skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes the usual effect of panic when one plane falls but complete ignorance when thousands die on roads every year, and many more end up crippled for rest of their lives.

as for war efforts, it is a very good business to few. they are few relative to the rest of the country, but their influence on politics is profound, hence the result.
[Removed. Sorry, I meant to post this comment in the SpaceX thread.]
Anyone else find it strange that the author used SAT scores as a metric for intelligence? I think it is kind of absurd to think that a test that is specifically not designed to test intelligence and designed to give trick or misleading questions is a good metric. Not to say there isn't a decent correlation between intelligence and test scores, but a significant amount of people fall through the cracks. From what I understand, even the academic communities don't place a lot of weight on tests like SAT, ACT, GRE, etc. I think it is fine to use this method to measure intelligence, but not in isolation.
> Would that artificially drive the price up because the btc is being mined less?

No, demand causes price, mining follows price. It just makes the remaining miners more profitable, so they are incentivized to expand. In the end, China's hashpower will just appear to have migrated abroad.
The launch of a super secret spy satellite failed, the satellite is lost. No need to worry about a new spy in the sky?

Seems like the sort of thing you'd HAVE to say about a secret satellite... :-)
I disagree. The best answers to "what's the most psychopathic thing you've ever done?" are probably "a little bit psychopathic but remarkably effective". Not totally unlike treating thousands of lower class Indians as human social media bots instead of people with needs, maybe.

I'm not trying to criticize YC here, not by much at least. I like YC and we even interviewed with them once. I don't know what kinds of answers they get or expect to that question, but I suspect that "hacking a non-computer system to your advantage" has only two categories of good answers, one being hacking a bureaucracy (which, let's admit it, is more like hacking a computer than anything else). The one is hacking people which feels a little bit psychopathic to me no matter how you put it.
The post you are responding do does not say anything about throwing anyone in jail, just that there should be an automatic charge of manslaughter. Then the courts would decide...
"Outcomes matter, not intentions."

Outcomes matter. Of course outcomes matter. But that can't be a complete moral reasoning. Intentions do matter in all things. Intentions are the difference between murder one and a forgivable accident. It's the difference between putting a knife in your wife's back because she cheated on you and swinging around in the kitchen too fast and putting that same knife in her gut by accident.

Intentions tell me what to expect about your future behavior. Intentions, in other words, reveal something important about the actor (and, therefore, future outcomes) that outcomes don't.

Of course outcomes matter. But when we stop caring about intentions, we start thinking of murderers like remorseful spouses, or, say, genuine racists like tasteless jokers.

The idea that only outcomes matter has far too much currency in our current politics.
For the curious, there's an API for that: https://www.marqeta.com/
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Save for the interstate highway infrastructure, most roads are done at the state or county level anyway. If you simply start doing this stuff a roads are upgraded (some can be done now and might bring in money), you aren't really spending lots more.
You can change the driving culture and mindset, starting by designing roads that generally cause folks to drive slower, implemented at next upgrade

You mean you can get voted out of office for implementing these policies.
Yep, they're having to beg for funding already. Now imagine if ad revenues went away completely?
Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined addresses most of this stuff. Super interesting book. Seems like things were super horrible in the past. It seems that most people think the world is getting worse and more dangerous over time but the opposite is true.
Exactly. Either you believe companies act altruistically, or this is a power play by Google.
Well, to what you just mentioned, it -seems- to be a "common wisdom" that is disregarded by scientific study. So, maybe this is a case where the study was ill-designed, but everyone took it for granted?
Is this Angel/VC going to waste my time?
You don't really need to encrypt - just one-way hash. (Though if you count that as 'encryption' for this purpose, okay.)
Same here. I cringe when I see the common HN rhetoric that parents now a days are over-protective. Go say that to parents who lost a child and now live in regret.

Kids are unpredictable. I remember being 7 years old and waiting with my mom to cross a busy street. For some reason that today is unknown to me, I decided to just run across the street as soon as the lights turned yellow. I almost got hit and my mom almost had a heart attack. I use this example to keep me alert when I'm with my daughter in a potentially dangerous but seemingly safe environment. You never know what's going on in their little heads.
The real problem is that scientists & technologists are not inherently power hungry.

This has been true throughout human history. The second that technologists realize that it serves the human race for us to be power hungry (at the grandest scale -- not the ego-driven "I launched Instagram" scale) ... society will undergo rapid transformation.

A unified, noble, technocracy is the future of human government... but it requires a new form of revolutionary indoctrination.

