skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They had their chance to win my confidence. When Telegram was released, many people said "this looks weird in so many ways. You should really dump that and rewrite it to rely on well-understood primitives" to which the telegram devs answered rather mockingly and started a bullshit crypto contest.

6 months later, a russian guy showed that the server could MITM every newly started or renegotiated secret chat.

Sure, they manned up to their promises and gave him something like $80k, but it is a rather telling story about how good they are at crypto.

Their crypto today? Yup, still weird.
If I recall, EMTALA is the law that states that hospitals must provide emergency medical care to someone regardless of their ability to pay.

Do we really want to live in a society where people are refused treatment for medical care just because they can't pay at that time?
publication worthy != famous

Publication-worthy scientists try to manage multiple projects, work slave hours in the lab, interact with people 60+ hours a week, shaving themselves to fit perfectly into the mould of the scientific community. Sure-fire 50% improvements on existing results should be chased, because you'll get a paper in your name. Low-hanging fruit should be chased, because you'll get a paper in your name. Papers in your name gets you degrees, tenure, and more grants. Forget chasing 10-fold improvements. 10-fold improvements are dangerous because they're likely to fail -- too risky when you're trying to get grants, get tenure, or get your PhD.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1436

Famous scientists didn't care about tenure, PhDs, papers, or any of that crap. They cared exclusively about 10-fold, 100-fold, 1000-fold improvements. Some published papers in peer-reviewed journals, but many had a hard time getting them reviewed because of their controversial ideas, especially if they were theoretical.

Of course, for every famous scientist, there are hundreds of others that tried and failed hard, and you never heard about them.
Yeah, just because it takes me 2 hours to physically type out the code does not mean I was not working on it mentally for weeks leading up to it. I think this is kind of the age-old question of "where does creativity happen" (replacing 'work' with 'creativity' in this context).

Most physicists, philosophers, and mystics will maintain that time does not actually exist, but is a conceptual projection in a sphere of transformations, so trying to measure things like creativity and time may not lead to very useful correlates. However, the fact that one should focus ones effort in small, useful periods, is precisely what I take away from information such as this.
A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)
If there's a book on the downfall of the NYT, I would love to know about what happened. The quality drop in the last 8 years has been truly shocking to me. Before the stopped their local coverage, their articles about the outer boros were just as bad as their tech coverage.

Go back and read old articles though and holy heck they were good. I feel like an old friend is gone.
When my wife and I decided to have our first child, we did basically the reverse of this method (ie, had sex exactly when this method would tell you not to). And we were expecting after the first month. So, the predictability is there; it's just the usability that makes this method not a reliable form of birth control.
That's sort of what they're going for. It's streaming and the distortion that happens sometimes.
I agree with your intent. I've always advocated for the following:

1)GPL or LGPL for things you want to stay free.

2)BSD or MIT for everything else. This is important for things like firmware, where offering source code can be rather silly. Also, some people don't have an issue with companies incorporating their code into closed products and these offer an easy way to allow that.

I always felt the OSI did a huge disservice by encouraging companies to create their own licenses. There really aren't that many things people want from a source code license, so a few that broadly cover those cases is important. All the others just create license-compatibility issues that limit the usefulness of the code.
Ask HN: How many daily visits to HN?
Are there some stats on how many daily users visit Hackernews?
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As a poet I must contend that no flower blooms late for its own rhythm. They're all right on time.
Signal and WhatsApp both support multi-device encrypted chats. Signal is better than WhatsApp in this respect as your primary device doesn't need to be online for it to work.
And here I am, again and again being reminded how the US can be so backwards in some issues here and there.

Not making THEIR OWN LAWS in its entirety available for free for every citizen? What the hell is this?
> each one carried the same malicious .doc file as an attachment (SHA256: 6b9af3290723f081e090cd29113c8755696dca88f06d072dd75bf5560ca9408e). This file contained embedded macro code that executed a commonly observed PowerShell command to download and execute a file.

What versions of Word are vulnerable to this? Or is it a valid macro and technically a feature?

As I recall, Start-Process wouldn't trigger any Windows security prompt (although it might for remote-origin unsigned binaries?).
Can you lobby your building administration with the help of your fellow residents? I would get a hold of the exclusivity agreement it and comb over it to look for loopholes, and also determine when it expires.
It's been about a year for me, and it's blissful. I tried to watch some Channel 4 UK on demand, and even that small amount of advertising had my teeth on edge. It's amazing how quickly you stop calmly glazing over for the high octane mindlessness you find in advertising; the tolerance just vanishes. The music grates, the acting is more obviously terrible, and messages more obviously manipulative... when you're not constantly immersed in them.

