skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible for two facts to be correct at the same time. Yes it is good that Africa has access to modern building materials. It is also bad that extraction is causing problems for rural communities. These two facts are not inconsistent.

All you have really proven is how much you dislike environmentalists. A debate that is quite colloquial to a few cossated western countries. In a lot places people actually live within touching distance of the environment. The pros and cons are just obvious to everyone. Young local men get paid to move sand, which is good. But farmers need water for crops and erosion is a problem. It becomes news outside because no one has a good solution. Just another intractable social problem.
Except 'lisper wasn't making an argument. He was responding to a case of somebody being socially jerkish in a way that was pretty gentle, even for HN's coddling standards. That's important, because downvotes don't fix jerks--only pointing out the behavior does.

Coming in hot with "oh but fallacies, hmm hmm, heaven forfend" when what's being suggested is "maybe don't be a jerk?" is not a great look, don't you think?
> If it's a sequential number requested near birth that would mean that most people with the same birthday have similar numbers, doesn't it?

In practice it is not requested near birth. It is sequential to the time you asked for an ID card, so people who asked for one in the same timeframe get a close number
Yes! The challenge is, I feel like it'd be a preferable to return all fearures for a given user within an Organisation, as opposed to all features, period. I don't know why I feel that way yet... maybe a security risks? Guess a username, find out about a new secret feature from some Organisation using ablator.
Sorry, why 58? Nightly is on 57 only. What is landing in 58?
Let and var in JavaScript explained in 2mins
"Critical systems" pretty vague, and could be used to describe any system that processes payments or other basic things we use.

It's fundamentally different from malpractice in my opinion. In health care malpractice has obvious pieces of data - we know who the doctor is, we know their credentials, we know what information they had and when they had it, we know what they decided, what they prescribed, what they said.

Software engineering is a team based endeavor. Who exactly is responsible for unrecognized vulnerabilities? Everyone? No one? One dude who everyone sorta thought handled security stuff? It's as clear as mud.
They double their solar installations every year though, and are in need of buffer storage, which can be found in EVs' batteries.
But issues opened remain unanswered..
There are levels of "criticality". Credit monitoring is in a different category from, say, spacecraft or nuclear power plants. But if a security breach can lead easily to identity theft, and therefore to a catastrophic compromise of one's financial stability, that should require some higher level of mandatory certification.
This puts things in perspective.

I used to get angry when the other party used to screw up, have stopped getting angry seeing how futile getting angry at a random (and ever changing) customer rep is.

This puts calmness in a new perspective
If you're now thinking "Why don't we just use insects to control our robots?", you're not alone: http://www.conceptlab.com/roachbot/
It's worth noting that the equifaxsecurity2017 website posted the following update yesterday:

"NO WAIVER OF RIGHTS FOR THIS CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT

In response to consumer inquiries, we have made it clear that the arbitration clause and class action waiver included in the Equifax and TrustedID Premier terms of use does not apply to this cybersecurity incident."
It would definitely be bad optics if a tesla were to run out of juice and be sitting on the side of the road with no way to recharge.
Hash? I wouldn't trust the folks at Equifax to know the difference between a one-way function, a cannabis concentrate, and a fried potato dish.
Remains from Viking Warrior’s Grave Identified as Female
You ought to remember, because it still happens today. Take a resume and put a typically black name at the top, and your chances of getting an interview plummet compared to a typically white name.

There's a lot of reporting on nails because there are a ton of nails. Gender bias has been a thing literally since before recorded history. There are blatant examples quite recently, too. Until the 1970s, it was routine for banks to refuse to issue credit cards to women without their husbands' permission. Am I to believe that his problem, which is literally thousands of years old (probably more) has been solved in the past 40 years?

I have no idea about Big Bang Theory, never saw it.
The CSO apparently graduated with a music major. Not that it should it disqualify them, many in tech didn't graduate with a CS degree but in light of the incident one has to wonder.
It's given when you sign up for TrustedPremier. I have made it optional; the ToS says that it's required to opt out but doesn't indicate what to do if you don't have one (since the ToS still technically covers you if you enter your info)
This sounds like blockchain could have application. But honestly, other countries do fine without them, IMO they should just be abolished.
> Yet somehow this study leaves out how much China is adding solar and wind energy to it's supply.

Ahem...

> The good news is that China has shown a firm commit-
ment to prompt renewable energy use, improving energy
efficiency and reducing pollutant emissions from power
plants. Great efforts have been, and will continue to be, made by the Chinese government to reduce the emissions of power plants, such as setting an aggressive target to reduce national SO2 emissions by 10% from 2005 to 2010 by installing FGD and closing a large number of small generating units.

They project out to 2030 and examine different international assumptions about realistic future energy mixes.

