skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who will be liable when a patient/defendant experiences a complicated reaction as a result?

The defendant. The same person who is liable when corrections bunks them with a prison rapist, or a psychopath who ends up building a guitar out of their vocal chords.

The justice system is a deep pit that we toss people into, without any care for what happens after. If we made anyone in on the side of the prosecution accountable for the consequences, the entire system would grind to a halt.
Laser disc never died either; just ask my 8th grade science teacher and his collection of documentaries. Still (!) evidence of use today.
But that's not how it works. The EPA scrutinizes it in a biased way and comes to he conclusion that fossil fuels are just fine.

Conservatives get a talking point, people who don't know what a P value is and wouldn't read any of the publications that would cry fowl about this are now a little more sure that it's all a liberal Chinese hoax designed to take away hard won profits from nice American oil companies.
I don't buy a ton of vinyl, but when I do, it typically falls into one of a few categories:

Either it's something newer that I just really love and want the big cover art and physical "object" for collecting and appreciation. Often times I'll be at a show and buy the band's new album instead of a T-shirt as a way to support the band I like. Those often come with download codes so I can still get a high quality digital version for portability.

If it's something older I find at a Goodwill or a yard sale, I tend to buy it because it looks interesting enough to be worth the $0.50-$2.00 asking price. It's almost like buying some small novelty or other impulse purchase. It may be great. It may be awful. It may just be fun to have a bunch of old comedy records on my shelf. And if they are uninteresting, the cost is low so the risk is as well.

And occasionally I've purchased the vinyl versions of albums I copied from friends' tapes in high school or downloaded illegally years ago. As with buying the record instead of the Tshirt at a concert, it's a way to support the band I discovered for free but has since earned my payment.
It measures CO2 production adjusted for total economic production and weather. I.e. it shows you which countries are the most inefficient vis-a-vis CO2 production, instead of just which countries are the richest or happen to have colder weather that requires more heating.

China is a good example. It's not in the top 10 of CO2 emitters per capita, but only because it's still pretty poor. When you adjust for that, it jumps into the top 10, and the U.S. falls out of it. In other words, if you cut economic output by 1 unit in the U.S. (to lower CO2 production), and increase it by 1 unit in China, world total CO2 output will go up.
Can anyone recommend scraping adapters (businesses or tech) that are robust to this sort of thing? I'm talking about something higher level than, say, Beautiful Soup -- something you can configure to point at an endpoint, essentially request a sql row subscription from it, and not have to mind it too much.

Both the traversal/retrieval and data-interpretation parts seem to have interesting aspects when you consider current website design. Some websites make themselves hard even for humans to read (consider why safari reader mode exists).

This seems like a potentially valuable service, in the sense of being a schlep. I wonder how many places have home-grown scraping efforts as part of their business and how annoying it is for them to maintain.
Becoming Familiar with Redux
Germany passes controversial law to fine Facebook over hate speech
Bietstandgegenwitgeschaft is real though
The implication that intelligence and insight are necessarily other than orthogonal to success seems to me optimistic.
A lot of these CPUs are purchased not by individual consumers but by corporations. Spend ten minutes in a typical IT department and you'd want any assistance you can get in protecting the computers from users.
Just making a certificate costs almost nothing. So in a sense $0 seems like the right price.

BUT, being _able_ to make certificates is very expensive. ISRG (the charity behind Let's Encrypt) spends _millions of dollars per year_ on this.

Purely mechanically Let's Encrypt needs a data centre with a bunch of high availability servers and pretty good Internet access, employees to look after all that stuff, a deal with CDNs to serve up their OCSP responses around the world (which ensure certificates stay working after they're issued) and so on, none of which is cheap and all of which needed to be in place before issuing even one certificate.

In practice to be any use the certificates need to be trusted, which meant meeting the standards of the big Trust Stores (definitely Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, probably Google, Oracle, and ideally dozens more besides). Those standards require physical site security, regular third party audits, and so on, which cost even _more_.

Now, for Let's Encrypt the solution is this is a charity, you can pitch in $10 and if a hundreds of thousands of people like you do that then it all gets paid for, or if a few bigger organisations pitch in $1000 each that helps too.

But for a commercial outfit, well, why not charge $10 to cover costs? And if $10, why not $50? Why not $1000?
By no means impossible before, but now much easier: Dark net markets, money laundering, unregulated securities offerings, ponzi schemes, scams, ransomware, and, to a lesser extent, gambling.

Since you asked about rebuilding web apps, I'll link you to patio11's comment, which leads with "Blockchain is the world's worst database"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13420777
It wasn't impossible before, but with BTC/ETH it's far easier to launder money. With a Cryptocurrency tumbler [1] it's almost untraceable.

