skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the benefits of cycling to me is the work out that I get twice a day commuting to work. Doesn't the e-bike take the work out of cycling?
A photojournalism page would have a low connectivity count. It wouldn't be connecting to various other 3rd party websites
The line between gambling and investment gets blurrier the more you think about it. A gamble is really just a really poor / risky investment when you get down to it.
Some of my favorite SF is stuff he wrote with Larry Niven: Footfall, Inferno, Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye (and The Gripping Hand)
Cloud Postgres is also hilariously hard limited to 100 simultaneous connections (the default). Doesn't matter how much RAM you give it.

My experience with GCP in the past 4 months has led me to revise my "friends don't let friends use App Engine" motto to "friends don't let friends use Google Cloud", there isn't a single service I touched (except maybe Compute Engine) that didn't have half-baked client libraries, documentation, bugs in the server part, or a complete failure by Google to even have their engs use the competitions tooling before inventing their own shitty clone (DNS)
Who's going to buy a car that might tell them they can't drive?
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That's interesting because in the UK spread betting on FX is regulated as gambling.

People actually prefer it this way because investments are taxable income but gambling winnings are not (and gambling is of course legal here).

So you get almost the opposite situation, where spread betting is dressing itself up as financial trading not to deceive the regulators but as a way for people to invest in a more tax friendly manner.
The Indian government has been mandating all utility providers to link the biometric details of the subscribers to their account. With the rising number of criminal cases due to misuse of laws such as those used in marital disputes, the government can easily control what services to provide or deny its citizens based on centrally available biometric database which it could not have done before. Of course this is just a crazy theory for now which can hopefully never happen due to this much needed judgement.
I doubt Pournelle named it that himself. But it gets awkward to discuss something when somebody else has named it after you---I spent an hour as an undergraduate watching Shor simply call it "the factoring algorithm", trying to avoid the word "I".
I would use it but I am afraid that it might steal my accounts. I would feel safer paying for it and I would gladly do that.

Now, it just feels like the creator can simply steal my accounts without my knowledge. Windows 10 warns me about the app as well, perhaps because it is not from the Store?

I don't really care about size of the application, I just want it to not consume a crazy amount of memory.
I'm not familiar with the details of AWS here, but maybe the OP means mapping two different host ports to the same port on two different containers? That's all I can imagine that would be a container antipattern in the way described.
Why an E-Commerce or Banking Website Need an EV SSL Certificate?
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

"RAID1	mostly OK Can get stuck in irreversible read-only mode if only one device is present."

Which is an especially toxic combination with things like:

"Device replace	mostly OK"

It's 30 seconds to find the status page if you're actually trying.
In India this kind of delivery is still the norm from local grocery shops as labour is cheap and the shop always sells the products at maximum retail price without any discounts.
> Why would anyone today use BTRFS, given that the battle-proof ZFS has finnally been ported to Linux for quite some time?

It's only been available out of the box in a simple-to-use and supported fashion in 1 Distro for barely 1 year.

You can hardly say it's been widely available, nor for a "quite some time".
Setting personal preferences aside for the sake of revenue is something that you learn in the adult industry quite well.
What are some of the most expensive software projects? How much did they cost?
A lot of conversations about expanding rights, end up with a distinction between positive and negative rights. A right to water, is different to free speech. For everyone to have a right to water, someone needs to provide the water or be held accountable for not providing it. A default, state culprit needs to be designated.

Privacy though, privacy is like speech or equality before the law or presumption of innocence. You have it by default and if it’s denied there is a culprit.

Even in this case, we seem to have a hard time expanding rights. I say expanding, but privacy is a right in many places, formally. But, the interpretation of that right is very weak.

Anyway… if we’re to make privacy a right with serious intent then there needs to be a willingness to break eggs, bear a cost. The right to free speech, conscience, affiliation , assembly and other political freedoms mean we need to tolerate and protect the proverbial nazis’ rights to try and spread their politics. Bitter pill for anyone scared of a proverbial nazi takeover.

Are we willing to bear the (fear-based, mostly) costs in the fight against the terrorism demon. The economic costs that will be claimed by companies relying on data? If we have a strong yes, I think we can start building the real framework of laws and conventions that will secure a right to privacy for the next few generations.

