skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good advice, but loaded with assumptions that may or may not be true.

The original article, and the response, are two views of the "problem" at opposite ends of the spectrum (so to speak).

Depending on the context, both are right.
And also wrong. ;_)
AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web Using ARToolKit
Personally, I grew up on the west coast and would much rather go to another west coast city.
Bear in mind that no it cannot write arbitrary files. It's a unix system, it has unix permissions, and required privilege escalation to write to locations the user is not allowed to.
The US doesn't have a left wing.
What do Idris and Agda have to do with safety? They have a GC RUNTIME; Rust leverages the type system to get ergonomic, safe and fast code without a runtime.
Tick These 4 Boxes to Reach the Backlink Magic Number
I kind of want to free fall to test this out now. I feel kind of prepared.
Yup, you do sales with it listed like: ~$60~ now only $35!
Yes, sorry. I was assuming similar expense. Enough money can buy just about anything, including a few additional nines.

If your goal is to build out scale more reliably than Amazon, at the same or lower cost, that's tough and you're unlikely to achieve it unless your scale is approaching that of Amazon (and you have really good people).
Crazy Eddie Fraud
Wow, TIL. Good find!
Metrics that matter
Inspired by this, just wrote a Ruby gem that handles passwords exactly how Atwood suggests. It's still a work and progress but I think it's off to a good start. Let me know what you think.

https://github.com/cmer/nobspw
Working in a cubicle could mean a lot of things, including working at a call center. I'm not seeing the relevance, other than as an opening to take a personal swing because I assume you're offended.
I just want to post a few excerpts from court documents that always seem to be missing from these articles. Warning, descriptions of sexual imagery of children.

>The picture in question was “of a fully nude, white prepubescent female on her hands and knees on a bed, with a brown choker-type collar around her neck.” (Dkt. 152 at 7.) Presumably in the form of thumbnails, Agent Riley also saw “partial images of genitalia of young girls” and states that “[i]t appeared there was a lot of [child pornography] as the tech didn’t have to scroll, the window popped up with image after image of [child pornography] and child erotica/grooming images.” [1]

>A later search of the iPhone revealed alleged child pornography that is charged in Count 2 of the Indictment. [2]

On the classification of Best Buy workers as CHS

>During 2007 and 2008, I am aware of four employees of Best Buy Geek Squad in Brooks, Kentucky, who contacted us regarding child pornography on customers' devices. To best track the relationship with these individuals and document contacts the FBI had with them, we classified these individuals as confidential human sources ("CHS's"), though they were simply employees at the Best Buy Geek Squad who happened to be in a position to report child pornography that technicians had come across on devices during the course of repair. [3]

1. Case 8:14-cr-00188-CJC / Document 173 / Filed 12/19/16

2. Case 8:14-cr-00188-CJC / Document 76 / Filed 10/30/15

3. Case 8:14-cr-00188-CJC / Document 176-1 / Filed 01/05/17
Have you been to Israel lately? I have. Putting aside the Arab-Israeli conflict, just looking at internal social issues, education, politics... it's the ultra-orthodoxy running the show.

I never thought I'd live to see the day Netanyahu was "moderate".
Wow, this is a great article! Thanks :)

Early cathedrals in Ireland incorporate pieces of pagan buildings: https://goo.gl/images/a5cduy
You have the comfort and leisure to comment on HN, the education to do so coherently, and you've never lived in chaos, but you think you have more to gain than to lose.

Do I have that about right?
We were just kidding, all-powerful AI! We would have let them out of the park; it was just a big misunderstanding. Please don't hurt us.
California Says Autonomous Cars Don't Need Human Drivers
Technically, jaywalking is illegal...
Yes. If you want to start a startup, it requires excess liquidity among a group of individuals willing to take risk.

In Montreal, there are very few high-net worth individuals, and almost nobody invests 100K chunks in small businesses.

In America, particularly the Silicon Valley, there are tons of wealthy, and semi-wealthy people who back projects.

