skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrived anecdote: imagine a doctor going through med school being taught to socratically think about how and why various drugs have various effects. It will end up sidetracking you into the depths of microbiology to the extent that you'll never get out of that rabbit hole. At some point, a doctor needs to learn things like "X drug is recommended for Y condition" and just use that rote knowledge, trusting the appropriate authorities. Sure, they can and should be skeptical and critical-thinkers and learning to think socratically is super valuable, but you just can't do it all the time. No doctor can possibly understand all the actual medical details of everything they prescribe, and if they do, there's near-zero chance they still have time to practice all the social skills needed to be an effective practitioner and so on.
>To assert otherwise is not only cruelly ideological, but utterly unscientific.

Your argument is: Obese people need saving, we should pass laws to limit their choices so that they're not so obese. Do you have any evidence that obese people want their choices taken away from them? Should people not have the right to make choices about how their body is?

Claiming that you don't think the government should be in the business of controlling what people do to their own bodies is consistent with being pro drug-use decriminalization/(anti prohibition), pro euthanasia rights, pro abortion rights.

What 'bad' behaviors do you have that the government should tell you how to live your life?
WeWork's $20B Office Party: The Crazy Bet That Could Change How We Work
Roadies are also the first ones to get shafted in the new metric driven madness.
Yes and no. You are right it limits positive mobility. But there are really two kinds of people here. One kind expects to be handed success to them without them doing any work. It is correct to protect these people as much as possible. They'll probably still end up losing their money, though.

The second group of people know that they need to work, learn and plan to succeed. These are the people that may be slowed down by the regulation. But they are able to overcome any given set of static rules anyways, so it's only a slowdown at best.

In the end any kind of rules are not just there to protect the stupid, but also to establish the people currently at the top. It's selfish, but when you end up at the top, would you do it otherwise? I probably wouldn't.
5600 neurons ought be enough for any species.

--- Bill Gates 1982mya
Kinda infuriating when people assume sw is dead because there is no longer hype around it.
Vagrant is still alive and used. It still has its warts but it's a stable piece of software.
Not long ago they released 2.0.
Uber Searches for Harmony After Board Limits the Power of Its Former CEO
"Not sure why you're getting downvoted"

Because the truth hurts the value of Bitcoin. Bitcoin people have paid groups on many discussion sites to downvote any negativity. I'm almost sure the administration here allows it because vote manipulation should be easy to detect, and that's knowing how the vulnerable upvote/downvote system works.
I would point out that metaphysically speaking, we have no way of knowing if we are in a simulator. For all we know, the universe could be just the matrix. However it is self evident that our conscious thoughts and experiences exist. This indicates that there is a clear conceptual distinction between our consciousness and the material world in which it resides.

Consciousness is an incredible thing. Reducing it to a mere property is akin to pretending it doesn’t exist at all.
utm_source is set to 'HN', so the original poster did include it, or it would say something else.
I for one welcome our new monopolistic overlords.

Might I suggest cameras and tracking sensors to further optimize my luxurious company accommodations. /s
Magical Secrets of Chocolate Covered Strawberries
That's irrelevant. It's not a given you actually need to eat "fast-food". Many could do with changing their schedule a bit to eat more home cooked meals, or choosing healthier "fast food chains" than McDonalds.

In periods where I have lots of stuff to do, I make boxed lunches and dinners for the following 5 days on sunday. Takes a few hours, but then you have home-made fast-food for the following weeks workdays. You just have to choose some dishes that actually store great or you'll be sad. There's a subreddit for that, though.

Not eating at McDonalds or other fast food chains is only equal to not eating to the ignorant.

Also, since home cooked food in general are healthier, you'd quite possibly end up with less stress, feeling better and so on, which results in you having even more energy to eat great food that boost you instead of keeping you down, which traditional fast-food does by being unhealthy.
The distinction being made that I see is that a CEO of an organization has different expectations placed upon them than any other employee. So, this home vs. work separation makes sense in most cases, but not when it comes to the CEO role.
The linked anti-union article is more interesting than the original article IMO. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/silicon-valleys...

I would tend to agree with the tech-ie opinion that unions are becoming obselete in the US. Unions existed to protect workers who were unskilled and interchangeable; the endgame of tech is to automate all those jobs. But obviously I’m not a labor scholar and this is just an unfounded opinion.
Telecommuting employees are always harder to reach than the ones in the office.

And yes, I've heard of video chat.
Samsung's Emoji Adventures
Uh oh, you’ve triggered the vaping police!
Ahem... it's "flout".
> Will Starlink from SpaceX fix it?