Previously, you had to carry the cash yourself, or use a service to transfer the wealth for you (through falsified business transfers, casinos, diplomats, flight attendants, etc.) Now you don't need all that, you can practically do it yourself. There are less people involved and it's harder to trace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
Totally. Me too, my use of Google Voice and Siri and Alexa has declined because I don't usually get what I want the first time. Reminders and alarms it always gets right, it's faster to set a reminder by voice than by typing. But I think you and I are illustrating how we expect more from voice search than text search. My use of text search hasn't declined like my use of voice search, and text search is just as fundamentally bad as voice search. I think it's because I can see & sift many results, and because I can easily iterate on my query when it's not quite right. Voice search can't do either easily.

Perhaps Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft all initially thought that the revolutionary part was being able to speak a query and have the query match what you said, and that the search part was already good enough.
There's a reason people call that town "Versailles on the Potomac".
Plastics Aren't Creating a Trash Problem – People Are
Well, I'd need a bit more than "minorities are rarely right" to switch sides.
You forget production values.

Compare vinyl to CD editions of some tunes.

There are real differences and it's not about how perfect the reproduction actually is. It is about how the music was mastered, the art of it.

Those vinyl limits bring out some really great art.

That is a lot of where "better" comes from in these discussions.

A similar thing happened when AM radio was a music medium. It's all about the production values. Some 70s era music just feels great!

Of course one can put that all on a CD, or digital track and enjoy it.

Honestly, more producers should be exploring these things. Perfection isn't what most people crave.

I see this trend toward vinyl as a value add to music. With the return of more if the art also comes more value.

We nailed audio reproduction long ago. All but the most crappy gear can perform better than humans can.

It's just not about that, and this trend seems to resonate with what people like, not what is technically superior.
A $2M Contest Seeks a Real Pied Piper to Solve Big Internet Challenges
this documentary was made by a female feminist. I found it very interesting:

http://theredpillmovie.com
They aren't going to scam Google, or any legally capable entity.

I imagine they will follow the Yelp scam model - post bad reviews against smaller companies, out so them, and charge to remove the malicious information.
I honestly don't think this is going to be politically solvable without violence. If it comes down to civil war the evil billionaires will have more money for weapons. My prediction for the next couple centuries is an increasingly ruthless dictatorship controlled by a billionaire class trying to prevent revolt while civilization slowly collapses.
I find Google Assistant to be very good at answering most questions.

Also, I can accurately get the weather from Siri most of the time.
Are Strokes Gained PGA Tour statistics correlated to scoring average?
>plants can increase biomass like gangbusters with extra CO2, as long as they have the sunshine and water. There might even be a measurable difference in certain crops.

Not universally true, some plants will be negatively affected by the co2. Either way its not the case that we are going to get amazing plants or that plants will grow to solve the situation.
Absolute heart rate, no, but heart rate variability, yes. It took a lot of research to make it accurate.

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163#Aut...
Yeah, this was a major overstatement. There are lots of data pipelines where it's ok to lose some data. Consider a sensor that sends measurements hundreds of time a second to an app that operates on a 1-second timeframe. And UDP is used all the time on the internet, yet carries no delivery guarantee.
ICO.

ICO is Ethereum's killer app - and that's ok for now.
Nor is it the reverse
In a bubble, sure. In reality people still believe the thoroughly scrutinized paper linking vaccines to autism.

Once the news cycle has chewed through the "EPA says climate change is not real" headlines and that's soaked in, it will be regurgitated for years to come. No matter how biased the scrutiny.
Either my playlist is the outlier or yours is, because this is completely opposite of what I experience in that playlist. Mine is pretty much all +20/30/40 years old "niche" music.

Edit: And it almost always is something I really love. That playlist is the killer feature on Spotify for me at the moment.
It is nice to see an actual economic study on the subject.

While net neutrality sounds nice it is important to remember that it is being pushed by companies like Google that already own their own private global networks to which net neutrality rules do not apply.

If Google can prevent the other owners of national/global networks from giving preferential treatment to their potential competitors then they can exploit the competitive advantage of owning their own global network to which those rules do not apply to prevent competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth_Surface_Tempera...
Practice for technical interviews
Google AdWords Request for Feature: Excluded Search Terms
Excellent question, I'd really like to know as well, to see what's beneath the hype.

What I do know: anonymous money transactions. Of course, you'll still have the anonymity loss when converting to/from dollars. While the parties are anonymous, all transactions are visible. In many cases that means that people can end up associating your bitcoin address with your identity (assuming they manage to puzzle out the patterns of your transactions and cross-check that with known addresses). Mechanisms like CoinJoin allow you to mix your transactions with those of others, in order to obscure them, but then the CoinJoin provider still sees your transactions.
In a previous life I was on a team that moved a ecomm backend-Email Service Provider(ESP) from a postgres based queue to rabbitMQ. The motivation was voiced in language similar to yours, "hacktasic" was actually used more than once as a reason to replace the DB with rabbitMQ.

