skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Canada is more humane than the US is...

Not really. It's just that the judges don't need to look "tough" to get re-elected. They're all appointed and can just go about doing their job.

I'm just exposed to local news more than other cities, but across North America the punishment for bad driving is astonishingly weak.

Most of the American stories I hear relayed to me are from cyclists who cannot believe the complete indifference police have to their plight. You got run down on the road and the driver fled the scene? Yeah, well, you had it coming and be thankful you're not dead. It doesn't even get reported because the police won't bother.
What specifically about LinkedIn makes it a disaster in your eyes? I've recently started using it again and found it to be immensely helpful.
Can you modify Android or iOS system files or add your key? Rooting is not really an answer, because in that case you can also root Windows.

I was under the impression that you can only legally modify files for fair use or compatibility purposes, not just because you want so.
To me it does. What is an observer? Is it distinguishable from its memory? If not, what do you have to do to a memory to add observer to it?

Can we make a conscious machine? Why not?
Maybe we can by simulating a brain exactly. But can we then figure out what in our model makes the sim-brain conscious? Can we turn it on and off?

Most of our insights into how human mind works actually describe how a philosophic zombie will work. But I am not one and I would like to know what am I.
Fining the man was probably what the law dictates. Yet, it feels so wrong in this case.

Reminds me of this talk by Barry Schwartz: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisd...
You can always hire a teacher that uses an interactive notebook language like Mathematica that is chock loaded with easy to use APIs for graphics sounds dictionaries graphs atlas data etc... I actually teach programming from the ground up using Mathematica -- send the email in my profile a message if you're interested in having your son try a few lessons. Inspiration is really key for young kids and I do provide that. I also have a few autistic/asperger spectrum students so thats a plus. Gotta know how to communicate best - I'm sure you know as a father that unless you gain their interest, certain pursuits are a hard sell. Thats why languages that have a lot of ways to do things and are in interactive notebooks, ie. Sage Jupyter Mathematica -- they make it much easier to give a child the vision and desire of things they can do if they learn more.
Would be nice if traffic lights in the US had a countdown time. Many other countries have countdowns on their traffic lights. The US has some catching up to do.
The first key-locked computer I saw was in 1974. I believe it was a North Star computer which was big at the time. As far as I could see, it was just a vanity thing.
They're diseases of the superego, not social or cultural diseases.

It makes no sense to say that a culture or society can directly bring about mental illness, but it makes sense to say that a person's superego is influenced by society and culture, and it makes sense that the superego can make a person mentally ill.

Otherwise, people will (correctly) argue that society and culture doesn't have that much power over a person's psyche.

Just use the correct term: superego.
Do society a favor and remove yourself from the industry.
Dog family tree reveals hidden history of canine diversity
With Secret Airship, Sergey Brin Also Wants to Fly
Having grown up in Germany and living in the US, I feel the opposite. The US traffic is far less predictable. In the US, you have to look, left, right, back and ahead when trying to switch lane, as anyone could appear from anywhere. You never know which lane you should stay on to drive "a little faster". Generally, people just don't pay attention.

In Germany it is in one direction only. Left to overtake, right to pull back over. In addition you do have to monitor your back mirror more carefully, which people in the US do not seem to do (though they should). In Germany, virtually no one plays with their phones on highways.

Also, traffic deaths are more than half in Germany than in the US, despite higher speeds [0].

I feel like traffic rage in the US is much more prevailent, particularly in the east coast. Having said that, Dutch or Danish traffic is far more relaxing. But also much much slower...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
There will be enough poor people that can't afford to have their children grown who will still be able to get pregnant.
Kotlin 1.1.2 is Out
The link you posted to support your claim demonstrates exactly the contrary: the person supporting that argument has been downvoted to oblivion until they saw fit to delete their account.
There are key differences though and for what it's worth I would feel the same about a medieval-era Catholic monarchy as I do about an Islamic state. Islam has many unique concepts -- Sharia, jihad, the Calpihate -- that make it fundamentally difficult to compare to most other world religions. Mohammad was a prophet first, but he was also a conqueror and a statesman.
> I was hoping there were a way to navigate ethical issues from a personal standpoint.

What would you be hoping to accomplish? To never step on anyone's toes or piss anyone off? A lot of these questions just don't have easy answers, no one has all the information.

Even when there's law available to draw from, you still have to have a court case or settlement negotiation or something because every situation is really different and nobody has all the facts.

There's no template because these are humans we're dealing with. They're smart, and not all of them care. If all you ever had to deal with were other ethical people, then you wouldn't need the law at all, you could just agree on things and nobody would try to abuse it.
Christian sharia is called 'the law' in much of the Western hemisphere, which is pretty much what 'sharia' means.