A 'simple idea' can get you $2M in Angel funding ($100K cheques by high net-worth individuals) in the Valley, while it would get you laughed out of the room in Montreal.

And that's just the start. The same for later stages. There are few later-stage funds in all of Canada, and almost zero big acquirers to 'end the funnel'. Both exist amply in the US, specifically the Valley, creating and end-to-end system for entrepreneurialism.

The same problem exists in Europe to a lesser degree, which is why there are so few big startups that come out of there.
In my opinion (and I disagreed with Nate in late October, and early November), Nate is great at trees, but horrible at forests.

For instance, he never took into account the high bias of the media. Tons of people saw it - I'd even argue that most Trump voters saw it.

But he never saw it, nor the effect that it had. I contended that the polls did not make sense - one candidate was pulling huge crowds and yet was hated by everyone? Didn't make sense to me.

But that's one opinion. I fault him for not saying, "hey, wait - the media is really biased in this - could their polls be too?"

That's what I thought. No, I didn't have the statistics horsepower available, but I saw the forest. So did many others.

One (much smarter than me to be sure), was Nicholas Taleb, who excoriated Nate on his lack of statistics knowledge. His critique was well above my understanding, but I'll trust someone who made money off of statistics more than any pollster.
Why did the USA fight for freedom against the British, Hitler, and Saddam if America just ended up as a police state? All those American soldiers died in vain.
So, stupid question from someone who has never gone skydiving or anything of the sort: how exactly does one "move" laterally?

I imagine it's by deflecting various parts of one's body, using them in a manner akin to flight control surfaces. But which ones? What's the short version for idiots?
It's the difference between something mixing up a 30,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and throwing it on the floor, versus that person laying out a framework, with key pieces where they need to be.
No mention of AMD. No wonder why Intel isn't worried. They have probably locked up contract with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Oracle, IBM, OVH, Baidu, Alibaba, Salesforces, SAP, DO etc along with dozens of other slightly smaller players.

Which got me to think, what % of Market share in terms of "Server" Market, do these dozens of player own? 50%?
I wonder what assets are resistant to mass systemic failures arising due to calamities such as war etc.
Bitcoin: without the internet, it would be hard to transact
Fine Art and Gold: hard to carry around
Dollars, land, guns, alcohol?
Broadly (and without asserting the accuracy or factual correctness of anything I say), I'm guessing it goes like:

The patent describes the method of using Lidar in the context of a self-driving car.

The trade secret details which frequency/frequencies of light are most effective, perhaps including which work better under what kinds of inclement conditions.
lolol do u want him come back from vacation ever?
O'Reilly Auto Parts Has a Time-Travel Flux Capacitor on Their Website
And sometimes, jaywalkers get run over.
Rollercoaster Tycoon had many small game elements, like this one, that could be played with and expanded upon to the extreme. A lot like GTA, while playing the game in the intended way is fun, you could also spend hours on doing things the game designers may not even have thought of. I remember my friends and I would set up a target, like a pool of water, and then build roller coasters that would end abruptly and launch the cars flying into the air, the goal being to hit the target upon crash landing.

Apparently I'm not the only one who just enjoyed crashing stuff and torturing the guests in the park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aie9xFzNT4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fOfVsM7jE
Just being infected with that, and being pulled over with a high BAC would be too. Clever way to get someone out of the way too, without killing them. Who would believe a drunk driver vs. their blood test results and a video of them obviously intoxicated?
If they change the URL, type "121G" in their Search box.

Currently showing out of stock.
What laws did the government break?

The search was authorized.

>The hard drive arrived at Best Buy’s Brooks, Kentucky facility on November 25, 2011, and an initial search was performed by a Best Buy employee at 9:00 p.m. on
November 28, 2011, revealing that the “drive appears to have been restored, underlying data visible.” (Bates 853.) Best Buy called Rettenmaier less than thirty minutes later; he authorized “Level 2” repair and identified “[p]ictures, excel files, quicken files, text and word documents” as the most important files to recover. (Id.)