Absolute principles require some sacrifice.
Thanks for pointing that out. I always thought "Totschlag" also referred to violence that escalated into a killing but uninentionally so (i.e. when it should have been clear the injuries are fatal but they weren't meant to be).
Apart from declaration of emergency, which is an exception circumstance, when has the fundamental right been taken away? Why are you giving extreme examples to prove your point? The last time fundamental rights were taken away from Indian citizens was in 1975.
Recently, Waymo and Lyft launched a self-driving vehicle partnership [0]. With Trump nomination of Derek Kan (Lyft General Manager in Southern California) to serve as Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy [1], would it ease Waymo path towards autonomous car supremacy?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lyft-waymo-collaboration-...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/06/presi...
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As a society, we have to decide - do we allow economic pressure to be used to make people give up their fundamental rights?
Can reasonable restrictions be put on fundamental rights as well? So you are suggesting that the right to life has reasonable restrictions -- that in order to be friendly to a foreign state, the nation state can murder their citizens?
Text is a funny thing in PDF.

Sometimes, there's real text broken into lines and then you're pretty good. Often it's a subset font where the codes used in the script don't correspond to their visual glyphs. When that happens there might be a unicode map that lets you know which internal char maps to which external char (used for copying text from the PDF by viewers). Sometimes that's missing and you can rebuild it from other encoding information attached to the font. Other times you can't get the relationship and all you're left with is the randomly selected codes for each character — at that point it's not too dissimilar from a simple Enigma machine problem I guess.

I sometimes see documents in which the same font has been subset again and again, once for each word. If you have a unicode map for each one, that's fine, if not it's not going to be much fun. In that case every word is going to look like random characters in the PDF and those character-glyph relationships are going to change from word to word.

Other times the glyphs are rendered as vector paths at write time and you're down to trying to find the character from the outline it the shape. I deal with this a lot and there are common patterns but normally each glyph will be broken into several bits itself, so you have to find which bits go with which glyphs before you even start.

Does anyone have a technical paper to hand, we could crack it open and take a look for fun.

EDIT If you're trying to reliably convert everything, in a way you're better off catering for the lowest common denominator so you can do it consistently. Here, that means assuming you don't have any raw text data to work with and you have to do everything with image recognition. Either way, it's a fun problem.
Don't confuse outsourcing under the guise of consulting, with real consulting.
The dominant use case for inheritance is polymorphism, which composition cannot do.
The last obvious one for me was in the UK, when the first bank needed bailed out.
Some time ago I came to a similar conclusion: In most cases, the only way to properly process PDF files is to render them and work on the raster images.

I was involved in a project where we needed to determine the final size of an image in a PDF document.

This seemed simple: Just keep track of all transformation matrices applied to the image, then calculate the final size.

But we underestimated the nonsense complexity of PDF: The image could be a real image or an embedded EPS, which are completely different cases. The image could have inner transparency, but could can also have an outer alpha mask by the PDF document. Then there are clipping paths, but be aware of the always implicitly present clipping path that is the page boundary. Oh, and an image may be overlapped by text, or even another image, in which case you need to to the same processing for that one, too. And so on.

After wasting lots of time almost rebuilding a PDF renderer accidentally, we decided to use an existing renderer instead.

Turned out the only feasible solution was to render the PDF twice: with and without the image, and to compare the results pixel by pixel.

I'm afraid the modern web might develop in a similar direction.
Biometric is just stronger identity. This can be done in a weaker way using Passport/PAN card.

Does Right to Privacy mean that the govt. cannot identify individuals ? How does it then provide differential services ?
Most people would rather be middle class Americans than rich Iranians.
That's why I think entering development should be harder. This "everyone can code" trend only resulted in worse job candidates and a lot of people doing politics instead of coding.
Did you miss the yesterday's judgement regarding the Triple Talaq?
I do wonder though if this lab-grow meat will be allowed to be called meat, since there was a strange ruling about Vegan dairy products[0].

It seems that this is less likely to receive such a treatment, since it's much closer to the actual thing in terms of composition, but beyond Meat might be given a harder time there, since their product is plant-based...

[0] https://www.just-food.com/news/eu-court-of-justice-rules-aga...
All bureaucracies are a mess. Just because UG K. was succinct, doesnt mean he was right. India is actually doing better relatively to ANY other country at the moment.
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Right, so its closed source? Still standards compliant.
>We'd prefer a more generic solution where browsers would share the canonical link by default

So, like regular webpage visits?
>>A gamble is really just a really poor / risky investment when you get down to it.

I counted cards and did other advantage gambling. They were not poor investments or any more risky than other investment ventures (in fact, significantly less risky in some areas I specialized in). But it was never investing. It was always gambling.
Yes, using a javascript framework requires you to have that javascript on your page.
You'll have about as much luck as suing Glock for gun violence.
You don't get to decide how much "societal value" a job adds. Society decides, by paying for it.

