skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rationally - yes absolutely. If there is a scarcity of tenants, why would you want to turn them away for any reason.

I was talking in the terms of the human unconscious - the knowledge reaffirmed your entire life, and for as long as humans existed that stuff is scarce. And if stuff is scarce and that affects your survival - you might as well secure it for yourself and your group (the reason being that your immediate group is more likelly to support you, e.g arabs got a proverb about this - me against my brother, me and my brother against the men of our village, our village against another village, and so on).

If resource scarcity could be alleviated through cheap energy, that might modify this base human survival mechanism which is a reason for in-groups/out-groups.
I'm personally in the emotional stoic camp but find it easier to trust emotional people because well, they can't easily hide their true emotions.
We Are Sick of Taliban, AlQaeda and Mr. Obama
Last week, a drone attack killed Mula Mansoor No.1 Taliban leader in Balochistan Province of Pakistan, it was first drone in that area, and the province where China is investing 46 US Billion Dollar.

Mansur was in Iran and just when he entered in Pakistan he was attacked.

He was in Qatar, and Dubai too. But never got attacked.

We fucking hate them. His death is not an issue for me.

What bothers, you are treating us like shit.

You funded Alqeda, Taliabn and Russian- Afghan war and dragged us into this shit.

I am never gonna forget this attack.

Mr. asshole Obama, if you think, you can keep our great nation from building our great country, you are mistaken.

We are hellbent to succeed. Until this attack, I had treated US a rather sober country.

But You got the message across. And we got it asshole.

We will survive and thrive. you will kiss our balls like you did in 60s.

phuck you Obama.
I think the key to eliminating most of this behavior is to not show the picture right off the bat since it allows people to be subtly racist. If they have to ask for a picture before denying a guest then it's a lot more obvious they're being racist.

The more overt racists can be dealt with by doing simple analysis of denied/cancelled bookings and banning them.

I'm guessing AirBnB will eventually have to implement one or both of these approaches to avoid discrimination lawsuits.
> Not necessarily a hack of the Swift Software, right?

It was absolutely a hack of the software. The Swift/Alliance software was modified to, for example, rewrite the PCL output of print jobs so as to make sure paper-based reconciliations would match the electronic fraud.

See the informative http://baesystemsai.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m... for details.
I don't think I've got Asperger's, but I also have a sort of instinctual reaction to clamp down on any emotion that deviates too far from a standard flavor of okay-ness. Not sure where that comes from. Sometimes jealous of people who seem capable of those big emotional responses.

WHEEE! 8-)
Yep, I'm pretty happy with Harvest. Even as a solo operator, invoicing is their most important feature for me, and I see TimeCamp only includes that at the Pro level (Harvest has it in their free tier). Cost isn't an issue for me, ~$100/year pays for itself with an hour of client work and it wouldn't be worth the time for me to switch just to save a few dollars.

I'd need to see more details about things like your Mac desktop app (eg screenshots, system requirements), as Harvest's Mac app is a big part of my workflow, also their integration with Alfred app on the Mac. I also like that Harvest pays attention to lots of really tiny details too.

It's probably not worth it for me to switch, but your link might be useful to someone else just starting out!
It wasn't long ago that an officer serving a warrant for a non violent offense threw a grenade into a baby's crib (yes, the baby was inside).

Now I'm not sure where their training draws the line on infant collateral damage:
Don't shoot in rooms with babies?
Shoot around the babies?

But imagine if the rule was: Don't upset the children. (silly I realize, but thats how what-ifs are played). It seems like decisions would be made resulting in fewer grenades landing in bassinets.
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I used to hold this position, but I heard an example (I forget the source, but I think it's on the web) that convinced me otherwise: a &str is no different from a &[u8] in terms of representation, except for the type-system guarantee that it contains valid UTF-8 sequences. (Hence the syntax as &str instead of &[str], since "str" refers to sequences of bytes.) In a valid UTF-8 string, if you see the first byte of a multibyte sequence, you can assume that there is at least one more byte. It would be nice if we could write decoders that used that property, without having to do bounds-checks: the type system promises us that &strs are, in fact, valid UTF-8. But changing a &str to be invalid UTF-8 isn't inherently a memory-unsafe operation.

So we're left with two options. The first is to say, despite the typesystem, a UTF-8 decoder for &str isn't permitted to do anything that would be invalid/undefined/wrong if done to an arbitrary &[u8]. (In other words, &str is merely a hint, and everyone must code defensively as if any &str could be an arbitrary byte string.) The second is to narrow "safe" down to "does not break typesystem invariants," even though the set of possible typesystem invariants is pretty large.

