skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article from an opinion point of view but I find very little real substance behind his arguments.

He is fight the original myth with his own myth except that his myth is founded upon his own assumptions and intuitions as opposed to those of someone else.

It seems more likely that we simply don't know the answer to many of these questions yet because we still have major disagreements around exactly what intelligence is. To use Richard Feyman's famous quote: if we can't yet build it, then we don't understand it.
Well, it's like Bernie Madoff said - "there is no innocent explanation". They hiked the price from $130 to $500 while matching Mylan every step of the way; they fixed prices. Their lawyers may be good enough so that they never get charged with it, but it's clear that they did it, and they and Mylan are both exactly the same and just as guilty. And now this lawsuit seeks to cast them as some kind of underdog and victim.

My point about "good guys" was because of the whole tone of the article. A romantic story of two brothers, one of whom became a doctor, and another an engineer, so that they could invent their dream automatic injector. Except that autoinjectors are a 1950s technology, used by most militaries to deliver antidotes to chemical weapons - here's a film from 1963 which demonstrates a device that I have a hard time telling from an EpiPen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeyW8aoP8mE.

So what the hell was there to even invent, why are these devices covered by any patents at all, why is the FDA allowing just two companies to dominate the market (I am sure plenty of people would like to charge $100 for devices which cost a few dollars to manufacture), and why doesn't a lockstep price hike from $130 to $500 attract the attention of antitrust prosecutors? Because healthcare in the USA is an insane fever swamp...
From the GDP lift caused by lifting large populations out of disease and poverty.

Thought experiment: how fast do you think our scientific knowledge would advance if 90% of the US were living in poverty and spent most of their day simply figuring out how to survive?
Edited my comment to clarify that voting manipulation is bad, not Show HN itself. Show HN of course is fine.
So google tracks downloads?
Amazon Echo Look – An eye into your bedroom
I wonder how deep this goes. What if you a mistyped phone number on a bank form that get submitted to government authorities as part of routine compliance? Is that a crime? Is there even a difference between a mistake and intentionally transposing two numbers?
> No, that's not how taxes work in the US. Business taxes are before, and in addition to your income tax.

Businesses are either taxed as corporations (so they pay their own taxes and owners treat them as capital assets) or as partnerships (so their taxes are rolled into their owners' taxes but owners can distribute assets tax free).

Trump is talking about changing the tax code, and partnerships don't currently have a tax rate, since they don't pay the corporate tax. It sounds to me like his proposal is to lower the rate paid by their owners.

> Single member LLCs get special treatment - you only pay personal income taxes and self employment taxes, but not business income taxes.

Multi-member partnerships, too. AFAIK the only thing that's special about single-member partnerships is that they don't file separately. This has no major effect on taxes paid.
I like the approach where you see all the connections app has, it gives you a context about what can be done with it. You don't feel lost like most virtual personal assistants.
This tool provided some more insight into what the EFF already revealed about my browser: Yeah, my Fedora 24 Chrome UA string is fairly rare, but it's a unique (or nearly unique) font stack that rolls up into 18+ bits of entropy to nail my browser as me. EFF says my browser reveals enough information to be unique, out of their 260K+ tests they've run so far. Depressing. I can spoof the UA, but my fonts and plugins are giving me away.

It's no surprise that Browserprint arrives at the same results with only 65K tests.
Made in New Zealand!
> I think there's an unspoken subtext to this

That's very much a mindset from your generation. It's not at all prevalent in the newer (millennial and younger) generations. We grew up with more real world tales of people being screwed over by overzealous police than real world tales of murder, muggings and drug crime. We're more likely to give the benefit of the doubt to anybody suspected by the cops than we are to give the benefit of the doubt to the cops themselves.
You may very well disagree with the Guardian as to what constitutes a "tie". Ignoring that they made clear their justification for doing so and arguing that the relationship between Thiel and Trump is equivalent to the relationship between the average HN and Trump is disingenuous. If your issue with the Guardian in particular and the media in general is that they're not being fair in their reporting, you need to do better than they are in your criticism of them.
I really like how this product has SO MANY use cases but they have picked just one to go to market with. More will come later. But for now, it just helps you pick you clothes.

