skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect money laundering is already there.... they don't care, its all selective prosecution anyway. The purpose of the laws is not to stop crimes, but to make so many things a crime that if you resist tyranny they can discredit you and jail you.
This was about testicles not pregnancy, if you look up post.

Ignoring that (and "not as crazy as it seems" is a pretty straw argument), I'd say that the risks to mother and child of such an extreme surgery and long term use of anti-rejection drugs during child bearing raises it's own ethical issues. Adoption seems to be completely inconsidered.

That you want to argue that many people's insemination choices are driven primarily by logic seems odd to me. I think they get off on their idea of what sex, pregnancy, and childbirth are supposed to be like based on what they hear from their friends, family, and media, along with how they want to be perceived. Only a tiny portion of that is related to rational decisions to provide societal or even individual good to their child.
The intent of those laws are to be supressive.

If you started expanding something like social security numbers to be a real ID system with photo ID and digital 2FA, then maybe in 10-15 years you can make it a requirement.

That's how long time adopting of such systems takes in other countries... With much smaller populations
I'm always surprised when people try to connect math and physics to CS/programming. I studied differential geometry in grad school, wrote proofs and read dense textbooks daily (very rarely missing a beat), then taught myself programming/CS. I'm now four years into my career, doing pretty well.

I see almost zero connection between the two:

* CS/programming: techniques (a mathematician might refer to these disparagingly as "tricks") used to make machines do things

* mathematics: foundational truths on the study of space, quantity, structure, change etc.

The most mathematics I've ever used on the job was basic (read: finite-dimensional) linear algebra, which is a part of every undergrad math student's basic toolkit.

If you're concerned about holes in your knowledge as a self-taught web dev, I'd study core CS courses like architecture, operating systems, networks. Know what you don't know that matters (hint: it's not "math").

EDIT: there may be a strong connection between computability theory and math https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability_theory, but I don't think this field is mainstream in either core CS (could be wrong here?) or math. I've certainly never encountered it on the job.
He doesn't just have a single drive though, he has (at least) two (the drive in active use and the off-site backup drive).

Not the ideal 3-2-1 rule of thumb, but also not a ticking time bomb.
And all of the data breach sites seem to go out of their way to make them seem scammy as all get out.

www.databreach-settlement.com is for the Anthem data breach.

The Uber driver breach sends you to www.experianidworks.com.

The Equifax incident sends you to www.equifaxsecurity2017.com.

And those are just the three "we can't do security" cards/letters sitting on my desk.
> So you have only one user on your Mac and that user is named "root"? Really? That would be very strange.

It might be the only local user with a password set, with all other users coming from a remote directory service. Think university labs.

Also, you can always pardon a single incident. But Apple got so aggressive with casualties caused by their system updates that I'm really pissed off by it.

System updates regularly reset configuration to factory settings, breaking things in the progress. Note that I'm not talking about modified system files (those we expect to get reset and thus try hard not to touch) but documented configuration points.

This arrogant mindset is best described as "you surely didn't meant to deviate from our divine default settings, so let me fix that for you!".

For some files they recently started to move your modified files out of the way (creating a backup blah.conf.$(date) or whatever) before forcing the factory config anyway. Not that we need it, but it's probably all we'll ever get.
You can probably group them into two categories: APIs that Google makes money from, and those they don't. The former probably will stick around, especially the ones having to do with Ads.
Honestly where does this George Soros Boogeyman spring from? His philanthropy seems way less insidious and society undermining than the Kochs, Mercer, DeVos.
The article is talking about unmanned moon missions, and mentioned that China sent a rover to the moon in 2013.
I am from a country with national ID cards and yes people are required to carry it on themselves at all time if they are outside.

It's mostly used to check your identity if the police stops you while driving, which is a little annoying because surely they could just check that electronically, but it's probably a legacy system. You also use it to verify your age when buying alcohol because driving license is not a valid form of ID.

