skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is literally nothing on that article about how many lives their initiative saved. Just standard corporate propaganda about how much they spent on this and that.

If I've spent 80 millions on Vaccines does that mean that I've saved hundreds of lives? No.

I don't want to be a truther here, nor I'll paste links that would confirm partial statement wrapped inside my question, but it would be great if one could be open to critically observe actions of our beloved philanthropists, there is complete universe beyond local news feeds.
> Cola, lemon lime, orange, or other syrups don't have this kind of availability

Cola and lemon-lime as a mix, maybe; orange, as well as lemon and lime individually -- and also raspberry, vanilla, chocolate, hazelnut, and others -- are very commonly available flavoring syrups in most grocery stores I've seen.
The best thing I found to combat this is make distraction difficult. To that end, the best two things I did was write an FF plugin to hide FB's news feed and removed the News feed from my iPhone. Now I actually have to type a URL if I want distraction, which becomes something of a deterrent.
Author of ruby-macho (the library being used) here:

Yes, exactly. During bottle installations, we need to be able to relocate dylib references and install names so that they're relative to the Homebrew prefix.
1) It's free. It's not like they took something from you.

2) You don't have to install it.

3) If you don't like it, move on and quit bitching about it.
Does stuff like this stand up in court though, considering the Sixth Amendment?
Google is a company that uses algorithms to sell ad space to you. How is a company not evil when you are the product?
http://brew.sh
The Playpen Story: Some Fourth Amendment Basics and Law Enforcement Hacking
A Brief History of Bots and How They've Shaped the Internet Today
They're correct about "Professional Engineer" in Canada, not everywhere else. It varies by jurisdiction and wording.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...

If tech companies were breaking the law, someone would be suing.
That's because manufacturing is not a profit center for Apple.

Design is.

(Not just industrial design looks -- the whole design of the product as a coherent whole, including the design of the electronics, ecosystem, etc).

What he writes will be outdated when Google outsources their Search engine, or Facebook outsources their social graph machinery,
We're still hanging in there. Our Open Source user base keeps growing, but revenue from our commercial products has been flat for too long; we're working on some hosted products, to hopefully address that. It's likely a pivot is in our future. And, on the personal front, I'm still traveling mostly full-time in an RV (as I've been doing off and on since I left the valley ~7 years ago).
Starship robots try out deliveries on SF sidewalks
Because you don't want it to be or because you have proof? If you have proof, show it.
This page slows my browser to a crawl. I had to close the page to type this comment. Same if I open it in incognito with no extensions.

Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 m, Windows 10
That's a pretty solid point.
too little, too late. Once you loose trust, you never gain it again.
If you're running any Logitech hardware, specifically mice, I recommend waiting to upgrade. Numerous issues have been reported (see [1][2][3]). For my Marathon M705 mouse, I cannot use back/forward and scrolling is only half working, plus the Logitech Control Center is crashing randomly and actually uninstalled itself this morning without warning, which is always cool.

[1]: https://community.logitech.com/s/question/0D53100005UytQy

[2]: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253784/logitech-mou...

[3]: https://community.logitech.com/s/question/0D53100005UPFcp
Scala VS Java: fresh view
anything is possible :)

How many total datapoints are you trying to represent at once, ballpark? My first instinct is that it would probably be most efficient to feed the data into Unreal and build the physical representation there VS importing a large monolithic 3D model, because then you could make use of instancing, distance culling, etc. This would also mean you could animate the objects separately as well, and manipulate scale, color and the like in realtime.

Again, probably depends heavily on the specifics. In general though, modern gaming GPU's can handle just an insane number of polygons so either way, you should be able to represent a ton of datapoints.

As far as getting data into the engine, it supports .csv importing where you can define your own row types etc: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Gameplay/DataDriven...

I believe there's also a SQL lite support module for the engine as well, if you want to deal with really massive sets of data, though the documentation there is sparse.

My contact info is in my profile, feel free to hit me up if you have any other questions, happy to help.
There appears to be a double standard between insulting a race or religion, and sex or sexuality... they appear to argue that insulting women or gay people is okay because such discussion is somehow in the public interest, but that insulting a race or religion (middle-eastern people and muslims in particular) is not in the public interest? Seems arbitrary.
I've learned the hard way to (mostly) follow the HN guidelines when posting a comment. Otherwise there are plenty of other outlets for cynicism and rage. If your bit is not constructive or backed by some coherent thought process and facts you can usually skip commenting...
anyone with half a brain should have seen this coming.
I guess 'some' would be pretty stupid then
Your misapprehension is addressed specifically at the top of the article:

Of those chemicals, the most commonly found in liquid antibacterial soap is triclosan, and the most common in bar soap is triclocarban. These compounds have been found to disrupt development of the reproductive system and metabolism in animals, and may contribute to making bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

In bringing attention to antibacterial soap, the FDA cited a study led by Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby showing no significant difference in results from plain soap and antibacterial soap. To better understand the issues around antibacterial soap, we spoke with Luby, a professor with the Stanford School of Medicine and a senior fellow with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

That is:

* The ingredients listed as "active" have no measureable positive outcomes effects when tested.

