skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that we actually don't know what tomorrow will be like, so it's hard to pick the right soothsayer, if you will. Maybe another movie got the smartphone thing right but you never watched it.

Rather than Blade Runner, I think Children of Men will turn out to be a much more prescient vision of what's to come. (Not the main plot line but everything surrounding it.) But like I said... we don't know.
Judge Cracks Down on LinkedIn’s Shameful Abuse of Computer Break-In Law
Previous floods in recorded history...

http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Histor...

How they drained the lands...

https://www.hcfcd.org/flooding-floodplains/harris-countys-fl...
No reports of blindness, but they may have received significant eye damage. Until the last 100-200 years when literacy become common the average pleb wasn't really aware of their eysight deterioration.
I think perhaps we are talking past each other. I certainly agree that there should be rules for conducting research on human subjects and that there should be a process for independent review of said research.

I'm just saying that in this case the people tasked with doing the reviewing did a really bad job. And it seems like, from other things I've read, this sort of bad job isn't exactly uncommon. It would be great if the people in charge of this stuff could reform the system so that IRBs did a bad job less often.
So a satellite radio company, two major tv networks, Disney, and... T-R is a really solid one IMO, I can't deny it.
Much of this reminds me of what I have been going through. What SSC should have investigated and wrote up is that hospital and medical IRB is fraught with bureaucracy and that a private IRB industry has developed, entities inside that handle wide ranges of studies and turn around informed consent docs and things very fast (within a week).

Our first IC forms got banged multiple times for the same reasons his did. And it’s annoying as shit. But my ethical training focused not on something stupid like Nazis, but something real like American scientists unethically hiding treatment from diseases they were studying, like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (the actual reason IRB exists as is). Or the Milgram Experiment. Etc.

A lot of IRB review is stupid. But messing with human subjects doesn’t have a good track record in this country. Our predecessors earned every bit of bureaucracy and oversight based on their absurd experiments. Such is life.
However, that certainly wouldn't cover anything like this alleged rape doxxing

The article didn't say anything about the rape case. Getting her info could have cost less than $100, but staying in business in certain countries could run in tens of millions.
I said no such investment was needed, in response to your phrase "... massive investment that would be required to solve the technical and infrastructure limitations of the existing system" which I took as implying that there were still huge research problems to be overcome in aircraft automation. Which there are not.

Some investment will certainly be needed. ADS-B is only beginning to be rolled out, and it will be essential for pilotless planes. But the technical issues for automating planes are mostly solved. Aircraft automation is an engineering problem; not a research problem. The investments still needed are engineering investments.

In contrast, getting to Level 5 automation in cars is very much still a research problem, and as such, orders of magnitude greater resources of money and time will be required to solve it.
To my way of thinking, questions of orthography should be thought about differently than questions of grammar or vocabulary or other spoken-language issues. After all, we all learn to speak naturally and a standards body's decrees have little effect on how we speak. On the other hand, we have to make a conscious effort to learn to read and write, and standards bodies do regularly undertake, successfully, efforts to reform spelling.
A few years ago they forbid apps on the Play Store from having background playback for YouTube, in anticipation of the release of YouTube Red, which would offer it as a paid feature.

Still waiting.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success/
Google have already provided this themselves, plus hooked it up to a 3D rendering engine:

https://github.com/google-ar/three.ar.js

That's assuming you're okay with JS, but if you're going cross-platform then it makes sense if you need to have interactive scenes.
10 Blush Too Palette and Eclipse Palette 4.98
Is there a reason for defaulting to Rails 5.0.5 rather than 5.1.3?
I'm going to go for "sarcasm" there.

I use a 65" 4k TV with my HTPC in the living room, but often do desktop-ish things on it. (Logitech's wireless keyboards are great).

The difference in resolution between 1080 and 2160 is huge. 1080 is just fuzzy.
I've begun reading Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" to my 6 year-old boy, and it's been a wonderful experience for both of us— I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would, and just as much as our boy does. I hadn't read it since childhood, and I'd forgotten just how richly whimsical it is and how formative it was for me and how much it informs my imagination today.
With each day the steer grows more convinced that the farmer has his best interests at heart.
That is amazingly well presented.

Agreed. Wow!
Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms (Problem Solutions) [pdf]
You can feel free to disagree but I don't believe in the current incarnations of MFA; at least not those done with a phone. Stolen phone = insecure system. Dead batteries or dead SIM = stranded.

Biometric MFA, I'm slightly more in support of.

I should be able to identify myself to any electronic system I own or control, using only what's in my mind and body, and nothing else. For now I use pretty much only passwords everywhere. With passwords I can walk and move freely about the world without worrying about losing stuff or forgetting to carry stuff. I always hated physical keys, because I forget them and lose them, and I hate anything that resembles a physical key in that respect.

