skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... web developers are going to go by the behavior of [what] the browsers do."

I have pointed this out before.

It is an important point that I think perhaps is overlooked when users ponder how to change the web.

Want to change how the web is presented, fix annoyances, scratch an itch?

Try to achieve through web development? Good luck.

Try to achieve through browser development? Far more interesting. Alternative, open source, non-commercial browser. For example, implements limited set of features.

Web development follows browser development.

For example, a browser that does not automatically follow URLs so that ads and other crud can be loaded into pages.

Giving users access to a browser like this may be a far more effective means of influencing web development away from annoying "user experiences".

If such annoyances rely on a certain modern web browser feature, then use a browser that lacks the feature.

Non-commercial means developers do not care about "market share". They are not trying to "compete" with the major browsers on features. They care about creating a superior alternative to major browsers that shifts the focus from advertisers and media companies to users.

If the annoyances users have while using major browsers are bad enough, then they will try alternatives and the "market share" may shift. Or maybe not. But who cares? Because with an alternative browser "market share" is not the goal.

In another thread, a Chrome developer perhaps a former Firefox developer tells of how they dropped some feature because it was too "power-user" and that is not "what [they] were going for". Maybe you are within the market they "are going for". And maybe you are not. If you are not, then waiting for developers at a large corporation, whose customers are advertisers, to cater to your needs is futile.
Full report: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
Exactly, 1.2 million dead each year is acceptable then!
Working on my own website.

I've come to realize that I do want to share pictures, funny videos and all the internet has to offer, but I want to do it on my own terms and actually own what I put up until I decide to take it down.

It'll be the single place to go to find out what's going on with me. If I'm connected with you on social media that I have, you can see more details compared to random visitor.

Not super complex, just me a WordPress install and an idea.
If they already have security cameras, then they already have everything they need to catch someone installing the device.

This being the case, the criminals have likely either already figured out how to avoid the cameras (or park out of sight). Or the police are not acting on this information because it's not seen as a priority.
The likelihood of even opening a TCP connection is going to be very low. For phase 1, stacks typically send 5 SYNs before giving up. So 95% of your TCP connection estabilishments will slowly fail due to timeout before you even get to phase 1 of the 3-stage connection estabilishment. To say nothing of actually transmitting or receiving any payload data successfully. Which you would have to many times to open a web page.
>Would a 100USD fine actually work here?

Yeah. The number of cases being reported would go down when gas stations start throwing skimmers they find in the trash instead of calling the cops.
As someone who is not exactly versed in the jurisdictions of the TLAs, wouldn't it be the CIA's role to put backdoors in Telegram? The FBI would be doing counter-intelligence and would only approach Telegram if they suspected wrongdoings on their parts, no?
Gmail has finally added the ability to convert phone numbers and address to links
There's a whole class of drugs guaranteed to kill your child during pregnancy, and another where the interactions may seriously harm the child. Another where two relatively harmless drugs, when interacting, can produce the previous results.

It isn't acceptable to just put the risk on the average, uneducated person, who is easily swayed by the way media portrays something. We have experts for a reason, which is to guide us in what choices are safest, or "best" in the current circumstances they face.

Here's a little example, which is fairly common:

Alice has borderline personality disorder. Most people don't notice, she just seems to be rather outgoing, and prone to depression and anger. Alice isn't sure she has it.

Bill, Alice's husband, convinces her to go to therapy, where the psychologist practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (as CBT is the only government-approved therapy), which has no affect.

Alice's psychiatrist puts her on quetiapine.

The amount is strongly controlled, because an overdose is very likely to be lethal, and one of it's known side-effects is suicidal ideation.

She gains 10kg in a month, and her mood is barely affected, but people feel more comfortable around her. The weight gain depresses her.

The psychiatrist moves her to lithium.

Alice finds she can live a normal life, and no one notices her being outrageous anymore.

Alice and Bill decide to have a child.

Here's the hard part of "best": lithium is class D for pregnancy.

It's probably the best medication for Alice though, who has demonstrated she is fully capable of being a normal and productive member of society.

The same problems will continue if Alice chooses to breastfeed, which is best for the baby, so long as they are careful around medications.

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Neither Alice nor Bill are remotely qualified to determine what will, or will not, harm a child.

> We trust people to manage their own life

No, we don't.

We create laws, and regulations, to guide people into making safe choices.