I think Rust actually has a good claim to being different from other languages here, given how much more of a typesystem it has, and given how much more it tries to do with newtype wrappers and zero-cost abstractions. The inability to use newtypes for optimization would be pretty unfortunate in a language that otherwise does so many excellent things with detailed typing. There are some languages where types are just hints (I think Objective-C basically works this way), but that's definitely not Rust's style.
...or at least are not using their platform to engage in racist practices.
I remember thinking back then, and sometimes now I still do, that I would gladly pay a fee for a togglable feature that let me exclude all wordpress sites in my search results
Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika
Wouldn't that be their biggest payday ever? They'd go out with a massive pile of cash ahead of real patent reform that would otherwise tank their market cap. I've got to think that that's Plan B for every patent troll, and that it wouldn't be a disappointing outcome to them.
There's really no evidence for that. The evidence is that the American banking system doubles its money (and direct lending) every decade, and has done for the last 50 odd years. If there was actual weak demand, you would expect it to stop expanding, or expand at a lower rate, and that's exactly what you don't see.

Compare and contrast with the UK for example (M3, because no standard definitions etc.):

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MABMM301GBM189S

The UK btw, doesn't have a formal central bank reserve percentage (it has fairly minimal liquidity provisions which are the same thing, but still). Economics needs to wake up and realise it does not understand how the monetary system actually works.
To make this clear (because TFA certainly, and probably intentionally, didn't), this is not the same thing as what Thiel is doing. Omidyar and FLM are filing an amicus brief, not donating money.
C FFI structs have to be marked `#[repr(C)]` to guarantee they'll be represented how C structs would be. It might be a reasonable change to implicitly allow dead fields on any struct with a C repr (since using the struct in C effectively makes all of its fields public).
So many people here admitting they cry with an undertone that they feel various levels of bad for doing it. @donatj even said his wife makes fun of him when he cries.

We have got to make this a non-issue. Its so insane to me that in Western culture someone isn't allowed to express a perfectly normal aspect of their physiology. Its like shaming someone for puking. It may not be pleasant but not doing it is way worse.

I sincerely believe we should be pushing back and HARD when we're shamed for crying. "We" being anyone because, lets face it, women are shamed for it too.
> apologia for the inability to control one's emotional outbursts.

What makes you so angry about the idea that crying is normal and is nothing to be ashamed of?
I write about many subjects at http://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/ It's usually about software, but also about subjects that I find interesting (finance, real estate, ads, ...).
If I understand you correctly, I can see what you mean about emotional openness being a more feminine trait, and understand your implication that homosexual males may lean more towards that behaviour too (stereotypically, at least) - but I really don't understand what race has to do with this?
I think the whole Apple car rumor is analysts trying to come up with a conceivable way they could spend a large portion of their reserves.
Great find! It's not quite an OS. It does demonstrate a system booting into kernel-mode, Go code. That's a start. Re-writing... even auto-translating... the Oberon system to Go still seems like best proof.

I just sent the Github author an email suggesting it as his next project. Plus a little praise for giving us the needed ammo. :)
Years ago when I created a MySpace account, I set my password to "password". They eventually added "password" to the password blacklist, but fortunately I was grandfathered in.
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery...
Facebook has multiple domains with an A record resolving to 127.0.0.1. Go ahead and look at the response headers of a www.facebook.com request.
Ahhh, got it. Any suggestions then?
>How do I know that? Because, at Devpost, we surveyed over 1,700 student developers at over 80 college hackathons about recruiting. And their answers showed me that both companies and job hunters are bad at talking about themselves.

Sounds like students and recruiting firms are the problem then.
It's not necessary to buy a domain and host one's own server. For example, there is https://savannah.gnu.org/ , which is where Emacs itself is hosted.
"Up" definitely triggered the strongest emotions in me of any movie to date. Perhaps it reminded me of the loss of my grandma a few years earlier.

The first ten minutes made me so upset that I spent the rest of the movie fighting my body so that I wouldn't start bawling. It would have been such an intense and loud cry that I absolutely would have had to run out of the movie theater.
After the movie I drove my friend home (~30 min), but I couldn't say one word to her because I was still so deeply upset that my lips were trembling.

