skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being liable for a traffic ticket is one thing, but imagine being thought liable for a hit and run collision.

Why would car ownership be anything but a very weak piece of evidence in such a case?
This is driving me up the wall: why do people use pull quotes in this manner? What does it accomplish, besides tricking me into thinking that I'm accidentally re-reading the paragraph I just read, and thereby interrupting the flow of the article?

Pull quotes are a technique designed for print! You use them in magazines that have tens of articles and you want to grab the attention of somebody browsing the articles so that they read yours. But here on the web, I'm already reading your article! There's nothing else on the page - you already have my attention.

Just look at the way this article ends:

This unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology is driving us all to the brink of insanity. “These days, everyone needs a side hustle.” Now that I think about it, that should be Elizabeth Warren’s campaign slogan in 2020.
“These days, everyone needs a side hustle.” Now that I think about it, that should be Elizabeth Warren’s campaign slogan in 2020.

Why not just say that last part once? Literally JUST present it in the fancy pull-quote "this is important" format, instead of once as normal text and immediately again as fancy text. Why are you having me read this twice?
> Augh. URL in /opinion/ fails to consider that you're going to donate more money to the people winning because you get more influence per dollar that way, decides to blame "tech has decided the republicans are more in line with their interests".

The article provided many more things in support of its point, such as

* Surveys with startup founders on their politics.

* In-depth analysis of both PAC donations - which your criticism might apply to - and individual donations - which it does not.

* In-depth analysis of the changes that typically happen to a company like Amazon or Google that begins as an innovator and ends up being one of the biggest corporations, and threatened by things like antitrust, which naturally lead it to favor Republican positions on those issues.
> They're doing it because they don't have any other good alternatives.

So champion proposals that would grow the economy, create more jobs, increase the median hourly wages, and/or improve the social safety net. I don't see how vilifying Uber or AirBNB is going to help accomplish any of the above.

P.S. There is no way for you as an individual to be a supplier on the Seamless, but that still hasn't spared them the author's wrath. I don't think the author really has a clear idea of what he's complaining about.
Avoiding modal transitions by thinking horizontally in your iOS apps
> I agree because blood donation is safe. If it weren't, or we were talking about kidneys or something, it gets more complicated.

Unsafe procedures provide even more justification for compensation. Otherwise, there's a shortage of people who will be willing to go through it for free, leading to even more exploitative incentives - peer pressure in the best case[0], or outright trafficking in the worst.

Remember that you can't prevent market activity from happening; you can prevent it from happening out in the open, and hope that the inconvenience and other risks are enough of a deterrent (look at the war on drugs, or sex work). But for an individual, there is no situation in which the stakes are higher than being denied a lifesaving treatment. That's the point at which, in the extreme case, even kidnapping or organ harvesting seem like viable options (to them), because they are literally the only option, other than death.

You might think I'm being hyperbolic, but this literally happens.

But if you can ensure an adequate supply from people who are properly informed about the risks and capable of consenting, there is no incentive to engage in that sort of activity.

[0] for example, pressure from an infertile relative who wants to use your eggs to conceive
Searching for Half Life 3
Show HN: Kulfon – « one command » static site engine, 100% JavaScript
Scary Javasript that knows if you've been bad or good [video]
>>To fix this the answer is to educate the users

I used to believe this too. Over the past several years though, I've worked with many, many users from all walks of life, and I've come to realize the hard truth: the users simply don't give a shit. They already use a billion other apps in their day-to-day work and don't have time to spend watching training videos or reading documentation. So if they have to be educated to be able to use your app properly, you've lost.

This isn't to say that all users are like that. There are definitely ones who are tech-savvy and competent and curious. But the overwhelming majority want nothing other than to click a few buttons and get the results they want from the app. Anything more complex will cause them to give up and move on.
Whoever wrote those was a stone cold genius. They are making me want a cigarette from across nearly a century. Ridiculous.

I mean, I am a smoker, I was probably going to go for one soon enough anyway, I'm sure it's just coincidence, buuuuuut... damn.
Unfortunately I think you may be right. But before I get to court, I'm going to see what their upper management do. But I felt striking similarities in this issue as with the story presented here in that people who should know better literally do not understand the law, or the responsibilities and principles they must uphold.

My concern with mentioning legal action in passing is that they may decide to stop all investigations whilst lawyers find ways of minimising their liability. They have already made huge errors of law and fact because they were so confident I was a vexation complainant who wasn't any threat to them in any way.

