skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who has gone through the UPS approval process has either read the TOS and not done this, or failed to read the terms and had their integration rejected by UPS. Been there, done that, lesson learned.
The US isn't the same as the rest of the first world (outmoded as that term is).

A disproportional amount of research and medical industry happens in the US. In a way, many of the developed nations' medical systems are made possible by the American medical economy. We end up paying for more of the development and exporting our technology for as much as we can get. The cost structure wouldn't be the same worldwide if America switched.

We have 50 states. Each one of them is capable of setting up a single payer healthcare system on it's own, yet none of them have. Not for lack of trying, but none have been successful. I don't think we should even have the national conversation at all until at least one state finds success implementing it themselves.
All of the airplanes that crash were approved for production by the FAA. I am not sure how you would measure the failure rate of the NTSB, other than by looking at the number of repeated failures, which is tough, as many incidents are one-offs, or can be categorized as distinct without being substantially different.

In any case, one could regard the FAA's primary failure being that the airliner market is a duopoly. The FAA and its counterparts have helped make it so expensive to develop and approve new aircraft that only two companies can do it, and even they only design one new airplane every ten-twenty years. Bombardier, which is a large and established aircraft manufacturer could afford to develop an airliner, but not to get it approved; this results in slow progress, high prices, and little competition.

It would be interesting, if impossible to know how safe aircraft would be if Boeing and Airbus were granted an unregulated monopoly. I would guess their aircraft would be very safe and expensive (as they currently are), just like 'Ma Bell's service was in the days of its monopoly.
Stop screaming in my home
For a moment I thought Google will become Apple's competitor.
Wow, glad I took my trip out of Port Canaveral last week!

This really is a fantastic visualization, thanks.
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+1 for intercooler.js

So easy and quick to get going with it.
Same could be said for the legalisation of drugs. Central online repository, good for research.
I've been waiting for the IBM PC or Apple II of robots for far too long, and it's still not here. It's frustrating. Robots just are not very general purpose yet.
Out or in? Because if it's out, it's subject to the warrantless searches, right? But if it's in, the company can be compelled to give the NSA access?
I think VR is going to be a bit like 3D TV and not really live up to the hype.
"The problems are more to do with what exactly that use case is that compels people to be wearing VR headsets for hours every day and whether people really do want to block out their sight to wear some immersive headgear. "

I wear mine as much as I can (sadly I don't have hours a day to do it, but I would if i could) VR Gaming is literally just the beginning. As I mentioned in another comment, Onward is a good demonstration of the potential here. Game-play aside, the social aspect feels very different. The game, as an FPS would be very lame, but with the way it handles communication it's a really great experience. Interactions feel more "life like". I'm really excited to see how far it goes.
Craigslist had a section, and shut it down.

http://gawker.com/5630687/your-post-craigslist-guide-to-buyi...

Edit: Newmark has had to deal with it. Check here for more; http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2...
How about: a comment on (1) what this bash script does, (2) and why, and (3) the reason for dumping a disk as a result.
Maybe this particular VR application, but you can try a Vive on right now and see for yourself. To me, its extremely compelling.
Why so smarmy? The article specifically says "using only sun and seawater", so it's worth mentioning that they're also adding nutrients to the water. There are three necessary ingredients.

If the title was "using only sunlight and nutrients" or "using only seawater and nutrients" it would make sense to mention the third ingredient, so I'm confused at why you jumped straight to condescension.
It's easier to have purpose when the market doesn't have to decide if that purpose has value. Want to stay at home and take care of a child or aging parent? Ain't going to happen without budgeting or basic income.
But they aren't selling processing tomatoes for commercial use (pizza sauce, ketchup, etc), they have a contract with a grocery chain for fresh consumer sales. Amazingly enough it sounds like they ran the numbers before spending $200,000,000.
C.E.O. Of Backpage.com, Known for Escort Ads, Is Charged with Pimping a Minor
Fake it until you make it. Backgrounds are all pre-recorded. Not live! But it's an interesting concept once they manage to get all the scenes live. I still prefer face to face though.
In NewLisp's memory management model, I didn't understand if one-reference-only limits what the programmer can do. http://www.newlisp.org/MemoryManagement.html

Does it mean it's impossible for more than one variable to refer to a variable already referenced? If yes, is this a problem in practice? If no, is this the way of the future?
which from my profile, everyone uses to give their snapchat username ironically
Although this depends very much on the particular form of key you are using.

Password encrypted SSH keys were getting a single round of MD5 for the longest time. This was fixed initially only for Ed25519 keys, to use bcrypt(5), which is still not fantastic, but a hell of a lot better than md5(1).

