skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMHO, Bitcoin is secure enough for its current main use-case, which seems to be escaping Yuan / Bolivar. But I might be proven wrong. It's also interesting to note some other black swans may trigger cryptocurrency adoption in 2017 [1].

I don't follow bitcoin very closely. Could you please tell me more about escaping yuan/bolivar?
It seems to me that if you have access to bitcoin, it means you have banking capabilities and access to the internet. Once you have these two, you can use paypal or similar and store EUR or USD. Volatility of USD is way lower than bitcoin?
How would a strong AI learn to influence humans? How would it come to the conclusion that influencing humans would achieve its goal? How would it develop the ability to socially engineer humans in useful ways before the people monitoring it would notice? How would a strong AI develop the "motivation", for lack of a better term, to influence humans to remove constraints on its behavior? Why would this strong AI even decide that removing constraints would be its "goal" in the first place?
Yes it would.

Perhaps another visa for those out of college would be more appropriate instead.
Any income greater than $50,000 a year does not qualify for any California assistance. $50,000 a year is completely unlivable where I live in the bay area. You have to be near poverty (bay area) to get any government assistance.
Please this. Between JS/image/font bloat and CSS animations/transitions, the web keeps feeling slower every year.
Are there somewhere market share statistics available for desktop and mobile operating systems combined? The separation between desktop and mobile devices feels a bit outdated. How does Windows relate to Android or iOS, for example?
If anyone is interested in something for comparison, here's what it would look like in k6 (http://kparc.com):

v: 1 2 3 4 5 8 10
l: "|"\"eaoinrtlsu|dg|bcmp|fhvwy|k|jx|qz"
d: !/+,/l,\:'v
t@*>(+/d@_:)'t:0:"dictionary.txt"

First three lines are constructing the dictionary the template in this problem hands to you, and the last line loads the file and finds the item with the maximum scrabble dictionary score.
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I use Gravit.io (Twitter templates) for fast work.
It doesn't look all that different to me. Seems like it's just saving you mess around with assigning function inputs and outputs to shell variables. Otherwise it just looks like piping stuff around between functions.
> You have to be near poverty (equivalent in bay area) to get any government assistance.

Assistance is for those who need it, not those who willingly choose to live in a high COI area. It is possible to live in CA on $50k/year.

Would you pay that assistance back if you had a liquidity event? Probably not.
> My understanding is that health insurance originated in this country as a means to plump up employee compensation in a situation where paying more wages was not desirable. You could not entice good employees by offering them a pay raise because it bumped them up into another tax bracket and it just wasn't worth it to them. But the way health insurance got handled, if you offered them a benefits package, it increased their quality of life without the punishing extra taxes.

You could not entice good employees by offering them a pay raise because it was illegal [0]

This passage also reflects a possible misunderstanding of how marginal income tax brackets work. In no situation does bumping someone into a higher tax bracket result in lower net pay.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilization_Act_of_1942
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True. But not complete. Do we observe the same neglect of progeny, the same absence of "purpose" / directed activity in an equivalent human population (I.e., well off / socially successful individuals)?

As child rearing becomes more expensive, the number of children decreases. Do we assume, simply because whales (or elephants) have low birth rates, that their "societies" are living in an utopia?

A single common / overlapping data point is too insufficient, and therefore dangerous to infer that these are parallel processes. Which is exactly my point.

[Edit: refined language]
I think Tesla pays for the network connection to all of its cars. This sends back remote telemetry and other self-driving data. It also serves up software updates and monitors the cars network for intrusions via a VPN.
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I'd add that it's also trending to be less and less of a minority.
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The "correcter" is a worthy effort, and it needs to start somewhere. It shows the magnitude of the task considering that missing articles are not the most crucial grammatical issues in on-line discourse. The meaning of a phrase is usually comprehensible with or without the article, and native speakers can easily overlook this kind of error made by non-native speakers.

OTOH more troublesome to readers are common errors such as misuse of "its" vs. "it's", "to" vs. "too", and "their", "there" and "they're". These mistakes are quite prevalent among native-speaking writers so more ubiquitous than the missing article problem.

The "correcter" didn't correct the latter class of errors. Understandably this would be a much harder goal to accomplish given the highly contextual nature of grammatically correct word choices.

