skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't live without my bookmarks, I have a lot of them, well organized and tagged, I search in them more than google when I'm looking for specific articles or things related to code
There have to be teeth to the law in order to "have" it, though. Case in point: Gregg Steinhafel is still sitting pretty.
The problem is he's not technically wrong, but he is holistically wrong.

You also don't have to use electricity, gas, water utilities or hospitals. However our society has progressed to the point that these things are considered basic services now if you want to live inside of common society.

I'm not sure if he is intentionally ignoring this aspect or really is too disconnected with reality.

I say that because frankly I know a lot of people his age who don't use the internet directly at all.

I know even recently there was a exec that was being groomed for a major position at a top 5 tech co, who didn't use internet directly and had his secretary print out emails for him, that he would mark up and she would transcribe in response. It's more common than you think in the govt.
SPI on a Raspberry Pi – Boffin's Corner – BuildHub.org.uk
The chrome extension file (.crx) is a zip file (with meta data). Just unzip it and you'll find the files, including the 'utils.js'.
So many of the problems surrounding this would be fixed with:

1. More representatives per capita

2. Shorter (and limited max) term limits.

There's nothing wrong with what he's saying here. The problem is that his view, though representative of some portion of the population, are over-represented due to the lack of representation in general.
Don't Americans get pay slips which state how much they earned gross, how much tax & social security they paid (in dollars) and much they earned net?
At the same time the system felt much more controllable and understandable from a user POV. And I sometimes feel that Linux is going through a similar transition, at least on the user space level.
Did we need to know that? Is it an interesting discussion topic?
IIRC that's the proven fairest auction method. Everyone says how much they are willing to pay (in this case to be paid) for the item on auction, then you select the highest(lowest) bidder. People will say the price that best reflects their interest, because going too low would mean you don't get the item, but going too high means you pay more than the item is worth to you.
Ask 1000 randomly chosen people 10 basic questions about a subject, work out the average score.

If a Congressperson/Senate member can't get a better score than the average of the 1000 on that subject then they don't get to vote on the legislation.

(I'm not serious..but sometimes I wonder).

I call it the "Yogi Test" (smarter than the average bear).
The _airline's_ hands were not tied. But the hands of the agents on the spot might have been tied, by airline policy. Because said policy may well have said they can't offer more than the required legal thing.
That is a pretty clever attack and I think the reasoning is pretty solid, if the FTC requires that humans can 'tell' that something is an Ad then a machine learning algorithm can too.

I'd love to see how effective this is on a Google page like a search for 'free credit card'. The last time I checked that query had exactly 1 organic result on the page, and if this worked as described you'd get a google page with just one result. That would be kind of amusing in its own way.
I'm from Georgia. I went to law school here. I have met many extremely capable jurists. Though not many of them seem to run for office.

My Congressman is a dumbass. I'm sort of okay with this because, in general, he's pretty representative of his constituency. He's also good about interacting with his constituency, which I applaud.

But my senators are also dumbasses. Not well educated in the law. Not able to think in a nuanced way about any remotely complex issue. Perdue said he wanted to get rid of the EPA, just, just get rid of it. This is not architect-level thinking. This is singleminded businessman thinking, which at the end of the day does tend to equate itself with a "rich people problem."

I don't think higher turnover in the House is really going to solve that problem. I know that there are hundreds of people better qualified to serve in that architect role. The question for me is, "Why aren't they incentivized to run?"
Good thing we're laying the groundwork for "controlled information", such as not recording your experiences to play back for others (say, if it involves a police officer [or 'voting officials' at voting booths, as we tell them they're called - snort snort guffaw]) or being able to share things that happen to you under an NDA or gag order

Phew!
Nobody has to read, so it's ok if your library reading records be made public.

Nobody has to get medical treatment, so your medical records should be made public.

Nobody has to have sex, so there should be a publically accessible camera in your bedroom.
They study possible effects of resonance and other acoustic properties on human-made structures. But, "says Chris Scarre diplomatically, some of the work in the field is floating a bit far away from being able to be able to pinned down in secure evidence.”

I'm still impressed by the name of the profession. What do you do for a living? I'm an archaeoacoustist.
Relax, parent poster was simply clarifying that the 'competitive' referred to programming "sports" contests, not competing for a programming job.
Well, there are known stories of "accidental" key leaks: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/microsoft_acc...
Use recruiters, they are very good in landing you interviews, put your side projects on your resume and bring them up during interviews. Try hired.com. The most important thing is to get exposure to as many job interviews as possible. I have no doubt that you will land a job soon.
And here's another article from 1993 in PC Magazine which goes into detail, and with a bit more accuracy than the original article for this HN discussion (for example, it explains how XMS works on the 286): https://books.google.com/books?id=gCfzPMoPJWgC&pg=PA302&lpg=...
>Advertisements are a form of free speech.

