skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That sounds like an infringement on the freedom of speech, in countries where it applies.

Bah, sounds as totally irrelevant to the "freedom of speech" as not allowing cigarette ads and other such things.

And of course not every country considers marketing drivel and fashion as parts of such protected speech worthy of freedom.

>It also seems ridiculously difficult to judge and enforce. The government would need to do periodic surveys of height/weight in the country

Which countries do already, and is not at all difficult (plus it's good information to have for medical, policy advice reasons too).

>prove data is correct

That doesn't make much sense as a separate "problem". They already gathered the data with a certain approved methodology. They don't need to prove they are correct any more than they do for any other kind of data the government measures and uses to determine law policy.

>set up an office that reads magazines all day, tries to judge the heights and weights of the people in the pictures by looking at them...

Or, you know, just sample and fine (or not). The same thing we do with restaurants and many other kinds of establishments and businesses. Health inspectors don't eat at a restaurant 24/7 either.

>EDIT 2: No seriously that would be quite funny. "Sorry Bill we can't do that feature on the Indian women's volleyball team, we got Shaq on the cover this month. We're over our height budget"

It's only silly if you exaggerate it for comedic effect or for slippery slopism. It can be applied with certain tolerances (which I already mentioned in my original comment).
Well, if you can’t see the road, there’s a problem in and of itself. Assuming good headlights, which I think you’d want in Iceland, and assuming modern road paints, it should work. If not, just stick a road light over it.
> The ones who don't pay up, you nag a few times, then send the note to a debt collector.

Doesn't one need to pay the debt collector? It seems like this wouldn't be too useful if many people owe a small amount of money.
I mean, primary and backup hydraulics are hopelessly intertwined on this systems diagram, certainly physically. Not sure how much that is going to help against parts flying into it.

Which is of course what happened in that linked incident below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

The three hydraulic systems were separate, so that failure of any one of them would leave the crew with full control, but lines for all three systems shared the same narrow passage through the tail where the engine debris had penetrated, and thus control surfaces were inoperative.
I agree, culture is part of the problem - the car culture. That and people have forgotten what real food looks like.
The article is only an edited excerpt from this paper: https://www.sitra.fi/en/publications/from-pause-to-play/#1-t...

The English used is somewhat odd, but I can forgive that considering the authors are Finns.
Black founders don't get enough funding because black VCs don't either
FIFA 18 Denuvo- powered game that has been cracked in less than a day
This bit of apocrypha is older than me, and never improves. At this point it’s almost part of a the almost religious ideology around some Libertarians.
A MacGuffin (a.k.a. McGuffin or maguffin) is a term for a motivating element in a story that is used to drive the plot. It serves no further purpose.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin

Never read the book so not sure how integral the technical details are to the plot. But this sounds like it could be excused as a mere plot device or by appealing to the Suspension of Disbelief.

I agree it would probably be wiser narratively and aesthetically to let our hero, the Cryptographical Expert, gloss over the technical details and just say to the pushy Head Bureacrat at some point early in the novel something like, "I could try to explain this to you but I don't fully understand it myself."

The less pardonable offense where Dan Brown's writing is concerned, both in my limited experience and as others in this thread have pointed out, is the lousy writing.
The part that made me put that book down was when he listed a bunch of encryption schemes and one of them was ZIP.
HN-NNTP gate, anyone?
Does it actually work?
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The thread you are linking to is a complete joke. The guy didn't see that the pricing was per host, even though it's written in big letters. His whole series of rant is ridiculous.
First, yes, being a 6'5" athletic model is NOT a skill. In fact, being a 6'5" anything is not a skill: it's genetics.

But even more so, whether it's a skill or not it's irrelevant. One is sports, the other is advertisement. We always have the ability to restrict one domain but not the other.
Maybe you don't always need to understand the problem to solve it. Understanding things is a luxury for us entertained thinkers.

Evolution comes up with solutions to problems, which is what happens every time a brain did not think about mutating that gene, which is almost all the time.

Instinct, behavior, habit and muscle memory are not thought processes, yet they seem to solve a lot of problems.
"Nice try of subverting the spirit of the law -- here's your 100K fine" -- see how easy it is?

