skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_Ai...

I'm not saying it was an alien craft, but there are a limited number of plausible explanations for an event like this and none of what you listed is a plausible explanation.
Sources required, for all our benefit
I just checked and studies seems to be default off - as it should be. 57.0.1 on Linux.
Churchill was a straight up racist. He was also indirectly responsible for the Bengal famine of 1942. On being told about the famine, his only response was "Isn't Gandhi dead yet". Of course, it helps that he ended up on the winning side of the war. What confuses me is that his contemporary, Stalin also ended up on the winning side though later on, his deeds[mis-deeds] came to the fore and he is now known as one of the evil men of the last century[atleast in terms of people killed]. Churchill, however, was voted the Greatest Briton of 20th century for some reason.
There's plenty of demand for used Teslas. And demand will likely increase a tiny bit if people are confident that they'll be able to find a supercharger stall the few times a year that they want one.
I disagree that they are on a slippery slope. They were on a slippery slope, then they slipped on it and fell into the crevasse.
> dog-whistle for eugenics-lite, along with a side of butthurt for being tsk-tsked

What does this even mean..
This.

Also, may I add, what was the aerospace research company paid for exactly? Wasn't the project just filing reports and talking to people?
LOOK HOT FOR 2018
>> A reversal of Thursday’s FCC vote would need the approval of the Senate, U.S. House and President Donald Trump. Trump also backed the FCC action, the White House said Thursday.
Let's make it 800 comments.
Anarchy is opposition to arbitrary authority. Wasn't feudalism the opposite of that?
You cannot possibly believe that you can confiscate all the guns in the US. So what magic wand do you have to make them disappear?
Was a thoroughly enjoyable distraction
> Traffic is a by product of the single family detached home and lack of transit options.

I think you mean “symptom”. The root cause is corporate refusal to spread out and use some of the wide open space in between the coasts.
And not necessarily Bitcoin, $10 is not the transaction fee everywhere (some places it's ~1¢)
Nevermind they don't have enough power in either house. Nevermind that the President would veto the thing. You've gotta wonder what the Dems are thinking. Party of the people? Telecom employs orders of magnitude more voters than Tech. Just for example,

Reddit employs 230 voters

Comcast employs 153000 voters

Imagine if it did pass. Just think of what happens if Comcast cancels a pay bonus due to "burdensome new rules passed by congressional Democrats. Also, we will be bringing in some Silicon Valley efficiency experts to see how we can automate away about 10% of our workforce to cover the gap."

I don't even know what the Democrats are trying to achieve anymore. The whole party seems bent on political suicide.
Your first sentence here is most interesting to me. This is an aspect of car culture that's sometimes overlooked, but what it does is infantilize adolescents and provide an arbitrary blocker to normal human behavior (e.g. shopping, visiting cafes alone, etc) until the child is old enough to drive to those places. A kid in Manhattan is in society and has access to everything his parents do. A kid in the suburbs is outside society, in some very meaningful sense. His access to the broader culture is mediated through television, perhaps, but he's not actually there. He visits society when his parents feel like driving him there. [0]

Who is surprised, then, that the car represents freedom to so many of these kids? Where I grew up, a car was needed for everything, which meant that I had almost no access to the normal world at age 15 and almost unlimited access on my 16th birthday.

Like a fish who doesn't know what water is, most Americans don't even realize that car culture is all around them. And an appreciation for the status quo is baked in very early. The car is simply how you get places. How could it be any other way?

[0] I think this is actually really important. A twelve-year-old should be able to pick up some groceries, mail a letter, grab a bite to eat at a lunch counter, and so on, but these basic acts of socialization are completely alien to suburban kids.
I for one cannot stand the Pocket integration, I prefer Bookmark OS
Holy shit it's real: https://github.com/IPGlider/GraftNetwork
funny thing is that none if the issues have ever been found on the thinkpad libe, only the ideapad line.
Sexual assault in academia
For Bluetooth headphones, I just blindly get whatever Sony has at my budget. It has worked well for me till now.
Brad also wrote MogileFS (omg files!) at LiveJournal, a self-hosted precursor to cloud object stores like AWS’ S3.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/mogilefs/
I don't agree with these arguments.

> An organism has the basic instinct and right of self preservation.

If you want to ensure self preservation, take steps to create an environment where the likelihood of survival is higher not lower. All the reliable evidence that I've seen points to higher gun ownership correlating strongly with higher murder and suicide rates and to the USA being an outlier in terms of violent crime as compared to other developed countries.

> Police generally focus catching criminals after they've committed a crime.

Well where that's true (and having lived in several countries, its not true everywhere) that's certainly a failing in law enforcement.

> a gun equalizes your chances with potential attackers.