I also find that I watch less, because I'm actively finding anything I want to watch, rather than passively channel surfing or just "seeing what's on".
> variable bitrate encoding

I hope not... VBR can easily leak all sorts of information (including the actual content of the conversation)
Did you happen to read the paragraph above the one you quoted:

> The problem here is there is simply very little incentive for cab company or driver to service this demographic. Accessible vans are expensive and they reduce "normal" passenger capacity. Accessible customers require more time - both traveling to pickups, as well as getting in/out of the vehicles, which is time the driver is not being paid.

The cost for a disabled person's Uber ride is significantly above the cost of your Uber ride, and so there's no incentive for Uber to service this market at the same price.
A few years ago, my wife hurt her back when we were moving. She went to the local urgent care center, and saw a doctor. We have insurance, and that was mostly the end of it for us.

We later found out that the urgent care center had coded her visit as something like "surgical consultation" when it was nothing of the sort. I think the insurance company actually contacted my wife and inquired about the visit. We then got curious, and interested in the bill, and discovered that the codes are copyrighted. My wife actually was able to translate the codes using something she found in the local university library (which is how we realized that the visit was upcoded, and suddenly things made sense).

We had thought that urgent care chain was just shady, but after reading this, I guess that this upcoding is a common practice.
Uber now lets you edit your pick-up location mid-trip request
GoF design patterns implemented in JavaScript (using both prototype and ES6 classes)
“Android app development: successful elements for developers ”
A bubble of technology that’s not accessible to the rest of the world
Your subconscious grinds away, even when you do not work.
Then you see or hear something, a final piece in a puzzle, and an idea is born!
Ask HN: Who uses computer eyewear?
I just stumbled into https://gunnar.com (there are probably more) it seems from reviews on Amazon that they give some benfit. But i'm very skeptical.

does anyone were it and have some feedback?
Not even that. I've seen plenty Electron and Cordova apps billed as "native".

The word has lost meaning as to nontechnical users, it's mostly about "can i install it directly on my device". We need better terms.
Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends
"It also strikes me that the companies that aid in coding/billing for providers are an example of software with unintended evil consequences. If you are a developer at one of these companies, how can you justify your role in making healthcare more unaffordable for everyone?"

6 figure salary and recession proof employment?
DMCA Helps YouTube Avoid Up to $1bn in Royalties per Year, Study Claims
The highest quality silica crystals actually come from the US. They can be several meters across.

When you pick a rock off the ground there's about an 80-90% chance it's very good quality silicon carbonates. Silicon metal can even be made from sand, dredged from underwater or excavated from topsoil. Sand is a readily available resource.

Silicon mining is the greenest mining process we have, and on a mass basis is better than the metal required for nuclear plants and fuel. Silicon refining involves some nasty chemicals (one gas in particular turns into solid sand once it hits the water on the inside of your lungs), but they are located in very good, very expensive, very safe equipment. They get regenerated so no chemicals escape the machinery (99.9999% retention).
It was in Big Bang Theory:
"Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that definition, Penny is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs."
I have this paranoid theory that insurance company coders work a lot harder on bills that are after the deductible. A sort of gentleman's agreement to inject as many of those sweet deductible dollars into the system as possible.
You can write the exact same wrong code in e.g. C#

public class Meters { public int x; }
public class Yards { public int x; }
public class Kilograms { public int x; }

Meters m = ...
Yards y = ...
Kilograms k = ...
k.x = m.x + y.x;

all my sugestions for C are basically the same in C#

- do not use builtin operators in C# for that instead create new functions, e.g. addMeters()
- hide the int in *.c file == make it private in c#
That's more due to Google offloading common logic into shared Android and Play components than compiler efficiencies.
But apparently that strategy doesn't always work. The lady in the article offered the hospital what her experts said was a reasonable price, including a profit margin & they turned down the offer.
If their job was, say, picking cotton, then the hours they spent at work would directly correlate to their work output.

So what is the difference?

Maybe scientists are still thinking about difficult problems when they are away from work. Like when they are sitting in their porch swing with nobody else around to distract.
Doing Something Creative Can Boost Your Well-Being – Greater Good
SlingTV with the TCM package has been really nice. Espn is a whole different package, with all the Disney shit
The wikisource link in the article is broken, should be https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Catullus_16

Edit: Here's the diff of the current translation there vs how it appeared when the posted article was written: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Translation%3ACa...
I don't think "de facto" exists on Windows anymore, but most WPF and UWP apps are 100% C#.
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I think the analogy is:

A company moved endorsement money from lots of lesser-known teams to a few better-known teams and their sales stayed the same.
Named capture groups for JavaScript RegExps
I guess Youtube content creators will ramp up their self-censoring. At least those who were deriving meaningful amount of revenue from their videos.
Tablets do a better job for some use cases like drawing, where touch helps. But for other use cases like spreadsheets, a keyboard + mouse + a bigger screen than a tablet are better.

