skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 3.5 million people working full-time for the US Department of Defense (including contractors but not the reserves). Wouldn't it make sense to train a few thousand of them to make sure there is efficient dispatch of rescues? I'm extremely glad the Cajun Navy was there, please don't misunderstand. I think they would have been an essential part of the response under any circumstances. It's just that they would have been able to do more if there was effective triage of calls; in the article many of the victims were unable to get 911 to pick up. The ad hoc system (which, again, was extremely impressive and valuable) worked but not as well as having a single point of dispatch, where you could target the people who were in their attic before the ones who were in less precarious situations.

Not that the pros are necessarily in good shape themselves. On 9/11 the NYC emergency command center was located in the towers and there was extensive compatibility problems with radio communication. Or the firefighters after the Loma Prieta quake who rushed to help only to find they couldn't use the hydrants. But shouldn't we, as a country, resolve that in a major disaster we'll at least have enough people and communications infrastructure on the ground to coordinate the local resources? Especially one like Harvey where you have a 48-hour forecast with a small error.
That's really cool, thanks for mentioning.
A lot of non-EV certs are given out if you control one of about 6 pre-defined email addresses like webmaster@. The security is already lacking given SMTP's bad security architecture and I'd argue that LE's protocol is a lot better.
yeah that's the part i'm quite confused by. i've used venmo simply because my friend preferred to be paid that way, and then never after that but that social thing always baffled me because i can't imagine people being so willing to share their transactions with the world. i just assumed venmo being european may come from a different culture where perhaps people care less about privacy, but i never bothered to verify if that was the case.
Darkstore wants to be the ‘invisible retailer’
You might be thinking about https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/ ?
Creating a false sense of urgency is different from creating a sense of urgency through falsehood.
That's always tricky to do, since you want the parenthetical to be optional -- the sentence should work even if you remove it totally. So I personally would have done "... offering users a(n ugly) physical debit card", but I concede that can look pedantic at best and confusing at worst.
I see this as a way to let people who are _very_ interested in the event ("true fans") get in while it's cheap, taxing those who are lazier or "lesser" fans for their dawdling.
Jesus said "the poor you will always have with you". Matthew 26:11. So according to Jesus poor people are just going to be around no matter what. The problem of economic inequality is not solveable.
Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Should Worry You
People here are smart enough to realize what this is: a publicity stunt.

Even if you have money, shopping at Whole Foods is foolish. Amazon reduced a fraction of the items prices, they are still heavily over-priced, and the food quality for the price is low. Whole Foods is a grocery store that prices it's food high to attract a certain type of consumer. That's all.

If you want high quality food, I encourage you to visit a local farmer's market. There is probably one close to you every week, or every other week. There are even larger ones or speciality ones less frequently (monthly).

At a farmer's market you'll get high quality produce, fresh that is directly from the farm. All or most of your money will be going to people actually growing or making the food, not a large corporation, food distributor, or Amazon.

I really wish we would just ban grocery stores for good and try to go back to this form of food consumerism.
I like how they are keeping the ugly design theme going
Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
There is play, called "Come From Away" about Canadians in Gander opening their homes, churches and schools to displaced Americans (and others) during 9/11 when planes were redirected rather than being allowed into US airspace. 16 years ago.

I'm always amazed at how willing some Americans are to attribute basic human traits to "American Exceptionalism" and then deny those traits to peoples from other countries.
To add to this sentiment.

I think routine checks should done to all CAs, they are an important part of how "trust" works on the internet. and I see their importance only growing at this point.

Google should not be the only company trying to enact change in this area.

[edit: so many typos - oops]
The other possibility here is Democrats aren't connecting with ordinary people.

Party registration and fundraising are terrible.

Independents are up by a lot.

FOX, is putting positive messages out there, from the GOP favorable voter point of view.

Clinton is out there beginning a "her side of the story" tour, Sanders is beginning a "lets do health care right" tour, the party is shitting on Sanders, most popular politician there is, and it's not getting behind the ideas that enjoy majority support.

I would suggest the left isn't doing what it takes to attract voters.

When it does, this whole discussion will change. One area it will change is related to the "not currently interested" column. There are a lot of people checked out, not voting, turned completely off politics.

Of all the stuff we've seen, Sanders and platform holds the most potential to bring those people in, as well as maximize the vote for the left.

Votes are garnered, not owned, traded, etc...