...that can be regulated:

"After passage of the billboard-regulating Highway Beautification Act of 1965, Vermont moved to ban billboards outright in 1968. All billboards were gone from Vermont by 1974. Vermont is one of four states to have prohibited by law all billboards from view of highway rights-of-way, except for signs on the contiguous property of the business location."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Vermont#Conservati...
Conservatives have one hammer for every nail: the free market. The invisible hand always does better than government. Deregulation is always good. (There are three exceptions to this with many conservatives: free trade is bad, army is unlimited good, fossil fuels must be subsidized).

That's what leads to such statements. It doesn't matter how ridiculous a corner they will paint themselves into. They can deny that basic supply and demand exists. When backed into a corner they just exclaim "socialism doesn't work! Look at USSR!"

(And then together with neocons proceed to sanction and undermine more regimes to make sure they are right.)

It's kind of a religious conviction. Capitalism is the unofficial religion of the USA the same as Islam is in Saudi Arabia. Don't believe me? Try to say publicly that capitalism has faults and your criticism of capitalism itself would be instantly deflected to something else, or else you will be quickly ostracized.

This religion will soon come up against the hard facts of automation causing demand for human labor to drop, undermining the conviction that wages will always be the primary way for people to get money.
> There is zero lock-in. If Lyft is cheaper this week, I'm riding Lyft.

It makes sense, but I'm not sure it works out that way. Many web services have zero lock-in (not including those with a network effect such as Twitter and Facebook) and competitors are a URL away, yet the first ones to gain (mindshare? marketshare?) seem to keep it: Google search, Amazon, etc.
Where's the fine print on "excessive force"? The officer(s) involved in manhandling Dr. Dao need to be brought to justice as well!
> Autonomous cars being generally available lowers the barrier to entry for competitors to Uber, and makes their position worse, not better.

Why do you think that's true? Uber is investing heavily in autonomous cars because they want to be very early to the market (hence "Uber's bet is autonomous cars"), and because when you have autonomous cars high utilisation is important, they are in food delivery, and interested in shipping and courier services.

I think you're also overestimating the complexity of recruiting a load of former private hire drivers and underestimating the complexity of developing scaled fleet management solutions for entirely autonomous vehicles.

> Uber's bet is Uber controlling the autonomous car market

I think most reasonable people would be able to impute some sort of first mover or early mover advantage into what I was saying.
> "Isolation" and "Isolationist" are significantly different concepts. One is a physical property, the other is a social construct.

Someone who want's to isolate themselves, in search of "isolation", can be called an "isolationist".

> This isn't isolationism either. Switzerland is isolationist, but it has plenty of strict laws (including conscription), for example. What you're describing is a libertarian fantasy country.

If you want to be "isolated" you need a place where others will stay away from you. People who want to make you do things will undoutably cause people to come and enforce those desires. Any place that want's to force people to do things is not friendly to those who would like to "isolate" themselves... those whom could be called "isolationists" or "practicioners of isolation".

The word "isolationist" in a national context means the nation is the one practicing isolation. From my context it is clear that the personal is attempting to practice isolation. I don't think your interpretation of what I was saying is correct.
Amazing sunsets, beautiful prairie flowers, some caves. Cheap access to beef, often. Delicious peaches.

Don't knock Tulsa, it's not some hell hole.
Not really, I want to understand how a lot of smart people feel about a conflicting topic. There's no right or wrong in the situation, there's optimal and suboptimal.
White House to Keep Its Visitor Logs Secret
I thought this was hacker news. If you dont want something to be downloaded to your computer restrict your computer from downloading it. If you dont know how to do this then learn so. This cannot be stopped.

At the point it can be stopped the computer you have is no longer your computer. Like when the car you have is being driven by a computer and Tesla does not allow you to do self maintenance it is no longer your car.

So dont buy computers that restrict you from full access to the software (I dont think this has been done yet). And dont buy Tesla cars. Unless you like the product and dont mind renting or dont value complete ownership.
I hope we live to see this thing producible for $2. Even if it works half as well, this would be a miracle device for the developing world.

Does anybody know the synthesization cost for MOFs? Wikipedia says "MOFs and zeolites are produced almost exclusively by hydrothermal or solvothermal techniques, where crystals are slowly grown from a hot solution." which sounds $expensive$.
That was a wraparound condition, sort of the opposite of ignored bits.