I love combination locks to apartments and bicycles, by the way. You can head out the door and get around town with exactly nothing in your pocket. Maybe just a credit card to pay for food, at most. It's refreshingly simple and awesome to not have to carry stuff.
> You say "rather than, as modern trig tables do, giving it for all angles". But no table gives all angles, it's always sample

That's true, and my wording was poor. But during the heyday of trig tables, they were very thorough, giving you results for angles (typically) very, very close to whatever you were trying to calculate, and to usefully high number of decimal places. (I'm old enough - just - that I actually used them in school.)

But more to the point, we don't use trig tables any more, we calculate the number on the fly to any arbitrary desired degree of accuracy. That's always going to be the best choice; there's no tradeoff here.

> If you are designing a Babylonian temple then you have the freedom to make your rooms so-many-cubits by so-many.

Also quite true, but of course, no temple wall is exactly N cubits high; the measured height is at best an approximation, so the resulting ratio of height to width (or whatever) is at best an approximation. All we need from our trig tables (or calculator) is enough accuracy. And in practice, that's not hard.

The reality is that, as the linked article says, "it seems like a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist". When we actually used trig tables to build bridges, we didn't have issues with trig tables, and now we have a much better solution. Trig tables that, as you put it, sample the rational points just doesn't seem like it's better for any use case.
> Come on -- the case in question is in India. Bribes are a way of life there

Regardless, it's illegal for U.S. (and U.K.) companies to pay bribes to officials in India: http://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/5-tips-for-compan....
As for your B point, if we're going to play "but what if" I demand we play it consistently. What is the risk of this study not being performed? Is it self-evident that we are better off in a world where those concrete procedures killed this study?

This is one of the core flaws in bereuacracy, looking at the putative benefits of a policy without considering the costs. No one really denies that some oversight is needed, the question is, is this oversight needed?
> but seems like a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of mathematics could have been described this way when it was first developed. Hilarious.
Quite a dangerous tool.

What happens if I copypaste some random text into the file and press save, by mistake? Are there mechanisms to limit the damage?

Also, when I remove a hash and save, the file is gone permanently, even if I paste it elsewhere, right?
Dynamic, feature rich, open source projects portfolio in ReactJS
That sounds, to me, eerily close to the mentalities that Alexander rightly criticizes:

- "It's no big deal because you can just pay off someone's who's in the know and can work the system rather than read the rules at face value."

- "No amount of kafkaesque absurdity is too much, because Nazis."
It's not my title choice (I am preserving the original title), but I still think it's important.

To me, it'd be more authoritative without adding the emotion. Maybe they feel that adding outrage is required, to rile people up enough to care and spread awareness.
Because they disabled my access to the repo, I have no way to download a copy of it. Think how evil they are, and someday your code may disappear without any reason.
Frankly, I suspect the ZFS community is in denial, or optimizing for cost.

I got what I think is a correctly configured ZFS system and its getting the same speeds as most people report online.

NOW the thing is that the ZFS system doing about 2x worse for the dense sequential write workloads compared to the RAID6 HW solution. Not to mention eating a dozen or so GBs of RAM.
He's the chief county administrator.
Away Travel Luggage Review: Popular Vlogger Shares Her View
HGST continues to be the most reliable HDD. I am not surprised but I hope WD doesn't fuck it up. Lenovo bought IBM X-series , while that continues to perform well, I have little confident in Lenovo and its commitment.
It is more culturally complex than that. It's easy for us to look at it and moralize with western eyes, but bribery is simply part of the system in some places. People feed their families with bribes. Getting rid of the status quo won't happen overnight, and in the meantime companies have business to do.

Being shitty is still being shitty though; and doxing rape victims is pretty shitty.
Unless you are altering the time or pitch, which, these days, you are more than you are not.

But no, musicians aren't releasing things at ultra-resolutions because they expect others to reuse their work. The ones that are, are providing multitracks.
Simply adding more supply would be the perfect solution if creating new buildings was as easy as dropping one down in SimCity, but in real life there are physical factors (eg. number of available trades, build time) that limit the rate of supply creation. It is possible for demand side factors that cause spiking rent increases can keep up with the rate of supply creation.

It is frustrating for a city government and its residents to go through the multi year effort to approve and build a new, dense building and only to have the number of units that reach the market scaled back by Airbnb hotel companies or even worse, capital gains focused investors that simply leave the apartments empty.

