skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repeated sub-concussive hits cause brain damage. That's the important point from all of the recent studies: it's not just the concussions, but all of the hits people take to the head. You're still at significant risk when sparring.
Firefox co-founder Blake Ross joins Uber part-time to develop product strategy
Something tells me that suing Google, regardless of the validity of the claim, is not easy.
Dashes were "the standard delimiter" for a long time for Australian phone numbers. 451-4153 was my phone number growing up (and yeah, I'm showing my age with a seven digit phone number... A friend of mine was on 99-0066 up until the early or mid '90...)
This also occurs on Apple iPhones...

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/21/iphone-ipad-location...

http://www.moutfitters.com/blog/iphone-privacy-settings/
27 Microsoft employees are covered under this status and will presumably be deported (though I don't know if this will actually ever happen or how long it will take; practically they will have to stop working for Microsoft if their status to do so is revoked.)
From the Gizmodo article

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Just want to say that any emails I receive are my property. And I can grant consent to Google allowing them to mine these emails. Once you send an email, you are ceding control to the recipient.
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>What really put salt in the wound, though, was the fact that it appeared Google had stolen our user data for their own places product.

The same thing happened to Yelp [1]. I'm sure the EU and FTC would like to hear your startup's case.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8354655/Google-is...
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Lacrosse or field hockey is basically hockey on foot. Floor/Ball hockey played in an arena apparently breaks at very high skills and you need the changes added by the formerly named sports to make it work. Roller hockey never really caught on.
Porn is very fraught and it's not a clean right left thing. There are quite a few on the left who see porn as exploitation and objectification. On the right you have moralists against it because they say/think it influences and or "destabilizes" family or whatever.
“A simple blood test can detect prediabetes, a condition marked by higher-than-normal blood sugar”

Why do you need a prescription in the US to get a blood test? I tried to get a follow up to a test that I got at a local health fair, but I couldn’t do it without a prescription, even if I would pay out of pocket.

Wouldn’t it be useful for people to monitor some basic numbers on a regular basis without visiting a doctor?
"Are you saying paying companies to remain idle is an ideal resource management solution for certain scenarios?"

Yes. And how is farm centralization the same as paying farmers to not plant?

As prices for a good fall, the producers try to make up for it on volume. This is a feature of capitalism. Everyone acting in their own interest leads to a downward spiral. As a result, there is an exacerbation of harm to an ecosystem.

If you don't believe me, model it on a computer. It's the tragedy of the unmanaged commons. And Capitalism also has this effect under normal circumstances. Look at how much deforestation and desertificaton and extinction of species has happened in the last 50 years.

Half of all deforestation in the last 10,000 years happened during the last 50 years.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/27692-defor...

A quarter of all farmland has now been affected by desertification.

https://desertification.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/desertifica...

It's not just the bees - the rate of extinction of species has increased massively in the last 100 years and biodiversity is plummeting around the world. We are turning our ecosystems into farms.

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/biodiversity/biodiversi...

The largest concentrations of CO2 in millions of years are in the last 50 years, and increasing.

This is not scary to many ideological conservatives in love with Capitalism. They wave it off and believe in human ingenuity of the future.

Navel gazing at the nice things Capitalism produces doesn't mean that there are no negative externalities. Everyone is incetivized to sell more and more stuff at the expense of natural ecosystems, third world countries and future generations. Look at lake Baikal as a random but serious example.
Him: spare change he can find in the couch.

Google: Billions of dollars to piss away on stupid ideas.

Yeah... he's not going to win.

See Microsoft versus the poor sap who trademarked "Internet Explorer". He had a black and white ownership of the trademark. He sued MS, and we all know what the result was: they're still using the name "Internet Explorer"

Why? They buried him with lawyers. Then, offered to pay his legal expenses if he stopped the lawsuit, and turned over the trademark to them.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/02/business/microsoft-settles...

If anyone thinks the justice system is about justice, you're deluded.
It will be interesting to see what the useful lifetime of electric vehicles will be. In theory, they should last a lot longer because they have fewer mechanical parts. So, maybe the older ones will keep running fine but upper-middle-class people won't want to drive them because they look worn and shabby. Which is sort of what happens with gas cars now, but to a greater degree. Maybe 30, 40, and 50 year old cars will become common, assuming the frames don't rust out and someone still makes replacement parts (including batteries, when those eventually wear out).