Whoever does the work to get voter appeal will get a lot of votes. The left is divided right now, many rank and file wanting to do, and doing that work. The party leadership does not appear interested in doing that at present.
Maybe, they had some other junk about AB test flags and I didn't dig far enough to see how that was set or if it was random from the server. My wild guess is that they turn it on for popular events close to the time of the event, so there is less chance of users noticing.
I see it more like standing in a corner with your friends talking about whatever (in this case a specific topic). Sure, someone can walk by, overhear the conversation and be offended. But to call that making public comments in some form is missing the point of the distinction between public and private.
> Energy and Time, No Direction

I tend to just buy one of the books I have on my list and dive into that. Then I don't need direction, I just keep turning pages and take notes.
YCombinator is extremely anti-Semitic. They just pretend they're only "anti-Israel".
Free will in a deterministic universe
Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology
Yeah, but that's more akin to fantasizing about someone. Actually committing adultery is more akin to, say, refusing renters based on their race.
No action will be taken to impact users until March 15, 2018 at the earliest and only if you got your certificate before June 1, 2016. At least when it comes to any existing certificate (they are ambiguous about when they will cut off new certificates exactly).
> How does that make you a customer?

That's something that allows me to access easy credit. If I don't have one (e.g. as a new immigrant I didn't have any credit record) I do not get access to credit, instead I have to prepay stuff, use very expensive credit (12% APR instead of 3% APR, that sort of thing), large security deposits etc. Clearly having credit reports make my life easier (and cheaper). How that's not being a customer?
Thank you for responding.

No. I don't think "just leaving" would have improved the situation. A screaming match and fists wouldn't have improved the situation either.

American culture has found itself in this weird space where arguments that were supposedly settled in the last century are apparently still up for debate. In the case of torture, there are two questions at hand: One, does it work, and two, if it works, is its use defensible. Believing the first is ignorant; believing the second is inhumane.

I don't see any sort of constructive middle ground or even argument to be had over such a basic conversation of good vs. evil. Since I spent most of 2004-2008 in a state of rage over the presence and defense of actual evil in a country and society that I love, I would not have had the self-control necessary to engage in a dialogue. So I would have left.

(The down-voting was weird but predictable.)
It is not a case of one or the other, they are both right. All non-Africans are a hybrid between Africans and Neanderthals or Africans/Neanderthals/Denisovans.

You are right that this topic is politically sensitive - so sensitive that the data is basically ignored outside of science.
Meanwhile Trump has signed a $15B disaster aid package for Hurricane Harvey. And while most Americans, myself included, don't mind the financial aid to those in need it is money that could have been spent on other things rather than the replacement of existing capital. This spend represents a lost investment, a lost opportunity. As such, this article makes light of a serious matter and really isn't helping in driving the policy discussion forward.
Let me see: the regulatory environment is in flux and not quite ready for autonomous vehicles; GM can claim an early lead for being to mass produce these vehicles - so who are the first customers - ride sharing companies and cities - and when is the first shipment / big contract expected? (I haven't done more research yet!; so I'm curious what other HNers know or think.)
I agree that nothing is too extreme that it shall be completely purged from all discussion. Is that what we are talking about here though? It's not like r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown were communities of academic discourse regarding obesity and race. These were communities where people (probably mostly teenagers) spewed hatred for overweight or black people 24/7. Together I think these contrasting ideas... (1) hate speech should be mitigated, but (2) retaining free speech is paramount... engender a few interesting points:

1. Purging these communities from reddit does nothing to remove the underlying fact that given an anonymous social forum, some people will readily participate in hateful discussions targeting overweight people and minorities.

2. When removed from reddit, do these people find different alternative social outlets to share their hate (i.e. after the ban, did 4chan etc. experience a measureable increase in fat/racist posting).

3. If #2 is yes, is it better or worse (and in what ways) that these people and their discussions are forced to move into forums that more readily accept, or even champion hate-speech.

4. Is there a net benefit or net detriment to keeping these shithead communities within an ecosystem like reddit where they, on one hand, can recruit more moderate minds, but on the other hand, are subject to the ridicule of more moderate minds.
Dynamic pricing could work better than etiquette
I use and prefer Venmo. I dislike PayPal. I have not used Square Cash. I would refuse to use FB Messenger if anyone asked (which no one has).

I have no interest in using an app that by default
broadcasts my transactions to everyone

I haven't seen the default in some time, but it's very simple to change the privileges on a transaction (2 clicks, immediately visible on every transaction), which apply to all your future transactions unless you change it back. Cold comfort, but there you go.

.. it had the audacity of asking for my SSN.

I'm frankly surprised that PayPal doesn't require a SSN for the same activities... or maybe they do. Venmo help[1] indicates they are required to do so for users with certain volumes (several hundred dollars per week) by the U.S. Treasury. Why would Paypal and other vendors not have the same requirements?

