skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet of Hackable, Completely Unpatchable Things Capable of Destroying the Internet.
They also make the road less useful -- you have to balance safety with something. If not, it's just safer if everybody stays at home.
I really cannot understand why consumers persist in buying smartphones with non-removable batteries. All of these battery degradation problems are reduced to minor annoyances if you can buy a replacement battery for ~$35.
Lack of http/2 on haproxy by now is terribly limiting and very disappointing.
There are a few organizations which do this, including United Way, Goodwill. I did this through United Way. Here is the link to find volunteering opportunities near your area, http://www.unitedway.org/get-involved/volunteer
You added some more items while I was posting my first response, so I'll address them separately here.

Clearly there is a limit where a behavior is inherently dangerous enough that we've decided to outlaw the behavior before it causes harm.

Clearly in our current system we do this, yes. And clearly it doesn't always work (as we see in the drunk driving numbers). And even in cases where it does "work", I think that's more because of the cost of the dangerous behavior--very few private individuals have enough wealth to be able to build their own personal nuclear reactor, and the ones that do appear to have better things to do with their wealth--than because of legal prohibitions. ("My house has anti-tiger protection." "But there are no tigers within thousands of miles of your house." "See how well my protection works?")

The fundamental problem is that some people have a propensity to do stupid and dangerous things. How do we stop them? Legal prohibitions don't seem to work very well. (If personal nuclear reactors were affordable, do you think making them illegal would really stop all the people who want to build one?) Plus, legal prohibitions preempt other possible methods, and reduce respect for the law, and undermine personal responsibility. So what are they really gaining us?
It's in the article. Some skepticism is worthwhile though.

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-impossible-em-drive-is-about...
I would argue you can network easily with others by simply having a genuine interest in what they are doing and what they have to tell you about it. Not a gift. Minimal skill required. Most people generally want to tell you all about what they are doing and it takes very little prompting other than genuine questions.

The gift you refer to is, to me, mostly being good at understanding and purposefully manipulating the emotional state of other people to achieve whatever goal you have.
Cell phones bypassing land lines makes sense because you can cover more customers with less cost. Self-driving cars may eventually be less costly than human driven cars, but for the near future, the costs you add (sensors, software, actuators, etc) are way more expensive than the costs you save (driver's attention, optimistically damage to persons and property reduced through collision avoidance), particularly in developing countries where a person's attention has less monetary value, but the raw materials for the car have similar costs. It's unlikely that you'd get much of the ancillary benefits of usability by unlicensed drivers either -- few people will be able to afford a driverless car to cart their kid around to school or wherever, anyway those people could just hire a driver and a normal car.
After this comment, I'm wondering if your username is a reference to Milton Friedman.

Firstly, I'm curious how expressing an anti-capitalist sentiment differs from being critical of capitalism.

Secondly, I'd like to propose a few reasons why a person of sound mind might be anti-capitalist:

* There are several well known cases where market forces, in isolation, cannot solve a problem. This already leads one away from several forms of "pure" capitalism. Once you move away from pure capitalism though, you create new problems that require more complexity to solve (regulatory capture perhaps being one of the bigger ones).

* If you look at the post-industrial-revolution capitalistic societies, there is a massive underclass that was substantially made materially worse-off (yes, a generation or two later, society as a whole ends up in a generally better position, but it was accomplished by grinding up and spitting out cheap labor that typically did not directly benefit from it.

* There are some very serious environmental problems currently facing us, most notably global warming. Companies
that were profitable by externalizing the costs of these quire rationally found that the best way to maximize their profits was to muddy the scientific waters sufficiently to significantly delay any attempts at addressing these problems (which would certainly involve some way of preventing them from externalizing their costs).

There's probably a lot more that I'm not thinking of right now. I would suggest finding friends who are anti-capitalist and listening to their reasons, not with an eye to shutdown their response, but just to get a sense of differing views.

Even someone who agrees that the natural experiment of the 20th century proved capitalism is superior to communism (which is in itself debatable due to the low sample size and several confounding differences between the powers involved), might feel that some other non-capitalist form of economy could be superior.
How could it not be ?

Yahoo's handling of flickr push user away for years.
do you remember the password of that email account you have not used for 5 years ? good not try to log in and discover that this address has been deleted or reclaimed by hotmail for being inactive.

Do you still have the phone number you had in 2005 ? chances are you have changed several times.

I don't even know most of my current passwords, I never give my phone number for privacy reason (still have about 2-3 telemarketers calls a day for having given it a few times in the past) and I usually can't check the associated email because I don't even remember which temporary email address service I used to register with your service to protect myself from the spam and reselling of my address.

I've learned a lot since the 90's and I trust the web services for exploiting, reselling any piece of info I may give them so everything is single use or fake, it has proven very effective at keeping annoyances at a very low level.

