skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There appears to be an alternative API that doesn't throw exceptions: https://github.com/mfontanini/libtins/blob/37c92fcf5c83b034a...

(rfind_pdu uses it internally: https://github.com/mfontanini/libtins/blob/37c92fcf5c83b034a...)
Possibly to combat bots or artificially inflated view statistics?
There always be room for feelings, and empathy, but those will manifest only when you're not doing the technical job of medicine, i.e. the part of the job that will require your full attention and the full use of your skills.

This will come naturally with expertise, and is not a state of mind where you actively "force" yourself to stop caring, but rather a kind of single-minded flow[1] where you can only feel completely relaxed and at peace with whatever's happening. This is important because it allows to function at your best and ensures you treat all you patients to the best of your ability, because your immediate motivation is not their wellbeing, but staying in the flow.

What do I mean by those "technical" acts? Anything that requires fine-tuned skill. Everybody thinks of fine-motor procedural skills (surgical techniques, intubation, difficult LP), but purely mental skills are exactly the same. Getting a history from a patient while forming diagnostic hypotheses feels good.

Of course, as soon as you'll be delivering bad news to your patients, you want be functioning like a highly skilled worker but as a fellow human being who can't do much more than commiserate. You wont be in the flow, and you wont feel any less for your patients just because you're the doctor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
I agree. Their app became popular as a place for uncensored, anonymous speech. When they started censoring and requiring usernames their customers spitefully deleted the app.

There are so few places left in the US where someone can engage in free speech. Free speech is nearly nonexistent on college campuses. Yik Yak was offering a product users couldn't find anywhere else. But they threw it all away.
FYI : I will welcome all those scheme which dry out the bribe money from the corrupt government service officials.

I will also welcome all methods which

- eliminate the middleman

- reduce the sense of entitlement from government officials

- abolish the need of standing in queues of people to pay bribe

- financially drain out all those government officials who plan their expenses based on bribe estimate not their actual salary

Aadhar's direct benefit scheme has actually done it.
I agree. Any perturbation away from the current design will make the usability worse, unless the designer is really careful about it and doesn't blindly follow modern web design trends.
Safety standards aren't as black-and-white as the law. Some people will suffer way earlier than other people. Some people can tolerate some substances in way higher concentrations than the average person.
A votebot suspects that it is being detected and filtered out of the final scores. Because the scores fluctuate, it is harder to determine if your vote had an impact.
Remember on 9/11/2001 when the US FAA declared a nation-wide ground stop, and rerouted all inbound international flights to other countries (e.g. Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellow_Ribbon)?
Apple Pay Violates Patents Held by Security Technology Inventor, Lawsuit Alleges
> EDIT: don't care at all about downvotes.

Clearly you do, otherwise you wouldn't be commenting about it.

It's odd that you find it hard to believe that people are sceptical about stats from one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.
If they volunteer to do it, that's something else, but I'm not sure how much choice they have, individually.

From the article:

"The therapist’s first question was about my sleep schedule--the likely cause of my distress, but also absolutely beyond my control."

If this guy had control over his hours, he could get more sleep if he wanted to. But he talks as if he's helpless.

I've also spoken to residents who seem to be totally abused and effectively forced to work crazy hours. I've read the same from others. So I'm really skeptical of how voluntary those hours are, though I'd love to be corrected by someone with more direct knowledge.
There's no reason GC couldn't work on GPUs. No one just has bothered implementing it yet.
...which sounds like a great training field for persuasive writing ;)
This is content-free.
A modified form of ITIL would do a lot of good for important sectors

You've never used ITIL for real, have you? Because if you had you would know that no amount of process can replace good engineers, and good engineers don't want to work in ITIL shops...
>"Anyone who does this (think of taking on massive debt to finance a real estate business, building apartment complexes for example) has incentives to prefer inflation, QE, devaluing the currency."

I understand why they might prefer devaluation and QE but not why anyone would prefer inflation. Can you explain? Inflation means that I need to borrow that much more.
"so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel"
Creator of SecurID sues Apple, Visa over digital payment patents
Do you follow a certain process in retrospective, or do you more just sit and have an open-hearted conversation with the members of the team?
Analysis of architectural features in 4 generations of Intel server processors
The church of economics considers it holy when negative externalities are factored into prices.
A quick google says: Drinking water in the US of A must have at least a pH of 6.5. They should have tested with that.