* Which means that the claims of manufacturers are not supported. If the manufacturers are making those claims with an awareness of this fact, they are committing fraud.

* There are demonstrable and highly probable harms of the ingredents on the environment.

So yes, your stated assumptions are incorrect. The product is not only "not useful", it is actively harmful, and doesn't work as advertised.

Further cheap shots do little to ameliorate the initial false premises.
That is true.

It is also true that statist ideas have been tried in the real world countless times, and also don't work.

There are no good answers. There are only good enough for now answers.

Property tax is good enough for now. It will not be abolished until something better comes along to displace it.
North Korean dictator culture involves being an "instant expert" for pretty much all industry. I don't know how well KJU does it, but his father would show up at a workplace and start giving random advice. Everyone would applaud his genius and take notes. Lots of face-saving smiles, photo ops, crying, etc would follow. Then state media would report increased productivity in that plant or farm.

Its incredible people have to live like this. Dictatorships are hell.
> "Women and their monogamy obsession. Why are they so insecure and try to fight biology?"

> "Reject"

> "We would have approved. Whether we agree with a comment, we want to provide a space for interesting interactions to occur. Put simply, the replies to this comment may prove to be enlightening for many readers. The comment does not criticize a specific woman, so it is not a personal attack. While it might be considered an insult against a class, alleging an "obsession" is not a particularly inflammatory insult. We don’t seek to police opinions, only to help as many people as possible express themselves on nytimes.com."

It was about calling women "insecure" besides "obsessive" in a two sentence comment in a pejorative tone. It is not about agreeing with the comment or not.
> Encryption is one possible response to the broader concern around what companies are doing with user data

And note that even with encryption, companies can still use our meta-data.
Note that it's just Jigsaw, not "Google Jigsaw."
>>But if you have a secure way of getting your quantum bits to Bob, couldn't you get your OTP there in the same way?

No, because you do not choose the information to be verified on either side. You're not choosing a key and "encoding" it into "quantum bits", you're measuring the quantum state of two entangled particles.

If the quantum state matches, you have provably secure transmission. If the transmission were intercepted, the act of intercepting it would cause the measurement verification to fail due to the observer effect. The parties would be able to see that the key was intercepted because the particles were prematurely disentangled.

This is quantum key distribution, which is a subset of (and often misleadingly conflated with) quantum cryptography. It is not possible to use quantum cryptography to send provably secure arbitrary data of your choosing, it's only possible to generate and distribute provably secure keys and use those for classical cryptographic communication.

The reason why it's important to call it quantum key distribution is because it makes it clearer that this only solves one problem in a greater cryptosystem. Key distribution is a significant problem in cryptography, and provably secure key distribution is a great leap forward, but it's not the only problem.
If you enjoy using facebook, don't let others convince you otherwise. Maybe it works for you, but not for the other commenters. Personally i still check ocasionally my facebook, because I get notified of reharsal dates (I'm an amateur musician), what people that share the same sports as I do are doing, etc..

I think the key is balance.
I know what memory forensics is and I use Volatility and Second Look and quite a few other things pretty often, I've asked specifically about an instance of cold boot attack that you claimed in a hyperbole that are used often or at all by the police.

You know what I don't need a case, please find me a jurisdiction in which cold boot attacks have passed forensic certification, e.g. a link to the process like for example from a body equivalent to the ASTM https://www.astm.org/Standards/forensic-science-standards.ht... would suffice.
> ... the world of The Wire ...

I'm not so sure. From my perspective The Wire had a lot of Freshman psychology, philosophy, and civics mixed in with pauses where characters would stare at one another and let silence pass between them.