I don't cry much, in fact, I really can't cry when most people ordinarily would. But in the rare circumstances where something can make me cry (whether it's very sad, or just incredibly beautiful) it is always with maximum intensity.
Previous poster is stating the passwords could be the same as they were 10 years ago, why MySpace was popular, and the users aren't using those same passwords anymore.
As much as I support funding this research, "because decades have passed with little evidence of success" sounds like a good reason for a skepticism to me.
Thanks for providing these links.
Yes, I'd think the Schwinger limit[0] would be reached first, which is currently the dream of most of us in this field. The Irradiance for the Schwinger limit is 10^29 W/cm^2.

By contrast, the planned ELI[1] experiment will have pulse with a intensity of 10^24 W/cm^2. The current state of the art lasers of high peak intensity is ~10^21 W/cm^2 (current record I believe is 10^22 W/cm^2). There are proposals to getting to the Schwinger limit but they are still in the hypothetical stage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Light_Infrastructure
Like it even matters. Remember MySpace decided out of the blue to just delete everyone's messages, wall posts, etc back in 2013. And didn't give any options to download a copy of them.

I STILL want a copy of all my private messages and everything else. I can't imagine they actually deleted everything.
There are some big challenges that still need to be met, such as how to breed tritium in the blanket, how to make the reactor realistically serviceable, materials resistant to sputtering, etc. Nearer-term are solutions to problems of how the diverter effects plasma flow, but even that is a long way out.
Well, if the author's intent was some sort of meta-joke about hot "everyone reports on everyone else’s reporting," it seems to be working, as other sources are reporting on it:

http://screencrush.com/street-sharks-hoax/

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/27/11788884/street-sharks-hoax

http://www.avclub.com/article/read-utterly-fraudulent-altern...

http://gawker.com/everything-i-ever-thought-i-knew-about-str...
my guess is, without any insider information, they were (or at least would be) willing to deal with negative pr, for the amount of data this program is likely to get.'

While google (and many others) have been working on self-driving cars/testing systems, Tesla is a car company with many active vehicles. They benefit from huge fleets of vehicles (comparative to other autonomous car companies not car manufacturers) of which to test. So releasing this product and having potentially 50-100K people using it daily as well as over millions of miles logged could be net worth it.

They probably assumed (and likely calculated) a falure mode would be non-lethal/minimal dents and very small risk of human life. So they would allow the tech out there early and hope that a lot of this data helped to improve the vehicles.

It isn't PC to say, but this is how humans have learned most things. Being 90% something works, and then getting last 10 percent by learning what not to do which often comes at with a cost as high as human life. For example, the Challenger mission was a tradgedy and we, and very unfortunately some brave men and woman, paid a price for us to learn how to protect those future astronauts.
Well, if they're going to arrest someone, they'd have a belief that they're a criminal. If there's evidence that they have a gun (e.g. entry in the gun registry under their name), then they'd have to consider it an attempt to apprehend a presumed-armed, suspected criminal.

I don't see why a registered gun would be a point in their favor. They probably registered their car, paid their taxes, and stopped at red lights too.
Smartphones have exploded in the last 10 years....
I'm not addressing the FBI response, but hear me out. As a security researcher you have to stop at the first vulnerability. Don't use the vulnerability to get more information. It's the companies responsibility to ascertain the impact of the problem. This person should not have attempted to download anything from the FTP server. It should have spotted the FTP server, notified the company and made it clear they never attempted to download anything from it.

There was a similar issue with S3 credentials and Facebook a few months ago. The security researcher went too far. There was a large outcry by everyone about Facebooks response. I'm not addressing the response. I'm saying as a security researcher you need to protect yourself by trying very hard to limit the impact of what you're doing to remove risk of legal liability. Only go as far as the first problem and no further.
Maybe a stupid question, but why doesn't Apple start a vc fund?
Please cite, I can't find anything to support your claim.
> And in 2011, a Purdue study hammered the final nail in the olestra coffin. It found that olestra incites weight gain by tricking the body into thinking it doesn’t need to metabolize fatty foods. Once your body is accustomed to olestra fat that has no calories, the body is surprised by the calories of real fat.

I wonder if the same applies to zero calorie sugar substitutes?
Just like Lisa's rock. Nothing works 100% of the time, and obviously they do not use "high quality randomized controlled trials" since killing people is not ethical. Current recommendations are to begin with back blows.
Without disagreeing that some portion of global profit comes from "taking things from the planet", do you think that all the value we've created since emerging from Africa somewhen between 50.000 and 100.000 years ago can be compensated with environmental damage? Or is it a recent trend? If we were to plot a graph, where the X axis is the time and the Y axis is profits/damage, how would it look like?

