skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! Very keen.

To add to this comment, there’s more nuance when speaking less generally:

* In cases where there is competition between powerful nations, weaker nations can and do gain advantage by playing the interests of one country off of one another. For instance, during the Cold War the United States and Soviet Union would engage in trade, weapons, and security deals. States caught in the middle understood that both empires were competing with one another to either expand their network outward or prevent the other from doing so (America often included “and you may not trade with the Soviet Union” as an aspect of its bilateral negotiations) would try to internalize the security/strategic value that the empires sought - rather than the pure quid-pro-quo of markets.

* The United States effort with both NAFTA and the TPP were to contain Russia and China, respectively, by building a coalition of countries with trade that excludes each specific United States adversary. This strategically weaponizes the second point above: coalitions of nations together banded together against a more powerful economic force. Similarly, the Chinese RCEP agreement bands together trade centered around the Chinese economy, and excludes the United States. Indeed, the Soviet Union was, as a security/power concept, an idea that a trade network on the Eurasian Supercontinent would be able to outperform and outcompete other continental sized trade networks (the United States), which led the United States to disrupt the trade framework with proxy war, etc.

* Similar episodes are common throughout history: Nasser’s Egypt had tried, unsuccessfully, to create a Republic of Arab nations in the Middle East, so that they could collectively bargain and negotiate with external powers such as Europe and the United States. This was considered a security threat to these powers, because the West much preferred strong-on-weak bilateral agreements, protectorates and mandates.

From the security side of the coin, great nations including China, Russia (now the Eurasian Union), and the United States strategically try to build coalitions of small nations against their powerful adversaries in an attempt to disrupt their ability to successfully compete.

The Trump Administration decision to abandon this represents an idea that the United States will be able to “out-deal” regional competitors (primarily China but also Japan, South Korea) on a one-for-one basis. My guess is that the diplomacy will get very nasty - even if its all in the back room.
For those who have seen severe mental illness up close, this is not surprising in the least. Many, many people with schizophrenia or other disorders characterized by psychosis self-medicate heavily with cigarettes. Huddled masses of patients smoking outside are fixtures of most psychiatric treatment facilities.
"The White House Press Corps" is every major news reporting organization in the country both in print and broadcast. It's not a "small organization".
On paper, none of the Star Wars movies ever made a cent of profit. On paper, Google and Facebook had not profits in America.

ACA insurance profit are loss are similar. With enough creative accounting the business could be made unprofitable to squeeze concessions from the Obama administration.

Look at all the major insurers stock price since Obamacare began. That will tell you all you need to know about this story. If you think they are making all that money because the non-ACA health insurance business suddenly got real good, I have a bridge to sell you.
"All of Biohub's findings -- along with everything that is studied in the Chan Zuckerberg Science initiative -- will be open source and available to all." [1]

I wonder if this extends to Meta?

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/21/chan-zuckerberg-initiati...
Can anyone with access to the paper give a few technical details? The abstract mentions "Chronic nicotine administration" does this mean the nicotine dosage is high enough to not be a viable basis for treatment?

The linked article claims that this could be a basis for new drug research, which sounds exciting, but how much do we already know about drugs that affect the nicotinic receptors?
As someone with two school aged kids in SF, I can say with some confidence that you are overstating this. I live south of 280, and I've gone to a ton of playgrounds around glen park, sunny side, mission terrace, and the sunset. Yes, there is a homeless presence in and near playgrounds, and some areas get pretty bad.

But the hyperbole gets ridiculous. Seriously, you'd think you're dodging human shit and needles every third step in every corner of SF. I have spent a great deal of time in SF playgrounds over the last decade (in the aforementioned neighborhoods), and the playgrounds are very safe for children, and don't have shit and needles everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_smoking
It's true that loading fast and giving you the info you wanted directly from the search results page is a good thing. It is also important to realize there's a trade off happening where you're further locked into Google and their ecosystem. It's a pretty dramatic change to the way search has worked up until now. It more mimics the way internal webviews work in Apps like Twitter and Facebook apps.
Under that criteria, 100% of eBay transactions would be scams.
I think the specific root cause is that messaging is actually a number of different spaces with different ideal solutions, which I think Google is starting to get even though I don't think they've yet actually nailed any of the subspaces (or even necessarily correctly not identified exactly what they are.)
This is a classic embrace, extend, extinguish.
You are probably correct, but I get the feeling the volume involved and low cost to Walmart probably have an affect.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I don't think you can mold your argument so that it doesn't apply equally to searching everyone's closets for skeletons once a week without suspicion because that's the only way to root out the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world.
It could have been but it doesn't sound like that's the case. The evidence indicates that they just wanted an anti-competitive merger enough to leave profitable, competitive markets.
The article mentions "free to researchers", so apparently not all.
> Some systems (like Cassandra) has upserts and can do writes without reading.