It prompts a question about how well the data-driven approach can handle the problem. Obviously that's what the research is trying to answer. It sure seems to point to something fairly easy for a human to do that's near or at the limit of what we can get a computer to do.
try Kaiser permanente

cheaper and the model is more efficient. yes you give up some choice but there's a reason it is cheaper

before you poo poo it I would give it a try with an open mind
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I'm a happy owner of a Dell UP2715K 27" 5k monitor, which is around 220ppi. At 2x scaling, I find it to be a very pleasant pixel density for working with code; text looks gorgeous.

My only complaint is I wish the monitor was a touch larger. I would be very interested in a 32" 8k display when the price drops a little bit; 4k 32" displays just don't have a high enough pixel density for my taste.
This needs to develop into a grading system. A "Flanders Threshold" or something.
I'd prefer to not get into a political discussion, but once I get on a health care plan, my full premiums will be subsidizing others, so where's my money back when I don't use any of my health care benefits?

Also, you think it's fair that somebody who makes $55,000 pays the same amount for health insurance as somebody that makes $500,000 a year?
There might be a point here, but it's incomprehensible. Also "anonymous" text dumps, so no chance of following up with the author.

I wonder what the author hoped to achieve with this?
no, not allowed.
The place to complain about AMP isn't Google... it's the sites that AMP-enable their content. If enough people tell publishers "I've stopped reading your site because of AMP" maybe they'll take notice.
edit: I just realized you weren't referring to a context menu, but select/middle-click. Duh, didn't even think to try that as I don't really use that feature much. That'll do the trick for now, though apparently they plan to remove this feature from the next gnome release? Seems odd to me -- Anyways, thanks for the suggestion, now I can use alacritty for remote sessions!
This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but what I really wish more data processing/ETL tools supported is the concept of transactional units. Too many of them seem to start with the worldview that "we need to shove in as many of the separate bits as we possibly can."

What's often needed for robust systems, instead, is solid support for error handling such that "if this bit doesn't make it in, then neither does that bit." Data is always messy and dirty, and too many ETL systems don't seem architected to cope with that reality.

Of course, maybe I just haven't found the right tools. Anyone know of tools that handle this particularly well?
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God, same. I would love for the team that worked on the Skate series to approach a surfing game.
My comment wasn't specific to pornography. I think its generally understood that home browsing is moving off desktops.
> You pay heavily for the luxury of having someone else prep your food.

To be fair, you also pay heavily for the luxury of having the means of production (i.e. a kitchen) at your disposal.

Some back of the napkin calculations show that simply allocating a small area to a kitchen in San Francisco costs you $6-10 per day. That's not even including the opportunity cost and operating cost of having the tools found within the space, or the many other costs of operating a kitchen beyond raw food ingredients. And that alone can buy you an entire meal per day at some restaurants, prepared by someone else.

When you factor in all of the costs of cooking for yourself, I don't think there is any way you can complete with restaurants. They have economies of scale on their side. But it is easy to ignore many of the costs of cooking for yourself.
This post is making me think it would be a great educational exercise to construct equivalent data processing flows in some popular tools: Make, Airflow, Luigi, Snakemake, Rake, others?
Thanks. I am considering doing a new piece because I get a lot of flack over details like that while people generally seem to miss the point relevant to our lives today that DPC is a legal alternative under the ACA and a genuinely better solution.

I am frustrated and not sure what I need to do differently to get that across effectively.

Edit: Feel free to nitpick this version:
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/01/direct-prima...

Maybe I shall eventually get it right (just in time for the law to change under Trump).

Thank you.
I think there's enough readily available information on how Uber operates for want-to-be drivers to make an informed decision on whether or not they should 'work' for Uber.
Isn't the OLED problem just the blue pixel degrading? I don't think the red and green are affected.
Ask HN: Why do people trust just about any bit of open source code?
People seem substnaially unconcerned about running anything on their server that "gets the job done", with little in the way of proof that the author is not a bad actor.

Why is this?
Quite possibly "trolling Hacker News".
Tensorflow in production with AWS Lambda
Tragedy of the commons is fundamentally different.

This paradox would be like if adding more fish to a pond, caused there to be less fish in the pond.
I have clients who demand things like this and can't be talked out of it. It is quite depressing how often a half-decent site gets wrecked by a stubborn client.
Comforting shareholders is one potential reason.
> they knew where the traffic light should be, then did the basic geometry to figure out where that is in their image, and then determined the color of the pixels to figure out what the light was saying.

This has to be really old information, though. They have that video of the car detecting school bus stop signs and a police officer directing traffic. A stop light is child's play after that.
Flashbacks to writing fake mode routines for mode-Q back in the DOS days. Good times.

