skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a pedestrian, bicyclists are much more of a hazard to me than cars, and I want them as far from me as possible.

Yes, cars are bigger, but in cities they are often moving more slowly, and drivers are much more aware of pedestrians. Bicyclists, by and large, are either ignorant or purposefully ignore traffic laws, run red lights, race down sidewalks, and in general create hazards for both pedestrians and drivers. The only major cities I've been to where the majority of bicyclists are decent and mostly obeying traffic laws are in Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Just to be clear, though, I have no clue what happened in this accident or whether anyone was actually at fault, so this comment shouldn't be meant to suggest that Takeuchi wasn't a law-abiding cyclist!
They are producing a waveform that is constantly at the peak range of the digital-to-analog conversion. Most real-life audio recordings only very rarely, if ever, reach peak levels.

Some (older?) Hi-Fi equipment was in fact designed with this assumption and playing a constant sine wave at peak levels would very quickly burn something out.
> Why do we accept the out of control increase in cost to get a degree?

Because that degree is valued, not for the education the student received, but as a formal gating mechanism: those who do not obtain it (and it better be from a "good" school) are (with a few exceptions) excluded from all possibility of ever having "good" jobs.

In other words, our hiring practices are the root of the problem.

Even in tech (where I know from experience that skill and education are only mildly correlated), education on the resume is still a gatekeeper and my company's recruiting of novices comes primarily from the better college campuses.
And it's battle tested by millions of player using it frenetically every day!
The problem that unless you are going to blow up the Empire State Building it's very hard to convince people to use yet another not to mention switch to a different messaging app.

What happens is that the person who does it effectively being cut out of the loop with maybe a handful of their contacts becoming partial converts that might serve as human routers for a while.

WhatsApp and Signal work because they are easy they are mom/grandpa proof and they have a huge user base.
No. The changes that are happening only affect DRM. So it means that when you watch a video/audio in the browser, there will be some encryption applied deep within the browser.

But it is a paradigm shift in the sense that it is the first time that a change is introduced in HTML that restricts the user from accessing the actual content that is being displayed.

Effectively, similar changes to the standard could be introduced to prevent users from tinkering with ads, or to prevent users from opting out of data collection.

In that sense, it opens the way to your browser being more like your phone.

Again, it's not _bad_ in itself, but it is a paradigm shift.
VitalikButerin: Ethereum will have visa scale tx capacity in a couple of years
This is a sad statement. Proficiency in a given language/environment dictates how long and painful a solution will be. Use cases for this are no different to any computing-related task, though I concede it isn't for everyone :-) Neither is Python, Perl, Java, JS, Node, and hey, lets throw in COBOL because you know, there was never a use case for that either. /sarcasm
This is cool! That being said, it would be very nice to have (optional) syntactically more beautiful type annotation. I assume Flow must be compatible with regular javascript, but CoffeeScript could take more flexible approach. I have no idea what the actual syntax could be, though.
there's nothing new right, gopher://hngopher.com/1
I don't know whether you or the person you're replying to is more correct, but it doesn't change their point: That these decisions are not something the average person should be making for themselves. If anything, your disagreement kind of makes the point even clearer.

Maybe there might be an argument for people to be able to choose to obtain drugs like the ones mentioned by GP, but not without some kind of control-mechanism to at a bare minimum ensure they have been presented with the risks and have given some level of demonstration that they understand them.

E.g. I quite like the mechanism now in place for online pharmacies in the UK, where you can buy prescription drugs like Viagra, or OTC but restricted products like Daktacort (combination anti-fungal and steroids), but need to convince a doctor (for the former) or pharmacist (for the latter) in writing that you've at least bothered to read what they've written about the drugs (since nothing stops you from just faking the symptoms, but you at least need to describe relevant symptoms free-form semi-coherently, or they'll do additional checks before selling to you).

It has weaknesses, and certainly won't stop people from abusing abusable drugs, but it at least makes it possible to pick up on the most idiotic attempts at misusing drugs they don't even understand.

Alternatively, I've used PushDoctor a couple of times - a UK service that connects you with an actual GP via video chat; the last time it took me 10 minutes from I scheduled an appointment until I'd uploaded pictures of a rash, had a conversation with the GP and had the prescription passed to a local pharmacy electronically; even if one were to consider taking away their "gatekeeper" role in terms of letting them deny treatments they don't think are necessary, I don't think it'd be unreasonable to still at least require a consultation like that for the most dangerous drugs to give an opportunity to at least inform.
Tez, Google's digital payment app for India
I don't understand what you are trying to say. My point is also that the tools are imperfect, particularly when it comes to generating useful insights, as opposed to just correlations.
Strict hard science is not applicable for vague questions s.a "should drugs usage be legal". We are not going to conduct a series of controlled experiments.

