skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you bothered to Google before posting, you'd see more than a single data point.

Voat was targeting with a letter writing campaign saying they were a child porn host when they weren't. All the liberals said "if you don't like Reddit, make your own." So someone did. And then liberals DDoS'd it into the ground and had any ISP that dared host them, filled with DMCA and child porn notifications.

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have all worked against anyone who dares question the status quo. Not "nazis", normal people. But surely the creator of Dilbert is a threat to the nation and worthy of retribution, right?

I guess you guys are only for regulation and fairness when it suits your cause...
So.. could this problem solve itself over time? I always felt ageism was due to the fact that the field was young and was growing so fast that it kept the age of the workers lower on average but that will change. That chart of companies shows correlation between company age and average employee age, they will all slowly go up overtime.
realized that after the fact....

The rhetoric of today and with people framing their opponents as the vilest people on earth, I just have a tough time with anything but absolutes on infrastructure decisions.

Of course, proper legal authority within their proper jurisdiction must be respected. I might disagree with a couple of court decisions, but a business needs to deal properly with those and I would never fault a business for that.
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Thank the sneezer instead. If they wonder why you thanked them you can thank them for the aerosol of bacteria and crud they sent your way.

In east Asia it's customary for sick people to wear masks to avoid spreading disease via coughing or sneezing. A practice that ought to be adopted everywhere.

I know I'm promoting a passive-aggressive strategy which is also social corrosive, but it's a way of spreading (!) the meme. And don't say "Gesundheit" because you think "bless you" is religious -- saying Gesundheit is simply non-denominationally superstitious.
From the comments on the blog post.

eastdakota: "We plan to support live streaming. We're gathering data on how people would prefer to do streaming. As soon as we figure out the best way to support the greatest number of use cases we'll add it to live to Stream."

Definitely really interested to know what they are thinking of doing. Potentially a customer if they do it right and much cheaper than the competition!
According to http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2...

Suicide attempts using a firearm result in death 86% of the time; ingestion of drugs or poisons with the intent to commit suicide is successful less than 2% of the time.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic. It's a challenge for all SaaS products I believe but yes, the more business critical the product the more important to address.

Apart from self-host and open source, do you have other suggestions on how to address this on a product level? Would you feel comfortable with structured exports for example?
I'm mostly one of those people, but I still often lug the DSLR because even the best smartphone cameras still suck at shooting distant subjects. They may have a lot of megapixels, but the lenses and sensors are so small that once I crop the shot down I end up with something I would be ashamed to even post on Facebook. Even the cheapest DSLR kit zoom lens produces dramatically better images.
The interesting part about the smart for me was insurance and taxes. I don´t know where you are from, but in Germany there are some twists to that.

As a young driver you have to pay premium charges to the insurance companies, like five to six times of the normal price if you are an unexperienced driver. Cars which are "unpopular" (especially with young people) are also cheaper...

Due to the small engine, taxes are also very low for smarts.

All in all this made up for the rather high gas use...
> To counter both digital and physical spoofs, the TrueDepth camera randomizes the sequence of 2D images and depth map captures, and projects a device-specific random pattern.

I await some interesting articles featuring IR imaging after the X ships.
This is a secondary issue. Lots of shitty DNS hosts do not immediately start serving the new records when you push an update.
If you play poker for fun and win some money while you're at it, are you working?

What about slots?

What about buying antiques, and you wind up with something worth a bunch of money?

I think calling it work requires the intent of earning money. And I agree that MMM is no longer retired.
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How much research have you done on the Ataribox? I decided to indulge, its been a while since I brushed up on the history of Atari. Ataribox is apparently being driven by the people that own the Atari brand and assets. Despite many years of turmoil and failed business surely owning all of Atari's assets puts this company at a slight advantage over the ones that have come before it with console offshoots. If all it is, is a legal Atari emulator with "a large back-catalog of Atari classic games"[1] then I can't see how you can reasonably compare it to other brand new console startups without a rich history in the game industry and highly valuable assets.

1. https://atari.com/news/atari-reveals-more-details-about-atar...
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Similar problem here: searched for "CFD" expecting to see hits related to Lorena Barba's excellent intro-level fluids courses and instead got hits for "CAD", "CFT", and "CFP".
> Happily, not one of those bugs could actually be escalated into an actual exploit. In each case, Rust's various runtime checks successfully caught the problem and turned it into a controlled panic.

