skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Central issue: medical consensus in food pyramid era.

I think the only thing you two actually disagree about (because I certainly agree with most of what both of you said) is the medical consensus at the time of the food pyramid, and the only thing that has been contributed to that is a Wikipedia link. Now I have a high degree of faith in Wikipedia and also fully expect the food pyramid was bought and paid for, but following through on Wikipedia to the links supporting this brings 2 book links and a USDA.gov page. Perhaps reading the books would provide a high degree of good explanation, but I still don't know what the medical consensus at the time was. My contribution is a crappy link ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html ) that suggests the medical consensus indeed thought fat was a greater enemy and am left with no solid belief of the central issue. Stuff is hard.
Oh, I don't think Walmart should be legally stopped from putting pressure on artists, I just think it is likely to be more culturally corrosive than a content warning.
Why did WannaCry authors implement a killswitch?
In many WannaCry variants there is a killswitch that pings a domain and only spread if the domain does not reply. So, once you discover this right domain, you can heavily slow down that variant of WannaCry by registering that domain and putting a webserver on it.

Why did the authors implement this? This effectively bounds the amount of money they receive from the attack. Clearly civic duty is not their priority, unless they are maybe trying to reach a balance between their reward and the amount of damage. But this is hard to support: ransomware infections always cause much more damage than the authors earn (according to available public estimates, WannaCry's authors made less than 100 k$, which seems really small to me).

Also, why did they implement such a poor killswitch scheme? Everybody can register a domain, and the domain itself appears to be relatively simple to find in the code. They could have implemented an asymmetric encryption scheme, which only they would have been able to use.

Of course there is no way to know the actual reasons, but I still wonder: does anybody have some insight on why as a ramsomware author you would do things this way?
All children have empathy problems. It's a capacity you develop as you get older (some kids develop it faster or slower). If you diagnose your child with that kind of mental illness in the early stages of development you are completely insane and probably need to have your custody taken away.
Like other tech fads, there is a reasonable basis of useful stuff underneath a much larger lather of big, frothy bubbles. Almost every idiot is running around talking about using "machine learning" for their new system without understanding what this means, just as they're doing with "containerization", "orchestration", and so on.

The rule of thumb is that if Google or Facebook releases some toolkit for something, the next 3-5 years are going to be a hellscape of idiots clogging up the channels for the relatively small number of people who may have an actual, legitimate use for these tools. But since the idiots are bored at work and can tell their bosses, "Well, Google does it this way, so it must be the best! We're important just like Google, right?", we have to languish through their tiresome drivel, and watch as they drag their companies through a quagmire, only to propose the next fad as the savior a couple of years later.
Sure but voting with your wallet isn't, as mentioned previously, always an option for various reasons. Shouting from the roof tops is little recourse, I agree, but if nothing else it can be cathartic. I don't think that should be discouraged.
Yet the market demands 24x7 operation and there will be many hours of perhaps 2 people per hour. On average it just doesn't work. And medical insurance alone costs $15/hr. Total lifetime cost of paying someone to work a shift is probably that $20 its just that the paycheck only includes 7.25 worth of it, the guys medical care doesn't disappear because he's poor we just pay higher taxes and higher rates, ditto food he doesn't stop eating because he's poor we just pay more money for EBT. So the cost to the complete system, to the civilization, to everyone in that civilization counting all the costs, is at least $20/hr, that's not ludicrous at all.
As opposed to "evil", which is extremely subjective already?
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> It seems strange to think that companies would leave money on the table, but in older industries I think this is exactly what happens.

This is probably true, but it's also deeply heretical for believers in market efficiency.
If I can't explain where the wind comes from, why there are tides, or what the sun is, I can still sail a ship.

Complete understanding of all the components of a subject or system doesn't typically seem to be a requirement to do work within that system.
The ram issue was purportedly about battery life. The 2016 mbp uses LPDDR3 ram, which limited the device to 16GB.[0] They couldn't use LPDDR4 ram, even though it was available at the time, because Skylake chipsets didn't support it.

If the rumors are true that this year's model will use Kaby Lake, which will open up for the possibility of LPDDR4 and higher capacities.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/28/new-macbook-pros-no-32g...
The phenomenon of alleged "backward masked" lyrics is very similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYG2oZXSvdE
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You might be surprised at how dangerous it is to be trans. Wikipedia maintains a list of unlawfully killed trans people at this page[1]

I guess there are more trans people than informants so maybe there's some statistical point to be made there, but frankly I'm not sure why you picked this nit to begin with. I think it's important to recognize, rather than downplay the risks faced by marginalized groups in the US and elsewhere.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unlawfully_killed_tran...
Show HN: A non-malicious WannaCry simulation to test network vulnerability
I laughed at "disposal".