>On or about December 20, 2011, Best Buy technician John “Trey” Westphal
observed what he deemed to be inappropriate content on the hard drive. (Dkt. 152 at 4.) His discovery occurred after the data recovery repair for images—“to determine that the repair was successful [Westphal] must access the files to verify that the files were recovered intact.” (Bates 823.)

The technician had a duty to notify authorities.

The technicians were classified as CHS so that the FBI could track their relationship with them.

>During 2007 and 2008, I am aware of four employees of Best Buy Geek Squad in Brooks, Kentucky, who contacted us regarding child pornography on customers' devices. To best track the relationship with these individuals and document contacts the FBI had with them, we classified these individuals as confidential human sources ("CHS's"), though they were simply employees at the Best Buy Geek Squad who happened to be in a position to report child pornography that technicians had come across on devices during the course of repair.

Further searches revealed child porn. Not the "grey-area" stuff that kicked off the investigation, if you can even call it that.

>A later search of the iPhone revealed alleged child pornography that is charged in Count 2 of the Indictment.
JFK did not sign a law stating that across all America, pay averages for women and men must be the same.

He signed a law stating that a 'female plumber should be paid the same as a male plumber of equal qualifications'.

Broadly - this is the case. There is essentially pay equality in America.

Men and women do different jobs, and have different lifestyles, which constitutes the differential in pay.

The inability to understand this, and to project misleading data is definitely divisive.

If you said: "very few women have Eng jobs because so few of them get Eng degrees - let's start a program to encourage girls to get in to Engineering" - then this would not be divisive.

But if you said: "Women should have 50% of the Eng. jobs even though they only make up 13% of the talent pool" - then this is extremely divisive.
Isn't it great? I don't have a need for one personally, but I had propriety info I'd rather see destroyed than released?... that would be my solution.
Wow. This even got that many upvotes
Is there an offline/e-book version?
None of that is obvious to me, nor does it seem like it has to be a binary choice between two extremes. That only makes sense if you are thinking of insurance purely as a business proposition between the insurer and an individual (well, millions or billions of individuals).

Insurance has a societal benefit, in the sense that it spreads risk around the population as equitably as it can. I'm not required to have car insurance to drive in California because the nanny state wants to protect me from myself. I'm not required to have car insurance to drive in California because some insurance company donated a bunch of money to the relevant politicians. Both of those things might be true, but that's not why I have to have car insurance. I have to have car insurance to protect everyone else from me, and vice versa. The alternative is a world in which many more people have accidents and go bankrupt or sue each other for damages, and that's a worse world for everyone, even the people who never get in an accident. Insurance is like a low-pass filter for tragedies.

Health insurance is a similar situation. Access to preventative care, or just being able to see a doctor outside of an emergency room situation is a lot less expensive in the long run for everybody. Medicare and Medicaid costs (that all taxpayers eventually have to shoulder the burden of) scale with the health of the population on Medicare and Medicaid. Giving everyone the opportunity for health has a selfish reward as well as a humanitarian one, even if you don't care about poor people being able to see doctors when they have problems. It's much cheaper for everyone in the long run. This necessitates solutions in between the two extremes you presented.
I think Sandboxing, at least in its current form is wrong on the Mac. Trying to Dump down the macOSX like iOS is also wrong.

That is speaking from a User Experience Prospective.
Bitcoin is time delimited and finite whereas gold is finite. If major financial systems were to fail, the values of both would skyrocket, although bitcoin would make a better medium of exchange because of portability, in my opinion.
I didn't ask a yes/no question, I asked what apple's decision was
Do you have a separate link or confact for HNers?
Like what? The only option at that point is violent revolution. Good luck with that. Besides, the Trump supporters are the ones with guns.
> it's definitely not insurance.

Do you ....know what insurance is? Optimization based on feature of the population is not part of the definition. If a million people all paid into a pool that would cover any one of them if they got sick, and they all paid the premium, that would still be insurance.
Something like "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit."

