skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main problem trying to be fixed here is "identity theft".

It wasn't a problem, at least it wasn't up until the point that creditors reframed it as "identity theft." It's fraud, plain and simple, and if it were treated as such, the burden would be on entities that have the resources to handle it (and who are also responsible for enabling it) instead of ruining the lives of normal people just going about their business. Oh, you loaned money to someone claiming to be me? I don't see how that's my problem. Sucks to be you. Maybe rethink mailing out pre-approved credit cards in the future.

> Banks should have to know who they are loaning money to and if they make a mistake, that needs to be solely their problem.

Agreed.
I'm an admitted dumbo about this stuff. Here's what it looked like from that point of view:

Hey cool, a new nice looking common query language that can do neat composition of results. Perfect, I've been wanting to break free of the SQL box since forever.

Wait, what? You have to write SQL queries for everything still? So you define types, and have to write SQL queries for those types, and graphQL gives you some composition on top of that?

Seems kind of redundant. Like wrapping your own christmas present.

But then I realize I'm thinking from the perspective of a one/two person team. Perhaps the real value of this comes from very decoupled consumers.
> This should have been in C++ from its inception to be honest, to avoid blah_type<with_this> something = new blah_type<with_this>() repetition.

Type inference for this is about the only way to make "enterprisey" C#/Java code palatable.

The only problem is if you're a .NET shop that is a little crusty, and people start having PTSD flashbacks and conflate the C# type inferred "var" with the old VisualBasic monstrosity Variant type.
Just the usual 'people used to do it, so it's ok'. Maybe I read too much into it.
It's the answer
You start losing energy around your 30s due to a lower metabolism, increased responsibilities, and the beginnings of health issues (for a lot of people), so going out during the week when you're already coming home worn out from work can seem like too much work. Or if you're going to the gym to maintain your health, and coming home and cooking dinner, take the dog out, do dishes, etc, well suddenly it's 9pm already and maybe you've got an hour or two at most before you need to sleep, and hey, the tv's or internet is right there...

I do some things during the week with friends, but it's usually for a specific productive reason (playtest our game designs, or go to starbucks and write), and usually only once a week. But some weeks I'm too tired to do that.
Greeks usualy translate "πολύτροπον" to the modern "πολυμήχανος"

- http://www.wordreference.com/gren/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%85%C...
In such situations, an illegal action of another might force you into illegal behavior in any case: swerve, get out of the way into opposite direction, stop and block the intersection? (How is that causing an accident, if it's reactive towards another's reckless driving?)
Uber CEO says 2019 is the target for IPO
Its not planned, it just works out that way.
I really love this ORM project for typescript:

http://typeorm.io/

It's also one of the larger enterprise grade projects that i've seen done natively in TS. It pretty much uses all the bells and whistles that the language provides. Some decent patterns, and an active developer community.
I'd love to show you the video, but it's been removed. It shows a Starship technologies sidewalk delivery robot attempting to cross the road, when a car making a right turn through the crosswalk hits it, in a low speed collision. The interesting thing is that the little robot attempted to make an evasive maneuver by stopping and quickly backing up to avoid the car. It ultimately failed, but at least it tried.

So Navya, the French company who has deployed several of these slow moving autonomous shuttle busses does not appear to have such sophisticated behavioral algorithms, in spite of entertaining ambitions of building proper robotaxis.
Sen. Al Franken Slams Facebook and Google's Control of the Press
https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/927999560697499648
The feeling is apparent with a bottle of El Dorado sipping run from Guyana.
Yep. Most beer for me is insanely bitter. Red wine is a strict no, it's grotesque for me. Some red wine out there, that people otherwise tell me is good, tastes literally like a car tire.
Be interesting to reverse the scenario - what happens when a man enters an all female arena and threatens the hierarchy? In my experience women are just as capable of banding together to ostracise an outsider.
Unless Bitcoin becomes more efficient by orders of magnitude, it will still take far more energy than bank buildings, armored vehicles, etc. when everyone is using it.
The question for me is why is the FBI claiming it needs access to the iPhone when it is highly unlikely to further the criminal investigation? The simplest answer is that the value of iPhone access in this case is political posturing and the tragedy is just used for cover.

iPhones don't kill people...
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If you haven't seen it already, check out the NHK documentary: "The Lost Hokusai." A masterpiece by Hokusai (the guy who did the famous woodblock print of the ocean wave) was destroyed in a fire, but a single black-and-white photo of it remained. Analysts worked with artists and other specialists to try to recreate what the original colors might have looked like.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/special/episode/201705271...
"It doesn't sound like you really understand how Bitcoin works."