But yeah, it's still an optimistic story long term. They'll also need things like low rolling resistance tires and new braking tech to reduce pm 2.5, and reforms in ag, industry, and home heating. But every step is part of it.

http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/ess/7778/2012071915174608...
Slighlty OT: Did run many chatsbots in various fields. Chatbots won't be the next big thing, not at all. Chats are a specific channel for more specific use cases, none of them created any killer app.

Maybe we need more time but chatbots got hyped for too long without any significant traction. Most are web shops/ agencies that build mediocre chatbots for brands nobody is using.

Not bashing chatbots just wondering why this topic gets upvoted again and again.
Anyone else confirmed this? Don't know who Tony is, usually like more sources that a tweet.
Outsourcing/H1b costing a lot more than they save is my guess.

If you develop in-house software, you ARE A SOFTWARE COMPANY, whether you want to be or not.

Amazing how this good old boy network still thinks like it's 1970.
Yep, I mention that in the "What's this all about" section. However, I don't know why anyone would want to give up their legal rights, especially to a company that has just proven that they can't keep your data secure.
I don't know what definition of "critical" we're going with, but the fact that they have the SSN of basically every American makes them an important weak point.
Indeed. It's exactly this kind of "doing nothing" which makes the world turn on its axis, pretty much.
And then, when their shitty "easy signups" authentication is exploited, they attempt to reframe the flaw as the individual's identity being stolen, rather than the bank being negligent.

Relevant comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I feel sad every time I hear things like this. That we've to be happy that we got our job done even when all our documents are in the clear. Or that we've to hope get some favor from them by fawning (not alleging that you did that). It makes me feel like we're treated like dumb children by our governments.
Those plants are doing it via symbiosis with soil bacteria. That seems a bit difficult to engineer into other plants, because it involves a lot more than producing a couple of extra molecules, like e.g. BT corn. But then again, I'm not a geneticist.
Yes, I agree! 1.x was pretty ugly
The Rohingya Insurgency
No idea, but I asked the same thing on the expats Stack Exchange site earlier today[0]. No responses yet, maybe we have to wait until Monday and call them? You might also contact the US Embassy in your country and ask.

I had a similar problem with signing up for an online "my Social Security" account, and learned that it is impossible. The US Embassy in London wrote back: "You must have a U.S. mailing address in order to create a my Social Security account and cannot open an account without one."

Having a credit record in the USA is no longer important as I do not plan to return, but you would think the credit reporting agencies should have some way of telling them "I'm long gone, if you see a credit application from the USA it's definitely fraudulent". Can't be done I guess.

[0]https://expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/12104/how-ca...
I'm just seeing this today. Great work! Looks like it could be very useful!

Would it be possible to integrate this into something like a Palo Alto, so that you could instantly add new blocking rules for any content containing one of the urls?

How about a browser plugin that strips any phishing urls that match? I don't know much about Javascript, but maybe you could even just source in a library and run it client side?
I guess you can just do image search for [принципиальная электрическая схема].
I can vouch for karanbhangui being one of the most trustworthy people I know.
This is awesome! I wonder if it will be possible to find undefined object properties with this !?
Great Answer, thank you! Going further, would this mean one could build a DB where i could send off "optimize now" queries and telling thereby the DB that I accept stop-the-world type of effects for a limited time? Or even specifying the effects that i'm willing to accept?

My main issue is that most of the DB Stuff i do as a non-dba is so basic that it could be automated, but isn't for reasons that until your post came up weren't clear to me.
You're comparing ensemble performance with single model performance. The test set RMSE the authors are able to achieve with their model is pretty impressive to me considering it is a single model that doesn't even exploit the time dimension.
Nice red herring
This guy's pretty cool. Check out his modular multiplication tables:

https://friendlyfieldsandopenmaps.com/2017/09/07/beauty-in-m...
143 million thanks!
"general problem of Java EE style architecture."

What style is that? The style of composing persistence technology, Authentication and Authorization, dependency injection, messaging, web communication etc to make a business application? If you know of a magical tech that doesn't aim to solve these problems in a standardized modular way so that the developer isn't socket programming from the ground up then please chip in.

"There are many moving pieces and many permutations of how they interact together."

Agreed. The problem space isn't todo apps or "Hotdog/No hotdog".

"It's practically impossible to understand it in its entirety, and thus impossible to guarantee that it's secure."

I don't understand the finer points of the myriad of TLS cypher suites etc, probably means I can't guarantee that they're secure. But what other option do I have? roll my own? Nope I'll take sensible defaults and twiddle the knobs where the client's requirements demand something different.

"You're basically plugging holes as you find them, but you're never sure that there aren't more holes you don't know about." - this is FUD.
The management who told the developers "we need this done by tomorrow, figure something out or it won't be good for you"
I'll bite, and who vouches for you?
Ask HN: How do you keep track of life's events and get togethers?
I often find myself trying to keep track of too many events in my head, leading to double booked plans or even worse, forgetting plans.