Additionally Airbnb hosting investors negatively impact residents that may want to purchase homes in a city to live in, as they have to pay more due to competition with these investors that have access to higher rents via Airbnb. It is in these residents' best interests for the city to enact policies to discourage people from buying condos for exclusive Airbnb use.
Note that the facilitation payment exception to the FCPA is (i) extremely narrow; (ii) still requires the company to accurately report the payment as a facilitation payment, which Uber probably didn't do: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2014/06/17/the-fcpas-fa...

> On top of that, even if a grease payment is exempt from the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions, if that payment were not accurately recorded as a facilitation payment in the company’s books, then the company would be in violation of the FCPA’s accounting provisions–and if the mischaracterization in the books was “willful and knowing,” this would also be a criminal violation. On the other hand, if the company were to accurately record facilitation payments in its books, it would be officially confessing violations of the host country’s anti-bribery laws, as well as the laws of other countries that might have jurisdiction over the transaction (such as the UK) that lack any exception for facilitation payments in their foreign bribery laws. It is perhaps for this reason that I’m not aware of any company that today formally records facilitation bribes accurately in its books.
Heh this would just completely break one of my current projects (not using `fixed` for headers I swear). It's interesting to think about people out there using things like this.
I am not a math, but I remember that if you can't assume a normal distribution and want to know the shape of the tails, you need a pretty ridiculous number of observations.
I agree. The other day I was driving on the highway and ahead of me was a pulled-over pickup and tons of personal belongings strewn all over the road. Obviously the stuff had blown out of the truck. The driver was on foot, dodging cars while trying to retrieve his cargo. I was able to slow down and thread my way through the junk while avoiding hitting him -- or making myself a target for the cars behind me --
but what would an automated system have done? Probably its best choice would have been to pull over and stop because it didn't know what the heck was going on or how to deal with it.
The R-factor: a new way to rate journal articles?
A 3D model of Manhattan, built from YouTube videos
When hiring secretarial and sales staff, I'd have them read that book. It was a great way to tell their abilities to enunciate and share information. It was also good to see how well they'd perform under pressure.
> Econ 101 sucks.

?

> But you contradict yourself as econ 101 always states supply and demand.

Your sentence is incomprehensible. Please explain how I'm contradicting myself.

> AirBnb is for short-term rentals only. It does not target people in Montreal looking for 12 month rolling tenancies. But it does reduce supply as landlords move from supplying 12 month places to airbnb. If we made life harder for airbnb supply would go up of rentals for families. Or landlords would sell up reducing prices and allowing families who presently rent to buy.

Why should we favor 12-month rentees at the expense of the rest of society, to the point of forcing everyone else out?

> They bring nothing to the community and make life harder for many families.

I know right? They've brought absolutely nothing of value to the millions of customers who use their service. That's why they keep using it, of course!
Payphones could make a comeback, and the "payphone" was really a public videophone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-YBYzo4XUY

Deckard calls Rachael on a public videophone.

from script: http://www.trussel.com/bladerun.htm
Sometimes restrictive zoning exists for good reason.

For example I'm sure there is no interest from Montreal residents in tearing down Old Montreal and building taller, and denser buildings.

In such heritage areas Airbnb can have a real negative impact as tourist use can displace what would otherwise be a normal, functional neighbourhood.
Terminalutils – terminal programs designed to make renaming of files faster
About the open phone: Knowing that KaKaRoTo is involved, I start top believe that this will not be vaporware. If I had enough money I would surely put some in this project. Every time somebody talked about open phone I just think "another failure", now I know it has some possibility to really happen.
As you can see by his text, he is ready to solve this puzzle. Anyway, good job Youness, keep going strong.
Any tips on how to get into programming for financial institutions/capital markets?
Go where you have an industry in, get introduced to others and build your network. A conference is short lived but a single good contact can make your career.
I found this short film to be an interesting exploration of this: https://youtu.be/gR3lXEH80Nw

Also, why just other countries? Asymmetrical (class) warfare is very popular, here, now. I don't see the kind of people waging it having moral setbacks about other kinds.
Quartzy is hiring front-end engineers to help accelerate science
Interesting analogy but it doesn't always hold. Take the greening of Ascension Island [1] where planting trees created a virtuous cycle: the trees trapped more moisture which promoted the growth of more trees.

In biology there are many complicated feedback loops and in some cases a parameter seems to get stuck outside of the normal range. In those cases, bringing the parameter back into the normal range can be enough to allow the normal feedback mechanisms to work properly again.

Some examples:

* Eczema: There can be a loop between irritation, inflammation, damage to the skin, more irritation. Treat the skin with steroids to both improve symptoms and disrupt the loop.

* Myopia: Studies have shown that undercorrecting for near-sightedness actually makes it worse [2]. Bringing it back into the normal range doesn't just help the symptoms, it also makes it progress slower.

