skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The only security measure is that the album link is hard to guess. It was pointed out that this link is really HARD to guess. It does not need to be guessed. All it would take for some strangers to get access to my private photos, is for one of my relatives to share this link by mistake."

FWIW, whenever I share sensitive documents on drive, I do so via a shareable link. I figured if I trust someone not to download the file and share it as an attachment, then I trust that person to not share the url publicly as well.

One distinction though, is that URLs are much easier to steal, as compared to login info. People often don't make an effort to hide their browser URL when using their laptop in a public location, nor do they clear their history when using a shared computer. In theory, someone determined can use these vulnerabilities to steal a URL address.

In practice, the above threat-model seems obscure and unlikely enough, that for a social service like Google photos, what Google has seems reasonable enough. I can understand the author's surprise, but I can also understand Google's policy here.
I would ask myself what the cash liberated from the war on drugs could be more usefully applied to, except I suspect it wouldn't get spent on health, mental or otherwise, or on short-circuiting or avoiding paths to jail in the justice system. A shame, because both relate strongly to side effects or direct outcomes of .. the war on drugs.
> The vast majority of professionals are employed - their income comes from an employer, not through execution of a copyright they hold.

But... copyright is how the vast majority of those employers are making a profit, and how they're able to pay the creative professionals.
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Every comment you make here is copyrighted. You'd be bankrupt if you had to pay tax on your accumulated collection of comments.
I'm not in America but I've had to vote in many elections. I don't think I ever presented any ID ever, they just took my word that I'm the one who I said I was. (I think there was once a state election when they posted me a token that I was supposed to return to vote.) Yet the elections here are widely regarded as high quality.

But if your goal is to prevent double voting, you would just use the inks they use in some newer democracies. Then you know John MacIlroy only voted once because you can see it on his fingers. This is probably even more reliable because you won't cut off your finger to hide the ink, but anyone can go get a false id. And no-one is disenfranchised because someone stole their wallet last week and they haven't received their replacements yet.
What about if the lock was priced according to the established prices of locks?

This is a random lock of the same type: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CMMBATI/ref=abs_brd_tag...

$40 on Amazon.

So you've got a lock with bluetooth which adds utility. So double it, hell triple it. $120. I think if their product was priced at $120 we would not be looking at this result.
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Users don't know/care about flexbox at all. It's developers concern.

Also UC has much more features and builtin contents than chrome. Maybe UC can provide better user experience to new internet users that think typing urls on phones to see news and videos weird. Not everyone likes minimalism.
You didn't even have to buy from Al Capone.

People who could afford it built extensive wine cellars and stocked them up before Prohibition began.

The head of a household could make up to 200 gallons of wine per year for personal use and to share with family and friends. San Franciscans bought their grapes off the train that came down from Wine Country. If you didn't want the mess of crushing the grapes yourself, Golden Gate Grape & Juice Co. would crush them for you and deliver them to your home in a barrel from Pigiatura Completa Dell'Uva next door. (Scroll up and down in the first link for some photos.) [1] [2]

If you didn't have a cellar or a source of grapes, you could mail order a "grape brick" of compressed dried grapes that came with a warning label: "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine." [3]

You could buy liquor for medicinal purposes with a doctor's prescription. The prescription listed the type of liquor required, how much you needed and how often to take it, and you would get the prescription filled at your local pharmacy. Walgreens grew from a few drugstores in Chicago to a nationwide chain by supplying medicinal liquor during Prohibition. [4]

Clergy could buy sacramental wine and share it with their congregation for church services and other needs. California's Sebastiani Winery, founded in 1895, survived Prohibition by supplying sacramental and medicinal wine. [5]

Daniel Okrent has written extensively on Prohibition. I highly recommend his book Last Call and related talks he's given. [6]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=vqFxq6nv4rEC&pg=PA104-IA6&...

[2] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Prohibition-...

[3] https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-the-u-s...

[4] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-prohibition-yo...

[5] https://www.sebastiani.com/About-Us/Our-History

[6] https://www.google.com/search?q=daniel+okrent+last+call
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Also keep an eye out for the Greek question mark, looks identical to a semicolon.
A $700 lock isn't meant to be even an MVP. It's public proof that you're doing something, and a test that your production pipeline can generate reasonable quality products.

The strategic vision for these kinds of startups is that the industry is super far behind the times, and billions of dollars can be captured by just trying to innovate. Remember that Keurig was originally a $900 coffeepot.
So Clang itself was compiled to WebAssembly? That's slick, even if it does take forever to load.
Why do people think pain is evil though?