Bitcoin as of right now uses over 5000x the energy of a credit card transaction. That's a flat-out waste that none of your suggestions could ameliorate - at a rate of ~325,000 homes worth of power per year and rising. It really sounds like you don't understand how Bitcoin works, nor how blatantly wasteful it is.
yeah, it's so simply written, but the most engaging thing i've seen in months.
As I understand it, the vast majority of people in the UK must tell the tax service when their address changes: https://www.gov.uk/national-insurance/change-of-circumstance
Ad absurdum, humans are atrocious and a humanless future can't come quickly enough. (People are jaywalking, EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!)
Al Franken Just Gave the Speech Big Tech Has Been Dreading
Chrome OS Bugs: Helping to Improve Chromebooks
The worst part is, you have to be extremely careful here and make sure that you did not mean to write

auto& foo = bar(baz);
Meta: HN doesn't support markdown, use two spaces to get code formatting. Full docs here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Or tried communicating but didn't, because protocol mismatch (Mars Orbiter, Gimli Glider). Oh wait!
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Three i've read through recently:

1. InversifyJS - DI in Typescript / JS

https://github.com/inversify/InversifyJS

2. TypeORM - as it says, might be the best ORM for nodejs projects:

https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm

3. Searchkit - ES web frontend - react + typescript

https://github.com/searchkit/searchkit
It used to be that every business needs a website. Facebook is just a cheap and easy alternative to a website, and it comes with a lot of features like analytics (I think FB Pages have Analytics) and knowing how many people are interested in your services. Sadly it comes with your business website being generic and inside a walled garden run by arbitrary-moral police/government who will also lie to you to make money out of you ("Pay $ for this post to get x impressions!", but how many of those will be from bots?).

Hopefully with technology being simpler, it'll be simpler for the 95% (https://lifehacker.com/this-chart-shows-how-computer-literat...) of people to make websites without walled gardens. But a small business probably thinks an FB page is good enough, why pay for your own design and hosting?
To that end they didn’t sue Netflix out of existence they created HULU.
Hmm would I rather have Carmine or Castoreum today?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum
I go one step further - the interesting part of the type has to be mentioned in a form that you can click on and do a Go To Definition (etc.). So auto foo=FooFactory::newFromBar(bar) is no good, because you can't click on the exact type newFromBar is returning. But you might say auto thing=GenericFactory::Create<Thing>(), and that's OK, because you can click on the identifier Thing.

(The point about the 'interesting' part is to permit stuff like std::unqiue_ptr<T> F<T>() and the like.)
Casper is a legitimate company.
Creating custom React renderers
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Perhaps, but from the video it appears they have some software that helps with diagnoses as well. Something the Flir camera wouldn't have (at least not specific to skin cancer).
I don't think partial control of a complex system requires a system of equal complexity. Even human behavior can be influenced in the brain by something simple as a drug or virus.
> But I also have a DHL driver doing the opposite: you stay at home all day and nobody rings; then you notice that the parcel is marked as delivered on the website. What? You get outside and you see the parcel was thrown in your yard over the wall/fence/portal. You go back to DHL website and you download the receipt, to discover a beautiful fake signature of yours forged by the driver.

IN cases like that, I would have a very hard ethical time in pushing that issue of fraud onto the driver. To be honest, I haven't done that... but the thought would definitely cross my mind.
We get not only an foreign earned income e exemption on income up to $100k, but also a foreign tax credit. If you live in a country with higher taxes than the USA, you won’t owe USA income taxes. If you live somewhere like Switzerland, it can be a problem, but that is where you get to start using your housing deduction.
Nothing in this article is new, but OK. Here is its conclusion:

> If everyone tried to realise their Bitcoin wealth for millions, the market would dry up and the price would crash; [...]. And because investors know that could happen, there is every incentive to sell first. When the crash comes, and it cannot be too far away, it will be dramatic.

Let's try this with something else:

If everyone tried to realise their Google stocks for millions, the market would dry up and the price would crash; [...]. And because investors know that could happen, there is every incentive to sell first. When the crash comes, and it cannot be too far away, it will be dramatic.

If everyone tried to realise their hoarded gold for millions, the market would dry up and the price would crash; [...]. And because investors know that could happen, there is every incentive to sell first. When the crash comes, and it cannot be too far away, it will be dramatic.

Look, I'm an economist! Sell your Google shares NOW!

