skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I a bad feminist? – Margaret Atwood
At each level, people with grave responsibilities did not take their responsibility seriously enough. From the top to the bottom.

Button-pusher: obviously.

Interface designer: clearly.

Manager responsible for project: also

The manager's manager: yes

The whole department head: how is this person making decisions?

The people who set the budgets and procedures: How do they know that work is being done well enough?

Vern Miyagi: From decades in the army, your process designers should understand best practices in the design of emergency systems, and yet they clearly did not. Why?

Arthur "Joe" Logan: Same question.

Ironically http://dod.hawaii.gov/hiema/hawaii-emergency-management-agen... fails with a Javascript error about "superclick is not a function".

Anyway it goes all the way up, apparently through the military chain of command. So I say Thanks Obama.
You are not seeing the whole picture and don't understand the goal of the "coin" in a "blockchain". I would strongly urge you to do some research so that you can make up your mind from a place of knowledge instead.

http://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics
Is it possible they were poisoned, or otherwise exposed to something that made them hypersensitive to otherwise normal environmental radiation? I know when I'm sick with a sinus headache that certain frequencies of sound like fluorescent lights and CRT TVs put me on edge.
Well, the two undocumented blocked ports that I've found are ports 25 and port 587, for sending mail. They claim that this is how they control spam problems. But I can't really take them seriously after spending hours debugging this, only to find they're doing it on purpose.
I'd only heard of him years ago because he made a TV programme about self-building a plane [1], which I think ended up with him building a kit rather than designing it from scratch. I found him amusing when watching it, although I don't know anyone else who has seen it, and info on it seems scarce. I'd wager it was shown on Channel 4 here in the UK, but I could just be making most of it up!

[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164814/
On the upside, a lot of old banking infrastructure has been re-tooled and upgraded under a billing of "Bitcoin something". I'm hoping we can get our public digital infrastructure similarly budgeted for upgrades before the bubble bursts.
and? obviously I don't want heaps of chamber pot contents on the sidewalk either. The point I was making is that, yes all littering is bad, but why does the consumer shoulder the burden when a huge majority of packaging can be avoided?
Often times a web page will have buttons that dance around the screen, if the page is still loading elements. That can cause misclicks too.
Good UX also matters for: Tired employees. Stressed employees. And of course everyone impacted by the decisions of tired & stressed employees.
A lot of work to do before that. Why?
New California Declares Independence from Rest of State
4 out 5 results are about cryptocurrency markets. So, it will be interesting see how was this actually built.
>Search engines didn't exist until the very end of the 90s.

Both Yahoo and AltaVista were started in 95.
"Rolling your own crypto" usually refers to constructing new cryptographic schemes out of either primitives or just out of wholecloth.

Using well-developed hashing schemes like pbkdf2 (which the auth snippet uses) or bcrypt (another good and common option) and storing the output is not rolling your own crypto. Writing your own hash function would be rolling your own crypto.

People talk about not rolling your own crypto because crypto is very, very sensitive to even very small errors, in ways that other code is not. Writing your own authentication using a well-known strong hashing scheme (which handles salting and verifying passwords in a timing attack resistant way) is much less likely to have vulnerabilities that aren't obvious.
> Do you want a button pushing clerk to be able to write any message to millions of people over an emergency network?

Yes, in situations where the message does not fit within a pre-defined list due to an unexpected event. Of course it should still have security mechanism's to ensure that the transmission is properly authorised.

The biggest threat is probably misuse by politicians rather than the poor clerk!
> I can only imagine this has something to do with their increasing reliance on AI, and the fact that the AI is probably incentivized to give a correct response to as many people'above the fold' as is possible. If 95% of people are served by dropping the specifically-chosen search term, then the AI probably thinks it's doing a great job.

There has to be an additional reason though, otherwise they could've just put the AI "enhanced" above the fold, and append the actual accurate results below it, for the people doing research.
The Universal Polling System
Welch's juice (any kind) and baker's yeast in room temperature storage will yield 7-8% alcohol wine in a couple of days. Doesn't taste particularly good but it is very easy.
Obama was a public opponent of Prop 8; he did not share Eich’s stance on the effort to enshrine discrimination in the California Constitution.
In France you could get fined for walking outside of a crosswalk, only if there is one within 50 meters. Not sure it happens often.