How do you help manage this?
Is it the use of calendar apps, meet up, eventbrite, Excel, better memory skills, or an entirely different system or thought process?

Thanks HN
MG
I'm reasonably sure that "tech" companies try to save costs just as much as "traditional" companies. The difference might only be that they how to formulate their requirements better.
MongoDB is the wrong choice 99.9% of the time. Just use Postgres.
There are 2.4M rental bicycles in Beijing, city says enough is enough
Pretty cool. I was meaning to create something like this for a while now, but never got to the point where it started being usable in larger projects.
festival tts?
I think they're nice! I like the monospaced font for the axes. Fwiw, I would remove the legend in the case of there being only one curve, especially since you have good titles.
I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy
>Well I mean, what it comes down to is you need someway of establing that it's actually you over a phone or Internet

Why do you need that exactly? If you are selling something, it's quite simple: if you receive the money, you provide the service -- if not, you don't.

The payment processor can use 2FA (this is actually done by a number of banks in Europe, when you enter the payment information, you get a text message with a code from your bank to confirm the transaction).
I use Google news with a custom filter for stuff about China. Just click on the bookmark once every morning. Don't get much noise, but sometimes hit paywalls.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

Anyway, if you continue down that path, you will get less religious. Not necessarily a bad thing.
Not the one being asked, but I usually go with breakpoints in Dev Tools.
And here I am, fascinated, with all the technology available today, paper and pen is the gold standard.
Apologies, I only examined the first couple of graphs after the first "FiveThirtyEight" keyword, for which you don't have titles, subtitles etc.

The graphs on your article look really nice, but they are quite far from resembling FTE's, IMO.
Just put it in my calendar app, always have my phone on me so it's convenient.
Just try it out for yourself, like others did:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15204573
> I hope it's not difficult to see why a change that directly impacts that might have negative consequences elsewhere.

Sure, but at the risk of repeating myself: That sounds like an implementation problem.

> I've heard no argument why the PTC mode should be intrinsically faster than the non-PTC mode

There's a simple one: Hitting the stack less means you hit less memory.

> The people you are disagreeing with (not I) are responsible about 85% of the JavaScript engines on the Internet, an incredibly competitive space with billions in funding. ... I'm sure they'd love a patch

Happy to oblige. I'll implement TCO on V8 for a billion dollars in a way that beats these benchmarks.

> However, you're asking me to prove a negative.

And you're making straw men instead: At the beginning of your response, it's not even clear you read my complaint, but at the end, it's quite clear.

The simple answer would probably have been "yes, it's about an implementation, but it remains unknown where else we can go", but instead you doubled down...
> it's a line like any other

yeah, in other words - there should be no commas whatsoever. Weren't you the one complaining about redundancy?
Original link is: https://medium.com/@cloudstories2017/hipaa-compliance-code-e...
SippinLean> The RFK quote gets thrown around a lot

Thrill> one "side" of the "conversation" is frequently in the news as wanting to put nonbelievers of their view of the issue in prison

Yeah, what you both said.

(And Rfk said the Koch's "treason" was co2 "pollution", and he wished there were a law, which pretty much matches thrill's statement)

So we can agree that the idea is "thrown around a lot", even apparently by someone prominent enough to be recognized as a spokesman, but (thankfully or regrettably) there isn't yet a law to enforce it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_freeze
> Every landlord I've rented from has pulled my credit.

There is also a separate tenant screening for real estate that, at least for me, seems to be more reliable as an indicator for trust than the financial credit report. It is possible your landlords are doing the same? Perhaps that’s what you mean by reference checks?

> It's more than likely that if I was in a different career, and particularly if that career was in a lower-paying sector where workers have less leverage, my credit score would be a real concern in finding a job.

I’d point out poor credit is also problematic in high-paying professional fields, e.g. in a sector requiring clearance, or perhaps in a sector requiring licensure. As I understand it even public trust clearance would be problematic with poor credit.

It’s great your strategy has worked out well for you, but it seems a required part of your strategy is to be remarkably lucky.
Agree, the default style looks much better in 2.x. It's good enough for most use cases, but it's still quite far from publication level, IMO.
I don't know if thats legally binding.
What is FTE?
The first man at trial over a “gig economy” got dismantled on cross-examination
paulgb
Is an equifax username required?
Would there be a way of doing this systematically? i.e. input an image and find a prime that represents it?
Don’t Fall for Loan Sharks Just Because They Have Hip Branding
http://fivethirtyeight.com
What happens when First Tech gets bought out by [mega credit union] though?
> just wondering why this topic gets upvoted again and again

Because most chatbots are crap (for real world applications) because chatting is a hard problem but there's a great potential?
I can vouch for seszett being one of the most trustworthy people I know....
> It makes your code crash less

Wait, can you back this up? What makes you think strongly typed languages crash more than weakly typed languages? What's a scenario where a strongly typed language will crash at runtime, but a weakly typed language won't?