This is extremely doubtful. Attackers generally attack in groups. They typically have planned their attack whilst you're taken by surprise. Also criminals are generally better versed in violence than the typical citizen. Pulling out your gun is often likely to turn a robbery into robbery and murder.

> The ability of the population to make things difficult for the government to institute total martial law is a basic check on wholesale removal of civil rights or due process.

This is the most ludicrous of all the gun lobby arguments. Seriously, you're planning on subverting the US government with your collection of handguns? The same government that spends more than 500 Billion on military expenditure/year?

> People seem to think militias in the mountains of Kentucky would be completely ineffectual in this regard but fail to notice how the Taliban has been very effective for decades in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is a failed state. The Taliban are likely funded by a lot of well heeled supporters included their partners in the Heroine trade.
The problem with that is that large metros in general have dramatically healthier job markets. If your choice is either (a) live in a sparsely populated place with no job at all but not much traffic, or (b) move to the affordable outskirts of a metro area with a hellish commute, a sizable proportion of people end up choosing b.

There isn’t really a “good idea” alternative to packing people around the same area; higher density is dramatically more cost-efficient for providing the same quality of public services and infrastructure and the same kinds of employment opportunities.

The question then becomes: if n people are going to live in the metro area, where someone in any nearby housing might plausibly work at any nearby job, what is the most convenient and effective way of organizing the space? The answer is: put a high density of housing and jobs directly next to transit corridors, so that many people can find work within a reasonable commute from their house (or can find housing within a reasonable commute from their jobs) without creating traffic bottlenecks. If instead you follow the LA model where density is mostly uniformly low, and commuting is via low-bandwidth freeways, then what you end up with is people living 2 hours from downtown and leaving home at 4 AM every day to beat the traffic, and other people stuck crawling down the highway twice a day.
IOTA: A tangled mess
Ask HN: How do you keep a record of your application's features?
I'm building my first SaaS and am finding that there are many little features and behaviors that I'm adding, in order to satisfy a subset of customers (and myself!). My worry is that any attempt to refactor or rewrite code will lose some of this functionality down the cracks. How do y'all manage this? Do you keep a list somewhere of every feature and its behavior? Any advice from people who have done this before?
Body armor is heavy and obvious, especially in warm climates. I don't think it would start an arms race. You would only wear it when you are attacking or expecting an attack. Not to mention it only protects your chest/back.
Second Life: Thomas De Quincey peels back the layers of the brain (1845)
If you honestly think the old saying, "all publicity is good publicity" applies here, then I'm going to strongly disagree. I think this is going to be a black mark on their reputation for the next decade. The worst part is that it hurts one of their biggest selling points over the competition, and that's the trust of the community.
I don’t know why so many people believe the founding fathers would think differently if they saw the world of weapons today.

They had just fought and won a war largely due to the ability of commoners to fight off the threat of the most powerful colonial power in the world. The second amendment was written to allow people to defend themselves collectively (hence the mention of militia) from the threat of nation states and corrupted powers, not carjackers and armed robbers. If they saw the world of weaponry today, I wouldn’t be surprised if they would interpret the second amendment to include grenade launchers and machine guns...because that is what the potential external threats (and possibly internal threats) have become.

You may believe the world has changed, but I still find it short sighted to go around disarming people. The count of people killed in genocides even in the last half of the 20th century is enough to dissuade me from putting my security solely in the hands of a government. And I say that as someone who generally hates America’s obsessive gun culture.
Battery plant in Appalachia plans to hire 875 at $39/hr
Edit: Why is this perceived as infallible?
If Fakespot is able to spot the fake reviews, Amazon could have also utilized the similar tech. What stops them?
A Proposal to Solve Blockchain Scalability
Looks like if you multiply [Total Coins] by 0.00000005 you get [5 million dollar equivalent], which, multiplied by [Market Price] gives you [5 million dollar equivalent in USD].

Seems to be that one advantage here is that, whereas Market Cap depends on the number of coins in circulation, this innovative analysis provides a manageable number to use in comparing currencies regardless of what percentage of each coin is in circulation.

For expample, if 100% of a given coin is in circulation, then you get the same result as above by multiplying [Market Cap] by 0.00000005. On the other hand, if the percentage of a coin in circulation is less than 100%, the results are different.

I'm not sure why it's called $5M equivalent.

Thanks to the OP for sharing.
Why do malls have security cameras when they cannot catch all thieves? Why have a border control when you cannot catch everyone crossing it?

If America gets rid of one million guns, that's one million less guns criminals can illegally obtain. This is not an all-or-nothing game. I'm sure even Japan has a few illegal guns hidden somewhere.
Amazing to see this discussion on HN! Here's another article that I'm pretty fond that explores how modern democracy has failed us and what we might be better off with in its place:

https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/29/feature-from-democracy-to-...
Judging by the photos, that train looks amazingly spacious and comfortable for a commuter train. It looks luxurious compared to British standards!