They don't think that way any more, but my goal is to ensure not that the system changes, more that they follow the law and framework they have spent a very long time formulating, educating staff on and enforcing compliance of!
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2017-00481/p-389
I wonder if/when this test will ever be implemented as a condition for setting health insurance rates.
https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4RwlOdppg
>The out going administration had sold us (and indirectly hurting American workers) with the "Indentured servitude rules" to benefit the Tech companies and immigration attorneys.

The part that says "the outgoing administration" is demonstrably false. The facts are that the immigration policy of the US has not changed much under Obama (with a few notable exceptions like Cuba but that is not really related to the tech industry). Please stop spreading FUD.

The immigration policy is nonsensical, but Obama has little to do with it. Perhaps the only legitimate criticism you can make is that he was not able to reform it properly.
That was a helluva rush when the cold water flowed up my bicep and into my chest. I was weighing in around 170 then, they always asked why I was so skinny... perhaps probing for indications of a drug problem? Am 6ft 0in, and 25 years later still 170lbs. Yay.

Back on topic: Adjusting for inflation(stagflation), that's a hell of a lot less today than when I initially quit. In your opinion, what percentage of people donating are not indigent? Back then I would have said maybe 25%, and those were all hard-up students from the University 4 blocks away.

edit: changed 'starving' to 'hard-up'. Technically, indigent too.
AFAIK there aren't any commercial codecs with such low bit rates, as there simply isn't the demand. The minimum bit rate of GSM-AMR is 4.75kbps. Some military codecs designed for use over HF are in the same ballpark as Codec2 - STANAG 4479 operates at 800bps. There is some academic research on voice codecs below 500bps.
This was a very interesting talk about privacy on the web. Showing some "hacks" and explaining how many of these work. Very good talk in my opinion.
Ask the question the other way round: will modern ad copy seem as different as this to readers in a hundred years time?
Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor
Do you know of Republican plans to improve this aspect of immigration? My impression is that their intentions are every bit the opposite. Trump has spoken against H1-B visas, so it's hard for me to picture him working to make the situation better for this category of visa-holder.
Or, it could just switch the default shell to Z shell.
First thing I do on a new Mac, is chsh -> zsh.
Ships with an up to date (enough) version of that.
You seem to attribute backdoor with malicious intent. Step back for a minute and consider the power of PR spin.
Nuclear reactors are extremely safe and disasters are very unlikely. Obviously Fukushima and Chernobyl come to mind but so do famous plane crashes. This doesn't mean planes aren't incredibly safe. Net, nukes have saved 1.8 million lives by displacing air pollution deaths.

Nuclear is very small footprint. There is 2 million times the energy in a handful of nuclear fuel than in a handful of fossil fuel. If you got all of your primary energy from nukes (electricity, heat, transportation) as an average american for 80 years, you would require 1.5 soda cans of fuel and generate 1.5 soda cans of waste.

Comparing that to fossil fuels is a non-argument, nuclear is a clear winner. Comparing to renewables is less straightforward, but consider all the manufacturing and process to build out the facilities to harvest all that unbelievable magnitude of wind and solar. Magnets in turbines and semiconductor additives in solar PV have to come from somewhere, and currently scaling to world-scale is nearly infeasible. Once thin-film solar can be done without rare-earths it might become doable, but will still have a huge huge footprint. Now start asking about energy storage. Imagine a northeastern US winter on one of those icy and cloudy cold nights. Now imagine that lasts a week or two. The storage and/or long-distance transmission is unimaginable. In these conditions, nuclear chugs along beautifully, 24 hours a day, rain or shine.

In desert sun with no nearby cooling water, solar kicks ass whereas nuclear is challenged.

Renewables and nuclear are both essential to responsibly power human civilization.
I love these ideas, but can they overcome widespread apathy about privacy concerns?
From what I've heard about chemo, I agree with you - better to enjoy your remaining time as much as you can than to suffer through all of it.

If it happens, it'll be interesting to see how my resolve holds up as I stare into the face of mortality.
If Gimp works for you then use it. But I think you will find that even for simple image manipulation Krita is a faster easier to use editor at this point.

My concern is with Professional quality tools for artists. These tools already exist on Linux but they are predominately closed source. If Linux and OSS is going to be an option for Artists then the tools have to meet the same high quality standards that other professions that use Linux expect. But in graphics this is not the case and has not been the case for many years.