[1] https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/217532197-Social-Se...
> I really wish we would just ban grocery stores for good and try to go back to this form of food consumerism.

I'm sure that'll work out great for people who live in poor communities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Smartphone App Uses AI to Predict Teen Suicide
Go back and everywhere you see "America" or "Americans" substitute "Iran" or "Iranian" and see if you have an epiphany.
You must have had a different interaction with the MIT Corp: I've found that they have nothing other than the best interests of MIT at heart. Most of the members are alums, and several of them have made very significant donations (with not a whole lot of recognition imo.)

I'm not saying the MIT Corp hasn't made mistakes, but I've never questioned their motives for doing the right thing.
I don't think the ability to appear in a closed room is necessarily walking through walls, and I don't think it was a function of the resurrection, rather that it was a miracle. Similar miracles of transport are recorded for angels, Philip, and Enoch.
Almost certainly not (American) cities. With Uber de-fanged, I'm not sure which competitor has the capital and sense of urgency to go to battle for self-driving cars. My guess is a foreign city-state, e.g. Singapore or Luxembourg.
Well I have a problem with the fact that you can't stop random CAs from issuing certs for a domain you own. But I don't think that's changing anytime soon.

Passwords provide security for data at rest, a properly hardened server makes it very difficult to dump memory in certain circumstances, and hsm are practically a requirement in some environments.

And finally, say I wanted to use LetsEncrypt, but I wanted to manage the keys myself, and require only private key X could be used to sign Y, and manage it myself. They don't really let me set those requirements at the CA level - it's all on my own host + network security, which IMHO is unnecessarily risky.
But growth hacking right?

In all seriousness, I love how techniques like this are "ok" when the company is considered a "startup", but when it suddenly becomes "evil megacorp", it's all of the sudden considered deception.
Have you tried their support flow? They've usually been very responsive in my experience, it might just be around the corner.
Yeah, that's likely the case. I do not see the urgency message in my session data for this NFL game (suggesting it won't do it's sold out thing for this event) but I do see something in my local storage called "cache:local:app:urgencyMessageData"
They're supposed to be releasing an app sometime this week, but all the literature I read makes Zelle out to be a connection between bank accounts with debit cards being a work around. If credit cards were allowed, like on Venmo, I assume there would be a fee involved to prevent point churning. If that is the case why would you want to link a credit card?

Is there any payment service like Zelle or Venmo that allows credit cards without a fee?
This is typical of the maturation of any technology platform. What is actually happening is a change from a long-term growing complexity to short-term stable complexity.

Historically, building something simple in an HTML page has always been simple. A field here, a button there, you're done.

But with increased requirements, that sort of work became exponentially more difficult to maintain. If you have 10 fields each with the same basic functionality, you'd end up repeating the same thing 10 times. If you wanted some complex state management, you're building it all from the ground up. Your code may be "simple" in the sense that you don't need a build tool, preprocessors, or any dependencies to maintain it, but it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.

React, babel, webpack et al can make things much more complicated _to start_, especially for someone not acquainted with it. But the trade off is that things keep more or less the same level of complexity. Adding a feature is easier, duplicating an element or a screen is easier.
It would help them the most -- getting rid of grocery stores that sell low quality, sugary mass produced foods and going back to local micro farmers markets is in what form of reality a bad thing?
Anyone who had the necessary access to a server could get a domain-validated certificate before LE existed, they didn't introduce that.

You can generate and handle the private key entirely yourself, without ever having LE code touch it if you want. You only need to generate CSRs from it.

And you now more than ever have tools to control this if you worry about it: CT logs (that you don't have to check yourself, thanks to free services that alert you about each new certificate for your domain) and CAA records
So do smaller towns, but that doesn't seem to stop people from advocating urbanization here.
I think you’re understating the complexity of modern web applications. There are lots of web apps out there that cannot be aptly described as “pages,” or even as simply “UI”.
That's not what I'm suggesting. Rather, the feedback loop you identified sadly lends itself towards marketing or financial stratagem as or more easily than making substantive changes.
Amateur radio is still alive, but there are not nearly as many active hams as there were 30 years ago when I first got my license. A much smaller percentage of hams know how to pass traffic in a systematic way these days, and not as many are proficient with Morse code, which is arguably the most efficient use of spectrum in disaster scenarios.

Hams did help during Harvey and are helping during Irma, but it doesn't get as much press as it used to.

I also think that there has been sort of a systematic degradation in neighborhood relations that has an impact on disaster response. My neighborhood has mostly middle aged and older people in it now, most of us know each other, but many neighborhoods have become much more transient in the last generation or so and ties are not as strong.