This has been more or less our experience with fuzzing rust code in firefox too, fwiw. Fuzzing found a lot of panics (and debug assertions / "safe" overflow assertions). In one case it actually found a bug that had been under the radar in the analogous Gecko code for around a decade.
Non-stigmatizing camera seems pretty easy.

This guy frequently gets into battles with scientologists and the LAPD

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheEndOfScientology

all the time they make him put away a phone or digicam, but nobody seems to notice he is wearing a body camera.
Not computers which focus on gaming.
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to be upset at Apple for breaking a recent app when they update their OS?
Well, there are plenty of people here guessing at who might have done it. I cannot provide any proof. I didn't say that I think they did it. I was just pointing out that the current list of parties to consider: The Chinese, the Russians, the CIA, is incomplete without including anti-communist Cuban ex-patriots. I don't need to provide proof in order to consider a possibility.
Let's not lump all "tech workers" together. I worked at Google in my mid 40s, and I think the median age in my work group was 40s, and in my division was 30s. But we'd see lots of younger folks when we'd go to lunch the next building over. It is the same in my group at Netflix. In my late 40s, I'm close to the median age. In the cafeteria, we're some of the oldest.

I guess the best advice for staying relevant is to find a niche that still has some future where you're an expert in your field. And get lucky, very lucky. There are a bunch of us in our late 40s / early 50s that were heavy BSD/Linux kernel contributors who are still relevant, even though we code in C like its 1995. I think this is similar to some folks from an older generation who wrote the COBOL that a lot of enterprises still run on.

BTW: Isn't the cutoff for greygler was 50? I seem to remember being too young to join when I was in my mid 40s.
No, any kind of biometric auth is vulnerable to the adversary forcing your physical compliance.

However you can disable TouchID and FaceID both by pressing the power button five times in quick succession, after which it will require your passcode.
general philosophy seems to be if you are 50, and you haven't made your millions, you can't hack it. clearly the exception would be if you are legendary programmers/computers scientists who were too busy being brilliant to chase the money (though I suspect they are still more wealthy then your typical 50 year old corporate middle manager).
The same CEO that also happens to be marketing a new product?

Do you really believe that all statements made by CEOs should be accepted without question?
@dang What's a good way to run a poll without abusing karma. Throwaways?
My comfort zone with regard to frugality is much less extreme than MMM's. Probably nearer Dave Ramsey's part of the spectrum.

I like the MMM blog because it's a good source of concepts/tips to try, but you don't have to treat it like gospel. For example, the DIY home maintenance and investing tips resonate with me, but the "rewards credit card" not so much.
Are you saying that you think Gorman has actually invested in Bitcoin, but he lied because he didn't want to make it seem like he was touting his book?
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Can you link to the thread?
The big car manufacturers put a lot of effort into making efficient engines.
It's common for people to get stuck below or near the poverty line. It's difficult to save for a house down payment (much less build up the credit to get a loan for the rest) when you're struggling to pay for rent, bills, and food. Ignoring this cycle is missing the reality for many, many people.
The android, kindle, and iOS versions of their app are developed on separate forks.

The web SDK also doesn't require play services, which is why, when combined with the fact Amazon did not say play services is the reason they don't support chromecast, it's a red herring to be focused on devices and play services.

Amazon made the decision to force users to use their own proprietary streaming service, and then dropped competing streaming devices from their store.
I cannot understand the lack of linguistic empathy in this kind of reply; many commenters are clearly using the term "identity theft" with a precise meaning, basically to descibe when somebody else is able to impersonate you. answering by a dictionary lookup of the words definition is entirely offtopic in my opinion.

And calling for a name to be changed is different from criticizing people who use it, some concept need to be expressed and sometimes the only way to meaningfully express them is with an improper term.
You kinda got a response already, but:

Socialism was born from the belief that democratic forms of government aren't possible so long as there is wealth inequality, as the rich will simply hijack the government to serve their interests. Socialism, then, is a large bucket of political beliefs all concerned with different methods by which to keep a vibrant economy, while ensuring that all people are relatively equal, or at least equal enough monetarily that the government can be truly democratic, for some definition of democracy.

Communism was born of the belief that the previous type of society was not possible to achieve without an organized group taking the reigns and instituting such a society. But of course, people rarely step down from power once achieving it, so instead you usually wound up with small groups of people dictatorially running countries and doing as they pleased, in the name of 'socialism.'

Free market ideology is born of the belief that decentralized economic planning is a way of bringing enlightenment thinking to economic matters, and, more simply put, that thousands or millions of people making small economic decisions will ultimately be more efficient, fair, and rewarding for society as a whole than small groups of people attempting to make such decisions for everyone on their behalf, from far away (literally, or metaphorically).