Memory addressing on 8086 inherently adds two registers every time: the pointer and a segment register (which points to a 64k region of the 1M address space with a granularity of 16 bytes). The problem is what to do when the segment plus the address overflows. On the 20 bit original implementation, you just got the rolled-over address. (What you should have gotten was a fault of some kind, of course.) On the 286, the same addition would give a valid address in the second megabyte of memory, which isn't the same memory. So the PC/AT (not the CPU) had a compatibility switch wired that would force the 21st memory address line low in real mode for compatibility with apps that actually relied on the early behavior.
My point is that there are a lot of people who don't have any concept of depression as a chronic condition. In your example, you should simply make those changes, and if you can't do that then try harder.
I'm confused about what data the ISPs actually have access to.

It seems over 90% of my online activity is now https. That means they have access to very little that can be useful to an advertiser. (I suppose they have my DNS lookups, but it's trivial to change DNS to a company you trust.)

It's interesting how universally hated ISPs are. Google and Facebook, from a technical standpoint, are much scarier in what they know about everyone on the internet. Yet few people seem to care that they use our browsing and search data to target us to advertisers.
People who have Internet access are increasingly using it to get or keep their jobs. They don't really have a choice.

Consider the following analogy:

Nobody has to use a car. They can just stay home and be unemployed. Especially in rural Wisconsin. So when carmakers install tracking devices into that car, they can use your movement data as a way to make money. If you don't like it, walk or take a bus.
There's an incomplete "summary of leaked data" at https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shadow-broker...
So circumspect are they. There's as much of an 'ethical dilemma' here as there's a climate change debate. In other words, there's the truth and then there's a ton of wishful thinking & misinformation trying to sound legitimate.

"A lie ain't a side of the story."
Google was the first search engine? Actually, the field was crowded when Google appeared.
Good review for algorithms and data structures. Hopefully we can get a printed copy later.
I am just as terrified as you but we're getting downvoted by idealists. This is a significant step towards the obsolescence of humanity
> The only real expense is the manpower needed for moderation.

dang, who would want to do that as their job?
Remember when United almost killed people's dogs? Remember when they broke a guitar and the guy wrote two popular songs about it? Neither do I, this too will pass.
Covering is not as good as not loading.

Loading brings all the malware, the tracking, and the bandwidth/load times.
Not mentioned in the article but related, Japan has a rich history of "tsunami stones" that mark points below which it's unsafe to build.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/asia/21stones.html
Because - at least in the US - Tobacco advertising is specifically banned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Cigarette_Smokin...
Ask HN: What are the '7 wonders' of the coding world?
Would love suggestions here, I've migrated towards a style of always using that=this (even when not required because we're in an arrow function, for example) because the JavaScript refactoring tools I'm aware of aren't particularly robust (I'm mostly refactoring by hand) and I don't have confidence that the dev (me) moving code from one method to another will always correctly identify whether the source and destination this inheritance contexts will have the same shape. Always using that=this doesn't solve all problems (you can still get weird this's you're not expecting) but from what I think I've seen this sort of "conservative" approach seems to increase the safety of a lot of refactoring efforts in the more common use cases.

Are there sweet JS refactoring tools that a VS Code using, typescript preferring dev like myself should be using? I'd really like to drop this style if I can.
> Autonomous cars are not going arrive for 10 to 15 years.

Tesla believes its cars are already equipped with the necessary hardware and that the software, including Tesla Network (their announced autonomous Uber competitor), will be going live at the end of 2017.

At this point five years seems like a long time horizon for autonomous cars being on the road.
Sure, but I don't think a good faith interpretation of the title would require that sort of disclaimer, and look at the rest of the thread that resulted.
This is probably mostly an age thing

Argued that way, nobody has to use phone, digital camera and a whole bunch of other things. Part of the job of being a law maker is to understand the needs/interests of all people, not just old people because the lawmaker happens to be old. A sensible person would find out the usage of the internet, its impact, privacy etc before making (even though he himself might not use) a decision.

I don't drink, but that doesn't mean I should vote down any bill that has anything to do with alcohol without understanding what it is about, right?
Lol this is one of the best small-town comments on the topic.
I really would rather that banner and pop-up ads go away altogether, and that they be replaced with native advertising.

This war is silly.
You realize it's much worse than that right? Because $10 billion is just the direct cost of those firms, not the opportunity cost or the social cost, nor even the manhours and software cost. The six-billion man-hours alone I'd value at a ballback of $120 billion; though this is hard to truly estimate. Given that many figures simply assigned zero value time not spent working (and that's clearly nonsense), and that somebody earnign $20 is hopefully worth more; that sounds conservative to me.

Complex tax systems also encourage simply avoiding engaging in anything that would make tax burdens more difficult to figure; they cause stress (a public health issue that's still consistently ignored); and they encourage cooking the books to make life simpler - which in turn is an enabler for fraud.