My challenge to a community that includes "hacker" in its name is to consider picking up the radio hobby. It has some real old school hacker opportunities for everyone. And, it has never been easier to obtain an amateur license. The Morse code requirements have been dropped. The technical part of the test is not that difficult for anyone with any understanding of electronics. The regulations are somewhat obscure, but not difficult to grasp. We need an infusion of new amateur radio operators. The old guys (like my dad) are disappearing fast.
Amusing that security.googleblog.com itself is using a TLS certificate ultimately signed by GeoTrust Inc, which is owned by Symantec.
If you're copying code into a Keynote presentation, you can use Pygments' RTF output mode, copy it to the clipboard, and just paste it into a text box in Keynote. That way, because it's actual text, it's smooth regardless of output resolution. Here's an example I just pulled from my shell history:

pygmentize -f rtf -O "fontface=Fira Code,fontsize=26" -l prolog familyinteract.pl | pbcopy

(That was for pasting code into Pages; for Keynote you'll probably want a bigger font size.)
Norton protect quietly reinstalled itself after I ran that tool.

Oracle snuck it onto my system in a java update and I ended up having to dig through the registry and disk to weed it out. It is malware, plain and simple.
I think it's a valid criticism, not LE but industry as a whole. Intel should add usable HSM in every cheap laptop, not even talking about servers instead of their ME backdoors. Technology is there, it's cheap and it's needed.
Not providing schedules because some buses don't have them seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
iPhone has lost its glamour
I wonder how relevant this perspective is to the discussion going on at [1]. Particularly, I am curious how people interpret the notion that a deep learning system could predict a person's musical preferences by their facial features.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219906
Massive resources were wasted with boats lined up in one spot that could've been actively searching somewhere else.

I'm on a search & rescue team, and this is usually the chief challenge with "the public" getting involved, there is no established organizational structure. People all mean well, but it is incredibly difficult to utilize a horde of untrained people effectively at the drop of a hat, and it can also make things worse.

Zero criticism of the Cajun Navy et al, sometimes a motley crew is the best you've got and you do the best you can. But if you've ever been turned back when you tried to volunteer for a disaster, this is why.

I wonder if a future extension to ICS/NIMS could be, how to plug in these unconventional resources where professional manpower is insufficient. Develop a 2-minute briefing, a point of contact for unconventional resources to report to, a simplified structure & communication network. The most important concepts are pretty simple, and the first responder doesn't need to know that much about it.
You missed my point. Which is: If and only if the energy production for the EVs will be done through renewable sources, this grand plan works. But in Germany (where I live), we are experiencing huge problems with this approach.

The main issue: Power production fluctuates wildly throughout the year. But you need to have the capacity for the worst case (sometime in winter), which means an enormous surplus of energy in the summer. We cannot store this energy. And all these issues threaten the stability of the power grid.

Shutting down the nuclear power plants hurt us badly regarding the CO2 budget. All of the new renewable energy installations (solar and wind, mainly) have only achieved to offset the loss of the nuclear plants.

Other countries will have the same problems. Solutions are not in sight. It will be much, much more expensive that people now realize. Energy prices in Germany have gone up considerably since the early 2000s, precisely because of renewable energy.

Don't get me wrong, to save the planet this is what we must do. But currently, it is unclear how to do this in a short time, without lowering the standard of life for everyone.
"With the original iPhone, there was no App Store, and no third party apps. At least not at first..."

https://www.imore.com/history-app-store-year-zero

I think this section sums it up well why there became a demand for apps, and the points are still valid today.

"But back then, the limitations of web apps, their lack of access to core functionality, their relatively poor performance compared to native apps, and the difficulties involved in charging for them proved to be insurmountable problems.

As a solution, web apps were more sour than sweet."
Not at all. Revoke trust in the signing authority and all it's certificates turn invalid the second that change hits. Update your OS's trust store to not trust Comodo anymore and you'll see the effects immediately in IE/Edge on Windows or Safari and Chrome on macOS (Firefox still ships its own CA bundle).

It's just that when trust has been revoked in CAs recently, it's been done in a more gradual fashion to not hurt customers too much and give them time to migrate. After all, it's not the customer's fault the CA went rogue. This usually starts with not accepting certificates past a certain date but still validating previously issued ones, until sometime 6 months to a year later they're completely distrusted.
No, paragraph 3 means it's the third iteration of their hardware. That's unrelated to the self-driving "levels".
I don't really believe it is possible.
Lidars were the most expensive part and are much, much cheaper now, I can't really imagine how can they spend more than 100k$ of self driving hardware per car.
looking for some feedback on branding / concept / domain name etc.