skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question becomes what the consequences of that should be. Since you're arguing in favor of elaborate protectionism, that becomes a central issue.

Should Xiaomi be artificially blocked from selling smart phones in the US? Should all Huawei products be blocked? Should the policy of the US Government be to directly assist Apple versus Samsung (or any other competitor) in the US market? Should the US begin directly subsidizing immense steel production, using the US Dollar reserve currency to intentionally bankrupt China's steel producers via Fed printing to pay for it all? To what extent should the US be using the US Dollar to destroy foreign corporations to gain a competitive advantage? Or better yet, using the NSA to do so. How far should protectionism go?

Should the US use the dollar to start massive state enterprises, printing dollars to pay for it all, to buy up foreign corporations. For example, maybe the US should create a massive potash conglomerate from a state owned enterprise backed by the Fed directly. Then use some USD printing to merge up with other big potash players around the world, and use political leverage and threats to force other nations into allowing those mergers. Japan for example has been buying up its own stock market, maybe the US should go a step further than that. If China wants to compete using big state owned enterprises, why shouldn't the US respond in kind, and then some? China also directly funds non-state owned enterprises through various banking channels. Maybe the Fed should be providing 0% interest loans to US corporations to advantage them to acquire specific major foreign competitors for essentially no cost.

Should the Fed provide Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. with a nearly unlimited budget to begin manufacturing all of their hardware & components in the US, along with perpetual subsidies to keep that production local? Might as well take advantage of available leverage.

If not, then why is it ok for China's government to set up intentional barriers to entry or to encourage rather drastic dumping policies in several big industries? Should foreign companies not be allowed to buy majority ownership positions in domestic US corporations? Should the US Government deny all attempts by foreign corporations to buy domestic corporations? Why is it considered ok for China to directly advantage and subsidize so many massive state enterprises, if the US and other nations aren't supposed to behave that way?

Should the US Government look the other way, while a major US entrepreneur steals tens of billions of dollars from a Chinese company, as Jack Ma did with Yahoo and AliPay? Is that the kind of protectionist playing field that is desirable?

Facebook, Twitter, Google and numerous other US companies have been directly blocked from competing in China in all sorts of ways. Which companies of China's should the US be blocking in response to that?
I'd rather just have less stupid passwords to begin with. Why do most stores require an account for me to place an order? Not for my security. [...] most "social" sites require accounts. Mostly not for my security.

True, that. It seems many sites insist on user accounts more for their benefit than yours - they want your email address so they can nag you towards their "funnels" for further profit opportunities, along with whatever personal and/or demographic information they can scrounge for their analytics, etc. They require you to make an account, not for your security, but merely as a premise to part you with your juicy monetisable data.
Oh, honestly. Yes, Google shut down Reader 3 years ago after providing it for free for 8 years. Get over it and move on with your life already.
He was preceded by giants -- he was at best an ordinary human.

Fortunately Aristotle doesn't care what I think.
The transparency that you're suggesting would totally defeat the purpose of the program. Terrorists would just use the channels that they know are not being watched.
Hmmm, I wonder if a crowdsourced data collection would be useful/securable?

Would you enable an option for smartmontools that sent all your drive SMART data to a cloud hosted db (with as little identifying information as possible) and tell it when you had a drive fail - in return for that same service alerting you with "best estimates" of your risks of drive failure?
Most Comcast customers now have a 1TB home internet data cap
Okay, thanks. Just curious to hear some actual examples of this from people who've used the technique.
I haven't read it. I was more entertained by the phenomenon behind it.
The problem is the world is divided into factions, and China is a massive country that just happens to be a separate faction, which means they can't divide labor with the US, they have to compete head on, or else they won't get a fare share of the pie.

US had a head start on development, which means these two factions didn't have a level playing ground to compete for a piece of the pie. Therefore China must protect to get back on level playing ground.
I started reading the first paragraph and thought "ha ha I will sarcastically comment about "Light Bulbs as a Service"", because that would just be plain ridiculous, and then...
> Synthetic media are nowhere near as cheap or effective, at least from what I remember working in biomed research a couple years back.

That's an argument against the current capabilities of the technology, not against the concept itself. Given that I raised the possibility of eating your own cultured meat right after that, I think it's fairly obvious I'm not limiting the discussion to current technology (also since it's not economically feasible at the moment). But given cultured meat grown in a synthetic medium, are there ethical questions that I'm not accounting for? I can't think of any, so this may be a counter to the argument in the GP statement that "the meat industry can't ever be ethical."
Particularly egregious:

> To notify customers, the company will use in-browser, email, and text notifications starting at the 50 percent point.

