skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we cannot agree here.

The charging cable comparison seems silly. If I click on a link on this site I expect it to work in my (standard, modern, no snowflake configuration) browser.
If it doesn't, it's not part of the web for me. You can discuss Apple and Android, cables and connectors all you want.

The comparison with a vending machine was equally flawed, but at least it wasn't a car analogy..

I cannot argue against the product in the post, because the link is inaccessible. The "web components" explanation makes some sense (that explains the why, although I still think that a fallback message should explain that. Say "your browser doesn't support web components" instead of "you need our browser". I still flag it, but would kinda get it).

Companies are allowed to advertise their products. I'm allowed to label their practices as shitty.
Anti-aging is, in my mind, the most important area of research. I'm shocked billionaires are not throwing billions of dollars at it. Everything else can literally wait.
Of course it does, the implicit looping and BEGIN/END blocks (I'll concede I had actually forgotten about the implicit splitting) were in fact deliberately designed to emulate awk. Nonetheless I don't think that really changes the point much. The core language syntax is simple enough that perl one-liners can be written without that and still get the point across.
use KeyPassXC - it supports generating word based or readable passwords and you can set it as the default
So I googled that phrase to see what the context was and what else she said in the briefing.

It looks to come from a statement from the White House:

> Statement Regarding Senate Passage of H.J. Res. 111

> President Donald J. Trump applauds the Congress for passing H.J. Res. 111, Disapproving of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Arbitration Agreements Rule. According to a recent report by the Department of the Treasury, the evidence is clear that the CFPB's rule would neither protect consumers nor serve the public interest. Rather, under the rule, consumers would have fewer options for quickly and efficiently resolving financial disputes. Further, the rule would harm our community banks and credit unions by opening the door to frivolous lawsuits by special interest trial lawyers. By repealing this rule, Congress is standing up for everyday consumers and community banks and credit unions, instead of the trial lawyers, who would have benefited the most from the CFPB's uninformed and ineffective policy.

And it seems that the DOT report is more important the the "Further" part. At least that is what "Further" implies in their statement.

What did the DOT report say? I'm reading through it I suggest you (and others) do as well.

https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Documen...
Where’s the line between lobbying and pay to play?

Ultimaist defenses of individual rights, vs balancing rights, ends up with ridiculous conclusions like “money equals speech”.

To fix is to reduce (or eliminate) the cost of campaigning. Mooting the whole problem.
Not even “soiled”. If you’ve just washed your hands Touch ID will likely not work. Touchscreen works just fine. Pretty annoying.
Your shoe, chewing gum, or ciggies are now your extra password
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I wonder if that added productivity comes from the rise of smart phones and being able to be connected all the time?
Show HN: US Stock Screener
http://berserk-games.com/tabletop-simulator/ ?

> Now with VR Support!
> Take your tabletop gaming to a whole new level in virtual reality with the HTC Vive!

Tabletop Simulator is kind of like VASSAL [0], people do all kinds of things in it, even playing regular card games like poker with it (so that you can flip your cards dramatically onto the table).

[0] http://www.vassalengine.org/
In my case it was a used car. It was, however, a manufacturer's dealership. On the other hand, the dealership without an arbitration clause was also a dealer for the same manufacturer.
If being uncomfortable while working was to be made illegal, there'd be few minimum-wage jobs left. From burger-flipping to call centers, people do it because they have to, not because they want to. Coercion is a different kettle of fish, but being uncomfortable at your work is a pretty normal state of being.
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I don't understand what this comment is referring to. Google's spider respects robots.txt, just block all paths and google will not crawl your site. So too for Bing, Yahoo, Baidu (some complications though, I think), Yandex.... Most of the major spiders respect robots.txt.

Is there some major Google web scraping effort I'm not aware of?
The luxury of living blissfully anywhere you want is most certainly not realistic to everyone, especially non-whites. HN as a whole seems to believe perspectives like yours are ubiquitous by default.
> if it fails, the failure is contained

What about the failure mode when the courier doesn't follow your parents instructions and leaves the package on the porch?

Now you have the code to the lockbox of the key to the house sitting on the porch where anyone who approaches can gain access to the house.
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I think positing a nation-state is an unnecessary complication.

Let's imagine two different bank robberies, carried out by the same wicked bank robbers.

In the first, the bank robbers steal a bulldozer and a crate of dynamite, knock down half the bank in the middle of the night, blow the safe, and run away with the money.

In the second, the bank has left the safe and all the doors unlocked at the end of the day when everyone goes home. The robbers stroll in through the open door, take the money, and casually walk away.