In this analogy, the author is implying that capitalism is similar to free markets, as communists are to socialism. A small group of people, who acting in the name of the previous ideology, ultimately come to concentrate power among themselves at the expense of everyone else. These people paying lip service to the original ideology they were supposed to be a part of, while actively acting against it and ensuring it does not exist for the wider population.
This is great, and I can't wait to see the accuracy and speed of the faceid unlock firsthand.
Yeah, I live in Houston and can totally see what you mean. I think I could reasonably get down to 30k and be pretty comfortable. I let lifestyle inflation hit me harder than it should have and that's what I'm dealing with now. I make better decisions than most, but not optimal decisions. (eg. I bought a car for 14k on an almost 0% interest loan, but the optimal choice is to not buy a car at all. The average choice is probably buy a more expensive car with a bigger interest rate loan) As I get older I realize the compounding sub-optimal choices really make a huge difference. I'm going to take your advice and really break down what my goal is and what my spending habits must be in order to hit that goal. It's definitely closer to FI at 40 than RE at 30, but at this point I'm not even sure I'll hit that.
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And you did not even mention the biggest difference to the conventional model: those ads would be indistinguishable from regular content on the network level. Good luck trying to get an ad blocker to remove your personalized "message from our sponsors" from the picture of a kitten you wanted to see when it is watermarked right into the JPEG.
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one of the things that irks me about (consumer) banks is that they've somehow convinced consumers that they should pay for banking services, instead of the receiving returns for loaning the banks money (which is what a checking or savings account is).

some of this is due to a lack of financial literacy on the part of consumers (financiers know that loans should come with an interest rate, not a charge for the privilege of loaning the money in the first place, but consumers on the whole apparently don't).

but there is also a regulatory mechanism exploited by consumer banks: FDIC insurance. without insurance, people are understandably reluctant to loan money to banks since they don't know if they'll get the money back. so the government (again, understandably) steps in and guarantees with tax dollars that you'll get that money back, even if the bankers are crooks. but of course, that means the government must try to tease out the crooks with a stringent set of tests and regulations around who they'll insure. and just like that, you have an anti-competitive choke point where incumbent banks use the regulations to guard against future competitors by keeping the regulatory barrier high.

(this is just another example of the financialization via insurance that you elucidate)

also, use cash. it's transaction-cost free, anonymous and universally accepted.
CloudFlare is entering a very crowded space. With YouTube and Facebook owning an overwhelming majority of video hosting market, what’s left is shared between Brightcove, The Platform, Ooyala, Bitmovin, Vimeo, Vidyard, Wistia and a whole ton of smaller players and in-house solutions (ffmpeg -> _any cdn_ -> video.js).

Surely, this piece of the pie is not as big as many had hoped for, but there’s definitely more than a 1000 companies that think their video content is worth a better platform than YouTube or Facebook, however they define “better”.

What’s the deal with ‘lossless compression’? I feel like they use the term very differently from how the industry uses it.

Multiple resolutions, adaptive bitrates, dynamic packaging for different versions of HLS/DASH/Smooth are pretty much a must-have for any video solution these days, free or paid.

It’s amusing to hear an argument that CDNs are hampering adoption of better video compression from a CDN company. However, while Akamai surely would love to bill for more bytes per minute of video, no one is asking them. They just distribute whatever and however many bytes origin server has for them (give or take some convenience features around it).

CDNs are scrambling to provide compelling features to increase stickiness, usually with limited success when it comes to video. Bandwidth-heavy customers do want to take advantage of rapidly commoditising technology and falling prices and are pushing for multi-CDN strategy.

Using correct terminology and customising stock Bitdash player would have helped at the start of such ambitious endeavour. Good luck to CloudFlare and congrats to Bitmovin.
Why aren't people upset with Apple for breaking a new app with an OS update? Unless Bria is using, say, private API calls, why is the burden on them to update their app every time Apple releases an OS update, and not on Apple to ensure backwards compatibility, especially when there is very little difference to the end user between the two versions of the OS?

You can still run Windows XP programs in the latest incarnation of Windows, 15 years later.
God for the amount of going around accusing others of being slaves and cucks and whatever you would think you'd all be a bit, y'know, stronger and complain a lot less
way more people that that have allergies
For the iPhone X it's hold both the power button and either volume button for 2 seconds.
Oh no worries, I might have come off a bit defensive there.

