skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt he saw the link being just a kid. It's pretty easy to slide into a situation where peer pressure is stronger than what an unprepared person can cope with. It's the reason why many people consume alcohol or smoke, it should be no surprise that it can be strong enough to get them to do things that are even more against their own interests. The need to belong is a strong one.

I consider myself very lucky not to have this particular trait, but even today (and I'm 52...) there is pressure on me to conform, to drink alcohol for instance. I really am not surprised at all that a younger person longing for a particular kind of company could be pushed to indulge.

So yes, he had a choice, but much further back than where the danger was visible, and to make it seem as if he chose willfully for the life of an addict is not very nice.
The real problem is that once again someone treated what should simply be an identifier to look up data as something more. Why not store all this information on the server that an authorized person can see when they scan a uuid on the boarding pass? Would they allow boarding of the network was down?
Makes sense; in the end, only experimental data could show how this works compared to the other mechanism, ie, that strains that aren't yet fully resistant, but have some genes that help resistance, are favored by a partial course, and thus have "time" to develop full resistance (especially if the patient then uses the same antibiotic again).
Or what about Google's Golang PATENTS clause?

https://golang.org/PATENTS
For HF have you looked at the upcoming airspy HF+? DC to 31 and 60 to 260 at 18 bit.

http://airspy.com/airspy-hf-plus/

Only disadvantage is possibly the 768k max bandwidth.
You wish. Plenty of them are fully cognizant they are addicts and still can't stop.

That's the whole idea of being addicted. It is a dependency at a physical level outside of any of your abilities to reason. Only very strong people make it out and almost always with assistance from the outside.
I finished up the APFS compatible version of the software way quicker than I thought I would, and was so happy and energized that as part of my release I whipped up a quick blog post about the experience.

Indeed it's pretty light on content, it's more just a nod to Apple for making this a painless process rather than an excruciating one, as well as an early relay of the experience to others who are going to upgrade who may be harboring some concerns like I was.

The marketing for this site sucks, the software has been around since 2011 and it has nowhere near the marketshare of its competitors because it sucks. If I were really some SEO genius (and you'll see the google rankings are terrible), then this would not be the case. In short, I wish I was the evil genius that you claim, but I'm not. I'm just a dev sharing his experience with the filesystem.

In regards to it not implementing the file copying tool directly - that is covered in the article. The fact that the file copying tool was compiled in 2015 and still works flawlessly is the whole premise of the article stating that it's impressive. And it being a _file_ copying tool is the part that _makes_ it impressive. You seem to have no idea how complex the metadata, built up over 30 years without a rewrite, on HFS+ is. Take a look at BackupBouncer and the associated blog posts to get an idea of the situation. It's pretty crazy.
Just to clarify in case someone assumes the same thing I did from the headline: it isn't the Facebook account that gets stolen, but the airline website account.
That can kill you.

And the fact that some manage does not mean that all of them could.
please don't focus only on technical details. digital currencies, btc in particular, are breaking the bank's monopoly of creating money. that's the real revolution. states and banks get into the topic of such technologies not because its better but because they see what may happen and they want to control the outcome.

there's high potential for people gaining freedom from the west's monetary system. but i'm very pessimistic about us getting this right and not loose "control" to state and corporate powers exactly like we did with the internet.
> Do you really think, that general populace's misuse of antibiotics could cause the development of resistant bacterial strains en masse?

Of course not. There's 7 billion people, and just a tiny percentage uses antibiotics.

There's around 60 billion land mammals raised by humans every year, throughout their life most of them use the strongest antibiotics. It speeds up growth, it prevents silly deaths, increases profit.

Diseases, plagues will come from livestock, as they always did, not from humans.
Even just minor deflation is disastrous for economies because if there is 3% deflation, you could get 100% of what was generally typical GDP growth for developed countries without spending any money to produce anything. This encourages everyone to be risk averse towards spending money on anything at all.

What are some real world examples of this?
Yes, I try to make the fake answer sound legitimate though

City you were born? Just pick any (random/unrelated) city instead of 2DXSDGREDV@#!

It's easier if you have to go through a person (which is usually forced to go through a script) also easier on the phone
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So can I. I just give you a piece of paper that says I owe you $1000, which you can use to buy things. $1000 was created out of nothing.
Jesus, are you serious?

Even tablets are 64bits nowadays...
Anyone else thinks this is just a Rotten Tomatoes publicity campaign?
On a slightly off-topic note, one thing I've always wanted to build and use is a web music player that plays and _syncs_ my own music collection.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way around the fact that web apps have no persistent access to the local filesystem, and thus would have to duplicate any locally stored music in browser-based storage in order to maintain its own fully synchronized library.