Perhaps they aren't fully aware of the volume disturbed soil takes up. Logistics of moving it could be a cost not necessarily considered.
Didn't she disclose the information on the video 'Collateral Murder' that was subsequently subject to a FOIA request?
I've generally seen people get on the wagon of bashing Ars then not having anything better as a replacement suggestion. Like yeah I know the actual blog source is better but I don't know every tech blog on the internet.
I would think fleeing a life of slavery is a good argument for asylum.
It's really not. Some people do feel this way and pointing it out isn't vitriol.

The worst thing that can happen to a cause is some crazy jackass being held up by the media as the spokesperson.

I was on board for the tea party until the media grabbed a few nut bags and made them the de facto spokespeople for the cause. It was purely about limited government until it got co-opted.
It's honestly up to her. One could easily argue that in the cause of freedom, she's already (literally) done her time; someone else's turn to step up.
Yeah, that's very possible. I was just surprised at the time, because I bought a Kaby Lake based laptop from Asus in early November, but they don't move units like Apple does.
Hiya,

Thanks for leaving some feedback.

* Speed

GNOME is looking to self-host their own GitLab CE instance. We understand that GitLab.com might have some performance issues. This is specific to our hosted GitLab instance due to its scale. A self-hosted instance on a much smaller scale is much much faster.

Also, we're always looking to improve GitLab performance - check out issues labeled "performance" in the GitLab CE repo [1] as well as issues in the infrastructure repo which are about .com specifically [2]

* Commits visible on the main tab

A list of commits is just a click away in the MR view, in the "Commits" tab. Also commits that are added are also displayed in the main tab.

* Can see new stuff that happened

The main MR tab lists the actions that happened related to it in a chronological order, from first to last. You can always look at that and see any new MR changes

* Sidebar

The sidebar is expanded by default on larger screen sizes and collapsed on smaller ones to preserve screen real estate for the MR itself.

I opened an issue about the icons themselves, see [3]

* View rendered files in MR

We have renderers for all kinds of files. But in a MR, we diff the MD source files. If we rendered them, diffing them would be almost impossible.

I opened an issue about having toggle-able rendering in the changes tab in MRs. Feel free to chime in in [4]

* Review mode

Could you explain this in a bit more detail? Maybe we could open a feature proposal for this functionality.

Hopefully I addressed all your concerns, feel free to add anything or dive into any of the issues, or even contact me personally.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...

[3] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32413

[4] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32414
I really hope they open up to the idea of making more non touchbar models.
"When dad jokes go too far, Musk edition."
I don't think this is true - 2013's WWDC had new macbook airs, for example: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/06/10/everything-announced...
[http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-aquarium-p... article on the Aquarium's formal report)

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The aquarium now suspects that a toxin is responsible, although no lingering contaminants have been found in the tissues of the dead whales. While intentional poisoning hasn’t been ruled out, it’s also possible that a naturally occurring toxin is responsible.

“The epidemiology of the scenario, the chain of events, lead us to be highly suspect of a toxin that came and went — and one that we may not identify,” Haulena said.

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Investigation continues, but it's a small town and the unproven truth is that one of the people behind this ban poisoned the two whales to 'save them'
Citizen Kubrick (2004)
Elf Hello World
If giant asteroid had hit elsewhere, dinosaurs could still be roaming the Earth
And in my case, quite false as a conservative with many conservative friends that disagree with your anecdote. This is always the problem, personal anecdotes rarely equal data.
Not me, but a friend of mine heads a company that uses drones to identify defects / damage on containers. He uses ML to process the images captured by the drones, which is fed through an ML processor to detect such damages & flag them for insurance claims purposes.
>fake news

There's another word for it: Vaporware. Competitor releases new hardware and you're caught flat footed? No problem! 'Leak' rumors about your hot new hardware just around the corner. Kill their sales as people wait for your product that doesn't exist. Flagged story. When did this become a rumor site?
Does anyone know if Firebase is profitable nowadays?
What is the settlement between CMU and Maxtor?
From the GGP and some of your other comments here, it seems like you are arguing that communication is the main problem here rather than the change itself. Sorry if that was a misunderstanding.
There's another factor at play in Samantha's case - she was adopted. The article mentions that no evidence of abuse was ever uncovered by previous parents (both biological and foster), but who knows?
I don't know what you mean by 'doesn't exist.'

Shares in publicly traded corporations exist. I can buy them. I can sell them. Their value changes over time. Their purpose is to provide funding to the corporation, in exchange for the perception that they'll provide a return to the investor. It is an exceedingly common thing to sell them to a third party - have a look at the volume on your favorite stock exchange.