In both situations, the robbers are fully culpable. They don't get a pass just because the money was left lying around where anyone could take it. They should be pursued and an appropriate punishment (or rehabilitation, if that's your thing) should be meted out in either case. But in the second scenario, the bank is also culpable - they failed to take reasonable precautions, they were negligent in their duties.

If someone is negligent in their duties and that negligence results in harm to others, they should be held responsible for it. The situation doesn't change if it was a nation-state that took advantage of the negligence; the hypothetical bank aren't being punished for being robbed, and it doesn't matter that a hypothetical determined robber could still have broken through nearly any security you could imagine, they were still negligent in their duties.
Guess it’s better than reaching terminal volatility on twitter as we have seen how those experiments have been going...
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So I'm trying to figure out why this was even done.

Here's the White House statement on it.

From https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/24/state...

> Statement Regarding Senate Passage of H.J. Res. 111

> President Donald J. Trump applauds the Congress for passing H.J. Res. 111, Disapproving of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) Arbitration Agreements Rule. According to a recent report by the Department of the Treasury, the evidence is clear that the CFPB's rule would neither protect consumers nor serve the public interest. Rather, under the rule, consumers would have fewer options for quickly and efficiently resolving financial disputes. Further, the rule would harm our community banks and credit unions by opening the door to frivolous lawsuits by special interest trial lawyers. By repealing this rule, Congress is standing up for everyday consumers and community banks and credit unions, instead of the trial lawyers, who would have benefited the most from the CFPB's uninformed and ineffective policy.

It seems that they're basing this on a report by the DOT (which is the parent body of the CFPB).

Here's the report (I'm still parsing it):

https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Documen...

The CFPB's response (quoted all over the place): "rehashes industry arguments that were analyzed in depth and solidly refuted in the final rule."

I can't find a source for that response. It would be great if we could find a source for that response as well as the wording of the refutation in the "final rule."
Do, what can be done? Who should I support to fight back against stuff like this (organizations, not politicians)?
Chain restaurants?? We cook at home. Occasionally hit up our local pub in our cultural wasteland suburb.

People with kids and responsibilities have different concerns from those who don't. Whether what I ate or what entertainment I consume are fashionable enough doesn't even hit the radar -- I'm happy if I can eat anything in peace or get any downtime whatsoever for entertainment. You'll be there one day.
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> This implies that at least one in eight adult men in the at-large population has been sentenced for a felony.

That's an astounding statistic. I don't live in America, and I obviously don't run into a perfectly uniform sampling of society, but I'd guess way less than 1 in 8 people I meet have done something that deserves being thrown in prison.
So how would this work if you have an alarm system? The door would unlock, they'd come in, but unless they're also given the alarm code then it would end up going off.

This seems like a pretty big stumbling block, because asking people to give out an alarm code means that anyone who ever delivers to your place can get into your house later (unless you change the delivery code every week or something, which would be an ongoing hassle).
I have both an S7 Edge (fingerprint reader on home button) and I've had 2 Nexus devices (6P and Pixel) with reader on back. I find the fingerprint sensor on the back to be far more user friendly than the awkward thumb button option. As others have said it is a natural location for your finger when holding the phone. Your use case is valid (phone is on flat surface), but the vast majority of people hold their phones during use rather than lay on flat surface.*

*citation needed, but I sincerely doubt this is hard to believe.
Please don't, even if someone's argument is bad.
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Or, you know, there's a lot of really valid concerns about the way Silicon Valley companies are behaving right now and a lot of people are increasingly upset about it.

Insinuating articles that criticize your employer have ulterior motives while conveniently forgetting to mention you're being paid by the company being criticized is significantly more concerning behavior than The Guardian's.
What if every single other feature of the iPhone X is appealing to you?
It's a bad thing that the demographics of the US are now such that this has happened... that most employee / employer relationships are no longer mutually beneficial.
> arguments to the effect that Touch ID is already the be-all end-all of biometric authentication have a strong odor of argument-from-familiarity

Perhaps, but it's entirely reasonable for users to take a wait-and-see approach to anything security related. TouchID, for better or worse, has run the gauntlet. Security researchers have had their hands on it and tried to exploit it. And the vulnerabilities have been minimal. FaceID hasn't undergone any of that scrutiny and we won't know how safe it is until after it's been through that process.