It's not really a problem, I have mine in my wallet and never take it out, it's been sitting there for years. You can only really get in trouble if you don't have it while driving, and in that case I probably won't have my driving license either because it's in my wallet as well.
Google's "other revenue"[0] for Q3 was $3.4 billion of the $27 billion it made that quarter. Other revenue is mainly Play, Cloud, and Hardware. So I'd say Google is making a lot of money from other avenues.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204417...
Does eventually needing a truck justify driving one when for now everything fits in a van? The structure Django imposes on you may get in the way while you're still experimenting.
No. The exact opposite, in fact.
That's pretty much the worst example you could have come up with. Carrying a child inside of you, is no stretch of the imagination equivalent to impregnating someone the old fashioned way. No man in their right mind would put up $150,000 in experimental money, when they have their own stored semen. Sure, if none exists maybe, but doing all that just so you can use fresh? That's just silly. It's still your DNA, and you can still have sex.
Actually the fan is to cool the current layer, immediately after depositing, to solidify it as quickly as possible. That it also cools the previous layer is just an accident.

I think Animats is right. It would be better to locally heat the previous layer right before depositing, and then cool the joint right after.

Unfortunately that requires highly precise heating and (even harder) cooling, so is probably still a few years away.
Finding smart solutions to the issue of corporate data breaches is laudable. Finding solutions that are feasible for use by people who are being paid the lowest wage that the company they work for can get away with will be miraculous, IMHO.

The reason I say this is that knowing not to give a sensitive AWS S3 bucket public access is 101-level AWS expertise, which means either of these scenarios are likely:

- The persons responsible did not know any better, or

- They did know better, but made an error provoked by pressure due to understaffing.

Both of these point to a lack of competent security personnel, either due to understaffing, or hiring insufficiently experienced staff, both of these due to minimizing salary budgets (or clueless hiring managers, perhaps).
> Stanford said what the public wanted to hear.

There's a bait and switch that colleges do. Also hospitals, but mostly colleges.

On the one hand they go out and tell people what a value driven organization it is, how their passion is making the world a better place -- when they are asking for money from people almost of whom have far less in the bank than they already do and when they are defending things like very adventagous tax rates.

On the other hand when they get caught doing something that looks unprincipled or rapacious they all of a sudden become economists lecturing you about how of course every organization acts as an interest maximizier and what are you naive?

Well maybe we were naive. But now that everyone knows what the deal is maybe they can lay off the disingenuous appeals for donations and tax expenditures. Fool me once and all that.
I don't see how this is any different from discovering years later that he had 10 pounds of gold buried in the backyard, a situation I'm sure you have some legal recourse in.
> Say the government set up booths in a mall for public officials to make speeches. Could the government then kick out people who bring in pro-abortion signs to such a speech? Probably not.

I am not an expert on this area of law, but it's possible that they could:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

> The existence of free speech zones is based on U.S. court decisions stipulating that the government may regulate the time, place, and manner – but not content – of expression.
I haven’t met anyone with a physics degree in the past 10 years that cannot program.

Programming is required today to attain a post graduate and even graduate at physics since you’ll be programming a lot of math problems and more importantly simulations.

We have 8 CUDA programmers at my work place and only one of them has a degree in computer science/SE the rest got post grads in Physics Chemisty or
Biology.

On a grad/undergrad level for the most par CompSci students would not have much advantage in programming today over Physics or other exact science/engineering students.
Perhaps if the penalty is based on days since exposure--immediately revealing the breach gets you a minimal fine, but waiting six weeks is enough to cause a major fine (or add to sentences for fraudulent trading related to the incident), and years is even bigger?
As someone from a rural area (my vote likely had more weight) in the state where a third-party candidate got 20% of the vote (Utah, McMullan), I'm not sure I feel much differently. There are simply a lot of people out there, not to mention all the ones who didn't vote.

It's frustrating to be surrounded by those who think conservative media is not only flawless, but the only source of truth, who feel cornered to vote for a candidate that they don't believe in because they feel beholden to our two-party system. If we could simply make those individuals feel confident in the ability of their vote, we would get right out of the two-party system.