I can understand why this restriction is in place as a security measure, but it significantly limits the appeal of any web app that performs any kind of synchronization of files. I sometimes wonder if persistent filesystem access is really such a huge security risk for web apps that even asking for explicit permission grants from the user and limiting access to user-specified directories is not enough to make it an acceptably secure capability for inclusion in web browsers?
It's a cultural fit, most SV companies don't do suits, it's just not part of the culture. So if you go and interview with a company, and no one's wearing suits, it makes it look like you're not going to fit in if you are wearing one. It's almost seen as over compensating for lack of technical skills or knowledge by wearing a suit, at least that was my impression.
This is really fascinating how being really good at something often correlates with being less good at other things (in this case antibiotic resistance seems to be inversely proportional to the potency of the bacteria).

This is true not just for bacteria but also for other living creatures; for example animals that have lots of children have very short average lifespans.

It makes me think that every living species must be at the absolute cutting edge of its capabilities genetically-speaking.
I’ve seen people and business pages post Snapchat and LINE QR codes
These are "generalized careers" so they have to grasp at arbitrary cues that vouch for intelligence and competence. Careers that require specialized tasks don't look at generalized grade averages or test scores of non-relevant backgrounds like "French SAT" for a "hedge fund" job.
Don't think so, reading to the end:

But even a cursory look at recent Rotten Tomato ratings shows a tenuous relationship between the site’s ratings and actual box office. It has assigned a rotten rating to movies that have done well (The Hitmans’ Bodyguard, The Emoji Movie), and it affixes an overwhelmingly positive rating to a film that fared poorly (Logan Lucky).
The exception that proves the rule. They often show tiny women winning in tests of strength! It's ludicrous and insulting to the audience, almost as much as the wisecracking black guy stereotype. When was the last time you saw a black guy in a film that wasn't all tough/street etc?
A few people here are disappointed that this post is about a tool that uses rsync. But the "competitor" link is more interesting - it points to the makers of SuperDuper!, a tool that makes bootable external backups. A couple of highlights:

"...it's important to note that Apple still hasn't released any documentation on the "proper" way to create a bootable APFS volume. An example of what they have in mind was released for the very first time when the High Sierra developer release came out a few months ago, but that's it. We basically have to make an educated guess about what they want."

and

"In particular, Apple has further tightened its System Integrity Protection process, and is completely denying access to some files on the startup volume, even when copying to a non-startup volume.... But since APFS is, again, basically undocumented... what could that backup be missing?"

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/index.php/comments/news_on_...
It's not a direct result.
Also no it does not, if it makes matters worse. So if you ban heroin, price will go up, addicts need more money, plausibly the criminality will go up, not down. Which is exactly what happened.
The quality will go down and dealers/smugglers will optimize transport costs by using more effective and deadly drugs like fentanyl. So now the ban is directly harming the population of addicts, their relatives, and even first time/ recreational users.

And alcohol, no stranger to huge amount of crime, is still legal. As it should be, but this perfectly shows the hypocrisy around drugs.
Chrome used to "honor" the backspace key means navigate backwards so much that if you hit tab (changed focus) while typing a textbox then hit backspace it would nav back and lose all your text. Made me cry so many times.
Facebook has a billion users. To think that anything someone does there is the first or only time it happens is probably incorrect.
yes, the direct interaction with the CRT involved in creating the images is essential here, the CRT isnt just displaying some framebuffer esque type image, its central to the actual resultant effects itself, this device would not function without a CRT.
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I do this too, some phone number checks and email checks are surprisingly good.
I agree that there's higher level of empathy, especially when you are talking with people who are accepting of the "humans are not rational, nothing means anything" philosophy that is needed to handle things like mental disorders.

There does end up being a lot of suffering comparison when there's confrontation of biases though. "That might affect you sometimes, but my thing affects me all the time" or the like.

I bet a lot of us would not consider "discrimination through elitism" to be a real problem but have probably seen people be scoffed at for watching Big Bang Theory or something.
Your worry is not unfounded, but it also implies trust in the current system. Just because it's done by humans not by software doesn't mean there are no bugs or mistakes made.
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Please tell me whatever carbon-emitting white country you live on to make you think you have the moral superiority over my people?
Bitcoin is not fiat.

Fiat means "by decree" or "by authority". Fiat money is money that is decreed into existence by some authority, that is, the government. This is done through legal tender laws.

Bitcoin is not created by the enactment of some law by some authority. Fiat does not mean "by consensus", or "by mathematics". Saying code is decree, and therefor fiat, is sloppy thinking.

Bitcoin may have much in common with fiat, but that does not mean that it is fiat. It is, by definition, not fiat.