I assume, the copper concentration would increase over 10-fold in that case versus the tested case.
What happened to "Don't be evil"
Well hard questions.
I think why more woman did computing in the early days, was because men did actually do war. so woman actually fulfilled many roles that men could not do because they either were far away or came back with injuries or maybe one leg, whatever and early computing probably did not have features for disabled people.
fast forward a few years the war actually started to calm down, technology began to rise. and many more men seeked for a job, while there was a dramactic shift in jobs and that now woman did more work, it still was in a lot of men's brain that this is not typical so men did start to do the engineering jobs again and seen woman still as somebody who should do the household. this probably also meant that the whole parenting did raise their children in stereotypes (we still can see a lot of that today), which favored the social aspect of the woman and the engineering of the men. (Lego vs. Barbie, etc.)
I think that is why now men do more mint jobs as of now and a shift in that is hardly seen, a lot of people still raise their kids as back in the days, girls get barbies and puppets and boys gets lego and other stuff that favors different aspects of life.

That's why I also think that the young life of children should be way more non stereotypical. we should stop giving our children different colors and different toys because of gender, that would start to stop thinking in genders.

From my personal standpoint, I have a niche (5 years old) and she actually wished herself a friend book, and I wanted to have one that is as neutral as possible. And I can tell, that this is not that easy. a lot of them sub 60%-70% do actually favor a gender, either with their art cover __or__ worse with their question. I think such a thing is definitv one of the reason why there was a shift and why there still is a shift/difference between what man do and what woman do.
it's good that my niche does not get raised this way since my sister also helps her grow with other stuff (and she likes that stuff), like a workbench.

P.S.: I'm a guy and I hate it that a lot of people still think that girls needs to be raised with different toys. That is probably the starting point of discrimination and job inequality.

Edit: Well I think there are many more aspects why things are like they are, but this is probably one of the starting points and a big point that should be somewhat addressed.
I dont know why they call google photos surprisingly popular, isnt it the default in Android?
Is it possible to punish and rehabilitate at the same time? I ask partly because I have small kids

Maybe, but the criminal mind is not the same as the (normal) child mind. Perhaps there are "types" of criminals, but the psychopathy criminals' actions is startlingly uniform. A corner crack dealer and Bernie Madoff are more separated by their means at their disposal, less their intent.
Yes you are right on with your examples. That is the way be is used.
- you are suspicious that in country where corruption exists at the highest levels that access to this database will be given to many, many entities that should be have access t oit.
This Ars article[1] has a bit more info, including the involved patent numbers. Since Visa is also named in the suit, I'm left wondering whether the suit is effectively an attack on EMV contactless payments as a whole. That would suggest that Android Pay might be an eventual target as well.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/creator-of-secur...
Best solution I've found:

static void PressEnter(void) {
if(IsDebuggerPresent()) {
fprintf(stderr,"press enter\n");
getchar();
}
}

Then from somewhere right near the top of main or whatever:

atexit(&PressEnter);

You can throw in some isatty calls, or #ifdef _CONSOLE, or if(GetConsoleWindow()), etc., but the above pretty much always does the right thing.
I doubt that anyone wants to compete solely on price. It's a margins game.
What about a more socially sensitive domain, such as college admissions, hiring, or setting pay? What if you put such an algorithm on said task -- to avoid human bias -- and later observe that the algo, say, does not hire <pick your group>?
Just look at the code.
DRAG RACE: BMW M2 Coupe vs. Porsche 718 Boxster S
Yes, correct, I'm talking about the Essex County Jail.
Ok re-read the comment substituting Bjp with party currently in power and think about the question.

My entire point was Aadhaar is dangerous in its current form irrespective of the government backing it. As for your dismissive comments on why not many people complained earlier (which is a bit dishonest to claim btw, there were quite a few who did, including the current PM and other politicians from the BJP, fwiw), the reason possibly was because it wasn't being forced down everyone's throat like it is now.
Great in-depth analysis that goes beyond what's obvious on the surface.
Interesting — I didn't find the framework to be helpful in this regard. That is, the key question (how to handle differences in distractibility) lives on in the Claim section: A duty on others not to interfere with or hijack your attention, and your capacity to pay attention

This will mean very different things for different people. How does the framework handle this?
This is difficult as negative views about western society are common in Muslim groups that exist within them.
You're missing a huge component. I used to play games where people would threaten me all the time. But they were Russians or Danes who lived halfway around the world that didn't even know my real name. Even if they were telling the truth it didn't matter at all.

It seems very different if they know your name. And where you live. And are physically around you all the time. It's not exactly easy to "turn off" that the person sitting in the same room as you has a decent chance of being the same person posting about how they are going to rape and/or murder you.
Successful graduates become alumni who make donations.

To be clear, no one is suggesting that Universities should be "policing every dispute." I am stating that Universities can and do seek to create the most effective learning environment for their students--and that harassment undermines this goal. This is why Universities, as indicated in the article, blocked (aka geofenced) YikYak (& though it is not mentioned, other apps as well).