What about mathematics, arts and science? It sure has incredible value and eventually translates into corporate profit. For the most part I cannot see the corresponding environmental debt.

And to be more specific: what kind of damage did the three mentioned companies do?
You can't find wikipedia? Here's his son's site talking about how he is a huge fraud: http://www.medfraud.info/
I don't see any chance at all that a company could actually get an injunction against iMessage based on a few patents like this. The judge will expect the parties to negotiate in good faith and come to a settlement. Apple will have to pay "a lot of money".

Could Apple not find prior art and invalidate the patent? Apparently not.

I assume a software patent in particular does not give VirnetX an absolute right to shut down a product for which it is just a small component.

I do think patent awards for component functionality do not get adjusted downward enough based on the relatively small weight of the subject matter on the overall product. When one piece of software can be covered by thousands of parents, violating a single parent should, most of the time, cost less than a small fraction of the overall value of the product.
Well, what's "most interesting"?

That me there's a lot interesting stuff that can automatically get proven by the compiler given a little effort on your part. It may not be the most interesting, but that doesn't make it worthless, does it?
While I get what you're saying, this form of blogging is closer to opinion pieces, not journalism; it's why news papers formerly segregated the op-ed pieces from the rest of the paper, as it's less about a journalistic investigation and more a writing opining/pontificating. Blogging can have all sots of forms, some closer to news, some closer to personal diaries/journals. Based on the piece, this is closer to the latter, someone's personal experience made public.

I realize that nowadays it's not as clear cut when you're reading an op-ed and when you're reading a piece of news, and sometimes it seems like authors try to blur the lines, but the distinction exists for a reason. The author of the piece did not really seem to try to make this anything more than "this is my story", which should set the tone and understanding of the writing he's about to present.
I agree it is irresponsible. I think Google is correct in saying that self driving cars probably shouldn't even have steering wheels...it is absolutely unrealistic to think that people will hang out for an hour while the car does things correctly, and then be alert when it happens to not do things correctly.

Humans don't work like that.
Actually, I have a retrieval mission in the works for something that answers your question. ;)

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/10/a-planet-made...
I have the DK2, doesn't work with my glasses :(. Admittedly i didn't try with a CV unit I got to check out, but my brother did and it worked for him. Might just vary depending on frames.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V addresses your argument about the money supply. Important to look not only at the aggregate amounts, but the velocity of money to see spend/save trends.

But there are a lot of other economic indicators that you need to consider outside the money supply when talking about aggregate demand. Look at interest rates as one example, which are a proxy for how expensive (highly demanded) money is, and ask yourself why they are at an all-time low and stagnating at the ZLB, with short-term rates even going negative in some countries.
Comcast upgraded their network in Santa Cruz in response to this. Amazing what a little competition will do.
That's not what your link (quoting an unpublished study) claims:

"The figure equates to 6-7% of the companies' combined turnover, or an average of one-third of their profits"
France already pumped the brakes on Facebook using their position of power to target non-users http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/facebook-france.html,

I wonder where this will land them in the future with France, Brazil, or other countries that aren't as "friendly" with FB as the United States.
From the Enumerated Powers (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8) of the US Constitution, granting Congress power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

"To promote progress" is the core rationale for this power; I would argue that if the current implemention no longer does that, or in fact inhibits progress, then Congress needs to redefine how this works in law.
I would think twice to rent out my apartment to a guy and his friend ever. I'm a guy but when I see how other (especially unknown) guys treated my flat at a house party (compared to unknown girls) I decided that I don't want to allow guys I don't know beforehand. And I would do the same thing with rentals probably. It's just not worth the risk for that amount of money.
Isn't the whole point to provide a hotel like service that is unregulated and ignores the law? I thought that is what disrupt meant. Why would they follow this specific law?
Maybe the car insurance example was bad, but I think the situation is a little more complex than pure statistics.

The US has a very long history of racism against minorities. It's been difficult to get a strong system in place to combat racism. Ageism against young people has a built in correction system called aging.
I am not sure I understand your issue with the EFF's position.

The EFF is supporting the FCC's right to require set-top-box compatibility; their article says "copyright law prohibits copying, not 'doing anything with it' so we think that as a matter of law, the cable companies telling you not to use this regulation are simply wrong".

Do you disagree with this? When you say:

> Could they insist on a particular means of reproduction (as they could with a printer.) Maybe.

are you suggesting that you think the copyright holders have a legal right to restrict what your set-top-box can do? If so, do you think that they ALSO have a legal right to restrict what your television set can do?