As bleak as things are, though, I haven't given up. To do so would be to give up my liberty to these idiots, without a fight.
The uni is actually in Waco, about 150+ miles south of where the hospital is. Not sure how connected they are these days.
It would seem to me that having activists occupy your stores doesn't work very well toward maximizing your profits.
Just wanted to anecdotally affirm whalesalad's experiences with my own. I desperately wanted to like Django more than Rails (I just really appreciate python as a language), but I find projects much quicker to build in Rails. It really is the convention-over-configuration magic that makes the difference. There's less to do in Rails to add commonly used web/crud functionality - but it's much less explicit and relies on you getting all the conventions correct. Rails is really the only framework that I've found fairly hard to learn, simply because you have to memorize the conventions to know e.g. where to pluralize and what magic helper methods will have been auto-generated.
It should be noted I've never worked on a large Django project - I suspect once a site's data structure and main functionality has been nailed down and you get a larger team involved, Python and Django's 'explicit is better than implicit' design philosophy will start to provide increases in efficiency.
As a fellow Princeton grad and one-time admissions officer, I concur 100%.
Can you post some more about musical calculators? I've never heard of a musical calculator.
> i’m sorry for your experience but this is also patently false applied as a general statement to “us”. you’re not helping the situation by putting all of us over “there” where there is always one instant away of you being nothing to us.

All untreated BPDs experience splitting. For me, that isn't up for debate. By that, I mean you can't convince me otherwise. It's a hallmark of the disorder. Maybe you are receiving treatment and able to suppress it, but as soon as treatment no longer works for you or you discontinue it, you will start to split again.
I don't think you understand how case law works. Unless you're making an argument for full legal instrumentalism(?)
Fair point...
How did they measure happiness? With a ruler and compass?

How do you measure it cross-culturally? It’s a farce metric that’s used by politicians because they can make it bend however they want. Ecuador is happy too, maybe we should be more like them? If Zimbabwe was happy would that be evidence we need to be more like Zimbabwe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Pretty much becomes “blame the messenger” in a hurry. That and these comments quickly become “why didn’t they just do it the ‘right’ way...as if such a thing existed. With security there is no right way, just many known wrong ways.

I got into a discussion once about how to properly handle passwords (cause somebody has to do it). There is no right answer, just lots and lots of wrong ones. Don’t encrypt, hash. But not that hash, use another...and not any of those over there; and sure as shit don’t write one yourself. Use an off-the-shelf hash...just not any that you have access to now. Not that one either, we don’t recognize the author by name...and not the other one because we don’t like the owner of the company (who is not a developer).

TL:DR, if you write code that needed security...eventually you are fucked.
you are, but the removal of the state & local income tax deduction means only a small % of people will ever claim mortgage deductions compared to today. You’d need over 24K in mortgage interest + property taxes.
there's no way those boot camp programs spend 10-12 hours a day on data structures and algorithms. that's hyperbole. they need to give their students vocational education on how to build web or mobile apps...how could they spend 100% of the time on algorithms?
Normally this would be a nit-pick, but it's a potentially significant one here since the medical center isn't religiously affiliated: Baylor the hospital system isn't affiliated with the university these days.

It's affiliated with Texas A&M. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University_Medical_Cent...
One of the great things about bitcoin is it gives libertarianism a business model... and it's right out of SEK3's New Libertarian Manifesto--which was written in the 1970s-- SEK game theorized out what would happen with the Soviet Union, and proved to be correct 20 years later... now we are seeing the exact same game plan here in the USA with bitcoin and this law. But they are too late. Most likely outcome is this will get reversed or widely ignored.... but if they are successful, everyone smart will start leaving the country... or they will create an arab spring like response here, eroding respect for the government and police.

Gay rights couldn't be resisted in the age of the internet when everyone knew their cousin or that guy they went to work with was gay.... will be the same thing with bitcoin.

Question is, just how violent and authoritarian the tyrants in DC want to get.
The US has the most progressive taxation system among all developed nations. Nothing about that fundamental progressiveness has changed due to the tax cuts. The top 20% are paying 95% of all income taxes, that will continue.

For example, the US is radically more progressive on taxation than all of Scandinavia:

https://taxfoundation.org/how-scandinavian-countries-pay-the...
Or is it good marketing?
Do you use the Todoist Windows app? I like Todoist and have used it for a few years but the Windows app is crumbling! They moved to the Windows Store and the new app has tons of bugs. I keep losing tasks while trying to edit them.
I will rearrange a task only to find now I have a duplicate. I try to delete one and I lose both. So, the whole ‘task list’ idea has been undermined by the app’s bugs.