What gives Bitcoin value is not government decree, but its utility [1]. And that is somewhat paradoxical, because the more people hoard it the less utility it has. And the more its used to buy and sell goods, the more utility it has, and the more value it has.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/what-gave-bitcoin-its-value/
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There are procedures in place in case the network is down. I have flown with hand-written boarding passes multiple times in the past (they even had special cards for that situation laying around). On the other hand there were flights that were grounded as there was some network malfunction. I guess it depends on the specific problem they have.
The problem is not barcodes and it is not Facebook. The problem is airlines with security systems that went out of style in the 90’s.

You don’t print a paper with all the information you need to hijack accounts. You don’t use ‘secret questions’. You don’t treat birthdays as secrets. You don’t use a number as a secret if it’s on the ticket.
Have any that you backed succeeded?
The search space for city names is tragically finite.

There are ~35,000 cities and towns in the U.S., but if you start weighting those by populating (and birthing hospitals and centres), you're going to reduce that count considerably.

https://www.reference.com/geography/many-cities-united-state...
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In the UK Uber (and other private cab companies) keep being sued for not taking wheelchairs or dogs, or trying to charge extra for doing so.

Here's an interview with a woman who got uber drivers prosecuted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0783lhl

Here's another article about the same woman: http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/19/blind-woman-repeatedly-turned-...

A different case: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-30523449

And another: http://metro.co.uk/2011/02/28/blind-yvonne-saint-john-guide-...

Uber is far from unique in refusing service dogs or wheelchairs. It seems the rules are more clearly explained to regulated taxis than they are to less regulated minicabs.
The most advanced platform for Ponzi schemes, then?
> That's not even to get into the main point, which is that you don't need to run the pathfinding algorithm every frame and that most of the time it actually isn't an issue.

Irrespective of any other criteria, the algorithm implemented here is wrong. It's not A* but an inferior best-first derivative with much worse complexity. Anyone using this code and making face-value assumptions about its performance is in for a rude shock. The difference between O(nlog(n)) and O(n^2) is huge in practice. At the very least they should rename the class to avoid misleading potential users.

isn't just suffering from a poorly implemented A but employing
A more realistic one
Housing + utilities 50K
Medical insurance + deductible exp. 16K
Food 20K (will not be good food)
Cell service/internet 2k
So no car no vacation
and around 1K/ month for stuff and all other expenses
Once you have that first batch of data couldn't you forge the last deposit by depositing a small amount of money? After that you'd know when it happened and how much it was.
In Japan they still allow smoking in restaurants, and it's really common to complain about the smoke stench that ends up on clothes or your bag afterwards.

I can admit to mostly liking cigarette smell, but I'm not a fan of carrying around the smoke on my body afterwards. Especially in smaller restaurants where there's just no escape.

It's like people listening to music without headphones. I might like the beats, but other people might not. The easiest thing to do is ask people to think of others
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Kids can die on their first use of a horse or a bicycle. Or any subsequent. With higher probability than lots of illegal drugs.
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> A few years ago, I started challenging people at work when they were trying to pull in the latest language/library/toolkit, with a simple question. "How does that help our customers".

I take a similar approach. Anyone trying to win my vote has to prove what is the business value of adopting technology X.
This is very accurate. Thanks.
> I receive my salary in bitcoin based on spot price tied to USD

Why would you want that? Why not just receive USD, and buy BTC each month if you like the price?
If something is a security issue for 99% of users, the 1% will have to just accept it.

Case in point: app sandboxing. I, for one, don't want it, but it's everywhere.
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Here's one suggestion: don't rely on shill-account endorsement.
My involvement w/ Kubernetes over the last few years. I've always considered k8s co-led by Google and Redhat. It's not hard to find this out for yourself - just take a look at the Github and the mailing lists, it's all open. K8s changed dramatically with Redhat's involvement.
I similarly enjoyed that movie. It skimps a lot on the plot to provide the best action I've ever seen. The meat of the movie all takes place in one building and if you don't count the small pauses, is basically one giant action scene.
Instead of becoming a more or less of a clone of Facebook news feed for researchers, RG has become infuriatingly full of nag boxes, and in its efforts to get you use the website more prevents you from actually using it at all.
What if it turns out to be 70/30 or 50/50?

Stuff like this should be configurable or over-ridable, especially when it has legitimate uses.

There will always be a balancing act between features, security and usability, to ram the needle one way and to say 'tough luck' to everybody else is not a solution because then people will try to find ways around the block.
CNCF owns the Kubernetes project. Google provides a lot of resources, and so does Redhat. Both are heavily involved in k8s, and both contributed significantly to its success.
You can also keep your Time Machine disk disconnected during the upgrade so it won’t be touched by the installer. In my opinion not a bad idea anyway.
If one wanted to uncover criminal wrongdoing on the internet, the last thing one would want to do is lose the signal.

