skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The street separating these two schools in Syracuse was designed for speed, which means it was designed to kill.

This is hyperbole. The street is designed to efficiently move car traffic. The design error here is in creating a situation where a large number of children will walk across it. The author's goal appears to be to design streets so that they make getting hit by a car less deadly, which strikes me as perverse.

It's certainly possible to make the street better for walking across by making it worse at efficiently moving car traffic, but it's also possible to replace the crosswalk with a pedestrian overpass and eliminate the conflict entirely.
Suicide attempts are predominantly impulsive acts that are rarely repeated, so controlling the means of suicide is an essential component in suicide prevention. Most people who attempt suicide go from intent to action within a matter of hours, with no significant forward planning.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032714...

Women are far more likely to attempt suicide, but men are far more likely to die by suicide. This disparity is explained predominantly by the choice of means - women tend to choose less effective means like poisoning and wrist-cutting, whereas men tend to choose more effective means like hanging and shooting.

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

Here in the UK, acetaminophen poisoning is one of the primary means of suicide. We restricted the sale of acetaminophen to a maximum of 32 tablets in pharmacies and 16 tablets in general retailers. This led to a 43% reduction in deaths due to acetaminophen poisoning, with no commensurate increase in suicide attempts due to other means.

http://www.bmj.com/CONTENT/346/BMJ.F403

If you're serious about suicide prevention then gun control is a vital part of the response, alongside other measures to restrict access to means of suicide and improve access to crisis care.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain. They made a small mistake and HN is taking this opportunity to villanize people making a real product and usually thoughtful decisions to support it. Slippery slope my ass.
Electric cars don’t solve the noise problem. A substantial proportion of car noise at highway speeds comes from the tires. They improve it quite a bit but it’s far from fully solved.
Sly genz
Volvo is reportedly scaling back its self-driving car experiment
Single implementation is important for consensus systems. Look at e.g. the spurious dragon hardfork.

The problem with multiple implementations is that if there is a tiny difference in behavior between them, you can only find out after damage has been done to the network via a split/fork.
I’m not blaming the alleged victim.

I’m blaming the drug (alcohol). I’m also blaming the company (MSFT) for encouraging consumption of that drug.

Ask yourself — if a company really cared about preventing sexual assault, why would they continue to encourage drinking with coworkers? What fraction of sexual assault happens while the people are drunk?
When a customer is burned by a bad product with excellent reviews, especially more than once, ordering from Amazon could quickly become more trouble than it's worth.
With divorce at the levels it is, single families often occupy 2 homes.
Did you read pass the first sentence?

He explains that including that addon for everyone by default is NOT OK.
What he means by the first sentence is that using addon for easters eggs is OK (but users need to install it themselfs).
Sounds like a market opportunity to me.
I don't think criminals are wise, but protection from police bullets doesn't seem like a reasonable motivation to wear bulletproof clothing. If required, the Police will simply call out a SWAT team using military weapons. There should be no reasonable expectation that somehow you can survive an armed exchange with the police.

Sadly, there are criminals that have tried bulletproof clothing with the resulting escalation of violence. In 1986 bank robbers wearing bulletproof outfits wounded five and killed two FBI agents in the 1986 FBI Miami shootout. Naturally, the two bad guys didn't survive. See [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout
And can it interact nicely with the "native" environment? I.e. build MSVC projects or ".exe" apps in general that can be used outside of Nix or WSL? I am not a Windows dev but I am very curious, it would be nice to move some cross-platform projects I work on to Nix completely for dev environment...
> Another thing I noticed is that playgrounds are not "safe" - the kids can climb tall structures, play with animals, etc. Kids are expected to progressively develop the ability to independently take care of themselves

My sister talked to a playground designer in Germany once.

He explained that they deliberately make the toys slightly dangerous -- if you fell off a structure, you wouldn't need to go to hospital, but it would hurt enough to teach a lesson.

They explicitly want to school kids' sense of risk, and at the same time, self-reliance. And offer a sense of achievement if you dare and master, say, a "dangerous" climb.
I don't Hong-Ou-Mandel is a two-photon interference.
So far in this game there is only a single photon, so you get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%E2%80%93Zehnder_interfero... and https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_e... interferometers.
Any of them who voted for laws that forced banks to lower, or ignore, existing standards for giving out home loans.
Not really. This isn't an actual vulnerability of the network to double spending, it's just a wallet (or wallets) issuing multiple transactions for the same coin (he may actually just mean the same address rather than the same coin, so that you don't come a cropper of the private key issue). This is possible in pretty much all cryptocurrencies, and their mechanisms for dealing with it (ie only honouring one of the transactions) is one for the core functions of any cryptocurrency.
I don't know if it's really specific to startup. In life in general no one cares about you and people tend to avoid you if it's going badly (except very close friends).
See the dev's response on the "slippery slope" thread. You had to go into about:config to enable it.
AFAIK Cardano (ADA), which is booming (passed IOTA and became the 6th largest coin this week), is implemented in Haskell.
Even worse then, the USPS is using the limited money they collect to subsidize this. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...
> Faster than light travel is impossible.