(Or, to make the point directly, yes "that could happen", but that doesn't mean that it's likely. And if it's not likely, the conclusion doesn't hold. And if the conclusion doesn't hold, the author is not justified in saying that it's likely. The argument is essentially a circular one: If I assume that Bitcoin is likely to crash, I can "reason out" that it is likely to crash.)
Concepts give you something like this for template parameters, so instead of saying template<typename T> you can say template<Numeric T> where this would constrain the template to only be instantiable with type satisfying the Numeric concept. There's also some syntactic sugar where you can just say auto f(Numeric x) and this means template<Numeric T> auto f(T x).

Concepts are in the process of standardization and are expected to be part of C++20.

This is nothing to do with inheritance though in C++. Concepts are type constraints and don't require any particular inheritance hierarchy which is a much better way to handle things than using inheritance for this purpose.
Did you hear about the new BaaS from AWS, Lamb-da? I hear bleat learning practitioners fleeced by Google Cloud are flocking to it
If I remember correctly, the fungus often (always?) manipulates the insect to climb to a relatively high point before spores burst from its head and body.

https://www.google.com/search?q=spores+bursting+from+insects...
What GPU world though?

People still write regular shaders in languages that are much more C like.

People writing GPGPU code are few. Most of the DL GPU use is in Python through several layers, and in the end you are running hand-written SASS assembly sitting in an NVIDIA DLL or whatever.

I guess some people must think it's handy to have C++ support in GPU kernels, or they wouldn't have added the feature. But for it to drive technology, hard to believe.
To what end should a self driving vehicle back up or avoid a collision? You could essentially hijack a self driving car by boxing it in if it avoided all obstacles and impacts. Stopping seems to be the normal and best reaction to these sorts of illegal actions. At some point the driver in the wrong will need to take responsibility for doing something illegal.
Plus there is an option where you either go to the local post office or the postman comes and verifies your ID.
We had a generator that ran a two hour test every Thursday. It ran fine one Thursday, the next day we had a power outage and it failed to start because a capacitor went bad.
Lol good luck with that. You would just waste more money and time doing this. What I recommend if you are a freelancer / contractor is to just let them know that you cannot take a day off to wait for their courier as you don't have vacation and are not paid unless you work (so that would incur financial loss to you).

So inform them to arrange a courier to come pick up the item at a specific time convenient to you (Saturday from 10am to 5pm or Mon-Thu 7pm-10pm) and it's their headache now. They have to work around your schedule without inconveniencing you.
Does it really matter if it's MasterCard or Visa?

In my country (Bosnia), there's pretty much no difference between them. Maybe half a euro more per month for one or the other. All the banks I know of let you pick between them. Citizens usually pick randomly. They're accepted the same, you still have to chase your own bank's ATMs to avoid unnecessary fees etc.
2: because his non-temporary account is not connected to his real name?
I don't like black sugarless coffee either, but with sugar and milk it's quite nice. So do I like coffee or not?
Afrikaans is not similar enough for customer support roles. If you hear Afrikaans as a Dutch person you can sort of get the meaning of what they are saying if they speak slow enough, but it's not like it's just a dialect.

It's a bit like the difference between English and Jamaican Creole.
Massive Skin Replacement Saves Child’s Life
Oh wow, if we did that, then the EU and much of Asia would follow in retaliation. So companies operating in the USA would have to pay taxes to the USA, China, the EU, on all their worldwide income, insane.

Let’s not forget the problem that not all tax systems are very compatible, they all define income differently, some of them rely more on taxes that aren’t income based.
I'm not sure. There is a small claims court system, but we were talking about slander/libel in which case https://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/7bj5d-sue-someone-libel-sm...

I really would not recommend getting involved with libel law on a pro-se basis.
This was mentioned on the 8 o'clock news in the Netherlands yesterday, which is usually the most watched TV show in the country on weeknights. I was extremely surprised to see this show up on HN and I have no idea why this is getting so much attention.
What about Solr?
When Bitcoin was $10 a $1 move in price was a 10% change.

When Bitcoin was $100 then a $1 move in price was a 1% change.

When Bitcoin was $1000 then a $1 move in price was a 0.1% change.

If Bitcoin gets mass adoption then the price per Bitcoin could be $50,000 (assume $1 trillion market cap) or higher. At that point a $1 market movement would be a 0.002% change. To get the same 10% movement as at $100 would require a $5,000 market price swing which while possible is less likely.

It means a lot more money would have to be bought or sold to cause the same percent movement in price.