(emphasis mine)

I'm assuming this is via some sort of injection over unencrypted HTTP?
Tell the people to STFU?
Ten years ago when I was I trying to learn how to "program", I wrote this bash script (to be added into /etc/cron.daily) that dumps a few smart stats that are normally 0 or slow changing, diffs it with the copy from the previous run, and if anything is different (and cron in configured right) it will email you the diff. Every linux machine I touch gets this file dropped onto it. I've replaced many hard drives because of it

#!/bin/bash

smartctl -a /dev/sda > /root/smartStates
grep Reallocated_Sector_Ct /root/smartStates > /root/stats
grep Current_Pending_Sector /root/smartStates >> /root/stats
grep Offline_Uncorrectable /root/smartStates >> /root/stats
grep UDMA_CRC_Error_Count /root/smartStates >> /root/stats

touch /root/statsOld
cmp /root/stats /root/statsOld
result=$?

if [[ $result -ne "1" && $result -ne "0" ]]
then
echo "Something went wrong"
exit -1
fi

if [[ $result -eq "1" ]]
then
echo "Files are different\n"
cat /root/stats
fi

mv /root/stats /root/statsOld
rm /root/smartStates
Judge: You Can Now Be Served Lawsuits Through Twitter
I've already had to replace two. The LED's were OK but the control circuitry failed.
Password requirements shouldn't be considered "secret". they are almost always displayed to the person logging in.
That's funny, at my old job we actually called whiskey "debugging fluid"
Because Uber invests most of their money on US soil, on US engineers, that go back into the US economy.

They just want to release an app that harvests money from Chinese consumers.

So if China can protect a local company that will clone uber, but with the difference of investing in local human capital and infrastructure, why not take that opportunity?
Just wanted to say good luck with everything to the team, and especially to neumino - you've personally helped me years ago on freenode writing some long ReQL queries when I first started experimenting with Rethink. :)
This would be better if it were called Nofu...
Gross. I'm fairly sure no one at Compose would ever write a "migrate RethinkDB to MongoDB" article.

We improved most DBs we sold. In fact, I think Compose is valuable to most DB companies ... nothing like real world ops problems to learn about customers.
That C64 keyboard was heavy, IIRC.
If you're good, you can still get your information through.
Disagree. When tech figures who would otherwise be hero-worshipped are caught supporting extremist politics or otherwise nakedly trolling, out in the wild -- that's always in the interest of the HN community to know.
I have the QC25; they similalry for me as the other models do for you. I'd highly recommend them to someone looking for silence in an open office

(Note that you'll have to be listening to some sort of sound for them to be maximally effective; simply turning on the noise cancellation without playing music or some other sound through them reduces the noise, but not by as much)
So the secret to happiness is to make your life harder.
Of course a white female is more diverse than a black man. Women are 50% of the population. Black men aren't.
Ask HN: Alternative to pen and paper for calculations by hand?
When you need to do a calculation by hand, do you have any good alternative to pen and paper?

I've tried Khan Academy a few times, but what kills me is their scratchpad: it's nice and all, but I suck very much at using it, and I never carry pen and paper with me (other than for calculations, I only use pen and paper for long grocery lists; for taking text notes, a keyboard is way better than paper).

I've tried TeX and a few equation editors, but nothing I've seen so far is nearly as fast as pen and paper.
So, what makes you consider Aristotle an idiot?
> why let some foreign company come in and take all the money (ultimately a lot of it outside the country) when you can do the same internally.

Because those engineers and entrepreneurs could have spent their time producing something globally new and innovative instead of creating an Uber clone. Then they could have sold that new thing to the world and everyone (global consumers and the aforementioned Chinese) would be better off than the status quo.
>Cree is approaching L.E.D. lights as products, like smartphones, that people will regularly upgrade in order to benefit from new features or improvements.

Isn't that cute.
I have to defend Compose.io here. They spent countless hours working alongside the RethinkDB team to debug problems, provide fixes, and improve the product.

We have always considered them key collaborators and contributors to the RethinkDB ecosystem. There is a conversation to be had about the difference in business models between RethinkDB and Compose.io, but I would never describe it as anything but friendly cooperation and mutual support.

I'm glad to hear that they expressed their dedication to preserving RethinkDB's open-source future. We're working to contact all the folks in our community to decide the next steps together. I'm excited to keep working with them.

Thank you for your kind words on our behalf. Hopefully the product we created together with the community will have a bright future.
You seem to be under the persuasion that these programs are intended to catch criminal behavior.

They are not.

The NSA engage in what's known as "strategic listening". This is the 'measuring half' to strategic communication - which means propaganda.

Propaganda messaging gets tracked to see how well it penetrates target societies and knowledge from surveillance about personal associations, trust networks, how information generally flows through society allow propaganda programming to be adaptively retargetted and remessaged.

Similarly, these surveillance programmes are used to give American businesses a leg up in competition (the international oil auctions from a few years ago are a well known example of this). Surveillance capabilities were installed by the CIA in their fake Twitter application "ZunZuneo" because having dossiers on potential future political activists gives US intelligence leverage over potential future public servicepeople.