For that reason, I'm advising all the people I know (who ask) to skip the iPhoneX. If it's proven to work well, then I'll change my recommendation​ for the second generation. First-gen Apple products have a history of unforeseen problems (holding it wrong and such) anyways, so it's pretty sage advice to avoid the first incarnation of any new Apple design, regardless of the security considerations.
Great to see numenta in the news again. On Intelligence was the book that got me excited about biologically based machine learning. The methods that in that book is very different to anything else I’ve seen in current “trendy” ML.
>>But you gain the convenience of unlocking your phone while wearing gloves, having dirty/wet hands, for people with callouses/scarring/other finger issues that have prevented Touch ID from ever functioning reliably (or at all)

How does Face ID perform when you are wearing sunglasses?
Many people with standard on the street mailboxes would benefit from upsizing. I did after Amazon switched to using USPS for a lot of my deliveries. No more (OK--much less) packages crammed into the mailbox, hung off of it, etc. I have a long dirt driveway and the postal carrier somewhat understandably hates to go down it to drop things off at the house.
There are a lot of variable not accounted for, like the mass of the ship(and cargo) you are going to attach it to. In theory it can keep accelerating as long as it has fuel, and the maximum speed would be related to the speed of the exhaust. At very high velocity we would have to account for friction with the interstellar medium, space isn't entirely empty just the density is very (very) low.

In the real world you probably have a destination in mind... and maybe want to come back. For one way mission, accelerate till half your fuel is gone, perhaps coast for a bit, then decelerate with the remaining fuel (maybe keep some reserves for maneuvering).
@hungerstrike

You can use your phone with many gloves (the screen registers touch) you just can't use TouchID
The parameter you are looking for is delta-V, the total change in velocity that the craft can accelerate to. It relates to inverse specific thrust, which is the parameter discussed earlier, comparing slow heavy exhaust to fast light exhaust.

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Cheat_Sheet#Delta-v...
New plan! Colonize Venus!

(What's all this about cloud cover?)
PubMed Health (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/), MEDLINE Plus (https://medlineplus.gov/), UpToDate Basics (https://www.uptodate.com/contents/table-of-contents/patient-...) all better than WebMD. I am a medical librarian.
Yes, and that's still pretty high.

We use solar cells at Jupiter distances nowadays (various reasons for that though).
I want to echo this and also add that you should either have a ballot at home, or an opportunity to vote at a polling place coming up in a couple weeks. Vote. If you feel like your government doesn’t represent you, then start changing it.
I'm just curious if they practiced that 'chastity' one... cause 'no thanks' lol
Meh, don't want to get into a console war argument, sorry. I'll just say this:

Xbox One is doing poorly compared to PS4 and its exclusives are becoming nothing special. This is especially true this year when many high profile console games are either Sony exclusive or Japanese so they are not on Xbox One.

If Microsoft had launched Xbox One in its current state, it would be neck to neck with PS4. Unfortunately they spent its first year pushing for Kinect, an "entertainment center", and always-online requirements.
Not everyone is an aerospace investment banker so don’t be a dick.

Trying to learn here, not be belittled.
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Exactly why we need universal healthcare in the US

It’s something every worker should be fighting tooth and nail for

It would go a long way to breaking up the neoliberal corporate hegemony

Sadly, and regardless of education and political leanings, Americans seem in love with a fictional account of the countries history. That it was all great 50 yrs ago without universal healthcare (when they were kids and not really paying attention) so of course it’s just fine to keep it that way.

I encounter people of all ages and backgrounds with that notion kicking about, every day. Having lived and traveled the world, Americans are unique in their ignorance that the world was just as corrupt a generation ago.

Now let’s go watch some TVLand and chill
I have a Nexus 5x and it has a fingerprint sensor on the back and can confirm, works great. Anything else for me is YAGNI
I've been using gitconnected for a week or more, and I've been enjoying it. Check it out.
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But it is simpler and easier. You don't have to learn the controls, and actions you know and are familiar with translate exactly into game-space. That sort of game interface can be fun for a certain segment/genre. People still enjoy playing on the Wii. I would concede that its not mainstream, but who knows, maybe we just need to make the right game.
Bell's theorem?
> It looks like you are not meant to live off of Fresubin. Just 2 bottles, or 800 calories is certainly not enough.

The DRINK bottles are designed as a supplement to the tube feed, but it's all pretty much the same stuff with the main difference being that DRINK is flavored for oral consumption.

> I don't know if there are health risks to consuming 2.5x above the daily requirements, but it was clearly not designed to be a total meal replacement.

There ain't and it is.
How do you think people with jaw/throat issues keep on eating? Larynx cancer is very common, just like many other cancer types directly affecting the mechanical ability to chew/swallow.
I've patients living only on that stuff for over 10 years, still living.

Tbh I'm kinda surprised how skeptical you seem of something which has seen decades-long successful medical application [0] and has its roots in NASA research for astronaut nutrition, which rates among the most solid food-science we have.

Fresubin 2Kcal DRINK isn't the only variety, Fresenius has literally dozens of other varieties for the sole purpose of adapting the diet to the patient from low caloric, to fibre, to diabetic, pretty much all the manufacturers do because peoples nutritional needs are individual.