Bitcoin is already much less volatile today than it was in the past.
I don't think Benderism is quite the logical conclusion from advocating for human drivers to be removed from the roads.
It seems like that's what you're mostly here for. Would you please stop, read the guidelines, and then not do this again? We ban accounts that continue because it's an abuse of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
questions I have from a clinical perspective: Today, we see skin lesions that look like melanoma and apply the ABCDE acronym for diagnosis:

Asymmetry

Border irregularity

Color (all the same or not)

Diameter greater than 6 mm

Evolving size, shape or color (over time)

Now, based on this, we would then probably biopsy the lesion (any dermatologists lurking on HN wish to chime in?) and send to pathology to interpret.

Will this method beat out the clinical diagnosis in terms of sensitivity (number of false negatives, which is what I would care more about) and specificity (number of false positives), such that we could biopsy more of the patients that we missed before? Additionally, would we see these changes earlier with this software and hardware?

Cool idea, nonetheless. I'd be more than happy to set up some sort of clinical study looking at this technique though if there are enough tools out there to implement this myself.
The author could also have used 3d simulations to obtain more data, and determine feasibility and proper hyperparameters for the network before training with actual data.
I don't know Go. What does := do?
I didn't complain. At some point I upgraded my kernel and the code stopped working. This was over 10 years ago. I seem to remember going to the list and seeing that it had been removed due to a security problem. I also seem to remember a Torvalds line about only crazy people wanting to use such a feature. I had lost interest in maintaining the code, so I didn't pursue it.
Grayscale Investments Announces Launch of the Zcash Investment Trust
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And what is their average exposure? If you have 10k in a 401k and it goes up by 100x, that's great, but not enough to immediately retire.

If you have 50k in a 401k and your funds double (a more reasonable increase, but still absurdly well)... so what? The point is, the stock market is a terrible metric of how their wealth is doing for a great many people. Enough people that drastic upward movements will only affect the prices of higher-end items because it will not immediately inject cash into people's lives who are living paycheck to paycheck (or nearly are) and need to buy food.
> We already know that $1,100 is not the profit maximizing price point for a phone.

$1,000 is a profit maximizing price point with 0 % taxes. With 10 % taxes it would be different.
Simulating the Simpletron Computer
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You also need to calculate the cost for a rental car at your destination when flying. So add roughly $100/day to your total stay. When driving, you save that right away.
A little off-topic, but on similar lines: searching for "demagogue" on google, gets you a Trump's picture: https://i.imgur.com/qFJk9io.png

I wonder how that ends up happening, is google able to sum up popular opinion or is this someone's mischief?
You could do everything right and make no mistakes, and still fail. That's life.

You have a point though, that an economy -- at its core -- is an indirect representation of its host society's morals and values, and throwing around moral indignation does seem appropriate, but it's hard not to side with the defeatists here. Doing the right thing (ie: being morally responsible) carries a risk that only the most steadfast can endure.
I've been a teenager and I've known a lot of teenagers. I can totes see a teenager get into heroin for all sorts of stupid reasons. Because teenagers are idiots [1].

I prefer a society where a stupid decision at that age can be corrected for at a later time. I prefer it over a society that oversimplifies all this to 'choice', going against so much of what we've learned about human nature over the past decades.

[1]: Adults are also idiots. People are idiots. Rationality is our weapon against it, but it's so effective precisely because we're so irrational by 'default'. I'm baffled how people can still hold a worldview where 'choice' is somehow a simple concept.
One small detail is if you listen to some of the infected when they aren't attacking it sounds like they might be in agony, like they still have some sort of brain.
> Facebook tried doing this to combat actual fake news (the one that ironically comes from the political segment in the U.S. most likely to cry wolf about it). This process was then characterized as facebook policing political content in a biased manner -- despite the fact that blatantly false content happened to continually come from sources with a conservative bent more often than not, which isn't Facebook's problem to deal with.

Assuming we followed the same Facebook story (that intentionally set up boards of people - that were biased - to curtail the news in various ways), it seems like what you are trying to say is that alternative and conservative news is "fakes news", and they should receive algorithmic censorship.

Personally, for myself, the last 10 stories I've seen on "neutral" outlets like CNN and to the left outlets like Washington Post / New York / MSNBC - have been 100 percent driven by agenda rather than facts.

And the only time I'm able to get anything real is when I go to the other side, in which case all I have to do is tone it down 50%, yet on the left I have to literally invert what they are saying to get at the truth.

So how would you categorize which one of us is the idiot whose sources of news should be curtailed? Because I'm actually fine with you listening to CNN.
Fake news and AI