EDIT: maybe I should replace "power hungry" with: wanting to be the ones calling the shots. Especially with regards to things like foreign policy etc. Most of us have strong pacifist views but seldom do we actually do anything that enables us to stop constant war. Constant war is culturally ingrained in our governments, which is why it continues to happen. One only needs to look at the history of the CIA, then compare that to what they are doing now to see this.
The link/pdf below says 13,000km per driver in the EU. Other sources indicate 11,000km or 12,000km. Any of those work reasonably for this comparison.

https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/fi_nutzen_pkw-verkehrs_europa_f...

The US figure is around 22,000km per person for 2017.

In Sweden for example it's closer to 12,000km per person.

There's a dramatic gulf between the distance driven in the US and most everywhere else.

The passenger vehicles per capita are also reasonably over twice that in the US as in the EU (driving is far more distributed and common per capita). Around 263m passenger vehicles in the US, and 250m in the EU, with the EU having ~743 million people.

If you double or nearly double the distance driven per year, and significantly increase the share of the population that drives, it's not far off to expect a doubling of fatalities vs what you see in the whole of the EU. In fact, I might expect worse than that, as if you're pulling so many km driving, you're probably likely to be driving more often under increased stress and inclimate weather circumstances, driving at times when you perhaps should not be etc. (due to no alternatives). The risk of a bad driving outcome likely accelerates with such substantial increases in km per capita. If you take the US figure on up to 50,000km per capita, I would expect to see an even greater acceleration of fatalities per capita.
HN: Whereby, when presented with a Maciej slide deck, pedantry takes precedence over humor.

Please, try to understand what others try to do before throwing unwarranted insults in the conversation.

That was a joke. So? There are a lot of people that ignores what I said. I wasn't attacking the author, just adding some rare facts to the conversation for people that could be unaware of it and wonder wth the author was meaning.

Now your comment, what exactly does it add to the conversation?

Edit: your response (that I can't responde to) is even worse. <sigh>
> Forbes put Bezos' net worth at a mere $104.4 billion.

I've rarely seen a less appropriate use of the word "mere"...
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Decent paying, yes, but very rare compared to standard software engineering jobs. A lot are in defense. Top companies have a few on hire but unless you're the best of the best, it's tough to match the salary you can get as a standard software dev in a top 10 company.
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The old school word for hacking human society is 'terrorism'. You look at the joints of the animal and figure out where to apply the most leverage.
I pay for Netflix, Hulu's ad free tier, and CBS's ad free tier. I would pay for content on the web I find compelling.

But these days I get most of my content from podcasts. Their ads are more relevant, less intrusive and I can press a button on my headphones or in my car to do a 30 second skip. But usually I'll listen to an ad read by a new sponsor.

It's a win-win. The cpm's for podcast are much better than for the web or even YouTube.
> I think this is just way too simplistic of a view of it. People won't just follow two exact patterns of behavior regardless of their environment. We all have, to varying extents, a proclivity to instant dopamine-based gratification.

Perhaps in the same way as an LED dimmed via pulse-width modulation has, to a varying extent, a proclivity to not produce light? Then just as the human perception of such an LED is on a continuum between "off" and "full brightness", so people's net-worths-at-retirement will stand on a continuum between starvation and Bill Gates.
I read years ago that outside of inexperience and illness, (being very young or very old), your likelihood of an accident scales linearly with miles driven. So, unlike flying, distance increases risk in statistically meaningful ways.
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford is an extremely interesting — and entertaining — book that paints a broad picture of that short moment in Soviet history where the horrors of revolution, Stalin and war were behind the nation and they tried to seriously embark on the project of providing “better than American” middle class living to everyone.
I think in this case it's best to attribute the quote and the Orwell attribution to Michael Scott and call it a day :)
> If I want to prefetch results, I unerstand it means people know I'm looking at those results.

Why do that though when you can have your cake and eat it? Google's proposed solution allows you to prefetch results _and_ not allow the third-party to know you're looking at those results.

> the counter consideration is that your implicitly saying you trust Google with that info more than the actual service providers

If I'm using Google search, then yes, obviously I'm fine with Google knowing what I searched for. If I wasn't okay with that, I most certainly would not be using Google search. In contrast, I'm less likely to be okay with a random site in the search results page that I haven't clicked on knowing that I saw a link to their site in a search results page.

Note that if I were using DuckDuckGo instead and DuckDuckGo supported AMP, then my browser would prefetch from DuckDuckGo's AMP cache, not Google's. No additional information is being shared with any party who doesn't already possess that information. (DuckDuckGo already knows what I searched for. Me loading an AMP page from them related to that query reveals no additional information.)

> Indeed. That's the point of HTTPS. As a user I don't expect that contract undermined even by a claimed benevolent Google

Could you explain how Google's proposed solution here undermines HTTPS? Note that the OP talks about using the upcoming [Web Package standard][1] to distribute AMP pages. This standard would allow the integrity guarantees of HTTPS to be preserved even when the page in question is being served by Google's AMP cache rather than the original server.