(Also I'm not sure how pics of the "top 100" staff of the magazine will fix an already skewed distribution in the models shown. Assuming the top 100 staff follow the regular population distribution, the skew will still be there after adding them).
Me too, I don't see how something that assumes a lot of good faith is going to work when many countries have trouble with popular support for their current restrictive and measurably effective programs. The only way I see it happening is with some sort of sovereign wealth fund. But that usually requires control of a resource or technology. Which most countries don't have anymore and probably won't have for many decades.
Catalonia independence vote IT systems 'shut down'
Oh boy, as a Black guy I'd like to be able to flag this comment alone. This accusation is racist and criminal.
Financially, yes, economically, not necessarily. UBI greatly reduces the marginal value of the money you get from the job (since it's no longer the difference between paying for basic necessities or not), and since jobs have a cost, even if it's non-monetary, UBI may tip the balance against taking it.
Yeah I think it is hard to explain scandinavia to people as it is both extremely indiviualistic and group oriented. The collectivism in Scandinavia is not quite like in asia, although there is some overlapping. My own experience with asian culture is that it is far more paternalistic and top down. Scandinavians tend to be extremely anti-elite and anti-hierarchy while at the same time placing a large trust in government.
If we’re swimming in relevant anecdotes, why is it always this same apocryphal crap version which is always spread? Maybe the difference between the stories you would collect and this story, is that the stories you would collect would have more than one side to them...
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Same here, did not experience performance issues with firefox despite having several hundred tabs open at all time. I do have decent hardware, but having noscript and an adblocker does wonder to keep the browser smooth.

Maybe it's different under windows ?

When a client calls me because his browsing is slow, it was usually caused by a malware ridden computer not by firefox.

On the other hand, running chrome often felt slower for some reason and the rest of the time both were comparable speed.
The best definition ICO - by KEVIN ROOSE NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/cryptocurrency-b...

Imagine that a friend is building a casino and asks you to invest. In exchange, you get chips that can be used at the casino’s tables once it’s finished.

Now imagine that the value of the chips isn’t fixed, and will instead fluctuate depending on the popularity of the casino, the number of other gamblers and the regulatory environment for casinos.

Oh, and instead of a friend, imagine it’s a stranger on the internet who might be using a fake name, who might not actually know how to build a casino, and whom you probably can’t sue for fraud if he steals your money and uses it to buy a Porsche instead.

That’s an I.C.O.
I think it's vital to keep in mind the setting of A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks when discussing it. The law is presented both as a result of, and a way of maintaining the large class divide in 1930s small towns like Jante: Calvinist work ethic and a lack of upward mobility festering into resentment for other working-class people.

This is why I'm a little skeptical of attempts to invoke it for modern Scandinavia (especially since it's become somewhat of a rhetorical bludgeon used in favor of tax cuts)
I think you do not understand the tweet (it means that the various agencies listed had responded and were in the act of responding - '3- "Then, after every department reported their activities and projections,
it was time for the White House to issue their report."' - but specifically the office of the president had nothing planned). I don't know why one would be skeptical of that. The President's public activities after it made landfall on 9/20 were 1) the infamous Alabama rally for Luther Strange 2 days post-landfall 2) a weekend tweeting against NFL 3-4 days post-landfall, continuing into the next week 3) taking 7 days to issue a temporary waiver for the Jones act (after shipping industry comments) 4) and now he is on vacation golfing ... it's very obvious where his mind is. Here is a Twitter source supporting that: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump. One supportive tweet the day of landfall, then nothing until 5 days later that when he said, "Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble." (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/91247827450842316...). It's 6 days in his timeline after landfall before he realizes it's an issue for him.
There is an analogy here to the slippery-slope of attention-getting ads on the Internet. Once upon a time an ad was just a static (not even animated) banner of a certain size and shape. 468x60 was one of the earliest, IIRC. Advertisers invented new formats ("skyscrapers", "xl-leaderboards", "300x250", and so on), and also they got animated, and then they started expanding outside their areas, and so on; each new ad temporarily performed literally dozens of times better than the previous due to shock value.

A year or two after a new, more intrusive format became ubiquitous, its performance would fall back to the old format's, and, worse, the old format would fall even further because it was too subtle. So in the long run, the money would stay the same, but the pages got uglier, formats got crazier. The game theory is clear: everyone is incentivized to upgrade to the new formats, but once there, no one is better off (neither the publishers nor advertisers), and the readers themselves are far worse off.

We're seeing this now with traffic signals: if every crosswalk in the world is replaced with this 3D version, we'll see a temporary boost in safety, but in the long run it may return to normal and in my opinion, our world will be uglier. I don't like our public spaces covered in optical illusions.