Perhaps the pain doesn't need to go away. Perhaps it's there for a reason. Perhaps attitudes need to change. Perhaps embracing and examining pain (within reason) should be a more common reaction.

Just throwing out ideas. Slap 'em if you want to.

But I will note not every society has needed to use so many pain relievers.
You should check out vanmoof. You'd never know it was an ebike if it weren't for the iconic branding.
How Often Should You Ship?
You need to put the nails in somebody's food.
They can be distinct historical events and still be driven by similar dynamics and precedent.

Nixon's war on drugs worked because it was making arguments that had been made before, and it worked because some people liked it for racial reasons, some liked it for religious reasons, and some overlapped.
With a lot of these grey areas it's not really specified in the original laws and you have to look at court cases for legal precedent for how that kind of stuff has gone in the past. I think downloading from a UK server you would be in violation of US copyright law and in principle whoever inherited Woolf's copyright could sue. Also there are customs restrictions on bringing in fake copyright stuff that are sometimes used for fake Rolexes and the like. In practice no one would bother sueing over one copy of a novel.
I thought this was an interesting essay, though I'm not sure I agree with all of it.

I do wonder if he's proposing somewhat of a false dilemma here. Maybe it's possible to ship often _and_ have high quality _and_ make big changes when needed?
Crohn's can also be improved with Glycine according to someone I know who started taking it for other reasons. A bit of googling then showed there may well be a connection, so the result made some sense. YMMV of course.
What's worse, mass incarceration has become the status quo with the American public. Writing new laws and jail seems to be the standard response for every problem in America. This is evident in the current opioid epidemic, where politicians just write up new laws and hope to just legislate the problem away, instead of examining the root cause and legalizing alternative medicines or funding treatment.
Made my evening, settling me down nicely. Thanks for posting.
>* If you get an initial opioid script from a doctor for more than 10 days, you have a 20% chance of being on opioids a year after. Again not a moral failing. [0]

It should be noted that people who are bad enough off to need opiods, may continue to be bad off for a long time. Not because of the opiods, but because of having a condition so bad that doctors are willing to give you opiods.

A script for more than a few days of opiods is very rare. I had a complete back fusion with 21 vertebrae drilled into and only had ~7 days prescribed.
I would have thought an ok way of dealing with these things would be after say 30 years to have an $100 annual copyright maintenance fee you have to pay. It'd be no problem for Disney but for 99% of the stuff out there no one would bother.
The product was built in China on the same lines that build the iPhone with the same detail. Manufacturing quality hardware is capital intensive, Finding people who can support that level of engineering is capital intensive, Hiring security engineers is capital intensive, they chose to go all in.

The company was not wasting money. I have worked in Silicon Valley startups with lavish spending. This was not one of them. There was no free food, no wine/beer on tap, no lavish parties, no free memberships to the equinox.
People might not like it but i really think native apps are going to die once everyone figures out how to optimize this crazy web stack.
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Often the folks experiencing this pain are experiencing the kinda of pain you probably can't really imagine till it hits you once or twice.

I used to have questions on migraines. Then I had the kind where you go blind for a bit before the headache. Yes, it is more painful than any normal headache.

In a sense, this is like asking why do we treat allergies? Maybe the body is reacting that way for a reason, after all.
I remember reading that Ross Perot wanted to do this if he became president. He also wanted direct voting at electronic voting stations so people could vote on specific laws.
These articles slowly chip away at an entrenched status quo that "all drugs are bad" and gradually shift public opinion. Just look at California who just legalized recreational cannabis today.
Good writeup and I agree with the sentiment that news sources need to disclosure their sources & biases.

However, we are entering into a strange age where information can be fabricated so well that we won't be able to reliably trust any information on a screen, especially as the timestamp exceeds what a Desktop computer would take to generate such data.

On AI Generated fake porn - video editing with face swapping. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040463

https://medium.com/@samim/obama-rnn-machine-generated-politi... -- Audio & Visual imitation of Obama according to a script.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37899902 - Adobe Voco 'Photoshop-for-voice' causes concern

Now tell me, why should I trust anything on this screen? I shouldn't and I won't.
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They had net 30 terms on the contract and I didn’t think anything of it. That meant I didn’t find out until six weeks after when they missed a payment and then shortly after that shut down the company.

Obviously I won’t agree to net 30 again.
I dunno, I'll play the crank here and say that writings like this really make me question the kinds of life that could be lived with this ideology.
People tend to already focus on themselves as the locus of creation, do we really need more of this?
I know there are people who claim to live better lives because of views like this, but I've seen how many of them live, which is often in the moment, selfish and a waste of others time.