And then there's the software... I don't have a lot of confidence in any company to supply software updates for multiple decades. I hope we don't end up in a scenario where wealthy people have secure vehicles and the less well-off just shrug and accept malware on their car as the price of living in modern times.
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Same thing as Gordon Ramsey serving prepared meals at his restaurants:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/18/gordon-...
News websites and blogs don't need to work offline. Even if they did, "save page as" or an RSS reader was the way to go.
Alternatively, you can work with x^0 = ct instead of x^0 = t.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3...
His story is tragic. Tragic in that he was seemingly so smart even he couldn't handle it. Tragic in that people lost their lives. Tragic in the fact that we lost a mind like his and the advancements he could've brought to mathematics potentially. Sad in that he was so impacted by MK ultra. It's a truly terrible, yet captivating story.

His neo-Luddism has always been of interest to me also, as one of my classes read his essays in college. They just seem so uneven, like they are trying to grasp at a logical idea but fall short. Yeah, interesting and really sad.
No particular technical reason.
In the open field, American football players will attempt to sidestep or “juke” defenders.

Between the tackles and other close quarters situations, running “north and south” or “downhill” is the best strategy. From early ages, coaches will discourage running backs behind the line of scrimmage juking, stutter stepping, wiggling their heads, and otherwise not gaining yardage by shouting “Quit dancin’ and hit the hole!”
A Tesla focused Youtuber recently did a video [1] where he accessed some of the data on the CAN bus, and it showed excellent balancing between the cells. The highest voltage cell reported 3.87V, with the lowest voltage cell reporting 3.864V. So the highest voltage cell has only a 0.1% higher voltage than the lowest. That's in the middle of a discharge cycle, so this may not be representative of the real capacity difference of each cell, but they're being discharging in a very balanced manner. I don't work with batteries often, so take my analysis with a grain of salt, but it seems to me that (the lack of) battery degradation is one of Tesla's biggest strengths when it comes to their battery technology.

1 - https://youtu.be/F3tF0i98MpI
Well, the top result for this search ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Stick+Google+Plus+Buttons+On...

... is just now this 2011 article ...

https://raventools.com/blog/forbes-reports-that-google-plus-...

... so Google hasn't done a very effective job of quashing.
Oh that's awesome, thanks! History is an indulgence for me these days, but I think it serves me as well.
> Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me

> I don’t have any hard evidence to prove that that’s what Google did in this instance

Okay
This might be another "64kB of memory should be enough for anybody" prediction, but will we ever need to go past 8K resolutions? Even 4K is crazy high resolution and anything higher feels unnecessary and pointless if our eyes can't see smaller.
Didn't know they had one. I'm a little far away, but we may visit my girlfriend's family there around Christmas, so it's on the list if I can make it. Thanks!
Yeah but if I know my Windows, installing stuff on D: may be fraught with problems depending on the program.
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> I'm in en_AU. How is it over your way?

It's mixed here in en_CA (I've lived in Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto at different points). In my experience, kay is used for kilometres when talking about manual travel/exercise (bicycle, running) as in "couch to 5k", but it's almost always klicks or kilometres when talking about driving, and usually only kilometres when talking about most other forms of transport.
ICO Scams using Facebook Ads to reach gullible people
There's no way to report them. Only option Facebook gives me is to block them. Can someone help?
It looks like Google is taking cues from Apple for how to treat the press. I hope this does not become the new normal: threatening to retaliate against the press is one thing that nobody should copy from Apple.
For the second point, I disagree. Rich banks are accumulating enough cryptocurrency to be a major player going forward.
> Then you were likely never an ideal early adopter for their products anyway, which is how they should be perceived if you want to compare them to Chevy and Ford. It may not be polite to say this but it's the reality of business.

There's no way to phrase "wait 1+ month for needed, at times limiting, service on a $100,000+ vehicle" as being acceptable in any shape or form, not even "oh well, I guess you're just not an ideal early adopter". Especially as Tesla was claiming their disconnect from the dealership model was a good thing (which I agree upon).
> It's entirely plausible to me that there was no manual intervention.

No manual intervention doesn't mean that the algorithm was not planned to work in a criminal way.
His works are incredibly well-written and precise. They are only unconvincing to us because we have incompatible preferences.
By "big", I assume he means biggest storage, not smallest form factor.

By the way, unless there is some technology I don't know about, microSD cards have consistently been the highest density storage devices for many years running.
Yes, but SDXC drivers don't necessarily support FAT32 on SDXC cards. The spec only requires exFAT. SDHC used FAT32.
If I am a Tesla owner who has paid more than $70,000 for a car then I'd at least expect my time is not wasted in waiting for my car to be serviced. All these "cash-on-hand" and "they do admit they have problem on hand" and "it's not a permanent issue" are not my problem. AFAIK, Tesla keeps investing money they make in their projects like Tesla Semi and building 4 new Gigafactories. So at this point it seems to me that for next 10 years, the "cash-on-hand" will always be short. Agreed?
I am some random person on the internet, so caveat emptor. That being said, my girlfriend has a family friend who works in health research. Since she was looking for a new job in roughly the same field, she reached out and exchanged a few emails, had coffee. Normal networking stuff. One of the projects that the family friend was involved with was doing concussion research for the NFL in the aftermath of the PBS's League Denial, and Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru's work more generally.