Americans (and others in the liberal democracies of the West) forget about things like 'blue laws' or attempts to prohibit gay-marriage, 'miscegenation' and other moral policing primarily because we have moved away from those practices. So while the current Christian version of sharia is somewhat limited to things like whether folks can buy beer or get their car fixed on a Sunday, it's still there exerting its influence.

I mean, swearing on a Bible? heh
Why not just be honest from the outset?
Good riddance to FTP. I've wasted enough time troubleshooting it in my career.
Meet Steve, the curious ribbon of purplish light discovered in Alberta skies
I caught RSI from a coworker. 20 pages of the Sarno book cured it. Never would have believed could happen if it hadn't happened to me.
Sony has gotten a lot better in the last 5 years. Their OLED viewfinders are an incredible improvement in photography.
Please use IPFS instead.
Show HN: JSONSchema to TypeScript compiler
Whose 'they' in this context? Uber/Otto?
Fav resources to learn JS
Sure, but these are laws which were the result of shared beliefs of it's constituents. They were not laws because the religion says they should be laws.
Related: "I Hope WebDAV Dies"[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213657
Technically they're already doing it via their subsystem mechanism. They're taking it "to the next level" with the Linux subsystem, where there's a kernel driver emulating a totally different kernel
I did read it. Did you? It is full of this garbage:

> The more powerful those stories are, the more you believe in the root forces in them and the causal forces that are holding those stories together. In our culture it would be biochemistry, in traditional Chinese medicine it would be balancing between yin and yang, balancing the forces in the universe, in Nigerian traditional beliefs it would be the power of magic and the ability of people to manipulate that.

And another:

> You think when you take an aspirin that your pain relief is coming purely from the aspirin doing something biochemical in your body, but part of that's also coming from your belief in aspirin, and the knowledge that you took the aspirin.

The whole article is about "placebo" disease. This is a crappy way to think about mental illness.
The author really should have cut down on the blue saturation for the phone examples, they're pretty ridiculous IMO. But regardless, it's an incredible result considering the sensor capabilities.
Is is an intellectual mistake, but, as demonstrated by this case and others, it is a mistake which clearly happens in the real world, and one whose consequences are inflicted upon people who have little ability to defend themselves
User Acquisition in the Windows Store: It’s (Almost) a Thing
That's terrible. In my experience, work stress is awful enough on its own, but the knowledge that you need to provide for a spouse and perhaps a family really compounds it. You can't just quit. It feels hopeless.
I actually learned programming by hacking video games. It started with Gameshark, Tsearch, poking and sieving memory. Packet sniffing and editing with WPE Pro. And then learning C and assembly language, the windows PE file format and about packers, Ollydbg, Softice..the whole gamut.

In some ways I echo the parent comment. I naturally wanted to know how my computer functioned and well..my games too. That cant really be forced to a kid..itd just be a chore.
Depends on where you are. At least colloquially in many places, they're the same thing. In places that have engineering certification boards and enforce the use of the word "engineer", an "engineer" would usually be able to analyze the correctness of, and sign off on something safety-critical, taking on some level of legal liability for doing that. Kind of like the civil engineer signing off on a bridge, or an architect signing off on a building design.

The line's blurry, except for places where the law gives a sharper distinction.
It is probably true that following too closely and careless lane changes are more dangerous than going slightly over the speed limit.

That said, in addition to safety, cars get lower gas mileage at higher speed (above about 50 mPH). Every time I see someone speed, follow too closely, or is careless in lane changing, I think "there goes a selfish a$$hole who doesn't care about the safety of others or the environment." I have never had a speeding ticket, BTW. People who speed and drive carelessly are self centered a$$holes.
I remember showing up to their local meeting with some other Linux guys in the area and politely calling bullshit on their lawsuit. It was kind of fun, although I'm not normally one to court controversy.
Offtopic, but I just wanted to point out that your comment looks like this: http://imgur.com/FGi9jsv

It's quite difficult to read, and even harder for mobile users. It might be better to use > or asterisks for quoting.

For anyone else who was trying to read the quoted parts, here they are:

He's perfectly at liberty to [share the information]

No, he's not according to the violations cited in Final Order, page 6, section heading #14; in particular:

> By reviewing, critiquing, and altering an engineered ITE formula,
and submitting the critique and calculations [...] to members of
the public for consideration and modification of Beaverton,
Oregon's and worldwide traffic signals, which signals are public
equipment, processes and works, Jarlstrom applied special knowledge
of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to such
creative work as investigation, evaluation, and design in
connection with public equipment, processes, and works. Jarlstrom
thereby engaged in the practice of engineering under ORS
672.005(1)(b).