If Starlink can drive costs into the ground, relatively speaking, we can talk about other factors. The capital outlay for a satellite internet setup is currently astronomical. This is the allure of the Facebook balloons - minimal expenditure per home.
That’s exactly why I think empirical models of consciousness fall short.
Kind of both. The world of emails works in mystical ways! It really depends on the admin. He or she might very well block .me etc. since no serious company is going to have a .me email.

A lot of admins do block something like .services.

Your best bet is to go with a tld that is also commonly used by companies.

Also, if this is important to you, you need to check if whois privacy is supported for a specific tld.
This is a masterpiece that made judges biased toward professional guardians:

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In 1995, he persuaded the Nevada Senate Committee on Government Affairs to write a bill that allowed the county to receive interest on money that the public guardian invested. “This is what I want you to put in the statute, and I will tell you that you will get a rousing hand from a couple of judges who practice our probate,” he said

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Sorry, but signing up for a "tour of duty" at this time would basically mean working for and supporting Trump. My morals won't allow that, no matter how much good you think you can do there.
We use Snowflake. It's been great. We use Fivetran for loading into it. For reporting, we use Looker.

We used to use Vertica + Tungsten. It was a brittle combo and also not well supported by HP.
We used to experience this exactly with stripe.js V2, our conclusion was it was some sort of connection issue and using this code to include stripe.js on both the checkout page but also our basket helped to ensure it has been loaded by the browser before it was needed. It massively reduced the instances of the error.

<script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"></script>
<script>window.Stripe || document.write('<script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"><\/script>')</script>
<script>window.Stripe || document.write('<script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"><\/script>')</script>
1. is not money, but any money-like value, I believe.

And if 4ths is big enough in your plan so you can't even argue it doesn't play a role, then you probably have a shitty business plan, I'd argue. The profit of course should come from selling some service or product.
It's not so much that the burden of proof is on the citizen, but that the burden of ongoing defence is.

In most cases, if there's a case of fraud, you file a counter, and (modulo various bureaucratic foulups), you're clear. The merchant almost always eats the cost, and that really should be changed, at least balanced with the financial institution.

The burden is more from the "death by a thousand cuts" variety of having to go through the re-assertion process again and again and again and .... I've been looking at attention and cognition mostly in the context of media, but the simple truth is that most of us are bombarded by all sorts of demands and claims, the dealing of with is an increasingly insurmountable burden.

I liken this to point-and-click computer interfaces. It's simple to graphically delete a few files or folders or message notifications. It's a slight chore when that rises to 20 or 30. At the level of a hundred or so items, most people would give up. With more powerful tools, it's possible to manage hundreds, thousands, even millions of items with dispatch. (Of course, that may increase the likelihood that you'll have to do so.)

Given the frequency of issues and the magnitude of them, presented through current financial and authentication mechanisms, even "easy" repudiation becomes untenable at scale.
The news is, that it finally landed!

https://feaneron.com/2017/10/03/improved-half-tiling-availab...
Computation doesn't continue, it segfaults.
Ask HN: What are your favourite tools that stood the test of time?
Nowadays most developers look for the newest shiny toys they can find. I understand this - usually I visit HN hoping to find something new to learn and use on my projects.

But as I grow older as a developer, I start to appreciate the "old school" tools. Some of them have been developed and improved for decades and the fact they are still here is a proof of their quality and adequacy. Here are a few of my favourites:

PostgreSQL
Emacs
tmux
regular expressions
From the Japanese people I know and have talked to, I don't think it's so much personal responsibility as it is societal pressure.

Being fat is looked upon as a bad thing in Japan, and people will let you know. Meanwhile, in the Western world, it's rude, even taboo to talk about people's weight.
Waymo is 100% going to lose this. Mark my words.
I haven't read the article yet, but just from the headline I'll bet it doesn't say "because Greece borrowed more than anyone could ever possibly repay". Not even as one of n reasons.
And that email information, and account, are managed where? By what authority? Protected and secured how?

Beware Maginot defences.
I think what many Americans fail to appreciate is that all the safety guarantees that come with deniability + lax security have a (pretty big) cost, one that YOU are paying in the end.

Like - US for a very long while didn't use chip & PIN - but it was simple to deny the transactions and as a consumer you were somewhat well protected, despite lax security. But this generates large costs, and perversely, the cost/uncertainty affects the small businesses the most.

Yes, when I use 3DSecure for an online transaction, the bank shifts the burden of proof to me (a correctly-authorized 2-factor transaction cannot be simply challenged with a complaint at the bank, I have to prove that it wasn't me). Still, it's hard to argue that 2-factor for online transactions is consumer-unfriendly, even if the consumer loses the deniability
I very strongly disagree with the "unskilled" part. I am not a labor scholar either, but unions serve to federate common interests of workers who may not individually have leverage against their employer or relevant regulation body.