It's likely that the investment banking industry adds a lot more value than you think it does, else where does the money come from?
I use BTRFS for non critical data, like scratch data and second backup archives. This is because I can stretch it out over many old harddrives I have laying around. The memory footprint is also very low. And it comes with compression!

But for everything else, I have rammed up, manned up, and use ZFS.
> I think being born white, male, and good at math at this particular time in history is the very definition of luck.

And being an asian, male, and good at math isn't?
> Even if the people being supervised might often be a bit immature, the term "adult supervision" seems to me very condescending.

In fact, it was Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page who popularized the concept in a 2001 interview with Charlie Rose. When Rose asked the pair, then still in their 20s, why they had brought in 46-year-old Sun Microsystems and Novell Networks veteran Eric Schmidt as CEO earlier that year, Brin responded, "Parental supervision, to be honest."
Ask HN: Is there anyone doing startup (or working) in US on B1/B2 visa?
I know its illegal but still asking.
John Wilcox is one of the leading legal authorities on the subject and specifically funny enough uses IBM and DTC as an example, in this except from the SEC website:

"Example. John Investor purchased 1,000 sharhs of IBM common stock through Meril Lynch, his broker (a DTC participant). John Investor's shares are a small fraction of the total shares deposited in Merrill Lynch's participant account (i.e,,, 10 million), which in turn
are a small fraction of the total number of IBM shares represented by certificates held in DTC's vaults live., 100 million). (DTC's entire position (100 million) is represented on IBM's share register under the name "Cede & Co."') After John Investor gave his broker the
instruction to purchase the shares, his broker obtained them in the market from one or more sellers, each of which ultimately had its own DTC participant account. To effectuate the trade, DTC reduced the selling participants' accounts by an aggregate of 1,000 and increased Merril Lynchs account by 1,000.

It is important to understand that DTC legally owned those shares both before and after the transaction-it merely shifted them from one account to another."

See: https://www.sec.gov/comments/4-537/4537-25.pdf

But I'll concede the point as Computershare is the actual owner not DTC/Cede, but replace DTC/Cede with Computershare, the ownership principal is the same, Computershare is the legal owner of IMB shares at all times (before and after you buy the stock) you would only become a beneficial owner at any given point.
A lot of these posts, while I appreciate the gratitude and they're great, don't seem to show the gratitude for the seemingly bad circumstances or those less than ideal.

I am insanely lucky for my strait, white male privilege.
But I'm lucky for every disadvantage that taught me empathy and patience with those not so lucky. It taught me that manifest destiny may be present in our lives, but it's value is to help connect and help those whose life didn't go the same path.
I think gratitude is a truly differentiating factor when interacting with others.

My merit means nothing if it only exists to serve me. Meaning is found by leveraging those strengths for others :)
It is one of many topics in "Fooled by Randomness". However, Taleb's views on luck profoundly influenced how I see the world.
Experience with primarily being around decidedly working-class people?

If they put it into savings, their mental health would generally go down the drain, which would screw heavily with their ability to turn up for work, which would put them in even worse of a place. I've seen this happen. Note that studies show that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be depressed - many attempt to escape from that feeling of pointlessness and having no future with alcohol, drugs, gambling, television, and so on and so forth.

The overuse of scratch cards is just one possible manifestation of an underlying problem - that these people usually don't have the support they need to get out of their situation. That they're living paycheque-to-paycheque with no end in sight, whether they were to save $20 a week or not. And it turns out giving them the support they need is rather expensive.

Also, proper education is incredibly expensive and inaccessible to many (night classes or long-distance learning need serious dedication and motivation with no guarantee of a job at the end of it - a well-known recipe for something that poor people are generally just not good at), and on top of that, many people just don't have the skills they'd need to succeed in further education.

My opinion? The actual issue is that there's little career progression or practical training available to get an employee from e.g. retail shift worker to somewhere else in the company with a near-guaranteed job at the end of it and full pay the entire time. And there's no reason for businesses to create those pathways so long as they have no responsibility to their employees.
Nucleus fission/fusion is what constitutes a nuclear reaction, so they in fact refer to exactly same thing involved in entirely different processes. But yeah you'd have to explain it every time it is mentioned.
It's an ethical issue because I can easily block ads and malware.

I cannot opt out of AMP if I use Google as my primary search engine. It's about market power.
Google soliciting enrollment to vote in Australia's Marriage Law Postal survey
Unless I didn't understand correctly, on the animated image of the car turning, which included a wireframe representation of the scene, as well as the cameras: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/08/W...