When a pedestrian gets hit by a car, the driver is responsible, crosswalk or not, unless the pedestrian was drunk, or actively trying to commit suicide (but good luck proving that).
I’m not sure I agree. It’s true that lot of people now talk about cryptocurrency but all the people I have overheard or listened to talking about it are only talking about price and trading on exchanges and how they don’t have to work anymore and can just live off crypto. I don’t think I have heard people talking about it genuinely believing in it’s usefulness. All the time some of these newcomers talk about it they are just shilling and often they are not even technical people and don’t understand what blockchain is and are using bunch of buzz words from internet to try to spread the word and get more people to invest in it.
That's really interesting. Maybe the pm2.5 is less visible than the PM10, but maybe I'm just way way off.

As for the volume of air, I'm most curious where the 15% measurement was taken and how consistent it was. How far from the tower? How many different places were measured? How many days are in the sample? What's the P-Value?

But still, thanks. Makes this interesting to think about.
They've also lowered the price significantly since then. Entry-level units can be had for $199, much less than the $399/$499 launch prices of the PS4 and Xbox One, respectively.
Disturbing to see the control system for their emergency alert system is this careless. This was human error? No shit.
It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech
Roman Mars at least must be psyched. Next week’s 99PI episode is practically writing itself.
This. If it's safe to cross and the pedestrian can get across why should there be a ticket. Waiting for a light to change to cross an empty street seems crazy to me.
It's still an improvement, since before they didn't obey the 30mph limit.

25mph is much better than 35mph.
> Paying half of farmer's wages to make small scale farming more tenable and accessible is not digging holes and filling them again

It's paying them to cast a specific ballot. Farmers are politically powerful in most cantons.
I would appreciate a docker setup. I looked into it a while ago and it wasn't there yet or unpolished.
How is it a strawman? If motor traffic can only move at pedestrians’ leisure, what happens if they decline to let it through for hours at a time? The soccer players would be committing no crime - the streets are for them first, motor vehicles last.
Not at all, and I take offense to what you are suggesting - that anyone who questions the 'official' story automatically believes in lizard people or whatnot.

I find it sad that people have been conditioned to lump anyone who questions such a messed up narrative in with nonsense like that.

Let's not act as if we've never been lied to before. We have reached a very low point in both credibility and transparency, and just because I have serious doubts about this story doesn't mean I'm a flat earther or whatever else you're insinuating. Let's be mature here.
That's what I hate about articles like this. It's great for click-bait, but pretty short on the truth.

The article didn't prove that car manufacturers created jaywalking laws. The best they came up with was that they were involved in helping shape the laws that governed road. And why wouldn't they?

No doubt there were a number of different factors that led to current jaywalking laws. Auto manufacturer influence was just one of them.

But it makes for a much compelling story to simplify the issue and just call out one party.
> At some point, you'll need to interoperate with those horribly dogmatic vendor hugging networks that serve the majority of traffic on the internet.

And this has been their defense all along. It serves the status quo to imply that transitions must be difficult. IPv6 being the most obvious example today. Of course as DJB pointed out, backwards compatible IPv6 would have already rolled out by now, at the cost of a single /64. Dual stack was literally the most difficult way to accomplish IPv6.

Now let’s look at the BGP situation. As long as the outcome is the same (same routing tables result in nominal situations), any two ISPs could choose to use a different protocol for their interconnection. Same thing that has happened with a lot of supplemental networking protocols.

There are BGP alternatives on deck. What we don’t need is high profile network engineers speaking out against them and in favor of the status quo. The truth is, networking is the one part of the industry that isn’t improving at the same pace as the rest. And all the improvements that are happening seem to be related to single links and switching, whereas the defense of networking dogma is related to routing. According to the holy bible of networking, switching is easy, routing is hard. Routers must be memory restricted with small memory footprints to artificially create SKUs. Routers must operate on multi-minute timers rather than seconds. Building routing tables is an insanely intense and time consuming process. Blah blah blah.

The reality is, almost all of these problems are contrived to maintain the status quo and so network vendors can ignore the pace of hardware and instead set SKUs at resource levels that force you to use the “appropriate” piece of hardware for the appropriate task.

Another smell that should make this obvious to everyone is that almost every major company has had high level engineers make some statement of how network companies are ripping you off, and explaining how they bought white box network solutions that route layer 3 at wire speed, converge rapidly, and have tons of memory. Not to mention the vast improvement something like well designed SDN can provide.

The network companies rely on the fact that most companies don’t have the labor or expertise to use white label solutions. But that doesn’t disprove the point. That proves the point that the state of hardware is “super cheap components provide all the switching and routing performance and memory needed for almost 99% of networking purposes.” Companies like Cisco are playing the Intel +25Mhz game. Supposedly disrupting companies do so at an awfully measured pace. And the network staff generally will open up to off brand switches but start to shy away at routing, especially edge routing.