I think one of the clearest examples would be drivers -- they might be properly sandboxed by a good microkernel, but they are notoriously buggy/crashy/incorrect. If I remember correctly one of the Fuchsia team members told me that they were going to support drivers written in Rust, but I could be completely wrong.

Filesystems, the network stack, whatever horrifying systemd equivalent Fuchsia grows, etc. are all examples of things I would advocate for writing in Rust before focusing on the kernel. All of these things are still security/reliability sensitive, all still terrible by Rustacean safety standards in most OSes, and conveniently don't have to be built directly as part of the kernel when you're doing a microkernel.

Just spitballing, of course.
You misunderstand what we're talking about.

Having the rights to a show is not having a monopoly, as we're talking about them. If not every single cable company in the world is somehow a monopoly.

You can watch other shows.

YouTube has an effective monopoly on internet videos. Almost ALL user generated videos, apart from few niches.

They're using their dominance in one market to try and give themselves an advantage in another, which is usually illegal.

Amazon, on the other hand, have plenty of competition. From Walmart to eBay. In videos there's Hulu and Netflix and Now TV, etc.
Thanks. This is the first explanation of this Amazon/Chromecast situation I've seen that makes sense.
India doesn't have socialized medicine. It's still 10x cheaper.
I'm forty-eight, and it did take me much longer to find my most recent job than I anticipated -- on the order of four months. I really didn't have much luck until I started applying for early mode startups through AngelList. I can't rule out ageism as a contributing factor, but I'm much more inclined to think that ageism is an unintended side-effect. It looks to me like the biggest problem is that employers automatically exclude anyone who is not an exact fit to their requirements. And I think a big part of the problem there is that the first filter is now composed primarily of people who are professional hiring people (sourcers, recruiters, etc.) rather than professional software engineers.
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I think his tips were meant as an option. To be quite honest I'll be trying some of these, because it's not a huge amount of effort at all.
Good document, but I was really hoping they’d go deeper into how they tested some of the fraud detection stuff (masks, etc) or give us some statistics on the twin/family member issue.
I crashed with my smart once (hit a massive pole) and nothing at all happened. Those small cars are built around some kind of monocoque which keeps you safe.

The plastic obviously crashes but also absorbs energy just like some shock elements which every smart has...

After all it´s a very safe car.
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Range is hardly return-type polymorphic. It always returns the same things, you are just free to ignore them, i.e.

for k := range map { }

is the same thing as

for k, _ := range map { }

Would requiring the second version instead of the first actually be that much of an improvement?

The only true return-type polymorphism is type assertions, which is reasonable in my mind cause I don't think ignoring the "assertion failed" should ever be a logical thing to do.
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Yes, but it forces you to keep your state as data, and makes it much more clear how the data relates to the code.

But it does make for the same exact behavior.
Nice edit. Were the downvotes getting to you?
I doubt police will let a little thing like constitutional arguments keep them from forcing you to unlock your phone.

The best decryption algorithm is still rubber hose decryption.
Where the @*$% has this been all my life ??
> And for this reason it's incredibly difficult to get tax-free status

Churches still have it pretty easy, they are excepted from having to file for tax exempt status, don't have to file an annual information return. They are not required to obtain 501(c)(3) status.

Legitimate churches, that is. The IRS is free to question your status as a church but is unlikely to if, for instance, you are part of a recognized national church organization, or otherwise function as a regular church.
> The probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings that look like you as well as among children under the age of 13, because their
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distinct facial features may not have fully developed. If you're concerned about this, we recommend using a passcode to authenticate.

I was really hoping they'd provide the probability for identical twins, but maybe they don't have enough data to give a specific number on this (I assume most of their data comes from people without identical twins).
As I understand youtube allows large companies to automatically delete videos, without sending a DMCA? They have some kind of API where they can delete videos they think violate their rights so that Google has less administrative costs. This has backfired in the past as many videos were deleted that didn't actually violate any rights.
Assuming social conflict as well as physical health is a driver, the local peak at 2 makes perfect sense.
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Wonderful; we had some delays but it's back to full-steam ahead. I can't wait to get a hard copy too :)
Adam made an episode explaining medical costs and why it is so high. It will at least give you a different perspective into the system.

https://youtu.be/CeDOQpfaUc8

So adding on to the labor/fixed cost increase, prices are just inflated since insurance pays for them anyway. In India, people don’t really consider insurance for such routine work due to the hassle of processing the claims too.
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Are we really worried about being able to tell the difference between bad taste and advocating for genocide? I'm not convinced there's a gray area between those two.