skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transcendence, Interstellar and Gravity. I haven't actually watched neither Interstellar nor Gravity, but from what I know neither of them portray technology in a bad light. But Transcendence does overall portray technology in a good light, though the majority of the movie is just the movie makers playing with the audience's luddite fears.

Still, it's a damn bad movie.
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I think you're going to need to explain how /bin and /usr/bin provides more security than just /usr/bin. I don't see how it is at all like changing ports for services.

Packages and scripts will not (often) fail because they're adding symlinks from the old locations to the new. Other distros have already made this move, without anyone really noticing. It'll be fine.
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I used to wonder where those marketing pages came from, I had assumed it was a rogue browser extension. Now that I think about it... it must've been DNS!
Wells Fargo says customers gave up right to sue by having signatures forged
Original article is from 2012, but still of interest.

Sigh. What next? Forbidden numbers? ;)
Paddle has CC, Paypal, and available in my country. Win Win Win.
> Fun to see the rivalry between Stripe and Square play out.

One has a part-time CEO tanking Twitter and the other doesn't. This is not a rivalry.
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Yes, it's still really early in this project, I just linked it because I found the ideas interesting in their own right.

I did see some indications that more work might get done on it soon, though. We'll see if that materializes or not.
DIY Hololens
Thanks for the corrections! I hadn't personally verified this stuff, and will certainly stop repeating it.
Stripe is in the same bucket as Airbnb, Uber et al. Transfers, even if "permitted", are blocked. Because what–are engineers going too sue? /s
>I hear what you're saying, but I think the shift will happen faster than is commonly anticipated. The simplest way to sense this is to just drive a Tesla. Doing so is reminiscent of seeing early iPhones. There is a strong sense of, "Ah, yes, this is obviously the future."

What part of it says "this is the future" vs. "this is what it feels like to drive a car that costs 6 figures"? Because I very much got the latter.
Disagree. Having one or two "legacy" ports decreases the disruption when upgrading, particularly if the user has some oddball peripherals. This is why API's have deprecated functions for a while, allowing users a bit of extra time to upgrade before they're left out in the cold.
> "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

I know a lot of us want to be rich, but this quote by Eisenhower seems worth remembering:
The weird thing is, it doesn't seem to have affected the election at all. From the article:

> He set up a website, posted gushing stories about Hillary Clinton and waited for ad sales to soar. “I don’t know why, but it did not work,” said the student, Beqa Latsabidze, 22, who was savvy enough to change course when he realized what did drive traffic: laudatory stories about Donald J. Trump that mixed real — and completely fake — news in a stew of anti-Clinton fervor.

> But he, too, discovered that writing about Mr. Trump was a “gold mine.”

> “It’s all Trump,” Mr. Egan said by telephone. “People go nuts for it.”

Is it possible fake Trump news was the result, and not the cause, of Trump's appeal to the American people ? There's more in the paragraphs below that makes one think this is the case.
A Albanian speaker tells me "Ysolo doesnt sound like a Albanian word, that's probably made up"
THIS, even rails is not cool anymore. It just fucking works
The software validation process to certify electronic voting
It took me a while to get what you're at, but I think you're up the wrong tree. Because when Brin used the word "institution", what I understood was something like "layers of abstraction" that you're referring to. Because that's what institution means in economics (or at that's least one it's senses, since it's an incredibly wide concept). That is, rational organized collective behavior. And not some arbitrary top-down bureaucratic structure.
NIST recommendation: Use random generated passwords
People spending too much time on social networks?
I've been on both sides of this equation: not wanting to be availble outside of "business hours" and also feeling frustrated when colleagues aren't available when I need them.

I view this as an engineering and social process problem: your systems should be reliably engineered such that off hours maintenance or other technical issues are minimized. This gets to the social part: people will be more receptive to off hours work if its a rare occurance.
This 15yo german entrepreneur uses his vps for some interesting projects:

- a site that compares steam deals very quick: https://offgames.pro/

- a pre-twitter-ish social site: https://netdex.co

- a image hosting page: https://netdex.co/i/

- a youtube-radio project: https://de.netdex.co/radio/

- tons of other stuff

(his page https://de.netdex.co/Tim )

i wish i had the opportunity to be that productive at that age :D
Police body cameras don't reduce usage of force: study
Minimum viable technology: more preparation ≠ better product
Good idea focusing on that niche. It'd be cool to see geocities live again!
The most efficient vehicles on the market today extract something like 40% of the energy from the fuel they burn. ICE installations can get to around 50%, but that's typically for very large CI engines. Absent comparing something like a top-fuel dragster, I think you're correct about a factor of 3.
NIST has a draft recommendation regarding password security in SP 800-63B. This issue discusses amending this to have systems generate a randomized password. This would be preferred rather than users generating their own passwords.