This is good because it keeps you expectations low so you will be pleasantly surprised when it does something else.

They did this with the Echo as well. It was just an egg timer at first and played music.
It isn't myth. Prospectus of these leveraged ETFs say don't hold these instruments over a day. This is from JNUG which is popular with millennials:

"Because of daily rebalancing and the compounding of each day’s return over time, the return of the Fund for periods longer than a single day will be the result of each day’s returns compounded over the period, which will very likely differ from 300% of the return of the Index over the same period. The Fund will lose money if the Index performance is flat over time, and as a result of daily rebalancing, the Index’s volatility and the effects of compounding, it is even possible that the Fund will lose money over time while the Index's performance increases."
> But you can. Just like you can stereotype folks from SF being against Trump or pro gay-rights.

Yes, my mistake. You can stereotype all Muslims as terrorists, just like you can stereotype all Christians as homophobes, or all atheists as sanctimonious jerks, or all black people as watermelon-loving gangsters. It's just, y'know, stupid and bigoted.
New York was even later. Paris though began to built sewers in the middle ages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_sewers
The assessment isn't simply that its first use is ancient, but that it has been used universally throughout the history of the language and occurs routinely in its greatest works --- not just in Chaucer, but in Orwell. See the link I posted downthread. To me, a "controversial" language feature that has been used by Chaucer, Austen, and Orwell is no controversy at all.

The prescriptivists have lost this debate, comprehensively. There may be a language that lacks a gender-neutral singular "they", but it isn't English.
> haven't personally seen any kind of data corruption in motion

Ever had a program crash, hang, or act oddly? That's how data corruption in memory surfaces.

Of course, non-perfect programs (i.e. all of them) act the same way, which means that differentiating memory corruption from misbehaving programs is hard.

Fixing the memory errors will result in more stable system, but it still won't be perfect.
There's protein and then there's complete protein. You need to consume enough of all of the essential amino acids to avoid protein deficiency even if you're consuming "enough" grams of protein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid
I love exploring gopherspace from time to time. Usually I use Lynx but I may have to give this a try.
GitHub Integrations are coming!
> I do recognize that the first step is talking with someone but...it's a tough first step.

It actually does help to talk through things and therapists are trained to be non-judgmental and supportive. I urge you to try it if things get too tough for you.
Indeed that is a more clear explanation of what I meant. Thx!
Verizon might want to ensure that their products work better than NetFlix and Amazon by throttling network traffic going to those domains? Perhaps even stall the pipe every now and then to frustrate users into seeking more stable alternatives? Oh, look! Verizon's service is so much faster than those other two!! I wonder why?!?!
> If you look through the source code & postmortems from that era of Google, there are all sorts of nasty hacks and system design constraints that arose from the fact that you couldn't trust the bits that your RAM gave back to you.

Details of this would be very interesting, but obviously I understand if you cannot provide such details due to NDAs, etc.

I mean, I can imagine a few mitigations (pervasive checksumming, etc), but ultimately there's very little you can actually do reliably if your memory is lying to you[1]. I can imagine that probabilistic programming would be an option, but it's hardly "mainstream" nor particularly performant :)

I'm also somewhat dismayed at the price premium that Intel are charging for basic ECC support. This is a case where AMD really is a no-brainer for commodity servers unless you're looking for single-CPU performance.

[1] Incidentally also true of humans.
One of the major reasons for using ZFS is ensuring data integrity.

If you implement ZFS for that propose and cheap out on RAM, you're at odds for that purpose.
Finger devices let users ‘touch’ virtual objects
If 'battle tested' was the most salient selling point we'd be on Series 60 or QNX phones.