...and summarizing:

> By engaging the practice of engineering [...] without registration,
Jarlstrom violated [laws]. [...] By again providing the public with
his traffic engineering calculations for the modification of
Beaverton's traffic signal timing, Jarlstrom again engaged in the
practice of engineering and, specifically, the practice of traffic
engineering. He thereby violated [laws] on a third occasion. By
providing his publicly released traffic engineering calculations to
the sheriff of the 20 county where he advised changes in traffic
signals, Jarlstrom again purported to be authorized to engage in, and
did engage in, the practice of engineering. He, therefore, violated
[laws] on third and fourth occasions.
> Anyone using Hackpad can "upgrade" by moving all of their pads into Paper.

I haven't touched Hackpad in a long time and wasn't aware of the acquisition until this HN post. That said, even if I was a regular user I'd pass on the "upgrade" as I stopped using Dropbox for privacy reasons. I'd consider moving (back) to Etherpad more of an upgrade at this point.
Honest question: How so?

I have not used it in anger - just played around with it.
> men, aged 25-44, drink at night and who live in rural areas

Think you may be mixing up two words

> In addition, the same study noted that 71 percent of all fatal pedestrian-vehicle crashes in the United States in 2000 occurred in __urban__ areas
What has changed in HTTP over the past 10, 20 years? Was there ever a clear benefit of using FTP instead of HTTP?

Just wondering why suddenly everyone is in agreement FTP should go away ..
Nginx v1.13.10 Released
*) Change: SSL renegotiation is now allowed on backend connections.

*) Feature: the "rcvbuf" and "sndbuf" parameters of the "listen"
directives of the mail proxy and stream modules.

*) Feature: the "return" and "error_page" directives can now be used to
return 308 redirections.
Thanks to Simon Leblanc.

*) Feature: the "TLSv1.3" parameter of the "ssl_protocols" directive.

*) Feature: when logging signals nginx now logs PID of the process which
sent the signal.

*) Bugfix: in memory allocation error handling.

*) Bugfix: if a server in the stream module listened on a wildcard
address, the source address of a response UDP datagram could differ
from the original datagram destination address.
lftp (https://lftp.yar.ru/) works over http (and more) and works just the way you would expect it to ie:

lftp http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
People talk about Marx as if he wrote some kind of blueprint for a Communist state. But he really didn't. He was basically writing a philosophy of history centering around a problem he observed - he wasn't necessarily writing about ideas for implementing particular solutions beyond vague notions that a Socialist revolution and subsequent Communist society is ultimately inevitable due to built-in flaws of any Capitalist system. The TLDR version of Marx is:

"All of human history is based around class struggles punctuated by revolutions, and in modern times this continues with those who own the means of production (Capitalists) having all the power over the common workers (employees). But don't worry because Capitalism is a self-destructive system, and soon there will be a socialist revolution, which will ultimately evolve into a Communist state, and then everything will be cool."

The only real implementation details he talks about have to do with some kind of transitional "pre-Communist" society, where he talks about nationalization of banks and railroads and other things.

I think Marx is better read as a philosophy of human history rather than as a blueprint for creating a Communist society.

The reality is Marx is right in the sense that the "ownership class" (those who own the means of production) continue to accumulate wealth and project disproportionate power because they own large amounts of corporate stock and by extension have control over the physical (or digital) means to keep making money. However, in the Western World, no revolution was forthcoming due to (I conjecture) rising standards of living and a consumer-oriented society, along with a blurring of the lines between the "ownership" class and everyone else (via things like stock options, entrepreneurship, Unions, employee rights, etc.), which certainly diluted Marx's eternal class-struggle narrative. Still, at the end of the day, we find ourselves in a Capitalist world where the majority of wealth is concentrated in < 0.0001% of the overall population, which seems to be an undesirable situation.
With traffic fatalities back up at levels not seen in something like a decade due to inattentive drivers, the last thing we need is more speed.

What we need is autonomous vehicles, because the sad truth is that a very large portion of the driving population should never have been issued a license in the first place.

Don't even get me started on the 85th percentile thing. That is a poster child for lazy engineering and government.
I think the problematic logic of the War on Drugs is a bit subtler than "If some people want to do something, it's a bad idea to make it illegal."

Off the top of my head: Many of the drugs in question are responsible for far fewer deaths than cars are, and so it's not obvious why the penalty fits the crime and there's a strong argument for outright legalization. Many of the drugs are physically addictive and not merely something people want to do with full free will; many people arrested would be happy to stop doing drugs if they got treatment instead. The war involved foreign policy and foreign military activity, whereas nobody is suggesting that we bomb Toyota if they refuse to make slower cars. The war has been waged particularly aggressively among historically-oppressed races and classes (cf. The New Jim Crow), whereas no directly analogous danger exists from enforcing low speed limits.
Source? AFAIK, encryption has never been illegal in the US. Export of encryption was, but currently is in a reasonable state.
> Nobody will do that if they know you are waiting to force them to share with competitors.