It's not right to say that one form factor does a better job for all use cases.
This is how democracy ends. You can go to jail for committing crimes you didn't know were against the law, but you can't know what the laws are unless you pay nearly a month's wages at minimum wage.
Super surprised to see that tech employees aren't funding their 401K the full $18,000 per year. :(
76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important
I was questioning your claim of "surprisingly large" double defectors not that there are defectors. 13 out of ~1600 is not a significant number. Your second source is not relevant.

>"In one case, a double defector re-entered North Korea four times."

Constantly sneaking in back forth is a common thing from the documentaries I've watched. 1. People stealing goods and selling them back home 2. People stealing supplies to feed their family back home .
I like this. I think our democracy (or whatever we've got now) will continue to crumble until and unless "we, the people" get a sense, individually, of the cost of paying for what we pay for, and our share of the cost. Until that happens there will be no honest discussions about what we really value and prioritize.

Your proposal would do that neatly. The system is way out of whack, lends itself to corruption, crony capitalism, rent seeking, and entitlement. We all have our favorite tax breaks (which is why it's been so hard to change), but we really need to get back to basics: every dollar you get is income taxed at some level, and everyone gets some standard deduction, and that's it. No weird industry tax breaks (because, arbitrarily, politicians decided we wanted more, or less, of a certain thing: cars, homes, solar, coal, etc...), just clear numbers we can grapple with.
> ...are looking more like canaries in the coal mine

interesting. the analogy i've been seeing is more like "closing the barn door after all the horses ran out".
One would think wrong. If the populace fully understood the amount of sheer stupidity in the laws and regulations the politicians create there would be problems.

Plus, when the populace is ignorant of how easily they can become criminals in the eyes of the state, the easier they are to control.
Black background with white text makes me semi blind for about 5 minutes.
There is being at work for long hours and actually being productive during that time. They are different things.

There are still many jobs and/or management mentalities that see "butt in seat" as productive time. Especially in "brain labor" jobs versus physical labor jobs where your time working is inherently productive.
Consider the scientific method starts only after a hypothesis is made. A hypothesis is certainly informed by prior art, but even the most limited hypotheses have some kind of a leap they're trying to test; A hand extended in some direction in the darkness. It's not science there, it's intuition.
Though I admit I'm mused,
this is Hacker News,
so you're gonna have to specify time signature
otherwise this is just conjecture.
From that article:

> Q3. Somebody must design microwave oven doors based on laboratory measurements. Where are these people?

They're (1) deep inside large corporations like GE, LG, Sharp, and others - they have non-disclosure agreements, keycard locks on the doors to neighboring departments, and strict firewalls on their network connections. They don't publish, which is probably a foreign concept to this Oxford professor.

And (2) they are cannot afford to be this curious, they are time-constrained and budget-driven, which is also fundamentally alien to this professor's tenure-based worldview. They have to pass CE/FCC emissions regulations, and if a trial of a larger grid spacing or lower gauge says the device fails, that's the conclusion of the matter - put in the stuff that worked before. They certainly don't have a year to devote to understanding the fundamentals of Faraday cages.
Scotland already generates more than 60% of its electricity from renewables.
I look at r/askscience from time to time, but it's not reliable. Often has wrong answers, people ask the same questions again and again, mods allow lots of obnoxious/caustic/sarcastic answers. Substantially worse than r/spacex.
For factory work at least this is not true. Multiple people and real-world experiments, from Henry Ford to German factories, have found that 40 hour workweek maximizes output: http://www.igda.org/?page=crunchsixlessons
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Exactly. I view school as an optimization problem where the goal is to find the minimum amount of work that will get you the maximum performance (grades, effective learning), while also minimizing the negative impact on other aspects of your life.

I was a straight A student all though my major (EE), but I never hesitated to take a B+ if I felt the amount of work needed for an A wasn't worth it. In addition, I made sure to enjoy my free time and work on stuff that I love (software dev, for instance!). I think I was successful: IIRC, I pulled 1 all nighter in my 4.5 years as an undergrad.

Obviously, I didn't graduate with a 4.0, but I got a high enough grade to get admitted to an excellent school for a PhD.
Some people in the USA have access to an HSA, a tax-free savings account where the contributions may be spent on just about any medical procedure.
Or otherwise said - "Your get your best ideas on the toilet/in the shower/walking around."
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To make the voice samples easily available. Preprint archives and scientific journals don't usually allow you to embed audio into your papers.
I may be in the minority here, but one aspect of TV that I'd miss if did end up 'cutting the cable' would be the communal sense I get from watching TV. It's a bit hard to articulate, but when I watch TV I know that other people are watching exactly what I'm watching on that channel at that time. It's sort of like the feeling you get when you look at the Sun or Moon and know that people hundreds or thousands of miles from you are looking at the exact same thing. Or perhaps a more appropriate analogy would be watching a movie in a theater. Being there in the theater with other people is part of the experience and adds to it.