Funny that you would mention a potential security issue when yahoo's credentials and user data has been breached, twice.
The post I replied to implies that iOS is (somehow) "artificially limited" to be unable to access FTP - or at least I interpreted it that way.

FWIW, I'm not convinced that "web-based" is a better alternative for read/write file access, assuming you mean file manager webapps. No OS can integrate those into the native file picker, so you can't avoid the inefficiency of manually uploading files after changing them. WebDAV works pretty well though, if that counts...
Please know that if you are feeling hopeless, like you are a failure, and that there is no recovering, there are people who will help you. You are not your job or your accomplishments, you are worth it and there are people who love you and will help you.

In the Bay Area, call (415) 781-0500 to talk with someone who can help. http://www.sfsuicide.org/
Thanks for explaining your position. I mainly asked because in my opinion there is very little difference between driving high / drunk or violating speed limits. While former increase chances for incident later increase lethality and in the end only risk for human injuries / life are matter.

While I don't think that anything legal must be "ok" and law is perfect I still don't agree with you and there is serious reasons for that. First of all one can simply be "lucky" with careless driving or just straight defective brakes.

Second I seen how law enforcement changed driver behaviour in my country of origin. Even with extreme amount of corruption it's still forced almost everyone to use seat belts, pass vehicle inspection regularly and avoid breaking the law if there is chance that will end up with loss of their driving license or huge bribe. I totally sure that without proper enforcement that would be never achieved otherwise.

Third is that I seen the difference between driving behaviour in the UK and Asia and while UK system cause a lot of false positives lethality numbers make a big deal. Even if enforcement is not the only measure to calm traffic it's important one. I really can't see how one can justify that 3x-10x more people going die.

Last reason is that I simply not believe that society on it's own can change driver behaviour as effective (if at all) as enforcement. Fines and tickets work because they are market mechanism like fuel and horsepower taxes, paid parking and London's congestion charge, etc.

Also there are plenty of other laws that limit overtaking on sidewalk, illegal parking and many more that only work because there are enforced. Remove them and streets of any country will slowly turn into hell.

UPD: Grammar fixes.
One good solid exchange of nuclear weapons would do it. Once the manufacturing chains are broken and international commerce is halted, the collapse of civilization would occur pretty quickly. Even among the survivors bent on preserving knowledge, most digital records are on ephemeral media and the components of most electronic devices have a rated operating lifespan of only a decade or less.

Though somewhat dated, James Burke covers this quite well in the first episode of his classic "Connections" documentary. If anything, the situation is far worse now.
Look at the number of drunk driving deaths (and accidents) from 30 years ago or so and you'll notice that the rate has been dropping since enforcement became more regular. Of course some of that is likely from social pressure, but most studies have shown that enforcement does reduce the number of drunk driving deaths.

But let's not argue in vague generalities about using social pressure instead of laws.

A company builds a nuclear plant on Lake Michigan. There is a 10% chance per year that the plant will fail. The failure will catastrophically damage Lake Michigan and the surrounding area. The company decides that it's worth it.

Under your system, a boycott is the only way to stop them?

A lab decides to manufacture biological weapons to sell to dictators. There is no chance of a boycott doing any good because the owner doesn't sell to anyone in the US. There is a 5% chance per year that safety procedures will fail, releasing a virus that will kill an estimated 50 million people in the US.

Under your system, what do we do about it?

These hypothetical situations are extreme, but I'm trying to find out what your limits are. Because I really don't think you've thought this through.
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No it's just much like Detroit, only without criminality.
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Users flagged it. Moderators didn't touch it. That's routine.

You can call it censorship if you want to but it's a community reaction.
I was not aware drivers could lease vehicles from Uber. I assumed they couldn't because I once reserved a ReachNow car, only to find an Uber driver setting up in it. He had ended his ride by accident, and was on the phone with their customer service. He was talking about needing to start work. The customer service rep said there was another car nearby (it was 2 blocks away when I looked at the app).

The guy then says on the phone, "I'll get this guy to drive me too it." He takes forever to get all his crap out of the car and says "We can drive-"

"Dude, it's two blocks that way. I'm paying by the minute. I'm not driving you.."

..and I thought to myself, there is no way this guy is really a Lyft/Uber driver and is using ReachNow or Zipcars? Even if that wasn't against policy (which I have a feeling it is), that also has to be incredibly expensive. How does he turn a profit?
That number comes from a time of 3-speed transmissions and non-aerodynamic bodies. I heard better numbers back when 5-speed was becoming common, but now we're seeing 8-speed and 9-speed and CVT. It's probably around 65mph now.
Yeah, that makes sense since smiley faces are yellow and red is traditionally an angrey color. Maybe I should have done that.
Personal attacks and uncivil comments will get your account banned here, so please stop doing that.
Are they really self funded if the fees they demand are codified into law instead of voluntary? I guess the IRS is also self-funded.
Using all the letters from the keyboard
Quantum Biometrics Exploits the Human Eye’s Ability to Detect Single Photons
From https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-...:

Add column
In-Place?: *Yes*
Rebuilds Table?: *Yes*
Permits Concurrent DML?: *Yes* (Concurrent DML is not permitted when adding an auto-increment column.)
Only Modifies Metadata?: *No*
Data is reorganized substantially, making it an expensive operation.