Please don't actually do this for real though. The tech will catch up so fast it isn't worth the effort.
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Yeah, that's what I just said.
thanks for noticing! :)
I don't get the SVG vs. CSS slant of this. I always use CSS with SVG. So it not "SVN or CSS" it "SVG and CSS".
Based on what I've seen here, seems like something like Unity would be a perfect choice.
Amazing stuff. Looks like Uber is really making the most of their data. I hope this is a easily accessible and useful.
Something I have found fun in the past: using xslt where the underlying document is not xml. In order for xslt to work (in java setting, apache libs) you do not need an underlying xml document, just something that satisfies the appropriate java interface. For example, you could wrap a filesystem directory structure.
It totally is a great experience. The page loads fast without too much crap.

But it's also sad that something not-quite-open is taking over an important part of the web. AMP is this Google-wrapped version of a part of the web that tries to keep you in Google's land rather than allowing you to browse the site you visited.

As a user, I like clicking on AMP links. But in a certain way, it's like eating candy. I know it's not good for the web and openness over the long term. But in the short term, it's just so nice.
Aircraft embedded systems have very long lifetimes. I heard a story from one of the Cal Berkeley EE/CS faculty about how Boeing and Airbus stockpile microprocessors for critical systems on major aircraft programs so that they can continue to deliver without redoing FAA certifications for decades. I believe they even store them in super-cooled environments to keep the hardware from degrading. (Sorry no source but it was a very interesting talk.)
Let's not get into politics then.

At your income level, you're not getting subsidies. You can either pay the IRS penalty, around $2k at what I'm estimating your income at, and cash for whatever health expenses come up, or you can seek out a religious organization who will give you a waiver if you join their program (note: the healthcare that can be provided through such a financial program is probably not what you're going to prefer when the time comes for your healthcare needs to be addressed, caveat emptor).

Another option is to move out of the country before the end of the month; you're not required to be insured if you live outside the US at least 330 days/year.

You could also look at a cheaper bronze HDHP plan instead.

EDIT:

> Also, you think it's fair that somebody who makes $55,000 pays the same amount for health insurance as somebody that makes $500,000 a year?

Not at all! I'm just telling you your options. Don't like it? Quit your startup and go into politics. Good people need to grind day and night to fix things like this. Your fight is not with me. The situation in general sucks, and I am genuinely sorry about your frustration with your healthcare insurance costs.

I thought we weren't getting into politics though (re: your edit adding the last line).
http://resxtreme.com or http://displaymenu.milchimgemuesefach.de can help your use case
E.g. the Boston Magazine link that was posted in this discussion tells the story of a few students that are afraid to "come out" as conservative.

That's very common, if you talk to conservatives on campus.

Now, this isn't necessarily focused, intentional discrimination. It might just be the usual "it's hard to be a small minority" issue. The majority might be "only" as guilty as it is when it doesn't accomomodate other minorities.

But there is more - just look at what people say about conservatives in this very thread. They are a hated minority. Some of their peers are even open enough as to admit their bias in surveys,

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/08/survey-finds-...
No, it asks for a confirmation at the very least, and a voice code as well. Hacker news is filled with morons who know little to nothing, just like any other sufficiently large online community.
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Not really. People in the Rust community have shown a great deal of willingness to standardize on a handful of traits, so things tend to be intercompatible. That might change, I guess. In any case, there's no point in using an async I/O model for the majority of use cases many of the people using Rust are interested in, so people standardizing on something else for those usecases isn't a problem.
Home (lead is a teenage girl, other major character is not a love interest, nor actually male).

Up (about a guy escaping being sent to an old people's home .. or something).
What part of Thailand is that? I get around ~50M/s on my phone. I haven't checked my home cable in a while but I stream HD video (Netflix / YouTube) to several computers / TVs at once w/o issue.

> The new preconnect API is used heavily to ensure HTTP requests are as fast as possible when they are made. With this, a page can be rendered before the user explicitly states they’d like to navigate to it; the page might already be available by the time the user actually selects it, leading to instant loading.

I get the impression AMP boils down to that. Google wants to present publisher content in "mobile app" form and has decided to push most of the cost onto publishers. I really wish they would have taken a different approach. They could have just slapped a stamp of approval on sites with good mobile layout and sub 1s load times. Let publishers make their own technology decisions about how to get there.

Also the Google News horizontal scrolling / AMP page scrolling / back button is a clusterfuck. More often than not I have to reload Google News from the address bar as an intermediate step in navigation. If you're going to wreck the web for better user experience then at least deliver better user experience.
This is something I would write in a Creative Writing Class back when I was an Exchange Student in USA. Why is this on HN?