In the end, I'd say they were equally reliable, but from a data analyst's perspective I very much missed the postgres based queue. I think the mechanics inherent to a database solution prompted the original implementers to keep messages around over time vs the mechanics inherent to an MQ solution where they became ephemeral (on the senders side.) Having access to those messages was a treasure trove for troubleshooting and for analytics. That and from a pure cost benefit stance, sending 10-20k messages a day to the ESP definitely didn't necessitate the expensive rearchitecture, as the DB solution was more than capable of handling the load on cheap hardware.
This 'consensus' approach is biased from the start, because it automatically gives a benefit to the so-called "scientists" as if they are somehow more wise or knowledgable about anything any more than a soothsayer or even pulling a few stones out of the ground and interpreting the residual dirt in their cracks while intoxicated on some brewed concoction of plants.
It will not. We've already done this http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-...

It didn't help.
Sliding right into disaster: Left-to-right sliding windows leak [pdf]
The example offered "unlimited coverage" - I hoped to point out that making unrealistic offers is also a problem on the business side.
I also haven't found that to be the case...maybe, I guess. I don't really know which artists are heavily marketed and most of what turns up for me is pretty old. Only exception that comes to mind was "blood in the cut" which I liked so
Heya,

My first Hacker News inclusion. I feel like there should be some rite of passage. Well, other than the sudden and unanticipated login attempts.

My testing device for Google was the Google Home speaker, which appears to have a different tolerance for reading search results. I've had it rattle off several sentences from web pages for other keywords in the list (see, for example, the boiling point of water), but for the Bill Murray question there seems to be some kind of limiter. I just re-checked, using the exact phrasing I had before, and it still says that it doesn't know, but it's learning all the time.

I'm guessing there is some kind of a relevance check for the speaker version compared to the phone version. The phone is probably happier to return any result (a la Siri), whereas the speaker appears to be making some attempt to understand what I'm asking for before reading search results.

This particular question appears to trigger the speaker not to read the search results. We can only speculate as to why: does it not find it relevant enough? Is there a reserved path on "Did xyz" questions when sent to Google Home? Am I unknowingly in the A/B testing group that doesn't get the answer? There's few ways of knowing black-box without massive data testing, but it is curious.
It's like the slipshod naming of an ISO volume.
no, this is just plain wrong. the amount of controls in place, banking hosyility, and the market liquidity make digital currency terrible options for laundering.
I think there's something to the analog hiss, even the scratches.

Tangentially, someone on Hacker News mentioned Cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/), a terminal program that emulates old analog monitors. Screen glow, burn-in, noise, even occasional sync hiccups, can all be tuned to the nth degree, which I have, and now I'm hooked. I think it's also the sounds that can be added, but that's another psychological topic.

I don't own a record player and usually aim for consolidation, digitization, and the annihilation of clutter. But you can only go so far before it gets too cold. Even Google's Material Design and similar UI fashion is too sterile. There is evidence that the constantly circulating, subtle film grain in movies used to pleasantly tickle the retina, and I think vinyl background noise is similar.
Monitoring and administration are more difficult until you write them yourself, especially if you are splitting monolithic code. Many of the message queue products you download include these. Can your DB message queue also support different queue concepts and message routing?
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States
I fail to see how is any framework code is easier to debug than vanilla js.

React is pain to debug unless internal React error catching logic fires

With vanilla js, things are as simple as putting breakpoints in code and running it in Chrome's standard debugger
How to Go Zero Trust – Collecting Relevant Data
Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags
Did you type this on your Blackberry? Open a newspaper from the last two years.
You know what? I had prepared a longer answer addressing most of your opinions here, but I'd rather not[1] so I'll just say I disagree and leave it at that.

[1] After all, I can't conclusively prove an imperative codebase is more maintainable anymore than anyone can do it for a functional one so this would just be another entry in a 50-year-old flamewar.
Parliament in Germany Approves Same-Sex Marriage
Can we not agree redux requires too much boiler plate code but putting everything in the global scope is a bad practice for a variety of reasons.
If that kind of critique was happening routinely we wouldn't have 50% of scientists not being able to reproduce their own paper [0]. The sad truth is that incentives have aligned so that sufficient critique doesn't happen, and that showing some paper doesn't reproduce isn't going to make your career. Government funding to encourage such critique would be great.

I don't disagree on this likely be(com)ing a political charade.