Newer OpenSSH (v6.5 and later) has a new file format and allows specifying an arbitrary bcrypt complexity regardless of the key type. Look for your private key file to start with;

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

[1] - https://pthree.org/2014/12/08/super-size-the-strength-of-you...
> You're not solving hard engineering problems

What, in your mind, makes an engineering problem hard? I've certainly had to dig out CS algorithms and 'clever' applications thereof to reach desirable performance out of some custom widgets in front end projects. I don't know if that can considered hard – hindsight tends to make everything seem easy – but it is certainly beyond pasting in a library like you describe.

I have to agree that you can create some very useful projects that do not deviate from a framework/library's documentation, or what have you. But we don't really know what the parent in particular is working on.
> Race/gender does not affect the experiences and opinions that do matter.

How about things like (the admittedly heavily-used) example of Apple's health app lacking a period tracker?
I posted a new thread w/ the NYT link [1], [2] because it had this helpful tidbit:

A congressional investigation this year found that the website changed some of its adult classifieds to conceal the fact that the advertisements were for sex acts with minors. Mr. Ferrer was subpoenaed by a Senate subcommittee last fall to answer questions about reported child sex-trafficking ads, but he did not show up.

Found to be covering up child sex trafficking by Congress and you just blow them off and don't change anything? That's the point where getting arrested shouldn't be much of a surprise.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/carl-ferrer-backpage-ce...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12658053
Well if you want to get technical it also involves tons of pumps, solar panels, glass, etc. Obviously they weren't planting seeds in a puddle of seawater.

I was able to figure out it was a hydroponic setup from the headline and that the novel part was that they were powering desalination with solar power, not that they have figured out how to grow plants without any nutrients.
1) How about read the script. 2) How about read the subject 3) How about understanding it.
I think as far as number types, you NEED (in the you should be considered seriously broken even if you can hobble along without) to have:

- a 64-bit float

- a 64-bit int

everything else can be emulated in code from there and you can play all the encoding games you want to save space when you don't have to use it. This covers 99.999% of the use cases you reasonably see.

From there, I would argue, you should also have:

- a bit and byte

- 32-bit ints

- 32-bit float

- 128-bit int (once you add UUIDs you might as well make them full numerics citizens).

If I were doing a modern database, I'd have the kitchen sink as a type full numerics from 8 to 128 bit both signed and unsigned int and all supported hardware float sizes. I'd probably even have a 512-bit AVX type just to see what people would use it for.
"I trust the market more because the government has proved to be far more corruptible."

Proved? Has the U.S. government actually been proven to be more corruptible than private industry?

I realize you might have been using a bit of overly-strong language, and not actually meant that in a literal way.

Still, frankly speaking, I trust the government a heck of a lot more than private businesses like Comcast or the health insurers.

Your statement, all the same, leaves me wondering if somehow I've missed out on some news stories or something, that shows how the government is corrupt while BCBS or UnitedHealth act with integrity.
That makes sense. Appreciate the explanation.
Paul Graham on newLISP, 12 years ago: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/257#comment-1889

With hindsight, turns out that none of newLISP, Goo or Arc set the world on fire.
Apple had more negotiating power than any other cell phone manufacturer had in the past. The first iPhone that supported the Verizon network was the iPhone 4. At that point it had already been proven to be wildly successful, and it was one of the few things that people could knock Verizon about (aside from price). I'm pretty sure Apple held all the cards in the negotiations to get the iPhone 4 on the Verizon network.

Contrast that with every Android OS based manufacturer:
1) The majority of them were companies that had been working with cellular providers for years already. They probably already had agreements in place with providers about how things would go (bloatware, extensive testing, etc.).
2) They were competing with each other for market share because the OS wasn't a differentiating factor (their bloatware/cosmetic overhauls were weak attempts to establish software differentiation).
3) Verizon made a big investment in Android with the Droid line, providing marketing, branding, etc. Any other manufacturers that were building Android phones had to compete with these devices and had to market on their own. Verizon had all of the cards.

It's slowly changing, but it boils down to:
1) Manufacturers trying to compete (they often add plenty of their own bloatware)
2) Verizon using a model they're familiar with from the feature phone era and manufacturers being used to the carriers having control
There is a yelp for prostitution, aptly situated at hookers.nl; they might also have ads, I don't know (and I don't want to try from a corporate network). I feel I should add here that I know about the existence of this website because a number of years ago a somewhat famous politician was forced to resign, partly because of his posting history on that website, so at the time it was widely talked about in mainstream media.
How vulnerable to hacking is the US election cyber infrastructure?
A guess: fta, 99% of revenue was from sex ads.