The legacy Windows app still works but is getting it’s own set of bugs as time goes by.

Have you had these experiences? Just wondering. I’m currently shopping for another solution. I have e-mailed them and the customer service seems to be waning along with the software support.
> Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc.

You're absolutely right here of course
I'll admit I was pretty surprised at the speed that Cruise seemed to come out of nowhere and start doing pretty impressive demos. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that corners were cut somewhere.

Can you give an example of the sort of special cases you're talking about so we can get a sense for what it's like?
What a Great Way to Spend Your Crypto Shekels
Are statecharts the next big UI paradigm?
Yep nope. When you compare people qualified for entering PhD programs (e.g., CS graduates), and the outcome of joining the PhD program vs not, there is clear wage suppression. You cannot argue that the market is right to dissuade this activity, because the people who do go into PhDs are responsible for a disproportionate amount of economic advances.

If you care about economic impact, you should be increasing funding, not eating the seed corn.

And as my above post, it seems you are either unaware of what R&D does and who does it, or are effectively performing the work of a paid Russian troll.
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Aside: a downside of Know-Your-Customer laws (and anything else that requires your to upload personal data to web services) is now that data can be compromised as well. Maybe there should be less such requirements.
The transpile issue on mobile is greatly overstated. The vast majority of mobile browsers (by market share) have very good es6 support. Instead of one version, websites need one with minimal transpiling and one with full translation for older browsers.

Sure you need a little more setup, but it's not only better for clients, but it's also much better for development because your source maps, breakpoints, and actual variables are much closer to what the browser is actually executing (this is especially important for generators because they compile to case statements that aren't easy to debug).
Pssst, I heard the last country to land people there laughable still hasn't even made it to the level of free health care for all! They still might, of course, it's not like any of these goals are mutually exclusive.
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> But it does seem that this quote demonstrates a tendency I see among female advocates of women in tech, and that is to slightly awkwardly use technical terms in order to try to prove that they are part of the "in group" of people who understand technical concepts.

That has nothing to do with being a female advocate of women in tech. That has everything to do with being 12 weeks into programming. That's the main reason I don't like this article.

I'm lucky enough to know a lot of incredible software engineers who happen to be women (and were also CS grads or PhDs), much smarter than me, and I don't like this attempt to associate all women engineers with people who clearly only have a superficial understanding of code.
Don't let the absurdity of hiring workers who can only afford to live in RVs escape you.

To be fair, maybe it makes some sense for seasonal work. Or maybe that's just marketing. If the wages are decent, then maybe it's okay.
just yesterday someone at cuny sps told me a professor is teaching them flask using python 2.6...

sigh
Some Android manufacturers provide "factory images" allowing you to completely wipe your phone and reinstall any version supported on the hardware. Google is probably the best, maintaining an archive of every version released for the phones they sell.
Apple really needs to refocus on making good software, instead of just forcing updates for the sake of change.

They are becoming a complete joke.

Unfortunately there are no alternatives I'm willing to accept anymore.
> The ENS is also called the second brain.

That's very interesting.
How much of our personality / memories are not really stored in the brain, but elsewhere in our body ?
This raises questions about organ transplants.
Show HN: Social Place-Sharing Web App
Crypto traders lose thousands in 'flash crash' on $54B exchange
> And from the student perspective, the recent votes at places like Chicago to unionize (and, more importantly, the justification provided by the student groups that organized those votes)

I'm at a school that underwent a grad student unionisation drive, and pretty much everything that the union proposed would have amounted to further empowering the administration at the expense of the academics (e.g. introducing new mediator officials with extensive compulsive power over advisors if their students should feel wronged in one way or another, hiring more staff to enforce diversity-friendly admissions and hiring outcomes, ...). At least the politicised end of the student body seems to consider the administration, rather than the academics, to be their natural ally.
The Verge just named the Samsung S8 the second best phone you can buy right now, after the iPhone X:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/15914934/best-smartphone-...
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opps
The fact is that before Republicans began pushing for voter id laws in states there were very very few proven cases of voter fraud. So if there wasn't a problem with voter fraud, what was the point of trying to pass the laws?