The best way to encourage the momentum for better tools is to support those projects that take the quality of there software seriously and have some urgency. The projects I have mentioned previously have demonstrated that they have that focus.
My guess is that it's designed to provide visual landmarks for (most) people who skim articles.
Another advantage to using alt-backspace over ctrl-w is that the former has the same semantics as alt-b. ctrl-w considers a word to be anything surrounded by spaces, whereas alt-b and alt-backspace consider a word to be any consecutive string of word characters.
She's Rachel Kroll, a veteran sysadmin now at Facebook.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf4RwlOdppg

https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692
It's not a tattoo gun. It's a tattoo machine
Levi Felix, Digital Detox cofounder, dies at 32
Which bit is off-topic? And I think if you believe that the story linked to is only about traffic tickets, then I rather think you have missed the larger point the author was making.
'Rachelbythebay' is Rachel Kroll. She is currently an engineer at Facebook.
Impressive. The flame looks about 4.6 times the length of the rocket (measured with the edge of a spoon equaling the height of the rocket) and about 4 times its diameter at the flame's base. Falcon9 is about 70m with a 4m diameter? This makes the trailing flame 322m long and 16m wide at the base.

Imagine an erect column of fire with a 16m base that goes up 322m... That'd be an awesome thing.
My Workflow with Org-Agenda
In my home town, speed limits are lowered during winter, because that lowers emissions (from diesel cars, as well as asphalt dust), and that literally makes fewer people die from bad air.

In this case, it has absolutely nothing to do with road safety. But if you drive over the posted limit, you are killing slightly more (fractional) people than if you keep to the limit.
Back when it was still possible (Windows XP? Maybe Windows 7?) I would always turn off all the modern Windows chrome and animation and make it look like Windows 2000. Made for better responsiveness and as you say, you could spot fake dialog boxes in an instant.

Not a Windows user these days but I understand it's not possible to get the old Windows 2000 look anymore, though I'm sure you can still change color themes and appearance to some extent.
I'm confused, there seems to be open base station implementations such as OpenBTS, why is there no SDR based cellphone already I wonder?, as that'd be really neat in my opinion.
>The part that says "the outgoing administration" is demonstrably false.

That is not correct. The G. W. Bush administration, just before leaving the office, gave all the legal immigrants "Job Mobility" (i.e., their H1B visa was not anymore tied to the employer). It is minor and easy step President could take under his executive power.
Puts me a little in mind of the little ad segments of Ubik.
The author needs to get outside of the SV bubble. The proletariat generally don't need two jobs to eek out an existence except in handful of expensive cities on the coast.
I don't dream, I do. I apply political and financial pressure against my Congressional reps, and have even threatened (with someone else's financial backing) running someone against them (which secured their vote for a socially progressive bill I wanted passed).

But you do you. I enjoy applying pressure in the political space, and I play a long game.
No not necessarily. I threw those schools out as examples, but we'd have to actually go and analyze pretty much every computer science graduate at every school over the last 30 years, plus self-taught, and look at how they perform against some really good metric that we've devised.

If you're looking at current ratios only, then you're ignoring the past ratios over the last, say, 20-30 years which would have been significantly more male-dominated.

I don't think there is any evidence supporting the assertion that more male applicants = more unqualified applicants.
I've been in a fight over a public photo. So, if you don't like fights, perhaps get a telephoto lens. (Saw accident, took picture, man that caused accident decided he was Bruce Lee. Turned out he wasn't.)
> So how come you can't "donate" a kidney and be paid for your time on the operating table?

Because one is explicitly illegal and the other is not.

If you're asking for a justification behind that difference, the answer is that the laws are simply not consistent. Donating eggs, for example, can be compensated, and that's a relatively invasive procedure.
There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets a parking ticket. There's a number to call. He calls. "Press 1 to appeal your ticket." He presses 1. Immediately the IVR system replies, "Your appeal has been denied. Thank you." and hangs up.
The title of the article is "Docker 0-Day Stopped Cold by SELinux." The title strongly implies that SELinux would have prevented the issue in the CVE even without the fixes Docker provides.

Then the text of the article states:

"This CVE reports that if you exec'd into a running container, the processes inside of the container could attack the process that just entered the container. If this process had open file descriptors, the processes inside of the container could ptrace the new process and gain access to those file descriptors and read/write them, even potentially get access to the host network, or execute commands on the host. ... It could do that, if you aren’t using SELinux in enforcing mode."

So, not only does the title make this suggestion, but the text of the article downright says it.

If the claim is wrong, then Docker's security team is right to correct it. However, I think they should do so in a forum other than in the comments of a HN post, be thorough in their explanation, and maintain a professional, polished tone in any communications.