Surveillance is and has been about power and control - it's a misunderstanding to think that the line stops with some kind of criminal behavior or other. Therein, I think the framing of the question - as much as I like the approach - will inevitably fall short of really addressing the issue.
Quandary?

As a market matures, new markets appear. When LEDs become so cheap and you have all the light you need, you could add more light or find new applications.

For example, right now using LEDSs for growing food is cost prohibitive, but if prices go down a significant amount of agriculture could be done with it, as solar panels are way more efficient converting light to energy and you could close your plants away from pests without insecticides, or underground, or transport the energy to places in winter without natural light.

This application alone could mean hundreds of times more LED light than what is used today in houses.
It depends. I would have done better to put decentralised in quotes myself.

It was being used to refer to the fact that a company wiki isn't under a central authorities control. This was the common contextual usage of decentralised in this thread (stemming from the fact that all twitter accounts are under a central authorities control).

"decentralised" is such a mess of a term by itself.
Yeah, fwiw that argument has become pretty convincing to me too. I used to be staunchly opposed to any kind of forest management, and now I'm much less bothered by seeing a carefully-thinned forest area.

Manzanita is one of the bigger reasons (for me). I hate that damn plant with a fiery passion, and it's one of the first things in the sierra to come back and take over an area after it burns.

Well-managed forest areas tend to have much much less manzanita.
You will get scripts and arbitarary JS evals appended onto your pages.

Injected inline; sometimes your DNS resolutinos might be hijacked to resolve to a comcast IP afaik
According to the UPS Developer Kit's guidelines for the UPS Rating API[1] (the API used for getting shipping rates):

Unapproved business models/usages
• Display of UPS rates side by side with competitor rates

How does Shyp get around this restriction?

[1]: (page 25) https://www.ups.com/media/en/UPS_dev_kit_user_guide.pdf
Wondering if Matthew Butterick will like those. Will keep looking at Practical Typography for updates.
The pie is not a fixed size. The Chinese could produce something new and innovative instead of clones and sell those to the US, making the pie bigger for everyone.
Snapchat Parent Working on IPO Valuing Firm at $25B or More [WSJ]
A certain biomed firm has in its annual report that xx% of its engineers are female. It has a goal of increasing this to yy% by %year%.

Most of the eligible applicants are male. This is easily observed in university graduate numbers as well as stated in their report. These are pretty smart business people. I can't imagine they're doing this without knowing it will impact the bottom line to potentially have to pass up on promising candidates for not having the right sexual organ (which, unless things go very wrong, will not be utilized in their work). Yet this is depressingly common. I am guessing that they have weighed the cost of inefficiency against the improved corporate image - or, put another way, against the decreased media pressure - and chose the lesser of two evils.

Maybe an example outside of US will make it a bit easier to see:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/29/495665329/f...
Human biology is indeed incredibly complex. I'm inspired by the star trek tricorders and medicine. Some day :-)
Sure, diversification is fundamental to modern portfolio theory, and the long run returns for a diversified fund tend to be positive. And the stock pickers who outperform aren't necessarily anything more than statistical outliers (http://longbets.org/362/). Just because the eventual outcomes diverge doesn't mean that there must have been a discernable signal in the noise indicating that.

Given how many top venture funds simply invest partners' and partners' friends' capital at this point, most institutional LPs would be best off avoiding venture. The same goes for quant funds - Renaissance Technologies' Medallion Fund has only contained prop money for years.
Won't somebody think of the poor racists?
> ... And this 'news release' from Compose.io is the business equivalent of a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother.

That is brutal, for conjecture.

A fledgling open-source DB winding up on an as-a-service provider can provide mutual benefit; the database gets users running their product on a stable, consistent platform and the provider can profit from the margins on the value-added deployments they provision.

Hardly 'a vulture feasting on the carcass of its own mother'...
I found the book "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love" by Dava Sobel fascinating, really clarifies many misconceptions about Galileo.
Couldn't you just short the stock when it IPOs? :)
Google Faces Age Discrimination Suit
These facts can be easily googled.
It isn't a quandary. Innovation does not owe you a future. Electric cars, and self-driving cars, will reduce annual unit volume for cars, and might simplify cars, along with carbon reinforced plastics, so that lightweight, inexpensive cars are possible. Light bulb makers that forestall a cheap, lifetime LED product will fall to Asian competitors who will take whatever market opening exists, and worry about saturation later.
If you try to increase diversity by implementing a quota system you are doing it wrong.