As an industry, networking needs to be disrupted and it needs a severe model change. People involved in networking need to get on board, and those who don’t and insist on fighting for the status quo need to be left behind.
Absolutely. I see this here on hacker news with people excited about the notion of doing away with stop lights so that AI traffic can flow easily. People are completely ignoring the existence of pedestrians and cyclists. It would not be surprising to see a new crime of "hindering an autonomous automobile" be lobbied for.
Whatever causes fast radio bursts is sitting in an intense magnetic field
But we're not talking about a web startup. I think if you saw the actual hourly work breakdown, cost breakdown, and number of people who would need to be involved to make that change your head would spin.
Nope, just whitepapers, presentations, and patents.
Show HN: DCAP – A REST API for managing encrypted documents on IPFS
We use a slightly different sign in France that shows cyclists as well: https://goo.gl/maps/nHA4rtqPcrG2

In practice, many drivers do not like them, but it's probably because they are never pedestrians in those places. I often drive, bike and walk in the place shown above and I really find it nice, even if you sometimes have to wait for a minute or so for pedestrians to cross.
Even when a hub->hub flight is that full it might make sense to run two smaller planes. People who arrive a little earlier get the earlier flight and get there sooner. If there is mechanical problems at least half the customers get there (probably more than half as you can fill empty seats) and are happy. If not enough people buy tickets one day you park a plane and fly a full plane instead of a half full one.
Or here: https://www.sharelatex.com/
It's not a crime on motorways. Pedestrians are not permitted on motorways at all (except for emergencies), so where and how they can cross them is a moot point.

* http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1163/contents/made
It's worth noting that this is /pedestrian/ deaths from cars. Total motor vehicle deaths are around 40k a year in the US.
Hmm, apparently I was misinformed while living there. (About the points, not about being Naz...)
If consumers demanded corporate social responsibility, the shareholders would want that too because it would be profitable. Capitalism's outcome does not match with making the world a better place because consumers main priorities are not making the world a better place.
Bitcoin can fulfill the function of money (but just like gold it's cumbersome, try and pay for a tshirt with gold in H&M).

Bitcoin also have other uses such as store of value (just like gold) and a unique footprint which makes it useful in the digital space.

So no it's not wrong at all.

There was a time when gold wasn't useful for much other than as a store of value and as jewelry. If we are to follow your own argument then Gold had no intrinsic value because of it's limited use before the industrial revolution.

Only the market determines whether something have value. The idea of intrinsic value in anything (also when used in economic terms) is simply misleading and not representing reality but rather the illusion of a reality that doesn't exist.

Gold can loose it's value completely.
> Since it’s tax time I can’t help but feel that the true long term danger to block chain technology isn’t draconian government regulation, it’s the IRS.

Sorry but no, one country's tax authority is not a long term danger to block chain.
Yes - this is a very broken system and that needs to be addressed.

But what I was trying to say was that by either refusing to do it outright, o doing it right (without “asking for permission”). That is - I’d rather be jailed or fired than doing this. And I hope that goes for most devs.
> Europe

I think you should probably know better than to try and generalize all of Europe on a topic like this.
It seems that crypto is a really hot thing these days :) Actually, the ranks are based on Alexa rank and FB shares, so it should correlate with the real usage of these websites.
This is a really fascinating talk, thank you for linking to it.
I just learnt about Vultr by reading all comments here.

Vultr has a $2.50 option that DO is lacking. This looks better for simple webpages. I've tried GoDaddy cheap hosting product, but I was turned off by all the spam I get in my email and difficulty installing Let's Encrypt certificates.
Point taken. However, when new tech comes along, new laws follow in their wake.

When people moved from farm to city and suddenly we had massive amounts of worker abuse, labor laws got introduced.

Barnstorming aviation gave way to regulated aviation.

It's not exactly the same, but it's similar in that it's a reaction to change in the operating environment. I mean, before cars, streets tended to be narrow and generally ad hoc. Today streets are prescripted and need to meet various contextual requirements (volume, traffic flow, vehicle types, pedestrians, weight limit, wear characteristics, etc.)

When a car gets crushed on the tracks, it's usually not blamed on the train. It's typically thought of as the responsibility of the car driver.

Now, sure, trains are constrained by tracks and don't enjoy manoeuverability, but same with ships, the little ones get out of the way.

Cars can't stop on a dime, so we put the ones on the entity with the most manoeuverability, in this case people.
Basically this is a publishing platform for IPFS objects where you can configure document types and enforce posted objects to a schema. It has PGP encryption built-in to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt objects on IPFS.