If the highest intellectual, moral and emotional goal you can achieve is to know yourself, hour can anything be too selfish?

Yet, I hear far more often about what these people think of their lives, and far less about the actual benefit to others.

Maybe my moral compass is tuned differently, but the whole focus on "self" seems to be the most shallow when it comes to a happy life, but it sure is convenient ;P
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Go to Apple and ask them to refund the difference. If you got it replaced at an Apple store, they'll have it all logged and will do this if it matches the issue being described.
Is her journey more for the code or the ability to create games? The artwork is pretty cool I some how assumed you took part in the art. I remember being a good doodler but lost my attention in putting to much effort into a detailed sketch. I loved games and coding but at a young age probably would have taken some of the short cuts available today. It's cool either way hope when I have a kid they are open to tech and creating something.
HN used to lean very libertarian. I might need to say "right-libertarian" to be specific enough. That philosophy tends to tolerate large-scale power structures as long as they're not violating the rights of others and remain subject to competition.

I've noticed a shift away from that in the past couple years. The grandparent post doesn't seem to be left-anarchist though; more like state-socialist. It proposes that some central authority, presumably the US government dissolve or split up large tech companies. The problem I have with that is I fundamentally mistrust large scale power structures and centralized authority. The US government is one of the most extreme manifestations of those things.
Who would want to work for someone like this? If I can get my work done efficiently, why do I have to stay at the office?

This billionaire should read deep work, maybe he would attract more talent.

>“I want people who sleep in the office,” says Mr. Alabbar, the founder of the now three-month-old startup. “Want to go walk your dog in the afternoon and all that? I’m not the guy you work for.”
>The high black-market price for illegal drugs has generated huge profits for the groups that produce and sell them, income that is invested in buying state-of-the-art weapons, hiring gangs to defend their trade, paying off public officials and making drugs easily available to children, to get them addicted.

Drugs are cheaper now than they every have been. I'd argue it's the lack of regulated competition, leading to a handful of cartels that take the lion's share of the market (and money) that gives them such power.

https://www.alternet.org/drugs/price-illegal-drugs-dropping-...
2mins or so. Not bad.
You know people say - never be afraid of discussing your ideas? I believe one of the reasons for that is everyone's vision is different. So, even if I gave you an idea, I might see things differently than you do.

That said, here's my advice on finding a good idea - sell shovels during a gold rush. Now what it means find places where you can provide value by connecting two different parts of society.

One of the ways you do this is by building a robust "Customer Acquisition Strategy" for X business.

People had spare bed/couch at home but no way to find customers. Answer - Airbnb. The platform is so robust now that even full time B&B are using it for their customer acquisition.

People wanted to earn some money using their cars, especially in cities. But they had no way to connect with people wanting a ride. Answer - Uber.

Restaurants were spending tons on advertising but not getting steady stream of customers. If they wanted to provide "home delivery" it was an additional burden of maintaining a delivery fleet. Answer - Uber Eats, Grubhub, Postmates etc. Even review sites like Yelp etc are part of customer acquisition strategy as not only helps in great advertising when people see 4-4.5/5 rating but also assuage concerns on food quality.

So find a niche where people still have this pain and you might have a unicorn on your hands.
These are all manual postings. Seems that a bunch of “SEO” companies in the U.S. are outsourcing this work to Bangladesh.
Do you believe that the list quoted is intended to be restrictive or illustrative? Do you believe that citizens right to vote should be denied or abridged in general, or just in the case of photo ID (which I doubt was a thing at the time the constitution was written)?
Or rat terriers, controlling rats since 1545 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Terrier
I know these are used with great success in Norway: https://youtu.be/rfT9orf5Qrg

Sensors detect the rat and kills it immediately. Then it’s flushed out with other sewage. It also keeps count of how many rats are killed, which gives the city some numbers to use in their estimations.
I agree, once browser get a good grip on CPU parallelism things will probably be all downhill from there.
I think there is a bug in the bathroom, the bucket won't show up (but if you click around you'll get it in the inventory).

Very impressive from a 12 years old.
You may want also to watch a talk by Alan Donovan, co-author of The Go Programming Language [0], on static analysis tools [1].

[0] http://www.gopl.io/

[1] https://talks.golang.org/2014/static-analysis.slide#1
Check the hints. (Bella is knitting..)
Thanks Disney.
I see it becoming super popular and being mentioned very often. Is it really that great or all just hype?
Also very easy to game.
You can tip yourself.
She only got help coding -- that's all her art. She's been working on it a while.
I figured it was going to be something like Wellbutrin to quit smoking which, while off-label, kinda makes sense. But IBD? Can’t say I saw that coming. Because I’m not all that interested in the topic I just skimmed, but I gather it is not well understood why such wildly off-label use works? (And “no, go read the article” is acceptable. :-) )
Isn't WebAssembly a VM inside browser ?