Actually, there are more Series 40 and Symbian phones sold today than iPhones - 350 million to 200 million (India / rest of Asia, Africa and Latin America are the main buyers). Many people here still miss the old Nokias. Of course, Android is the new Series 60.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/nokia-sold-35-million-f...

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/india-smartphone-shi...
That doesn't sound so odd? I bet quite a few modern soldiers still have some talismans or lucky charms.
Great discussion here, not necessarily about the OP's link, but still learned a lot. Would love to contribute my 2 cents...

Our app[1] sends/receives several million emails per month. Not an exaggeration, it's actually seven figures.

Meaning it's more than 100k a day. Meaning it's 5-6 emails every friggin second. On average. It, of course, peaks during US daytime, up to 30 per second.

We tried a looooh-ot of solutions (all priced at THOUSANDS a month at this volume) including Mailgun, Sendgrid, SES etc, but finally settled to a tiny Ubuntu micro-instance on EC2, running Postfix. It has 1 gb of memory, costs us $4 a month and the CPU load rarely goes higher than 4%.

Of course you would need to get yourself familiar with SMTP, postfix, SPF/DKIM, mx-validation, blacklists etc. And by "familiar" I mean "learn it tothe core" :))

Another thing - you need to build-up reputation for your IP, cause email providers like outlook/gmail/yahoo will simply reject your emails if you start sending a LOT out of the blue. You have to build it up gradually, takes months to get there. Makes it a huge PITA when you need to change your IP :((

PS. If you need incoming email to call some external REST-api - postfix can launch a local php-script that does that. Not sexy but - $4 a month, right.

[1] https://www.jitbit.com/hosted-helpdesk/
> haven't personally seen any kind of data corruption

How would you know? Unless your computer use has been literally trouble-free (and all your archived data has been verified for correctness somehow), you can't know that none of your glitches over the past 17 years has been due to memory errors.
The only reason ECC is costly is because Intel has a monopoly on the desktop/server chip market and they refuse to deploy ECC to consumer chips. The hardware is there, it's just fused disabled.

If ECC were only the cost premium and we assumed a linear relationship then it should cost about 1/8 more than non-ECC DRAM. Unfortunately Intel's decisions have knock-on effects that ripple through the rest of the market.

IIRC I saw somewhere that JDEC expects a future standard will require ECC to get acceptable error rates for all memory. At that point Intel won't have any choice.
Because property tax is an awful, dreadful way to fund public education.

A progressive percentage of earned income above given thresholds (either poverty or happiness) would make much, much more sense.
Your argument is just the fallacy of relative privation "why are you worrying about X when Y?"

Different things concern different people.
Well I recall a somewhat recent case where you mentioned how there was one of features (I want to say it was the KASLR) that depended on another feature which still isn't in. You (spender in specific) mentioned on LWN how basically the feature was no good without the other 1/2 and the two changes were both somewhat invasive (in the Linux kernel context what Linus would consider invasive). I'm not saying you're wrong in any way or that you developed all 8+MB of code in 1 chunk. I'm saying you design your components to go together and depend on eachother, not to be split up individually and added sort of kind of willing/nilly.

Did I get that wrong? From reading Brad on LWN for literally years wank about Linux security (he's absolutely not wrong to complain), this was my take. Or it could be summarized as (this is satire):

PaxTeam: This is our code, it is open source, it is more secure than the dumpsterfire that is upstream, take it if you want it.

Linux Upstream: That is nice, now break it into 1000 individual patches each independently git bisect-able. Also, can you change the interfaces of these design flaws in Linux and THEN entirely re-do your well tested patch to match the way we do code upstream and match the interfaces we would *like* Linux to have that we're going to expect you to code for us.

PaxTeam: No, we want to do more interesting things like build more secure patches for Linux and look at pictures of cats on the internet, as it was designed to be used for.