We just discovered our first extrasolar planets in 1992, so let's not pat ourselves on the back for having 100% complete knowledge of everything possible in the universe just yet.

> Aliens are easy to detect if they are anywhere nearby.

Oh, honestly. We can't even detect a stealth aircraft a couple hundred miles away. Submarines can go undetected for months at a time. Asteroids are spotted after they pass between us and the moon.

I suspect alien stealth tech would be at least as good as our own.
Could you send a screenshot?

In any case:

Reflection changes "left-right". So effectively, a sugar solution (rotating polarization) before mirror rotates it in the opposite direction (vs a sugar solution after a mirror).
Actually it is a tricky thing I realised while testing this game. I thought it was an error in code. But nope - it was how does physics work. :)
> The drama was IOTA lied about microsoft partnership and deemed hosting on azure == partnership with microsoft

I wonder if this is a recurring theme in "crypto". At one point I followed NEO, and they pulled the exact same stunt.
Go and wasm: Advent day 17
If you want to drop the retrain data, go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Reset Face ID.
Couldn't Apple fix this by only using data from 100% successful unlock attempts, meaning: If you unlock your phone without having to enter your passcode the data is used to train the model. If you had to enter the passcode - for any reason - the data is not used to train the model.

This would certainly make some edge cases (for example if you didn't use your phone for a while => changed facial features) less "magic" because you would always have to enter the passcode - but a simple "retrain" should then solve the problem... am I correct?
If your software is expected to have bugs then you shouldn't allow people to put money in it. You should be setting the expectation that the chain will get regular resets while you work out the kinks. You should be discouraging exchanges at every opportunity and shouting loudly at the world not to put money in your alpha release software.

It doesn't appear that IOTA is doing any of those things.
No one can tell at a glance how similar two people's fingerprints might be, so finding a collision by accident is very hard. Finding similar-looking faces from a pool of candidates is, in contrast, very easy for humans.

It would probably be even easier to find matches if we knew the precise heuristics Apple employs for ignoring glasses, headwear, facial hair, and so on; to be at all practical the feature must have generous degrees of freedom, which in turn reduce discrimination.

Finally, as many have observed, there are plenty of situations where humans will be in close physical and social proximity to others with similar faces: twins, siblings, etc.

Even if collisions are as infrequent as Apple claims (which I find dubious), face identification is fundamentally a lock that is easier to "pick" than fingerprints. I am forced to conclude that depending on facial recognition is a poor engineering decision motivated by user convenience whose limitations are deliberately mischaracterized by marketing materials.
Accepting the terms of copyright protection then is very different than from now. "Limited term" is no longer observed for anything of value to a large content publisher.
Lots of people don't agree on exactly what racism means, but one thing that is always true is that it's evil. That's the core, most powerful, most enduring meaning of the word.

You're just making the motte of the motte-any-bailey argument: Oh, racism isn't an insult, just a neutral description of something. The goal here is to make the word as widely applicable as possible.

The bailey is, of course, that the company is racist! And that's evil! So it needs to shift resources towards whatever the accuser wants them to do.
My sister said the same thing, but I pointed out that the crime rates are actually lower vs. when we were kids.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-japan-ever-convict-men-fo... they could work on this. It seems all crime isn't drying up, just the things the government wants to call a crime.
You do realize who's behind the vast majority of violent crime in Swdeden, right?

Hint: Many of them are not particularly known for celebrating Christmas.
This article appears in the second top post of this (currently front page) thread, made 9 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940318

It was also submitted seven hours ago, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944653

The original submission 19 days ago is here, with 90 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15803725
And yet, you’ll see first graders walking alone or in adult free groups to the convenience store during lunch to get something to eat. It’s only really the black Audi crowd that super coddle their children.

My hunanese wife had free reign of the city since elementary school, things are not that different now.
You obviously know nothing about Japanese history, because otherwise you’d be aware of Burakumin and the caste system in Japan more broadly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin

Caste-based discrimination was an important civil rights issue for most of the 20th century, and still has long standing effects on the organization and opportunities for people in Japanese society.

And of course there’s also Zainichi Koreans, long standing Chinese communities in places like Kanagawa, the urban rural divide, and countless more divisions that counter you’re simplistic description of Japan as a uniform society.
You see some people taking note of the camera or even interact with it, especially kids. However, there are also a lot of people who just seem to be going on their everyday business.