A service contract, first and foremost, is a contract between a provider and a purchaser, for the provider to provide a service to the purchaser. It may or may not be transferable. It does have a value, but, much of the time, a B2C service contract isn't a thing that is traded or sold. It happens, but not anywhere near the scale of investment vehicles. For example, I purchased a service, a home warranty. I intend to transfer ownership of it to the purchaser of my house. It was expressly purchased with a third party transfer in mind, but this is a low-volume transaction. I certainly don't know anyone who is buying email service with the intent of reselling them for a profit, do you?

So, how is it nonsense?
I had lived in Vancouver for close to 15 years and never heard anything about this "magical day", it's clearly not as heavily publicized as you make it out to be.
How do you collect training data for break-ins?

Did you put an add out on craigslists requesting for people to attempt it or do you have some criminal connections?
Can this be used to troubleshoot DPC-related audio latency issues?
I'd guess 1 lane at 200km/h without stopping is ~7-10 lanes rush hour traffic.
>Nobody waits for some peer reviewed study before making that decision - it's simply just not done.

Actually, Alfred Kinsey did some stuff as bad or worse with children, and yet his work has become the basis for an entire field of study. (It was so bad that a movie had to be made defending him.)
No one is going to ask her anything about net neutrality. They'll ask her how she was treated, what she's going to do next and how she feels about the previous and current administration. She'll say something mildly negative about Trump. Trump will tweet about it, and everyone will start talking about Trump's tweet.
By the way, the maximum rate of 60,000/hour in each direction for BART I quoted was from BART itself[1]. I should have provided a link. Primary sources are good.

Of course the sleds in an operating system would not be absolutely packed together. This was just a Fermi estimation to get some idea of the flow rate the parent comment was wondering about. Looks like max rates would vary from somewhat worse than trains to much better.

The sleds would be automated so that when one wants to exit the others would give it enough space to do so without problems. Another Fermi estimation could be done to get an idea of how long the exit tunnel would need to be for a sled to stop given a range of deceleration rates.

I think Musk is on the right track but that his biggest hurdles may be social and political in the USA. Maybe China or India will want to try it out (or the Swiss).

[1] https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2016Factsheet_...
This is do with the violation of EXISTING policies.

LinkedIn in particular paid $13 million in 2015 to settle a class action lawsuit about their slightly misleading "Add Connections" feature.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/05/linkedin-class-action/

IMO $13 million was a small price to pay compared with the $26.2 billion Microsoft paid to acquire LinkedIn:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-to-acquire-linkedin-i...
That's really the hard part, isn't it? Reputable known reviewers identified at personal discretion? My problems with most award shows is that nominations are essentially purchased.
How do you get the data for training how a break-in looks like?
It was called Apple Assurance and the phone number was 800-SOS-APPL. After the case was settled, you could write in for a refund. I helped write one such claim for $70 that took 6 months to arrive.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/1999/03/01/apple-ordered-to-refun...
So, if the attack requires you to double-click on virus.exe the NSA exploits everyone is talking about didn't really matter that much did it?

Sure, when hitting a large corporation that would obviously help a lot but home networks (which for some reason have been hit quite hard as well) don't even have that many machines to begin with.
I take your point, but this is not entirely true in this case. Cinema is less than 150 years old, and not long before that most people could not read. Mass media is a very recent phenomenon.

I am no expert in the history of social norms, but I don't think it's clear at all the protecting children from witnessing violence and sex is a human universal. I know of several cultures (e.g. Roman Empire) where it was normal to let children witness public executions or violent fights. Again -- I am not arguing that this is good, I am arguing that one should not make laws based on vague intuitions.
> Facebook, LinkedIn etc. have the same playbook when they play fast and loose with the privacy rules with respect to spamming contact lists. Any penalty is tiny compared with the gain.

Honestly, that a serious and depressing situation. Fines aren't license fees for unlawful behavior.
Not ML per se but ANN have proven to be quite useful in tumor growth modeling. I am using them to model cancerous cells' genotype.
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I'm not sure why people feel so sympathetic to the stealing of classified material and giving them effectively to foreign intelligence services is still a socially acceptable practice. Bradley Edward Manning should have found himself at the end of a noose, as much as Edward Snowden should have. Liberal or not, if you look outside of these borders of the United States ... they both provided material to everyone from ISIS to Iran to China to Russia to every terrorist with half a brain to leverage against our sovereignty. I don't want to pull a 9/11 reference here - but if it's OK to kill 3,000+ people by proxy .. then be my guest and idolize people like this. However, myself ... I will call it what it is - treason.
From what I've heard (don't quote me on this), I think Instagram was having serious financial difficulties at the time of the acquisition. The costs to run the service (media transfer and storage are a massive infrastructure cost) were astronomical. The Facebook buyout was almost the only way they'd stay alive without giving up a massive piece of the company in a funding round.
Not really. "Introduced a bug" is fairly common (just do a Google search and see), and clearly does not suggest intention.
Hah just seeing this now. Sorry Mr. Russell!
I'm no starry-eyed admirer of The Boring Company, but it's funny how many peoples' argument here seem to be: "The Boring Company's plan to alleviate traffic congestion is flawed and non-optimal. It would make more sense to replace American cities with high-density ones and build mass transit instead".
It's unlikely Snowden will ever get a pardon.