Seatbelts are every bit as useful as a prescription.
Persona had some issues… http://manu.sporny.org/2015/credentials-retrospective/#perso...
August announces new smart locks and a smart doorbell
Filling Amazon’s 50k jobs means finding new ways to train software engineers
Indeed, but this is the third time I've seen a Tcl reference in as many days. Is someone trying to make it come back?
You have only very vague understanding of how our government works. First, they will not contract this to some startup or anything, but instead the company that does the periscope will do it. Then there are reams of regulations to follow, an everything the contractor does will be the most expensive option available because they charge percentage of “cost”, and the higher the cost, the more money they make. I would be stunned if in the end this ends up being cheaper than just manufacturing the designs that already exist.
Some reasons for decriminalization of use and possession, summarized:

(i.e., removing criminal penalties or making it no jail time possible, but not government supplied)

- War on drugs has failed. Criminalization has consequences on community - in many cases, most of the negative effects come from the criminalization, not the drug.

- Consensual crimes that don’t harm others shouldn’t be crimes.

- Drug prohibition doesn’t seem to decrease use — Portugal. (Also perhaps Czech, Italy, Spain?)

- Drug war enforcement costs a ton, we could save tax money.

- 1.2 million people arrested for drug possession in 2015. http://www.drugwarfacts.org/chapter/crime_arrests#arrests

- Prisons are crowded. Would reduce this a little.

- Easier for addicts to seek treatment.

I think the strongest reasons are that drug use should be treated as a health issue and not a criminal issue, and that consensual crimes that don't harm others shouldn't be crimes.

What is the single strongest reason for or against decriminalizing all drugs, in your opinion?
One of many aspects/details that have caused me to turn my back on professional sports -- formally declared or otherwise (college football, the Olympics, etc.).

It would be inspiring if we could have professional sports-persons who could make a decent living extolling the virtues of sport and leading by example. "Decent" living -- not obscene incomes based upon monopolies and taxpayer extortion (stadium costs, tax exemptions, etc.) feeding yet greater ownership incomes (another form of rent-seeking, in its way).

But instead, cash is king. And the virtues of sport get turned into vices -- whether practiced by the players, or upon them (e.g. football's heavy toll).

I don't like this corruption. So I vote with my feet -- that is to say, with my dollars.

Anyway, sport is meant for actual participation. Any professional level should build upon that. Not upon eyeballs and asses in seats (doing nothing).
Cooking was probably man's greatest discovery, well before the wheel. Why negate all of that and join a culinary religion?

Remember the E. Coli epidemic in Hamburg a few years ago? It started from raw bean sprouts.

https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/types/fruits/sprouts.html
Yes! Drugs and Prostitution should be legal!

A sugar daddy can pay a girls rent to have sex with her but if he just gives her the money for sex it's illegal. There's billions that can be taxed and go to things like healthcare and eventually a universal basic income.
Let's chat offline about the health based idea, I had a similar idea. Also classes of produce. Crypto currency of anything, enabling real time comparison shopping globally. Crypto FX.. all decentralized.
I think we leave the Rx system as is, in that we still let pharmacists do their job and protect their mainstream normal patients and give good standard of care, but any party drugs where there is already a clandestine market become OTC. i.e. if you want some weird medicine for some weird thing that no one else wants, you'll have to go through the steps to get a Rx for it. But it won't be hard to get. Because once adderall is OTC there will be 1000's of freed up doctors who don't have to write Rx for that.
Moxie owns. He went in IMHO.
"There aren't any parents around to take care of childish adults. We are it. So we need to grow up and take responsibility for our world, and the first actions should be to try to understand our actual situations."

I am seeing the expectation that there will be parents around to take care of childish adults, though this has really come into prominence in the last 10 years, the last 3 years, in particular. For me, it's evoked notions of H. G. Wells's "Eloi." If that sentiment moves forward unchanged, we won't get "parents" in reality, of course, but some perverted in loco parentis in society. I've heard hope expressed in some quarters that reality will provide some needed blows from some 2x4's across the head, once the young venture out into the world, but I wonder whether sheer numbers will decide this; whether the young will choose to reorient our society, in an attempt to please themselves, rather than being influenced by its experience.

Re. "most people are not interested in this"

From what I've seen, this excuse came out of a combination of the technical side of the "two cultures," and the distraction of a lot of people becoming excited by some perceived new possibilities. More recently, my perspective has shifted to it coming out of a perverted notion of "self-esteem," that challenge is "harmful," because being contradicted creates a sense of limits, isolation or shame, or more materialistically, the fear of economic isolation, thereby reducing career prospects for something original.

What's emerged is a desire to affirm one's self-image as "good," regardless of notions of good works. This is where the "legal drugs" come in, reinforcing this. Neil Postman was right to fear this dynamic.

