skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Senator Baldwin got Equifax to admit this in the hearing (around the 1:23:00 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunazYJGNXU
I'll add Gridcoin, which is a cryptocurrency that rewards BOINC participation:

http://www.gridcoin.us/

I really wish coins like these would catch on more than they have. Proof-of-work is, to the best of my knowledge, the only system that provably works. If we could just harness that computational power to do useful work, we'd be in a great place.
This is why I buy these sort of things from Amazon.
Unfortunately package theft is common. Our neighborhood suffered several thefts and eventually the police put fake packages with GPS trackers into the delivery boxes then waited to see where they went. They ended up in the house of the person who delivered the newspaper..
If they are harming society they don't need to exist.

Google could trivially spend $200 million a month on moderation and other editorial functions, they just would rather not.
The Glass Room: Looking into Your Online Life
Bitcoin would happily consume it...
How does the proof of storage work and will proof of time be decentralised across all nodes in the network, or a subset of trusted nodes?
I first thought the author used real-time CNN + RNN to generate descriptions of the rendered Skyrim scene and showing only that one to the player.
The Next Military-Industrial Complex – Riding Venture Capital’s Coattails
Much as I like Apple I'm not sure they handle the situation described better than any competitor:

> "A courier claims they called at your house and got no answer, even though you were in and they didn't. You call customer services, but they have no way at all to contact the courier and tell them to go back and try again. Even if they're only two minutes down the road. The system deliberately puts a firewall between the reps and the delivery infrastructure, because any kind of ad-hoc action to resolve customer issues interferes with the logistics planning for the day's deliveries."

If UPS claims they knocked and you didn't answer there's nothing more Apple can do than to tell you to wait for tomorrow.

Their customer service is genuinely great - but the firewall definitely exists between the shipper and the deliverer.
a bad independent contracting agreement could have consequences.

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-consultant/independent-...
They shouldn't exactly be optimized for friendliness. In a sense, that's the problem we have now. They should be optimized for security, but right now they're optimized for developers and network administrators.

It'd be interesting to see research on how many laypersons understand which way around the "chain of authority" goes for domain names. I can easily imagine somebody not Internet savvy thinking that "facebook.hackable.org" was a legitimate Facebook domain. (And it doesn't help that some organizations spread their site over many domains that - even to a skilled user - are indistinguishable from phishing domains.)

It is unclear how a domain like that could be optimized to ensure a novice user understands that what they're looking at isn't Facebook, even though the domain starts with "facebook" and the page they're looking at looks exactly like Facebook's login page.

One general, slightly off-topic, notion: there should be a protocol whereby a password manager can ask facebook.com what sites are legitimately going to ask for your Facebook credentials - not entirely unlike SPF for passwords. Then even if you search for Facebook in your password manager, it should refuse to automatically provide the credentials to the site.

(More off-topic aside: Password managers should be properly integrated into all browsers. Knowing your passwords should be considered unusual, and actually choosing them yourself downright stupid.).
Which humans? And which other life forms?

Plenty of humans treat animals with respect. I see people like spiritual leaders as being far more conscious than political leaders or sociopath CEO’s.

I don’t think this increased ethics is some weird quirk of spiritual leaders, but rather a deep feature of true intelligence.

It would take a lot of energy and computional capacity to make it all the way across deep space. I don’t see how a species could do that if it were fighting itself at home.

If it’s not fighting itself at home, why? Dictatorships are unstable because there’s always someone else who wants to be on top. The only way I can imagine a stable societ with that much reach is if the society contains individual members who care
ahout each other.

A house divided against itself will not stand, and a social network at war with itself can never reach the stars.

If you imagine how different humanity would have to be for us to get out that far, we’d have to all be concerned with the welfare of all humans. Once empathy reaches critical mass, the bodhisattva vow becomes an obviously correct moral imperative. I think of it like a schelling point for sufficiently introspective intelligent minds.

Once you’ve expanded empathy to all humans, you can’t stop there. He only way to truly care
about all humans - in all their myriad forms and oddities - is to care about all beings.
If a tree falls in the forest? Did it really have a horn then?
My understanding (IANAL) is, that's not the best strategy. If you have a complaint against a company, it is often the case that the company has an internal complaints procedure (usually a simple 9 step affair that only takes a year or two of constant, vigilant effort). If you don't follow it, you might actually find it very difficult to recover expenses for hastily employed legal services. You always have to ask yourself, who will most enjoy/benefit from/be able to afford engaging lawyers, you or the company's legal department?
There is a 3-minute video from BBC Planet Earth showing an infected ant and its demise. https://youtu.be/XuKjBIBBAL8

It is like watching the Alien scene, except this is real.
This question should be possible to be semi-answered by psychology studies. Do stability during the teen years outweigh a large negative event during adolescence? Seems like a question that researchers has been poking at for the last 100 years.