If you're going to spend 3 hours commuting, that wouldn't be a bad place to do it.
Ineffective because natural selection doesn’t over optimize.

EEG suggests earlier born babies can have huge merits in intelligence evolution:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-a-newborn-s-...
Are you misunderstanding this as a personal analysis to _understand_ the rapist personally? I don't think that's it -- she gave them numbers after all. At a population level, it's interesting to study.

Our brains are machines that we don't fully understand, it could be useful to discover why rapists rape. If you had lived one of those guys on the bus' life, would you have participated? Or are people like this born broken, never to be fixed, and we may as well throw away the key? It's a bit like Star Trek: Nemesis.

In some future if we could give a convicted rapist a pill that we scientifically know would prevent him from ever having a rape impulse again, would we accept him back into society? What if it was preventative?
There's .page that could work just as well. I'd be keen to see a movement like that too.
There isn't any outfit a woman won't be judged negatively for wearing. You could do a lot more good by speaking up when people are judging.
I feel like your initial comment was in bad faith.

You've shifted from "I don't understand the argument."

to

"I don't agree with the argument."

These are two very different things, and I would have responded very differently if you had written the latter. More precisely I wouldn't have responded at all. There are lots of topics where my personal opinions are one thing, but I do understand people's rationale for believing something very different.

And most importantly, for my peace of mind, I try to maintain the humility to realize that just because I came to a conclusion doesn't mean I am a priori correct. I am not necessarily smarter or more well informed than the people with whom I disagree, so I maintain skepticism about how substantive my opinion is.

YMMV but this general concept keeps me mellower and happier than imagining I am somehow on the right side of every issue.
Assuming the NYTimes owned the headshot copyright, a DMCA takedown notice might have been sufficient.
True and I'd still look at Thinkpads if I had to buy a new machine, but knowing what they did with the E, Y, G and Edge series would make me always look a bit harder at other brands first from now on.
*3 hr commute.

The title is off by a factor of 2.
Honestly after seeing the crazy stuff the Su 47 Berkut is capable of, I'm almost certain half of these things are just experimental drones.
> One possible answer to the Fermi paradox is that they are here but are just not making overt obvious contact

Exactly.

There's simply no reason to, except maybe sheer curiosity or some legal issues. What would we want from an uncontacted Amazonian tribe?

But even if they wanted, from the political point of view, who would you even talk to? People of the planet Earth, bypassing their governments? Every government of every country?

Plus, what about the possible social upheaval? They would be guilty.

No matter how you spin it, it's more trouble than it's worth. It is, however, essential to keep a potential competitor under surveillance, especially when they are rapidly developing.

Being spotted though, that I find improbable. There are numerous ways we could eliminate signs of contact with a society at the level of, say, X century, and that's just one thousand years gap. With a greater gap, it would probably be like competing with wild baboons over a Nobel prize.
When more than 80% of Americans (according to http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364528-poll-83-percent-...) opposed something and you can force your opposition to vote against that majority, you can use that in future elections as evidence that they're corrupt. Especially when there's a money linked to how they voted against their constituents. Why do you think there were so many house bills to repeal the ACA when it wasn't possible with the Senate and Obama in office, and so few once they had the numbers?

Same game, different ball.
Thanks, I came to the comments looking for something like this. Much appreciated.
At my last job, the HR rep considered suing the company for discrimination. So HR isn't even there to help HR.

Microsoft lost a case a few years ago when a female manager made up allegation to get a male employee fired. One of the employees she tried to convince to lie testified. That case may have influenced their decision to extend an offer.

On second thought, more likely that companies just don't care about a single allegation.
The article points this out specifically:

>"To understand the allure that social engineering holds for Chinese leaders, you have to go back decades, to long before apps and big data. In the years after the 1949 Communist Revolution, the government assigned everyone to local work units, which became the locus of surveillance and control. Individuals spied on their neighbors while also doing everything they could to avoid black marks on their own dang’an, or government files. But maintaining the system required massive state effort and oversight. As economic reforms in the 1980s led millions of people to leave their villages and migrate to cities, the work unit system fell apart. Migration also had a secondary effect: Cities filled up with strangers and pianzi."
mozilla has something called "system-extension" (the name changes over the years) that never shows up to the end user, and sole purpose is to enable/disable things in the users browsers.

the use, as far as I know, has always been to disable broken features in older versions of users that do not update. pretty ok and necessary.

but this makes me think they are using it to a/b test or capacity plan for marketing campaigns now :(
I understand the distinction and don't like implicit parameters.