I don't think there's a bright line, but craigslist is a many-faceted business that has a small percentage of revenue from prostitution. Backpages is just a prostitution marketplace.
This was very helpful for me, thank you.

I couldn't get Karabiner to work - it seemed to install correctly, but none of the "prepared settings" did anything. No matter what options I'd chosen, my keyboard (both laptop keyboard and external) were unaffected.

Reading over your guide I decided to just try your "swap space and tab" example in the private.xml file, and lo-and-behold, that worked. As does recreating the inbuilt "play/pause, mute and volume to F9-F12" in private.xml, whereas the inbuilt version doesn't work for me.
I have to say, the way he has handled this has been fantastic. Within a day, he has published a license migration tool; fully explained the situation; and basically made it as painless as possible for all his users (versions 2 and 3) to start using non-App-Store licensing. I immediately paid $10 to upgrade from 2 to 3.
It is much easier to write comments like these than to do 1/10th of what these people have accomplished.
Is virtual reality good or bad for theme park rides?
There have been a couple shut down in the US, at least one of which allowed both prostitutes and clients to review each other. Which probably made the business safer for everyone involved.
I guess it makes sense in places like SA, NT or WA, where, in 90% of their territory, all the alternative resources you mentioned are hard to get by.
You could just as well has linked to the debian package repository. Seriously, are we likening systemd to a distro now?!
The Xilinx Zynq has one time programmable eFuse registers for this sort of thing
didn't do the math, but sounds plausible though I know barely anything of quantum mechanics.

just to confirm my interpretation, its saying that:

- fundamentally the universe is governed by quantum mechanics

- classical physics doesn't truly exist

- the classical physics we see and intuit can be explained by entropy (information theory) of the quantum state

- measurement and entanglement are the same in the sense that both imparts "information" into the system. this in effect acts as a "filter", an example of which is the double-slit experiment where the waves are "filtered" to particles when being measured

- our conscious mind is a classical construct so its naturally difficult to intuit quantum laws

is that mostly correct?
also, how popular is this theory in the physics community?
I just figured they had government subsidies. But immediately after posting I decided that the price seemed wrong. There are some references to California producers accepting a contract for that amount, but I have to think it is an error. I can't find a single link for commodity prices of tomatoes.

Maybe as you imply they aren't sold as commodities because the shelf life is too low.
Why don't I read more articles like this? I always enjoy it, instead I read some inconsequential piece about nothing. This was great, personal, journalism.
Most sex workers agree that their safety is improved dramatically by having the business side of it out in the open. And, there have been studies on sex worker safety that indicate strongly that legal prostitution is safer for everyone; it also reduces coercion when it is not underground (women don't need a pimp, if law enforcement is on their side).

Since I started paying attention a few years ago, I've noticed that most commentary from law enforcement and politicians on the subject of prostitution frames it as "human trafficking" or just "trafficking", even when there were no non-consenting parties involved (and nearly all prostitution is between consenting adults). It is misleading, unethical, and actively harmful to the safety of the people they're claiming to help, but, they do it anyway. The implication that someone is being forced into sexual slavery makes them seem like the good guys in the story...when, in reality, they're mostly just harassing and imprisoning poor women who are making an honest living the best way they know how.

Of course no one wants to see children being sexually abused. No one wants to see children or otherwise at-risk people forced into prostitution. But, that's already illegal; they don't have to victimize all sex workers to pursue and prosecute those crimes.

The kicker here is that the police found these kids who had been forced into sexual slavery because of the ads on this site. Had it been completely underground, they wouldn't have found them, wouldn't have been able to set up a sting, and wouldn't have been able to get the girls out of a dangerous and abusive situation. Now, it goes further underground, where the risk is even higher.
If you're going to condescend to a stranger, be right. A commit conceptually has a tree of complete blobs that git will diff as needed. git has options that make it more or less sensitive to differences even between unrelated files, so it ignores any delta encoding that may or may not be used in packfiles (and never in loose objects).

If you're making an efficiency argument, git doesn't really try to beat the rsync algorithm even if you ignore the metadata. If you're making a "some people know git and nothing else" argument, fix the team, because that's a serious deficiency.
Every mistake, every crash is a failure and there are remarkably few of them. Mistakes happen and the mistake is always in not predicting the failure correctly.

And there's quite a bit of competition; Boeing and Airbus are integrators, they don't build all of the parts and there are plenty of parties competing for the various parts. Likewise they both make the largest aircraft exclusively, but as you get smaller you add more and more alternatives to the mix.