We're left with a collection of statistical observations, polluted by various uncontrolled externals ("this is Portugal", "that is Netherlands").

The only sensible way to reconcile the different outcomes in a manner the mob can understand is using the annoying term "scientific consensus"
Wireless at-distance charging may be here – and not how you were expecting
As a counter example, I'm still very happy with e-mail
it is mind boggling how much we allow State colleges to charge for an education. From the amount of money spent paying salaries of administration level employees, professors who turn over many classes to assistants, to high end sports programs, and finally overly indulgent facilities.

Young people are being used not to prop up the bank employee and managers but instead overly expensive faculty and facilities of college campuses, many of them are state run facilities! Better yet we don't stop there, we then roll them on the costs of supplies; namely books but it can include specific software; to just obtain their education. In many cases fees and such are added at the end to obtain certification needed to gain a license, something that should have been proven by their completion of the course load.

finally, not everyone needs a college education and not ever degree is worthy of financial aid.
It's a terrain, some points are higher than others.

Not convinced any country isn't underwater though.
What's the difference between directly printing money out of thin air and creating bonds out of thin air and selling it for money (that also was printed or electronic)?
Cat freakout confirmed
> someone below commented that telegram can now be built without dependency on the play framework

Do you mean "signal"? Telegram is very specifically the pseudo-secure messenger shit-talking Signal and Marlinspike.
Ridiculously Fast Shot Boundary Detection (with API)
Top iPhone App Entwicklung Unternehmen
Why Bitcoin Will Ultimately Fail and What Will Come Next
DRM is broken because sooner or later it will always prevent legitimate access to content.
Nope. I certainly wouldn't be able to carry my weekly shop on the bus. And public transport is, in my opinion pretty well funded here.
For background, I was developing those types of applications few years ago, professionally.

Every chip or contactless transaction is an EMV transaction. This is by virtue of EMV being the protocol that terminal uses to communicate with the card.

EMV allows for different types of transactions with different level of security.

For example, if the transaction can be done offline (gas pump unattended terminal situation) AND executing CVM rules (both terminal and issuer have their own rules) points to the possibilty of exchanging encrypted PIN, the PIN can be sent safely encrypted to the card for verification.

If the card or the terminal does not support encrypted verification then the PIN can be sent in the clear and vulnerable to skimming.
I'm not sure why the author included 'floating point' in the title (probably to hint that the Babylonians did not use a symbol for zero, and had the point floating in blank space). To technical-minded people, floating point is synonymous with hardware that computes using a floating point representation, so this is a bit deceiving.
https://picolisp.com/wiki/?ersatzreflection
> The MPAA is not actively attacking you.

Letting the police do the attacking stuff is just a formality.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 with 6.3 inch Display launched in India at Rs 67,900
Equifax's IT team knew it hadn't patched web app vulnerability
You would lose so much nuance. And I dont think you are in a position to verify anything since you claim not to speak the language.

It sounds like a bad idea all around.
How good UX can save lives
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
> people can be more curious about it and try but not necessarily stick to using them

Yeah, it's not like they are addictive or anything.
Maybe to avoid issues like this. https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-repo...
Not to mention that you can usually start streaming a decent torrent after the first 10%.
How about CFS?
People repeatedly post this [1] as they think it shows how stupid Americans are. I read this and I think it shows how exceptional and amazing America is (and I'm not American). In Venezuela they are currently telling people to eat rabbits as Socialism is working out so well for them.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Socialism%20never%20took%20roo...
In Germany it would have been sufficient to ask for proof in writing with a return receipt. There's your paper trail. If they insist after that, threaten criminal charges. This worked wonders for me in the past. Additionally, loser pays (unfortunately, not for my time, though). This would never go to court.

But you can't ignore it, that's true.
We have a "Department of Defense" as well as one for "Homeland Security". Cognitive dissonance is a funny thing.
XHP templates in Hack do wind up looking a lot like JSX (which is probably not coincidental).. Each tag is a class with a render function that returns an XML node. Here is an example base document template[0] showing what that looks like. Obviously, PHP templates can accomplish the same thing, it just takes more work and more dependencies to magic away the noise.

But with XML as a native data structure you can do things like typehint a tag:

public function setTitle(:document:base $base, string $title): void
{
$base->setAttribute("pagetitle", $title);
}

[0]https://pastebin.com/m54VDwNY
This is a load of heresy and conjecture if ever I heard it.

Here's the stats of deaths in the UK, for example (2006-2010).