Not sure I understand how that's relevant, but most University rules are not laws--but, while breaking them may not be criminal or even illegal,it can still get you thrown out of school.
And yet, doctors still find it very difficult. Unfathomable...
>BA chief executive Alex Cruz said: "We believe the root cause was a power supply issue." //

That shut down BA operations World wide? Does that seem likely? Possible? They don't have power fail-over and operational centres in different countries?

I've been re-shaping my aluminium foil hat and wondering if there wasn't a specific terrorist threat that's been covered up; but then where I am there have been 2 cities suffer bomb threats (with attendance of bomb disposal and armed police) that seem to have been buried in the news completely. Also I've heard elsewhere that staff on the ground reported the incident as due to "hackers" almost immediately - the speculation being 'before they could possibly have known that' - which suggests some sort of disinformation process.

/wild-speculation
To make customer happy you don't have to build reliable software. Corporations are not machines, there's a lot of people with their own interests, who make important decisions. You have to make these people happy, first of all. They can be bribed, convinced or fooled to achieve the desired outcome for your business. And if something bad happens, you have to dodge the bullet together, because you are in the same boat. So you blame other contractors, hackers or the guy who left the customer company some time ago, and do a lot of other things to convince the customer management, that it's not your fault, you actually saved them from bigger losses somehow and you can help to build better software. And they won't be happier, but they will think that you are good guy trying to solve their problems. And that's the only thing you need to sell another contract.
That is unlikely to affect the microscopic world. The physics of everyday life are deterministic, no need to invoke quantum mechanics.
But that doesn't "prevent spambots etc.", that merely prevents people from easily and instantly figuring out whether their bots are detected yet. It doesn't stop them from spamming votes, or from making their bots more elaborate regardless of whether they have been detected yet. I don't know all the motivations for spam bots or how people who make them tick, but I'd figure for a significant number the crucial bit is having an impact, not measuring it. Most spam is fire and forget, after all.
Polish engineers are sometimes a bit late when it comes to the new technologies, but are very good compared to ones from, for example, Ireland.

It doesn't matter. They are no smarter than BA's original British engineers, but with decades less experience on those systems. Even if they were smarter - and in general the talent prefers to work for real companies, not bodyshops, so that's unlikely - they can't compensate for the lack of real experience.

Only a person who believes experience doesn't matter would sign an outsourcing deal.
>...The fear of that happening

Yes, anything involving radiation causes fear. The reality is that the atomic bomb tests deposited tons of plutonium in the atmosphere and no one has detected any health consequences from that. I am not sure why someone would say a few dozen more pounds of plutonium would matter.
you mean dribbble :)
Forgive me if I'm mistaken but it does sound like you are writing from a position of extreme privilege.

Poor Indians trying to get benefits but having those benefits taken is a life threatening crisis for those impoverished individuals and families. It is entirely forgivable for those families to ignore the "long term consequences" when the short term consequence is losing the meager benefits they have to corruption. Your argument is like arguing that chemotherapy will ruin your body when the patient is dying of cancer.

If their system can stamp out widespread corruption in exchange for some loss of privacy, the cure is not worse than the disease. The technically minded in wealthy countries should consider helping by proposing a better solution, rather than criticizing measures borne from true desperation.
Mapping a road and photographing it for StreetView are also not the same thing.
Are you asserting that it is impossible to do that? That there is no way anyone, no matter how rich, powerful or connected to the system can, from an Aadhar number, derive enough infomation about a person to derive their religion?
How do you test a system like this for accuracy? Is this done by simulating millions of unique requests?
He is right.

Prove that it is impossible, please.
You can't use the knowledge well if you have to look everything up every time, that's my point.
And word games. Any voting outcome on my previous comment reflects as as "meta" and well thought out. As long as keep my mouth shut.

Damn it.
I think both your points are valid: the "Black Swan" nature of the criminal liability, and the baseline risk. How can we reformulate the scenario to avoid both? Also, I want to emphasize the reformer's level of belief in his reform, rather than ability to pick the perfect inmate.

How about these changes?

* No criminal liability for the reformer - it all gets converted to civil financial liability. So a murder might be $1M; simple theft might be triple the value of the stolen article.

* Reformer's initial payment includes an offset for "average criminality", using the above dollar conversions. So if the reformee exhibits average criminality in the remainder of his life, the reformer only pays back that offset.

* Inmate is picked by lottery, excluding those with strong signs of unreformability.