In my area I've started to see red lights that are so bright you are temporarily blinded at night if you look at them. And they've even begun attaching strobing white LED's to the center of some of them. I would guess these perform great in short-term studies. Just like flash ads with games in them.
Well, here's a quote from your link that shows that governor Cuomo didn't veto it because he was in favor of putting innocent people behind bars. He actually just wanted the law to be even more clear:

"In response to the Governor’s objections to last year’s bill, this year’s bill removes “centrifugal force” from the definition of a gravity knife and adds “solely” to create a bright-line definition that even overzealous New York City law enforcement and prosecutors can understand, as desired by the Governor. It would preclude the unconstitutionally vague “wrist flick” test that has resulted in over 60,000 arrests and prosecutions in New York City which the Governor himself described as “absurd” in vetoing last year’s bill on New Year’s Eve."
I'd argue the move to distributed p2p databases (blockchains) backing hardware is a move in a customer-friendly direction. If all your tiny devices can participate in a global p2p network, you no longer have to worry about the company that sold you 500,000 tracking tags suddenly going tits-up, leaving you with a ton of unusable hardware.

So, for my rant, I'd like to state it's frustrating to see people jump to yelling "hype" and "buzzword", instead of pausing for a moment and considering the use cases.
try https://www.jins.com/

I picked up two pairs, one in Taipei and one in Tokyo. The filtered one has been great so far; I have not experienced any eye strain. What a relief since I stare at the computer screen for at least 14 hours daily.

Caution: the filtered lens does affect color accuracy a little and makes the surrounding seems a bit darker.
Distributed lambda calculus would be fun to implement. Differential distance-based reduction cost to start with?
Yes but how well would the illusion work in headlights?
The new GitHub home aside, there's some cool stuff in XNU. The memory compressor, process hibernation, activity tracing, DTrace...worth poking through!
These 3d perspective drawings are much less convincing in real life than they are in images, because in real life we have depth perception and our viewpoint is constantly moving. This only looks good from that exact viewpoint.
Millions of Up-To-Date Apple Macs Remain Vulnerable to EFI Firmware Hacks
I don’t know I’ve read a lot of legitimate criticism of the show, basically that it’s continuing the same old whitewashing of the war.

Having read for example, how Noam Chomsky describes the Vietnam war, I have a very different perspective on it that what is promulgated in the mass media.

According to the show “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings”. It also inaccurately says the Gulf of Tonkin attacks occurred when there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary (Pentagon papers!)

I haven’t watched the show but I bet it doesn’t characterize the war as the invasion of South Vietnam by the US, which it plainly was, a old style colonial war to prevent a nationalist revolution and to teach the region a lesson in what happens to those who pursue and independent course.
Happens here, too. I work on big lawsuits for a living and I get down-voted on the regular when I comment on legal threads.
Poverty is where we all started from. Free market is the one responsible of the reduction of poverty in most western countries.

To see the result of tightly controlled market, check out Venezuela and the old Easter European communist regimes.
What kind of hardware and OS were you running when you experienced this ? My own experience over a number of different computers, years and settings is the exact opposite: chrome being less responsive or both being about the same.

At times firefox was slower but it always turned out to be due to a malware ridden computer or a combination of dubious firefox extensions. srware iron did feel faster than both iunder certain conditions though.
>It is meaningless to talk about the cat being dead or alive before looking. This is closer to what one might call a subjective Bayesian stance.

In actual classical reality, it's not at all meaningless to ask whether the cat is "dead or alive before looking". It might be uncertain, but it's not meaningless.

One might say "I think it's alive" and another "dead" -- and they have a chance to be right even before opening the box -- we'll just need to open it and see which was right ALL ALONG.

In quantum physics, on the other hand, in most interpretations, none of them is right before opening the box. If one says "the cat must be dead", and we open the box and the cat is indeed found dead, that person, wasn't right all along. He only became right upon the opening.

That's the whole paradox that Schrodinger tried to point out as an absurd result of quantum mechanics -- but which nonetheless is accepted by physicists not as a counter-example against QM, but as something still paradoxical that actually illustrates a key point about QM.
Wait... I just downloaded 57beta, and loaded CNN and USAToday, two sites with terrible video autoplay.

Immediately upon loaded CNN, my fan starts spinning up loudly (2016 macbook pro). When I loaded USAToday in another tab, I had to just quit FF because CPU was maxed out and laptop was overheating.

So...?
Puerto Rico's Complicated History with the United States
I don’t know if I like this rule, I’ve had some great political discussions on HN and I don’t see why we shouldn’t discuss it.

