn needs to hire other people and purchase local produce from another business.

People -- not corporate taxes -- are the drivers of wealth in a local economy. WA state is wise to recognize this, not foolish.
I completely agree, but it's having your cake and eating it too. I'm in full support of H-1B, but you shouldn't be allowed cheaper labor and also not pay taxes. I'd like to see one or the other, pay taxes and have lower labor, or employee Americans and get tax breaks.
I liked my Windows Phone a lot. It was the most responsive phone I'd used in years, and I could resize the tiles to the shape and position that I wanted, so my most common apps were more accessible.

But then they laid off 7400 division employees and had no product roadmap, and it was obvious they were going to write-off their investment in Nokia. So I left not because I didn't like it, or liked something else more, but because of a lack of confidence in their commitment to it.

Microsoft, you need to do a better job of announcing your direction.
I do not understand, but figured from your post history that you would not be very receptive to the message.
Disney is not on the list?
Amazon Could Take a 30% Stake in a Large Cargo Airline
Well this has, more or less, killed my ejuice business.
With my group, we started to use slack for email, but the transient nature of the chat did exactly what you describe.

We ended up finding Discourse, a forum system, and have been using that. Now, slack is more about simulating in person discussion (i.e. we rarely use it), and Discourse is more like emails pre-sorted by category. I have to say, it's working pretty well.
Because taking notes sucks, most people aren't very good at taking them, every interface has serious drawbacks in a number of situations, and organizing information (regardless of quality) is HARD.

* Pulling out your phone/phablet/tablet & navigating to your note-taking app takes too long. (Heaven forbid you want to try this with a laptop, if you happen to want to tote one of those around all the time.)
* Once you clear that hurdle, then you've got to type something you'll be able to make heads or tails of.
* Or you can talk at your phone and take a voice note. This assumes that the environment is both quiet enough for it to work well and appropriate enough for you to be dictating without annoying a bunch of people. The fact that you're likely to look like a crazy person talking to yourself (or worse, your phone with nobody on the other end) doesn't help either.
* Pen & Paper is quick, but easily lost as you said. You can take a picture of it, but context needs extracted somehow then.
* Now you've got to organize it all. Or you can just toss them into some sort of bin (digital or otherwise) and tell yourself you'll do it later. As if!

If you front-load the organizing effort then it's too time consuming and cumbersome to do /really quickly/, so you don't bother taking enough notes.

And not nearly enough people come back to their things later to organize, so you end up with an explosion of a million unorganized scraps (digital or paper).

What I'd love is an app that I could slam all kinds of things into quickly (like Keep) and that could weave through my life and try to stitch the scraps together, using things like my location, calendar, text extraction/transcription (from pictures/recordings) to build context and try to organize the scraps. If I happened to have the time to take the effort, make it easy to organize the thing I just added into the right place.

Preferably one that could learn from the prior organization, so that as I put more into it it gets better and sorting things out correctly. If I'm taking notes or pictures or recording things during (or very close to) a time I've got blocked out for a meeting, then start associating those things together.

...and a pony. I want a pony!
Reuters original: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-passwords-idUSKCN0XV...
What's up with the numbers in the title?
I live in a brand new home. Spray foam insulation. Keep the AC at around 74 year round. I also have natural gas running in to my house for my stove and water heater. All of my light bulbs are LED.
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
Ng-conf 2016 Summary – Day One. Everything you need to know
My first thought too; where is Disney and/or TATA
What is the best theory of how Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis were deceived?
Yes extremely short. And why all those East Asian names?
I've never seen that. Also, this would break many websites that are part of the HPKP preload list I would think (need to double check), which include most popular websites.

However, I've often seen port 443 being blocked :|.
I said that exact same thing in literally the next line of the comment you're responding to. :)
To those of you who have never known a conman or someone with borderline personality disorder, this behavior might seem odd. To me, it's like looking at a picture of a dog and going "oh that's a dog!"
This municipal capture you describe sounds brilliant.
Microsoft’s PhotoDNA
I'm aware of corporate MitM proxies, but it's less common to run into these kinds of issues if you simply use wss://, because a) they're not quite as common as your typical ancient HTTP caching proxy and b) there's a better chance they either support new protocols natively or at least support HTTP CONNECT (like squid).
6 Calculators showing LTV method for different situations
And until there are apps that can use IPv6, there won't be a need. I think it's fine that Apple attempts to push IPv6, because no one else seems to be doing anything, well no big companies at least.
Maybe, maybe not. We are talking about 30 years ago. It is now one of the largest corporations in the world. Even if you buy into the corrupt world of tax incentives, they generally come with some sort of expiration date.
> However, the reasoning for that is that we want the HN community to decide on what's interesting and gets on the front page.

Exactly the same reasoning applied to deciding what's interesting and gets funded. I'm surprised this is even a question. If we had changed that rule, HN users would have skinned us alive.

Saying that "interviewing and evaluating will be done in regular HN threads" meant that the regular HN thread rules applied. We did change one of those—from "be civil" to "be nice", which by the way people did a pretty good job of—and I explained that change at length in the original post.

If you read through the comments in that original thread you'll see that a lot of them had to do with people's concerns about gaming of the voting system, which is one of the most common things that comes up here, and my answers were all about reassuring them that we'd watch for it and disqualify applications if we found it.
Like I said all evidence and logic leads to the conclusion he's a fraud, but it is a bit strange that the real Satoshi has not commented on this when he did on the Dorian Nakamoto stuff.
Apple's efforts are already bearing fruit: since El Capitan, the only paths that root can change are in /Users/$USER and /usr/local. For example, you can no longer edit binaries in /bin or /usr/bin.

Another example: root cannot attach the debugger to binaries that have been signed with restrictive entitlements. lldb will refuse to debug `/usr/bin/git`, for example.

This has been the case for at least a year now.