I'm afraid these mods make the example less intuitive.
Uruguay, the first country where you can smoke marijuana wherever you like
LLVM has better support for moving GC, due to Azul's efforts. That's a big difference.
Security costs money, reliability costs money. If it's not in your contract, you don't pay for it.

if there's any outage that is because the customer didn't ask you do do something that's their fault not yours.

For example would you as an IT outsourcer pay for a redundant datacentre if your contract didn't call for it?

Would you patch all your systems immediately even if it caused availability issues if it wasn't explicitly outlined in the contract?

would you explain to your shareholders that your profits were lower this year because you undertook activities not specified in your contracts because they were good for the security and reliability of the services you managed...?

When outsourcing contracts are bid for there's a common experience of lower costs win. that inevitably leads to items that aren't strictly required being excluded.
(2015) Inside Spotify's Plan to Take on Apple Music
All those UML diagrams didn't make the software good.
>Given that 3 million more people voted for Hillary,

A significant number of Democrats would have preferred Bernie Sanders, but settled for the only option they had rather than not vote at all. There was an anti-establishment movement on both sides which only the Republicans capitalized on. The deep-seated cynicism and mistrust of politicians and of political expertise in the US which led to the reactionary nature of this last election isn't going away when Trump finally gets the boot, either.

The fact appears to be that Hillary Clinton's political expertise did her no favors, while Donald Trump's political inexperience gave him an advantage, and the people who wanted the latter are the ones who took power.
I think the UI is fine, but the UX could use some work.
Also payment startups are at the fore front of the Anti Aadhaar lobbying effort, since Aadhaar based payments + UPI essentially cut the middleman out - NO MDR anymore!

And it makes sense. Would you want a private company like ApplePay/PayPal/AliPay control payments, and be able to block merchants at will like apple does, or a public agency you can drag to court.
Is this news app different from all the others?
Blocking the app is a really extreme move that harms the vast majority of users who are using it in a harmless way.

Imagine if people started putting up fliers that said mean, harassing things on lamposts and building walls around campus. Would tearing down the buildings and lampposts be a good response? If the campus were just a big open field with no buildings or anywhere where someone could put up a mean, harassing flier then the students would be protected from being exposed to them.

No one should be harrased or be on the receiving end of mean behavior. At the same time, there usually is only so much a university or other organization can do to protect its members before those protections have negative consequences for lots and lots of innocent community members.
You could have you bot upvote, then remove its vote, and monitor from another browser whether the score changes. Having the number be fuzzed makes it harder to confirm if your bot has been caught and it's votes discarded.
I live in Atlanta - and as someone mentions below there have been pretty big IT outages at Delta etc too.

But - without any evidence whatsoever wholesale blaming of Indian and Polish companies seem somewhat unfair. Until, we have a postmortem and know this in more detail - it appears that you just have a axe to grind.
I too support all initiatives you list but not at the risk of handing away by identity for potential abuse. You have to understand that most Aadhaar critics are not anti-national or corrupt, in fact quite the opposite they do not want to become (even more) vulnerable to the 'big players ' in the hierarchy of corruption in India.
Came here to write that. Not a business adviser or anything, but really think design / usability are good.
I was uploading images to Google Maps before that anyway, and if I recall signed up for it, it's just a point meter.

Google then sends you a summary of how your contributions were doing. Recently they send me some E-Mail to the effect of "Awesome! Your image on <business name> has been viewed 100 thousand times!" or something like that.

It entirely turned me off the whole thing and I haven't contributed since. I thought "why am I contributing to this ad-powered product that they're monetizing for millions, for free?".

It's kind of hilarious really. If you look at their landing page the benefits you can gain include things like "...and you can also moderate our forums, for us, for free!": https://www.google.com/local/guides/benefits/

Yay!
The article explicitly covers this?
> There's no rational reason of being proud of not having a national ID, when you have mandatory birth registrations and birth certificates.

Some of the Anglosphere's pride in not having national ID should probably be eroded by the standardization of other forms of ID and the movement toward requiring them for more things by regulation (e.g., air travel, banking, some forms of train travel, and proof of age to enter regulated venues that serve alcohol).

However, the lack of national ID should in principle make it harder for the state to routinely easily identify us in public, or to institute movement controls, or to require people to be identified for more kinds of transactions. Possibly all of these things are tending to fail over time in different ways, which may end up making the lack of national ID increasingly symbolic.

At the same time, I do think there are jurisdictions where mandatory national IDs have made it easier for both state and commercial entities to switch some kinds of transactions and interactions from anonymous by default to strongly identified by default. Since we've seen someone else in this thread argue that identifying people for air travel and mobile communications services are desirable benefits of national ID, I'll count that as a point against national ID from my point of view.
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this what Google Analytics is for?