The idea is to fix the problem of password reuse (XKCD 792).
Foreign exchange can easily be "done for free" by properly setting the exchange rate. All Stripe has to do is publish an exchange rate that is a 0.N% deviation from the current market rate and they'll cover their costs, have a profit, and provide a "free" service. This would likely be significantly cheaper than international wires.
AFAIK, the censorship is driven by the fear that the western media's intention is to subvert the CCP ruling. Fake news were never a problem. Unless the fake news has the same effect. But in that case, it's not difficult to disapprove the claim anyway.

China's Internet is full of junk and fake information. A while ago a poor young man's family spent their life's saving on hospital treatment that in reality does not help anything. Their belief comes from a seemingly legitimate source on Baidu Tieba. And just a few days ago, a patient believed that a doctor maliciously ignore his request to treat his daughter according to the fake "treatment" from some online search results. And stubbed the doctor 9 times, one of them pierced the doctor's heart.

Such stuff are routinely ignored, why? Because they do not pose a threat to the government's ruling. Instead, they actually reinforce the fact that government control over media is needed, which obviously is a vote to their continued ruling.

Another joke I learned recently perfectly explains this fact:
In a community there is an abandoned car. The residents repeatedly ask the community manager to move it and no one did anything. Then one day someone painted "democracy, freedom" on the car, then the car disappeared next day...
Will this eventually work with the hardware on my Pixel XL and my Daydream headset?
>>call center drones

How about the Amazon drones, even the ones on the "Amazon software team"? Is working at Amazon much different than what your parent described?
Odd working hours, working beyond your duty hours, constant stress and some more negatives. Amazon does get in bad light due to such practices. So.

Add to that the H1B visa drones.

Although I agree with your overall premise and argument about that article, I think many if not most workers in software world are not very far off.

edit: added H1B point
> I haven't read the book

You should. It's an eye-opener.
This reminds me of the virtual subway store that TESCO implemented in South Korea - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/8601147/...
Houston has no zoning and it's none the more interesting for it.
> There simply isn't enough work to go around.

Dissagree. Technolgy works best when augmented with humans, however the training needed for ppl (ie truck drivers) may take longer to retool their minds then they have life left. So there may be a generation gap in jobs. Also consider space as the final frontier. How much work will be needed to build fleets of ships to colonize space and all that entails?
Oil price may run into Jevons’s paradox, though. The prices are already depressed because new production outpaced demand back in 2014.

I expect as oil production continues to outstrip demand, while all this production machinery is still operational, then the price will continue to plummet. Making it more attractive to use oil frivolously, like driving SUVs into pedestrians.[0]

I’m not convinced that oil will become expensive quickly enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. Not without a major carbon tax. For the price to go up due to scarcity, we would need to extract the oil from our currently available reserves, leaving only the more difficult resources. It’s better for the climate if we leave the reserves where they are.[1]

[0]http://www.roadpeace.org/remembering/world_day_of_remembranc...

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/much-wor...
exactly. This is what i have always believed. just Google and Dropbox have too much py2 code to drop it or do a wholesale conversion.

Nothing is going to be EOLed. Its going to be business as usual and the python foundation will never agree to killing python 2 in the next decade.

the only way forward is through six ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six) or something like it. Its well worth building and funding a python 2 compatibility layer in python3... and then moving to py3 runtime.

im actually surprised that someone like Google is not throwing some funding towards building a compatibility layer.
I know, it was terrible. What's more terrible is that he accepted doing that. now _that_ is a lack of judgement. Would the world have noticed that some "fuck you" comments have been changed in /r/TheDonald's subreddit? nopes!
>> "Don't collect information without letting people control it."

That would be great for data clearing houses. Google would jump at that law. Such an approach places responsibility with the data subject. The individual becomes the defacto privacy officer. I rather see laws that places default limits on collection and use. I shouldn't have to supervise how Google collects and uses data about me. I'd rather them not be allowed to collect it without my permission... which I have no plan to give.
Many financial planners assume 4% or even 5% annual returns above inflation. Heck, I forget which state it was, but I remember reading about some boneheaded assumption of 8% annually written into the laws for its pension fund.

I agree that 4% is optimistic.
How do air conditioning and heating impact the range of an all electric car? That is supposedly what really hurted Nissan Leaf.
Ask HN: What is your preferred way to shop laptops?
When I do a desktop build I like using PCPartpicker, but their laptop picking tool leaves much to be desired.

The best I've found to help spec a laptop is NewEgg's "Power Search" checkboxes.