Many times I’ve seen posts removed for what I can only think are ideological reasons.
Chrome bundles the Flash Pepper plugin, but Adobe's Flash NPAPI plugin installer also bundled Chrome as an opt-out "make Chrome my default browser" setting. So a Firefox user downloading the Flash NPAPI plugin (for their Firefox) would, by default, end up downloading the Flash NPAPI plugin, Chrome, and Chrome's Flash Pepper plugin. If the user really wanted Chrome, they would have downloaded it instead of downloading Flash NPAPI plugin that works in Firefox and not in Chrome.
>Wozniak, Apple co-founder

>net neutrality

>Apple Siri promotes Google search engine in favor of Bing for billions of dollars.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-siri-google-bing-2017-9

lol. Good one Woz. You're a riot.
It is about scale. My country Norway was under Danish rule for 400 years, yet it was never anything like the oppression and brutality the Scottish and Irish experienced at the hands of the English. It is why despite Scandinavian having fought numerous wars agains each other, there is not much bad blood. None of the wars were really that terrible.

Telling was how Sweden and Norway fought when Norway declared independece in 1905. It did not last long because the Swedish king did not want to make Norwegians hate Swedes. Not the kind of thing that would ever have concerned and english king or people like Bismarch.
If there's too little cash, people will start hoarding and the economy will quite literally grind to a halt as people are reluctant to part with money.

Going back to bartering is a great way to induce a depression.
Oracle hiring more than 5000 cloud professionals in the US
It does? How can you conclude that without having inspected the missing parts?

It could be a manufacturing defect, it could be all kinds of other things including a design flaw, to conclude that it 'screams of bad servicing' without having any evidence on an incident that is not even a day old is jumping to conclusions.
This is fabulous, you need to post it somewhere more permanent :)
Seems to me you had a corrupted profile or you installed the wrond extension(s). Have you tried comparing both on a brand new user profile ?
A day and night difference on a fresh profile is unheard of, they should be comparable speed.
Health care costs are high in other western countries as well. They are just paid indirectly, from the much higher taxation level.
I wonder what those six years cost the taxpayer.
Yeah lots of variants of it too. I've heard it told in terms of nationalities too "In nation X they built a multi-million dollar sensor, in nation Y they just used a fan." In that format it's similar to the NASA space pens.
have you tried waterfox ?

Alternatively have you tried enabling smooth scrolling ?
If you oppose genercism, you cut the thread too late; it's the previous one that discusses large vs small communities ...with zero support or examples. The comment you refer to was the more specific one on that subject.
It should work, modern headlights are no joke, but I admit that I’m not sure. If you have enough light to perceive a broad range of colors it should work.
Very interesting, thanks for commenting.

I've seen papers where floaters and tinnitus are associated to lyme disease. It can also be linked to thyroid issues that have led to autoimmunity. Autoimmunity can be connected to food.

The weeks prior to my floater onset, I had really bad migraines and pain "behind" my eyes, close to the nose.

My floaters are permanent. Most seem to be. I also get occasional mild flashes, which are probably caused by little changes in pressure within vitreous regions close to my retina.
IIRC there's valves to contain such failures at regular intervals. And the electrical backup system can then provide some power in the cutoff sections. I'd hope that airplane designers learned a thing or two since the DC-10 (and have some additional tools to play with).
> You have to look at each individual and see how skilled they are by their work and their attitude.

And after you do this, then you have already " create another clearly delineated group".

And then how you communicate your finding to the rest of the team? This is the "skilled guy"? The "one that can do it?" And then how about the other that is not better?
The real space pen story is so much more interesting too! Of course the last thing you want in a spacecraft is graphite dust literally “pen testing” every system.
Are those numbers reliable? Cross-checking your link with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... would mean that software developers in Finland and Germany earn a bit less than the median wage. I don't believe that.
Ho Chi Minh admired the US and actually modeled his nationalist revolution on the US revolution, even using the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence in his own Declaration of Independence.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/vietnam/independence.pdf

The US initially supported his independence movement, during and just after the war, but then sided with the French suppression of it and started it’s long involvement in the conflict.
I don't care about firefox being faster, it has been fast enough for years. I care for functionality that i'm losing because extension are dropped, because features are dropped, because unwanted features are added. I care about my voice being heard and being dismissed with attitude. I care about privacy and freedom.

For these reasons I switched to waterfox.
Another way of looking at this story:

It took $8 million to take a problem that was only visible to the sales department -- empty boxes are hurting our image! -- and make it visible to the stakeholders who had the right insight to actually fix it -- the people on the production line.

That is it cost $8 million to move the pain point to the "right" spot.