[1]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage
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Yup, Trademarks are fine, the insistence on muddling Trademark, Patent and Copyright together is bad mojo and people (even lawyers!) need to cut it out.

The same principle as Trademarks even pre-date the formal existence of registrable trademarks, because everybody can see that if "Jameson Beans" are considered to be good quality beans then buying some crap beans and selling them on as "Jameson Beans" is clearly not OK. English law has a tort of "passing off" which is committed when you trick customers in this way, and you can still use it for unregistered marks today, it's just harder than the Registered Trademark law.
It looks like you meant to post this in the thread about SpaceX claiming their rocket worked great.
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I mean....that's a pretty arbitrary thing to assume would be present when the data structure is HTML. xpath, css selectors, etc... are the standards there.
It's one thing to exploit something locally. It's another to exploit it remotely. And if you have local access to a machine I'm sure there are much easier ways to get root access to it.
The page without the javascript? It likely would be, since that would be much smaller.
That's not a factual oversight, it's a joke. I knew that. I even found it funny. I just added a little information that I find interesting.
Sounds like CA and IA work differently. 45 is the speed limit for that highway because it's windy. On the straighter roads, the limit is usually 50-55. However, there are still no speed zones (as you call them) for small clusters of houses.
Agreed, and that's why I like my car's jog dial controller for the media system. I can operate it without looking at all, whereas I have to look at my mom's touchscreen to change the radio station, which is something you don't want to have to do while driving.
Not completely, I sent some money their way recently and will do so again if they keep putting out stuff I want to read.
So private browsing isn't just for porn?
> I'm sick of just accepting what HR says.

The HR flunky did not create the boilerplate legal language in your agreement. Their role is purely administrative at this point. In their world, you're just another contractor/vendor to be processed.

Ultimately, you decide with whom you work and by what terms. Generally speaking, smaller firms are more accepting of contractor submitted proposals/contracts. If you have any sales ability, you can always go find a new client.
Confidential metrics for Snapchat features
Once again, free market solves the problem more efficiently than any regulation would: Apple sees that users needs privacy, uses it's position to capitalize on that, everybody's happy and users who don't care about it that much (like me) are free to choose other phone manufacturers and pay less.
IME they've also been offering better quality, at least shell. Hopefully they'll also end the widespread practice of shorting customers.
Horses are evil creatures that will stop your head in. The difference between now and then is we dont have an agency that keeps track of horse related deaths then.
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Keep in mind it's American southern slang and not everyone can necessarily help that they use it. It's effectively an accent. Be careful what y'alls implying about its usage (;
Yeah, that’s my feeling too. “Everything you could actually see worked fine, but right afterwards we, uh, like, lost it. Yes, thats right, it’s gone. No need to look for it.”
Having met some early (and I'm assuming still current) Coinbase employees several times in social situations, I can say without a doubt that "I would trust these guys with my money" wasn't among my thoughts about them.

They were the types of people who could make any social interaction feel like an MLM pitch.
BTDT, in 2013.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985

Just tread lightly about criticizing Coinbase here. You're still on YCombinator turf.
Seems like an incredibly blurry, ill-defined concept though. Even if my garbage can is "on the street", it's still a foot away from the street and firmly on my property. How is that any different than breaking into a storage container around back or elsewhere on my property? Is it considered to be "on the street" when it's sitting on the side of my house, waiting for trash day?
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- You've seen Titanic?
- Sure.
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I don't believe the phones have the ability to download the application. They look like early 2000's phones, like after the bricks of the 90's but before the flip phone craze.
The Kim Dotcom raid was fairly public knowledge at the time it occurred. I'd start there.

Not quite to the level of actual SWAT operations, but far more common are Anton Piller orders. These orders are still used with decent frequency in IP cases because the evidence in question is often easily destroyed and the cases are often existential-crisis-level disputes for one or both parties.
Again, not talking about the study, just the general notion that first borns/only children are more successful.
It wouldn't work.

Ads work because you're trading something that is worth more to the publisher than to you.

Let's imagine a utility currency called bananas.

A piece of your attention is worth 0 bananas to you. But it is worth 10 bananas to a publisher.

The cost of creating and serving you a piece of content is 5 bananas to the publisher, and the value of it to you is 2 bananas.

If there were no ads, you'd be willing to pay 2 bananas to the publisher, which would not cover the cost. Therefore, the publisher and content creators would go out of business. You wouldn't be willing to pay the full cost (5 bananas), because the content isn't worth that much to you.