+--------------------------------------------+
| Year | Pedestrian deaths, hit by: |
| | pedal cycle | car, pick-up or truck |
|------+-------------------------------------|
| 2006 | 3 | 233 |
|------+-------------------------------------|
| 2007 | 6 | 267 |
|------+-------------------------------------|
| 2008 | 3 | 247 |
|------+-------------------------------------|
| 2009 | 0 | 141 |
|------+-------------------------------------|
| 2010 | 2 | 123 |
+--------------------------------------------+

More here: http://www.cyclinguk.org/campaigning/views-and-briefings/ped...

And here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/uk_accident_statistic...
It's a right curry (which I can reapply for N args). It's just personal preference, but I like to write "function templates" and then "particularize" them with a curry, from right to left. The direction is unusual but it's a personal choice and arbitrary.
The Ten Fallacies of Data Science Work
The Step-By-Step to Get a $1000 Loan – PersonalMoneyService
Which is what we did in the past and you know what they say old habits die hard.
Best Software Testing Board on Pinterest
This was the 80s-90s, and it could well have been as you say.
I've tried the Sony VR and it was very underwhelming, really pixelated graphics and unappealing gameplay (shoot incoming spaceships). One would probably need a factor ~16 increase in pixeldensity to get something photorealistic and even then I think I would prefer computer games on a display, because in VR inconsistencies feel much more out of place to me
> That said, for a new development, is there any reason to use it over ES6?

Obviously your mileage may wary. I think, the biggest reason is a time boost.

- Less noisy code (no braces etc) that is easier to scan

- No time wasted on flirting with new ESXXXy stuff

- There is no callback hell to deal with

- Writing React code is sweet. As previously noted: http://rapin.com/blog/2015/02/03/reactjs-with-coffeescript/

- Less distractions on things that don't really matter in 98% of use cases. Like var/const/let declarations
Top QTP Interview Questions
> We've regressed to the point where 5KiB of text comes with 2MiB of crap, meaning a noise to signal ratio of 26dB which is insane!

Sadly the average clickbait article contains a lot less than 5000 characfters of actual text.
I think you're missing the most important reason. As an informed adult, I should be free to grow and smoke (or vaporize) weed in the privacy of my home because I don't hurt anyone.

Freedom should be the default and interdiction should come with very good reasons (and not the other way around).
Partial application (passing too few arguments to a function) is something that a programmer does. Function currying is something that a programming language does in response to partial application. It's basically wrapping the partially applied function in another one that expects the missing arguments and then performs the originally intended computation.
Louis XIV had "Ultima ratio regum" on his cannons.
Consider that some countries have state monopoly stores for wine and stronger alcoholic drinks, and most no longer allow advertising for alcohol.

Similarly, consider the option of regulations like those in place for pharmacies in some countries, that e.g. requires the pharmacist to ensure you are aware of certain risks, but doesn't prevent you from buying.

Consider the way some countries now requires tobacco to be out of view and with health warnings all over or no branding.

In other words: There are mechanisms you can put in place that legalizes drugs fully, but still heavily restricts commercial entities ability to try to take advantage of peoples weaknesses.

Personally I believe even drugs like heroin should be legal, on the basis of harm reduction, but at the same time, I don't see a problem with e.g. restricting where it can be sold and ensuring that it's sold in plain packaging, no advertising is allowed, and to e.g. have a pharmacist inform you of the risks before selling it. I don't think that threshold will be high enough to make people go to a dealer, but it may still reduce abuse.

In the UK there are restrictions on how many pills of paracetamol (acetaminophen) and ibuprofen you can buy at a time, for example. In pharmacies you can buy up to 32 of each at a time, while elsewhere only up to 16 of each at a time. Those restrictions were put in place because of overdose deaths, and they appear to have saved hundreds of lives so far, while being lenient enough not to drive anyone to a black market.

So while I think we should be allowed to buy pretty much whatever drugs we want, we can combine that with making it sufficiently unattractive that you're not buying them on a whim.
While I love Signal for its simplicity and Matrix/Riot for its features. I regularly train high risk activists/journalists/aid workers on both and they always default to Signal. Matrix unfortunately suffers because it has too many features - and by far the biggest one we hear about is key exchange. I love the granular options but the vast majority of people just looking to communicate don't.
We could "solve" the entire ad-blocking "problem" by delivering DRM-protected web pages that cannot be modified by the end consumer, merely viewed. This would also "solve" the "problem" of scraping.