Bullying also has its own share of research (https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/bullying/conditionin...). It will not be easy to get a fair evaluation of harm vs harm mitigation.
http://www.vnutz.com/articles/Idle_Network_Activity_of_an_Am...
How do you figure? Happiness is not enviness of those less fortunate than you....
I'm actually excited to see how this project turns out. I used to play these little text RPGs on my dad's Blackberry, and this kind of reminds me of those. I'd love to see a full game of this.
Was it driving safely, then?
Random English tip!

'I made a dna test' means that you have created a dna test.
'I took a dna test' means you have performed a dna test on yourself.

'made' and 'performed' are the same word in a few European languages.
On what fantasy planet does this work?
There is a very fine line between authorized data, technically public but implicitly unauthorized data, and illegally obtained, unauthorized data. Here’s an example of each in the financial sector, from my personal experience:

1. Financial account aggregators and “budget apps” like Min monetize their business, in part, by selling huge amounts of data to the financial sector. Sometimes companies like Second Measure take raw data from companies like Yodlee and clean it, then resell it. Nowadays there is an entire industry of alterative market research that has had all sorts of participants, from Foursquare (locations) to Spark (email enhancement). This is technically authorized, because it’s in the TOS. The users effectively contribute their own data.

2. I developed an extremely accurate, reasonably generalizable method of forecasting vehicle production at several companies that relies on implementing a VIN searching algorithm in conjunction with legally required NHTSA recall lookup portals hosted by each manufacturer. This data is what you’d call unauthorized, because no entity explicitly endorses your use of it. For example, several colleagues and I knew well ahead of time that Tesla would miss on production of the Model 3s because they were utterly unrepresented in our data. But this data is public, so it’s fine to use from a legal and compliance standpoint. It was lucrative data specifically because it had a high signal for revenue, yet was hitherto unused and unidentified.

3. I once found, in the course of looking for legally usable data, an actual security vulnerability disclosing all users of a publicly traded QSR’s online delivery service, along with their phone numbers, email addresses and last four digits of credit cards. This is both unauthorized and illegal, because the data is contaminated with personally identifiable information and it clearly requires a vulnerability (not just scraping) to acquire.

I’ve seen overzealous data vendors accidentally slip from #2 into #3, which is really bad for all concerned. It’s not a great look for the vendor, who will likely be fired, and it represents a breach for the company who owns the data and its users. Any firm that has purchased the data will likely be contamined and be forced into a trading lockdown of that security for a period of time by compliance.

My real concern is that illicit data like this is used in machine learning research. Machine learning is already pretty frustrating - it’s common for me to find research from a conference that I’m simply unable to replicate because the training or experiment data is not available (this is annoyingly the case with A/B experiment optimization research put out by giant companies in particular). I worry that this trend of accepting machine learning research without any requirement for total data transparency will incentivize researchers to conduct their experiments using illicit data that doesn’t need to be sourced.
As far as I know, only this year's Echo models don't have a known way to root them, so you could likely circumvent the encryption on an older model to inspect traffic. I'm not aware of any publicized results of someone doing that though, and it doesn't necessarily tell you what the backend can and can't extract from the audio data.
It's not immediately obvious, but when you write some Kotlin you'll see.

Little things that are a apin in Java and elsewhere are quick and natural in Kotlin:

- nullable types are smoother than Options
- null checks are relatively painless
- the stdlib works with you, not against
- named parameters and optional parameters means no need for builders
- etc. Etc.
https://www.blakemorgan.co.uk/news-events/news/brief-guide-t...
Show HN: PaperVC | Data-driven investing in Indian startups
Not sure, I haven't seen a good story for it. We'll stick with REST.
> For people who don't go to many social events/don't talk to many others there/don't deepen those ties as much

Indeed! But my point is that making friendships in those cities is not prevented by the people or social norms in that country (while in Japan it apparently is, if I understood the previous comments correctly).

> But consider what proportion of attendees at those meetups ended up becoming your friends. I'm guessing a single digit percentage, at best.

Of course. However, if most people would refuse me due to social norms, that number would have been easily dropped to zero.

> I don't tend to attempt conversations with strangers (or people I know, for that matter), so very few of those acquaintances even learned my name. In essence, I don't have any friends.

But that's a purely personal choice, not something imposed onto you by the society, isn't it?
Malwarebytes gets legal victory in suit over characterization of rival software
Then you need to validate, authorize, etc. queries correctly. I see no reason why anyone would want this.