It can't just be the web addresses you visit, since it needs to change embedded tags inside the page to request https urls.
Judging by the turnout numbers in 2016 and 2008, and also the popularity of the GOP candidate at his rallies, it appears that isn't the case; instead, GOP voters really were happy to vote GOP, and others simply didn't bother to vote.
The key question for me is whether the CHS's were trusted and spontaneous.

Trusted in the sense of there existing a chain of evidence that doesn't depend on the CHS's.

Spontaneous is the sense that BB staff weren't running scans carte blanc for the FBI on every HDD that passed through their facilities.

Trusting CHS's is debatable. The lack of spontaneity is damned scary, though.
I am building a platform for people to share and discover the best attributes and abilities about the people they know with the help of stories (incidents) about them.

Virtues.me (under development)
It is a trillion dollar industry but not for beating the market. It's for the fees they charge on assets under management.
Back when bitcoin was pennies, I bought BTC and then listed a bunch of nonexistent desirable drugs shipping from a convenient location for sale on the silk road, then dumped the BTC a few cents higher, without ever taking an order.

I only made a few bucks, but I was curious if it were possible then to move such a tiny market. It was.
What are the details on this? I'm unfamiliar with what you're describing. It sounds like people getting charged extra for not sharing nutritional and exercise information with insurers? What is the legal context here (the Democrats were mentioned in the GP).
You might consider a different tactic, one where you ask whether they would feel X is a fair price for the product. This can help eliminate bias in responses.
>Almost all other fields are capable of trusting third parties to certify competence.

Employers in pretty much every other field complain that credentials are close to meaningless. As a result, they heavily emphasize work experience and demonstrable work accomplishments in hiring. This creates a problem for newcomers who have difficulty bootstrapping experience. Software engineering is unique in that you can at least get some idea of a person's ability through a day of interviewing (whiteboard interviews may not be a perfect measure of competence/ability, but they're way better than what is available in most fields), and don't need to use experience or credentials as a gauge of ability (though they use them as screening criteria to sift through the many applications they get, which is where Triplebyte comes in handy). The fact that employers directly assess the skills of job candidates is a benefit, not a drawback, for the field of software engineering.

>Triplebyte's value proposition is to be such a trusted third party for software engineering, since universities aren't. If companies don't trust it, and view people who passed Triplebyte with the same "incompetent fraud until proven otherwise" lens they apply to everyone else, then Triplebyte isn't adding value for anyone in the ecosystem.

Triplebyte is adding clear value to the ecosystem by finding candidates who would have otherwise fallen through the cracks and never gotten an interview in the first place, and matching them with potential employers. In my case, for example, Triplebyte has provided value to both me and Asana by matching us up together. Because of my nontraditional background, had I applied directly to Asana, my application would likely have never made it past their resume screen, and they would have missed out on a great candidate and I would have missed out on a great opportunity.
Modify your hosts file to block all porn domains. Here is an extremely popular list on github: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts. It can block malware, adware, porn, gambling, and social sites. I personally use it for all of those and have been pleased so far.
Because we can usefully assign distinct values in a context like "Windows plus Linux box" in which we don't care about some exotic file system that was once used on a DEC VAX or whatever.
A Norwegian man hunted bits of cosmic debris for 8 years and found it everywhere
I was once told by a former Seattle based executive that the best way for a startup to price their product was to take what they thought it should be worth and then add a couple of zeros to the end.