Netflix and streaming services don't really offer this because while other people may have watched what you're currently watching, your viewing experiences aren't synced up. You can watch whatever you want when you want and so the chances that you're watching the same thing at the same time, synced with others, is very small. Though freedom of choice is the major strength of streaming services and I love them for it, you lose that vague connection of sharing a singlular experience - watching that show, at that time - with thousands of others.

Maybe if Netflix were to implement a feature that indicated how many people were watching a show or movie at any given time it'd restore the communal aspect.
http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/faq/377/how-do-i-get-a-cop...

Until a reporter gets one of these I'm not believing anything they say. And when they do get it then I'm only going to believe what is on that report.
I'm still trying to figure out what, "the cried fund" is exactly, but I just DL'd the 22MB mp3 and will listen. Direct mp3 link for anyone else:

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/BU...
The EUPL also has legally binding translations (since they are legally equivalent, is "translation" the technically correct term?) into a lot of languages and a comprehensive compatibility chart.
>The zip code was intentionally not anonymized because it was seen as acceptable to release, and that is part of the issue of anonymized data.

Forgive me for asking, but you seem to have two definitions of "anonymized":

- anonymized
- not anonymized, but claimed to be anonymized

I think this argument (which I agree with) would be more forceful if we could stop calling non-anonymized data "anonymized". "Depersonalized", perhaps?
My point exactly. I think the claim that "sugar + fat is not found in nature" is incomplete without mentioning fiber.
All true ... but how many more iterations of promising ideas and how many more ideas for small scale systems are languishing because of ITER? If it doesn't work, is it because they just need the funding for a much bigger Tokamak? I'm not usually a technical visionary but I'll predict that when they build a Tokamak that's as big as the sun (supplied with sufficient fuel), it will produce a net positive output and be self-sustaining.
> By implication, in 2030 or so, police investigating a crime won't just get copies of the CCTV from surrounding properties, but get copies of the sensor data from every car that happened to be passing, and then run facial recognition scans against known offenders. Or, perhaps, just ask if any car in the area thought it saw something suspicious.

On a more positive / awesome note, maybe we'll get a full 3D crime scene reconstruction from aggregate camera data, like in Continuum (sans holograms)?
A random niche topic is less terrible than r/all, but it is not close to the quality of r/spacex. What specific subreddit reach this level of quality?
About 90% of smart TVs vulnerable to remote hacking via rogue TV signals
I get your point, and I agree nothing short of something really catastrophic will drive any change. And then there will be pressures to corrupt it all over again. But imagine if it was a constitutional amendment. It wouldn't be impossible to pervert, but it would be harder than it is now.
I'm a journalist turned developer and I had a similar idea a while back. I feel local news orgs are missing a trick because aggregation is something journalists can do very well due to the nature of their job (pulling info from disparate sources, fact-checking etc). With so many sources of general data and info you can easily provide value by giving it local and regional context.

Btw - this a throwaway account. Having trouble logging in with my username carlmungz.
I wouldn't say the country was "founded" on such things. Yes, they were interwoven into the fabric of the country at the time; but the country was also created in a way that opened the door to remove those things.

As for your last sentence; that's the inevitable outcome of almost all civilizations which is why revolutions happen at a somewhat steady rate.
Here's a paper that lays out a plan to switch the US to 100% wind, water and sunlight based power by 2050 and 80% by 2030.

There are non trivial problems to solve, but the core set of technologies already exist or are experiencing Moore's law like cost curves.

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/USSt...
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>For some reason, our generation (GEN Y / Millennials) don't seem to care much for their pensions or retirement planning.

Perhaps it is because they don't wan't to pour what little money they have into what could likely be a black hole. $3.4 trillion[1] in retirement savings were swindled in
the Big Short of 2008, and no justice was done despite the massive amount of fraud going on. And then there is Social Security, which they will never see a penny of.

There's a reason Millennials typically aren't buying houses, having kids, and investing in retirement funds. It's because they can't afford it and/or the risk is too high.

[1]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-much-did-the-f...
Curious why I would use this over supervisord. It's a shame there's no comparison.
At the level of r/spacex? Do you have examples?
I need to figure out a way to bill for time I've spent thinking about the problem rather than the time my butt was in the seat.
Native means "It doesn't run inside my web browser".

But it being a window that runs a second web browser, that is OK.