Instead use GraphQL which is a thin layer, and hide all the business logic behind it. Way more manageable.
I was always a little disappointed I had so many friends get into Harry Potter when I was younger. Animorphs explores this idea in depth, especially for a kids novel. So in depth that you eventually feel that the parasite controlling other beings can be justified in their war. It is still a kids series so many of the books are filler, but the beginnings, chronicles, and ending are very deep even when looked at through that lens. The books are easy reads as an adult and the entire 60 book series can easily be read in a month.
UPDATE: Conda seems to be able to do just that.

conda create -n myenv python=3.6.3

conda install -n myenv scipy

conda install -n myenv numpy

conda install -n myenv pandas

source activate myenv # To make use of the environment.

source deactivate

conda create --name myclone --clone myenv. # Clones the environment.

du -sh /Users/asampath/anaconda3/envs/myclone

du -sh /Users/asampath/anaconda3/envs/myenv

813M	/Users/asampath/anaconda3/envs/myenv

Fat environments. But, this works out just fine in our NFS mounted storage in cluster.
I'm not sure, but in several European countries the police is able to ask you for your ID when you're going about your business, there's no limitation that it must only be in relation to an offence.

Thus any interaction with them could result in you needing to put a stop to anything else you're doing as you're escorted back to your house to fetch your ID, unless you're carrying it in the first place.

But the example I provided wasn't such an example, since there was a fine involved. However just having compelled ID changes even that situation. If Germany didn't have that I'd probably been able to just pay the fine on the spot without need to establish my identity.

I don't believe there's anything equivalent to that in the US. Furthermore since there's no national ID system they don't even know if you have a driver's license, social security number or passport, so their options for compelling you to produce ID are limited.
Unrelated but interestingly, it's exactly the opposite at sea. More inertia makes it harder to react in a timely manner, smaller craft must give way.
Happens here in London, UK. Amazon like to leave packages on my doorstep. Stolen every single time. To fix this they appear to have left instructions to "sling it over the back fence" or "jam it in the letterbox and destroy it".
This reminds me of an episode of the podcast Weird Work where they interview someone who works as a bridesmaid for hire. For a fee, she'll help with wedding planning and go as far as flying out to act the part of bridesmaid in your wedding [1].

So this isn't just a Japanese thing. Just as I think that most people in the US would find hiring a bridesmaid in the US to be a little bit weird, I'm sure most people in Japan would feel the same way about the service described here.

[1] https://bridesmaidforhire.com/
It definitely is, but in different forms. Flag football, for example, is a thing lots of people do in my neck of the woods.
Mistake is a variable that cannot be eliminated. It is something to be written in on everything you do.

If you make enough mistakes to create a destructive scenario. You're doing something wrong.

Here's an similar scenario:

Person A 'mistakenly' misplaces money on the city sidewalk. Who should Person B ethically return it to?
This is an article about beer with a small addendum about taste.

The author's analogy is based on a false premise of bitterness being universally repulsive as a flavour. Within the group of those with heightened tastebuds that can more accurately taste it, disdain for bitter is not uniform. I.e. I've a much keener than average sense of taste and smell. I hate beer because I dislike the basic essence, regardless of ingredient/flavour variation, which is due to my dislike of bitters as a flavour group. However, I know others who may be considered "supertasters" that like bitter flavours and go out of their way to consume certain foods of peculiar/distinct bitterness. Likewise, some "supertasters" prefer sourness as their top choices, etc. Edit: Similarly, "normal tasters" can like or dislike bitter (in varying combinations and intensities) but dislike doesn't automatically equate to stronger sense of taste/smell.
I guess it's comparable to a company who is being investigated and risks a large fine. Most of the time when the fine is determined, the stock price goes up.

The uncertainty keeps the price down. People expect a fine, but not how large it will be. I believe there are even cases where a company got the max possible fine and still their stock price went up.
Serious question; I hope it makes sense: What makes these "sexes" and not just "individuals"?

To elaborate a bit: when I read the description, it sounds like a person could make the same claim about humanity: "there are billions of sexes: John, Jane, Tim, Judy, Juan, Maria, etc etc"

How is this different? Or equivalently, what makes a "sex" a "sex" if it's just variability within the sex chromosome, but every individual is able to create progeny with 25% (?) of other individuals.

To me, that sounds like 4 sexes.
SQL Queries: Top 10 Most Used (2013)
They just abandoned capture plans, only around 20-30 vaquitas remain, it is a truly devastating situation.
This is a POC in scala I put together rather quickly:

https://github.com/AlexGalays/POC-api-aggregation

How you would write a query:

https://github.com/AlexGalays/POC-api-aggregation/blob/maste...

Unfortunately the PokeAPI is not the best at showcasing this with many level of unneeded nesting and resources with nothing but an "url" property but hopefully you get the idea :)

The fact that the query "language" is indendation based rather than GraphQL's a-string-that-looks-a-bit-like-json-but-isnt was just an arbitrary choice, it's easy to change.
because the mushroom got triggered, and it makes fun of people getting triggered, somehow that makes it "hostile"
In the UK we can get our money back if the goods don't make it into your hands. It's up to the seller / courier to prove otherwise although it's usually a battle arguing with them.