The cars were apparently staged but it's not clear that the rest of the traffic was as well: the reason for the former may have been to make SF look like a more advanced city than it actually was.
But the FCC didn’t have to roll back Title 2 for another agency or Congress to act.
The USPS Inspector General did an audit [0] of the ePacket program in 2014, finding that the cost of the program could not be effectively calculated, though the USPS certainly lost money on this service in the preceding two fiscal years:

> ePacket volume and revenue have increased, but the Postal Service still lost at least $39 million during FYs 2011 and 2012. Until accurate costs for ePackets can be identified and used as a basis for pricing, the risk of revenue loss for ePackets remains high.

Wade Shepard first wrote about this [1] for Forbes in 2011, following the USPS's announcement of the program [2]. His commentary sets the program against a backdrop of a global shipping war and plummeting postal service revenues. He writes, "Essentially, U.S. shippers are partially paying higher shipping rates to make up for the hit the USPS takes giving subsidies to the Chinese."

[0]: https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/inbound-china-epacket-costi...

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...

[2]: https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_037....
I think your last paragraph is absolutely key - many players treat that information as strictly proprietary. A big reason is because oftentimes a supplier makes identical (other than the packaging) products for two different customers, one sold as generic, one name brand.
"It’s interesting that the focus is on the gun and not the situation: club, drugs, (alcohol?)"

And a gun. A gun is really an important part of this, and the bit that we can have some control over, and a gun is the thing that makes this situation different in the US rather than UK or Australia.

It isn't like we are going to get rid of drinking locations. If they weren't happening in public, they'd happen at people's houses. Same with alcohol - we've tried it. I won't speculate on possible drugs since we aren't quite sure about that bit, but it is unlikely we'll get rid of these things either.

Without the gun, the weapons likely wouldn't have been so deadly especially if the person doesn't have proper training and control. Most likely, the weapons would be things like knives or broken bottles. Not saying they aren't deadly, just that they take a bit more work and might have more chance to live.

Now I'll assume the weapon was illegal. Hey, it happens even in place with tough laws. If they are put in place correctly (see Australia, who had a similar gun culture to the US for an example), fewer people have guns. Illegal guns are harder to come by because of that. Between scarcity and increased risk in selling, prices will likely go up and the end result is that fewer criminals actually have guns because fewer criminals can afford them. Especially possible low-level drug dealers.
Yep, and no amount of REST / other introspective boilerplate can help about the fundamental problem of not being synchronized.

There is no solution to the "A knows X, but B does not know that A knows X, or A does not know that B knows that A knows X, or B does not know that A knows that B knows that A knows X..." problem.

Other than that, I think at some level networking is nothing more than function calls that can take a long time and/or fail.
What is ReasonML, http://2ality.com/2017/11/about-reasonml.html

ReasonML is a new object-functional programming language created at Facebook. In essence, it is a new C-like syntax for the programming language OCaml. The new syntax is intended to make interoperation with JavaScript and adoption by JavaScript programmers easier. Additionally, it removes idiosyncrasies of OCaml’s syntax. ReasonML also supports JSX (the syntax for HTML templates inside JavaScript used by Facebook’s React framework). Due to ReasonML being based on OCaml, many people use the two names interchangeably.
To be fair, Ethereum also has a C++ and a Rust implementation.
Coll project. I think having educational * implementations in Python is great in general. Better then having just an article about it...
Amazon seller here.

This is not strictly true, you can still have your orders shipped "prime" but not commingle.
How much does this stuff weigh?!

My flak with Level IV SAPI plates was like 35 pounds, that was just for the armor and nylon, and it was roughly tank top shaped. God only knows what something jacket-sized would weigh if it were lined in ballistic ceramic plates.

The thought of international VIP types trudging around like a big ol' bulletproof Harrison Bergeron is actually kind of funny now that I think more about it.
I thought the final step would be that they'd realise there was a geographic centrum, create a parking lot to save fuel, then realise they didn't need wheels, ... and you've got a "trailer park".
A great book on the curse of technology
Undercover reporting on temporary workers, with a focus on legal violations and enforcement, rather than helplessness: http://projects.thestar.com/temp-employment-agencies/

Largest improvement in labor protections for “precarious workers” in two decades, but still no liability for injuries to temp workers: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/20...
The main use case for a phone passcode is keeping your stuff secure in the event that it’s lost or stolen randomly.

Both technologies are fairly secure against run-of-the-mill thieves. They’re good enough that the market for stolen phones is probably reduced to breaking them down and selling them for spare parts.

If you happen to fall victim to a more sophisticated criminal, Touch ID is going to be way worse. Your phone is covered with the fingerprints needed to unlock it. It will take some sophistication to turn a print into something that can unlock the phone, but it’s doable.