Linux Upstream: ...
Take a Trip Inside Coachella’s Psychedelic 120-Foot VR Dome
Review: YTMP3 – Online YouTube to MP3 Converter
> Why don't we all agree that the "introvert/extrovert" dichotomy is a false one

Because there's scientific evidence strongly suggesting otherwise. That said, the author is using the wrong term. He's talking about social anxiety, not introversion. Introverts at conferences tend to take more of a hit and run approach, like a sprinter, whereas extroverts can socialize for hours, like those damned cross country runners. :)
The server went down - good time to write a review.
Good thing: works without registration and login.
Movie list reshuffling after each input - very distracting. Might be better to show a full page of movies ant ask user to mark like/hate. Reload list and recommendations only when user marks at least 10 movies.
I cannot find some of older movies from early seventies - is there some limit on movie age?
Yep. The TCSEC had covert channel analysis as a requirement. Actually, two of the products (GEMSOS, STOP OS) certified at A1 can still be OEM licensed today in some form with a third (SNS Server) only sold to defense sector. They have plenty of competition, too, in MILS space. Solutions exist.
This is very fascinating; it's so interesting when something as simple as the shape of an iron ingot can have such huge effects.
>Thanks for the summary. I haven't read the book yet, but I'll have to sometime.

You should. It's a short book (a few hours to read), and then you can tell everyone you've read it, since it's one of the first things that gets asked when leadership skills are in play (most people don't seem to fixate on the importance aspect like I did, though).

IMO researching psychology will pay more direct dividends than researching any other field. A lot of the stuff you run across is intuitively true and you can immediately recognize it throughout your life. Doing the research gives you a vocabulary to describe it and heightens your awareness significantly, enabling you to better utilize the social skills that we all have hiding under the covers somewhere. :)

It is important to carefully select your material, though, because there is a lot of nonsense pop psychology out there. I would avoid the more general, mass-appeal stuff and stick to the classics starting out.

>It's interesting that on one side you have Carnegie's "make them feel important to make them interested in you" and on the other side you have the pick-up artists' (I'm not defending them) "neg them to make them interested in you". In one variant you lift the other person up and in the other you push them down, both with the idea of wanting them to talk to you more.

Well, there is some nuance here.

Pick up artists suggest starving the mark of attention because that sends a signal that you are important, which sets them up to believe that they're important too when you do finally impart attention.

On the other hand, giving too much attention to a person sends the signal that you're too available, that you don't have anything else going on. That creates the impression that if no one else is interested in your time, it may not be valuable.

Since important people don't hang out with unimportant people, this causes the potential partner to worry about their association with you, and how it may affect their importance, both in the absolute/real sense and in the perception of others.

I haven't gone deep into the pick up artist scene, so I'm not really familiar with the intricacies of "negging". I'm sure that a lot of parts of it are way overboard. But they are correct that in seduction, few things are quite so fatal as the whiff of desperation. It devalues everyone involved.

>what it does is it shifts your focus from what you can do to look good yourself to what you can do to make the other person look good, which is often a lot easier anyway. It takes you out of your own head and makes you more attentive and focused on the other person, so that you can respond to and amplify the good thing they do.

Also yes, I think this is one of the keys too. The better you can approximate and relate to the POV of the other individual, the better you're going to do. Structures and activities that close this gap are crucially important to happy relationships.
Why does my education become retroactively more expensive if I move to a different town?
The point of schools isn't to benefit children, it's to instill certain traits that are in the state's best interest for their future citizens to have.
The Matrix Cookbook (Facts about matrices) [pdf]
A lot of this stems from the Calvinist strain of religious thought that holds earthly wealth or poverty to be a sign of God's favor (or not). If I find myself in discourse with someone who holds to draconian economic views, I often slip in a few casual questions/references to see what sort of religious tradition they gravitate towards (which has nothing to do with belief, even atheists have attitudinal religious positions).