Mr. Robot is clearly a mature show to a subset of an audience; Rami Malek even won an Emmy, this year. Perhaps you are not hearing the music. In that case, I hope you do. : )
Google Allo: Why people such as Edward Snowden are advising against using the app

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea...
The Nicer Internet
I would go further and say that we have to do both. Without empathy high standards are impossible.
Wherever this guy has worked is where I never want to work. If people can't appreciate the value your engineers create then that's not a place to work. If this guy's advice applies to your job, get a new job. I'm not going to work at a place where I'm worried about "attaching myself to the company's profit center" and other bullshit and I've been a happily employed programmer for 9 years now.
Make sure you don't read any of Tavis Ormandy's tweets or posts about the state of password manager security then.
Last time I came across an article about this, I found out that there is a company that sells a version of the "Finnish baby box".

https://finnishbabybox.com/
Yeah, their rationale on that is bizarre. Not only does the comment contain a sexist insult, the comment is nothing but a sexist insult.
So, can the AI bots play each other in Deathmatch? Could that then be used as additional training sets?
This simply isn't true for most people. If a normal person rolls over on something they will feel it and wake up.

Do you typically fall off the bed? No? Why not? It's because you retain awareness while you sleep.

People who should not cosleep include people on medications, extremely heavy sleepers, sleepwalkers, and the very overweight.

For most people it's just fine. You go to sleep knowing "there is a baby here" and you will be aware of that all night.
The part of the comment that got it rejected:
>This problem will not end unless a significant portion of the middle east is sterilized and even then you would still have to sterilize Iran and possibly Saudi Arabia

The sterilization was the reason for rejection.
The handling of derogatory comments about groups is rather odd to me.
But you could say the same for any code that say, touches the filesystem.
dodging is not really an FPS skill, is it? Specifically in a close quarters game like Doom with primarily non-projectile weapons. Having unpredictable or confusing movement patterns is a useful skill against humans at some levels of play, but in arena-style deathmatch FPS, usually you want to keep moving as it makes you a harder target and exposes you to more potential kills. So 'dodging' ends up being simply intermittent zig zags which may or may not marginally protect you from certain enemies, but definitely will not get you more kills. I don't think a camping bot would get nearly as much reward (kills) as this guy.
You are off by about 60% - prior to 1996 inflation was overstated by 1.6%/year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission

It's actually still overstated; for example, there is no hedonic adjustment to health care in CPI. In 1950, I'd be a cripple. In 2014 I had surgery and now I'm in great shape. Since surgery costs more than a doctor saying "you're fucked", the BLS treated it as inflation.

And really, this claim just doesn't pass the smell test. And by "smell", I mean the smell of an outhouse. In 1950 the bottom 16-32% (depending on which set of numbers you look at) lacked full indoor plumbing.

https://books.google.com/books?id=_nY9LFtlqygC&pg=PA180&lpg=...
With the help of Google Jigsaw the results will look like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=american+inventors
https://jigsaw.google.com
I hate this sudden desire to have every account keyed on a phone number. I know 3 phone numbers - mine, my wife's and my parent's. Oh, I still remember my friends from elementary school's parent's phone numbers too, but honestly, I haven't had to think about learning a new phone number in over a decade. I'm honestly about an inch away from shutting off my own phone number, which has been a google voice number for 6 years now, because the only calls I ever get on it are spammers asking me about my electric bill. People who I care about email me, or use google talk/Hangouts. I know all my friend's email addresses. Email addresses are customizable and easy to remember. We don't need to keep working around a 100 year old call routing problem by memorizing area codes and routing exchanges. Hangouts, or Google Talk used to support people signing up with whatever their email address was, and you could reach them by knowing their email address. Why am I being asked to think about 10 digit geographically segregated numbers again?!
But possession drives demand. The FBI's case wouldn't drive demand from the producers.
Why do they need another-nother-nother messaging app?!
I find the note taking in most of his photos the most interesting. Sometimes you'll spot upwards of 10 people jotting down something.
In 2011, supposedly L4 passed a billion installs, including being the basis for the iPad 2, the Motorola Evoke, and some Qualcomm phones: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8405505/is-there-any-app...

I don't have personal knowledge of these environments, so I wouldn't know if I were wrong about this.
Is this Viaweb 20 years later?
Well. Maybe it is not the same for you, but hangout messages get archived as emails in gmail. so search gmail maybe?
I screen lots of calls via the ansaphone on my
landline. It's a feature I would miss if I went mobile-phone-only.

I like the idea for video calls too.
Having worked at multiple organisations who specifically targeted "stickiness" and user-time-on-site as performance (and employee reward) metrics, there's substantial reason to believe that a large part of the tech industry are deliberately exploiting this phenomenon.
> What the New York Times community desk demands most of all is that some effort is made to justify your views. The desk must also be convinced that your intention is to inform and convince rather than to insult and enrage.

So. How is this person justifying their comment? There's at least three [citation needed]s in there. And saying you'll keep it because the replies will be enlightening even though it brings no inherent value is basically admitting that you're deliberately allowing a flamewar, which seems contrary to the idea that it's not trying to enrage.
Does anyone have any information on the software used to process the LIDAR data?
Very nice. Some context:

Mark Zuckerberg is worth 55 billion dollars. This is 5% of his net worth.