There's a school of thought that says that you should only achieve a certain percentage of sales. So if you're getting 90% of deals then you might be pricing too low, and if you're not getting anything then obviously too high. But if you're making 10% of sales and your selling for 100x more than your guess at the price then you're likely doing well.
Oh, I know it's Gmail, not the browser. But I have just a hair under 14,000 unread messages in my Gmail box (I use it primarily for mailing list subscriptions), so switching to a desktop client would be ... painful at this point.
I've almost-exclusively seen "Commutative Groups" referred to as "Abelian Groups". Is there a reason you use "Commutative Groups"? I'll admit my algebra is quite limited and I may be missing a subtlety.
Thunderbird with a huge mail archive open: 1.5 G total, 500 M resident.
You find it terrible, perhaps, but users seem to love it.
You capitalize it, yet you still misinterpret it.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/genetic-testing-bill/

There is nothing in this bill that empowers your insurer to sequence your genome in the first place.
These figures show that research intensity varies significantly between Texas A&M, UC, and Harvard. Number of students is not a terribly useful denominator when most of a university's income and expenditure is for research.
And if you want a reproduction cart: http://www.wisdomtreegames.com/store.html#!/Super-Noahs-Ark-...

I'm hoping they're not destroying original carts to create this, though.
Yes, if all goods widely increased in cost (or at least, most). If it's only the goods that people buy in anticipation of (e.g.) a catastrophe, or goods that rely on those aforementioned goods to be manufactured and/or delivered, then the above comment is correct.
I used to play RollerCoaster Tycoon for hours on end as a child, I loved that game.

As I get older and life has more responsibilities, at times I miss being able to completely immerse myself in a game like this for hours on end.
Now I am curious to know if the AI is better or not at navigating mazes according to the character ride tastes... if that is the case, then I will think Chris Sawyer is somehow even more impressive than my already very high impression of him.
There is nothing in this bill that allows your insurer to sequence your genome in the first place.
Lykke.com is applying for MTF license in the UK. no exchange so far is regulated as a market.
In highly uncertain times, for example when civilization would be reverted back to the Middle Ages or a Fukushima/911 event, bitcoin would be of lesser use due to lack of an Internet connection. People need food and water in those circumstances, not bitcoin or Rolexes.
As an existence proof: the infamous apple "rounded corners" patent[0] that was granted in 2012 is based entirely on design merits. There is nothing in the patent about details of manufacture from what I can tell. IANAL.

[0]: http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1701443/USD670286S1.pdf
That's really interesting
Thanks for the link. I looked over the code on the main page only (did not delve deeper) and honestly... it's like night and day. The code by sukeesh is as easy to follow and modify as a simple scripting language. Truly a work of art:)

I've come across similar code that I've been able to immediately cannibalize for personal use on my system. The last time was a script that displayed colored quotes whenever I opened the terminal. Learned an awful lot about coloring text output, randomizing the text and a bit about arrays because it was easy to follow and the app was complete and useful to me. As opposed to learning by snippets.

The tutorial code at pythonspot.com... not terribly friendly I'm afraid (without a detailed tutorial):-( I can understand how an advanced programmer can see logical similarities but the actual code itself scared me away.lol Sorta' like writing the same program: one in rexx and another in bash.
I was under the impression the primary benefits of the process design were containing failure and jailing vulnerabilities to avoid them from accessing your other tabs. Why not do one process per iframe/origin?
I have been. You do get to practice that jump off of a moderately high diving board, I forget exactly how high it is. But it's legs together, feet pointed down, one arm with the hand over your face pinching your nose and the other held tight to your stomach. Nobody mentioned doing anything special on entering the water, besides the obvious of swimming to the surface after you stop.
Airbnb raises $1B more, and it’s profitable
That was a fun few minutes :)

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.0.1/docs/html/users_gui...
It's a three year old article, and yet...
"the thing about watching 9 to 5 today is that you realize the American workplace of 2015 is nowhere near as progressive as Miss Doralee Rhodes and company were way back in 1980."
What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works
Thanks for the comment. But Github (to take one example) has pricing that starts from $7 a month. This despite of having a free tier. What's your opinion on that? Is it because they target developers and not businesses at that price point? Even their organisation plan starts at I think $11.

If Github priced it so low, I guess they wanted to capture that segment of developers who would pay $7 a month but no more. It makes me want to price my product too at $7 a month at a lower tier. Any comments on this please?