Functional governments have a vested interest in not forgiving blatant disregard for their laws, regardless of the morality of the acts that led to the disregard. It's possible (but probably unlikely) that he could have been pardoned, found innocent, or had a sentence commuted had he turned himself in, but escaping the reach of American justice? There's very little incentive for a country to reward "Break the law then run from our jurisdiction," independent of the details.

Snowden's successfully attained a life probably free of American legal influence. His reward is a life free of American legal influence.
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I'd argue that the Collateral Murder videos triggered considerable controversy and criticism against the US military's attitude to airstrikes. The cable leaks also caused a fair amount of political embarrassment. So it depends on what you consider to be valuable - I'd say direct evidence of airstrikes being triggered against civilians with minimal oversight alone is valuable to a citizenry that wants to keep tabs on military accountability and push for change.
Sure, but that's just not what we're discussing here. The author of the original article clearly authorised the increased spend (but obviously not the sudden change causing it), and could have declined (presumably at the cost of having his app throttled or shut down). Nothing about a "cloud only card" would have changed his situation the least.
Terrible analogy. The email account is not an investment. You can't "sell" your account. Your father used it for years, and now he's getting his money back.

And he has alternatives, he can use gmail, etc.
A 2,000-year-old computer called the Antikythera Mechanism
True. Important to keep in mind though.

And frugality (and excessive government austerity) has been a European problem, too.
Well, to begin with, Vancouver doesn't really have a zoo.
Auth0 already have 'webtask' https://webtask.io/, which is a more direct competitor to Lambda.

This is built on top of that to help you build extensibility into your product, with a code editor component and the ability to run user extensions isolated in the cloud (via webtask).
So, he wasn't actually going to Equador like you said earlier, but "one of potential destinations". Yeah, right. You can't even keep your story straight, how am I supposed to argue with that?

>You know he was en route to Ecuador when the US revoked his passport right?

"Useful idiot" (pro-tip: calling people idiots is a bad idea when you don't want to offend them, or to engage in a debate with them) describes Snowden perfectly. He might've meant well at first, but ended up playing Putin's fiddle. The other option is that he's a spy and defected voluntarily. Trying to get to South America via Moscow makes him an actual idiot.
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I respect Richard and I wanted to read this, but in his very first point...

He claims we are not adapted for eating meat, then backpedals by saying we have adapted for eating meat since the Ice Age, then pretends like this trend can't continue

He claims we aren't adapted for hunting meat, relying solely on physical features to back this claim and ignoring our mental capacity, specifically the capacity for organization and tool use.

His 2nd point is "We don't need it to survive". No shit. We're omnivores.

I couldn't continue because the first two points were clearly conjecture and one-sided and render the likelihood of the validity of the rest to be approaching zero.

Would you like to explain your reasoning in your own words?
I don't think "they did them in the wild" is a good excuse. The fact that they get bored and require stimulation like this says to me that perhaps a tiny habitat isn't appropriate. I'm more concerned about the tiny area they are given to live out their lives.

https://img.memesuper.com/fb3647c753a84754210e7d4879042b9d_s...
> At no point have I ever seen any mention of Russia in general, or Putin in particular, in anything related to Assange.

He had a TV show on Russia Today..
>I'm not interesting in explaining myself to nationalists.

I'm sorry you don't feel you can defend your beliefs.

>Regardless of your opinion of what Manning did, the fact that she is no longer in prison means that at least one more person has a chance at life. Isn't that worth celebrating?

This can be said about every criminal. Do you wish for all criminals to be released?
Yes. You're agreeing with the parent.

Animals are a lot less likely to get bored in the wild.
Were I in charge, I'd put these kids down. It'd be a mercy.
You know, the conditions of these two should have been an environments similar to those in GITMO. I have no sympathy for these people.
Please don't trot out the non-profit defense of private universities.
I am honestly disappointed this is not a thing yet.

Years ago Canonical demoed Ubuntu for Android (http://musho.tk/l/666778c3) which was freaking cool.

Most phones nowadays have means to connect to displays and keyboard/mices. We have cores, speed and ram.

WHY ISN'T THIS A THING YET?

I have seen banks hand out expensive ThinkPads to people to basically use Internet Explorer and Outlook, plus company phones and stuff.

My speculation is that whomever gets this thing right first is going to make a metric futon of money.