I started this by wanting to build a todo/notes app built on IPFS after realizing that if I want the perfect productivity app I should build it :) Then I thought of other apps I could make using IPFS as storage and decided to create a platform to facilitate them before jumping into client-side work. With this sitting on a server, its easy to make REST queries to it from any app/website and everything is pinned by dcap so its always accessible.
Because it’s an excellently written article that covers the legal, ethical, technical, and historical aspects of telemarketing?
This is partly how these providers manage to persuade customers to upgrade (which could be to a new machine behind the scenes). Linode does the same.
let's make walking and biking cool, but not at the expense of fast personal transport (cars).

the best solution isn't to try to slow down the cars but rather to make mixed-use urban areas the default so that walking and biking become the norm. you also get all kinds of other benefits with that (less traffic, healthier air, more fit people, etc)

i agree that driving qualifications should be more strict, but probably in a different dimension than you: test drivers on situational awareness and predictive decision making. fail people for both distracted driving and indecision (and lack of follow-through), as well as not communicating intent (e.g, signaling) to other drivers.
Thank you very much for your feedback. I am really glad you like our new tool :)
What are top business intelligence companies doing for internal mail encryption?
Hi!

I was interested in knowing mail encryption practices practiced internally by intelligence companies. If anyone knows about what type of technologies they employ I would be very interested in hearing about it.

Thanks
Already you're jumping to conclusions :D
Im not rich, but my company affords me this luxury - my basic income is taken care of, and I'm free to work on what I want to - https://ramm.science/
I'm saying the team knows they "sound cool". I have lived them all and know exactly what they're good for and why.
What is the actual value of gold? (it's intrinsic value) How is that determined?
We have to think for ourselves and decide which topics are newsworthy:not have others coax and decide what is important.

Well, most of the time people choose the convenient route of confirmation bias. The internet is certainly not providing any solutions to that problem currently..
On the DevOps side of things (Contracting in London) the day rate at banks is about 1.5x everywhere else which can be nice. Just as long as you're happy never getting anything done ever.
You create a legal distinction between right of way and 'right of blockage'. Such a thing might exist already.
Why you shouldn’t forget about long tail SEO
His essays have been submitted 40 times as HN stories in the last two years (most with more than one person submitting). I have gotten useful insights from all that I have read. If you are going to be so dismissive you might at least give us your recommendations for who has a better bird's eye view of current technology.
Nice.

At my job we just get the public holidays added to our vacation days and we can take them off on those days, if we want. I find this to work really well.
Why is lyft in the title?
The major problem with the UI is that various types of tests and actual alerts are displayed together on one list.

The system should start with two options: test vs. real alert, which open up separate menus. Those menus should be visually distinct (e.g., different color background, options for former all end in (TEST)".
Fair point... I should have googled that.

Certainly makes sense..
Every software users interact with has a particular UX. It’s in the words it stands for!
They’ve been far more reliable than aws for single zone deployments over the last few years IME.
If I were to play devil's advocate, I'd say that the retirees as a sub-community can be found anywhere not working. They're old, and they are enjoying their senescence basking in their life accomplishments and family. Also, those retirement communities are supported by a network of health care and leisure industry workers, which are paid for out of value the old people saved from their productive activity during their working years.
What is the alternative? That vehicles have no obligation to stop when a pedestrian is in the road?

I think your reasoning belongs with whatever lies behind the need for the "State law: Yield to Pedestrians in Crosswalk" signs[1] which I find confusing in the USA. In which states am I not supposed to yield?

[1] https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/lg/K/Yield-To-In-Cro...
5 USD is super cheap. My coffee costs more than that and they're providing you with actual value. Pretty sure there are costs involved in running the infrastructure, fixing bugs and handling support
No it has no floor that can't go away (just like it have no ceiling)

The only way to determine it's value is to see if people want to pay for it. Just because they want to pay for it right now doesn't mean they want to do it tomorrow.

And thats exactly why the idea of intrinsic value should die. It doesn't exist. There isn't an absolute floor only a market determined one .... just like with bitcoin.
Then you stop relying on moter transport and start using your legs in cities.
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
Good point. We will consider it.
>This breaks the site guidelines.

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

I found the replies to and discussion of my question informative. It seems others did too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16155099

That discussion wouldn't have taken place if I didn't ask about the downvotes. The post was at -2 in minutes when I asked "Downvotes?" and it is now at 3. I don't doubt that I would have been flag killed by people questioning my sincerity had I not made the edit.

I have to wonder if you are enforcing the spirit of the guidelines or selectively enforcing it because you don't like positions I've stated in the past?

FWIW, I've pointed out the guidelines to new users who dominate a topic with top voted generic naval grazing and taken the downvotes in stride.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16079626
do you mean Epsilon? https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8174901