That forces the latest-version resolution into a read-side problem - systems like that cannot handle any sort of complete table-scans but can only really work for a pre-known key.

With a known unique key, this is somewhat possible to use systems like this, but extremely expensive when what you need is BETWEEN '2017-01-01' and '2017-01-02'.
Tavis is at it again, huh. Man, is he one productive fellow!

Cisco's proposed fix for the exploit seems a bit hacky though.
> there's only two ways

How about a third way: rather than surveilling all of everyone's private data constantly, law enforcement gets warrants authorizing them to access private data in a limited manner for specific investigations.
While the article is correct that there's a big conflict of interest emerging in terms of privacy, it will be exactly like the reaction we've had to all other news of violations on the internet. We've got people with remote controlled submarines siphoning data from the pipes. Yet no outright revolt. People just aren't able to fathom the compromises without the technical framework that most HN'ers have to be able to catch these things in the app.

I'm sure 16 years ago we argued that Google eating up search market would be bad for consumers. People gladly voted Google while ditching Yahoo, Altavista, and other search engines for Google. It will be the same case for AMP or PWAMPs (Progressive Web App + AMP), they are here to stay.

So yes, while you can put a sticker with "AMP? Not in my backyard" on your laptop, but the vast majority of consumers simply don't care.

We are all self serving bunch. Unless more is done other than writing articles and sharing, the status quo will be whatever the unchallenged decides it will be, with the money and resources to see to it. The rest of us can only vote with our money.

The internet is not a democracy after all unless we have some type of mesh networking using our mobile phones, is coupled to governments and their willingness to keep the underweater fibre cables. Creating our own satellite mesh network is obviously out of the question as well.
Under another administration I would be hopeful, but the Trump administration appears openly interested in choosing organizations that only ask the kind of questions they want to answer.
Majority of the ads nowadays are async, just bloated and record your every move and slow down the experience.
Just for giggles, I hit "copy link" in the Chrome Webview that the Android Google Search App opened up. Pasted that into Android Chrome, and it took me straight the AMP page, which loaded instantly and let me scroll right away. Seems fine.

I then went to my desktop, used the Chrome history feature to open the tab from my mobile, and the AMP URL redirected me to the publisher's desktop site, which took multiple seconds to load and then displayed an annoying interstitial.

If anything, I'm frustrated that my desktop browser wouldn't open the AMP page and load and allow scrolling immediately with no interstitials.

The "huge useless bar" at the top was the exact same in the AGSA Chrome Webview as the OP's non-AMP site. I don't know what you're on about. I didn't notice it because it's not there.

I went and looked at the search results in Android Chrome (instead of the Google Search app), and there was an extra bar at the top that said "From cio.com" which disappeared as soon as I scrolled, which happened instantly because I was able to load and scroll instantly.
Banks historically have also profited from racial profiling, and insurance companies have also profited by discriminating against women, especially in countries with paid maternity leave.

Country of origin discrimination is no worse than that. I do not think those are ethical business practices, and is morally no better than scamming via e-mail.
> Interesting. I did not read it that way. I read it more as them being a bit humble.

I definitely read it as snark rather than humble. Humble would have been something like "We're sorry we went so long without an update but we are committed to fixing this and supporting this app going forward. Thank you for your loyalty and patience." Instead, this was more like "Oh, you people are still here? Huh."
Why would I? I don't care about their views on morality, and they can decide whatever they like. I wouldn't regard religious schools as a quality education though.

But I'm not sure why extramarital relations are being brought up as a way to discredit someone, when it's of zero relevance.
@mikerg87 thank you very much for sharing! (I'm the person who does UserOnboard)
Reader is working fine here. Do you have an example where it's not?
Here's another number:

https://chargedaffairs.org/billion-dollar-industry-nigerian-...

"a follow-up study in 2013 found that the number had jumped to $12.7 billion. This would make the 419 ‘industry’ roughly the same size as the GDP of Botswana."

I believe the vast majority of this is transferred via Western Union.
I'm not sure you are arguing against any point the article made, rightly or wrongly?
I'm making enough money to live on from apps I released last year. I don't know what to do with my time. Freedom is of course wonderful but I don't _feel_ it, I often long for the office context of a good Swedish workplace. You need to feel you accomplish something every day, and (good) work does that.
1, your willingness to whitewash the calculated murder of a civilian journalist is chilling, it's hard to believe you argue in good faith.

2. Clapper lying under oath to Congress, numberous illegal programs under the NSA.

3. Just another isolated example right? Honest mistake, just like the weddings and the explicit double tap strategy that explicitly targets emergency medical responders.

4. Forget about abu ghraib? Just another isolated example... Seeing a pattern here of your refusal to look past the numerous examples, as if you have your head in the sand.