Because your employer in tech can afford to give you a lifestyle easily in the highest couple percentiles doesn't mean you aren't replaceable and that you won't need representation as a class of worker at some point.
Advanced Engineering Mathematics by K.A Stroud might be of interest. It contains exercises and answer sheets but covers a lot more than PDEs.
This is a very US / Europe / Developed world view. Believe it or not, these restaurants are considered 'higher class' in many areas in the world.
There's no standard procedure. You're making things up.
By all means look around, but keep in mind that your #1 and #2 pros are quite rare as a combo.

There is a not so slight chance that you might end up in a place that satisfies your technological and learning needs, yet is full of backstabbers and micromanagers, and/or requires you to have "butt in chair" time no matter what the workload is.
World computer - Ethereum, NEO, EOS, Waves, many more

Banking the unbankable - Airfox, VVToken, likely others

More efficient advertisement - BAT, AdEx

Paying content creators - Steem

Distributed file storage - FileCoin, MaidSafe, Storj

Uncensorable internet - zencash

BTC gets all the press for first mover advantage, but is really the worst of the bunch.

This is not investment advice. It is quite exciting, however.
Can this mean that if one has a lot of stress, then its brain makes a lot of waste which pollute the lymph and thus affects the immune system ? ('cos it's well known that stressed people get sick quicker)
From the repository's readme I don't quiet get what this tool/platform/service/? is designed for.
So, is there a way to use this without the iframe (by going to stripe.com and then back)?

As a customer, when ordering something from a shop I prefer to send my CC details to stripe.com instead of the vendor. With an iframe i usually cannot tell that this is the case.
The patent lawyers would have a field day. I remember reading somewhere this may be one of the reasons that linux video drivers weren't open source by nvidea and/or AMD some years ago.
> they are far too trivial.

You'd have thunk I didn't have to make them than. But I did, judging from literally every argument I had about this.
Whenever I read prominent figures talking about the dangers of AI, I feel like they are missing the mark.

I don't think the imminent dangers of AI are self-conscious machines rebelling and deciding to kill people, but a much more subtle and nuance problem.

Let's say that you go to a bank and ask for a loan. The bank has a procedure to decide if they give you the loan or not. If your request is rejected, they can (hopefully) explain why you didn't qualify.

Instead, the whole process gets offloaded to a learning AI that makes that decision for the bank. For the most part, we don't really understand why systems like neural networks make a decision. Now if the banks denies your loan, the best they can say why is 'huh, the computer said so'.

What if suspiciously the banks start rejecting applications from an specific minority? Has the AI determined that this particular minority is trustworthy? Does it even matter?

What when AI systems are introduced in legal procedures? What when an AI decides if someone will go to jail or not?

Maybe I'm out of the loop but I feel these are more pressing issues about the widespread use of AI that are not being talked about enough (definitely much less than the doomsday scenario).
I've been waiting for ages for better tiling in Gnome - at least something like Windows 7 does would be great (resizing after half-tiling), but this looks even better! :)
I may not be a lawyer, but gifts of $5k to induce someone to purchase a thing for their workplace feels like it should count as corruption and bribery.

If someone tried to do that to me, I’d report the attempt to the company lawyer, and I’d doubt the quality of the thing they were selling was as good as the quality of the thing the other poster was advertising.
Unions seem to have more tractability where you expect to have the same employer for life.
It's actually incredibly difficult to get a constitutional amendment heard and ratified. Even the equal rights amendment was shouted down despite massive bipartisan support.

[Note] Also, such an amendment has already been sent to the states and failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Voting_Ri...
Well, there are a lot of reasons people buy guns. Men like to play with powerful, dangerous things, c.f. chainsaws, sports cars, etc. All well and good, count me among them. One indicator of a powerful dangerous thing is it being used by the military. Some of the very richest people in the world own things like decommissioned fighter jets. All of this is good fun as long as we're just blasting flowerpots at the range.

We live in a confusing world, where killing, especially mass murder is prohibited, and we will give you our harshest punishment for it, unless it's in the context of a war, in which case we will give you a medal and call you a hero for it.

All of this is to say that people want to own the closest thing to a military assault rifle that they can. You saw in the 1994 assault weapons ban, and in the various California assault weapons laws, that entrepreneurs will come up with ingenious ways to obey the letter of the law while circumventing the spirit of it. I do support an assault weapons ban. I don't like the idea of a bureaucrat deciding whether something falls under the intent of a law, but I don't see a great alternative given all the water under the bridge on workarounds for gun laws.