Outome:

You: 0 bananas

Publisher: 0 bananas

By seeing the ad, you generate 10 bananas of value to the publisher and content creator, while you get 2 bananas of value by receiving the content.

Outcome:

You: 2 bananas

Publisher: 10 bananas

Direct funding will never fully replace ad revenue.
Played with it a bit, to me it is really reading data of arbitrary size starting at any given memory address.

Usage is ./meltdown [hexadrr] [size]

Run.sh is first reading the adress where the value of linux_proc_banner is held, with a adequat sed on /proc/kallsyms, then running the meltdown binary to check that this adress has the value stored in /proc/version, which should be the case if the exploit is indeed working (which IS the case with my CPU and current kernel).

Meltdown.c is below 300 lines, the actual exploit being maybe half of that.

From here, it seems to me that you can extrapolate in reading any value anywhere in the memory.
It didn't seem to be intended or self-conscious in any way, instead it seemed to take itself very seriously: there wasn't an ounce of sense of humour in it. While "From dusk till dawn" is obviously a humorous genre cross-over. I haven't seen Kill list but Ben Wheatley is an interesting director with a passion for the grotesque- his Sightseers and Down Terrace are pretty funny.
What about scraping based on logged in users?
I've never understood that argument either, on any issue. Most states are smaller than countries, and if on the federal level there aren't any economies of scale or mind-share synergy, then something else is very wrong.

If a small country can do it, a large country should be able to do it much better, either per state if there's gain in small scale solutions, or on a federal level where you only have to solve the problem once for 30 times the population size.
There are ways around that like up-scaling a lower resolution or if you add eye-tracking you can do foveated rendering (only render what you focus on with high resolution).
>..it might surprise you to learn that, over the past 15 years or so, some makers of ice cream and many other processed foods—from pasta to ground beef products—have changed their recipes to swap out some of the table sugar (sucrose) with a sweetening/texturizing ingredient called trehalose that depresses the freezing point of food.

How the hell is the food industry not regulated more strictly.

FDA spending on regulation of food.
2017 - 1.195 Billion(https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2017/budget-in-brief/fda/...)

Total size of food industry based of revenue
2016 - 2.0215 Trillion(https://www.plunkettresearch.com/statistics/Industry-Statist...)

1.195 Billion/2.0215 Trillion = 0.05911% spent on regulation. Is that too much or too little? You decide.

I would argue that this has to do with large companies lobbying to make sure that the consumers stay uninformed.( Do not have data on it)

I know it seems crazy implausible for people to have a digital record of what they eat. Imagine if doctors could have access to that.I am not familiar with EU laws, but sure they are better over there. (Researchers in the U.S never will get access to bulk data because of HIPA: need a personal signature from each person to obtain access.)
Does anyone know a service that does scraping of content behind login gates?
This article is about the rise in hospital-acquired cdiff infections. So the patients were fine until they were served ice cream made with trehalose.

I think this paragraph is the article's kicker:

>> What has changed is the recent addition of man-made trehalose into the food supply, often in large quantities. This shift was prompted by a new method to manufacture trehalose from cornstarch, which made the sugar much less costly. In 2000, FDA approved the sugar as a safe food additive. Trehalose quickly found its way into processed foods in the U.S. and around the world for its mild, flavor-enhancing sweetness and protection of frozen foods. In some store-bought ice creams, it’s found at concentrations of up to 11 percent.

(emphasis added)

When I buy ice cream I usually get Haagen-Daaz, because it's the only reliable national brand. Cheap ice creams use various gums (carageenan, guar gum, locust bean gum) to give low-cream products the texture of ice cream.
I don't think it is common wisdom. Like, look: which of your coworkers are first-born? How many of them did you intuit that without explicitly asking?
I'm sure we'd never do anything like tha... nevermind http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077830/ns/technology_and_science-...
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I've heard security researchers make the last claim. Especially with the increasing use of fuzzing, ASLR, etc., trivially exploitable buffer overflows and other things of that nature are much less common now.
There are other interactions like that: for instance, magnesium is known to massively increase the replication of rhinoviruses (common cold).

Magnesium is also a common food supplement...
People frequently use logical fallacies in good faith, usually because they're falling for one of the many permutations of the law of averages, using associative logic/magical thinking, or just have some axiomatic beliefs that they believe are somehow sinful/wrong to scrutinize due to their religion/loyalty.
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For every second born, there must be a first born, but not vice versa. For every third born, there must be a second born and a first born, but not vice versa...

So you're more likely to encounter a first born in the real world than any nth born, since some families will have only had one child.
This did not actually happen:

http://reason.com/archives/2017/10/23/ye-olde-ikea-sex-traff...