In practice, the last no is a serious problem.
I think part of it is that only a bad sales pitch really comes off as a sales pitch to begin with. A good one feels like a helpful recommendation. Networking is similar--good networking feels like making friends, not something transactional. So when people think of sales or networking and get the creeps, it's because they're mainly remembering all the bad examples.
They are the only ride sharing solution currently in Australia
How to Merge multiple 4K Clips into one?
File metadata is not cruft. It's a very good thing. Vista's/Win7 Explorer.exe with its metadata columns is GREAT.

Even better was Windows (Live) Photo Gallery. Sadly it's dead since Feb 2017, you can't even install it anymore, as only a now broken WebInstaller exists. Photo Gallery was hand down 1000 times better than Picasa/Lightroom/Photos/iPhotos for just browsing photos and videos. And it alo supported tags with hierarchy (eg "City/New York/Manhattan").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Photo_Gallery

Sadly WinFS failed, metadata is nowadays often misunderstood and persived by companies contra productive in the age of cloud service strategies. Flickr is probably the only well known photo service tht keeps metadata. Facebook made it popular to strip metadata and keep annotations internally (as vendor lockin) - now common also with other services.

I hope there will be a kind of come back of metadata. People need more education to understand the concept, that's all.
If it wasn't for "open source mentality", the internet would have ossified in the 90s. People wouldn't be able to put up all the interesting individual sites that they do, and there'd be only a few major companies that could provide hosting. So many of the things we take for granted have grown out of side-projects that would never have taken off with a high barrier to entry that is commercial-grade software. Certainly the web wouldn't be as advanced as it is now, as 'vested interests' would have won far more frequently than 'pragmatism'. "Which DB do you use? MSSQL or Oracle?" - RethinkDB would never have gotten off the ground.

> because the open-source developer tools market is one of the worst markets one could possibly end up in

Well, a production-quality database isn't really a 'developer tool', but even then, there are dev tools that have carved out a comfortable niche for themselves, such as SublimeText.

The problem isn't the open source mentality, the problem for RethinkDB was competing in a saturated market with a major competitor who had already won a lot of mindshare and gained a lot of traction.
exactly that. thank you.
Very much this. My son is taking his first course in HS Algebra. Fortunately, he generally gets it, but every now and then asks me for help in understanding a concept since his textbook is awful. I've found myself having to Google topics that I know I mastered decades ago. It does come back, but sometimes it takes a bit of thinking.
Amazing. I was dreaming about writing a library to do exactly this during Ludum Dare this weekend (I want strongly typed access to my tilemaps), and here I find it on HN the next day. :)
Same in Turkey. Actually I think even in Germany ("im Zug gestanden haben." Where "Zug" = "Zugluft")
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How much danger should I be allowed to put you in without repurcusions? Should I be allowed to point a loaded firearm at you? As long as I don't pull the trigger I'm not causing any harm. I'm pretty sure most people would appreciate the police getting involved in this type of situation.
Facebook has nothing to do with photos. Simple example: I'm looking for a creative common photo of a cat to reuse how do I find this on facebook ?

Facebook is not shutterstock or getty, photo is not their business, providing their useds with as little friction so they can be exposed to the customer's ads longer is their core business.
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Yes! Excellent point that I hadn't even considered.
I use LinkedIn. I'm not a tech guy and work in tax. Whenever I meet clients, I add them on LinkedIn and leverage that to find more introductions. I know LinkedIn isn't well liked in the tech space, but for global businesses doing infrastructure development, it works exceedingly well.

For relationship management, I try to meet at least 6 clients face-to-face every week.
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All diets fail for nearly everyone who tries them, the National Weight Control Registry notwithstanding.

The fact that a tiny percentage of the populace successfully loses weight does not make "try to do what those people claim they were doing" good advice, any more than the fact that a tiny percentage of people win the lottery makes "buy lottery tickets!" good financial advice.

The notion that "all diets fail" persists because thus far it sadly remains true - telling people to lose weight and keep it off by dieting is faith-based advice, wishful thinking. It's not science.
Running NSA/Fuzzbunch on Kali Linux (or Debian)
Hey!

I read a lot of different papers on how to install and run fuzzbunch on WindowsXP and a few running on Unix, none of them on Kali (Maybe there are a bunch, but I didn't do much research to be honest).