Diverting off of what I'm saying here (though staying on your topic), have you looked at William Easterly's critique of how foreign aid is conducted? I think it dovetails nicely with what you're talking about, here. The short of it is that most aid efforts to the undeveloped world offer some form of short-term relief, but they don't address at all the political and economic issues that cause the problems the aid is trying to address in the first place. Secondly, when he's tried to confront the aid organizations about this, there is no interest in pursuing these matters, a version of "most people aren't interested in stuff like this." Whether there's a sincere desire to solve problems, or just go through the motions to "help," to make it appear like something is happening (ie. putting on a kind of show of compassion for public relations, and satisfying certain political goals), I don't know. It seems like the latter.

Do you have any insight on what's causing the reticence to get into these matters? Easterly didn't seem to have answers for that, as I recall.
I've been compiling and running Signal on Android for years. Every week I check the git repository for new tags, check them out, recompile a new signed build, then update my phone.
How many COTS parts does a SpaceX rocket use?
And when the Federal Reserved bailed out the too big to fail institutions the debt it bought from them was the failing / bad debt.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Circle-Bastiat/2010/0...
I don't understand that line of argument? it's kind of like saying, lets deregulate the road / sky so we have increased choice of how and where we drive and who can fly aircraft and where...... more choice, more competition..... but clearly a bad idea because it is actually dangerous without regulation
On the other hand, making kinchi yourself is super-easy. it takes literally five minutes to set up and a few days to ferment, then just gets better over time (weeks/months).
Pretty much all US cardholders have chip+pin now. I’d say about 75% of retailers support it.

(Not sure if this is how it works outside of the US, but we currently have cards with both magstripes and chips. You use the chip where it’s supported, the stripe where it isn’t.)
> First, they will not contract this to some startup or anything, but instead the company that does the periscope will do it.

Wouldn't they contract Microsoft to do it, since it's their own design? Even by DoD standards, Microsoft is not a "startup".

I know that there are 360 controllers used in the field already (not sure about Navy). Even if they have different standards, what you're describing probably couldn't be done anyway; the periscope controller company is probably not equipped to do the beautiful consumer goods injection moldings and precision joystick assembly (and calibration). If they tried to do this, it would likely end up costing more, and as diabolical as I think the military procurement contracting process is, I don't think they would do this specific thing unless it saved money or appeared to save money.

What exactly is stopping them from working with Microsoft (who they already contract with all the time!); at most having a U.S. PCB run, and a U.S. IC tapeout (IBM, Intel, ...), and calling it a day?
I'm not sure I agree that morality can be distilled down to trust.

I do agree that it's difficult to objectively codify morality, but I don't think that it's fair to say that what the majority consider to be "moral" is necessarily correct, an easy example being slavery.
Right but we're working with incomplete information. Who mandates the use of those pumps? Are better, more secure pumps available? Do the gasoline suppliers mandate that certain pumps are used? etc. etc.

So it's not clear that these things are purely under the gas stations control and that a simple fine would solve the issue.

Alternative solutions might include:

1. Mandating stronger security certification of public facing card readers.

2. The police more aggressively prosecuting these offenses (raising the cost to criminals who are caught and making the offense less profitable).

I don't have complete information, so it's not clear to me which solution is best. But it doesn't seem obvious and simple.
If there was a way to get access to all articles published that would create an even larger demand, and subjective value of, single-publisher subscriptions like the NYT.

People, including you and me, don't want to have access to everything, they want choice access to the "best", chosen by a reputable entity.
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I'll agree with consumption not being punishable but a medically treatable issue.

Misditribution (illegal distribution) of controlled dugs (not over the counter) should be punishable --whether they be doctors who knowingly over prescribe or black market sellers (drug dealers).
Why not just simply ban cars from cities in general? Most of the cities in Europe at least have a great public transport setup. Just imagine how much space used by parked cars would be available to public again!
I wrote my own curry using the pareto principle - this works for 80% of my use cases (or more):

const curry = (fn,b) => (a) => fn(a,b);
Then regulate the effect level, e.g. "no hematocrit above 55" or whatever the safe level is. This is actually far more safe because now a wide swathe of otherwise undetectable molecules with similar effects (such as altitude gene agonist EPO alternatives) that would otherwise have been abused are controlled as well.
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Make the periscope report to the controller that it's an Xbox.
I'd love it if I didn't have to pay a doctor to have him write the insulin prescription I need. Last time I had medical professionals manage my insulin was when I was hospitalized (they don't like allowing self administered drugs in hospitals.) They almost killed me. Twice my blood sugar dropped to 25 mg/dl. Eventually they gave up and told the nurses to administer the insulin I asked for.
I assume when a gas station operator becomes aware of either a skimmer or a gas spill they remove it.