According to this logic, nobody would do that for water pipes and electric grid too, yet they are working. Local loop unbundling clearly works in many places already.
And I will happily enter a fake, insulting email address.
IPFS requires a stateful thick client with a bunch of index data, no? Would it be efficient to, say, build a Debian installer CD that goes out and downloads packages from an IPFS mirror? Because that's the kind of use-case anonymous FTP is for.
The Robots Are Coming for Your Wardrobe
Maybe my imagination it too dystopian today but I'm imagining artificial insemination to get a dozen lambs gestating and then you could C-section (or slaughter) the ewe after a few months.. That would take you from 1-2 lambs every 2 years to a dozen lambs in year 1.
You could, but since git isn't designed for handling large binary files the performance will be poor. That's why there are large file support plugins like (the aptly named) Git LFS[0] and git-annex[1].

[0] https://git-lfs.github.com

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Would be fantastic to add a section to the blog post and project README with a quote like this

> the designers who design specific pages of the site (for example) would still design in sketch, but pull from the components of the one "read-only" (react-generated) sketch file

Maybe under a "why use this?" heading?
The Business School Boondoggle
Fitbit fitness tracker cracks Connecticut murder case
Incredible results!! I would really love to be able to do this on a phone.

I've tried with iPhone to take long exposures and crank up the brightness/HDR to bring out as much signal as possible. This is the best that I could do on a fully moonlit night: http://imgur.com/a/km1D9
Startups seem heavily incentivized to grind their employee's lives into dust while maintaining plausible deniability, though. (Plausible deniability in the form of free lunches, foosball, etc.)
The Board's Final Report said, in a separate paragraph (14), that because "thinking and speech" (speech about his thinking, not "I'm an engineer")[1] were a violation of the law.

If you're arguing the board doesn't actually think that's a violation unless one also said one is an engineer, great, I've never disagreed with that; but they explicitly said "because [action definition X] you are in violation" and [definition X] pointedly does not include saying anything but "here's a creative application of math and stuff".

1. not the part where he said "I'm an engineer" -- the other paragraphs deal with that
Platoons, hyperlanes and self-driving cars
No, not actually completely open source. In particular, you don't get editor source unless you license the pro or customer versions.

Unreal may not be open source, but having source access at all license levels continues to be incredibly attractive.
Risky joke ;)
The plutocrats who spent forty years trying to crush the labor movement didn't think so. Foreign workers didn't cause the Volcker shock.
With this caveat: https://blog.filippo.io/ssh-whoami-filippo-io/

(Granted you can turn you can stop this client-side, but it's worth noting that your SSH client will generally identify you to a server on connect.)
There isn't in the article. The article is full of suppositions and what-ifs. There wasn't a single thing pointed out unique to Uber that doesn't occur in any other high-stress job.

Also the addition of racism really muddies the waters. If you say that everything is due to racism, that term rapidly loses all meaning.
Thanks -- I did use '>' but didn't wrap the lines myself, assuming the single '> lots of text here' was enough.
Why do you keep ignoring the fact that he had already repeatedly and knowingly made false claims of being an engineer despite having agreed not to do so? Doing engineer-y things is not the problem, it's doing them in the context of falsely presenting oneself as an engineer that's the problem.
I read a scientific book on sports health a couple of years ago, but I can't remember the title. I've tried to remember the title before and have searched my library history, because it said that even if you do heavy strength training, the amount of protein you need is basically the same as any normal person. It said that 0.8 g/kg of body weight was enough for anyone, and that's only 0.36 g/lb of body weight. It's so much lower than what I typically see: your 1 g/lb is on the lower end, since people usually recommend 2-4 g/lb of protein for strength training or bodybuilding.

I've also read elsewhere that the average Western diet contains twice the amount of protein you need. Too much protein comes with its own problems, in addition to just being stored as fat if it's more than the body can utilize. Perhaps strength trainers and bodybuilders use the extra protein as energy to build muscle, so that you could get the same energy from fat or carbs instead?

The same book said that the caloric ratio of the recovery shake or meal following strength training should be 4:1 calories from carbs and protein. I use soy protein powder, Powder Dextropur Plus, and water for my recovery shake. The high amount of carbs is to kick the body back from stress mode to recovery, and is only advised post heavy training when your body can handle it.

I really should find the title of the book, as it goes against a lot of wisdom found on the net. I just looked up ExRx.net [1] which I find is based on referenced science and facts, and they say:

* Average consumption for U.S. is 100 grams/day
* Protein requirements
40 grams/day for females
55-70 grams/day or 0.8 grams/kg body weight for males
* Recommended protein intake for athletes or physically active people (Paul 1989)
Protein and carbohydrate requirements increase somewhat
more calories

They say that protein and carb requirements increase somewhat when you're active, but further down on the page they say that the protein requirements may increase quite a bit. But it seems like the main requirement is a higher calorie intake, and that the ratio of calories from protein is basically the same for high-activity individuals.

[1] http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/Protein.html