Royal Mail delivered a £560 multimeter to the wrong address and to a signature which wasn't mine. Never saw it again. That took a nightmare battle from hell to get sorted.
I think there are underlying issues beyond slander or misinformation.

In many ways, credit scores are an early example of data related problems that will become more common. Some will become serious issues in the next few years.

Credit scores are basically an estimate of credit-worthiness. The system is designed to solve the banks' problems, not consumers'. For banks, some number of false positives (creditworthy person with a bad score) is acceptable. It may narrow the market slightly, but it improves the quality of the remaining majority of customers.

This is true of a lot of statistical/algorithmic decision making. Paypal flagged me as "high risk" when I moved countries, so I can't use paypal now. For paypal, losing 1 of me to avoid 2 malicious users is an acceptable trade-off. For me, it's annoying but not a big deal because paypal is rarely the only option.

If paypal's "danger" flag were shared across the financial system, this would become a serious problem for me. It could freeze me out of online transactions entirely, maybe other things. If landlords had access to paypal's "high risk" filter, would it be worth using to filter out bad tenants? Seems possible.

The false positive problem goes from an annoyance to a fundamental rights vioation quickly, if data is shared.

Insurance is acquiring similar issues, though with very different mechanisms. As statistical inference improves, insurance ceases to be insurance... Risk gets pooled across ever smaller groups. The whole purpose of insurance is to pool risk widely. IMO, this is the problem the US' health policy architects underestimated. Insurance companies know too much to be insurance companies.

More such issues are coming soon. China seems to want a credit score system, with alarmingly ambituous and and political breadth... The Social Credit System.

Adtech companies and conglomerates (especially FB) are really hitting their stride. I wouldn't be surprised if they can score credit worthiness, insurance risk and other things using their web browser and app datasets.

Should adtech be allowed to service banks, insurance companies, real estate agencies and employers? If not, we should probably decide this now.

I don't know what the answers are, but credit score may be the place to start. I think approaching the problemfrom and identity/data protection perspective is fundamentaly flawed.
Paul Graham wrote a great piece on this in 2010 http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html

> As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much. The closest is the colloquial sense of "addictive." That usage has become increasingly common during my lifetime. And it's clear why: there are an increasing number of things we need it for.
> The next 40 years will bring us some wonderful things. I don't mean to imply they're all to be avoided. Alcohol is a dangerous drug, but I'd rather live in a world with wine than one without. Most people can coexist with alcohol; but you have to be careful. More things we like will mean more things we have to be careful about.
> You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.
We'll have to worry not just about new things, but also about existing things becoming more addictive. That's what bit me. I've avoided most addictions, but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it.
Sounds pretty eccentric, doesn't it? It always will when you're trying to solve problems where there are no customs yet to guide you.
> And unless the rate at which social antibodies evolve can increase to match the accelerating rate at which technological progress throws off new addictions, we'll be increasingly unable to rely on customs to protect us.

That means there's going to be a market for products to manage addiction. My bet would be driven by parents and schools
I wonder what the result would look like if they didn't use a sound-card, but a DA-converter with wider bandwidth.
Everytime I see my package is being delivered by Yodel I just sighs, they always find a way to fuck up an order.

But to be fair, it seems like Amazon, are no longer working with Yodel, I have not seen any item I have from bought from Amazon.co.uk to be delivered by Yodel for at least two years.
WooCommerce catalog Mode
How do you know when to scale your SaaS product feedback process?
I recently received an empty box from Amazon. No more than 5 minutes with their online support and they had created a new order to re-send the item with their fastest shipping option. Easiest customer support experience I've ever had honestly.
No, the intended way of cloning works by exporting the exact specifications to a text file and re-creating the environment from the text file.

If you use packages from conda channels (which are repositories of packages), then it should work flawlessly. Usually basically everything is available from either the official channel (anaconda) or some community channel (like conda-forge). At least in the data-science domain. I'm not really familiar with the python web-development scene, so not sure about that.

Edit: actually once I had to copy an environment from one machine to another (because of connection problems), and I seem to recall that worked too, but I don't think this method is officially supported.
I suspect this is a combination of delivery services being simultaneously an oligopoly and heavily unionized. The combination of little competition and high wages makes it difficult to justify going the extra mile.

For what it's worth I know at least UPS has a premium service where you can schedule your delivery to a specific time during the day.
Yes but we could could look at the amount of of data transmitted in total. Audio compression is well understood, and can infer within an range of usable quality, if any excess voice or other data is sent over the network.