In my experience, dealing with someone who thinks the divine will is manifested in earthly affairs is better avoided. Or to quote William Burroughs' more colorful version of the same advice: if you are doing business with a religious son-of-a-bitch, get it in writing,* his word ain't worth shit - not with the good Lord telling how to fuck you on the deal.*

Please note that my criticism is directed as a particular subset of religious thought rather than religion in general. Every belief system has the potential to manifest in good and bad ways.
Mhm.

So yet another Siri.

Apparently "Vernax" is behind it: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vernax#/entity

Website is down: http://www.vernax.com/

They really need a native English speaker to clean up the text on the homepage though. Lot's of sub-optimal phrasing.
Shouldn't be so merciful to brick it.
Should have taken over some garage door openers, measured the average time between open and closing, and then close it suddenly after t == t_Signal+(t_Average)*1/3.
Security is when your door is not trying to get into your car.
The carcrackodile would raise awareness.
Backdoor in the firmware of Antminer Bitcoin mining hardware
Have you done this before and do you have a sense what's the cost? If it costs $5,000 to have an attorney involved while I'm pretty sure that I'm just a witness, it may not be worth it.
Oh, this is you! [1] Grats on release!

The last big thread on Gopher here was pretty entertaining, nostalgic, and informative [2] -- including posts by the creators -- and it's the one where OP posted that they're working on a new windows client [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274235
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269784
History. The ZFS folks, back when, were the only folks making much noise about the association between non-ECC RAM and corrupt data landing on disk.

The truth is, if you care about the notion that your disk should return the same data that software thought it was writing, you should use ECC with any file system. But The ZFS folks made noise about the issue, I think lots of people assumed the reason was that there was something special about ZFS that needed it, and now you have something sort of like an urban legend.
Terrible? Is the expected return negative for large portfolios of crowdfunded companies? I ask because it's possible for expected returns on a portfolio to be good even if the the typical outcome for any individual investment within the portfolio is to lose all of the money in that investment.
Probably a daft question but I'm curious as to what others have to say. If this happens, what kind of attorney or lawyer should you contact? Is simply googling "attorney's near me" and reaching out to the first result good enough? The lawyers I work with are all corporate contract lawyers, not the kind that deal with criminal law.
"“Two years ago, I warned that we were making a serious mistake,” Pai said. “It’s basic economics: The more heavily you regulate something, the less of it you’re likely to get.”

Just reading this makes me angry. Has he ever heard of monopolies / oligopolies, or simply the place of government in regulating public utilities.

Apply his quote to water supplies and see what happens.
You have my upvote for distilling my ambiguous worries into a catchphrase I can repeat to my friends and family.
By definition of what? The adjective you tacked to the beginning of the word 'stress'?

As I said in my original post, The article gives no direct indication that Uber was different from any other high-stress job, other than the fact that Thomas committed suicide. Much like the article, you are just speculating.

And if this is your pet theory, can you account for a person being put under a "life-threatening" amount of stress, but choosing not to quit? Even when his family urged him to seek help?

Blaming Uber rests entirely on whether working conditions at Uber where unreasonably stressful, and there is no indication that this was the case.
Tamper-proofing truth with blockchain
...or using the bookmarking service that extracts the copy of the page (with Wallabag and Pinboard being two that do that that I can remember on top of my head).
> While it is absolutely true you could design a fusion reactor whose purpose was to create fissile material for bombs, that design would look nothing like a power reactor

This directly contradicts the article:

"The open or clandestine production of plutonium 239 is possible in a fusion reactor simply by placing natural or depleted uranium oxide at any location where neutrons of any energy are flying about. The ocean of slowing-down neutrons that results from scattering of the streaming fusion neutrons on the reaction vessel permeates every nook and cranny of the reactor interior, including appendages to the reaction vessel."
"Gopher Browser for Windows Client" is rather confusing; why not just "Gopher Browser for Windows"?