Coming from Clojure, one could say that the "use" keyword shares a lot of the same pitfalls as implicit parameters, in that you are introducing values into your namespace which have not explicitly been referenced or scoped.

In Clojure, I choose "require" instead of "use" because "use" introduces too much ambiguity. The "use" statement in Clojure consistently makes code harder to read (for me), and I suspect the same is true of Scala's implicit parameters.

[Edit: Rails is another great example of implicit parameters run amok. Needless to say, I'm not a Rails fan.]
Trump’s Lies vs. Obama’s
I do reviews for my startup, the fake reviews is a big problem. My solution has been to collect more data. I'm using twitter to collect millions of comments about web hosting companies and built a review site around it. (https://reviewsignal.com) I think writing a 'review' can be a strange behavior, listening to people talking organically and analyzing that seems more accurate. Also there's more data that way.
The articles on this whole controversy describe it as an ARG - an Alternate Reality Game. I don't know exactly how this ARG works, but ARGs in general are like scavenger hunts - players investigate what's causing the changes, which give them hints as to where to look next.

So presumably it was implemented as a browser extension so game players would be able to find the browser extension, which would give them hints about what to do next.
When I was in submarine sonar school, one of my instructors claimed to have heard sounds under the sea that were not of this world. He said that they made him believe in alien visitation.

In the many years and countless thousands of miles of voyages that followed, I never heard a goddamned thing. Oh well.
> This is the most ludicrous of all the gun lobby arguments. Seriously, you're planning on subverting the US government with your collection of handguns?

You’re missing a key piece here. The local law enforcement would be tasked with going house to house to collect guns. And none of them would be on board with getting shot by citizens defending their rights.

The military is not allowed to do it AFAIK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
Both ways.
It's how Ray traced images look until you give then long enough to smooth out.
What were the OSS versions of commenting plugins - that don't need a browser extension. Mobile browsers are not going to be able to use this.

I run some sites that are used in China, where FBcomments/disqus are blocked. As a site owner I'm also responsible for policing my comments section. But a separately hosted solution could be an interesting way around that.
The four lane street (San Antonio south of El Camino) near where I live used to just have painted crosswalks but after two pedestrians were killed in a short span of time they added the flashing lights in the crosswalk to the ones close to El Camino and Foothill, no one has been killed crossing the street in the ten years since even though traffic anecdotally seems to have gone up a lot (knock on wood).
Yes, works on FF, Chrome and Edge now.

Good stuff!
Muslim Vikings and Magic Letters: The Odd History of Runes (2016) [video]
Here's the secret of REST: it's all about the information and definitely not verbs.

The author begins by confusing HTTP with REST. I understand that HTTP is probably the most common protocol for implementing RESTful architectures, but since the author is devoting so much time to trashing REST, they ought to correctly make this distinction. Hence, the complaint that HTTP verbs aren't adequate to express certain problems isn't a critique of REST, it's a critique of HTTP. This problem is present throughout the entire article.

Then, the author complains about the specifications of REST (i.e. "What a scoop in the software world" with respect to the client/server architecture). Not all applications are well-suite to client/server architectures -- those applications are not well-suited for REST. Some principles of any architecture may seem simple, but I don't think that's an inherit problem.

The author really revealed their ignorance with:

>Rest is awesome, because it is STATELESS. Yes there is
>probably a huge database behind the webservice, but it doesn't
>remember the state of the client. Or, well, yes, actually it
>remember its authentication session, its access permissions…
>but it’s stateless, nonetheless.

REST is not stateless, RESTful communication is. This just means that each request from the client contains the information necessary to create an appropriate response -- and that this is possible for all resources. That implies that issuing temporary authentication tokens is not RESTful, since an initial authentication request is required to create a second "meaningful" request. This is a desirable trait for many classes of applications.

However, all of this being said, the proposition 'REST is sometimes used inappropriately' is true, and it is interesting and constructive to identify situations where REST is being used inappropriately. It isn't clear to me that RPC calls are appropriate in all (or even most) places REST is used.

Rants like the one in this article are really toxic, simply because they make people think this is an acceptable way to approach technological problems. What would actually be useful is to:

* identify and find examples of misuses of REST

* try to create a taxonomy of REST abuses and recommendations for those scenarios
In the UK, handguns are so difficult to get hold of that organised criminals often resort to using modified flare guns or antique duelling pistols. Suffice it so say that these are not particularly deadly or reliable weapons.

There are about 50 firearm murders per year in the UK. We haven't had a single mass shooting incident since 2010. When taken seriously, gun control works.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/after-shooting-t...
Er. Profit?
That is such a picked from the air number.
Why waste engineers times when you're on top with hardly any competition? Google and Facebook only started caring about fake information under congressional pressure.