Don't teens know not to do homework on "Snowdays"?
It's the former. You'd be insane to design critical infrastructure under the assumption that a single machine is going to stay up nonstop for 60 years.
Did you ever consider the Russians didn't care if they were caught or intentionally left clues to let the American Administration understand that they were responsible?
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Can high ranking employees at Google view my personal information?
Yes, there are policies but there have been verified stories of personal privacy being violated by others and Google is probably the biggest offender when it comes to privacy violations. Employees that get to manage large swathes of personal information (brain/research groups) could potentially retain access and I'm curious what you all think.
I completely agree with you. There are so many things that infuriate me about regular sites:

- Images not having defined heights, leading to content jumping up as I'm reading

- Ads loading and unloading, leading to the page jittering up and down erratically, making the content unreadable

- Auto-playing videos: some start playing audio, some have the audio muted but still pause any music I have playing

- Those ads that scroll up across the page (which wouldn't be a problem, but they scroll at a third of the speed that I drag them up at)

- The "Read Full Story" buttons that animate the content downwards, freezing everything for a few seconds while the dumb animation plays

- Web fonts taking an eternity to load, leaving me with no content for ten, fifteen, or more seconds

- Web fonts loading unexpectedly and causing all the text to reflow, destroying my scroll position

There are so many more things.

But here's the thing: there are no ad-blockers for Chrome on Android. I can't turn this crap off. And overwhelmingly, I can't just pay someone money to make it stop. I would gladly hand over fifty bucks or more every month to read news in peace, but there's no centralized way to do that.

AMP, at the very least, gets rid of these problems for me. Top bar and URL issues aside, clicking an AMP link is infinitely less frustrating than clicking a non-AMP link.
You have a very poor understanding of what civil disobedience is.

As MLK wrote, "One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." [1]

That is manifestly not what Kalanick is doing. He broke laws for his own profit, has energetically avoided the penalties, demonstrates no particular interest in justice, and certainly doesn't care about the conscience of the community.

I also think the "political insiders" thing is just crocodile tears. From his behavior, Kalanick has no problem with industrial interests having outsized power; he just wants to be the one with that power.

[1] https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
There are lots of building and HVAC systems with uptimes in the decades.

'Course, they're not running Linux.
A former employer did something similar, for complete motherboards and a few things like power supplies.
For other spacecraft, the Voyagers will hit 40 years this year. There are computers on them. If I remember correctly, they even updated software mid-mission to switch the forward error correction to Reed-Solomon for the later planet encounters.
Is there a single-click service to set up all online accounts for new employees?
This would be highly valuable.
Your second sentence makes sense to me. That capability is a clear advantage.
> I see Microsoft coming back big time

Coming back from what?

They've been steady at 90+% market share for a couple decades now. The modest increase in MacOS market share this past decade has never been more than a couple of percents worldwide. A drop in the bucket, really.
One individual catching one more fish from a pond since there is fish in the pond would lead there to be less fish in the pond for the individual over time.

One individual choosing to simply not catch the one more fish (choosing to not drive the additional road) would make no difference because other people would take the fish/road.

Regulating overfishing (removing the road) leads to more fish for every individual over time (leads to better traffic times for everyone).
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The Mac’s user share just fell to a five-year low
I loved Kaiser when I was in SF. they delivered an awesome service. I just wish they were in Florida :[
I don't either, and I never did. My brand new computer shipped without spamware, because I chose a reputable vendor like Microsoft and not famously abusive vendors like, say, Lenovo.

I'm not terribly concerned about app or browser telemetry. If you're using Chrome, you're spitting back a ton. Firefox? Still sending some! Your mobile device? Spitting back a ton. Everyone other machine? Also doing so. Canonical? Also doing some, although to their credit it's less.

You have basically equated all telemetry with intrusive spyware, when in fact it's usually banal data designed to make it easy to identify problems after a bad software push. While maybe we could have a discusion about where to draw the line of "too much" for Windows 10, you've set such a profound double standard you won't even allow a dialogue about it.
Probably got flagged by people as politics. Which it is. This topic comes up regularly, and no one convinces anyone. Some people are convinced that they took uuurrr jawwbs, and others are convinced that even immigrants are human beings who ought to have a shot at life in the US if they are willing to work hard.
That's nonsense. The European carriers are awful and have terrible reputations lately. Have you flown domestic on a European carrier? I'd rather fly any US legacy carrier domestic than the Euro carriers.
Prison sucks.