There’s no equivalent for Face ID. Most likely the criminal doesn’t know what you look like at all, so they could try five random people and then get locked out with a probability of success of roughly 1 in 200,000. If they know who you are they could try to look you up and find similar looking people, but that’s going to take time and effort and you have to get it done within 48 hours, and the odds of success are still not great. (If it was easy to reliably unlock the phone with a similar-looking person, we would have heard a hundred stories like this by now.)

It’s far from perfect but I have no qualms trusting my security to it. It’s better than Touch ID and far better than the 0000 passcode I used before that.
I was partway through writing a comment in reply when I noticed I was actually writing an essay: https://aaron-m.com/2017/12/17/small-travelers-in-an-antique...
School credit, job training and a paycheck?
Awesome graphics! Can't wait to try it out! :)
Callahad agrees with you that "force pushing" the add-on was a terrible, terrible idea.

In the part you quoted they were just pointing out that an optional extension is the correct place to implement this sort of thing. I am sure that if they had just posted this as a separate extension from day one then the target audience of Mr Robot fans would have had fun with the ARG and everyone else would be totally unnafected.
Why nobody asking for coins left in the Alphabay?
we need to do something for getting them back!
For those interested in this, there is a very good Japanese movie whose English title is "I just didn't do it". "Based on a true story, the film focuses on the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, he was confirmed innocent and saved from his effective imprisonment after a five-year legal battle." [1]

You'll find in this movie exactly what the parent describes, the apology culture as well as how difficult the system makes it for you once you've been accused of an offense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Just_Didn%27t_Do_It
Agreed. I talk to my 2 y.o. son in a normal tone with full sentences, respect, and he seems to appreciate it. I can tell when my mom talks to him like a baby that he gets annoyed, it’s unfortunately amusing.
>It seriously pisses me off that people think the law and rulings made by judges and juries are absurd without knowing anything about the cases or rulings in question.

It might piss you off, but there's a point to these stories. Italian's say "se non e vero, e ben trovato" (Even if it is not true, it is a good story).

This is not about it being an entertaining story -- it's about it expressing a real fault in the legal system and its attitude, despite doing it using a non-factual case.

In other words, the US legal system might not have THAT law, but the story remains true in a deeper level, in the sense that it is indeed the kind of system were such a law could be conceived or be remotely possible.
I would first check with my manager or my accountant, that I am not doing something that would violating my employment contract.

I.e. my manager is quite open about 20% of time arrangements, and we are working on several open-source projects at work, but I am not sure if taking money for working on something extra wouldn't violate something. It might be worth it to have it clearly spelled out in the contract.

On the other hand, a.f.a.i.k. in what do you do in your free time on your own hardware should be no concern to your employer, so accepting patreon donors should fall into that category as well?

Alongside patreon, I would attempt to introduce something like Varnish Moral Licence [1] as well. It looks like Mr. Kamp figured a nice way how to get a open-source sponsorship from big corporations (because from the procurement's perspective it still looks like a licence you get an invoice for even you don't promise them anything in return :-)

[1] http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/vmlfaq.html#isn-t-this-more-a-sort...
That'd be basically what I'd push for - someone with a pipette dosing the right amount. One only gets their dose with ID from a licensed administrator, who would also know how to do all the prep safely. Plus we could do all the education stuff - informing folks about not feeling it for a time.

Then again, if it proves to be too dangerous in legal setting, perhaps we could work on researching a safer alternative with similar effects.
One of the few apprenticeship programs that's actually live in the US:

> High school sophomore Sam Yost arrives at Stadium High School in Tacoma early every morning for his zero-hour jazz band class at 6:30 a.m. But when most students are wrapping up their school day at 2:05 p.m., he still has another four hours to go.

A total of 2,000 hours of paid apprenticeship, obtained concurrently with high school.
Time to close the 'contractor' loophole?

lol j/k, the man would never let that happen

(alternatively, completely separate out benefits from wages by law, or whatever other changes that would make it not always the correct business move to hire as few people as possible)
I uninstalled Firefox after seeing this. I have spent to last month to use Firefox (partly because of project Quantum), but this is unacceptable to me. Good bye!
Some estimates put iPhone X sales this quarter at 30m. And don't forget that people are generally poor at estimating probabilities like this, consider the birthday problem as an example. It takes a group of ~1,200 people for a one in a million collision to be more likely than not to occur. It's very unlikely for it to happen to you, but it's very likely to happen to somebody.
Downvote. Pocketnow redirects to a scam site.

Face ID is an answer to a question no one asked. I’m sure I’d acclimate but the fingerprint reader works brilliantly.