Fast forward a few months after the exchanges, she was included on an email from that family friend where the they complained that they should've known better to work on this research and that they were enraged that the conclusions were being suppressed / minimized.
Decimal prefixes are standard prefixes for SI units.
Agreed. The Verge articles' are quite bland lately... The HN discussions around them are more informative.
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Dates are a complete mess, yeah. I've seen absolutely every single convention used in Canadian government and business documents. I personally use ISO 8601 wherever it's an option (contracts, personal documents, casual communications) because of how ridiculous all of the other options are.
The other thing is this is just a data point for one car. If the results were for a dozen cars or more it would be useful. Imagine if Backblaze gave failure rate based on 1 HDD.
> The answer isn't generics, Coq, or some fancy type system nobody will understand or use properly.

The solution is a formal semantics for unsafe Rust, so that programmers can prove that their unsafe Rust code is safe to use by whatever means they prefer. (Mine would be by hand.)

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Reply to dmix:

A formal semantics doesn't have to be particularly fancy, although in Rust's case, it will in most likelihood not be straightforward either.
Yes. How horrid Comcast is.

They seem unable to perform any kind of maintenance without massively degrading network service over a /large/ area.

There are also rumors that technicians will drive to various areas and disconnect (paying) customers in attempts to see if anyone complains about missing service (supposedly as an attempt to boot off freeloaders).

Finally, they're Comcast. If there isn't competition in an area to drive service (it sounds like there isn't here) then they probably haven't pushed 100mbit out.
Universities? After all, isn't this what tenure is for? To allow professors to make contributions to the public space without the risk of censure?
Incidentally, getting some "strange" is often a source for romantic desire.
Not sure what the point of all this is. Thousands of very smart, accomplished men and women have gone through GenEd at Harvard without murdering multiple people.

Personally I think Kaczynski was influenced more by his inability to get a date in his entire life.
Depends on your locale. A collection of facts, much like the phonebook, isn't copyrightable in the US. (It can be in Europe, sometimes.) So, copying the user data and using it in Places might not be actionable.

As for Google Places results being listed higher, if they were search results being artificially boosted, that's one thing; however, showing callouts that provide the information immediately is pretty clearly better from a user perspective, which makes it hard to show harm to the users.

Of course, you can sue over anything, but whether it makes sense to win is another question.
yeah the tech works with smart watches, tablets and any other wifi enabled device
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This essay doesn't consider institutions or classes that would help someone with absolutely zero programming experience try to prepare for the bootcamp admissions process that the author advocates.

While it makes sense to me that the bootcamps should be more cautious about their admissions standards, it still raises the question of what people who have written 0 computer programs are supposed to do when thinking about pursuing a bootcamp. And I guess there are many potential answers to that, but it's a problem quite closely related to this essay's argument.

I remember that at Berkeley there was CS 61A for people who had some prior programming experience (not necessarily directly related to the course content) and CS 3 for people who didn't. Bearing in mind that some people who would be interested could not currently pass the author's proposed screening question (implementing a JavaScript function to return the longest word in a string), it seems someone then ought to create the CS 3 equivalent to prepare those would-be applicants to do so. (And maybe that's ultimately an existing free online class of some kind.)
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Ublock?
"Stop using yacc!" I am fascinated by this sentiment. I have seen it before in HN comments. This is almost as amusing as the "eradicate C" campaign.

To check whether this HN commentary has any basis in reality, I have been passively compiling a list of all the software I find that uses yacc or bison.

I have been reassured of how prevalently it is used. Not only is it found throughout bases of popular UNIX distributions but it is also being used in third party programs, some of which are popular among HN readers.

If you do not like yacc/bison and there are "better" tools available to you I cannot see why you would try to persuade others to stop using it. Strange.

Based on my research so far, yacc/bison is still popular amongst programmers who actually write and distribute open source software.

How popular it is amongst programmers who comment on HN is another matter. Perplexing.
At least you're not a paramecium, or an ant, or a dog, or a mollusk, or an electron. You have self-awareness which is something many things on many scales do not have.

Not to mention, you can speak English (world's most used langauge), and have an internet connection. Hopefully, you make end's meet, and aren't starving in the street. Even on the scale of other sentient beings, things are all relative.
Strangely, I submitted a project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106959) I'm working on here on Show HN and few hours after the show hn link was the second result in Google search when I search "RESTfender", but a day later I can't find it again...it's a project on IoT and Google's IoT platform is in beta...