The right way is to look for qualified candidates from multiple backgrounds. For example, plenty of companies recruit from MIT but how many recruit from Spelman College?
Scoop on Oculus's Connect3 Developer Conference
Your post is very ridiculous. There are many good password managers such as keepass, 1password, and lastpass. The later two makes syncing between your devices very convenient; However, there are alternate ways of syncing keepass databases. Secondly, todays mobile operating systems are far more secure than desktop computers. IOS and Android 6+ have solid security features such as application sandboxing that's standard.
As far as I'm aware, computers are better at diagnosing a very small and very specific subset of diagnoses. If I'm wrong about this and there's a computer out there who can diagnose patients with better or equal accuracy than the average physician, please link me to the study proving so immediately, because I desperately want this in my life, and so do ninety percent of my colleagues. (There's a stubborn subset who wouldn't trust a computer if Asclepius himself descended from the heaven to sing its praises. The rest of us have ten times more work than time and would gladly welcome the help.)

As it is, we can't even seem to find a program that can analyse an ECG better than an overtired and exhausted resident at 4 am, which is really quite a low bar to cross.
AWS IPv6 Support Update – CloudFront, WAF, S3 Transfer Acceleration
Filtering X-Frame-Options is bad for security. Filtering anti CSRF headers like in Drupal and ShopWare is bad for security.

But this seems to be the current reality with enterprise firewalls. :-(

(No, TLS doesn't help in the long run. If your boss wants to know which pages you are reading he will let the experts setup this: https://www.howtoforge.com/filtering-https-traffic-with-squi...)
Not sure what such stereotypes you're talking about, but regardless where does your example not have to do with gender?
I knew about the Bose models but did not know about the Sony MDR-1000X. As you mentioned, none seem to completely stop voices, although your experience is very good at least at lessening them.

I was actually thinking of wearing earplugs and headphones at once. Thanks for the info
No, I said if people rebel against unqualified people taking consequential positions by electing trump that is cognitively dissonant. And it is, because objectively Trump is the least qualified person to ever be nominated by a major party.
Interestingly enough, while Aristotle's conclusion was in fact wrong, it was rather scientific for its time. That passage in particular gets mocked a lot, but if you look at the source, you'll note that the conclusion was based on physical observation, even though the accounts he relied upon were demonstrably false:

"Males have more teeth than females in the case of men, sheep, goats, and swine; in the case of other animals observations have not yet been made: but the more teeth they have the more long-lived are they, as a rule, while those are short-lived in proportion that have teeth fewer in number and thinly set."[0]

He got it wrong, but the way he went about getting it wrong is significant.

The Aristotelian method might not have been the scientific method as it's understood today, but there's little doubt that it was [i]a[/i] scientific method. Truthfully, it's difficult to overstate just how significant an impact Aristotle's writings, and other Greek philosophy (particularly metaphysics), had on the later development of empiricism and the scientific tradition. I doubt that there was a single early modern philosopher (those who birthed what we'd consider modern science) who wasn't extremely well-read of Aristotle.

Aristotle must be read within his historical context. Both in terms of what he was responding to (Plato, various pre-Socratric philosophers, and his contemporaries), as well as what came after. His shadow is a long one, felt even to this day. Early modern philosophers, medieval Islamic scientists, and the others who helped lay the groundwork for the scientific method were all influenced by the Greeks, even when they disagreed.

0. Aristotle, History of Animals, Bk. II, Pt. 3. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.2.ii.html
> Length between 7 and 33 characters

I've never understood why sites limit password length. You're (hopefully) hashing it anyways; the length of what the user enters has no bearing on what you're storing in your database.
Oh wow I didn't know that. I thought it was a neurotransmitter issue with unbalanced levels of various neurotransmitter and/or receptors, but I don't know much about it. Science will get there someday though! I guess for both cancer and complex mental illness and other types of complex illness, the trick would be to both find a workable solution to each sub-problem, and then use them to address the full complex. It would be cool if companies were working on these types of approaches. I wonder if any are?
Not about the videogame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogue_%28video_game%29)
this is cool but I do get annoyed when an explanatory piece explicitly divides the audience according to who does and doesn't know the trick and says of the latter "at this point some of you will be spluttering"... well-written in general but it is important not to alienate people who don't get it yet.
I wrote a bit about it: https://blog.lizzie.io/notes-about-cve-2016-7117.html

tl;dr looks like it'd function well a local privilege exploit. not an expert, but as a remote exploit think it would need 1) a service running recvmmsg (which is kind of unlikely) 2) a way to cause recvmsg to error, and 3) a way to cause the service to close its socket in the middle of the recvmmsg call.
Luckey's political controversy makes a single appearance, amongst the higher-than-expected price, the platform lock-in, and the custom connectors, all of which are tied to the slow defection of developers from the platform, which has in turn resulted in a paucity of apps for the system at launch. No offense, but -- this being the hottest phase of an overheated election season -- I think your antennnae are a bit overly sensitive here.
Ignorance that can easily be misinterpreted as malice is actually just a passive form of malice.