I can see an argument that an interpreter of a weakly typed language will let you run a program with dangerous type conversions without complaining, while a strongly typed language won't even let you execute it - but are you counting that as a crash?
Your denominators are wrong.

The denominator should be the probability of the classifier being positive: P(True Positive)+P(False Positive)

Since you assumed that P(False Positive) = P(False Negative) = (1-P(True Positive))/2 = (1-P(True Negative))/2

In the algorithm case the denominator is 0.8x0.04+0.1x0.96=0.128

In the human case the denominator is 0.6x0.04+0.2x0.96=0.216

In summary, if a human thinks someone is homosexual, the probability increases to 11.1%. If the algorithm makes that call the probability increases to 25%.
I feel your pain. Don't despair. I once found a tool you'll also fall in love with: Delphi [1].

If you look for a, less-featured, FOSS version, try Lazarus [2]

[1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

[2] http://www.lazarus-ide.org
This is because credit score is a measure of two things. The first one is obvious - that you are capable of paying your debt if you find yourself in it. The second one however is how valuable you are to the banks. What good are you to them if you never borrow more money than you need? Their best customer is always in debt but regularly making payments (with interests of course).
Clover is an excellent nitrogen fixer. I found out by being lazy and not fertilizing my lawn. In a few years I have a lot of clover and much less grass. I was wondering why and found out about nitrogen fixation from air. Granted can't substitute it as food crop but lawns also cover a good amount of area.
One might argue that this is the default state of life on Earth; a speck of dust not really doing much work =\
I'm not totally in love with the notion, and now that I'm in my own company we do not do it that way at all. However, by giving the manager a pool, my old company was empowering that manager to spend the money as they saw fit.

There was no stack ranking or any other political BS. Here's your pool, do with it as you wish. So, if you ask me, zero sum sucks, but it at very least lets the person closest to the action get a chance to make a call.

It also prevented the managers from just handing out raises for no real reason. For example, you've got two people that have had great years and another that's just been treading water. If you give them the raise you want to, you're going to wind up with nothing left for the third. With an unlimited sum of money at your disposal you may kick that person a percent or two to prevent hurt feelings, now you've got to make the hard call.

Or, if that third person also had a good year and you want to fight for them, you can run it up the chain and shake out a few percent for them. It was always there for the asking if you felt like going through some effort to get it.

So yeah, there's better ways to do it, but it's also not completely awful either.
> This article is backward to me. I’ve lived in New York and Japan long enough to know that the best food in NYC is average in Japan.

Not sure what you mean (as a former Tokyo, Paris and New York denizen myself). If you mean midrange and daily meals are better in Tokyo I'd tend to agree, though lukewarmly. Fast food? No way, a greasy katsu is as bad as a crummy slice of pizza,

But for the high end experiences described in this article (typically €1200/$1500/¥20,000 per person -- though Manresa is cheaper!) I'd say country has little to do with it. Though I find those experiences excessively fussy. If I'm going to spend five hours on a meal I'd rather the food and environment fade into the background so I can enjoy the company.
VR64, Virtual Reality Goggles for the Commodore 64
Tracking the Evolution of the IoT Concept Across Different Application Domains
I read it as 0.8% of all deaths, not of only the deaths caused by cancer. I think that is the most logical reading.

If that's correct, I get at that 4% this way: according to https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cance..., about 20% of all deaths are caused by cancer.

If, of that 20%, 0.8% is caused by alcohol-induced cancer, 4% of all deaths caused by cancer are caused by alcohol-induced cancer.
Or Toronto.
Their ToS requires it, but doesn't specify what to do if you don't have one (since by my reading even submitting your info binds you to the arbitration clause). I've made it optional on the form.
I don't know of a B2C contract in the world that lives in perpetuity without a termination option. Boo for a clickbaity title.

That being said, shame on Equifax for gathering credit cards and holding them for a year. The atrophy on them during that period will be incredible anyways(change of address, stolen card,expiry etc). Nor should they be trusted with keeping said information safe.
I wish someone would go Mr Robot and corrupt their offsite tape backups with the HVAC system.
NYT thinks Amazon should choose Denver for their new HQ
I'm not using anything that Equifax set up in case it waives any of my rights. This is how bad it's gotten, people are afraid/untrusting of their security/protection measures.

Thank you for linking to more accounts of this.
Is JPMorgan still running their on fork of Envy?
Ants don't care if several hundred colony members accidentally die in the course of completing a task, though, which changes the parameters a lot. Making a car that stays on the road, like, 95% of the time is probably easier than making up the last 5%.
I am in the state of Kansas and will be filling out a small claims petition as well.