You're also wrong about no new models. They release updates and changes all the time. Completely new planforms just aren't needed. The basic design is fundamentally unchanged and doesn't need to be changed. There's just nowhere to go. Only small iterations of improvement.
Good idea, right!
Ah, that changes everything about this. I can't believe anyone would skip that detail when writing about this.
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As someone who recently built a project (http://www.aphex.cx/iconoclast-a-child-prostitution-hunter/) to find this exact stuff, I'm glad to see action taken against Backpage. Pimping kids out should be hard.
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You obviously didn't watch even the first minute of the talk because the very first thing I say is that the title is tongue-in-cheek and there is no conspiracy.
With all the hubbub surrounding Mayer/Yahoo, why hasn't the board or shareholders fired her?
Usually the big tax gain for the locality is property tax on the equipment located within the data center.
See also this Freakenomics podcast
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/still-using-cash/
With hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year, I guess they should have donated more to the relevant Attorney Generals' campaign funds. My best wishes to all of the victims in this article.
Anything to do with computer vision controlled navigation is a good source of new challenges and new discoveries / inventions.
This part is golden...

"The company is in the hot seat and it is a bit convenient that CMS decides after 19 years that Mylan has been wrong all along while it did nothing about it, just in time to suit Congress’ needs."

This product has been classified as a non-innovator product for the last 19 years and CMS is just getting around to it? Sure.

And whenever someone says the US gov't doesn't negotiate down drug prices, take a 2nd look at the Medicaid rebate. This is how those negotiations went....

CMS: Oh that's your price? We're going to go ahead and give ourselves a 13% discount (it's 23% for most drugs).

Drug company:....
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It's all how the system works. Take a look at this graph...

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cs_lbJiHVkQ/VxV92flRB1I/AAAAAAAAK...

This past year list prices have gone up 12.4%, but companies only capture 2.8% of that. Which is about inflation.

Where is that other money going? You may want to ask your insurance company.
NYT actually got the charges correct. The article in the above thread is incorrect about trafficking charges. It was conspiracy and pimping a minor.

Link to full complaint: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/F...
Man that line about Timberlake was forced. And then he made his wife say it too. Hah.

Ok in all seriousness.

We little humans perceive most of our world through spatial interactions. The possibilities to make a world enhancing device are incredible and scare me.

I'm concerned that people will forget how great the real Redwood forest is. Or how great real sex is. Or how meaningful life can be apart from a virtual Reality. I'm afraid that the fake version could be so appealing that I would reject the real and choose to dive into my own Matrix. Many people already play 7 hours per day...what's to stop them from never leaving a more immersive experience?

Like I said, the positive potential to improve science/meetings/remote work/etc is pretty incredible. I don't want to sound like a Debbie downer. But sheesh we need to consider the potential risks to society of a pseudo-reality addiction that is as alluring as VR will be very soon.

Is anyone else concerned?
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Isn't that like saying "preferring to hire men over women is mostly warranted. Men can't get pregnant and take maternity leave!"
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FWIW, this headline is not completely accurate. The story itself says further down the page, "Ferrer was arrested on felony charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping." None of these are actually trafficking charges; they're run-of-the-mill prostitution charges.

There's also a story from a young girl who was forced into sex work, which is certainly awful, and some stuff about studies and claims of sex trafficking, but there's a clickbait factor to the headline. There are a variety of new state and federal laws on sex trafficking which were passed in recent years, and nobody associated with Backpage has been charged under any of them, afaict.
Why is it that in such cases, the government reaches for the CEO right away; but when Wells Fargo employees open millions of fraudulent accounts, it's not the CEO's fault? If I were to commit identity theft (which is basically what the WF employees did), then I would be facing jail time; why hasn't anyone in WF been charged with criminal fraud yet? Why not the CEO?
What is the feasibility of B2B2C SaaS with a social-impact business model?
What is feasibility of B2B2C SaaS (Regard less of domain or specific market), whose business model is social-impact oriented, means the startup will keep 30% of profits and give away 70% of profits to social impact causes via partnering NGOs?
This really ignores the reality of sex trafficking. Sure, sometimes you become a prostitute because you need money for you or your family, but much of the time it's against your will[See 1, page 13 PP 3]. A universal basic income will not solve that. A UBI may help a prostitute get out of their profession, because many do want to leave and money is a large concern[See 1, page 14 PP 1], but that still ignores other issues such as health issues e.g. STDs and addiction to drugs.

1: See https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238796.pdf