I doubt my little project is a threat to Google, but this seems strange?
> Tell them tough shit? That's not what's going to happen.

That's what happens now, whether the person gets money from a job or from any kind of benefits. Why should it change? It's called 'Basic Income', not 'Basic Relax All Your Needs Will Be Met'.
I wasn’t speaking about blood glucose levels specifically. I had another number that was marked as slightly high. That’s why I said blood tests.
I am not interested in blocking them. But reporting them. They are targeting people outside of US (for obvious reasons)
Then you gotta read this: https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/140...
I can see 8K res coming to 27" computer screens, I've got an iMac 5K 27" and there is room for improvement with the pixel density when it comes to video/photo editing. But yeah I don't see it going much higher for displays, maybe for large cinemas.
But I'm sure there will be other video/photo technologies coming up that will use large amounts of data. People just haven't invited it yet due to storage constraints.
Uber didn't just have a cancerous head; its entire body is filled with selfish elitists. Their response and excuses to this are pathetic.
Why are they doing it?
More than that, if you could buy Tesla parts and service Teslas yourself, people who didn't want to do a home repair could still go to a local repairman who wasn't booked solid for a month.
> I wonder if NNs have been used in the search for exo planets yet.

Might be kind of overkill. The patterns being looked at for exoplanets are periodical dimming of stars AFAIK. I don't think you necessarily need a neural network to sift through that.
It's interesting. I conducted an experiment on various forms of social media using a form of advanced chatbots of my own creation and found similar results. I'm not surprised to see others found the same results by different means. It's all in the ability to put people into echo chambers. Worse, the effect is reinforcing. Once you've stopped the influence, the group dynamics stay in tact, and help reinforce the effects.
I never read any of his writings. I never thought someone who murdered to call attention to his writings would write anything worth reading. But I read a long biography of him in the NY Times after he was arrested. It said his favorite book was Conrad's The Secret Agent; he read it 20 times. Ok, I'll read that. There's a character, the anarchist who carried a bomb with him everywhere so the police wouldn't arrest him, who he obviously patterned himself after.

There was nothing to the man. Aside from some mathematical talent, a mediocrity attempting grandiosity through terrorism.
Not sure what the point of all this is. Thousands of very smart, accomplished men and women have gone through date-less lives without murdering multiple people.
The point is that he was expirimented on with procedures that could be called torture.
And exFAT is various sorts of patent encumbered, as I understand it.
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Well, in actual rural places, as in not dense enough for any particular road's worth of internet connection to matter, there are point to point radio ISPs (built off stuff like what Ubiquiti networks makes), and sometimes just a verbal agreement to beam a network over a distance.
If these articles were truly concerned about tech monopolies, they would mention ISP's broadband monopolies and net neutrality. Curiously, they never do.

Platforms come and go. Google couldn't even get a decent social network off the ground and has had too many failed projects to count.

Monopolies built on infrastructure, like ISPs, are the ones that stick around without intervention.

I suspect all this news about Google and Facebook being the big bad wolves are meant to distract from net neutrality and ISP monopolies.
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Is that a fancy <x> system that nobody will understand or use properly? (Honest question)
So the problem being solved is "I'd really like to see oncoming traffic go blind and crash as I pass by"? Use dimmer lights.
And they're too small to have a useful area for writing on.
My sister spent $2000 on a Daewoo sedan like 6 years back, it needed constant repairs and didn’t have working climate control - the thing only had like 80K miles on it. Total waste of money, but she kept fixing it up and wasted thousands of dollars before eventually junking it.

Meanwhile, the 2006 Prius I bought two years ago just hit 110K miles (purchased with 80K miles), cost $10K, and has needed nothing more than new tires and a replacement cooling block on the engine (which was deferred by the previous owner). I plan on running this thing until they no longer can service it, a full swap of the hybrid transaxle is relatively cheap as is replacing the engine, but with regular maintenance they’ll probably last 500K or more and I’ll only have to replace the battery at some point.

Always do research on the reliability and cost of repairs on a car before you buy it, this alone was why I picked the Prius over other cars on the lot (there’s very little that can need serious repairs because of how simple the ICE design is, and the electric drivetrain components are pretty long lived as well).
Most people jump on the fanboyism of Tesla spouting nonsense like, "electric cars don't require maintenance." Seems like everyone believes this and rightly expected them to work. There are enough negatives with them being EV to cover adopter risk. Part of the getting buy in was the assumption they worked...
Looks like they are calling other ads or reselling fake inventory. This is against every single supply source and publisher's rules. They're not only screwing the browser, they're screwing the advertiser too.
Him: An anonymous person with a story and no evidence

Us: Gullible

Edit: Downvotes please explain why I should believe everything I read on the internet.