I guess in both cases what they can do to prevent those things from occurring at all is limited. Is anyone arguing that they don't monitor for skimmers on a regular basis? It's just that the criminals keep putting them back.
I am too, since I read TFA and it says -- twice, I think -- that they weren't.
After Irma, a Mystery: Where Did Washed Ashore Canoe in Florida Come From?
Why not? How is it more fair for young athletes to realize dejectedly that they have no chance at beating their lazy friend no matter how hard they work? (I speak from personal experience, so maybe some bias).
South Korean Navy recently retrofitted their Type 209 and other submarines with digital camera based pericopes, replacing traditional periscopes.

When the South Korean Navy procurement office requested proposal from traditional periscope manufacturers, the quoted price was astronomical.

S Korean Navy said no thanks and had local manufacturers develop/test/manufacture a new digital camera based periscope at a FRACTION (like 10% ?) of the quoted price from traditional manufacturers.
Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry
I've noticed xbox style controllers are very common in the military now. I'm thinking it's a generational thing. It wasn't that long ago that you would have seen a big joystick covered in buttons serving this purpose.
Rust with a CPU dispatcher offers the opportunity to get beyond the raw busy-wait and basic interrupt handling of Arduino-type code without going all the way to a full Linux system. That's what I'm getting at here.
This, I don't consider myself a vindictive person, but financial vultures need to be punished.
Microsoft to Hold Mixed Reality Event on October 3rd in San Francisco
The main reason we won't get decriminalization is moral panic. :( But if we did...

There are still better and worse ways to make drugs available. Same as with alcohol, addicts doing high volume are where the money is -- and it's better to design regimes that prevent commercial actors from abusing vulnerable populations. Mark Kleiman has a lot of great stuff to say on the subject.
My Mobile AR Startup Died So Yours Doesn't Have To
Hang on, what about Wi-Fi positioning? That would give the correct location data regardless of GPS.

Either this kind of tech doesn't work in Russia for some reason, it hasn't been enabled for some countries, or this is a nice piece of undisputable proof that Google, Apple, etc really do have high-level ties.
"scientific consensus"

I am very troubled by this phrase -- it's almost an oxymoron. Science is not democratic, and scientists aren't anointed arbiters of facts.

Anyone can be a scientist simply by following the scientific method and collecting data in good faith; and a lone outsider with new data can challenge 100 years of "consensus". Obviously they are subject to challenges themselves, or if it's unlikely enough they might reasonably be ignored (e.g. a known charlatan saying they observed cold fusion).

Did this terminology start with the "scientific consensus" on anthropogenic climate change (which I do not dispute, by the way)? I think I understand why it was used in that debate, but I don't think it was a good precedent. Now it's being used to directly apply to policy ("growing scientific consensus on the failures of the global war on drugs").

Before long, it will be used directly in political debates to try to force some scientific organizations to choose a side. And then all credibility is lost.

Researching policies that require deep analysis of scientific (or other) data should be left to think tanks or something similar.
> and it's better to design regimes that prevent commercial actors from abusing vulnerable populations.

Unless we're looking to apply the law inconsistently based on some arbitrary prejudice of "vulnerability", this would seem to be basically what we're already doing. Any decriminalization approach which criminalizes access for addicts almost defeats the purpose according to your own rubric.
"Hacking for Defense" is a step in this direction
E.g
http://hacking4defense.stanford.edu
Agreed. Kleiman's work is great!
On televisions. Most 4k TVs and the increasingly common 4k streaming boxes support 4k playback for the major services that offer it (basically Netflix and Amazon AFAIK).

I don't know if this has much to do with DRM, or if it's just a matter of supporting HEVC.
How did you discover Kleiman's work? I read his 'Marijuana Legalization' over the weekend, and have previously read his 'Drugs and Drug Policy.'
I would be outta there.
I guess there's no way to know for outsiders, but I've heard SpaceX buys a lot from McMaster-Carr. Parts for rocket itself or other tools used to build/test rockets? I have no idea.
That's not actually measuring the "effect". If your goal is to level the playing field to some sort of effect, you need to somehow balance that the effect of, say, a given hematocrit level will have a different effect in different people.

There's a difference between discussing this from a morality point of view and another from a practical point of view. A game needs to have rules—that's inherent it any game or contest. Those rules can be made for any number of reasons, which can be practicality (this is something we can measure) or safety (we don't want to encourage dangerous behavior), tradition, or whatnot. Morality or ethics come in with respect to abiding by the rules or the spirit of the rules, not generally the rules themselves.
Not really. The thought crossed my mind but I figured it'd just be more of my time being spent. I can make more money. My time is a finite commodity. I'd rather waste it on fun things.
Yeah, as much as I agree with the policy position, I detest the "scientific consensus" speak. It's exactly the slimy approach to engaging the public which has made something as straightforward as climate change controversial.