Mark Zuckerberg spent 20bn on Whatsapp. At his 28% shareholding in facebook that's a 5.6bn USD personal commitment.

The top 5 global pharma companies spent 42 billion USD on R&D in 2015 alone. Total pharma sector R&D is circa 200 yards. Every singe year. They aren't anywhere near "curing all diseases". This intiative would fund them for 5 days.

Very generous, but let's keep some perspective.
I did. Did you know that much of Africa didn't have access to said vaccine due to funding shortages? This was one of the efforts where the Gates foundation literally just threw money at the problem until it went away.
This law is ridiculous and I followed an effort to repeal it a few years ago (it failed), but there are two ways to work around it: you can use a registered agent for your business in a county where it's cheap to publish (I believe for around $150/year you can register with an agent in Albany and advertise in a nearby newspaper for $75 or so), or you can delay actually doing the publication as there's no penalty, and only publicize when you absolutely need to (e.g. if you're suing someone).

Also, if you're not wedded to the simplicity of an LLC you can start an S-Corp in NY state inexpensively and with no publishing requirement–though with more overhead and differences in structure.
UI needs to be predictable and discoverable, right click on web pages is neither. People in general either don't use right click, or expect the browser context menu to show up. So if you hide important UI controls behind right click, many users won't find them.
I really wonder why those techy multibillionaires invest in medicine rather than techy stuff. I'd rather like to see fusion and hardware research done. Speaking globally, that might just bump global economy so significantly, the illnesses would go down just because more people would be able to afford education and medical care easily.
Ditto the misogynistic slur. Insulting 50% of people is okay, insulting all of the middle east isn't.
I see what you mean, and you are quite possibly right. Please don't take it as an insult, but how do you know this technology is not causing similar issues in your life? We've all seen some people in our lives deny some facet of themselves only to realize they had a problem (after much introspection).
I would really like to have your opinion on this.
The bumpers are usually made of soft material, the idea behind them is to "protect" infants from injury by hitting their heads against the side of the crib, also because prior to regulation changes in the 70's crib bars were often spaced far enough apart that limbs could get caught between them.

Soft material is the problem, as an infant may roll into the bumper and the material will shape itself around the face and mouth causing asphyxiation. Cardboard boxes are not malleable, obviously, and even if an infant rolls on their side right next to the wall of the box it is impossible for them to do so in a manner that would hinder their ability to breath (the nose will get in the way, or they will retain the ability to breathe through the sides of the mouth even if they manage to completely put their mouth against it).
My experience isn't just one experience. It's a mix of positive and negative experiences. On the good side of the ledger I've been able to help people with some things I know something about and others have been able to help me. I've been supportive of friends online in a genuine way who needed it, and vice-a-versa when it wasn't realistic to be together in person. I've learned more than would ever have been possible without this tool.

The only thing (it's big though) I can think of on the bad side of the ledger are that it's easy to be consumed. I've resisted the worst manifestations that can actually kill other human beings: I NEVER, EVER look at my phone while driving. There's no justification for risking the lives of other human beings for that. I don't walk and text as it's annoying as fuck to someone walking the other direction.

What I need to do is restore balance. I would imagine that's what most people need. They don't need to do what Andrew Sullivan did. This could be the online addiction using me a sock puppet, though...
I'm "rich" in the sense that I have a good job and don't have more responsibilities in life than I can afford/handle.

I make good money which means my employer thinks highly of me and invests in me. And this means that because there's money behind all this, they can afford to send me on business trips which are inherently more interesting (a few times a year) than sitting at my desk during that same time. And because I don't have more responsibilities than I can handle, I can just bail on my home life for a week or two to be away. And because I'm not on a shoestring budget, I can afford to do interesting things while I'm away on business.

I can't help but think if I was working at a subsistence level, I wouldn't be able to afford to leave my wife behind for a few weeks, my employer wouldn't be paying me to do work that could even require travel, and the trips would be out of the question because they'd represent a relatively large % of my compensation. And even if I went, I wouldn't be able to afford to do anything fun, so I'd dread it.

Just like when I've worked for poorer companies doing the same job.. sure, the work is roughly the same, but they can't afford to invest in hardware as much, so we don't get to do things "right".

I know it's somewhat tangential but I just feel like the very fact of having a higher-paying job opens up all kinds of opportunities that aren't necessarily so easily represented.
Apple iMessages vs. Google Allo
Germany has horrible pay, a senior software engineer for Amazon and the likes is making 60K Euro's....