All of the they needed to fix some files, move folders, or download files from different websites, I just wanted to make it simple, quick and accessible for everyone only by typing a few bash commands and a git clone!

P.S: If this is not the kind of post you usually submit to HN, please delete it! I'm sorry.
What ever happened with the German result that showed no thrust when the device was hooked up to an on-board battery?
The 'commitment' from that article is:
"No launch date has been set just yet, but it could happen in as soon as six months' time."
Yahoo filtered out "adult" content, this is a dead giveaway that it at least attempted to kill tumblr.
Yahoo's shares of alibaba can compete.
I am thinking of starting a dev shop :P. I am from Mexico by the way. Unfortunately, the E2 visa is only valid for a year for us so I will have to renew frequently.

More info on the minimum required below:

https://www.meltzerhellrung.com/blog/what-do-e-2-proportiona...
Not just Windows. Some choice strings from macOS system frameworks:

AppKit:

NSSavePanelOverRetainToCompensateForAdobe
NSShouldWorkAroundBadAdobeReleaseBug
Adobe Invener Fusion opted out due to odd event processing

Foundation:

com.adobe.Reader
com.adobe.Acrobat
com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro
_allocWithZone:.do_adobe_hack

(Though they're hardly alone. AppKit contains a huge number of bundle IDs scattered through the strings list, presumably for various special cases…)
If Mars' gravity isn't strong enough to keep it's atmosphere from being ripped away in it's current orbit, why would moving it closer to the sun be any better?
Those are good points. Bollards, tall curbs, etc are appropriate for urban streets, because they protect pedestrians on sidewalks. But curbs are hazardous to bicyclists. More generally, you want streets that seem more dangerous than they actually are.
Just remember there no point earning the mega $$$$ when you're going to put a bullet in a gun and shot yourself in the head because of the stress. Look after yourself first.
It's really mind-boggling this happened after less than 6 months at Uber. I wonder what it must be to work there. Sounds absolutely horrifying.
I hope someone noticed the "see light" pun!
I believe that was not a reader, but the author of the article.
The demise of del.icio.us was expected the instant they sold out, but the good news is that the service was useful so it gave rise to shaarli[1].

[1]: https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
Gizmodo is stupid, and automatic redirect due to localization is even more stupid.
Is Singapore’s “miracle” health care system the answer for America?
I keep an old Mac around for exactly this reason. However since version 43 they've switched to a new file format offering "more powerful integrations for third-party developers".

The new format is a ZIP containing a bunch of JSON files per page, so maybe someone will come up with a cross-platform viewer or similar.

Edit: I found this which works with basic Sketch files: https://animaapp.github.io/sketch-web-viewer/
>The fundamental problem is that some people have a propensity to do stupid and dangerous things. How do we stop them?

And fundamentally the only way to stop some people from doing stupid and dangerous things is with force.

Let's say my neighbor sets up steel target in his backyard. Directly behind the target is my kid's swingset.

My neighbor insists that he is such a good shot that he will never miss. He hasn't actually caused any damage yet.

Let's assume my neighbor is an asshole and asking him (and other forms of social pressure won't work).

You've taken the libertarian anti-regulation stance much further than anyone I've ever met. Most libertarians would say that the mere threat of him missing the target causes me harm, just like the threat of swinging a sword around on a crowded sidewalk causes harm.

> Legal prohibitions don't seem to work very well.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. You can't seriously look at the history of regulation over the past century or so and not realize that there are some successes and some failures.

I used to be a hardcore libertarian when I was younger, but I've learned that the world is rarely binary. Dogmatic approaches to governance rarely work, and no regulation is just as bad as a command economy.

The search for a simple set of fundamental governing principles is a search for elegance--the same as trying to design an algorithm with no edge cases and no exceptions. The problem is that I've yet to encounter a system that didn't require edge cases and exceptions.
You are more than welcome to come to India and live in mostly Muslim regions such as Kashmir or West Bengal! :)

Living in muslim majority or heck even places where there are 20% muslims is absolutely hell. You will have to hear ajaan on a large loudspeaker all day, you will have to see kids hacking lambs in the residential areas during Eid and heck if you have to wear or celebrate Pagan festivals around the place of worship.

Liberalism is cool to preach while sitting in a Starbucks in Silicon Valley but incredibly hard to find it in nooks of certain parts of the world.
I think this is a cop out.

Soft skills are real, they are skills and they have have value in both in professional and personal settings.
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Here's another article that proposes to explain why it works:

http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4953807
If I flip unto the curb by accident and kill someone, what would be the point of punishing me in court? Unless I drove recklessly I couldn't really prevent the accident.
Others have tried to replicate the results but got thrust in the null position[0]. This indicates that the amount of thrust being generated is so small that it's likely the result of instrumentation error.

[0]: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ilr/rfs/ressourcen/...