If so, I am skeptical especially with end of moore's law.

Edit: I was a bit mis-informed, the design document is an interesting read..
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Rationale....
2 minutes is truly forever on the web. I found myself wondering if there was something wrong with the page.
My knowledge of American poetry is abysmal, but this sounds intriguing. Do you know of any good starting points to read about her work, and her life?
It says in the article is that most people’s trash cans have been chewed through by the rats
Understood and agreed. Within reason.

But also often people's first response to pain at whatever level is to try to kill it without first trying to understand it.

Pain is incentive to change what is happening. We need it. Otherwise we wind up even worse off.
Update, actually there is some Crypto UBI work being done

[1] http://cryptoubi.org/

[2] https://www.mannabase.com/

[3] https://medium.com/@fcecin/the-basic-whitepaper-7e789f16abe

[4] http://www.greshm.org/files/greshm.pdf

[5] https://ourbasicincome.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/circles-univ...
Because the best solution to a problem is rarely to swing your approach to the opposite extreme. That inevitably leads to more problems.

Let's take a few steps in the right direction and see what happens?
Color is still binary and there are at most 32 pieces on the board, so why not 3 bits per cell and a 32 bit lookup for color? Only 224 bits!
You get what the city gives you. Metal would probably be more expensive in any case.
How many threads do you think the browsers will allow on a single page?
Not sure more toxins is the way to go. How about old school galvanised iron bins?
It's hard to ask this question without sounding snarky, but I hope you will understand that I'm seriously curious to hear what you think.

> No, my observation has nothing to do with composition vs/ inheritance.

> It's about defining what a class IS vs/ what a class HAS.

What do you feel is the difference between these two sentences? In other words, why is inheritance vs composition not the same as what a class is vs what a class has?
> - Crypto currency: This is becoming more and more mainstream. If you can come up with some way for the average person to benefit from and want to use crypto, there's great opportunity available for you.

This might be both good and bad as the steam runs out of the current climb.

That said, I have been wanting to build something which might solve the volatility issue in cryptocurrency but see multiple problems. For one, I have zero programming knowledge and I have been trying to learn but it is going no where very fast. Second, the cryptocurrency crowd is difficult to please. This service, at least for starters, might cost a lot of money which might not go down well.
Why not stop using poison and just let some cats lose. My city ally has a healthy cat population most of which have been TNR'ed. The only rat I've ever seen was the severed heard of one that some kittens were devouring on the pavement.
That's pretty cool. I've been playing guitar for almost 20 years but I never really liked guitar hero. It never really felt like playing guitar it also seemed kind of pointless to sit and pretend to play a song I could actually play or learn to play for real. This seems like it'd be fun and might actually teach you something.

I think your time would still be better spent actually learning to play an instrument though.
Oh man, that's unlucky. I've watched or listened to 100+ hours of Sam Harris and JBP, and that conversation was the only one I can think of where I was frustrated and felt it was a waste of time. It's really not representative.

I'd urge you to listen to their 2nd conversation or watch any JBP lecture.
This is not in the least remarkable. The article does not mention it, but several maoi inhibitor drugs are effective for common varieties of epilepsy and have been used for decades.
> If requiring a government-issued photo ID is, as you claim, unconstitutional, then why is requesting identification of any sort (SSN, birth certificate, utility bill) not also unconstitutional?

because goverment-issued photo ID can be denied or made prohibitively expensive to large numbers of poor people who's interests might not align with the people in power. Other forms of identification are simpler to obtain by the poor.

Most functioning democracies have the means to assess the level of voter fraud without requiring photo IDs. There are a bunch of civil servants who have that exact job; I think the onus should be on people who believe there is systemic voter fraud occurring to provide some evidence before additional restrictions should be put into place.

Also, democracies were also functioning fairly well long before photo IDs were invented.
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Why on Earth does the legality matter? It's not like they'd ever admit they are gerrymandering. What data they use to optimize their gerrymander is irrelevant.
I guess this just means we’re one step closer to Gary Bernhardt’s vision:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Even furthering my point! An entire Mars program could be done for a tenth of that!
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It's extra confusing how there are so many different programs :)
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> people are a bit wiser to fake news now.

I think folks are more familiar with the term, but not necessarily any more inclined towards 'detecting' it. Rhetoric still rules the US, at least.
I disagree. When people start using native languages like C++ for the Web, they will quickly realize they could have just used C++ to begin with.