6. Gitmo is the result of our Governments decision to violate the Geneva convention on the handling prisoners of war, the Taliban certainly qualified, but our military industrial complex did the legal contortions of enemy combatants instead. Gitmo existence is a clear war crime.

7. I'd pursue by continuing to respect the rule of law, international law, and our Constitution, apparently trifling concerns to you.

5. Look it up, Obama violated his oath by refusing to execute the law of land against one of the most henious crimes possible.
Recent Microsoft layoffs
Although sometimes it is that simple, the two examples I quoted above (battery cost from $20/battery to $6/battery, and bringing the capacity, given the same space and weight, from 2800mAh to 7000mAh) were both examples where I swapped out existing lithium ion batteries to custom lithium ion battery packs (I build packs myself.)

Another example is when a company needed a 10kW output for just a few seconds. I was able to reduce their already-optimized battery pack (the largest weight part of the system) to one twentieth of its original weight.

Given a random company that hired me, I could probably accomplish one or two of the below:

- Increase battery capacity by 20-120% (average maybe 50% improvement or 1.5x original, for example 900mAh -> 1400mAh)

- Increase battery max output power by up to 70x (for example output power 15W -> output power 1000W)

- Decrease battery weight by 20-100% (average maybe 40% improvement or 1.4x original, example 500g -> 350g)

- Increase cycle lifetimes by 10x (example 300 cycles to 3000 cycles)

- Increase or decrease operating voltage of battery

- Make a lithium-ion battery extremely safe (not dangerous after extreme drops, heat, cold, short circuits or punctures)

- Change battery form factor into something much more convenient

That list is of course assuming that they're already using semi-decent lithium-ion batteries. If they're not using li-ion or using bad li-ions, the improvements are (usually) much more drastic than above.

If anyone reading this is working on any project requiring batteries, shoot me an email (it's in my profile.) I can reduce cost/weight/charge time and increase power/capacity/durability (whatever you choose) - and the worst case is that I tell you your batteries are already optimal.
85 Things I learned being a CEO
Snake Trackers from India vs. Florida Pythons
Am I locked in? Bing and Cloudflare also both run AMP caches now.
WebEx is the worst conferencing software I've used.
Their Linux support is worst than non-existant. If it were non-existant that would be it, life could go on. But no, they provide a java applet that runs only from firefox, that it's impossible to use audio because they are still at 32bit, that claims to share one application and instead shares your whole screen (and only if you are lucky and someone tells you, you'll ever know), that occasionally (like one hour before an important meeting) they release a version with bad manifests and the applet refuses to download its components.

Even their Android client can't manage the mic volume properly and people can't hear you.
Google Ads in Search Redirected to Malicious Sites
ACA was designed to drive consolidation. Because large companies are easier for the government to control.

Source - ACA author: http://www.wsj.com/articles/i-was-wrong-about-obamacare-1469... (How I Was Wrong About ObamaCare: The law’s drafters wanted consolidation)

Which why, all of a sudden, all the hospitals are buying each other, and insurance companies are buying each other.

It seems Aetna felt that the government didn't live up to its side of the bargain.
I don't really care about that. I just know that if I see the AMP logo on a search result that I'm about to click, it's going to be a pleasant experience when I click through and very quickly am able to read the page. Whereas almost any other news site will be more or less unreadable and unscrollable, constantly changing as it loads over the course of a minute or more, until a huge popover blocks the whole thing and refuses to close.

It may be a non-optimal solution to the problem, but much like Uber, until someone comes up with something better, I'll take it, because it does improve my experience greatly.
>The extension works on any URL that contains the magic pattern "cwcsf-nativemsg-iframe-43c85c0d-d633-af5e-c056-32dc7efc570b.html", which can be extracted from the extensions manifest. Note that the pattern can occur in an iframe, so there is not necessarily any user-visible indication of what is happening, visiting any website would be enough.

It seems bonkers that someone would think it is a good idea to not at the very least have any domain level validation. It is also another mark against the more eyes mean more security mindset. That flaw would be available in clear text to anyone who bothers to examine the manifest of the Chrome extension. It just seems like no white hat bothered to look before.
Oh my god. This is the pinnacle of stupidity and stuff like this is why over time extensions will lose functionality until they will be removed completely. Browser vendors understandably want blunders like this to not be happening.

We're yelling at browser vendors for locking down their browsers more and more and for removing more and more features that allow developers more native access, but then stuff like this happens.

Who thought that exposing the full native OS API via a (cumbersome) scripting language was a good idea? Why does this need to be a browser extension and not something I need to explicitly install on my machine?

Java Applets at least had a sandbox (albeit with flaky security). They have gone away because of security concerns, but as people still need some native access, people build stuff like this that is infinitely worse than what Java has ever been. Instead of a single sandbox, we're now relying on an unlimited amount of only mildly competent developers coming up with elaborate schemes that do nothing but provide a slight bit of obscurity.