I find both Amazon & Google Shopping to be about the worst to have to use- which is a shame, since I imagine these 2 would have the best selection to pull from.
In my opinion, this is getting rid of a minor historical relic, instead of the major relic of Linux booting. That ugly hack known as initramfs should have been obsoleted at least ten years ago. It was useful back when you had to worry about keeping all your boot files below the 2gb mark on a disk, but these days, all it does is create a second, ephemeral, userland in a more difficult to debug container. Put the various boot binaries into /bin and /sbin, statically linked, and completely visible to even the running system. Cleaning relics should start with getting rid of entire filesystems that just make it harder to administer a system.
everyone i know does matrix multiplication using numpy or pandas and conveniently abstracts away the need to do language conversion.

same thing with asyncio vs gevent and tons of otger features. I say this again - there are industrial strength packages and libraries for py2 that gives all the power and convenience that you think you get in py3. Perhaps even better tested and used in production.
The Mobile Wallet Collaborates with MatchMove to Grow Its Footprint-India
Elevator pitch: AirBnb for markets
They used to say Black Friday was a myth too but you talk about a thing often enough and sometimes it comes true.
Serious question, in the event that we don't have fatalities from auto accidents, where will the organ donations come from? Will it be a good push for stem cell technology?
Doesn't that result in them being written down? How do you remember fifty or so randomly generated passwords?
They actually have to pass a new law before 2018. There's a EU directive, and the way these work is that they require the member states to pass laws implementing them, while leaving a bit of wiggle room allowing the national parliaments to fill in the details.

This specifically is still far from being a done deal. Note that it's only the secretary of the interior proposing it. That position is traditionally filled with a hard-line law-and-order politician (and even if it's a tree-hugging hippie, he somehow turns into such). There are plenty of people even on the cabinet level with different views – usually the justice minister pushes back from a civil-liberties focused position, and the social democrats whose votes are needed in parliament may also consider this one of the rare opportunities to publicly oppose Merkel's party.

After that there's the constitutional court, and then the European Union institutions also get to have their say again, and they also tend to favor civil liberties.

I'd also caution to not take the headline at face value – the public hasn't seen this draft and only gets the version filtered through interest groups. One example: dropping the right to be informed about collected data is limited to cases where this would "seriously endanger a company's business purposes". That seems to me as if it's meant to apply to specific, known situations – who knows, maybe someone asked Amazon for a printout of their data to get around the Glacier Storage retrieval fees. These exceptions would probably be nailed down to apply to the few situations where it may be sensible.
I checked out your project, very interesting! My parser for bash is also recursive descent + operator precedence, along with 13 different lexer modes (maybe 14 or 15 when I'm done!). This seems to be the "standard" now for production quality parsers; AFAIK that's essentially Clang's strategy for parsing C++.

Python is the exception in that it actually uses a custom parser generator (although the speed is not great, hence the need for .pyc files).

I don't know Ruby very well, but I've heard that people do like its syntax, but it's quite hard to parse. I think that speaks to my point that humans are better at recognizing weird syntax than "standard algorithms" are. Humans like to use the part of their brain that makes subtle distinctions with languages.

I'm also dreaming about finding some kind of abstraction to describe my shell -- a proper meta-language. Like you, I'm starting from the goal and working backwards toward the tool, not working forward within the limitations of an arbitrary tool.

Your blog looks similar to my blog, although mine isn't quite step by step. I wrote about an interesting finding about operator precedence parsing: there are two different names floating around for the same algorithm. And also I think the way Crockford explained it in JavaScript had some "accidental" influence.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/01.html

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/03.html
What if you are just a passenger in the car? How will they determine this?
I was thinking about this the other day.

The Apple patent on IR blocking for concert bvenues, would fit this purpose pretty well.
> When you have tics, you often can hold them in. But it is tortuous to do so, especially for extended periods of time. So it is voluntary to tic. We do it because to not do it feels even worse than the negative attention and embarrassment we receive from doing it.

Wow, that sounds so incredibly familiar to the OCD that I have.

I can obviously resist compulsions, but the anxiety grows to overwhelming levels at times. Eventually it's so exhausting that I'll give in. Much easier at home (ridicule really is an effective deterrant), but in the worst years of it, I'd sometimes do them in public even with the ridicule that comes along with that.

I never had a problem with mimicry, but I've definitely had people finding a trigger in me and exploiting it for their personal amusement (like they're Pavlov), including my parents.

Thankfully, these days, I've got about 80-90% of the OCD licked. It's mostly just obsessions now. I've become extremely adept at blocking all but the most benign of compulsions.