It won't stop the activity, it will push it to a place that is harder to detect.
Aren't all the variations of bar codes just a way to make it easy for computers to read things? What other utility do they have?

It's a hilarious perversion of the technology to use computers to blur the thing we created so computers could read.
Japan's the classic one - they've been stuck in a deflationary trap since 1990:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)

The Great Depression in the U.S. as well.

There's a possible counterexample with the Long Depression in the U.S:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

Here, prices fell slowly: 1-2%/year, caused by sharply rising productivity. The period was also called the Gilded Age, and it was a mixed bag economically. On one hand, the structure of American society dramatically changed through massive technological advance, consumer goods became abundant, and businesses who adopted those techniques became fabulously wealthy. OTOH, many small farmers went bankrupt and were forced to sell off their land to service debts they couldn't pay with money that was now more valuable than when they took out the debt. Ditto lower-class laborers, who were squeezed into tenements with dozens of families living together as their wages remained stagnant for a generation but their employers became fabulously wealthy and bought up much of the prime real estate.

The Long Depression is largely forgotten today (unless you're an economic history geek), but it was a prime impetus for the monetarist school of thought. The whole idea that the government needs to continually print money to catch up with rising productivity and availability of goods is largely based on the experience of the U.S. in the Long Depression, when they didn't print money.

Also, there's a good amount of evidence that our current period of history resembles the Long Depression a lot more than either the Great Depression or 1970s stagflation, and will play out in similar ways. I'd personally put us around the mid-1890s in terms of historical parallels.
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Zooming in and out and panning around a webpage is a terrible user experience in my opinion.
If you get a chance to take a look would appreciate any thoughts! The next steps I have in mind are to make it more standalone so people can sign in and get feeds reflecting their own profiles, a daily email summary, and perhaps reducing the number of filters/navigation options...

The goal is either to scale this up as a consumer app, or to make it a SaaS app for power users like journalists and marketers. Since the actual group of people it 'scans' to generate the feed is arbitrary and not limited to people you follow, I can make it work in 'reverse' (what are your followers talking about?) or on arbitrary lists (what are this years' Oscar nominees, or NBA players talking about?)

By the way I got the idea from this tweet from Chris Sacca: https://twitter.com/sacca/status/771856145195479041 which he elaborated on in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3cu4G9gqTg&t=34m15s
I suppose we should be overjoyed anyway. This update means that Google is not shutting Scholar down - at the very least, not today. Knowing their habit of axing products that do not quite attain civilization-level scale, it's always a grim possibility I keep in mind.
> It's bad enough that a few years ago here people were complaining that they would do a Show HN submission, and find a few weeks after that someone had taken their mostly completed idea, assigned a whole team of cheap developers to it and executed on it not only faster, but better.

Is this still a problem? Don’t PG and others say not to be afraid of others stealing ideas, and that ideas are worth little, and that it’s all about the execution? Makes me wary of sharing my almost complete idea.
I am not sure what was stolen exactly. If no source code was stolen, no users, no trademark, no trade secret. Only some ideas that were copied. Seems like Zuckerberg was inspired by this guy's site but grew facebook more shrewdly and without much attention to privacy issues.
I agree in regards to not fiat. How about the apparent utility it has as a store of wealth? If I was ultra rich I would store maybe 1% of my wealth in Bitcoin as a way to diversify my portfolio. Similar to gold, except for more wildly unpredicatable future financial scenarios.
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No, because at the least all three have different executable formats (PE, Mach-O and ELF respectively). I suppose it might end up being possible to ship some sort of HTML + WASM bundle that they all know how to interpret if it became common enough.
Another valuable coin missing from that list is Decred (DCR, https://decred.org/ ).

The on-chain atomic swap (no Lightning Network involved yet) was executed using Decred technology ( https://github.com/decred/atomicswap ) and was preceded by a DCR-LTC swap ( https://blog.decred.org/2017/09/20/On-Chain-Atomic-Swaps/ ).

(De)credit where credit is due. ;-)
Very good. Could you share some analyticts of your site? How many daily visitors? Average session time? It would be very interesting to know...
I think I've seen this in a movie before, perhaps we could even harvest their body heat for energy and hope they don't come up with a prophecy for a "one" to set them free.
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If/while you still can, you might as well just walk (or take a bus, they're great)! London is a beautiful city, with myriad hidden wonders that you just don't find unless you're on foot.

I've found myself in countless situations where the walk is maybe 10-15 mins longer than any available public transport (Uber included), so I've saved myself the money and taken a hit on a little bit of time.