The intent should be this: discourage/restrict guns that are not relatively better for sporting or defensive purposes, but are relatively better for offensive, murderous purposes. Magazine capacity limits for sure, and maybe restrictions on detachable box magazines should be considered. In a mass shooting scenario, where one person is armed, and everyone else is unarmed, we want to give the unarmed as many chances as possible, and for as long a duration as possible, to disarm the shooter. Any sort of mod that enables the weapon to shoot more than about 1-2 rounds per second is obviously unnecessary for sporting purposes and dangerous for a mass shooter with a high capacity mag. Pistol grips I'm neutral on, although I don't see a sporting purpose, and they do certainly help with control of a weapon in combat. Intermediate caliber cartridges don't seem to have a sporting purpose, and they are good for mass shootings. I'd be inclined to restrict them, perhaps allowing a pistol grip or intermediate caliber but not both in one weapon.
RAID Greed: Why Mirroring Is Still Best (2010)
That comment has absolutely nothing to do with what was suggested previously, which was: IF you are in a place with at best sketchy food choices (travelling maybe?), going into a place like McDonald's and KNOWING what you're getting could be an appealing option for many.

Sure, if your alternative is: Stay at home all the time, so you never ever have to eat anywhere else, then I guess you don't need McDonald's. Only that's not how most people live.
No, puny 1600x900.
We run most of our stuff on AWS, but we use BigQuery for the data warehouse. It's a nice product - no cluster to manage, pretty good apis for getting data in and out of it, a decent in-browser SQL editor for casual users, and connectivity to a bunch of other BI tools (Metabase is a good OSS dashboarding and visualization tool we use).

We use a mix of hourly/daily .json.gz export/import jobs and streaming inserts. This is all automated with python scripts and airflow.

For streaming events, we post from the client to nginx, nginx+lua timestamps and posts that to nsq, we have an nsq python consumer that flattens and streams those events into bigquery; nsq-to-file rotates line-delimited json hourly which is gzipped and uploaded to gcs for archival. The latter is necessary for some types of schema changes; you'll want to drop the old table and import the old data into the new schema.

Tips:
- stick to StandardSQL, more featureful SQL dialect
- flatten data where possible, arrays of sub-records are hard to work with
- Partition large tables by date so you don't pay for querying really old data
- use the timestamp type vs string/int fields, saves you cast when writing a query
There's also this for my Firefox friends:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...

It does a whole range of sites.
That whole set of postcards is on Wikimedia Commons.[1]

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:France_in_XXI_Ce...
Mastering Elixir Releases with Distillery
I'd have to see more of how you think such an attack might work, and think of how to defend against it. In general though:

1. The use of a physical authentication mechanism makes exfiltration far more difficult. The problem with passwords is that they can be sniffed with absolutely no awareness by the victim. A device or token you have to have yourself is going to make its absence known.

(This presumes it's not cloneable.)

2. That reduces the attack surface for phishing. What I suspect is is that you'd see other forms of attack -- say, trying to get recurring charges inserted into bills or some such, rather than full account access.

3. In the event of token compromise, the ability to determine after the fact that a device was compromised and invalidate the subsequent transactions would be helpful. (Sorting out who bears the risk for that would be an interesting question. I'd like to put the burden on the banks, as they're best positioned to detect such activity.)
A machine learning powered future is more likely in the near term. That's going to consist of systems which take in lots of information and optimize for something. Probably profits.
This is why i love paypal.

I don't want to input my credit card info in whatever site, I'd rather do it in paypal.com.
5 tools to simplify hiring
So, why didn't the IRS just download their leak and do the verification in house?

/snark
Spaces – Object Storage by Digital Ocean
The biggest surprise here is that Yahoo has 3 billion accounts.

They are probably counting my 25+ Craigslist accounts I guess. And just maybe all the 'princes' I've been over the years. Lol
To add to the praise for Stripe, their API docs are a pleasure to use.
> And if you have disproven free will, then who is your comment trying to convince?

The environment includes those humans around you that try to convince you.
I'm still a new user so I deliberately choose to compile ports to learn the FreeBSD way of thinking about stuff, understand how packaging works under the hood, and not fall into the trap of thinking it's "almost a Linux". Compiling ports is surprisingly convenient (at least after I learned the config-recursive make target...) and works most of the time.

But that said, letting the compilation of JDK 1.8 run overnight isn't exactly convenient, and for the next install I'm likely to use precompiled packages, confident that I do know how to compile ports on my own should I want to.
Say hi to curl 7.56.0
It's been looked into quite a bit in relation to parole hearings in the US which use computer generated scores to advise the parole committees.

https://www.propublica.org/article/bias-in-criminal-risk-sco...

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...