And, of course, Red Hat should correct and/or clarify the post as well.
Not sure it's that much better off outside SV. Drive thru eastern Kentucky or anywhere in WV. High unemployment and opiate addiction rates are the norm. This will of course intensify as technology progress marches forward, though we might see a slowdown with the incoming administration's rejection of globalism.
I have no idea. If Republican's tries to make the system better with the interest of American workers as priority, then there is a chance, it could help legal immigrants like me too.

With the current administration, their priority was totally upside down.
Can't we rant and wail a bit about how increasingly broken shit looks? Why always champion a proposal to fix things? But thanks for the idea that vilifying Airbnb is not going to help anyone. I agree. They exist only because we let them fill that particular part of the biosphere. Maybe we shouldn't let them.
Erlang - Actor-based software design and its inherit benefits are trivial to implement compared to (most) other languages. By design, almost trivial distribution across many nodes without resorting to specialized APIs (that aren't common across all platforms) or separate coordination languages.

Ada - The type system and the manner in which it can be used to constrain your software (in a positive way) makes ensuring certain safety/reliability much easier. Compare in C, an int is an int. If I make a "temperature_t" it's just a double or something that's aliased. Where as "kelvin_t" in Ada can be made to be only the positive real numbers.

Lisps - I'll include Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, Racket, clojure, etc. The meta programming (ruby has this too, actually) makes it much easier to develop large programs almost automatically. The meta programming nature allows you to, within the same language as the primary program you're aiming for, extend your language and program. This reduces the friction of the meta programming tasks, consider C. You can use meta programming, but it requires at least one other language.

Plenty of others, three (languages and families) off the top of my head.
In my opinion, Silicon Valley is pragmatic and always has been. The contributions seem less likely to be party-based and more likely to be based on the specific types of legislation they'd see advanced. Sometimes that will fall left, and sometimes right.

Further, if the party likely to win is the right, they'll find candidates within that party to support. Had it been going the other way, then candidates in the left would have gotten that support.

Alternatively, the author is accidentally correct. As business grow, they tend to get more benefit from right fiscal policy than left.
I'm not sure I follow. If you can't regulate welfare depending on length of residency, it's fairly trivial to come out of state for just long enough to establish residency, then immediately claim full benefits, and move away once you don't need them anymore.
I've always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors like Reagan and Schwarzenegger while always voting for Democratic Presidents and having a reputation for being ultra liberal.

Since Thiel doesn't have the celebrity status of the aforementioned two hopefully he won't stand a chance. On the other hand, since Bush Jr and Trump got elected it's obvious that anyone can.
"The strut failure is what SpaceX reported but it could have also been a COPV explosion."

It also could have been a sandwich left in the LOX tank, or malware planted by Nigerian scammers. If you don't accept the information provided by the relevant parties then the possibilities are basically unlimited. That's not to say that you must accept what they say, but if you don't then why would you focus on this particular possibility out of millions?
Accepting what you say, he didn't change it in 8 years, so now he has very much to do with it, IMHO.
Wow you got voted down
For anyone in the habit of skipping/blocking/ignoring comments on articles, this one is worth a look: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30359#comment-152621...
> open is the only option that makes any security analysis possible.

Many people are disputing that, and I'm getting around to that view. Closed doesn't mean you have nothing, it means you have the binaries, which you can disassemble and analyse. With open, you have a bit higher level language, which you have to analyse, plus then you have to show that the binaries correspond to it.
Personally I wouldn't want to rely on telephoto lenses. They feel kind of disconnected with the subject and are more creepy than using a short focal lense.
From Peter Thiel (http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-google-monopoly-2...):

> Google's motto — "Don't be evil" — is in part a branding play, but it's also characteristic of a kind of business that's successful enough to take ethics seriously without jeopardizing its own existence.

> Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can't. In perfect competition, a business is so focused on today's margins that it can't possibly plan for a long-term future. Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.

The McKinsey study (at least to my reading[1]) establishes correlation, not causation. It could well be the other way around, ie: basically everyone agrees that diversity is an ethically good thing... so perhaps profitable companies are more diverse because they can afford to be, rather than being more profitable because they're diverse.

This seems falsifiable btw... we could brainstorm perks that companies offer when they're doing well, and see how closely the correlation there matches McKinsey's observed 35% overperformance.

[1] From the summary at http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-... - The pdf is behind a paywall, sadly.
Seriously you can get on fi(r)st page of HN with 5% of man bash?