So, a question for you ... the torture you feel in holding in the tics ... is it anxiety that you feel? Or is it a different emotion?
I hear you.
I thought the same thing. A 4-hour (each way) commute means very little sleep. Low sleep for too long means hallucinations and eventually nervous breakdown.
My colleagues have base pays > $150k/yr and I'm closer to $200k/yr. I consider myself very well paid, I'm grateful for it, and I'm available whenever I'm needed, within reason.
What a close study of “inner speech” reveals about why humans talk to themselves
I use MixPanel. Got a lifetime subscription years ago from an AppSumo offer. They've since expanded their offerings, so I guess what I have is like a 'basic' plan. No complaints- does the job easily enough- & it was relatively cheap. YMMV
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I'm willing to give GP the benefit of the doubt and was only speaking of the people who don't like, or are not suited for, those positions. I think there's enough people that fit that description in any reasonably sized profession to make it a valid statement in that context.
Does running your own recursive resolver (that queries the root servers directly) get around this?
The biggest labor need in the next 40 years will be caring for the elderly. When my father was out of the hospital after an operation and needed live in care it was insanely difficult to find at any cost. This is work that cannot be automated.
why haven't you already?
I very much disagree that they do nothing to promote constructive discussion. They put a fine point on the absurdities of the position mocked -- hardly unconstructive.
If the phone is connected to a car by Bluetooth or USB, assume it's the driver's. If you get it wrong, it's just a minor inconvenience (unplug if you really need to use those features).
Interesting question, though I'd want to know what the breakdown for organ sourcing is before I consider what the impact would be.
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I will try digging through my comments later.

Typically, I only see titles being altered. However, on at least one occasion, one of my regular comments was altered.

E: you can start here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=without%20notice%20jsprogramme...

You'll see a note about a changed title.

The modified comment that I saw was quite awhile ago, but as dang has admitted, it happens. I'll try to find it at some point if you still care.

E2: Github can also confirm that I identified this problem at least a year ago: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blakelapierre/writings/mas...
Disagree all you want to, the market clearly finds your argument unpersuasive.
Related:

http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/sites/woodworking/files/st...

A marriage of woodcraft and computing that is both visually pleasing and efficient!

The company doing curvilinear wood flooring is called Bole Floors.

Here is an even more attractive example of curvilinear wood.

http://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/detail/innovativ...
Nope, it's just a function of the HN interface.

We have discussed this before; even when it has occurred. I've also given you links, I believe.

Do you realize that you said I outright lied, but also posted that you did change things once, then admitted that it actually has occurred more than once?
Zombie donors already aren't even remotely adequate for our kidney donation needs. We need more living donors to step up... ordinary people like you and me, willing to spend a couple days in the hospital mostly pain-free to give others an average of 12+ years of longevity.

Unlike women, who can give birth and gift 76 - 80 years of life at a time (falsely assuming present longevities), living non-zombie kidney donation is the only life-giving medical operation that billions of males are uniquely qualified to undergo to give another person 10+ years of life in one dose at mortality rates that are lower than most women routinely undertake on behalf of their families, their children, and their husbands in their lifetimes with replacement rate pregnancies.
A friend of mine drives a Tesla. She can only charge at work, and that was enough for her. For context, we're in the bay area, where long drives are quite common.
A good question. From the article, one of the things the guidelines call for is that manufacturers "develop technology to identify when the devices are being used by a driver while driving. That would ensure the limits are placed on drivers and not other vehicle occupants."

I bet that if the handset manufacturers were to work with the car manufacturers, they could pretty easily locate the phone to a foot or so with minimal battery impact.
We can make organ donation an opt-out checkbox.
Cards Against Humanity is digging a tremendous hole in the earth
If you get to do it "the machines way", then you get this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPTwpLIpDWE

I agree with the idea that we are 20 years away from a walking talking robot. One that could find the fridge, figure out which mayo is the good one, and which mayo has gone bad. The get the right ham, not the crap the kids like, and find the knives. Where are all the knives? And then put the stuff away, so nobody complains later....

I own 2 welding robots.(Miller-Panasonic Prefab Welding Cell) They are time consuming to program, and you do have to 'touch up' the program all the time. They are both 7 axis machines, with the capability of running another 13 axis each. The complexity of a setup is much much higher than a self driving car, which has go/stop/left/right as possible inputs. A self drive car is only 2 axis of movement.

In order to deal with 900 types of sandwiches in another factory, humans are used, not machines . http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sandwich-factory-worker... . They don't do it because they like paying humans. It is too complex to handle the high mix of products (900 sandwich types) for automation.
Doesn't that just encourage drivers that want to use their phone while driving to not tether their phone to their car's bluetooth?
Tell you all the major advances we've had, not including the major advances? What do you have against computation? Also, crispr will be huge.

The way you define advancement also seems to ignore incremental improvements, and the incremental improvements weve made in all fields in the last 40 years is vast.