The generated geometry doesn't seem to include the Bike that quickly passes behind the car at the intersection ...
Because I want my machine to do something else besides running a filesystem. :P
Justice A.P.Shah panel had recommended principles for privacy which goes into quite a bit of detail. So there is a guiding light and not everything will be case-by-case basis.

http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/rep_privacy....
I am so sad that it won't be legal or at least profitable in Europe. People look for salt without GMO...
What about this scheme?

This week's random number is the concatenation of three cryptographic signatures of last week's random number. The three private keys are kept in different places on cryptographic tokens and they are guarded. Lottery numbers are drawn by a deterministic algorithm using the week's random number as seed. In the case of a compromise of a single private key it can be revoked and replaced by the signature of the two other keys.

I'm not a cryptographer, maybe this scheme is flawed in some way that I can't immediately see.
I just imagined the average suited up consultant giving a power-point prep-speach to a porn star.
"...You got to get all in..."
".. try to see not the pain, not the humilation, but the window of opportunity.."
".. its not a substainable buisness-model, unless you stop shorting chest and booty-inflation.."
Fair enough.

Honestly surprised someone outside the profession would use 'what Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel did'. I know a bunch of otherwise-pleasant journalists who are only ever pro publishing unauthorized sex tapes and outing when it comes to Hogan and Thiel.
You assume its in the best interest of labor to be "every man for himself". Collective bargaining is a thing, you know?
It’s all a response to the legal status of investments and gambling (both have different categories with different rules).

Whether something is really gambling or investment is kind of philosophical. UK regulators tend to use different terms, specifying subcategories.

UK gambling regulations allow anyone old enough to gamble on these exchanges under the same rules as sports betting. If this was classified as financial services, regulations would be a lot stricter.

Anyway, UK gambling winnings are not taxable for consumers. The casino’s cut is taxable (15% of gross), which is transferred directly to the customer via spreads whether they win or lose.
> Sun Microsystems and Novell Networks

That resume would be much less impressive today.
It's not filtering, it's not blocking anything based on the contents of the content or it's origin just the bandwidth it will use.
Sorry but i don't see how throttling some one to oh boy only 720p is a problem... Even the fact that they have 480/720p packages now isn't an issue, Netflix charges you extra for 4K also.
Maybe instead of continue spreading them you could help inform people.

If you can offer cheap power people will usually take it.
It's not problematic at all. As the creator of the Contributor Covenant says, "The CC applies to project spaces, not twitter".

http://i.imgur.com/73SK9Yc.png
Thats moot unless every significant access point has a means and financial viability to verify the biometrics.

Even with such existing 'weaker' identities we are nowhere close to the quality of service that such 'weak' identies can support. Lets address the problem and not divert the issue with "shiny tech... look a squirrel". I would be more sympathetic if we are already in the ballpark of the quality of service that these 'weak' identities can support and we are getting bottlenecked there.

To put it charitably, with Aadhaar we are optimizing something that is not the bottlneck.
even though there remain problems with it as a commercial technology

Such as...?
To HN readers outside India, who are unaware of the BG behind this historic judgement. It all started off with a series of litigations against the govt's mandate to link India's unique identity system - Aadhar (which includes biometric data) to existing Indian identification systems for different purposes.

In HN fashion, if you are interested to know about how the govt pulled of the huge technical overhead of storing billion records; it could be seen in talk here by it's chief architect - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08sq0y8V1sE
Sure we do. I grew up in Redmond, and when people ask I tell them I'm from Seattle. It would never occur to me to specify any further.

It takes an hour to drive across LA. From my house on the Eastside of Seattle, I would budget 10 minutes to get downtown. That's close enough for me.
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You have a link to that? Either way, I'm not sure how that would be implemented, other than outright blocking sites that are HTTPS-only. But I don't think blocking Google, Facebook, Whatsapp and other major websites is going to fly. I have no doubt that the Indian government would like to read people's communications and internet history, but that's not possible today.
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Fundamental rights are not absolute, in the sense that reasonable restrictions can be placed on them.

An example is Article 21 of the constitution:
No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law

So a person's right to life or personal liberty can be restricted according to procedure established by law. That is why you find people in prison. Their fundamental right to liberty is restricted by a procedure established by law. Similarly, the fundamental right to privacy can be restricted by a procedure established by law.
Firefox/TOR LCE+SBX on Linux: 100k

Chrome LCE+SBX on Linux: 80k

Interesting.
Sorry for being off topic but I believe fundamental rights do not and should not require a citizenship test. If we hold these rights to be fundamental, we must not be willing to tolerate violations of such rights of any person in our jurisdiction.
Ran into this with my RAID1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg62346.html. I then ditched btrfs, and I'll never try it out again.
> That resume would be much less impressive today.

Maybe because Eric Schmidt got taken away from them?
This is awesome, great job!