All that is needed now is a DRM format that delivers HTML/JavaScript and is implemented by Chrome, Safari, and maybe Edge.
I'll never understand the point of an encrypted service attached to a phone number.
It's not that far. PHP is much better as a language than it used to be, but it's still a hypertext preprocessor (they can retcon the acronym but the language is still designed around taking requests and sending responses), and templating is still almost exclusively what it's used for, because that's what it's best at.
The principle is good but people are criticising the implementation; arbitrary strings in a flat namespace is messy and confusing.

Domain names have already established general rules and procedures for this event and basing the team-names on subdomains would have been cleaner and saner than trying to reinvent the wheel with blacklists and human reviewers.

Who gets ford as a team-name, Ford Aviation a small charter operator in the UK or Ford Motors? Domain registration has already resolved that one.
> correct horse battery staple

Assuming a vocabulary of 16K words, it's 15 bits per word for a total of 60 bits for the four word password. Letters plus punctuation will give you about 60 symbols or 6 bits per position. At 60 bits, the four word password is as good as the 10 characters you generated by smashing your elbows on the keyboard and, hopefully, easier to remember.

> Also reduces the time it takes to crack because the algorithm can simply dump a huge amount of possible answers?

Yes. Knowing the password rules limits the space that'd need to be bruteforced.
Digital Disruption: From Analogue to Digital Minds
Equifax: cautionary tale for anyone responsible for software over multiple years
Asian women in tech fight to crack bamboo ceiling
IMDb of podcasts is coming (audio)
This is interesting. Do you not find the dev process significantly slower than using a higher level language?
> in assembly language

That's pretty impressive.
What, you mean return copyright to a state that worked for, what, a century, and which meant that people could actually freely remix things they saw as adolescents within their lifetimes? Blasphemy!
it is much less dangerous for cyclists to be on the same path as pedestrians than them being on the same roads as cars. Its quite clear why.
Post-Mortem of a failed re-release on the Apple Store
Right now I'm trying to get webRTC to run without ever having to use a server - or any way of communicating between browsers without the use of a server - for a game I'm making.

Nothing special, but good to get familiar with the tech.
And definitely not yet ready to be shown (also, currently just a ripoff of an older nintendo game)
My friend that is using cs every day now was also using () around every function call back in the day. Now he doesn't. I think it is more of a preference that _changes_ over time. Just saying that you might like it the other way one day
>Criminalization has consequences on community

Mass addiction has consequences on community.

> Consensual crimes that don’t harm others shouldn’t be crimes

People who self-destruct rarely do so in a vacuum. The community, and specifically their families, are harmed. Just look at what addiction as a public health crisis is doing to the places ravaged by opioid abuse.

> Drug war enforcement costs a ton

A drugged out, non-productive population costs a ton.

I'm for decriminalization because we've had enough time to determine that prison and lifelong unemployability (via criminal records) cause massive damage while not actually serving as deterrents. Still in favor of using force to reduce the prevalence of life-wrecking drugs, i.e. mandatory treatment, but it has to be less life-wrecking than the drug.
Juniper survey ranks IBM at top for blockchain
Get yourself a professional hacker
We are a group comprised of certified intelligent hackers, crackers and developers.
we guarntee succcess in the job done as fast as possible and we provide of the job done ...we have an office and a return policy..all information will be giving to u ...Contact us Lulzsekhackinc@outlook.com or ICQ: 703132619 or WhatsApp: +14696660879
Skype:Lulzsekhackinc@outlook.com
Not. Some women get abused all the time, and some men also get abused. Most men aren't rapists or kick their girlfriends for sport.

Of course we must be sure before to put one human in jail, this means that we need to be as cold as we can, study each case separately instead to automatically link all with the discourse of the woman opression around the history, and discard all the other options. Being too much emotional and bursting in revenge's flames do not helps to find the truth in this kind of cases.

A private video surveillance system is good enough for me, yes. It explain a lot of things that would be strange otherwise.
The extended family put the word out and people came to them. Presumably they paid a fee so that winners would get a larger payout.
SMS two-factor sign-in is vulnerable to hijacking
> In a world where browser manufacturers, as a block, refused to implement DRM

This is a world where we were a couple years ago. The content providers used plugins to provide DRM for the raw video (Widevine for example) or serve the video inside a container that has DRM (flash/silverlight). One of the main reasons for flash and silverlight dying away is that browsers could do more and more of what they did. And playing video the way the content producers/distributors wanted is a big part of that.
I can't speak to Typescript but check out the Flow types for Ramda: https://github.com/flowtype/flow-typed/blob/master/definitio...

Maybe just a matter of perception but it looks verbose to me.
"one wonders if you could ask your bank to disable it?"

I've written in my other comment that I did ask. The answer was "it is not possible".