That uuid and the base64 encoding of the library name and function calls point to the fact that the developers felt uncomfortable, which is good I guess. That they then chose to use such an impotent method of protection is less so. At this point, why did they even bother?

I'm starting to think that we are actually worse off now than we were in the age of Java Applets and NSAPI plugins
"it wouldn't be terribly surprising to see many harmful substances only be harmful to a majority subset of a population space"

Huh? There are numerous studies that prove smoking cigarettes are bad ... for everyone
Either of these[1][2] will get you a good distance. Also, check out Awesome React Native[3] for a curated list.

Even if you use one of these component libraries though you will just be deferring learning the basics of React Native layout and decorative styles until later on. It's an unavoidable tax you will have to pay one way or another. Thankfully it's not too hard- the documentation is explicit about what style properties apply to which components (example: `View`[4]) and the `StyleSheet`[5] helper will bark at you if you use invalid styles.

[1]: http://nativebase.io/

[2]: https://github.com/xotahal/react-native-material-ui

[3]: https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native

[4]: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/view.html#style

[5]: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/stylesheet.html
Hi! I develop early stages of Django apps on windows (it's probably bad practice, but I usually wait to test postgres until I am on a linux box--or if I am developing on a mac--we're oddly platform agnostic where I work). I have found Wing IDE to be incredibly productive (I've just started playing with PyCharm). I love Wing because of its debug options. You can debug templates as well as running processes....You can try Wing Professional for free to see if you like it. It's saved me a lot of time!!!
Also they pulled out of areas with little competition to prevent the argument against their Humana merger being due to inadequate competition.
It's not particularly surprising, but it's good to have the evidence.

> Huddled masses of patients smoking outside are fixtures of most psychiatric treatment facilities.

It's a bit more complicated than "self treating with nicotine". A number of people go into hospital as non-smokers and come out as addicted smokers.

Smoking cessation combined with decent occupational therapy is important to reduce harm.

The knee-jerk banning of vaping in many hospitals is a bit worrying.
Well, its the same thing in prisons, so I always assumed its boredom/stress relief as the explanation for chain smoking.
One person's crackpot is another's advocate. The amount of money going to fringe candidates would be minimal at best, while those that are serious contenders would get a well-deserved bit of assistance.

You can fine-tune this a bit, like have minimum vote requirements (e.g. 5% of the votes) in order to be part of the program, but the basic idea helps frame things better.

If you look at how most elections go, the extreme fringe candidates get at most hundreds of votes, it's inconsequential in the scheme of things.

This was roughly how it worked at the federal level in Canada until the Conservative party cancelled it in 2015. If you got at least 2% of the vote you got a "per-vote subsidy" of $1.75 per vote.

The reason the Conservative party killed the program was because it hurt the other parties more than it hurt them. As they were always better at raising money, anything that cut funding to the other parties was seen as a big win for them: Like the Republicans they are very self-interested.

There are multiple parties active in the Canadian system, some only getting 5-10% of the votes, which means they're at even more of a disadvantage than before.
To be more specific, Western Union consented to the imposition of a civil penalty by FinCEN and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and aiding and abetting wire fraud. It also settled with the FTC for failing to mitigate fraud reported by consumers. Details here: https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/wufsi-a... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/western-union-admits-anti-mon....
I'm curious to see how this turns out, especially considering things like TouchID which is paired to the Secure Enclave. Allowing anyone to perform that pairing fundamentally undermines their security model.
Ask HN: Does anyone run antivirus on their Macbook?
If yes, what would you recommend?
They have AMP-approved ads that can be loaded.
That Schizophrenia patients smoke a lot is well known. I guess this explains it.

The other weird Schizophrenia fact is that blind people are never Schizophrenic. Congenital Blindness, that is. Poking your eyes out won't cure Schizophrenia once you have it.
Even if this was true, which the article states it is not, isn't that the point of insurance? To spread the risk and cost across a geographic or demographic populace while making a reasonable, but steady profit?
The only "points" the article made were "AMP is bad" because it "breaks linking". Both of which are easily disproved by a moment's casual use.
Security and portability
Look, this email is pretty typical for political operatives of every campaign. You would see much uglier stuff (I think) if you saw the emails of Trump operatives (graft, self-dealing, calling voters idiots where you could shoot someone on 5th st, etc).

TPP was an easy call. For NAFTA he's going to pull some Carrier renegotiate bullshit. Smoke and mirrors. It's too big to kill. Maybe over 10 years. Maybe.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/08/news/companies/carrier-jobs-...

Don't get me wrong I like protecting jobs in the US and have been very pro-US made. But Trump is not that and is just turning the steal-from-middle-class dial up to 11.