And that's just enteral, going parenteral you can get all your food/water/nutrients from 1-2 infusions per day. Tho the port [1] used for such applications is still a pretty big infection risk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_food

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_(medical)
I see him using a mill and lathe multiple times. He even uses a CNC at least once in part 5. All the machinery he uses would have been something available to a machinist in the 50s. He's not using a plasma cutter but he's using relatively modern tools that an ancient greek bronzesmith couldn't even dream of.
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Thank you, exactly what I was looking for. Good thing I didn't get that Amazon gift card!
You're entitled to your opinion, but this is a tech news aggregator, so...
>> How does Face ID perform when you are wearing sunglasses?

According to their press conference their facial recognition algorithms work with changes such as hair and with glasses.

Only time will tell how well it works in actuality.
So, not because it's a 1000$ piece of plastic for sending emojis and playing candy crush saga? My my, always when I think I'm doing good in life, I get reminded how westerners always have more money to burn.
XBox is missing several exclusives like Uncharted 4, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Persona 5 so there are plenty of games on just one system.

IMO, if you have both then it might not seem like a big deal but PS4 seems to have better exclusives and it's consistently selling 2x as much. It's also at 1/3 as many sales as the Xbox 360 so 'dead' may be over rated but it's not in a great place.
I really wish I could mentally dismiss your comment as being from a troll, but truth is, you’re right.
I'd even generalize it to "Doing anything you can to get attention, even when the overall impact is obviously negative."

A ToS is the absolute minimum (well, other than the penal code). That someone needs to consider whether or not something violates policies is a strong sign that it's probably not helping people. A malware/adware company may not mind that, but if Siftery's goal is actually to help product consumers and creators, their bar should be way higher than whether it can slide past a ToS. Find positive-sum ways to get attention.
Most employers can adapt to the loss of a single worker much more easily than a worker can adapt to losing their job. And much of our social safety net currently operates via employers - things like pensions, maternity leave, healthcare, and even unemployment are tightly coupled to the single-long-term-employer model. Maybe they shouldn't be, but fixing that will take time and in the meantime people will slip through the cracks.
Thanks for reminding me to go vote today ;)
Pretty much.

I fit into this category and my anecdotal experience tells me that hiring managers favor contractors for that reason as well as the fact that the money to pay them sometimes is listed as a different line-item on the budget. I think the combination of the two helps as well - when looking at a large contractor line-item, knowing that it can be scaled back with less headache than a Full Time Employee (FTE) makes it easier to stomach I think.

If you're comfortable with hustling for work when the time comes, then contracting can be a much better arrangement. I work from home, basically whenever I want, and I make more money than I would as a FTE (even when factoring in the outrageous cost of health insurance these days).

The biggest thing I think is the mental shift. As a FTE, there's a stronger sense of job security. But really, layoffs happen all the time and as a FTE I feel like I'd be less prepared to find another job, whereas being a contractor means I have to constantly be thinking about the future.

Pick your poison I guess.
Self-driving cars are expected to do the opposite of improving public transit. Since cars can drive themselves in addition, there are actually more cars on the road than before, and the added convenience of summoning a private vehicle makes using public transit less appealing and less likely. An article... last week? pointed out that Uber and Lyft have also hurt public transit usage.
Ah, got it. So when we think of “rocket fuel” we’re conflating two things: energy source and propellant. Kerosene and oxidiser gives you both heat and combustion products for the heat to fling out of your nozzle.

Hall effect thrusters decouple energy and propellant. The noble gas is the propellant. It’s stuff you’re throwing. The energy, however, must come from elsewhere, e.g. solar panels or a nuclear reactor.

There is an aerospace term called specific impulse [1]. It measures engine efficiency. Ion thrusters are about as efficient as the turbofans on a modern jetliner. Those, in turn, are about 12x more efficient than the Space Shuttle’s solid-fuel boosters and like 7x better than cryogenic, i.e. hydrogen-oxygen, fuelled engines.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse
The lockbox was for the packages themselves, not for the keys to the house.
Perhaps they were early. I'm still using my wii daily.
Show HN: Real-time mobility and energy aggregator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15550553 was posted a bit earlier, plus for highly specialized papers we tend to prefer the best popular article on the topic (though that one may not be the best).
I think you're grossly underestimating the work involved in being a payment handler - even just the legal work alone would be crushing. It certainly isn't going to be a side-business for a lone developer.
So the next step is to figure out how to build the power plant in space instead of lugging all that material up out of the Earth's gravity well.
That's a meaningless hypothetical situation. There's no way to know when or if a business you sell will collapse in the future. Unless you actively conceal material information from the buyer (like hidden debts), which crosses the line from unethical behavior to criminal fraud.