* Depression: Maybe operating at a higher level, but there's a clear loop between changed behaviour and improved motivation.

Even something like acidity could be like this. You could speculate a link between gut bacteria and acidity, whereby changing the acidity directly could alter the balance of bacteria which locks in the change in acidity.

[1] http://faculty.washington.edu/dcatling/Catling2012_GreenMoun...

[2] http://www.journalofoptometry.org/en/under-correction-human-...
Probably one of the lowest quality posts I've seen remain on HN's front page for quite some time.

To pivot is to fail, to recognise one's failure, to pick oneself up and try again in another direction. On a personal level it's admirable. On a business level I've no opinion as these pivots are all privately funded.

When the NYT is publishing these weird, poorly written and badly strung together political rants, is it any wonder they're "losing" in the age of new media?
I have a mirror of all Rubygems from last month. Should I scan em for PoCs?
Is the bribery allegation possibly just a vector of attack to deal with the more wrong thing(s) done? Ie. doxing a rape victim.
NASA Proposes Mars Sample Return
Oh god please.

On a related note, I tried to follow the RSS feed for a few people on medium and every single comment by the author comes up as a new item, leading to a flood every time they're active on the sire.
So the guy accumulated all the pieces of the puzzle before he could assemble them? It's not efficient,but it works as long as you don't get laughed down for finally grounding your facts in something. Sometimes you just have to keep making forward progress, and put things together later.

He just unpacked the black boxes in a different order.
Very interesting! Thanks. The FCPA is a minefield that I'm still trying to wrap my head around many years after I was first trained on it.
It's available on YouTube[1] as well, which should work just about everywhere.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
He is talking about multi-region. He already acknowledged S3 is single region reduant.
There's a New Mobile Game App Where Users Can Win Real Dollars Instantly
A new concept in mobile game apps was just released this week and there's never been an app like this before. A totally free smartphone game with an actual cash jackpot paid to each winner. It's available for download now for iPhone and Android, and it's for real.

While there are other game apps promising prizes, most if not all of them are sponsored gift certificates or a prize of a few dollars. 33 Numbers, however, currently has a cash jackpot of just over ten thousand dollars.

The jackpot is supported by advertising revenue in the form of industry-standard banner and page ads. A play for fun only version is available for certain states where playing any game for a monetary prize might be considered gambling. The app checks the users' location services on download and formats the game for that location.

"The most often asked questions we get are, ‘Is it actual money?' and, 'where does the money come from?'", said David Mintz, managing partner of 33 Numbers, LLC. "This concept is so new that the market is struggling a bit to understand and accept it. Actually, it's a very common business model, similar to TV game shows where revenues from advertisers support a prize for winners. We've just applied it to app gaming. It's not gambling because it's totally free to play. And the more players we have, the bigger the jackpot grows."

Three years in development, the game itself is easy to learn, fun to play and somewhat addicting. The object is to fill in a game board of 33 spaces with numbers between one and 1,000 in numerical order. The player decides where to place each tile. The choices are reduced until the player either places all 33 numbers and wins the jackpot, or runs out of spaces and loses the game. But no worries; just press "play again" and keep trying.

33 Numbers is available for download on the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and directly from their website at www.33numbers.com.
Let me know when google goes back to making devices with a headphone jack, an SD card slot and a replaceable battery.
Uh... Keynes never said we should tax people who rent their homes out of existence. That idea is quite nonsensical and counterproductive from an economic point of view. It's like saying we should tax groceries out of existence to reduce food prices.
Noise shaping dither filters are amazing and so is the video, quite educational. I have never been more interested in signal processing than during this video.
Treebo raises $34m from HK funds, fights SoftBank-backed Oyo in budget hotels
While you are technically correct, I've had to personally pay bribes to get a laptop with a bunch of sensitive data thru customs. Importing electronics into India without the right paperwork is illegal, but only the manufacturer can apply for the paperwork.

The particular model of laptop was never sold in India (it was some cheap Dell thing - the data was the reason I shipped it). So I paid a nice $50 bribe to the customs official and got the laptop back no problem.

Was what I did technically illegal? Sure. But the bribe was the best outcome for everyone involved.
Everyone makes six figures before tax. You should clarify after tax ;)
There was recently a fiasco with NPM over a malicious node package whose name was an intentional typo of a popular package, and upon installation it exfiltrated all environment variables:
https://twitter.com/o_cee/status/892306836199800836

After this got uncovered, Duo published a blog post where they scanned for and found several others malicious packages:

https://duo.com/blog/hunting-malicious-npm-packages

The last one they talk about worms itself by adding itself to any packages authored on the computer it's installed on.

These issues are not unique to npm.
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