[0] http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-...
It gets to the point where it ceases to be "pretending". It may start out as a technique to get others to buy into your little experiment [1], but if you practice your pitch enough that it resonates emotionally with other people, and you practice your delivery enough that it sounds authentic, then eventually you will end up actually having passion for the product. Cognitive dissonance won't let you do otherwise; it's very hard to pretend to hold an emotion, over and over again, without actually holding that emotion.

Brand loyalty, religion, patriotism, hiring/onboarding, romantic relationships, and therapy are all other systems that work according to this principle. So is the expression "fake it till you make it" - at some point, you cease to be faking it.

[1] "Vision" is another term that's like this. Most (successful) entrepreneurs don't start their companies with a grand vision of what they want to accomplish. Rather, they start with a tiny need that tickles them. And then as they continue working on it, the need gets more distinct, they need to enlist more people to help, and eventually this tiny feeling gets massaged into a very big, very concrete vision that's effective at getting people to buy in.
What does "Google Home" speaker usually do when there is no clear result? On the phone google assistant just displays google search results in such a case, obviously that can't work on the "Google Home" speaker.
yes and I also recall 10 years ago that many reissues that came out on vinyl and cd simultaneously the vinyl version sounded bad
Escrow with shared programmable ownership, global value transfers completed in less than a hour, immutable public timestamps, self-owned online identity etc All impossible pre-blockchain
Hmmm..Thanks for this. I looked at the code and must have missed the decorators.
Until LE goes down and you can't restart your sites.

https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1680
It seems like there's something akin to the uncanny valley effect going on here where a voice UI invites people to think about the other end of the conversation as a person and then be disappointed when they hit the edges of what it's designed to do.

There's a really interesting discussion to be had about how UI decisions can make that process smoother — I really liked https://bigmedium.com/speaking/design-in-the-era-of-the-algo... as a call for how you can make the failure modes of the system more graceful. I think a lot of the success in the next decade or so is going to come from the places which figure out good answers for not making a system which seems to promise more than it can deliver.
Critiquing a hypothesis is part of the scientific process, not "anti-science".

"Critiquing" the same hypothesis by sea-lioning ("We're just asking some questions," when the questions have been well answered a hundred times), over and over again for years on end, is very much "anti-science." It's the same minimally-within-the-rules strategy used by the Holocaust deniers, Gamergate shitlords, and the neo-Fascists. It's not debate in good faith, it's a strategy of attrition, an attempt to waste human resources.
I just listened to the podcast for Scott's Cheap Flights.

Fantastic job Courtland. Your podcast is one of my favorites in this space.
Yeah well the hostile scrutiny isn't trying to bias towards a different scientific conclusion. They are trying to undermine the entire concept of science. They don't want there to be objective facts. What we're talking about isn't biased scrutiny, it's dishonest scrutiny. Anything that endangers short term gains on Wall Street is to be destroyed.

There is no way that's compatible with such a complicated, subtle, and slow-moving field of study like climate science.
Weird Box – short film made using your instagram pics
It's more than that. That was the whole point. Tesla was built to electrify transport. Not to be the dominant player forever, but to force other market players into this game.
This is not a judgment of BTC/ethereum, but any service which wants to transmit value and protect against repudiation but avoid government scrutiny is vastly easier with BTC/ethereum. This includes Silk Road and most modern ransomware.
> Scammers like this give capitalism a bad name.

I dunno, between tobacco companies, oil companies, and the earlier thongs pretty much every major industry did that stimulated the labor movement from the 19th Century into the early 20th, these guys are small fry. Capitalism gives capitalism a bad name.
Microsoft Dynamics / Salesforce allow you to set up a data model without any code.

Turns out you still have to be able to model things, and understand the mental model for programming which is why people end up with hell on these systems.

Also, if you've gotten this far, plain text is actually a far more easy and convenient way to specify things.

Further, if you need to run such a system yourself, you'd still need to deal with the rest of it, which is just hidden to users, which we're developing tools for all the time.
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:59:36 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
location: http://www.amazon.com/feedback
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Can that "/feedback" be an affiliate ID?
I interpreted that as, "Concurrency is a bitch...".
Wolfram Alpha is slow. Even if it's right, it's only good for knowledge questions out of its database - things like public figures ("how many children does barak obama have"), physical statistics ("what is the melting point of tungsten"), and so on work fine. However, topical ("what about aluminium?"), temporal ("what's the weather?"), and location-based ("show me restaurants nearby") are outside of scope for wolfram alpha entirely - so a given app must aggregate.

Why don't apps aggregate? The "can you handle this?" api endpoint is frequently returns false positives, and the proper API is really slow (multiple seconds) for negatives . If we get a false positive, or something hard to detect as a negative, that's the only answer we can show. And since a voice assistant is expected to return one answer quickly, this is straight out.