The real-world cost of US tax complexity is likely at a bare minimum 100 billion dollars; possibly as much as 10 that; and that's excluding factors that are excluded from GDP; i.e. the value of things like lifestyle/stress but also more economic-oriented factors such as reduced economic agility.
>There's no right or wrong in the situation, there's optimal and suboptimal.

>In my opinion having the character in the logo is crucial to the marketing. How do I persuade her that we must do this?

These statements seem to conflict with each other.
“Killing writers block for WordPress”
My issue with advertisements is that they are designed to be manipulative, esp. emotionally.
"Smart, young, beautiful people" buy this product - don't you want to be like them? The ads that are strictly informational ("This product exists, here is why!") typically don't make good advertisements or are so poorly done that they become a form of comedy.

Ads subtle enough to get past an "AI Guardian" mean they are meant to influence your behavior. That is my issue with advertisements and why I actively refuse to purchase products I'm introduced to through advertising.

E:

I'd like to clarify that by "make good advertisements" I mean as in the goal of advertisements (get people to buy) and not "good" as in "acceptable".
Now why can't more of my constituents be like this upstanding citizen.
Wireshark 2.2.6 and 2.0.12 Released: vuln fixes
Thanks to SNI the hostname you are connecting to is usually visible to a snoop.
That would still stand out as a sore thumb.

Deliberate introduction of hard to exploit 0days would be precisely how they would do it. All you need is one plant with commit access.
There might be a few that accidentally fall into unicorn jobs, but best-of-the-best are right about in your range. There's just not enough data on potential hires to create that kind of valuation, and if they are best-of-the-best, they'll rapidly rise.
And the original PC from 1981. I think strictly speaking PC-DOS came first and generic MS-DOS came second. MS developed the OS for IBM and their biggest coup was negotiating the right to still own the IP and sell it to others as well.
That's not a reverse auction.

A reverse action is offering $2K. More people than we need. OK, how about $1500? Still too many. $1000? OK, right number.

"Wait! You offered us $2K and now you're only going to give us $1K. Lying POSs."

At least that's what I think people are referring to as a reverse auction in this context. I'm not sure if that's a totally accurate description or not.
http://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2017-AVI-114/index.h...
>And if you should have been having taxes automatically deducted and underpay by too much, then there's a fine associated with it.

And interest!
This is what matters most to me. My dislike of ads are out of fear of malicious code first, tracking second, and wasting my bandwidth third.

The simple gif banner ads of yore were tolerable enough.
Title is: Security vulnerability in unmaintained Drupal contrib module puts 120000 sites at risk

(Emphasis mine)
As a researcher, I was more interested in studying the doodles produced by children, compared to studying the drawings produced by professional artists or designers who may have been taught to draw a certain way, since perhaps the doodles are more closely aligned with the way we naturally think.

I was also fascinated at trying to understand how we are able to translate a vague concept in our minds, into a sequence of motor actors that doodles out this concept onto a piece of paper. We also take into account some feedback information during the doodling process. For example, I compare what I already doodled with what I actually want to draw, and decide I'll doodle next based on this information.

So we thought one way to study this ability of going from concept -> sketch, is to construct a very simple model of this doodling process, and try to train the model to doodle. We model this "vague concept" as a vector of floating point numbers. To model this "vagueness", we add noise to this vector. This way the model must learn to work with noisy concepts. The model takes this floating point vector as an input and (randomly) samples an output sequence of simple motor actions that doodles out an object. The sampling process is random (the model's outputs are the parameters of a pdf at each timestep), so the model can produce many different outputs given the same input. During the sampling process, the model feeds back into its input what it has just drawn, and process this information to decide what to draw next.

We show that our simplified model of the doodling process is also able to go from concept -> sketch, and also from sketch -> concept, and show that the concepts can be augmented, to alter the sketch the model produces in a meaningful way. We tried to make this model simple and robust enough so that in the future, we can incorporate it into more complicated models that try to do more than just doodling a simple object.
If the overall effectiveness of Internet advertising decreases, the amount of money spent on adtech will decrease correspondingly.
> Uber and Lyft's greatest competition in my life is a small Google product where people pick up people on their daily commute to and from work and the drivers are compensated only for gas money.

The Who's Driving app is great for this kind of thing.
I'm curious why you don't want to use HTML.
This is too cynical. You can be sure there will be lobbyists involved making the case for companies affected, but this does not guarantee results. Any business plan where there's government involved is risky.

Heck, even with a Republican-controlled Congress, the Republicans can't always get their agenda passed because they don't even agree among themselves what it is.

Nobody can rest easy that Congress will do what they want.